Sanskrit ní (167)
Monier-Williams’ A Sanskrit-English Dictionary says Sanskrit word ní refers to “down and back.” He claims that the word is always prefixed either to verbs or to nouns. In the latter case, it also has the meaning of negation or privation, corresponding to Greek ἐ-νί (e-ní), Zend ni, German ni-dar, ni-der, nieder, Slavonic ni-zu, Anglo-Saxon ni-ther, and English ne-ther, be-neath. Apart from these inferences, he also lists several compound words with the prefix ní. However, numerous words with the prefix ní, are condensed, and approximately 150 words are given below for reference. This prefix ní originates from the Tamil root il (negation). The root il (negation) changes into ní in Sanskrit through the transformation il (negation) > ní.
nís, “out, forth, away.” nís-tattva, “not comprehended in the 24 Tattvas or principles.” nís-tantu, “having no offspring, childless.” nís-tantra, nís-tandra, “not lazy, fresh healthy.” nís-tamaska, “free from darkness, not gloomy, light.” nís-taraṃga, “motionless, still.” nís-tarkya, “unimaginable inconceivable.” nís-tala, “not flat round, globular; trembling, moving; down, below.” nís-traṉṡa, “fearless.” nís-trapa, “shameless.” nī-rakta, “colourless, faded.” nī-raja, “free from dust.” nī-rata, “not delighting in, indifferent.” nī-rada, “toothless.” nī-randhra, “having no holes or openings, imperforate, close, thick, dense, uninterrupted.” nī-rava, “soundless.” nī-rasa, “without juice, sapless, dried up, withered; flavourless, tasteless, insipid, without charm, dull.” nī-rāga, “colourless; free from passion.” nī-ruc, “lustreless, dim.” nī-ruj, “free from sickness, well, in health.” niḥ, “for nis before a sibilant and rarely before.” niḥ-kshatra, “having no military caste.” niḥ-ṡaṅka, “tree from fear or risk, not afraid of; careless, secure; fearlessly, securely, easily; absence of fear or hesitation.” niḥ-ṡatru, “free from enemies.” niḥ-ṡastra, “weaponless, unarmed.” niḥ-saṃskāra, “uneducated, ill-mannered.” niḥ-saṅga, “absence of attachment, entire concentration.” niḥ-saṃcāra, “not moving about, not leaving one’s home; not taking a walk.” niḥ-saṃjña, “senseless, unconscious.” niḥ-sattva, “without existence, unsubstantial; unenergetic, weak, impotent, wretched, miserable; deprived of living beings; insignificant, mean, low; want of power or energy, insignificance; non-existence.” niḥ-satya, “untrue, false; falsehood, insincerity.” niḥ-saṃtati, “destitute of offspring, childless.” niḥ-sambandha, “without relatives.” niḥ-sūtra, “without thread; helpless.” niḥ-sneha, “not unctuous or greasy.” nir-aṉṡu, “rayless.” nir-aksha, “having no dice; having no latitude.” nir-akshara, “not knowing the letters.” nir-agra or nir-agraka, “divisible without remainder.” nir-aṅkuṡa, “unchecked, uncontrolled, independent, free, unruly, extravagant.” nir-aṅguli, “fingerless.” nir-antara, “having no interval (in space or time), close, compact, dense, uninterrupted, perpetual, constant.” nir-apa, “waterless.” nir-aparādha, “unoffending, guiltless, blameless; faultlessness, innocence.” nir-abhimāna, “free from pride.” nir-alaṃkāra, “unornamented.” nir-astra, “weaponless.” nir-asthi, “boneless.” nir-ahaṃkāra, “free from egotism, unselfish, humble.” nir-ākāra, “formless, shapeless, incorporeal (brahman), making no appearance or show, insignificant, unimportant; having no object.” nir-ākṛiti, “formless, shapeless.” nir-ātmaka, “having no separate soul or no individual existence.” nir-āṡa, “without any hope or wish or desire, indifferent.” nir-āhāra, “want of food, fasting; having no food or abstaining from