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Trade Dialect of the NaqqdsJi. 
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to hear, hear; niir beda = (?) Pers. iiur bidar, look here, listen : sung lo 
is Hindi and Panj. sun lo. 
to die, be ill; mashiran, see “ disease.” 
to say, ask ; pariin, pariiis = (?) ba-purs, Pers. ask! 
to be; zaddiin is Pers. zadan, to be born. 
to go, go ; sandun, sand is Panj. ha?tdna : toriis, toreo are Panj. turna : 
wat, watu = Panj. Hills watna, wntna, to go, (c/. bat, a road) ; wut 
wut! go along, come along ! is vulgar Panjabi and hence probably 
but and (?) hurt in Panjabi Zargari: bikim = (?) Pers. bi-kam, 
grow less, diminish, vanish! : sir (cf. seir jao, take away) = (?) 
Urdu, sair karna, to make a journey : jao kur is Hindi go ! 
to take away; sorwun, sarewiu maybe for chhorna and chhadna, Panj. 
to let go : seir jao see go (sir).” 
to sing ; bomburun = burna, Panj. to bubble : biarho = biar, a puff, rush 
of wind, sound of wind. Hind. 
to fall; harun= Panj. harna, (to take away, lose and) to fall (of water), 
to come, come ; buars = (?) bi-ras, Pers,, arrive, come ! walun, cf. Kash,, 
walyur, come here ! 
Coins. 
rupee ; manka = manik. Hind, (manakya Sansk.), a precious stone ; pari- 
kalia is from (?) Hind, parkna, to test a coin : bajna is Hind, to 
test a coin. 
silver ; noqra is Arabic in common use. 
pice ; masla is Hind, a small pice. 
copper; subh = sobhi. Hind, alloyed silver, base silver. 
Adjectives. 
little, cheap ; kis = kuchh, kichh, Panj. and Hindi; kin = nik reversed 
Panj., very little : daka is Arabic daqiqa, a little, in common use : 
miane is Hindi half ; qalil, kilel are pure Arabic, a little, 
much, dear; bdr is Hindi bara, Kash., bod, Panj. wada.* 
good; sod is Arab, sa’ad, good: sancha is sa?icha Panj. true: mito 
= mitha, sweet: chin = Kash. jwan. 
bad, ill; nakhus = Arab, naqis, bad, whence (?) nazz or naz : ka^zsi 
= kasna. Hind., to be made bad, i. e., by putting lime on to brass 
or copper vessels so as to make them poisonous : mashilad see 
“ disease.” 
The major portion of the words are thus disposed of and shown to 
be really dialectic and not slang inventions. A further examination of 
the underived words will show that many of them are evidently connected 
* To be noted here with regard to gruts, grus, much, dear; these are the Kash¬ 
miri drug, dear, surug, cheap, reversed. 
