nardīn
nard, spikenard
نَرْدِين
From the same root
All words from ن ر د →Lane's Lexicon
Arabic–English, 1863–93 · 1 entry-
نَرْدٌ game of tricktrack, backgammon, or tables
[The game of tricktrack, backgammon, or tables: and, app., a pair of tables and other apparatus with which that game is played:] a certain thing with which one plays; (M, L;) well known: (M, L, K:) a Persian word, (M, L,) arabicized: (M, L:) also called نَرْدَشِيرٌ, (M, L, K,) because invented (as some say, TA) by Ardasheer the son of Bábak, (K,) a Persian king. (TA.) It is said in a trad., that he who plays at this game is as though he plunged his hand into the flesh and blood of the pig. (L.)
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