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A Dictionary : Part-1 (Hindustani and English)

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called ṣād I muhmala or ṣādi ghair manḳūṭa, the fourteenth letter of the Arabic alphabet, the seventeenth Persian, and the twenteith Hindūstānī. Strictly speaking, this letter is purely Arabian or Semitic, but in a few Persian words it has, in modern times, been substituted for the original sīn, to distinguish, such words from others of a different signification, as ṣad originally sad, one hundred, and shaṣt originally shast, sixty (to prevent their being confounded with sad, a wall, and shast, an aim) : it has no corresponding letter in the Sanskrit alphabet, and in Persia and India its pronunciations is hardly distinguishable from that of sīn ; but among the Arabs its sound is stronger than that of the latter, and with a mixture of w. in reckoning by abjad its value is ninety. it is used as an abbreviation for ṣafar, the name of the second month in the Arabian kalendar. Also, being the initial of the title ṣuba-dār, q. v., it is usually affixed by him as a cypher to zamīndārī grants, as a mark of authentication. a.

صابر
ṣābir,
NA
patient, enduring. A.

صابرﻱ
ṣābirī,
f.
patience, endurance. A.

صابن صابون
ṣābun, ṣābūn,
m.
soap ; hence Gr. Σáπωv. A.

صابونی
ṣābūnī,
m.
a soap maker ; f. a mixture of almonds, honey, and oil of sesame, a species of sweetmeat. A. p.

صاحب
ṣāḥib,
m.
a lord, master, companion ; adj. possessed of, endowed with, &c. ṣāḥibi ikhtiyar, possessed of free election, or option. ṣāḥibi akhlāk, possessed of good morals or of good manners. ṣāḥibi tāj, possessed of the crown, a king. ṣāḥibi takht, possessor of the throne, a king. ṣāḥibi tamkanat, possessed of dignity : it is also used in composition without the iẓāfat, as ṣāḥib-jamāl, beautiful. ṣāḥib-khāna, master of the house. ṣāḥib-dil or ṣāḥib-naẓar, intelligent, a man of worth and sanctity. ṣāḥib-kamāl, perfect, excellent. ṣāḥibi murauwat, (in law) a gentlemen (lit. man of politeness). a.

صاحبان /صاحب
ṣāḥibān,
NA
(Pers. Pl. of), masters, gentlement, &c. ṣāḥibān I 'ālī shān, the gentlemen of high dignity, generally applied to the Honourable E. I. Company, or their European servants in India. A.

صاحب قران
ṣāḥib-ḳirān,
m.
an invincible hero, a great emperor ; lit. lord of the auspicious conjunction, i.e., one who was born under a peculiarly favourable aspect of the planets, as was the case with Tīmūr or Taimūr (vulgarly called Tamerlane), who is accordingly called ṣāḥib-ḳirān by his biographers. one of the emperors of Delhī, Shāh-jahān had also the title of ṣāḥib-ḳirāni ṣānī, the second lord of the conjuction. a.

صاحب قرانی
ṣāḥib-ḳirānī,
NA
the state or dignity of a ṣāḥib-ḳirān. a.

صاحبہ
ṣāḥiba,
f.
a lady, mistress. A.


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