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Examples
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549 Boils and pimples are supposed to be caused by broken hair-roots and in Hindostani are called Bál-tor.
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The Nights has been translated into every far-extending Eastern tongue, Persian, Turkish and Hindostani.
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In Hindostani it is used (often with an Alif for an Ayn) as intoxication e.g. Amal pání strong waters and applied to Sharáb (wine), Bozah (Beer), Tádí
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“Jilá” (the Hindostani Julwa) = the displaying of the bride before the bridegroom for the first time, in different dresses, to the number of seven which are often borrowed for the occasion.
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I remember an officer in the Bombay Army who, having learned Hindostani from women, always spoke of himself in the feminine and hugely scandalised the
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(Sapré and Sapristi for Sacré and Sacristie), the Hindostani express it “I send him the three letters” — lám, ayn and nún.
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Hindostani Akhlák-i-Hindi (“Moralities of Ind”) and in
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“Aurat”: the word has been borrowed by the Hindostani jargon, and means a woman, a wife.
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I soon civilized my hut with a divan, the Hindostani chabutarah, the Spanish estrada, the “mud bank” or “bunting” of Sierra Leone, a cool earth-bench running round the room, which then wanted only a glass window.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003
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I have elsewhere remarked how Englishmen make themselves unintelligible by transferring to Hindostani and other
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003
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