The Orientalist's Grammatical Vade-mecum: Being an Easy Introduction to the Rules and Principles of Hindustani, Persian, and Gujarati LanguagesAmerican Mission Press, 1853 - 112 pages |
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Page 33 - The Musalmans reckon by lunar time, their era called the Hijra commencing from the day on which Mohammad retreated from Mekka to Medina; which, according to the best accounts, took place on Friday, the 16th of July (18th new style), AD 622. Their year consists of 12 lunations, amounting to 354 days and 9 hours, very nearly; and hence their New Year's Day will happen every year about eleven days earlier than in the preceding year.
Page 4 - Latin, the words filius regis mean equally the son of the king; a son of a king, a son of the king; or the son of a king.
Page 35 - As you have been years in ships, and performed sea voyages, what wonders have you seen in that element ?" He answered, " The most wonderful thing of all was, that I got again on shore in safety.
Page 9 - The POSSESSIVES are the same with the personals, and are distinguished by being added to their substantives; as U* JJ dili man, my heart.
Page 26 - It will be noticed that the Ordinals are formed from the Cardinals by the addition of the preposition -me of, -r being introduced before a vowel for the sake of euphony.
Page 27 - Persian verbs are compounded either with nouns and adjectives, or with prepositions and other particles. The verbs chiefly used in the first sort of composition are...
Page 2 - So & ^and (3 , are adopted from the Arabic, and never enter into the composition of any word that is not derived from that language.
Page 4 - The following letters, i3j_.1=.^(ja(_jo^<ij,are adopted from the Arabic, and never enter into the composition of any word that is not derived from that language.
Page 26 - The construction of the Persian tongue is very easy, and may be reduced to a few rules, most of which it has' in common with other languages.