1868.] Contributions to Persian Lexicography. 45. 



" Where art thou, singer, strike up a tone! By His unity, strike 

 up B tune I" Vide also Vullers' Lex. I. p. 920 a., under 13^. But this 

 verse belongs to Vullers' sixth meaning. Again, in the filth meaning, 

 my MSS. give the second micra' of Katibi's Ruba i as follows : — 



sSiJ. For the verses read - 



^ylg — jJj j*oi Ul — a£j ij^y y. ifiij—- *■* j^, 



but there are a few verses intervening between the two. The two 

 causatives i^^^Jyy and yi^^ may safely be entered in our 

 Dictionaries. 



y. For the first micra' of Hakim Sozani's verse read (metre 

 hazaj) : — 



11 1 do not want to eat the goznut, because, etc., where \y1j*!j\ is 

 old for e/f^«J Jl." Old Persian poets often use \j after the prepositions 



The words extracted by Vullers from F.— I mean again those 

 which are not at the same time marked with B. — are very extraordinary. 

 Examples : — al^f and a^aIjT ; j\j&\, a blunder of j|a&»| ; fLjf ; jJj? 



for oijjk-jf ; AJ^Cif for AJ^Jlj ; v-ir^f for v-i^t ; S/=f , a blunder for 

 8»sr*| ; &liof , Oj^1 and UjJ^f ; U^ dial. Kharizmiae, the same as 

 ufldila* ; but it is Arabic \y^\ for ^1 ; o^-j^jJf ; cj-*>f dmdgh for £yof 

 &murgh ; cJof 4m*fcj a blunder for ^SS\ abuk ; cJljf a blunder 'for Bjl/f, the 

 re and At' having been drawn together ; cj-W-^f the nonplus ultra of a 

 Persian Infinitive ; j^f ; c^jf and earf ; c^f ; Infinitives as iy*jW 

 e^jj^f, ^j.jjxofj and hundreds more, for eJ^f, c;-^j^°T, &c F.'s 

 Infinitives, though perhaps correctly formed, have been invented by 

 grammarians in usu tironum, but they ought not to be given in a 

 Dictionary ; just as *13 ta vacca quae semper mulgetur (Vull. p. 408), 

 *(i sa vivum facit omne (Vull. p. 495), &c, were invented in usu 

 ab c dariorum on the C for coiv, D for dog principle ! 



As the above examples are at random taken from the first sixty-five 

 pages, Persian scholars may estimate the number of useless words and 

 blunders in Vullers' Lexicon. 



