نفي nafī A s. m. 1. Forbidding, prohibition. 2. Rejecting, refusing. 3. Negation. 4. Re- fuse, filth, refusal, annihilation, nonexistence.

نغم nag̠ẖam A s. m. 1. Melody, song, modu- lation. 2. A musical note.

نہايت nihāyat S̱. (from نہي) 1. s. f. The extreme, extremity, end, bound, limit, boundary. 2. Excess. 3. adj. Very much, extreme, exces- sive. 4. Remarkable. 5. adv. At the utmost, extremely, exceeding, very, at the end, at last.

نرتانا nirtānā S̱. v. a. 1. (causal of نرتنا) To make dance. 2. To make pure, to clean.

نهيالي nhyālī H or nahyālī, s. (dakh.) A mattress, quilt, bedding (Harris): see نہالچه nihālcha.

نغز nag̠ẖz P adj. Beautiful, good, excellent, sincere, swift, nimble.

ناسکا नासिका nāsikā S s. f. The nose.

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

نسر nasr A (Heb. ) s. m. A vulture. نسرالطاير nasru-t̤-t̤āʼịr or نسرطاٴير nasr-i-t̤āʼịr (The flying vulture) The constellation of the eagle. نسرالواقع nasru-l-wāḳiﻌ (The falling vulture) The constel- lation of the lyre.

نعيم naʼīﻌm A s. Pleasure, benefits, goods. جنت النعيم jannatu-n-naʼīﻌm (Garden of delight) one of the heavens (according to Muhammadans).