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able Affliction alphabet Arabian Arabic base battle beauty bird body called cause chief colour comp death desire especially excellent face Firm follower fortunate give gold guard hand Happy head heart High Hope horse kerdan kind king less letter Liberal light Lord Mean ment month Nature ness night noble one's pass Persian person play Power Praise prayer present Pure road seize side sion stars stone Strong tent thing thou tion traveller turn üles watch wind writing بر دار رو سر کردن
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Page 277 - Lat. dinrnalif, daily. — Lat. dies, a day. A doublet of Journal, qv DIVAN, a council-chamber, sofa. (Pers.) In Milton, PL x. 457. — Pers. and Arab, divan, 'a tribunal, a steward ; a collection of odes arranged in alphabetical order of rhymes ; the Divdn i Hdjiz is the most celebrated ; ' Palmer's Pers. Diet., col. 282. In Richardson, p. 704, the Pers. form is given as din/tin, the Arab, as daytvdn, explained as ' a royal court, the tribunal of justice or revenue, a council of state, a senate...
Page 13 - Adding, joining, annexation ; increase, augmentation, increment ; surplus, excess ; stipend, scholarship ; (in gram.) construction of one noun with ' another, the relation of the genitive case or the addition of an adjective, expressed by joining Kasrah to the governing noun. aj*W izáfi, ConstructiTe, relatiTe. A £W^ ig s
Page 405 - JL-c ^e. the nineteenth letter of the Arabic and twentysecond of the Persian alphabet, has no corresponding character in Sanskrit. It is one of the...
Page 151 - A small partridge; a quail. i sd or *«. S. The fourth letter of the Arabic alphabet. It is never used in words of Persian origin. A.
Bibliographic information
| Title | A concise dictionary of the Persian language |
| Author | Edward Henry Palmer |
| Published | 1876 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 14 Aug 2006 |
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