Higher Persian Grammar for the Use of the Calcutta University, Showing Differences between Afghan and Modern Persian

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by  Phillott D.C.

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HIGHER PERSIAN GRAMMAR
FOR THE USE OF THE
CALCUTTA UNIVERSITY
SHOWING
DIFFERENCES BETWEEN AFGHAN AND MODERN PERSIAN
WITH
NOTES ON RHETORIC
BY
LIEUT.-COLONEL D. C. PHTTJ^TOL^-M.A PH.D., F.A.S.B.,
Late Secretary, BoardofExaminers, Calcutta,
Translatorofthe, * Baz-Nama-yiNasiri,* etc.,
and
Editorof the Persian Translationof l HajlBabaofIsfahan*
andofthe
CALCUTTA
:
FEINTED AT THE BAPTIST MISSION PRESS, CALCUTTA, AND PUBLISHED
BY THE UNIVERSITY.
1919.

PREFACE.
THIS work is intended mainly asa book of reference, and for this purpose
is printed with a copious index, It has been written chiefly for those
students who have learnt, or are now studying, Persian in India. It
should be borne in mind ^hat considerable differences exist between the
Persian of Afghanistan and of Persia, not only in pronunciation and
diction J but also in construction. Many of these differences are illus-
trated in this work. It is hoped that the notes on composition and
rhetoric will prove especially interesting to Indian students, many of
whom have to study Persian through the medium of English, and it is
for their benefit that these subjects have been treated from an English
point of view. These notes, however, are not intended to supplant
the study of Arabic or Persian rhetoric, but merely to supplement it.
The author, not being a poet, has made no a/t^npt to deal with
Prosody. >*.
In writing this grammar, the works of Plaits4,* Ranking, Rosen,
Chodzko, Haggard and Le Strange, Tisdale, Socin, Thacher, Wright,
and others, including several works in Urdu and Persian, have been
freely made use of. My acknowledgments are specially due to Agha
Muhammad Kazim Persian Instructor to the Board of Examin-
Shirazi,
ers, who has assisted throughout in seeing the work through the Press,
and also to his brother-in-law, the late 8hatns"'l-'Ulama* Shaykh
Mahmud Jilan!, and other Persian friends, for constant advice.
The addition of a large amount of Arabic (viz. portions of the
Qur*an, the Alif Laylali and other Arabic works) to the Persian Course
has necessitated a far larger amount of Arabic grammar than was
anticipated, a task for which I felt myself by no means competent.
This portion of the work has grown much beyond the limits originally
set for it. In compiling it, my thanks are chiefly due to Shams"7-
'Ulama* Muhammad Yusuf Ja'farl, Khan Bahadur, Head Maulavi of
the Board of Examiners, to Shams'17-'Ulwn&* Shaykh Mahmud JilanI,
and to Maulavi Hidayat Husayn of Presidency College, and others, who
1 in modernPersian, for instance, tamlz^\ means clean,"dimagh U> "nose,"
)& "stomach," imtiyaz ^ULcf "order,medal,"
IV PREFACE.
helped me throughout its compilation and also to Professor L. White-
;
King, C.S.I., of Dublin,who assisted in revising the proofs and at whose
suggestion numerous additions were made.
Owing to the War and the consequent loss of manuscript} and
proofs at sea and to other unfortunate causes, this work has been un-
duly long in issuing from the Press.
D. C. PHILLOTT, Lieut.-Colonel
CAIRO
:
March 1918.