One of the many variant names in Elvish for the diminuitive race known to Men as the Petty-dwarves. The word is related to Naugrim, the Elvish name for the true Dwarves. It refers to the Petty-dwarves as an entire race or people, and so presumably it would have been little used in the later First Age, as the Petty-dwarves of West Beleriand dwindled to a single family, and then at last became extinct.
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The nogrim element of this name is a variation on Naugrim, the Sindarin name for Dwarves as a people. The adjective nibin (sometimes spelt niben) is not seen outside this context, but it is consistently translated as 'petty' (that is, small or unimportant).
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