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Pada — s4Xj — ixidak — Populus euphratica. 



Pde — tflo — the foot, footstep ; a rest for a gun, or 



rifle. 

 Pde-han dukl — a gun-rest. 

 Pakhta — ax:s:j — the fibre of cotton, Gossypium 



HERBACEUM. 



Pakhta-chdh, or chub, or chu — the cotton plant, or 

 shrub. 



Pcdlta — »jijXi — the wick of a candle or lamp, 

 splinters of wood, palita, phalita, in Balu- 

 chistan the plant Stellera Lessertii. 



Pallta-gogird — 



A piece of stick on the end of which cotton has been 

 wrapped, and then dipped in a mixture of sulphur and water 

 and dried. These are the spunks of Afghanistan, and were 

 always in use before the days of lucifer matches ; they are 

 still in common use. 



Palm — Phcenix dactylifera, the Date Palm ; 



Nannorrhops Ritchieana, the dwarf palm of 



Baluchistan. 

 Palti — Euphorbia cheirolepis. 

 Pamha — panba — *>Jo — pumha — the fibre cotton, 



raw cotton, Gossypium herbaceum. 

 Pamha-choh, or chuh, or chu — the cotton plant, or 



shrub. 

 Pamha-ddna — cotton seed. 



Panicum miliaceum, Linn. Gramine^. 



Common Millet, arzan ; the ch'ini of the Punjab. Is freely 

 cultivated all over the country ; much eaten as bread, and 

 also cooked somewhat like rice. There is a red variety of 

 grain called gctl. 



Panlr — -jj^ — cheese. 



Panlr-mdla — xjLo^jJij — [cheese-leaven], rennet. 



Papaver dubium, var. l.'evigatum, Elk. PAPAVERACEiE. 



