All articles starting with N

Nahum Tate

Nahum Tate (1652–1715) was an Irish-born poet and dramatist who served as poet laureate of England from 1692 and adapted Shakespeare's King Lear in 1681, giving it a happy ending.

Nahush

Nahush (नहुष) is a 1940 Hindi narrative poem by Maithili Sharan Gupt, retelling the Mahabharata story of a man who becomes king of heaven and falls.

Nai Barghouti (ناي البرغوثي), born 1996 in Jerusalem, is a Palestinian singer, composer, and flutist blending Arabic tarab with jazz; creator of the NaiStrumentation vocal technique, debut album Nai 1 (2022), and Skrillex's XENA (2023).

Nai Ghazal

Nai Ghazal (نئی غزل, "new ghazal") is the modern, experimental branch of the Urdu ghazal, emerging in the mid-twentieth century with poets like Nasir Kazmi.

Nai Kahani

Nai Kahani (نئی کہانی, "New Story"), also called naya afsana, was a modernist short-story movement in Urdu and Hindi literature, active from the mid-1950s through the 1960s.

Nai Nazm

Nai Nazm (نئی نظم, "the new poem") is a movement in Urdu poetry that, from the 1960s onward, replaced inherited verse forms with free verse and blank verse.

Sep 20, 2026

Nai Phuan Ong

Nai Phuan Ong is an American condensed matter physicist, the Eugene Higgins Professor at Princeton University, known for cuprate superconductor research and evidence of the chiral anomaly.

Nai Tanqeed

Nai Tanqeed (نئی تنقید, "new criticism") is the Urdu term for the modern school of literary criticism that judges a work through its autonomous text alone.

Naia (skeleton)

Naia is the skeleton of a teenage girl who lived 12,000 to 13,000 years ago, found in 2007 in Hoyo Negro, a flooded cave pit on Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula.

Naiad

Naiads (Ναϊάδες) are the freshwater nymphs of Greek mythology, spirits of springs, rivers, fountains, and lakes, usually daughters of river gods, worshipped at caves and city water sources, distinct from sea-nymph Nereids.

NAID-F trial

NAID-F (NCT07263529) is a single-center, open-label trial at Istanbul University-Cerrahpasa testing dietary counseling then 80 mg/day oral ferrous sulfate in 60 women aged 18-55 with non-anemic iron deficiency.

Naidangiin Tuvshinbayar

Naidangiin Tuvshinbayar (Найдангийн Түвшинбаяр), Mongolian judoka born 1984, won Mongolia's first Olympic gold at 100 kg in Beijing 2008, silver in London 2012, and was sentenced in 2022 to 16 years for killing a friend.

Naididae

Naididae: family of aquatic oligochaete annelid worms, since 2008 including the former Tubificidae (Tubifex sludge worms) and the naidids (Nais, Dero, Pristina); over 1,100 species, nine subfamilies, cosmopolitan, used as water quality bioindicators.

Sep 19, 2026

Naif Alsmri (MRSOOL)

Naif Alsmri (نايف الصمري) is a Saudi technology entrepreneur who cofounded MRSOOL (مرسول), the Riyadh-based delivery app, in 2015, serving as its chief operating officer and chief marketing officer.

Naihāti

Naihāti (নৈহাটি) is a city and municipality on the Hooghly River's east bank north of Kolkata, in West Bengal's North 24 Parganas district, and the birthplace of Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, author of Vande Mataram.

Naihe

Naihe, also written Na-ihe, was a Hawaiian high chief who served as councillor and chief orator to King Kamehameha I and ruled Kona's Kaʻawaloa district.

Naijok Fossae

Naijok Fossae, a 450 km fossa (long narrow depression) on Venus at 70.2°S, 337°E in quadrangle V-61, IAU-named in 1997 for a Dinka (Sudan) evil deity.

Naïka

Naïka (Victoria Naicka Richard, born 1998, Miami) is a French-Haitian indie-pop singer-songwriter singing in English, French, and Haitian Creole; EPs Lost in Paradïse, Transitions, debut album ECLESIA (2026), 270M+ streams.

Sep 23, 2026

Naikidevi

Naikidevi (नायिका देवी) was a 12th-century queen of Gujarat's Chaulukya dynasty who, as regent for her son Mularaja II, defeated Muhammad Ghori at Kasahrada in 1178.

Nail (anatomy)

Nail (anatomy): the human fingernail or toenail, a keratin nail plate produced by the nail matrix, anchored by the nail bed, and bordered by folds, cuticle, lunula, and hyponychium; fingernails grow about 3 mm per month, toenails about 1.5 mm.

Nail (fastener)

A nail is a straight, slender fastener, usually pointed and headed, driven by hammer or nail gun to hold two or more pieces of material together.

Sep 21, 2026

Nail Akhmediev

Nail Akhmediev (Наил Ахмедиев) is a physicist and Emeritus Professor in theoretical nonlinear optics at the Australian National University, known for Akhmediev breathers, rogue-wave theory, and dissipative solitons.

Oct 20, 2026

Nail atrophy

Nail atrophy (ICD-11 EE10.4) is thinning or loss of the nail plate from nail matrix damage, chiefly nail lichen planus or the rare childhood entity idiopathic atrophy of the nails (Samman, 1969).

Nail biting

Nail biting (onychophagia) is a body-focused repetitive behavior affecting 20-30% of people, classified in DSM-5-TR under other specified obsessive-compulsive and related disorders, treated mainly with habit reversal training and bitter polish.

Nail bomb

A nail bomb is an improvised explosive device packed with nails or metal fragments that the blast propels as projectiles, causing penetrating secondary blast injuries.

Nail clubbing

Nail clubbing, or Hippocratic fingers, is bulbous enlargement of the fingertips with loss of the normal nail-fold angle, defined by a Lovibond angle over 180 degrees, linked to lung, heart, and liver disease and first described by Hippocrates in empyema.

Nail disease

Nail disease (nail disorders, onychomycosis, paronychia, nail psoriasis) covers infections, trauma, inflammatory and systemic conditions of the nail unit; fungi cause about 50% of nail dystrophies, with mean onychomycosis prevalence 4.3% in Europe and the US.