Note 329 — MASRUR AND ZAYN AL-MAWASIF.[307]

Arab. “Tás,” from Pers. Tásah. M. Charbonneau, a Professor of Arabic at Constantine and Member of the Asiatic Soc. Paris, who published the Histoire de Chams-Eddine et Nour-Eddine with Maghrabi punctuation (Paris, Hachette, 1852) remarks the similarity of this word to Tazza and a number of other whimsical coincidences as Zauj, ζυγός, jugum; Inkár, negare; matrah, matelas; Ishtirá, acheter etc. To which I may add wasat, waist; zabad, civet; Bás, buss (kiss); uzrub (pron. Zrub), drub; Kat’, cut; Tarík, track; etc., etc.