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set, the same as Uj ; A*U a (made up) mat ; »*)**, toe same as yjtf 

 OIUJ)J ^ « ,raq>0r; o>» 6flf^ often pronounced barf, zee (lor 

 ^j; .Lou vide Vull. Diet.; **U a flattering title applied to 

 cooks, tailors, &c. ; u&- *** ior ^y, ^ v ^ afternom ; ^^ 

 M* ; u^ u despairing ; j^c5 1 ^ « c? ^> for ^y^ ; **ih KAbnl 

 and Persia* ; A*JLL the royal exchequer ; *-j^ and u(p tor* the catch- 

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

 Diet ; jfi*, vide Vull., also board given to a poor student who is to 

 teach children in return; *>yo 1. a province, 2. the same as j\**>y 

 an officer in charge of a province ; *)U Jt the same a*j\i*)Uj t an officer 

 commanding a troop ; cgM vide Vull. ; llj&f «^ without reason. 



5 The word *T is pronounced to, not ft This seems to be the 

 old form £, still preserved in &H. The Iszafat is pronounced e, 

 not I, and 6 in cases of words ending in » ; e. g., ^ &U> khanah e man. 

 The word »U,>b is pronounced *Uob badshah, as ^ pdd in Hind, 

 means <*vpta» ventris. Similarly do the Persians use the form )p\ 

 (a prick to urge on an elephant), in order to avoid the Hmd. ^1 

 which sounds, as Rashidi observes, like ^t Other Indian pronun- 

 ciations are-^ pM and pMk for pilh an eyelid ; ^ figUn the 

 same as aW , for fughdn ; vfl* for *>>", already observed by Abnl- 

 Faszl in the Km i Akbari. Words of the same class asy*, e. g., *«* 

 a mistake,^ a satire, ^j a revelation, ^ exertion, have lost 

 the jazm and are pronounced '«/o, hajo with the Jj^ j\j } the 

 accent being on the penultima, but M 't, waM with the accent on the 



ultima. 



a. Peculiar forms are j^, J^j, J^ ^ first and last occur 

 in Abulfaszl), for^l^, J^}\ LSjk, the ending ish being properly 

 restricted to nouns derived from verbs; J&J for fj acidity; 

 J\~f (derived from ^) ? f °r ***wf humanity; ^U., o~^or 

 JV^JU a groom, /or jjJU ; a plural *U| q/»nnaA ghosts ; ^J a 

 pack of cards, for Ml o^ for ^^ vide VuU ' 5 V**" 5 ?* 1 



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

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

 J~a| in his Corrigenda II, p. 1558, No. 2, in regione Kashmir ^hj^ } 

 a blunder for *£*>.bjj*¥ KasWr and Persia 3 alS ° SUb ¥*/**#* ***** 

 I, p. 546 ; s. &\J±& JU I, P- 578, &c. Now-a-days in India, OJjlf mean s 



E-uropc, esp. England. 



