Where the Indus is Young (33 page)
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Authors: Dervla Murphy
ATA
– wheat-flour
BUNGO
– young girl (Balti)
BURKA
– long, all-enveloping gown worn in public by Muslim women
CHAI-KHANA
– tea-house
CHAPATTIS
– thin unleavened bread, cooked without fat
CHARPOY
– wooden frame bed with webbing, or ropes
CHOWKIDAR
– caretaker, or night-watchman
CHOTA
– small
CHU
– water (Balti)
DAHL
– lentils
DAK-BUNGALOW
– government staging house
DECHI
– handleless saucepan
DHOBI
– washerman
DULA
– Ethiopian walking-stick (Amharic)
DZO
– yak–cow hybrid (Tibetan)
FERENGHI
– foreigner
GHEE
– clarified butter
GHORA
– horse
HAKIM
– doctor
HARTAL
– general strike, usually organised from religious or political motives
ID-I-KURBAN
– Muslim festival held on varying dates to commemorate Abraham’s offering of Ishmael
KHANA
– butter food
LATHI
– long, iron-bound bamboo stick used as weapon
NULLAH
– narrow river-bed in the mountains, often dry in winter
PARATAS
– thick fried chapattis
PUNIAL-WATER
– home-made wine of varying potency from the district of Punial
PWD
– Public Works Department
ROTI
– bread cooked in loaves, or in buns
RUPEE
– standard coinage, worth about five pence
SATU
– barley roasted and then ground (Balti)
SEER
– measurement of weight; about one kilo
SHALWAR-KAMEEZ
– loose pantaloons and loose knee-length shirt
TAHSILDAR
– local tax collector
TSAMPA
– dough made of roast ground barley and butter tea (Tibetan)
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