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Source: DDSA: A practical Hindi-English dictionaryNaak in Hindi refers in English to:—(nf) the nose; (a symbol of) prestige; honour; pre-eminent person (in a class or group); (nm) the heaven; a kind of crocodile; used as a suffix to mean 'full of/impregnated with' as [khataranaka, sharmanaka; -naksha] facial features, facial cut; ~[vala] honourable; having a prestige; —[umci hona] to be honourable; to acquire added status/respect; social standing to be enhanced; —[katana] to lose face, to have one’s fair name tarnished, to be faced with humiliation; one’s honour to be sullied; —[katana] to inflict humiliation; to defame; to disgrace, to dishonour; to outwit, to prove more than a match; —[ka bala] very intimate, in the closest of counsels; —[ki sidha mem] just in front, as the crow flies; —[ke nice] under the very nose of, in the very presence of; —[ke sura mem bolana] to speak in a nasalised voice, to speak through the nose; —[ghisana] see —[ragadana; —cadhana] lit. to stretch the nostrils upwards to express indignation/contempt; —[chidakana] see ~[sinakana; —jana] to lose one’s honour, prestige/honour to be sullied, one’s reputation to be tarnished; —[cahe idhara se pakado, cahe udhara se] different courses for identical destination; to try both possible alternatives, to try either way; —[taka khana] to cram one’s stomatch full, to over-eat; —[para gussa hona] to be very petulant, to be very short-tempered; —[para makkhi na baithane dena] to have no obligations whatever, to be quits with all, to allow none to acquire an upper hand; —[para marana] to pay off readily (so as to keep one’s image unsullied); —[phatana] lit. the nose to be split up—foul smell to be unbearable; to be extra-fastidious; to have a clip on one’s shoulder; —[bacana] to have kept one’s name intact, to safeguard one’s honour; —[bahana] the nose to be running; —[bhaum cadhana/sikodana] lit. to turn up the nose and knit the brows—to frown, to express indignation; to cock one’s nose: —[mem dama karana] to set (somebody’s) teeth on edge, to make it too hot for; to pester, to plague, to harass; —[mem dama hona] to be plagued, to be fed up; things to become too hot, to have the teeth see on edge; —[mem nakela dalana] to have complete control over, to be in a position to make one dance to his tune; —[rakhana] to save or preserve one’s honour, to have a good name unsullied; —[ragadana] to beseech very humbly; to eat humble pie; —[sikodana] lit. to turn up the nose —to express contempt or disapproval; —[sinakana] to blow the nose; —[se age na dekha pana] not to see beyond one’s nose; to be short-sighted/unwise; [nakom cane cabavana] to tor ment, to cause excessive harassment..—naak (नाक) is alternatively transliterated as Nāka.
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Starts with (+29): Naakakore, Naakashikani, Naakkore-jhaar, Naakupunnuveru, Naakure, Nakkai, Nakkaippucci, Nakkalampucci, Nakkalarci, Nakkanitunkurmai, Nakkappucci, Nakkaralai, Nakkaranai, Nakkaruttanpul, Nakkataippan, Nakkattanpucci, Nakkiyakkiram, Nakkotti, Nakku, Nakku-pucciani.
Full-text (+31): Nak, Shishna, Jivanash, Syuna, Mina, Sina, Nakasha, Cina, Sthuna, Bol nak, Nak kati lewa, Nak chhikni, Bap-nak-he, Ga-nak, Ghrina, Rasva, Dina, Anaksh, Jina, Nakulandhya.
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The Matsya Purana (critical study) (by Kushal Kalita)
Part 4.2d - Nakṣatrapuruṣa-vrata < [Chapter 4 - Religious aspects of the Matsyapurāṇa]
Buddhist Education in Thailand (critical study) (by Smitthai Aphiwatamonkul)
6. Roles of Buddhist Universities towards the Thai Society < [Chapter 3 - The Impact of Buddhist Education on Thai Sangha]
2.2. The Buddhist Ordination in Thailand < [Chapter 4 - Role of the Buddhist Education in The Thai Society]
1. Buddhist Monastery in Thailand < [Chapter 4 - Role of the Buddhist Education in The Thai Society]
Rig Veda (translation and commentary) (by H. H. Wilson)
Rig Veda 7.71.1 < [Sukta 71]
The Tamil Academy: A Myth < [November, 1928]
Folk Tradition of Bengal (and Rabindranath Tagore) (by Joydeep Mukherjee)
The Literature of the Ancient Egyptians (by E.A. Wallis Budge)