454 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [N.S., XIV, 
There can be little doubt that cet to the aforesaid 
couplet, the pronunciation of Babar’s n s Babur, 7.e. with 
a zamma on the second b. I have coneatiad a large number of 
Persian and tare Lexicons, but only a modern Dictionary, 
the Ghiyathu’l-Lughat, notes the word and spells it with a 
zamma on the second b ( ays $oa90 (ch pod ); but another still 
more modern Dictionary, the Farhang-i-Anand Raj, which has 
no doubt consulted Ghiyath, puts a fatah on the second } 
( Bay cs’ git) ) and reads the word as Babar. Is the word 
Turki or Persian? The two Turki Dictionaries I have consulted 
do not note the word. The word Babr ( a ) is noted by all the 
Dictionaries—Arabic, Persian. and Turki. In a learned Qasida, 
which Maulana Qambar ti of Nishapir, who, according to 
Daulat Shah’s Memoirs of Poets (written in 892 H.), lived in the 
latter days of his life at Mashhad and Herat, wrote in praise 0 
Sultan Abu’l-Qasim Babar (853-861 H.), and which has been 
quoted by Daulat Shah (Prof. E. G. Browne’s Edition, 1901), the 
word is written as Babar, the last syllable of which (bar) thym- 
ing ed a zar, etc. The following are the opening lines of 
the Qasid 
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OH tayF yl id 855.05 seme crt 
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O31 FayS 93 5! ABS y ald pam jf ogee LAS 
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ot BoyF yids} elyet 5 | Kat styl wo 
Pane } 72 Col EshtS piano a 
© St BaF KI SLs ty Gtolo Sf wlol 
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St BaF 3 BH oy BS oft Glee 
