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नख nakh[Prk. नखं; S. नखं], s.m. Nail (of a finger or toe); a claw, talon;—(in Poetry) a symbol for the number twenty (the number of the nails);—a kind of perfume (a dried substance of a brown colour, and of the shape of a nail. or of a pared nail):—nakhāṅk (˚kha+an˚), s.m., or nakh-pad, s.m., or nakhrekh, or nakh-rekhā, or nakh-lekhā, s.f., The mark, or scratch, of a finger-nail, or of a claw; a scratch:—nakh-sikh, or nakh-sikh-se, or nakh-se sikh-talak (˚sikh= sikhā= S. śikhā), adv. From the toe-nails to the hair on the crown of the head; from top to toe; entirely, throughout:—nakh-khādī, s.m. (f. -inī), An animal that eats with its claws or talons:—nakhā-nakhi, s.f. Mutual clawing, a scratching and tearing one another.
Origin: Hindi