Indian Antiquary Vol 20

SR No.: 032512
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: John Faithfull Fleet, Richard Carnac Temple
Publisher: Swati Publications
Publication Year: 1984
Total Pages: 486
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 21 MB

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FEBRUARY, 1891.)
NOTES AND QUERIES.
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(xix) Riza Qouli Khan : Rids-al-arifin. An excellent tazkirah full of important facts on the life and works of many writers. This is a posthumous work of the celebrated Persian scholar.
(xx) Weber : Ueber die Samyaletvakaumudi. A very important question is raised by the author. The reviewer doubts the conclusions of the pamphlet. The Arabian Nights are not yet
sufficiently known to allow of comparisons. To the episode of the wanderings of the king and his minister, some parallels in some versions of the Simhásanadvátrimsiki and the Prabandhachintamani are adduced. In conclusion some parallels to the Arabian Nights are drawn from the Kitdb. i-Sindbad and the ľútinámah,
SERGIUS D'OLDENBURG. St. Petersburg, May 1890.
NOTES AND QUERIES. AN ORIENTAL STORY OF MOSES. kabát, cupboard.
gilet, gilt. In Indian Notes and Queries, Note No. 789 in hanis, harness.
tawdl, towel. No. 48, Vol. IV., page 221, bears a remarkable korat, court.
palis, polish. resemblance to Sa'di's story of Moses in the
iskol, school.
vilbon, whalebone. Burtan; given also by Forbes amongst the stories fartin, phaeton.
chichkék, cheese-cake. in his Persian Grammar (Allen; Lond.; 1862, page
brün-gadi, a brougham. gérdp-shdt, grapeshot 34 of the Persian App. 4, and pp. 153, 164 and
kard, card.
(meaning a lie or 170 of the English portion). Briefly it is as
pánáno-kârd, pack of canard). .follows :-One day Abraham espied a stranger in
cards.
tarang, trunk. the desert, whose body was bent like a willow, dg-bot, a steamer. shampin, champagne. and whose beard and head were as white as ispital, hospital.
trup-sawdr, a trooper. snow with age. He invited him to his board, and I daktar, a doctor.
tardi, tray. as the B'ismi'llah was muttered, it was found rélve, railway.
rijmét, regiment. that the stranger was silent. Abraham enquired nuspépar, newspaper. handikap, aide-dehow it was that he had not joined them in invok fému, family.
camp. ing God's blessing on the food, and was told that hai, hall.
dau, a dole. the stranger was a Zoroastrian. Abraham in ran, reins.
madam, an English zealous wrath expelled him from his tent. A voice, not, note.
lady (madam.) thereupon, came unto Abraham from on high palt, a party or gathering. jangid, an English - conveying this rebuke, “I have given him bread butler, butler.
man (a corruption and life during a hundred years and you have not kóch, a couch.
from French anglais). been able to bear with him for a moment," &c. kóchman, a coachman. thdsôn, station. Dr. Forbes in pp. 164-70 of his Grammar seeks
manwâr, man of war, piliaus, playhouse. bakas, box.
mat-aus, madhonse. to trace in Sa'di's story the origin of Dr. Frank
pdělún, pantaloon.
hispetór, Inspector. lin's Imaginary Chapter of Genesis.
udskót, waistcoat.
argin, organ. S. J. A. CHURCHILL. kist, kiss.
ton-dal, town-hall.
kisf-kot, an embrace. santri, sentry. CORRUPTIONS OF ENGLISH.
sakin, shake-hands. that-klás, third class. A-In Telingana.
kókat, a coquette.
gôvandar, governor. In the Telugu country jainavu is join from rastb, receipt.
C. M. C. anywhere,' not necessarily from hospital." That is rikavaravu (recover). Discharge from hospi.
C-In the Papjab. tal' is rikavarcheyi (imp.)
nisti, a list.
argin, hurricane lamp. G. H. PRENDERGAST.
séripltal, sherry and Masulipatam.
bitters
D-In Burma. B--In Bombay.
Hindustanis say habitually :The following are several of the corrupted Eng- Ramún, for Rangoon Bamba, for Bhamo lish words now well imbedded in the ordinary (Bur. Yangon).
(Bur. Bamaw): Gujarati language spoken by the Parsees and Chinapahdr, for Chwetnapå near Mandalay. other Gujaråti-speaking people in this presidency.
R. O. TEMPLE. 1 See Panjab Notes and Queries, Vol. I., note 240. and common instance in the Himalayan Distriots. -
· The interchange of land n is well known in North- R. C. T. Indir. Jalam-ashthamf for janam-ashthami is a good