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plant as kunghir ; this name must have originated from the 

 Persian name for the shrub Guxdelia Tournefortii, viz., 

 kangar. 



Cynodon Dactylon, Pers. Gramine.?:. 

 The cUlI) grass of the Punjab. It was certainly by no 

 means a common grass in this country. 



Cypress — Cupressus sempervirens. 



Daha — *j^ — a large vessel, usually intended for 

 holding oil, clarified butter, &c. 



Daha-i-charm — [a vessel (made) of skins], or the 

 intestines of animals. 



Daba-i-sarlsh — [a vessel (made) of vegetable glue]. 



Dcil — ^b — Hindustani for the dried split peas of the 

 pulses, or a food prepared from them. 



Dala — <sJ:i — a Marten, Mustela species ; or Polecat, 

 PuTORius species. 



Ddl-chlnl for ddr-cklnl — Cinnamomum Cassia. 



Daluna — the Hawthorn, Crat^gus Oxyacantha. 



Dan — jjl.i — a vessel, a house, a place of resort. 



Dana — Lj'.i — learned, wise. 



Dana — *Jb — a grain, a berry, the seed of any fruit ; 

 technically applied to the entire fruit of the 

 indigenous Pomegranate, or to the small un- 

 eatable fruit of the cultivated shrub Punica 

 Granatum ; science, knowledge. 



Ddna-chaka — [small berries]. The fruit of Lonicera 

 NUMMULARIFOLIA, the tree Honey-suckle, the 

 fruit of which is much eaten by children. 



Ddna-dCir — -J\:i *Jl.i — full of seeds, containing grain, 

 or seeds, in contradistinction to be-ddna, 

 seedless. 

 Ddna-hil — J.jufcAJli — [Cardamom seeds]. The seeds of 



Elettaria Cardamomum. 

 Ddnak — Xib — a small grain, or seed. 

 Dar — jj — in, into, within, on, of, because. 



