نٹ

नट naṭ[S. नटः, rt. नट्, corr. fr. नृ त् ], s.m. (f. -ī, -in, -nī, -inī), A dancer; rope-dancer; tumbler; mime, actor; juggler;—name of a particular vagrant caste, the Indian gipsy (said to be the offspring of a degraded Kshatriya by a woman of the second caste; they are generally rope-dancers, jugglers, etc.);—name of a subordinate mode in music;—the tree Calosanthes indica; the tree Jonesia asoka;—a sort of reed, Arunda tibialis, or A. karka:—naṭ-bar, s.m. See s.v.:—naṭ-patrikā, s.f. The eggplant, Solanum melongena:—naṭ-khaṭ, adj. & s.m. See s.v.:—naṭ-maṇḍan, s.m. 'Actor's ornament,' yellow orpiment:—naṭ-nārāyaṇ, s.m. Name of a rāgor musical mode (according to some, the sixth, or, according to others, a subdivision of that called dīpak, or of megh):—naṭ-vidyā, vulg. naṭ-bidyā, s.f. The art of ropedancing, or tumbling, etc.