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nahनह्cl. 4. P. Ā. ([Dhātup. xxvi, 57]) náhyati, °te (Pot. -nahet, [MBh.]; nahyur, [AitBr.]; p. Ā. náhyamāna [also with pass. meaning] [RV.] &c.; pf. nanāha, nehe; fut. natsyati, naddhā, [Siddh.] [cf. [Pāṇ. viii, 2, 34]]; aor., anātsīt, [Bhaṭṭ.]; anaddha, [Vop.]; ind.p. naddhvā Gr.; -náhya, [Br.] &c.; inf. -naddhum, [Kāv.]) to bind, tie, fasten, bind on or round or together; (Ā.) to put on (as armour &c.), arm one's self, [RV.] &c. &c.: Pass. nahyate, p. °hyamāna (see above) : Caus. nāhayati (aor. anīnahat Gr.) to cause to bind together, [BhavP.] : Desid. ninatsati, °te Gr.: Intens. nānahyate, nānaddhi, [ib.]
, [Prob. for nagh; cf. Lat. nectere, Germ. Nestel (?).]
náh (only in nádbhyas, [RV. x, 60, 6]; but cf. akṣā-náh) a bond, tie.
nahiनहिna—hí See na-hí.
na-hí (ná-hí, [MaitrS.] & [ŚBr.]) ind. (g. cādi) for not, surely not, by no means, not at all (often strengthened by other particles, as aṅgá, nú, sma), [RV.]; &c. (nahikam, g. cādi).
nahusनहुस्náhus m. neighbour, fellow-creature, man, (comp. °huṣ-ṭara, nearer than a nearer, [x, 49, 8])
(collect., also pl.) neighbourhood, mankind, [RV.] (cf. [Naigh. ii, 2]).
nahuṣaनहुषnáhuṣa m. = náhus, [RV. i, 31, 11]; [v, 12, 6]
(prob.) N. of a man, [viii, 46, 27]
of a son of Manu and author of [RV. ix, 101]; [Anukr.]
of an ancient king (son of Āyu or Āyus [cf. [RV. i, 31, 11]] and father of Yayāti; he took possession of Indra's throne but was afterwards deposed and changed into a serpent, [Mn. vii, 41]; [MBh.]; [R.] &c. (cf. [RTL. 240]); according to [R. i, 72, 30] and [ii, 119, 30] he is a son of Ambarīṣa and father of Nabhāga)
of a serpent-demon, [MBh.]; [Hariv.]
of a Marut, [Hariv.]
of Viṣṇu-Kṛṣṇa, [MBh.]
nahasraनहस्रnáhasra n. bolt, nail, crotchet, [RV.]; [AV.]
bond, fetter (cf. un-n°)
putting on, girding round, [Viddh.]
nahuṣyaनहुष्यnahuṣyà mfn. relating to man, human, [RV. ix, 88, 2]; [91, 2]
descended from Nahuṣa (?), [x, 63, 1.]
nahimātraनहिमात्रna-hi—mātra m. or n. a partic. high number (v.l. mantra), [Buddh.] (cf. na-mātra under 2. ná).
nahuṣākhyaनहुषाख्यn. the flower of Tabernaemontana Coronaria, [L.]
nahuṣātmajaनहुषात्मजm. N. of king Yayāti (cf. above), [W.]
nahuṣacaritaनहुषचरितnahuṣa—carita ‘Nahuṣa's life’, N. of ch. of the [PadmaP.]