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Mastakd-i-ruml — ^^^^jS^sj^^ — [Turkish Mastich], 

 yielded by Pistacia Lentiscus. 



Matdkh, tnetdhh — the indigenous walnut tree, Juglans 

 REGIA, and its fruit in the Kuram Valley is so 

 called. Kaverty,in his Pashtu Dictionary, gives 

 " mattdkah — ^U^ — as a kind of walnut with 

 a hard skin." 



Mastich — the true Mastich is yielded by Pistacia 

 Lentiscus ; forms of Mastich by other species of 

 Pistacia and Rhus. See gum-resins. 



Mazj — ^v^ — Honey. The Baluchistan name for 

 the grass Aristida plumosa ; and for fodder. 



Mdzu — -^j'..* — Didju — the galls of an oak, Quercus 

 species, or of a Tamarisk, Tamarix species. 



Mecca — a5C-< — the holy city of the Arabs. 



Medicago sativa, Linn. Leguminos^. 



Lucerne, Medick, sebist, scpist, sipist, tehit ; the hay, bcda. 

 Cultivated in every orchard or garden, as a fodder chiefly 

 for horses, and may be found in a state flt for cutting almost 

 the whole year round. In a green state duiing winter it is 

 cut up and mixed with the dry fodders of the country to 

 make these more nutritive and more acceptable to the cattle. 

 It appears to be an indigenous plant throughout the Badghis, 

 found in extensive patches wherever there is permanent 

 moisture and good soil. 



Medicine — ddru, dawd, ddivm, or ddunat, (plural of 

 dawd). 



Medick — the clover, Medicago sativa. 



Megun — o>.6.^ — megdn — wine or ruby coloured. 



Mekal — ^SC^ — or makai — of or belonging to Mecca. 

 The huskless variety of Barley, Hordeum 

 hexastichum, var., and Senna, Cassia obovata, 

 are so called, as it is supposed that these originally 

 came from that locality. 



Mekh — ^j.^ — a nail. 



Mekh-ak — ^^^ — a small nail, a clove, the flower 

 bud of Eugenia caryophyllata. 



