

26. An Old Gypsy-Darwish Jargon. 
By W. Ivanow. 
In my previous papers on the language of the Persian 
gypsies! { mentioned the fact that many idioms, which may 
be regarded as nowadays quite indispensable to the vocabulary 
of the gypsy patois in Persia, are frequently met with in the 
jargonic codes used by wandering darwishes, some classes of 
craftsmen, and especially by thieves, professional beggars. 
etc., in that country. The composition of these jargons, as 
already shown by me (J.A.S.B., 1920, p. 284), is invariably 
synthetic. The bulk of such patois consists usually of the 
local dialect of the majority of the population in the 
etymologically untraceable 
abdal (a very old word), galandar 
of the Mongol invasion), kashkit 
ee Alyn ae 
| Journ. Asiat. Soc. Beng. (n.s-) X, PP- 439-455 (1914) and XVI, pp. 
281-291 (1920). 

