﻿ARABIC INTO PERSIAN. 2I7 



II. The noun of time and place from the deriva- 

 tive conjugations is exactly the same with the par- 

 ticiple passive'; and is also used in the Persian. 



Ex. 1. a part. pas. from the icth con. £ .i^X*** deposited — also a 



place of deposit 



III. The Persian language has terms proper to 

 itself for expressing the instrument of action ; it does 

 not howvver reject the use of the Arabic instru- 

 mental noun, which is represented by the forms, 



jLwaX-o j>ak*a Of dl>.A£A*o 



Ex. 1. governing another »XajS'^«w JJCs ^. J y^j he weighed in, 



" " scale of reason 



■S^asX* £*J&* the key of his in- 



tention 



IV. All Arabic proner names, and the names of 

 things, are introduced into the Persian at pleasure. 



Ex. *j -« Mary, *^=.* Mecca, ^s. the eye, *J. 

 flesh, .Xa* an ancestor, Sec. &c. 



OF ARABIC ADJECTIVES. 



I. Besides the Arabic participles which we have 

 already observed are used as adjectives, there is also 

 a pi. ntitul source of re.il adjeel 'ves formed by affixing 

 <s to substantives cf almost every denomination, 

 which are freely introduced into the Persian. 