it.” nir-īṡvara, “godless, atheistic.” nir-upadrava, “free from affliction or danger, neither inflicting nor incurring adversity, harmless, peaceful, secure, happy; not inauspicious; absence of danger, security.” nir-ghosha, “soundless, noiseless.” nir-jana, “unpeopled, lonely, desolate.” nir-jara, “not becoming old, young, fresh; imperishable, immortal.” nir-jala, “waterless, dry; not mixed with water (as buttermilk).” nir-jāḍya, “free from couldness.” nir-jīva, “lifeless, dead; name of killing striking dead.” nir-jvara, “feverless, healthy.” nir-daya, “pitiless, unkind, cruel, hard, violence, excessive.” nir-nidra, “sleepless.” nir-buddhi, “senseless, ignorant, stupid.” nir-bhaya, “fearlessness, security; fearless, not afraid of; free from danger, secure, tranquil.” nir-bhara, “without weight or measure.” nir-makshika, “free from flies.” nir-yatna, “inactive, immovable, lazy.” nir-yukti, “want of union or connection; unfitness, impropriety; unfounded, illogical, wrong.” nir-vaṇa, “a country without forests.” nir-vicāra, “not needing any consideration; not reflecting or considering; without reflection, inconsiderately.” niṡ-cakrika, “without tricks or deceit, honest.” niṡ-cakshus, “eyeless, blind.” niṡ-cala, “motionless, immovable, fixed, steady, invariable, unchangeable.” niṡ-cāmara, “without a chowrie.” niṡ-cinta, “not thinking, thoughtless, careless, unconcerned.” niṡ-cetana, “unconscious, unreasonable.” niṡ-ceshṭa, “incapable of motion, motionless, powerless, helpless.” niṡ-caura, “free from robbers or thieves.” niṡ-chandas, “not studying Vedic texts.” niṡ-chāya, “shadeless.” niṡ-chidra, “having no rents or holes, without weak points or defects, unhurt, uninterrupted.” niṡ-cheda, “indivisible, reduced by the common divisor to the least term.” nish-kaṇṭaka, “free from thorns or enemies, unhurt, untroubled, secure.” nish-kapaṭa, “guileless, free from deceit or fraud.” nish-kampa, “not shaking or tremulous, motionless, immovable.” nish-kala, “without parts, undivided.” nish-krodha, “free from wrath, not angry with.” nish-paṅka, “free from mud, clear, pure.” nish-patāka, “having no flagor banner.” nish-pāpa, “sinless, guiltness.” nish-pāra, “boundless, unbounded.” nish-pālaka, “without guardian, unprotected.” nish-putra, “sonless, childless.” nish-purusha, “deprived of men, desolate.” ni-kūla, “going down bill.” ni-kartavya, “to be acted badly or basely, to be injured.” ni-kāra, “bringing down, humiliation, wrong, offence, injury; wickedness, malice; opposition, contradiction.” ni-kṛita, “brought down, humiliated, offended, injured, tricked, deceived.” ni-kṛiti, “deceitful, dishonest.” ni-karsha, “lowering, reducing, decreasing.” ni-kṛishta, “debased, vile, low, despised, outcast.” ni-krámaṇa, “putting down the feet, footstep, footfall.” ni-kshatriya, “where the warriors are overthrown.” ni-gṛihīti, “restraint, check; overpowering.” ni-gṛihya, “having held back or taken or arrested or confined; having restrained or coerced, by coercion.” ni-graha, “keeping down or back, restraining, binding, coercion, suppression, subjugation; defeat, overthrow, destruction; seizing, catching, arresting, holding fast.” ni-grahaṇa, “holding down, suppressing; subduing, suppression; capture, imprisonment, punishment; war, fight.” ni-grahītavya, “to be punished.” ni-grahītṛi, “one who seizes or lays hold of; one who keeps back or prevents.” ni-grābhá, “pressing down, letting sink; suppressing.” nί-cakrayā, “with down-rolling chariots or without chariots.” ni-ḍīna, “the downward flight or swoop of a bird or a partic, mode of flying.” ni-tapati, “to emit heat downwards; to consume by