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the worms, so much so that the natives have turned their 

 attention to other products likely to prove remunerative, 

 chiefly to the raising of opium. 



Silk-worm — the caterpillar of the silk-worm moth, 

 kirm-j^ela ; the eggs, tuhhm-i-pela ; the 

 cocoon, ^9e/o, ^^r/a ; the moth, shawprak. 



Silver — slm, nohra. 



Sim — ».j^ — silver. 



Slm-dh — (.__»U>«j — [silver water], mercury. 



Slma ng — Zygophyllum Fabago. 



Slm-koh — [silver-hill] ; these low hills to the extreme 

 north-west of the Badghis still show traces of 

 the old workings for silver and lead. 



Sindur — -j^^kj^ — sunclur — red-lead. 



Sinjad — .\.s\a«, — sinjid, sinjit ; the Elseagnus, 

 El^agnus hortexsis. 



Sij^ist — C^^x^ — sehist — Lucerne, Medicago sativa. 



Sipusha — */i:^j.«. — a nit, a louse. 



Sir — -^j^ — garlic, Allium sativum. 



Sir-indz-ah — [the little onion garlic]. Allium 

 xiphopetalum. 



Sir — corruption for zlr, meaning under, beneath. 



Slr-halah — [(the thorn) under the leaf] ; the 

 Barberry, Berberis vulgaris. 



Sires, siresh, siris, sirlsh — J^.j-^ — sarish, saresh, 

 sirish — Jlj.^, — 



These terms are applied equally to a vegetable glue-like 

 gum, the product of Eremurus species, or to the glue obtained 

 from animal refuse. 



Sirinj — 



"A gum-like substance" (Trade Products of Leh, p. 95). 

 " The Turkomans obtain a very superior gum from the root 

 of a plant that grows in Kokan, which they extract by boiling, 

 and call sirinj." This in all probability will prove to be the 

 product obtained from an Eremurus species. 



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