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Sino-Iranica - The Search For Mecca

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<strong>Sino</strong>-<strong>Iranica</strong><br />

22. Mongol Hkar, Hkir, sugar. From Persian Zakar.<br />

23. Mongol Utara, Kalmuk $atar, chess. From Persian latranj.<br />

E. Blochet's derivation of Mongol bogda from Persian bokhta is a<br />

pseudo-Iranicum. <strong>The</strong> Mongol term is not a loan-word, but indigenous. 1<br />

Boehtlingk, in his Yakut Dictionary, has justly compared it with<br />

Yakut bogdo.<br />

1 Cf. T'oung Pao, 1916, p. 495.

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