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Vocabulary of the Tirhai Dialect. 



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A Vocabulary of the Cashgari (properly Kashkabi*) Lan- 



GUAGE. 





Vocabulary. 





Dak, a boy 



Bughk, be gone 



Sur, head 



Moashi, a man 



Rupa, get up 



Kad, ear 



Lesun, a cow 



Pea, drink 



Ghach, eye 



Astor, a horse 



Dassa, take 



Rikish, beard 



Ashpai, a sheep 



V'gh, water 



Dond, tooth 



Unth, a camel 



Gomb, wheat 



Ege, come here 



Chhani, hair 



Gumod, a girl 



Hishik, sit down 



Pusha, cat 



Kumedi, a woman 



Ejube, eat 



Inch, forehead 



Deshawa, a bull 



Math, with, give me 



Naskar, nose 



Ghod dou, an ass 



Mashr ba, goglet of 



Barup, eyebrow 



Pai, a goat 



water 



Shoii, lip 



Postam, wool 



Shapika, bread 



Legin, tongue 



Rain, dog 



Karinj, rice 



Siri, barley 



Gharib, poor 



Mah, waist 



To kini, who are you 



Jil, veil 



Paz, breast 



Chadur, turban 



Obista, dead 



Bum, earth 



Phadwal, trousers 



Zum, mountain 



Jind, bedstead 



Chhan, take off (im- 



• Ingar, fire 



Satare, stars 



perative) 



Chohistam, I am hun- 



Paghid, curds 



Bizwa, thin 



gry 



Paniya, night 



Pong, foot 



Ishgum, shall I eat 



Dashmanira, read 



Shurak, thigh 



Masam ludath, speak 



Metal, a great man 



JKTiwanu, belly 



with me 



Mawlat, country 



Gaul, neck 



Kisht, waistband 



Kosh, shoes 



Trishty, thirst 



Perahan, coat 



Jinwa,i, born 



Asman, heaven 



Anjam, put on (impe- 



Ult, round 



Shid, milk 



rative) 



Him, snow 



Chho,i, day 



Chale but, a fat man 



Jin, wood 



Dashmani, reading 



Husht, hand 





Ange, come 



Mujastl, calf of leg 





1 I' 4 chod 7 sut 



10 ja9h 



2 ju 5 



punj 8 ansht 



20 jishi 



3 tru,t 6 



chu,i 9 nenhan 



100 do shum 



A Vocabulary of the Ti'rhai Dialect. 

 Introduction. 



The Tirhai language is at present confined to 3000 families, who 

 abandoned their own country the district of Ttra on a feud breaking 

 out between the Orakzais and Afridis, and settled in the province of 

 Ninganhdr. They figured in the religious revolution I am now about 

 to mention. 



In the reign of Akber, when Mirza Hasn was Governor of Cabul, 

 a holy man by name Hisamodi'n an Ansari by caste came from Hin- 

 dustan, where his forefathers had been left by Timurlang, to A^anis- 

 tan in which country he travelled and preached, and had succeeded in 

 making many converts to the creed of the Shiahs, to which sect he be- 

 longed ; when Akhun Darvbza whose shrine is now at Peshawar, arose 



