'A Dictionary, Persian, Arabic, and English; with a Dissertation on the Languages, Literature, and Manners of Eastern Nations' [‎451v] (907/1826)

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sa/ciw To inhabit, dwell. To rest, remain.
sakin kardan, To mitigate, to pacify,
p sdkindn-i gardun, The stars. Angels.
a sukinat, (fern.) Quiet. HL j>- huruf-i sdkinat,
Quiescent letters. Particles w hich deprive a letter of its vowel.
a sdkut 9 A silent man.
a lj^>sdkutat (from UuXj), Being silent. Silence.
pJ*iLi saklz^ A cushion, a pad. (Burhun-i kuti^.)
jr'^AyfL> sdgzcdn, Teak-wood.
h Ls An Indian tree wdiose leaves are compared
to elenhams* ^ars. (Gl \dwin, Materia Medica.)
* a JU f a-mla, (fut. J Uj yas-ulu) He asked.
*a JU*o/o (for J^), (fut. 05 (The water) flowed,
p jjLrja/, A year. A tree, »> , siil-i shams!. The
solar year. , JUj sdl-i kamari (or /4 JL> 5r7^-« //ioA), The
lunar year. (Jb sal sal, (J^- 5 s dd ba sal, or^j«5
JL so/ t/or 50 /), From year to year. ^ J /(J'-’ 5«/-t dlgar,
The next year, the year to come. Another year, ksr , JL:
sdl-i kaht, A year barren for w ant of rain. The epoch of the
Persian solar year is of very high antiquity, their historians and
astronomers generally carrying it up to Jam or Jamshed (see
♦5*-) above 800 years before the Christian era. It consists of
twelve months, of thirty days each, five days more being added
to a particular month to make the number in all 365. For some
time there w r as no embolism, similar to our leap-year; in conse
quence of which, their Naw rbz, or new-year’s day, originally
fixed at the vernal equinox when the sun enters Aries, unavoid
ably made a retrograde progression into Pisces; to remedy
which, at the end of every 120 years, a month was intercalated,
and celebrated with the greatest festivity all over the kingdom.
Th is month, at the end of the first period, followed Farw r ard7n
(March); at the second celebration it was placed after Ardibe-
hisht (April) ; and on the third it succeeded Khurdad (May) ;
the five ascititious days being always annexed to it. In this rota
tion it contmued till the year 636 of the Christian era, when Yaz-
daghird III., the last king of the Sassanian dynasty, being de
feated and dethroned by the Arabians, Persia became a province
of the great empire of the Khallfs; and the Muhammadan lunar
computation being introduced in all civil and religious affairs, the
intercalations of the solar year were from that period neglected,
till 1079, when the Seljukian sultan of Persia, Malikshah Jalal-
eddln (Amiru’l Umara to the khallf MuktadI) reformed the ca
lendar, which has since borne his name; bringing forward the
Naw roz from the fifteenth degree of Pisces to the first of Aries,
and intercalating an embolismal day every fourth year, which
was thence called , JL: sdl-i kubisah, or leap year. The
astronomers, in their tables, add the five ascititious days to the last
month Isfandarmuz (February) ; though they are vulgarly an
nexed to Aban (October), because they happened to follow that
month in the intercalary rotation, at the defeat of Yazdaghird,
who had made an alteration in the calendar, known by his name,
which however, in consequence of that event, soon ceased to be
publicly attended to. It may here be observed, that the old Per-
sian month was not divided into weeks, every day having a dis-
| tinct name taken from the angel supposed to preside over it.
A JLj sal, A channel in a valley through which water flows.
p<Lj3Lj sdldtiyah, Concord (in music).
Pj^Lj sdldr, Old, aged. A prince, a chieftain, a leader, a ge
neral, a commander, a vicegerent, a viceroy, a lord-lieutenant, a
I judge, or any person in high office, sdldr-i
bayt-i ’/ hardm, Muhammad. /^L» sdldr-ijang, A leader
: in war (one of the titles given by Eastern princes to their nobles).
sdldr-i kh'un s A table-decker, a sewer. aJili
sdldr-i kdjilah, The chief of a caravan, the leader of a troop.
p JLi Increasing the year. Name of the
twelfth month according to the aera of Yazdaghird.
p Ljki^LJL: s dildmandird , A salamander,
p aA'L sdldnah, Yearly. ^ f
p iJCytl , JL sdl-i ayandah, The coming year.
a (part.) Seizing, ravishing, carrying off by vio
lence, plundering. A seizer, a spoiler. . • . r
p j-ILj sdl-bar, A tree which bears fruit every other year.
a iUL: sdlibah (in logic) A negative proposition,
p iU-JL: sdilbjyuh , Sage (an herb^.
* Jl sdlih, Armed. An armed man. Squirting (camel),
p JLo sml-hdsil, Yearly produce.
p ^Lj sdilikh, (The scab) excoriating a camel. A black ser
pent. aszcad-i sdlikh, Very black.
p alj^L: sul-khiddh or sdl-khuddh, Fortunate, (among astro
logers), The lord of the ascendant. (Castellus.)
p i>\j^\~)sdl-kh'dli, (~>jyi- JL; sdl-kh'urd, sal-kh ui-
dah, sdl-ddr), Aged; and, synonymous with A-L-
sdl-dtdah, One who has seen many years, an old man.
jJL: p!ran-i sdl-didah, Old men laden with years.
sdl-khuh, Fortunate.
a ^JLj sdligh, (A cow or sheep) exceeding six years, having
their teeth dropt out.
a uJJLia///, (part.) Making level, plain, equal. Preceding,
going before, passing by. A predecessor. i— jLL: sdlifa -
’zikr, Above-mentioned.
a ijiJL: sdlifat, (fern, of u-LlL: sdlif, q. v.). The neck.
a lUnIL: sdlik, (part.) Going. A traveller. A devotee.
p LftJ 2 ’ 'CJ^L: sdlikdn-i %ursh, Angels. Holy men.
p eiL3L: 5«/i'gf7/zJ, Life, age. Annual pension. Anniver»ai)
J L: sal—gar dish, Beginning the new-)car fioni
accession of the king.