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Napping Princess (ひるね姫 〜知らないワタシの物語〜)
Napping Princess (ひるね姫 〜知らないワタシの物語〜, Hirune Hime) is Kenji Kamiyama's 2017 original anime film about Kokone Morikawa, a napping Okayama high schooler whose dreams of Heartland and princess Ancien tie into her father's arrest before the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
Nappy Roots
Nappy Roots is an American alternative Southern rap group formed in 1995 at Western Kentucky University, best known for the hit "Awnaw" and the album Watermelon, Chicken & Gritz.
Napropamide
Napropamide (Devrinol) is a preemergence amide herbicide controlling annual grasses and some broadleaf weeds by inhibiting mitosis in shoot meristems; its R-enantiomer form is napropamide-M.
Napropamide m
Napropamide-M is the pure R-enantiomer of the herbicide napropamide, a soil-applied pre-emergence herbicide for winter oilseed rape and brassica vegetables, assessed by EFSA with an ADI of 0.3 mg/kg bw per day.
Naproxcinod
Naproxcinod (AZD3582, HCT 3012, Beprana) is a naproxen-nitric oxide donor hybrid, the first CINOD drug. It matched naproxen in osteoarthritis trials with better blood pressure effects but was rejected by the FDA in 2010 and its EMA application withdrawn in 2011.
Naproxen
Naproxen (Naprosyn, Aleve) is a propionic acid NSAID inhibiting COX-1 and COX-2, U.S.-approved 1976 via Syntex, used for arthritis, gout, and pain; OTC as 220 mg naproxen sodium, with comparatively low cardiovascular risk among NSAIDs.
Napster
Napster is an online music brand launched in June 1999 by Shawn Fanning and Sean Parker as the first significant peer-to-peer file-sharing application; it became an AI platform in 2026.
Naptalam
Naptalam (alanap, N-1-naphthylphthalamic acid, NPA) is a pre-emergence phthalamate herbicide, developed by Uniroyal in 1949, that blocks auxin (IAA) transport; used on cucurbits and nursery stock, degrading to carcinogenic 1-naphthylamine, not EU/UK approved.
Naqa
Naqa, also spelled Naga, is an ancient Kushite royal city and religious center in the Butana plateau of Sudan, one of the country's largest archaeological sites.
Naqa'id
Naqa'id (النقائض, singular naqīḍa) are paired satirical poems in classical Arabic literature where a rival answers a boast and invective poem in the same meter and rhyme, flourishing under the Umayyads with Jarir, al-Farazdaq, and al-Akhtal.
Naqaab
Naqaab (नक़ाब, "Mask"), 2007 Hindi romantic suspense thriller by Abbas-Mustan starring Bobby Deol, Akshaye Khanna, and Urvashi Sharma; released 13 July 2007, a box-office disaster.
Naqada
Naqada, also Nubt, is a town and cemetery site on the west bank of the Nile north of Luxor, type-site of Egypt's most important Predynastic culture.
Naqada culture
The Naqada culture, also known as the Naqada period, was a Predynastic Upper Egyptian culture of the fourth millennium BC, named after the site of Naqada.
Naqada expansion into Lower Egypt
The Naqada expansion into Lower Egypt, also called the Lower Egyptian–Naqada Transition, was the spread of Upper Egyptian Naqada culture into the Nile Delta from about 3350 BC, ending in unification around 3100 BC.
Naqada I
Naqada I, also called the Amratian, is the first phase of the Naqada culture of Predynastic Upper Egypt, running c. 4000-3500 BC with farming villages between Abydos and Hierakonpolis.
Naqada III
Naqada III, also called the Semainian culture, is the final phase of Egypt's Predynastic Naqada culture, about 3200-3000 BC, marked by Dynasty 0 kings and the earliest hieroglyphs.
Naqaid of Jarir and al-Farazdaq
The Naqaid of Jarir and al-Farazdaq (نقائض جرير والفرزدق) is the collected corpus of paired lampoon poems exchanged over decades in Basra between the Umayyad poets Jarir and al-Farazdaq.
Naqali
Naqali (نقالی, naqqāli) is a professional Iranian dramatic storytelling tradition in which the naqqāl recounts epic and religious narratives, especially Ferdowsi's Shahnameh, in verse or prose.
Naqi'a
Naqi'a, also known as Zakutu, was an Assyrian queen, wife of Sennacherib and mother of Esarhaddon, best known for the loyalty treaty securing Ashurbanipal's succession around 669 BC.
Naqib al-ashraf
The naqib al-ashraf (نقيب الأشراف) was the office supervising the ashraf, verified descendants of the Prophet Muhammad, in the Ottoman Empire from 1400 until the abolition of the sultanate.
Naqib Khan
Naqib Khan (نقیب خان), personal name Ghiyas al-Din 'Ali, was a Persian scholar and court historian under Mughal emperor Akbar who led the Razmnama translation of the Mahabharata.
Naqoosh
Naqoosh (نقوش), also romanized Nuqoosh, was an Urdu literary journal published from Lahore, first issued in March 1948 and edited for decades by Muhammad Tufail.
Naqsh-e Jahan Square
Naqsh-e Jahan Square (میدان نقش جهان), known today as Imam Square, is a vast Safavid public square in Isfahan, Iran, built by Shah Abbas I and made a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1979.
Naqsh-e Rustam (Elamite reliefs)
The Elamite reliefs of Naqsh-e Rustam are pre-Achaemenid rock carvings on a cliff about 6 km northwest of Persepolis, showing deities seated on snake thrones.
Naqsh-e-Faryadi
Naqsh-e-Faryadi (نقشِ فریادی), the first poetry collection of Urdu poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz, was published in 1941 and blends romantic lyricism with early political consciousness.
Naqsh-i Bahram
Naqsh-i Bahram is a Sasanian rock relief near Nurabad in Fars province, Iran, carved for King Bahram II and showing him enthroned with four dignitaries, including the high priest Kardēr.
Naqsh-i Rustam
Naqsh-i Rustam (Naqš-e Rostam), an Achaemenid and Sasanian rock monument site near Persepolis, Iran: four royal tombs including Darius I's, the Kaʿba-ye Zardošt tower, and Shapur I's trilingual inscription.
Naqshbandi
The Naqshbandi, also known as Naqshbandiyya, is a widespread Sunni Sufi order named for Baha-al-Din Naqshband of Bukhara, distinguished by silent invocation of God, a chain traced through Abu Bakr, and strict adherence to Islamic law.
Naqshbandi Order
The Naqshbandi Order (نقشبندیه) is a Sufi order attributed to Baha' al-Din Muhammad Naqshband Bukhari, arising from the Khwajagan tradition in Transoxiana and remaining active worldwide today.
Naquotinib
Naquotinib (ASP8273), Astellas' third-generation irreversible mutant-selective EGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitor for EGFR-mutated NSCLC including T790M; phase 3 SOLAR trial stopped for futility in 2017, development discontinued, never approved.