.fiah cheshm black-eyed سیاه چشم The compounds of this form are very numerous, and may be invented at pleasure. JS peri rukhsâr with the cheeks of an angel. Gemshid kulâh with the diadem of Gemfhia. .Dara hifhmet with the troops of Darius دارا حشمت سیمین ساق fimeen sâk with legs like filver. .heker leb with lips of Sugar شکر لب .tuti guftar talking like a parrot طوطي كفتار guncheh leb with lips like rofe-buds. S femen bûyi with the fcent of jeffamine. gulrokh with cheeks like roses. .muhk buyi with the Scent of mufk مشکبوي .yakat leb with lips like rubies ياقوت لب Jofheer dil with the heart of a lion. When When we confider the vast number of epithets that may be compounded after these three forms, and that those epithets are often used for fubftantives without a noun being expreffed, we must allow that the Perfian language is the richest in the world. These compounds are thought so beautiful by the Perfian poets, that they fometimes fill a diftich with them, as ماه روي مشکبوي دلکشی جان نزاي دلغريبي مهوشي A damfel with a face like the moon, fcented like musk, a ravisher of hearts, delighting the foul, feducing the fenfes, beautiful as the full moon. The particle hem together, prefixed to nouns, forms another elegant clafs of compounds implying fociety and intimacy, as nouns to denote privation, as ↳ ná umeéd hopeless, Juliŵ li ná shinâs ignorant, xïïŵ ↳ ná shukûfteh a rofe not yet blown; d VOL. II. D.D kembeha kembcha of little value, të kem akil with little sense; JŲ امان بي بي bee támmul inconfiderate, bee bâk fearless, hobee amân mercilefs: this particle is often joined to Arabick verbals, as bee terteeb irregular. بي ترتيب بي تامل Example. بعد ازین نام ترا در هرکجا خواهم نوشت بي حقيقت بي مروت بي وفا خواهم نوشت Henceforth, wherever I write thy name, I will write falfe, unkind, and faithless. Names of agents are generally participles active in odi, as odijlw fazéndeh a composer; or they are formed by addingŸger, gár, or ☺Ų bân, to a substantive, as a goldsmith, a writer, ☺ušų a gardener. Nouns of action are often the fame with the third person preterite of a verb, as going. شد,buying and Jelling خرید و فروخت coming and آمد Adjectives implying poffeffion or plenty are formed by adding to nouns the terminations_l fár, keen, i。 mend, Mi nák, g ,learned دانشمند,Jorrorful غمكين ,bahaful شرمسار ver, as و var or .having life جانور ,hopeful امیدوار,venomous زهرناک The Arabick words zu, lo fahyb, and nouns form likewise adjectives of poffeffion, as J nitate præditus, Jo beautiful, venustate præditus, ehl prefixed to majestick, digto day wife, fapientiâ præditus. We may here obferve, that the Indians use a great variety of phrases purely Arabick, fome as proper names and titles of chiefs and princes, and others as epithets or conftant adjuncts to substantives; fuch are the names ,Shujaheddoula شجع الدولة سراج الدول,She feddoula شمس الدول,Nejmeddoula نجم الدوله Serájeddoula, which fignify in Arabick the force, the ftar, the fun, and the lamp of the state; such also is the title which they gave Lord Clive, M| ïaj Zubdatulmulk the flower of the kingdom; in the same manner they seldom mention the province of Bengála without adding, by way of epithet, jennetulbelâd the paradife of regions, an Arabick title given to that province by Aurengzeeb. w آورنگ زیب آتشین Some adjectives are formed from nouns by adding as fiery, Hj golden, ... made of emeralds. The termination &l added to substantives forms adverbs that imply a مردانه,prudently, like a prudent man دانایان kind of fimilitude, as cou rageously, like a man of courage. Adjectives of fimilitude are formed by adding Tafa, Lw fa, org vesh, to substantives, as LT مشک آسا ,amber afa like ambergris عنبر غنچه وش like musk, wł☺ like paradife; ↳ like magick; jŵg azis like a rose-bud, gorges like the moon. قمر Some adjectives and adverbs are formed by nouns doubled with the letter | elif between them, as up to the brim, ginning to the end, or many-coloured. Â گوناگون from the be Example. Example. روضة ماء نهرها سلسال دوحة سجع طيرها موزون آن پر از لالهاي رنگارنگ واین پر از ميوهاي گوناگون A garden, in which were the clearest rivulets, an orchard in which the notes of the birds were melodious; the one was full of many-coloured tulips, the other full of fruits with various hues. The two first lines of this tetrastich are in pure The termination fám, as well as Arabick. goon, denotes colour, as فام .emerald-coloured زمرد نام roje-coloured گلگون or گلفام From the compounds above mentioned, or any other adjectives, compounded or fimple, may be formed abstract substantives by adding , as .ballsfulnes شرمساري . .learning دانشمندي .blacknes سياهي ,babful شرمسار ,learned دانشمند ,black سیاه If the adjective end in the abstract is made by changing into new, ୪ novelty . بيكانكي net بيكانه asكي ୪ Other abstracts are made either by adding to the third person of motion ; or by adding, رفتار,Jpeech گفتار,fight دیدار the part tenfe, as ش |