
1922.] An old Gypsy-Darwish Jargon. 381 
le - r<! prince. 
- So dog. 
- 8,0 dead. Arabic word, unchanged. D. 
ms (#) - al,¢ common people (perhaps a mistake for C»l ?) 
Syyi - sola a pilgrim. (A. »y and P. sf. -ak. But why ) 
lgmy - gas) face. A. word and sf. a. D. 
lo - os hand. +) 2 2 ba Ree D. 
(c) Words of Persian origin, used metaphorically. 
Susie - so56 done, made (apparently a vulgar form for tiie). 
sles} - csx7¢ & friend, probably from ys); ‘bee,’ used as a con- 
ventional term for a correligionist (just as nahkla 
amongst the Nusayris of Syria). 
34 (2) - pile boy. 
Sot, a - Use desire. (?) 
(d) Words altered by transposition of syllables, etc. 
Us - Unis lazy, idle. 
of - Ss caldron. D. (quite common). 
wrtle - 54 town, city. Evidently for .,,0l. 
(e) Words of uncertain origin. 
2 aly, - Sia coli Go tambourine, or (?) flute, or (?) harp. 
los) - ais calamity, mutiny. 
sols. (2) - cele pilgrim. 
Spy - ails learned. (A. yt and P. st. -wk %.) 
we - coi brigand. (Perhaps in some way connected with the 
" P. dialectical pis, used for ‘bad,’ ‘low,’ ‘wicked ’ in 
- the district of Tay and Sirkan, near Hamadan.) 
dmri - LK testicle. 
Se (or Ua 2) - ard a Shi'ite. 
ols - Gy one who sees well. 
ws - Jf cow, bull. 
wo ( or af) - aild house. doy ( or aos) - No 
master. 
sbo- suk complaint. (Perhaps connected with A. root ~9 ¢) 
ale) - (sv nose. 
Gas - iseple learned (?)- 
oly house 
