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0401 Sino-Iranica : vol.1
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IRANIAN ELEMENTS IN MONGOL   575

1o. Mongol xasini, asafoetida, from Persian kasni ("product of Ghazni"). Cf. above, p. 361.

II. Mongol bodso, an alcoholic beverage made from barley-meal or milk, is connected by KOVALEVSKI in his Mongol Dictionary with Persian bona, a beverage made from rice, millet, or barley.

  1. Mongol bolot, steel, is derived from New Persian pislad, whether directly or through the medium of Turkish languages is not certain. The Persian word is widely diffused, and occurs in Tibetan, Armenian, Ossetic, Grusinian, Turkish, and Russian.'

  2. Mongol bägdär, coat-of-mail, armor, goes back to Persian bagtar (Jagatai bäktär, Tibetan beg-tse).

  3. Mongol sagari and sarisu, shagreen.2 From Persian sagri. In Tibetan it is sag-ri;3 in Manchu sarin (while Manchu §empi is a transcription of Chinese sie-p`i i4 A).4

IS. Mongol kukur, kugur, sulphur. From Persian gugurd, Afghan kokurt (Arabic kibrit, Hebrew gafrit, Modern Syriac kugurd).

  1. Other Persian loan-words in Mongol have come from Tibetan, thus: Mongol nal, spinel, balas ruby. From Tibetan nal; Persian lai (Notes on Turgois, p. 48) . Mongol zira, cummin. From Tibetan zi-ra; Persian zira, lira (above, p. 383).

  2. In some cases the relation of Mongol to Persian is not entirely clear. In these instances we have corresponding words in Turkish, and it cannot be decided with certainty whether the Mongol word is traceable to Turkish or Persian.

Thus Mongol böriyä, trumpet (cf. Manchu buren and buleri), Turkish born, Uigur börgü,5 Persian büri.

  1. Mongol dsärän (dsägärän), a species of antelope (Procapra subgutturosa) ; Altaic j ärän, wild goat of the steppe; Jagatai jiren, gazelle; Persian jirân, gazelle.

  2. Mongol tôs (written tagus, togos, to indicate the length of the vowel), peacock. From Persian tâwus (Turki ta'us) .

  3. Mongol toti, parrot. From Persian toti (Uigur and Turki toti).

  4. MongoFbag, garden. This word occurs in a Mongol-Chinese inscription of the year 1314, where the corresponding Chinese term signifies "garden," and, as recognized by H. C. V. D. GABELENTZ,s doubtless represents Persian bây ("garden").

1 Cf. T`oung Pao, 1916, pp. 82, 479•

2 Kien-tun's Polyglot Dictionary, Ch. 24, pp. 38, 39.

3 T'oung Pao, 1916, p. 478.

'This term is not noted in the Dictionary of Giles.

b PELLIOT, T `oung Pao, 1915, p. 22.

6 Z. K. d. Morg., Vol. II, 1839, p. 12.