(p. 559) nasiba fate, luck; fortune, destiny. নসিবের দোষ ill-luck. নসিবের দোষে adv. through ill-luck, as ill-luck would have it. 5)

(p. 570) nigaraṇa swallowing or gulping down; eating up. 30)

(p. 571) nicchidra having no holes; compact; flawless. 11)

(p. 581) nirasana removal (দুঃখনিরসন); mitigation (যন্ত্রণানিরসন); refutation; redressing (অন্যায় নিরসন); protection from; covering or concealment (লজ্জা নিরসন); termination (শ্রম নিরসন). নিরসন করা v. to remove; to mitigate; to refute; to redress; to conceal; to terminate. নিরসন হওয়া v. to be removed or mitigated or refuted or redressed or concealed or terminated. 4)

(p. 593) nuḍ়nuḍ়i the uvula, the epiglottis; a small bell-shaped button. 48)

(p. 593) nīla the blue colour, azure; the indigo plant or the dye made from it; synthetic indigo, azuring; Shiva (শিব) or his worship (নীলের উপোস). a. blue, azure; azurine. ̃কন্ঠ a. blue-necked. n. a kind of blue-necked bird, the bluebreast, the roller bird; Shiva (শিব). ̃কমল n. the blue lotus. ̃কর n. an indigo-planter. ̃কান্তমণি n. lapis-lazuli, sapphire. ̃কুঠি n. an indigo-factory. ̃গাই n. the blue-sheep of Tibet, nilgai, the blue bull, ̃পদ্ম n. the blue lotus. ̃পূজা n. the worship of Shiva (শিব) on the penultimate or the last day of the Bengali year. ̃প্রভ a. having a blue lustre or radiance. ̃বর্ণ n. & a. blue, azure. a. fem. ˜বর্ণা । নীলবর্ণ শৃগাল (fig.) a pretender. ̃বসন n. blue clothes or cloth. a. dressed in blue. a. fem. ̃বসনা । ̃মণি n. lapis-lazuli, sapphire; Krishna (কৃষ্ণ). ̃রক্ত n. blue blood; (fig.) high birth. ̃লোহিত n. a colour between crimson and violet, purple; Shiva (শিব). a. purple. ̃ষষ্টী n. the last or the penultimate day of the Bengali year when Shiva (শিব) is worshipped. 33)

(p. 549) nakuladānā a kind of white and roundish toffee or sweet drop.

(p. 577) nimajjana sinking or drowning; submersion; act of dipping or diving or plunging into; act of bathing by immersing into water (of rivers, ponds etc.) immersion; absorption or engrossment (ধ্যানে বা ঋণে নিমজ্জন). 7)

(p. 549) ni3 female. নই-বাছুর n. a cow-calf. 5)

(p. 549) na1 the twentieth letter of the Bengali alphabet. 2)

(p. 577) nimajjamāna in the state of being drowned, sinking; that which is being submerged, immersing; almost engrossed or absorbed or overwhelmed. see also মজ্জমান । fem. নিমজ্জমানা । 8)

(p. 568) nikaṣa a streakplate or touchstone; whetstone; whetting; a testing streak of gold. নিকষণ n. act of rubbing or testing (gold) on a touchstone. নিকষিত a. rubbed or tested on a touchstone; polished; found to be genuine by testing on a touchstone, pure, sterling ('নিকষিত হেম'). 23)

(p. 561) nāṭamandira a hall within or in front of a temple for devotional dancing and musical performances; a dancing-hall, a ball-room; a theatre, an opera-house. 36)

(p. 577) nimantraẏitā an inviter; a host. fem. নিমন্ত্রয়িত্রী । 11)

(p. 570) nikkaṇa sweet jingle, sonorous tinkling of bells etc. (নূপুরনিক্কণ). 15)