The Pali Text Society's Pali-English Dictionary

Nigha'sati
Nigha'sati [Sk. nighar+ati, ni+gha'sati1] 1. to rub, rub against, graze, chafe Vin ii.133; Vism 120; DhA
i.396. -- 2. to polish up, clean J ii.418; iii.75.
Nigha'sana
Nigha'sana (nt.) [Sk. nighar+ana]=nigha'sa Miln 215.
Nigha*.u
Nigha*.u [Sk. nigha*&u, dial. for nirgrantha from grath- n!ti (see ga*&hi & gha&&ana), orig.
disentanglement, unravelling, i. e. explanation; cp. nigga*&hi, which is a variant of the same word. -- BSk.
nigha*&a (Divy 619; Av- ii.19), Prk. nigha*&u] an explained word or a word expln, vocabulary, gloss,
usually in ster. formula marking the accomplishments of a learned Brahmin " sanigha*.u -- ke&ubh!na' . . .
padako" (see detail under ke&ubha) D i.88; A i.163, 166; iii.223; Sn p. 105; Miln 10. Bdhgh's expln is
quoted by Trenckner, Notes p. 65.
Nigh!ta
Nigh!ta [Sk. nigh!ta, ni+gh!ta] striking down, suppressing, destroying, killing M i.430; Nett 189. Cp.
nigh!ti.
Nigh!ti
Nigh!ti [ni+gh!ti] "slaying or being slain," defeat, loss (opp. uggh!ti) Sn 828. Cp. nigh!ta.
Nicaya
Nicaya [Sk. nicaya, ni+caya, cp. nicita] heaping up, accumulation; wealth, provisions S i.93, 97; Vin v.172
(˚sannidhi). See also necayika.
Nicita
Nicita (adj.) [Sk. nicita, ni+cita, of nicin!ti] heaped up, full, thick, massed, dense Th 2, 480 (of hair); PvA
221 (ussanna uparûpari nicita, of Niraya).
Nicula
Nicula [Sk. nicula] a plant (Barringtonia acutangula) VvA 134.
Nicca
Nicca (adj.) [Vedic nitya, adj. -- formation fr. ni, meaning "downward"=onward, on and on; according to
Grassmann (Wtb. z. Rig Veda) originally "inwardly, homely"] constant, continuous, permanent D iii.31; S
i.142; ii.109, 198; iv.24 sq., 45, 63; A ii.33, 52; v.210; Ps ii.80; Vbh 335, 426. In chain of synonyms: nicca
dhuva sassata avipari*!madhamma D i.21; S iii.144, 147; see below anicca, -- nt. adv. nicca' perpetually,
constantly, always (syn. sad!) M i.326; iii.271; Sn 69, 220, 336; Dh 23, 109, 206, 293; J i.290; iii.26, 190;
Nd2 345 (=dhuvak!la'); PvA 32, 55, 134. Far more freq. as anicca (adj.; anicca' nt. n.) unstable,
impermanent, inconstant; (nt.) evanescence, inconstancy, impermanence. -- The emphatic assertion of
impermanence (continuous change of condition) is a prominent axiom of the Dhamma, & the realization of
the evanescent character of all things mental or material is one of the primary conditions of attaining right