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nass

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Nass is an Arabic word meaning "a known, or clear, legal injunction". In Twelver Shi'ah Islam / Ismaili , nass refers to the nomination of an Imam or Da'i al-Mutlaq by a previous Imam or Dai.

Usage examples of nass.

She stood with her handmaidens, Governor Sio Bibble, Supreme Chancellor Palpatine, Boss Nass of the Gungans, and the twelve members of the Jedi Council.

On May 23, Gamal Abdel Nasser blockaded the Strait of Tiran, thereby closing the Gulf of Aqaba to Israeli shipping and prohibiting unescorted tankers under any flag from reaching the Israeli port of Elat.

His hiding place was a great rectangle, ten thousand miles square, ajumble of mountains and muskegs, lakes and trenches, rivers and canyons, forest and plateau stretching from the Nass River in the west to the Omineca mountains in the east, from the Stikine in the north to the Nechako in the south.

Jaurin's palatial home on Gamal Abdal Nasser Avenue searching for the small Frenchman.

By 1960, with the population at 26 million, the Russians—the new foreign protectors of Egypt—began erecting the High Dam, which increased cultivable land by 30 percent, doubled the country’s electric power supply, and created a reservoir (called Lake Nasser in Egypt and Lake Nubia south of the Sudan border) that guaranteed a strategic water reserve for Egypt in times of drought.

Not for us the simple vas‑and tubectomies performed on the teeming nasses.