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The author of the Slang Dictionary, in order to explain this word, goes as usual to the Wallachian Gipsies, for what he might have learned from the first tinker in the streets of London. I should remark on the word loure, that Mr Borrow has shown its original identity with loot, the Hindustani for plunder or booty.
He uses the singular pronoun "wuh" instead of "we." Now Mir Amman distinctly tells us that he gives us the language as it is. He did not make it and, furthermore, nothing is more common among Hindustani writers than to use the singular for the plural, and "vice versâ." Vide Grammar, page 114. Mr.
"I was sure that we were much lower down the Ghaut than we had been when I was watching for the bears, and we were now going still lower. However, I knew very little Hindustani, nothing of the language the women spoke.
A man who had been out in Calcutta and picked up a little Sanskrit and a pretty good smattering of Hindustani a man who can chatter a bit in a foreign tongue always seems a big scholar to one who can't.
In the old daguerreotype here reproduced he is seen sitting, by his moonshee, a Brahmin of the highest caste, see the mystic Brahmin thread which the Jesuits were accused of wearing, from whom he learned Hindustani and, I think, a certain amount of Sanskrit.
"'Speak, urged his august hearer. "After a moment's reflection, in the manner of the unwelcome envoy who has reached the acute juncture of his recital and is about to disembarrass himself of a dangerous climax, the merchant continued in sordid Hindustani: "'As I have said, O prince, my daughter has been taken from me, and I come to you in my extremity.
In addition, he possesses French, Hindustani, Burmese, Shan, and Sanscrit, and, in an admirable translation which he has made of a Chinese novel into English, he frequently quotes Latin. Fit assistant he would make to Max Müller; his services command a high salary. The Chinese in Rangoon are a predominating force in the prosperity of the city.
Torab was frank in stating that he had purchased precisely what he needed, and proffered a snip of paper covered with characters in Hindustani to prove he had expended precisely ten rupees, which made it necessary to have another benefaction two annas this time. "What are the two annas for, and who is this man?" I asked.
'Small wonder. 'Ho! said Kim, with the correct guttural note of wonder. He had learned what he wanted, and when the scullion turned he was gone. 'And all that trouble, said he to himself, thinking as usual in Hindustani, 'for a horse's pedigree! Mahbub Ali should have come to me to learn a little lying. Every time before that I have borne a message it concerned a woman. Now it is men. Better.
Dom and Domni The Hindi tem Gipsy and Hindustani points of the Compass Salaam and Shulam Sarisham! The Cups Women's treading on objects Horseflesh English and Foreign Gipsies Bohemian and Rommany. A learned Sclavonian Michael von Kogalnitschan has said of Rommany, that he found it interesting to be able to study a Hindu dialect in the heart of Europe.
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