Note 435 — KING SHAH BAKHT AND HIS WAZIR AL-RAHWAN.[295] (continued 2)

Arab. “Al-Házúr” from Hazr = loquacity, frivolous garrulity. Every craft in the East has a jargon of its own and the goldsmith (Zargar) is famed for speaking a language made unintelligible by the constant insertion of a letter or letters not belonging to the word. It is as if we rapidly pronounced How d’ye do = Howth doth yeth doth?