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Meaning of नितंब in English

  • The buttocks, or hind part of an animal; the posteriors; the fundament; the bottom.
  • A quadruped of the genus Equus (E. asinus), smaller than the horse, and having a peculiarly harsh bray and long ears. The tame or domestic ass is patient, slow, and sure-footed, and has become the type of obstinacy and stupidity. There are several species of wild asses which are swift-footed.
  • A dull, heavy, stupid fellow; a dolt.
  • An abbreviation of hypochonaria; -- usually in plural.
  • To make melancholy.
  • The buttocks.
  • The two anterior of the four lobes on the dorsal side of the midbrain of most mammals; the anterior optic lobes.
  • The umbones of a bivalve shell.
  • The part at the back of the hip, which, in man, forms one of the rounded protuberances on which he sits; the rump.
  • The convexity of a ship behind, under the stern.

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