نمك namak, vulg. nimak
P نمك namak, vulg. nimak, s.m. Salt;—savour, flavour;—bread, subsistence;—(met.) piquancy; spirit, animation;—grace, beauty:—namak-band, adj. Stopped or bound up with salt (a wound):—namak-parwarda, adj. & s.m. Brought up by or supported at the expense of another;—a dependant, a servant, a domestic slave;—a favourite, confidential servant:—namak-ćashī, s.f. The first feeding of a child about six months of age (which is attended with certain ceremonies); the ceremonies observed on such an occasion (syn. khīr-ćaṭāʼī);—the exchange of trays of sweetmeats between families after a betrothal:—namak ćakhnā (-kā), To taste or try the savour (of food):—namak-ḥarām, adj. & s.m. Untrue to (his) salt, ungrateful, unfaithful, perfidious, disloyal;—disobedient; evil, wicked;—an ungrateful wretch; a perfidious fellow, a traitor;—a miscreant:—namak-ḥarāmī, s.f. Ingratitude; perfidiousness, disloyalty, &c.;—perfidy, treason, treachery:—namak-ḥalāl, adj. Grateful;—faithful, loyal, true;—submissive, obedient, dutiful:—namak-ḥalālī, s.f. Gratitude; fidelity, loyalty:—namak-ḵẖẉār, s.m. (lit. 'eating salt'), A servant; dependant:—namak-dān, s.m. A salt-cellar:—namak-sār, adj. Saline;—s.m. A salt-pit:—namak-sūda, adj. Rubbed with salt; salted:—namak-kā tez-āb, s.m. Muriatic acid:—namak-kā ḥaq adā karnā, To discharge (one's) obligations:—namak-kī mār paṛnā (-par), or namak phūṭ-phūṭ-ke nikalnā, The salt (which another has eaten) to break out in sores or boils (on the body):—namak-maḥāl, s.m. Revenue derived from salt:—namak-mirć lagānā (-meṅ), 'To put salt and chillies' (into), to give a relish (to), to impart a flavour (to);—to give vividness (to a description);—to colour highly, to exaggerate;—to excite:—namak-ě-nā-jāʼiz, s.m. Contraband salt:—namak-wāfī, adj. Who is worth his salt; faithful, dutiful (in employment):—kaṭe-par namak ćhiṛaknā or lagānā, 'To put salt upon a wound,' to add one grief or vexation to another, to pile agony on agony.
