Shackle, C. Umrāʻo Jān Adā a glossary (v. 2)

([London :  SOAS,  1970?])

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PAJBT III  CHAPTER 7
 

[Traas. continues Chapter XTV, with
obvious chsnge of subject (p.l65)]
 

p.312    [The line of verse has been supplied by the editor of the
Majlis text to head his chapter - it is explained at its
proper place in the text of t he narrative on the following
page.]
 

pani barasna
jhamajham

am

fasl

babban

ajyq hwsayn, tafazzwl hwsayn
amjad all

bhai hoga

gana to roz hua karta hay

ka-jiiai « ka^ahi

pakvan

megh barasna

ugh

xub kahi

maze

hag^iya

aa pakaae ki qadar jante hayg
 

p.313
 

vwhi bazar ki

-llhahma
ay hoy
 

to rain

pouring, pelting down (onomat., from
noise of heavy rain)

mango

harvest: season

(name)

(names)

'that's enough    of that,  dear*

'we get singing every day'

frying-pan

kerhai cephana to put frying-pan on

fried food (like purls, etc.)

to rain (rains being a signal for fried food,
like winter afternoons for hot buttered toast)

ooh!

'that's a find thing to say'

taste, delight, enjoyment

oooklng-pot

haq^iya -j-hogkna 'to hammer cooking-pot* =

clatter about with pots snd pans

*nor do I know the importance of cooking' «
*nor have I everybeen able to see what's so
marvellous about cooking'

(i.e. bat) 'the scheme of getting it from
the bazaar'

to be settled

hey:
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