576 Sino-Iranica 



22. Mongol Hkar, Hkir, sugar. From Persian Zakar. 



23. Mongol Utara, Kalmuk $atar, chess. From Persian latranj. 

 E. Blochet's derivation of Mongol bogda from Persian bokhta is a 



pseudo-Iranicum. The Mongol term is not a loan-word, but indigenous. 1 

 Boehtlingk, in his Yakut Dictionary, has justly compared it with 

 Yakut bogdo. 



1 Cf. T'oung Pao, 1916, p. 495. 



