'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III. PART II: L to Z' [433r] (870/988)
The record is made up of 1 volume (490 folios). It was created in 1918. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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SAD—SIA
1052
SADIQ—True, real friend. Such used in composition, and as a proper name.
SADR—Breast. Hence, chief, principal. Hence again SADR-A’ZAM Prime Minister.
SAFAR—A journey.
SAPID—White. Sometimes written Ispid. SAFIDAR—The white poplar: aspen.
SAG—A dog. Hence SAG PA—A man who keeps watch dogs for hire.
SAHRA—A desert: wide plain.
SAIFI—Summer sowings.
SAIYID—Chief. A descendant of ‘ALT by his marriage with FATIMA, the daughter of
the Prophet.
SAKHT—Hard, difficult.
SAL—A year: the age of a person.
SALAM—Peace, safety, salutation. Hence: SALAM-I-’AMM—A common audience
to which everyone is admitted.
SAMBUQ—A native boat.
SANG—Stone, rock. Hence SANGAR—A stone breastwork: SANGBAND—A stone
causeway.
SAR Head. Much used in composition, as SARAB—Fountain head : SARDAR—
Officer, chief: etc.
SARD—Cold. Hence SARDAB—An ice-house : SARDSIR—The cold region, the inte
rior of P ersia.
SARHAD—Literally “the head of the frontier.” A boundary. Applied sometimes
to the cold regions or SARDSIR in Persia. SARHADI—One who dwells about
the SARHAD.
SARH ANG—Lieutenant-Colonel.
SARTlP—Full Colonel : Brigadier-General : Major-General, etc.
SEH—Three.
SERAI— See
CARAVANSERAI
A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers).
.
SHAH—King. Hence SHAHAN-SHAH, or SHAH-I-SHAHAN—King of Kings. The
title of the Persian sovereign.
SHAHl—Royal : the 20th, 10th, or 8th part of a KRAN.
SHAHID—A beholder, a fair woman : a witness, a martyr.
SHAHR—A city. A month (in Arabic).
SHAIKH—Old man : teacher : chief.
SHAM—Evening. Syria.
SHAMS—The sun. Much used in composition and in names, e.g., SHAMSABAD.
SHARIF—Noble, eminent, exalted.
SHARQT—Oriental, eastern. East wind.
SHt’AH—A dissenter. A name particularly applied to the followers of ’ALl and his
descendants, and as an epithet to the dominant faith of Persia.
SHIMAL—North. The north-west wind prevalent in the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
.
SHlRIN—Sweet.
SHISH—Six. SHAST—Sixty.
SHITVl—Winter sowings.
SHU’A—The tamarisk or its fruit.
SHUR—Noise, uproar : salt.
SHUTUR—A camel. Sometimes written USHTUR.
SI—Thirty.
SI AH—Black.
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The item is Volume III, Part II: L to Z of the four-volume Gazetteer of Persia (Provisional Edition, 1917, reprinted 1918).
The volume comprises that portion of south-western Persia, which is bounded on the west by the Turco-Persian frontier; on the north and east by a line drawn through the towns of Khaniqin [Khanikin], Isfahan, Yazd, Kirman, and Bandar Abbas; and on the south by the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. .
The gazetteer includes entries on towns, villages, districts, provinces, tribes, forts, dams, shrines, coastal features, islands, rivers, streams, lakes, mountains, passes, and camping grounds. Entries include information on history, geography, climate, population, ethnography, administration, water supply, communications, caravanserais, trade, produce, and agriculture.
Information sources are provided at the end of each gazetteer entry, in the form of an author or source’s surname, italicised and bracketed.
The volume includes an Index Map of Gazetteer and Routes in Persia (folio 491), showing the whole of Persia, with portions of adjacent countries, and indicating the extents of coverage of each volume of the Gazetteer and Routes of Persia , administrative regions and boundaries, hydrology, and major cities and towns.
The volume includes a glossary (folios 423-435); and corrections (Index to the sub-tribes referred to in the Gazetteer of Persia, Volume III, folios 436-488).
Printed by Superintendent Government Printing, India, Calcutta 1918.
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- 1 volume (490 folios)
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 492; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. Pagination: the file also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
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