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22. Mongol Sikar, &kir, sugar. From Persian Sakar. 



23. Mongol &tara, Kalmuk tatar, chess. From Persian Satranj. 

 E. Blochet's derivation of Mongol bogda from Persian bokhta is a 



pseudo-Iranicum. The Mongol term is not a loan-word, but indigenous. 1 

 BOEHTLINGK, in his Yakut Dictionary, has justly compared it with 

 Yakut bogdo. 



1 Cf. T'oung Pao, 1916, p. 495. 





