Meaning of নরক in English
- The destroyer, or angel of the bottomless pit; -- the same as Apollyon and Asmodeus.
- Hell; the bottomless pit.
- A place of nether darkness, being the gloomy space through which the souls passed to Hades. See Milton's "Paradise Lost," Book II., line 883.
- The son of Chaos and brother of Nox, who dwelt in Erebus.
- 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 bolt or latch of a door.
- A rack for cattle to feed at.
- A door, especially one partly of latticework; -- called also heck door.
- A latticework contrivance for catching fish.
- An apparatus for separating the threads of warps into sets, as they are wound upon the reel from the bobbins, in a warping machine.
- A bend or winding of a stream.
- Alt. of Limbus
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