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the keeper of the wardrobe ; Jit. J-SU a passionate hunier lW ±- J*U, 



^ JiU, s,U ^AU j^u'^ia a foe of science, U-er-^ a foe of 

 decency • (J ^ the representative of God's mercy on earth (a 

 flattering epithet for kings); ^ijj «* »*'««<, a benefactor ; 

 O^j a viceroy ; similarly, flS-fJU one who acts for another ; ^ J"* 



and^J- a beautiful boy.j^^, y»*rf«<t* < U ^aMn, 



,^U a harbour-master (in poetry the » in .U would have the nmnat- 



hah) • d\yj^ *** an Indian sweetheart. 



' b. ' Afters ^ cA*-, Jjl, 1^5 ob-u*^ *^^*^ 



Jyxy*, S|^, *•**/-, J»^U-* the space behind a wall, ^o** 



„y^ the day of judgment, ^jjP^ leavings (IndiaD usage) ; 

 d^UyU- ; the same as j\^ and ^i ; after Jj\ in -- JjK m the 

 banning of the night, fr Jjj, i***.^ Jjl ** first of the worsh^ 

 pers. The last is poetical usage— 



(Sa'di) " What can be the secret of thefiyure of tins idol (of Somnath, 



which moved itshands), Me ^ * worshipper of which 1 am /-where 



the metre (Mutaqarib) requires the omission of the Iszafat after Jjl Also 



S^b cttman koh, the side of a mountain, for ijj^i daman ikoh* 



■ c. In compounds often used (J^-^Jt^)as,^ a pomegranate^ 



C— d|f water for the ceremonial ablution ; >^ sugarcane ; ^*» 



a night attack ; ^f JU m?-4M a seal, &c. ; for jlitft e^yi>>^> 



&c. Thus also jj V t «ftrif (pr. the lustre of the face) honor, jlj^jjj 



ruzbdzdr, the flourishing state of the market, nourishing circum- 



stances.f Many of these words are even written in one word. 



* The pretty little linen draper, the pretty little batcher boy. As our poets 



speak of Jane of the mill, the fair dawy maid, &c, so do modem Persian poets 



speak of pretty boys belonging to the Trade. *i,„T aw *&+ Tn 



t Both words are wrongly marked in Vullers' Diet, with the Iszafat. In 



poetry, of conrse, they have the Nimfathah. 



Similarly, II. p. 759b., \Jj\f Mr i giyd, which be translates rex ; but L^ ; 

 or better \tfj\£,with the Iszafat, means regnum, the business (,(£) of a US' (not Uf) 

 or prince; but l$Sj& without the Iszafat, (for jtfcff^O means rese, and the 

 derived abstr. n ^LTjK re^wra. It is plain that this abstr. noun could never 

 have been formed "from Vullers' U^>1£ kar i giya rex. 



Reversely, AJ^^U, p. 168, must have the Iszafat, bad i shurtah, as correctly 

 given in Johnson. Vullers' remark regarding the Iszafat, on p. vii. of his 

 preface, has no sense. 



