Sinhalese ni (119)
Clough’s Sinhala English Dictionary says Sinhalese ni is “a prefix to the words, implying negation and privation.” It traces its origin to the Tamil root il (negation) through the transformation of il (negation) > ní > ni. The following words, related to the prefix ni, also originate from Tamil il (negation).
niḥkshipta, “rejected, abandoned; foregone, given or thrown away.” niḥkshépa, “pledge, deposit; rejecting, leaving, forsaking, abandoning.” nikkujjita, “upsetting, overturning; upset, turned over.” nikma, “part, going out, departing, proceeding from; elu form of nishkramya.” nikmayáma, “departure, exodus.” nikmuṇa, “part, gene, departed, left.” nikmeṇawá, “to depart, to leave, to proceed from, to set out.” nikam, “useless, unemployed; empty, nothing; simple, mere.” nikam-innawá, “to be unemployed.” nikaraṇa, nikaruṇa, “causeless; without motive.” nikasala, “pure, clean, purified.” nikáma, “freedom from lust or desire; the state of an ascetic who has completely subjugated his passions.” nikára, “helplessness, destitution; malice, revenge; abuse, reproach, disrespect; injury; offence.” nikáraṇa, “killing, slaughter.” nikuṭu, “reproach, scorn, abuse, slander.” nikut, “gone, departed; dead.” nikutwenawá, “to depart, to go away, to set off.” nikṛita, “tricked, cheated, deceived; dishonest; removed; dismissed.” nikṛiti, “rejection, abuse, dishonesty.” nikṛishṭa, “low, mean, despised, vile, outcast, degraded.” nigraha, “scorn, mockery, insult, derision; aversion, disfavour; discouragement; dislike; deviation from rectitude, impropriety; binding, confinement.” nigrahakaraṇaivá, “to scorn, to mock, to deride; to treat with contempt.” niṭṭáwenawá, “to perish totally, to disappear finally, to be ended.” nidrawa, “dryness, want of moisture.” nidahasa, “freedom, liberty, exemption.” niduk, “at ease, exempt from pain or sorrow, happy, healthy.” nidos, “blameless, faultless; elu form of nirdósha.” nipol, “coconut not fully matured and prior to the shell becoming hard; also part of a gun where the cap is placed.” nimala, “pure, spotless, undefiled, unpolluted, unstained.” niyabalá, niyambalá, “curry prepared without the addition of acid, kind of curry, curry made of jack.” nir, “prefix implying negation, privation; out, certainty.” nirgata, “gone out, proceeded, departed.” nirguṇa, “worthless; bad, vile; void of all good qualities.” nirgrantha, “not, tie or connexion with the world, ascetic, devotee, one who has withdrawn from the world and lives as a mendicant or hermit.” nirjara, “deity, a god, immortal being; food of the gods, ambrosia; immortal, imperishable.” nirjala, “and destitute of water, desert, waste.” nirdaya, “unkind, unfeeling, cruel, hard, unmerciful.” nirdósha, “faultless, guiltless, blameless, without defect or flaw.” nirdhana, “poor, indigent, needy.” nirdharma, “unrighteousness;- impious; unjust, wicked; irreligious, void of law or religion.” nirbandhana, “intent and earnest pursuit of anything; seizing, laying hold of anything.” nirbhaya, “fearlessness, courage, fearless, bold, undaunted.” nirbhawa, “impediment, hindrance, obstruction; delay.” nirbhita, see nirbhaya. nirmala, “clean, pure, free from filth or impurities.” nirmmúla, “baseless, unfounded, eradicated.” nirlajja, “shameless, impudent, immodest.” nirwyakta, “stammering, having imperfect powers of speech; unlearned, ignorant.” nirwarṇa, “colourless.” nirwastra, “naked, in a state of nudity.” nirwáṇa, “the summum bonum of buddhism.” nirvikára, “uniform, immutable.” nirwédaya, “humility, self-disparagement; not having the védas, infidel, unscriptural.” nirwédha, “unpierced, impervious.” nirwéshṭanaya, “unfolding, loosening.” nirantara, “continuous, perpetual, constant; coarse, gross, without