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fet-i parchah, for A -=rj^. This form I have only seen in Indian 

 writers. The author of the Mir -at ul 'alam uses it frequently. 



&djj pardah means 1. a screen ; 2. the place behind a screen ; 

 hence u-J:**^^ a woman of good family ; S^j jd behind the 

 screen ; 3. the thin membranes in limes, pomegranates, &c, vide 

 A. A. p. 80, 1. 6. As jLj so does also S^j take the meaning of 

 the hing's court ; hence, in Indian writers, ^Ij'^^j^, the adorning of the 

 court, doing something for the pomp of the court. L5"J^*^ pardah 

 dari a tearing of the screen, the exposure of a secret; A. A. p. 198, 1. 20. 



eJt^J parridan and paridan. To fly. Also, to evaporate (scents). 

 Similarly ijj ^o^ j\ Ia^ j\ <j^j its smell remains long in the clothes. 

 Scents, colours are ^,jl± derpd, lasting, fast. 



jLko-wj pusht Jchdr, a hand made of ivory and fixed to a 

 stick. This instrument, which is very common in India, is used for 

 scratching (u^li.) one's back. A larger kind of this instrument 

 is used as a war club, in which case the whole, or only the 

 hand, is made of iron; vide A A. p. 122, 1. 1. The shape of the 

 hand is either fist-like, or half extended with the fingers bent. 

 c^-io^Li- is, of course, a back with Mars or scratchers, hence a 

 hedgehog. Observe that in the Indo-Germanic languages the last 

 component of a compound expresses its genus, and the first its 

 particular properties. 



Other compounds of pusht are t_<JJc~2o pusht tang, i. e., something 

 tight for the back ; hence, a broad girth for fixing the saddle, A. A. 

 p. 143, 1. 3. The word is given in Vullers, on p. 364, but his spelling 

 i^Uloo pushtanTc is wrong, ^y^"-* pushtgarmi, support, assis- 

 tance. Sarmadf of Icfahan (metre Mujtass) 



" What have I done to myself in the heat of transgression (i^U*^ 

 as *^, p|i>, tyb-wj, ^H*^4~, *^ } love) ; with the help of God's 

 mercy, what crimes have I committed ! 



ij*^j palds, the coarse stuff used for making moneybags. The adj. 

 j^^j palasi means like palds ; but the adj. (^j^^j palasin, made of 

 palds, as e^^f *"*■>£ ■ The same distinction holds for ^a \ and eH^* j ; 

 is'^i and i^-elS, &G. 



