نیم

nīm[Pehl. nīmak; Zend naêma; S. नेम], adj. & s.m. Half;—young (as a chicken, etc.);—impotent;—a half;—the middle:—nīm-āstīn (or nīma-āstīn), s.f. An upper robe or jacket with half-sleeves (often made of gold and silver tissue):—nīm-ā-nīm, adv. Half-and-half; by halves:—nīm-bāz, adj. Half thrown back, halfopen:—nīm-burushor bursh (for nīm-burushtor burushta), adj. & s.m. Half-roasted, or halffried, or half-boiled;—a poached egg:—nīmbismil, adj. Half-slaughtered; half-slain (by a lover's glances), half-dead:—nīm-puḵẖtor puḵẖta, adj. Half-cooked, parboiled;—halfripe:—nīm-taṛ, adj. Middling:—nīm-ṭar, adj. Half-informed:—nīm-jān, adj. Half-dead (with fright, etc.):—nīm-josh, adj. Half-boiled; coddled:—nīm-josh karnā, v.t. To parboil; to coddle:—nīm-ćěhra (or nīm-tan), s.m. A species of imaginary being, having a face, one eye, one arm, one foot (it is male and female; the male having the right hand, foot, etc., the female the left; when united they resemble one human figure; when separate they are supposed to run with amazing velocity on one foot, and are considered as very dangerous and cruel):—nīm-ḥakīm, s.m. A quack doctor, an empiric;—a shallow pretender:—nīm-ḵẖẉāb, adj. Halfasleep, dozing;—s.m. A half-sleep; a doze:—nīm-ḵẖẉābī, s.f. Drowsiness; dozing:—nīm-ḵẖẉurda, or nīm-ḵẖẉurd, adj. & s.m. Half-eaten;—what is left on a plate after a meal; the remains of victuals, orts:—nīm-rāẓī, adj. Halfsatisfied:—nīm-roz, s.m. Mid-day;—name of the province of Sīstān in Persia:—nīm-roza, adj. Of half a day:—nīm-sāl, s.m. Half a year;—adj. Middle-aged (man):—nīm-soz, adj. Half-roasted; scorched:—nīm-shab, s.m. Midnight:—nīm-shabī, adj. Of or relating to midnight:—nīm-kabābī, s.f. A large-sized fowl (between one for curry and one for roasting):—nīm-kusht, or kushta, adj. Half-killed:—nīmgard, adj. Half-round:—nīm-garm, adj. Lukewarm, milk-warm:—nīm-gufta, adj. Halfuttered:—nīm-murda, adj. Half-dead:—nīmmullā, s.m. A half-learned witling; a quack.