264 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [June, 1910. 



Burhan-i-kati . 



Sakirlat — A woollen fabric woven in Europe, also in 



Rum ; it is also written with t. 



Sakillat, Sakallat — Same as sakirlat. a well-known stuff 



(parchah) of wool ; also written with one / 

 and t (siklat). 



Siklatun — Same as sakirlat ; it is also called cloth of 



Nakhchlvan. Some are of opinion that it is 

 a cloth woven in the city of Siklatun. It is 

 also the name of a colour, some say blue 

 because Siklatun was originally Siklat-gun 

 and in former times the colour of siklat was 



always blue. 



Burhan-i-J ami , 



Sakirlat, sakillat. — A. woollen cloth made in Europe, 



apparently ordinary broad-cloth (mahut), etc., 



as above. 

 Saklatin — Same as sakirlat and cloth of Nakhchlvan. 



I have a collection of letters written by Rashid-al-din, the 

 Vazlr of the Mongol kings of Persia, from circa 1290 to 1318, 

 and in letter No. 34 to his son Khojah Majd-al-dm, ordering 

 various stuffs and stores to be sent to Tabriz from the different 

 provinces, the word saghirlat appears twice, once in the list of 

 things to be sent from Rum and again in the list of Arsinjan. 

 The opinion of the Ferhang-i-Rashldl that gliain may stand for 

 kaf is here confirmed, but nevertheless the word is not Persian, 

 but of foreign origin as the t shows. 



It appears that the Persian lexicographers of the 17th 



entury 



same as 



ghirlat 



But siklat is the Arabic rendering of the Greek cyclas 

 {KVKXds), c< a woman's gown cut circularly," and in the Mid- 

 dle Ages became to mean a heavy damask-like silk stuff. In 

 the latter Middle Ages it was generally interwoven with gold. 



1150] 



as siglaton, and that mad 

 ia^ inSoain. as 



;hdad and Tabriz, was usual! v dark blue, as 



dictionaries have it s.v. siklatun. 1 The Persian lexicographers 



are 



the material. Sakirlat, saghirlat (and perhaps variants of it 



P f k- He y d » Geschiehte des Levantehandels im Mittelalter. quotin. 

 ***** .. K * rabacek ' s Ueber einige Benennungen mittelalterlicher Gewebe. 

 -uitteil. d. K. K. Mus. f. Kunst u. Industrie, Wien, Marz, 1879. It has 

 ^ycias Kreisformig zugeschnittenes Frauenkleid. Pape, Grieeh. Worter- 



ducd nas « V K\ds, ein Staatskleid der Frauen mit rund herum-laufendem 

 oaumo. 



