400 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [November, 1906, 
As might be expected, many of the words used are not to be 
found in the dictionaries. Further, many dictionary words 
used in a sense quite foreign to their dictionary meanings, qui 
foreign even to the meaning contained inthe root. The rare 
are examples :— 
job! “ready”; oylawo “ready”; » 93063 “ fresh-water fish” ; 
eo “the moment”; es? ze “as soon as”; @ys “old”; 
yh “beak (of a bird)”; Ghs (for Ul) “God forbid”; 
Jaf «wife 3 cpale for fel “ offender ” ; sr “to take 
coffee” (for Sit wry); st WS “to take tea”; &9 2 (a 
cheetah) “cunning”; je § (a Saker falcon) “intelligent ” ; 
Beye * “bicycle”; (for modern Arabic als 3 primi (= 
fond ve “to those who will be safe or alive then” ) “ next year, 
the coming year”®; ¢lalt ® “last year” ; JU “to shake”; wtf 
for gsi “ which P” UJ for le wi= fake cei gsdiile “what?”; 
wf (= the matter was so) is used for JS “the narrator contin- 
ues.” 
The following are a few grammatical peculiarities :— 
The particle % or & prefixed to the Aorist or Present Tense 
makes it Future, as ce UY “Tam just going” or “I will go.” 
The genitive case is frequently formed by the word ea ** pro- 
perty,” as 4R= oush “His slave”’ The particle 05 appears to be 
often redundant,’ and, unlike classical Arabic, it can be gh ech 
his may have been imported into Yomen from Haidarabad, Dakkhan. 
? Classically WS is either a fresh- “water, or a salt-water fish. 
3 Apparently no longer a metaphor 
* Used by the Yemeni Arabs of Haidarabad. 
5 
Bx. plait ely oI Ble hes abs) 7 will give half the 
amount now and the balance next year,” 
8 Used also in Baghdad for “last year ” 
1 This oF 
4a 
but classically “ this year,” 
possibly is equivalent to the Hindustani to, 
