نبرد nabard P s. m. Battle, engagement, war.

نربهي निर्भय nir-bhai S adj. Fearless, free from fear, undaunted.

نگينه nagīna P s. m. See نگ nag, signif. 2.

نياز niyāz P s. f. 1. Petition, supplication, prayer. 2. Indigence, poverty. 3. A thing dedicated, an offering. نيازطينت niyāz-t̤īnat, adj. Indi- gent, humble. نيازکرنا niyāz karnā, To dedicate, to devote, to consecrate. نيازمند niyāz-mand, adj. Indigent, necessitous, suppliant. نيازمندي niyāz-mand-ī, s. f. Necessitousness, supplica- tion.

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

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

نندهنا nandhnā H v. n. To begin.

نقالي naḳḳāl-ī A. s. f. Acting, mimickry.

نيمي nem-ī नियमी S̱. adj. Conscientious, ab- stemious, continent, chaste.

نايب nāʼịb A (part. act. of نوب Heb. and Aram. ) s. m. A deputy, delegate, vicegerent, at- torney. نايب مناب nāʼịb manāb, A vicege- rent, a locum tenens, a successor. A. P. نايبي nāʼịb-ī, s. (dakh.) Deputyship, vice- gerency, agency, delegation. S̱. H. نايچ nā-īch, adv. (dakh.) Not, no: see نـﮩين nahīṅ.