Meaning of नरक in English
- The destroyer, or angel of the bottomless pit; -- the same as Apollyon and Asmodeus.
- Hell; the bottomless pit.
- The valley of Hinnom, near Jerusalem, where some of the Israelites sacrificed their children to Moloch, which, on this account, was afterward regarded as a place of abomination, and made a receptacle for all the refuse of the city, perpetual fires being kept up in order to prevent pestilential effluvia. In the New Testament the name is transferred, by an easy metaphor, to Hell.
- The place of the dead, or of souls after death; the grave; -- called in Hebrew sheol, and by the Greeks hades.
- The place or state of punishment for the wicked after death; the abode of evil spirits. Hence, any mental torment; anguish.
- A place where outcast persons or things are gathered
- A dungeon or prison; also, in certain running games, a place to which those who are caught are carried for detention.
- A gambling house.
- A place into which a tailor throws his shreds, or a printer his broken type.
- To overwhelm.
- A place lying east or southeast of Jerusalem, in the valley of Hinnom.
- A large North American aquatic salamander (Protonopsis horrida or Menopoma Alleghaniensis). It is very voracious and very tenacious of life. Also called alligator, and water dog.
- Born in or of hell.
- Produced in hell.
- A composition for infernal purposes; a magical preparation.
- The dabchick.
- A hag of or fit for hell.
- A dog of hell; an agent of hell.
- One who heles or covers; hence, a tiler, slater, or thatcher.
- Of or pertaining to hell; like hell; infernal; malignant; wicked; detestable; diabolical.
- Toward hell.
- Of or pertaining to or suitable for the lower regions, inhabited, according to the ancients, by the dead; pertaining to Pluto's realm of the dead, the Tartarus of the ancients.
- Of or pertaining to, resembling, or inhabiting, hell; suitable for hell, or to the character of the inhabitants of hell; hellish; diabolical; as, infernal spirits, or conduct.
- An inhabitant of the infernal regions; also, the place itself.
- Pertaining to, or designating, an acid of the ethylene series, metameric with fumaric acid and obtained by heating malic acid.
Meaning of नरक in English
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