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set, the same as 8j>j ; *>cl^. a (made. up) coat ; j^kjils^ the same as <j»US" 

 or ujjj^I^ « sioeeper ; iJ^J baraf, often pronounced £«r/*, ice (for 

 snow) ; ^\d vide Vull. Diet. ; *ajJ.^. a flattering title applied to 

 cooks, tailors, &c. ; e51r5" w hemp for i_£ij ; ^«J*-*> afternoon ; j^^ for 

 jl^-il ; i^j-j'-' despairing ; jjj^^S^ a closet, for cSj^y* ; <^,^J Kabul 

 and Persia* ; &*oJl=*. the royal exchequer ; i-a^la. and <Jy tor& the catch- 

 word at the bottom of the page of a manuscript ; j (£>-*», vide Vull. 

 Diet. ; j#l~", vide Vull., also board given to a poor student who is to 

 teach children in return ; *jy 1. a province, 2. the same as j\$#Jyc 

 an officer in charge of a province ; &JL«), the same any.^^j, an officer 

 commanding a troop ; c5j^Jf, vide Vull. ; 8\j^* 8 |_jA without reason. 



b. The word &S is pronounced he, not lei. This seems to be the 

 old form «£., still preserved in <&p£. The Iszafat is pronounced e, 

 not %, and e in cases of words ending in 2 ; e. g., ^y° ^Jl^ khanah e man. 

 The word bU^Ij is pronounced HlkjLi badshah, as ^b pad in Hind, 

 means crepitus ventris. Similarly do the Persians use the form j&l 

 (a prick to urge on an elephant), in order to avoid the Hind. L y&l 

 which sounds, as Rashidi observes, like (JmS'cjT . Other Indian pronun- 

 ciations are — tS-lb palk and palak for pilk an eyelid ; cjL*J fyhdn the 

 same as *-"J , for fughdn ; &j&> for 8)->r», already observed by Abul- 

 Paszl in the Aln i Akbari. Words of the same class asj-2-s, e. g., j-$*» 

 a mistake, js^ a satire, (_^j a revelation, L5 **« exertion, have lost 

 the jazm and are pronounced 'afd, Jiajo with the (J^-st - " j\j, the 

 accent being on the penultima, but sa't, ivahi with the accent on the 

 ultima. 



c. Peculiar forms are (JIj\<s±j, lAj^j, (J^j^i (the first and last occur 

 in Abulfaszl), for^l^j, ^^ij, isjk, the ending ish being properly 

 restricted to nouns derived from verbs ; ^^y for o^r* acidity ; 

 ^jLJ' (derived from t^j»$), for uu^f humanity ; jj^ 1 ^, u"--^ or 

 ^^.jJLw a groom, /o?- ,j~jLo ; a plural <U^| ajinnah ghosts ; <xi~vsr-^ a 

 pack of cards, for A&sr** ; (Jlsp*"* 8 for oLsr-^, vide Vull. ; ^^-^i, 



* Vullers has at least half a dozen blunders in his dictionary, all 

 arising from his ignorance of the meaning of this word. Thns under 

 Uj*o\, in his Corrigenda II, p, 1558, No. 2, in regione Kashmir OJ^/j y$+JuS 

 a blunder for OJ^j jj.^5" Kashmir and Persia ; also sub uj^S&Sixs,. &iixa». 

 I, p. 546 ; s- Oiy^o J.a. I, p. 578, &c. Now-a-days in India OJji/ mean s 

 Europe, esp. England. 



