Afghan Folktales from Herat: Persian Texts in Transcription and Translation
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Chapter :  Brief Introduction to the Herati Dialect
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čak: pitchfork for winnowing grain

čakε: clapping

čakki [Fikrat 1976, 60]: wholesale purchase; purchase without measuring the quantity of goods

čekčeki: small metal plates attached to dancers' legs for sound effects

čelâfsöufi, cf. Kb čelawsâf: colander

čelâġ [Fikrat 1976, 60; Afghani Nawis 1985, 198]: cripple

čιng [Fikrat 1976, 61]: edge, corner

čoġuk/čaġuk [Fikrat 1976, 59]: sparrow

čokε: piece, small part

čongi [Fikrat 1976, 61; Afghani Nawis 1985, 193]: a kind of flatbread

ču/čuy (< čub): wood

čučan(g), cf. čučang kandan [Fikrat 1976, 62]: nipping

čul [cf. Afghani Nawis 1985, 198]: desert

dây: layer of clay (when a wall is erected)

dâus [Fikrat 1976, 74]: mean, base person

dastomâyε [Afghani Nawis 1985, 261]: savings, means

dašlamε [Fikrat 1976, 80]: sugar-candy

doxtaramu: paternal female cousin

doxtarxunä [Fikrat 1976, 75]: young unmarried woman, damsel

dubotε, cf. Kb dupata: wrapping cloth, cloak, shawl

dulaxt/dulaxbâd: whirlwind

ebrat [cf. Afghani Nawis 1985, 403]: disgustful, ugly, repelling

engε (< hengε) [Fikrat 1976, 177]: a boy riding on the bridal horseback at a wedding ceremony (procession)

faršunε: lamentation, crying

föur: shrunk, cringed

ganj [Fikrat 1976, 144]: cattle market

godâm: storehouse

gomâr: watch, supervision, care

gorjε [Fikrat 1976, 142]: kind of damson (plum)

gušəfil: kind of cookies

ġâlε: untwisted bundle of cotton fibers

ġačang: big vessel resembling a pitcher