interstices.” niraparádha, “faultless, guiltless, blameless, innocent.” nirapéksha, “independent of, indifferent, without hope; disregarding, used of such as give up all for religious pursuits.” niraya, “hell, infernal regions; there are eight chief hells, each surrounded by four smaller ones, in which punishments are inflicted according to the nature and extent of the guilt of the culprit.” nirargala, “unbolted, insecure; unobstructed, unimpeded.” nirarthaka, “unmeaning, vain, fruitless, unprofitable.” nirawagraha, “selfwilled, uncontrolled, headstrong, independent.” nirawadya, “guiltless, blameless, innocent, unobjectionable, unexceptionable.” nirawaṣésha, “finished, ended, completed, concluded, nothing remaining; all, whole, entire.” nirawul, “unconfused, clear, undisturbed; unmixed.” nirákára, “a god, invisible being; name of Vishṇu and of Ṣiva; devoid of form or figure.” niráchára, “lawless, wicked; corrupt, barbarous.” nirátapá, “night.” nirádarawa, unloving, unkind, unmerciful; cruel, hard hearted. nirábádha, “free from pain, healthy; frivolously or unreally vexatious, having no real cause to complain.” nirámaya, “recovered from sickness, well, hale.” niráyása, “unwearied, vigorous, active; not giving trouble; easily attainable.” nirálambanaya, “unoccupied space, vacuum, region of space; unstable, loose, inconstant.” niráṣá, “hopeless, disappointed.” niráhára, “fasting, abstinence; hunger, want of food.” nirindriya, “imperfect, mutilated, maimed.” niruttara, “unanswered, unanswerable, silenced.” nirudaka, “dry, having no water.” nirupadrawa, “dangerless, safe, secure, free from alarm.” nirupama and nirupamána, “unequalled, having no resemblance or likeness.” nirúpa, “incorporeal, immaterial; ugly, deformed.” niróga, nirógi, and nirógiwa, “healthy, well, hale, free from disease.” niróshaṇa, “calm, mild, placid, placable.” nilaguru, “illiterate person, ignorant man; tusked elephant.” nilatura, “always, ever, perpetually.” nilantara, “always, propetual.” niwaradi, “blameless, faultless, guiltless, irreproachable, innocent.” niwará, “virgin, unmarried woman.” niwáta, “asylum; calm; not windy, safe, secure, excluded from the wind.” niṣ, “particle and prefix of privation and negation, being another form of nir.” niṣchala, “immovable, still, fixed, unshaken, firm, steady.” niṣṣabda, “silent, taciturn.” niṣṣésha, “complete, entire.” nishkalaṇka, “tranquillity, rest, quiescence; spotless, undefiled, without blemish, pure.” nishkáraṇa, “causeless, vain, groundless, fruitless.” nishpápa, “sinless, faultless, blameless.” nishprapañcha, “quick, swift, expeditious.” nishprabhá, “dark, caliginous, gloomy, obscure.” nishphala, “barren, impotent, fruitless, seedless; vain, unprofitable, unfruitful.” nistala, “round, spherical, globular; trembling, shaking, moving; low, below.” nisparyáya, “out of order, irregular, not according to the arrangement of the synonyms of a vocabulary.” nissańga, “free from attachment or, desire.” nissaha, “disunited, disjoined, parted, separated.” nissára, “barren, pithless.” nisséwanaya, “freedom, independence, liberty.” nissésa, “all, whole, entire, complete.” nissóbhana, “ugly, deformed, unhandsome, misshapen.” nisala, “stone, rock; harp, firmness.” nisirί, “reproach, scandal, abuse; poverty, indigence; misfortune.” nisóka, “joyous, joyful, pleased, delighted, free from sorrow.” nikára, “disrespect, contempt, vilifying.” sannyása, “abandonment of all worldly affections and possessions; Indian spikenard.” sannyási, “ascetic, devotee, religious mendicant entirely devoted to the practice of religious duties.”