na

1. نَ

1. na the dental nasal (found at the beginning of words and before or after dental consonants as well as between vowels; subject to conversion into ṇa, Pāṇ. viii, 4, 1 - 39 ).

2. نَ

2. na ind. not, no, nor, neither, RV. (nā, x, 34, 8 ) &c. &c. (as well in simple negation as in wishing, requesting and commanding, except in prohibition before an Impv. or an augmentless aor. [ cf. 1. mā]; in successive sentences or clauses either simply repeated, e.g. Mn. iv, 34 ; or stren

3. نَ

like, as, as it were (only in Veda and later artificial language, e.g. gauronatṛṣitaḥpiba, drink like [ lit. ‘not’ i.e. ‘although not being’] a thirsty deer; in this sense it does not coalesce metrically with a following vowel).