The Pali Text Society's Pali-English Dictionary

N!vika [Sk. n!vika] 1. a sailor, mariner J ii.103; iv.142; Miln 359; D!vs iv.43 (captain). -- 2. a ferryman J
ii.111; iii.230 (Avariya -- pit!.).
N!vutika
N!vutika (adj.) [fr. navuti] 90 years old J iii.395 (˚! itthi); SnA 172.
N!sa
N!sa [Sk. n!$a, see nassati] destruction, ruin, death J i.5, 256; Sdhp 58, 319. Usually vi˚, also adj. vin!saka.
Cp. panassati.
N!sana
N!sana (nt.) [Sk. n!$ana] destruction, abandoning, ex- pulsion, in ˚antika (adj.) a bhikkhu who is under the
penalty of expulsion Vin i.255.
N!s!
N!s! (f.) [Vedic n!s! (du.); Lat. n!ris, Ohg. nasa, Ags. nasu] 1. the nose, Sn 198, 608. -- 2. the trunk (of an
elephant) J v.297 (n!ga˚ -- uru); Sdhp 153. -- pu&a "nose -- cup"; the outside of the nose, the nostril J vi.74;
Vism 195 (n!sa˚), 264 (n!sa˚, but KhA 67 n!s!˚), 283 (n!sa˚). -- v!ta wind, i. e. breath from the nostrils J
iii.276.
N!sika
N!sika (adj.) [cp. Sk. n!sikya] belonging to the nose, nasal, in ˚sota the nostril or nose (orig. "sense of
smell") D i.106; Sn p. 108.
N!sitaka
N!sitaka (adj.) [see n!sa & n!seti] one who is ejected Vin iv.140 (of a bhikkhu).
N!seti
N!seti [Sk. n!$ayati, Caus. of nassati, q. v.] 1. to destroy, spoil, ruin; to kill J i.59; ii.105, 150; iii.279, 418.
2. to atone for a fault (with abl.) Vin i.85, 86, 173 etc. Cp. vi˚.
N!ha
N!ha (nt.) [cp. nayhati, naddha] armour J i.358 (sabba˚- sannaddha). Cp. on!ha.
Ni˚
Ni˚ [Sk. ni -- & nih -- , insep. prefixes: (a) ni down=Av. ni, cp. Gr. neio/s lowland, nei/atos the lowest,
hindmost; Lat. n"dus (*ni -- zdos: place to sit down=nest); Ags. n/ol, nider=E. nether; Goth. nidar=Ohg.
nidar; also Sk. n"ca, n"pa etc. -- (b) ni1 out, prob. fr. *seni & to Lat. sine without]. Nearly all (ultimately
prob. all) words under this heading are cpds. with the pref. ni. A. Forms. 1. P!li ni˚ combines the two
prefixes ni & nis (nir). They are outwardly to be distinguished inasmuch as ni is usually followed by a
single consonant (except in forms where double cons. is usually restored in composition, like ni --
kkhipati=ni+k+ip; nissita= ni+sri. Sometimes the double cons. is merely graphic or due to analogy, esp. in
words where ni -- is contrasted with ud -- ("up"), as nikkujja>ukkujja, niggilati> uggilati,