Note 162 — TEKRÚR.

For Mósí, the translator of Bello’s History has written Moosher (Denham’s Discoveries, &c. 8vo. II. p. 455), just as he has written Bowsher for Baúshí (p. 450). The Arabic letter ghain, here represented by gh, easily becomes nasal; and on the east coast of Africa, where the nasal sound occurs frequently in the native names, as in Songa, Tongata, Mongallo, it is always expressed by ghain alone. Hence Zághah in the mouth of a Mandingo, becomes Zanghah and Ṣanghah.