'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III.' [‎483r] (970/982)

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HISAR—An enclosure, fortification.
HUKAH—A pipe for smoking tobacco.
HUSAIN—Diminutive of HASAN,—beautiful: both are proper names and are much
used in composition, e.g. HASANABAD, HUSAINABAD.
I.
lL—A tribe : hence AILAQ—summer residence of nomads.
ILAH—A god : hence ILAHI—divine. Much used in composition.
ILBEGl—The chief of a nomad tribe.
iLl AT—An irregular plural of lL—a tribe. A term applied to nomads generally in Persia.
ILKHANI—A chief of a nomad tribe. Where there is both an ILKHANl and an IL*
BEGl in a tribe, the former is the principal or senior chief.
IMAM—A leader, chief. Particularly one of the twelve conspicuous descendants of the
Prophet. Hence IMAMZADEH—offspring of an IMAM, a term often applied
to shrines in Persia, as marking the residence or tomb of some Saiyid.
IRAN—The Eastern name for Persia.
ISMATL—A proper name—ISHMAEL. Often found in composition, e.g. ISMA’IL*
ABAD.
1ST AN or ST AN—A place (in composition only), e.g. KUHIST AN—mountainous region^
’IZZ or ’IZZAT—Honour, glory, reputation.
J.
JA or JA1—A place.
JABAL—Mountain, hill, range of hills.
JA’FAR—A proper name. Also a donkey : a river.
JALAL—Splendour. Much used in proper names, and those of places, e.g. JALAL-UD-
DIN—splendour of the faith : JALALABAD—city of splendour.
J AM A’ —A garment: stuff for a dress: cotton, linen cloth.
JAN—Life; self.
JAR1B—A land measure which varies considerably in different localities : a’so acorn
measure = 4&a/D, or as much sown as will produce that quantity.
JAU—Barley.
JAUZ—A nut.
JAUZ-AGHAND-A peach stuffed with walnut kernels.
JAZlREH or JAZIRAT—-An island.
JEHAN—The world.
JEZ AIL—A native musket, generally used with a prong or rest.
JH0L—Body-clothes of cattle or horses.
JOWAS or JOWASA—A prickly bush eaten bycattle andcamels (Hedysarum Alhagi.)
JOW ARl—Indian-corn.
JU or JUB, or JUl—An irrigation cut or channel.
K.
K or -AK—A termination giving a diminutive sense to a word, e.g. KCHAK—little
mountain, hill.
KACHA—Unripe : raw: unmetalled (road): built of mud (houses).
KADAM—A foot, footstep, pace,
KADAMGAH—A sacred place,