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*tiH parchah, for A -^)4- This form I have only seen in Indian 

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



8^j pardah means 1. a screen; 2. the place behind a screen; 

 hence &^*t>j* a woman of good family ; 8^ j* behind the 

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

 A.A. p. 80, 1. 6. As jb so does also *^ take the meaning of 

 the king's court ; hence, in Indian writers, t*tyT*«^ the adorning of the 

 court, doing something for the pomp of the court. iSj***ji pardah 

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



&*irt parridan and paridan. To fly. Also, to evaporate (scents). 

 Similarly djj &*>L^j\ Ia^ j\ ^y its smell remains long in the clothes. 

 Scents, colours are by,* derpd, lasting, fast. 



jLLc~oo pusht khdr, a hand made of ivory and fixed to a 

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

 scratching (cJ^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~So)Ia> is, of course, a back with khdrs 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 c&3c^.*o 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 

 <*XxtiUj pushtank is wrong. i y°^ t ^ i ^ pushtgarmi, support, assis- 

 tance. Sarmadi of Icfahan (metre Mujtass) 



" What have I done to myself in the heat of transgression (cjLx^, 

 as +?*>, cl^, i^\y»j, c$"4' , ' U< r-> *^> love); with the help of God's 

 mercy, what crimes have I committed ! 



^iU paMs, the coarse stuff used for making moneybags. The adj. 

 ^ % palasi means like palds ; but the adj. i^**»^J palasin, made of 

 paMs, as u-jf*>^:> **«■£ . The same distinction holds for ^^T and e>*W J 

 i£±*\£ and lk>^(£, &c. 



