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Sino-Iranica - The Search For Mecca

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Oak-Galls 369<br />

Zah-baluf ("the edible chestnut," Castanea vulgaris), which appears in<br />

the Bundahisn (above, p. 193), as correctly identified by Hirth; but<br />

fH M. p'u-lu and pa-lii of the Yu yan tsa tsu (see above) would indicate<br />

that the Chinese heard bulu and balu without a final *, and such forms<br />

may have existed in Middle-Persian dialects. In fact, we have this<br />

type in the dialect of the Kurd in the form berru, and in certain Kurd<br />

dialects baril and barru. 1<br />

1 Cf. J. de Morgan, Mission scientifique en Perse, Vol. V, p. 133. <strong>The</strong> Iranian<br />

term means literally "acorn of the Shah, royal acorn," somehow a certain analogy<br />

to Greek Aiis /SdXawrc ("acorn of Zeus"). <strong>The</strong> origin of Greek Kaar&vaiov or<br />

K&

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