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nasnas

nasnas noun: a monstrous creature related to the jinn, said to resemble the left or right half of a human being (with half a head, half a body, one arm and one leg).

nasnas: a monstrous creature related to the jinn, said to resemble the left or right half of a human being...
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Noun

nasnas (plural nasnas)

  1. A monstrous creature related to the jinn, said to resemble the left or right half of a human being (with half a head, half a body, one arm and one leg).

Forms of nasnas

pluralnasnas

Origin of nasnas

Borrowed from Arabic نَسْنَاس (nasnās).

Questions about nasnas

What does nasnas mean?
Nasnas means a monstrous creature related to the jinn, said to resemble the left or right half of a human being (with half a head, half a body, one arm and one leg).
What part of speech is nasnas?
Nasnas is a noun.
What is the plural of nasnas?
The plural of nasnas is nasnas.

Words near nasnas in the dictionary

  1. NASM
  2. Nasmyth
  3. Nasmyth telescope
  4. Nasmyth telescopes
  5. NASN
  6. nasnas
  7. Naso
  8. naso-
  9. naso-ethmoid
  10. naso-ethmoidal
  11. naso-jejunal

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