nā́bhi f. (prob. fr. √ 1. nabh, ‘to burst asunder or into a hole’; ifc. f. i or ī, [Vām. v, 49]) the navel (also navel-string, cf. -kṛntana), a navel-like cavity, [RV.] &c. &c. (in later language also m. and f(°BI). )
the nave of a wheel, [ib.] (also m., [L.], and °BI f.)
centre, central point, point of junction or of departure, home, origin, esp. common origin, affinity, relationship
a near relation or friend, [ib.] (m., [L.])
musk: (= mṛga-n°), [L.]
nā́bhi m. or f. musk-deer, [Megh. 53] (?); [BhP.]
nā́bhi m. a chief (= central point) of (gen.), [Ragh. xviii, 19] (cf. maṇḍala-nābhi-tā)
a sovereign or lord paramount (= mukhya-rāj), [L.]
a Kṣatriya, [L.]
N. of a grandson of Priya-vrata (son of Agnīdhra and father of Ṛṣabha), [Pur.]
of the father of Ṛṣabha (first Arhat of the present Avasarpiṇī), [L.]
[cf. Angl.Sax. nafu, nafela; Germ. naba, Nabe, nabolo, Nabel; Eng. nave, navel.]