1877.] R. B. Sbaw —On the Shighni ( Ohalchah) Dialect. 
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Wazir mud. Padskhab-and 8 razin sut. Sabar en 9 kbabar Padskbah-ar 
vud : 10 “ Razin tu’nd sut.” 3. Padskbab marakan nustjin 11 vod, 12 yi 
adam az vaj deid, sukban i cbud : “ Wazir mud.” Padskbab kbu kbesbi 1 
“ kbair” 13 i cbud. Mardum en 7 di skbud. Wazir-bacbab reid. 
4. Roz ba roz 1 kad 14 cbud, 15 katta 16 sut. Metb-ov vod, tar kbu mad 
sukban i 17 cbud, lovd-e : 17 “ Eb, madar-i-mihrban, 1 mu ped-end 8 i tir-i- 
dast 1 yast.” Yalovd: “ Tar kbazina dedb.” Yu deid tar kbazina, tir-i- 
dast i 17 zokbt kbu 18 naskbtuid. 5. Naskbtuid tar vaj, khu mashk 1 dar- 
rao 1 cbid-ao sut. 19 Ba’d 14 lap-atb masbki 17 cbud, pablawan sut. 6. Yi 
gbinik 20 az bazar yat. Tagbar-ande pai, wum kal-te, 21 et 18 yat. Yii tir-i- 
dast alka 22 i cbud, wu’m tagbar-ti 21 wedbd-e, di az mi pale tar wi pale 
zabod. 7. Pai ar-wum pits kbbavd. Ba’d idis 23 kbu pits-ir dbost i dbad. 
Nazar wedbd tar bacbgala. 24 Fuk-en datb tir-pur, 25 Wazir-bacbab ’nd 
kliliali. 8. Ba’d i 17 lovd: u Eb, bi-nafas ! tu at 26 idis vod, di az madar 
at mutawalid sut. Padskbab kbu kbesbi az tu kbair i 1T cbud.” 9. Ba’d 
kbu dbost tar kbu jeb i 1 yod. Az-um-unde pul i 17 zwast. Patte’wde tar 
wum gbinik : “ Eb gbinik ! tu pul zez, sukban-i-bad 1 cbiz kini ?” 
10. Kbu mad-ar di gap dbad, lovd : “ Eb mad ! mu ped-end 27 acbi 
cbiz yast ? Yem mardum ne yadin 28 tar mu. Yi adam i 17 ramad tar 
kisblak. Fuk-atb jam’ i cbud kbu 18 viid-e. 17 Tar Padskbab 29 kbez digar 
yi ar-atb na sut. Ba’d mardum-ird kbburak 1 dar-rao 1 dbed-ao sut. 30 11. 
8 Genitive absolute. 
9 Separable term. 3rd pers. pi. belonging to vud. 
10 Vud : Past Tense of “ to bring.” 
11 Adjective : “ sitting.” 
12 Past Tense of verb vidao “to be.” 
13 A local expression : “ to say ‘ well’ to”, = to refuse.” 
14 Arabic. 
15 Lit. “made stature.” 
16 Turki. 
17 Terminational pronoun 3rd pers. sing. 
18 “And.” 
19 Lit. “went to the doing,” i. e. “began to do.” 
20 Diminutive of ghin. 
21 Locative. Lit. “ (there was) some whey in a vessel on her head, and she came.” 
22 “ Made his bow (into) a ring,” i. e. “ pulled it till it was bent almost double.” 
23 “ After such.” 
24 A special plural, “ a troop of boys.” 
25 Persian ; meaning “arrow on string,” or, as we say of guns, “ loaded.” 
26 Terminational pronoun 2nd pers. sing. 
27 Genitive absolute, 
28 3rd pers. pi. Present Tense. 
29 Genitive. 
80 See (19). 
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