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trade in it with the surrounding districts. Foreign wines and 

 brandies are most certainly imported for the use of the 

 wealthy. 



Wood — clioh. 

 Wool— 



Ordinary sheep's-wool, pashm, and a woollen material, 

 pashmina ; in Kashmir, and India these terms are applied 

 , to the fine soft hair of the under fleece of the goat, which is 

 here called ^ja^, tibat, and the material made from it patu 

 and kurk. There is an enormous exportation of wool in the 

 raw state from this country through Persia to the Caspian, 

 and also via Tabriz to the Black Sea, very little going to- 

 wards Southern Persia, a good deal to India, besides manu- 

 factured woollen goods in the shape of carpets, and of late 

 an immense trade has been struck up in carpets with 

 Turkistan. 



Worm — kirm. 



Ydhu — yXj — a long backed, short legged, sturdy horse, 

 made as if it were for carrying loads, from 

 Central Asia ; a pony. 



Ydghi — ^U — the earth, the ground. 



Ydghl-shdk — [earth-root], earth-nuts, tubers of 

 Carum species. 



Yehma — Ephedra pachyclada. 



Yellow — zat^d. 



Zahdn — (^>l->; — the tongue. 



Zafrdn — t^j^j — saffron, the stigmata of Crocus 



SATIVUS. 



Zaft, zift, zuft — Csh\ — pitch, tar, resin. 



Zagdl — ^'ij — charcoal. 



Zaghir, zagher — j.jl: — the flax plant, LiNUM 



USITATISSIMUM. 



Zahr, zahar — -jJ>j — Arabic, a flower, a yellow flower, 



a rose. 

 Zahr, zahar— j^j — zahra — xy^- — poison, venom. 



