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VOCABULARY. 
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Note. Many words commencing in 
this dictionary with ^ are , in com¬ 
mon use and in the selections , 
spelt with q. 
v. a. to cause to sit, = 
qYY, the jujube tree. \_q_. v. 
q^YT, age (of a man or woman), 
period of life ; qYYf, first 
youth, 
a family, 
qqr, a crane. 
verbal quarrelling, wrangling. 
qqTYT, the English word “box.” 
q^YT (fem. wft), a goat: cf. <T^Y. 
adj . foolish. 
(<jk&^), a present. 
), a bundle of clothes. 
31? Y ( fern. 335^1), a goat: a she 
goat's face is supposed to resemble 
that of a poor man , hence the prov. 
33fY^?T YIYTY YT«T he’s 
os 
got a face like a she goat’s, and 
yet he is as stout as a pestle : cf 
33TYT. 
3*3YT,division, the act of dividing; 
Prov. xfTf^r M HTf, 
qqiYT, the fish are still in the water 
and they divide them each into 
nine slices, i. e., they count their 
chickens before they are hatched, 
a tale, narrative, 
a granary. 
a kind of sewing, coarse 
quilting. 
spiT^T, the bark of a tree. 
* ' 
■^It, name of a tribe of gipsies ; Prov. 
about one who does badly what he 
might be expected to do well , 3R33? 
3%qr ixh the foolish 
Bakho set up his tent in a pit. 
qjpf T, a sparrow. 
SRI, form, shape, appearance. 
q?TT, the cotton plant. 
sfJTT^ft, a Bang all. The Bang aids 
speak very bad Maithiliand hence 
cannot be understood , hence the 
following Prov. is used with refer¬ 
ence to any one ivho does not speak 
plainly fTYTY fTTYTYR?, 
in the first place he is a Bangali, 
in the second place he stutters. 
WYT, adj. foolish ; Prov. 3Tq WYT, 
q?T ^rTTY, the father is a fool, 
and the son intelligent. 
o 
(1) , voice, speech : a word, 
(2) . snNr, v.n to escape, be saved, 
voice, speech : a word. 
3^3, escape, the act of escaping. 
v. a. to cause to escape, to save, 
(Vid. XL, 12) for 
you will cause to escape: hence 
you will conceal. 
, q^frT, see 3P5T. 
a kind of millet. 
q^f«REfT a player on musical instru¬ 
ments ; Prov. 3T3T5ff37 
the saint of 
saints has turned fiddler of fid¬ 
dlers ; i. e his pretensions to 
holiness are all hypocrisy. 
q5R, ®T^, a thunder-bolt: hence adv. 
violently, tightly, 3«?Y 3*Y* 
to fasten a door tightly : ^Y 
a thunder-bolt sleep, a sleep so 
sound that even a thunder-bolt 
will not break it. 
3^315, see 3U5J3. 
3;5iTY, Qljb) a market. 
3^T^, 3ajTt q«n3, v. a. to send for, 
or call a person = Hindi 3*rRTT. 
33rf see 3T*i 