fire.” ni-tarā́m, “downwards; in a low tone.” ni-daṇḍa, “one who has laid down the stick.” ni-dhana, “having no property, poor.” ni-pādá, “low ground, a valley.” ni-paraṇa, “the putting down or offering.” ni-pāraka, “one who puts down.” ni-biḍa or ni-viḍa, “without spaces or interstices, close, compact, thick, dense, fir.” nί-manyu, “not angry, unresentful, appeased.” ni-mushṭi, “less than a handful, a kind of measure.” ni-karaṇa, “separating; driving away, turning out, expelling, removing, repudiating (of a woman), opposing, contradicting, denying.” ni-karaṇīya, “to be opposed or refuted.” ni-karishṇu, “rejecting, repudiating; obstructive, envious, hindering or preventing from.” ni-kartṛi, “contradicting, refuting; repudiating, repudiator of; contemner, despiser.” ni-kāra, “rebuke, reproach, censure.” ni-kṛita, “pushed or driven away, repudiated, expelled, banished, rejected, removed; frustrated, destroyed; omitted, forgot; refuted; despised, made light of.” ni-kṛiti, “obstruction, impediment, interruption; repudiation, rejection, contradiction, refutation.” ni-rāga, “passionless, dispassionate.” ni-gama, “going forth, setting out, departure.” nir-bhakta, “excluded from participation.” nir-yā́, “getting out of order, disturbance, defect.” nir-yāṇa, “going forth or out, exit, issue; setting out, decamping, going out; departure, vanishing, disappearance.” nir-vāsa, “leaving one’s home, expulsion from, banishment.” nir-vāsana, “expelling from home, banishment; leading out to some other place.” nir-vāṇa, “blown or put out, extinguished (as a lamp or fire), set (as the sun), calmed, quieted, tamed.” nir-vṛita, “satisfied, happy, tranquil, at ease, at rest.” nir-vraṇita, “whose wounds have been healed.” ni-vanā́, “downwards, downhill.” ni-ṡabda, “speechless, silent.” nish-kṛitá, “done away, removed, expelled, atoned, expiated; made ready, prepared; atonement, expiation; a fixed place, place of rendezvous.” ni-sṛita, “gone away, disappeared; come forth i.e., unsheathed.” upa-ni-shad (1), “to sit down near to; to approach, set about.” upa-nishád (2), “the sitting down at the feet of another to listen to his words.” saṃ-ny-√as, “to throw down together, place or put or lay together; to impose, put or lay upon, intrust or commit to; to put or lay down, deposit; to lay aside, give up, abandon, resign.” saṃ-nyasana, “throwing down, laying aside, giving up, resignation, renunciation of worldly concerns.” saṃ-nyasta, “thrown down, laid aside, relinquished, abandoned, deserted; encamped; deposited, intrusted, consigned.” saṃ-nyasta-deha, “one who has given up his body.” saṃ-nyasta-ṡastra, “one who has laid aside his weapons.” saṃ-nyāsa, “putting or throwing down, laying aside, resignation, abandonment of; renunciation of the world, profession of asceticism; abstinence from food; giving up the body, sudden death; complete exhaustion; deposit, trust; compact, agreement; stake, wager; Indian spikenard.” saṃ-nyāsa-karma-kārikā, “name of work.” saṃ-nyāsa-grahaṇa, “assuming or practising asceticism.” saṃ-nyāsa-vat, “connected with asceticism.” saṃ-nyāsin, “laying aside, giving up, abandoning, renouncing; abstaining from food; one who abandons or resigns worldly affairs, an ascetic, devotee (who has renounced all earthly concerns and devotes himself to meditation and the study of the Āraṇyakas or Upanishads, a Brāhman in the fourth Āṡrama or stage of his life, a religious mendicant).” saṃ-nyāsitā, saṃ-nyāsitva, “abandonment of worldly concerns, retirement from the world.” saṃ-nyāsin-darṡana, “name of a chapter of the PadmaPurana.” saṃ-nyāsin-saṃdhyā, saṃ-nyāsin-samārādhana, “name of works.”