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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