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Gor — -j^§ — a tomb, a grave, the wild ass. 



Gora — xj^t — tlie wild ass, Egurs hemionus. 



Gora-khar — ^^x;^^ — the wild ass, 



Gor-kan — i^ijy^ — [the grave-digger], name aj)plied 



to the Badger, Meles species. 

 Goscda — -jJU^ — a calf. 

 Gosfand, gospand — Aaa*-^ — a sheep. 

 Gosh — jij.^ — the ear, the external fleshy appendage. 

 Gosh-wdra — ^j^iJ^^ — [like the ear]. 



The name applied to the leaves of Pistacia Terebixthus, 

 var. :siUTiCA, from the appearance given to the leaves by the 

 flat, flesh-coloured galls that form roimd the margin of the 

 leaf. 



Gosh t — C<^y^ — meat. 



Gosht-ruha, gosht-roha — lj^(i:^,i_j.^ — [carrier ofl' of 

 meat]. A kite, a crow, 



Gossypium herbaceum, Linn. Malvacej^. 



The cultivated cotton plant, ^ja?/i&a-c7to&, pumha-cJwh, 

 pamba-chub, pumba-chub, pamba-chu, pakhta-clwb, chob-i-ghoza, 

 kapas ; the flower, gul-i-ghoza ; the pod, goza^ guza, gMza, 

 ghoja, ghuja, koza, koza-pamba, khurdk, kokalak, umba; the 

 shell of the pod, kawa ; the seed, pamba-ddna, phun-ddna ; 

 the oil, roghan-i-tdza ; the oilcake, kunjdra ; the fibre cotton, 

 pamba, pumba, pakhta, goza, koza, guza, kalak ; the raw 

 thread, nakh-i-pamba khdniak. 



Cotton is generally cultivated over the whole of this 

 country, but wherever it is gi'own successfully there must 

 be a free supply of water for its imgation. The shrub 

 does not average three feet in height : tlie seed is sown in beds 

 about the middle of May, and the seedlings are planted out 

 in from five to six weeks' time ; the cotton is fit for collecting 

 from October on to the middle of winter. Cotton in a raw 

 state is not exported, although we did see a good deal passing 

 up the Helmand Valley, from Persia, at the end of October 

 1884. It is usually locally converted into thread, or woven 

 into cloth ; the thread and fabrics are traded with in the 

 surrounding country. The fibre of the Turkistan cotton is 



