ناد علي nādi-aﻌlī A (for ناد عليّاً) Proclaim Aﻌlī or invoke Aﻌlī.

نرپهل निर्फल nir-phal S adj. Fruitless.

نيل بڙي nīl baṛī नीलवटी S̱. s. f. A lump of indigo. S̱. P. نيلک नीलक nīlak, 1. adj. Blue (stained or died blue). 2. s. m. One of the terms used in bīj gaṇit as we use the letters a, b, x, y, in algebra.

نڐهول niḍhol S̱. (निर् prep. and दोल What swings) adj. Still, motionless.

نار nār A (from نور Heb. ) s. f. 1. Fire, hell. 2. The mind.

نجات najāt A s. f. Freedom, liberation, deli- verance, salvation, escape, pardon, absolution, flight.

ناند nānd नन्दा S̱. s. f. A large earthen pan.

نصيري nuṣairī A s. m. A mahometan sectary who believes in the divinity of Aﻌlī.

نل नल nal S s. m. 1. A tube, spout, joint of bamboo or other hollow wood. 2. The bamboo which fowlers use to entangle game by applying birdlime to the top of it. نل چلانا nal-chalānā, Setting the bamboos in motion, denotes a ma- gical practice adopted for the discovery of theft. Two pieces of split bamboo, of equal lengths, are applied to one another side by side, and held by two men, one at each end. It is said that any persons taken at random may be em- ployed for this purpose. Then the magician pronounces certain incantations, the efficacy of which is pretended to be such, that the bam- boos spontaneously move towards the place where the thief or the stolen goods are, and drag the men along with them. نل در نل nal dar nal, One tube within another. 3. Name of a king, and hero of several poetical works fa- mous among the Hindūs.

نسل nasl A (analog. to Heb. ) s. f. Race, pedigree, genealogy, descent, breed, cast, ori- gin, family, offspring, lineage.