نلڐي nalḍī H s. f. (dakh.) Throat, windpipe.

ناجي nājī A (from نجو) adj. Free, liberated, ex- cused, escaped, saved, elect. (Fem. ناجيه).

نواس निवास nivās S s. m. Dwelling, residence.

ن nūn The twenty-fifth letter of the Arabic and twenty-ninth of the Persian alphabet, corre- sponds to न in Sanskrit. It is one of the dental letters, and has the sound of the English n, with the following exceptions. 1. When it is quiescent in the middle or end of a word, and follows a madda or simple long vowel, it has a very slight nasal sound; as, in زبون Bad, زمان Time, زمين The earth, ماندن To remain: this is called نون غنب nūn-i-g̠ẖunna. If, how- ever, the word at the end of which it occurs be so placed in composition that the ن become moveable by iẓāfat, it ceases to be nasal and resumes its original sound as a dental letter. 2. When it precedes ب or پ it has the sound of m; as, in منبر mimbar, A pulpit; سنپت

نقاب niḳāb A (from نقب Heb. and Aram. ) s. m. f. A veil.

نيشکر nai-shakar P s. f. Sugar-cane.

ناسخ nāsiḵẖ A (part. act. of نسخ Heb. and Chald. ) s. m. 1. A copier of a book, an amanu- ensis. 2. Erasing, abolishing, abolisher.

نيمه nīma P s. m. A garment like a jāma, but not so full at the breast, or with less cloth in the skirt. نيمه آستين nīma-āstīn, Half-sleeved, a particular kind of jacket. (It reaches to below the knee, is single-breasted, and fastened above by one button in the centre of the chest: it has short sleeves. Qanoon-e-islam). نيمه شام nīma-shām, Evening.

نسندهـ ni-sandhi S (निः for निर् prep. and संधि Junction, a hole) adj. Solid, tight, not leaky.

نمازي namāz-ī P 1. s. m. A person who prays. 2. adj. Relating to prayers. 3. Devout, or in the constant habit of praying.