آب حیواني āb-i-ḥaiwān-ī P s. Water of life; name of the fabulous fountain of immortality.

آب خانه āb-ḵẖāna P s. A repository of water.

آب دانه āb-dāna P s. m. Drink and food.

آب نقره āb-i-nuḳra P Quicksilver, silver reduced by any menstruum to a liquid state.

آب ني āb-nai P s. The perpendicular tube of a ḥuḳḳa on which the chilam is fixed.

آب یخني āb-i-yaḵẖnī P Water in which meat has been boiled down, gravy.

آباداني ābādān-i P s. f. A habitation, a cultivated, inhabited, populous, or pleasant place; population, cultivation, prosperity, abundance.

آبستني ābistan-i P s. f. Pregnancy.

آبنوس ābnūs P s. m. Ebony.

آبنوسي ābnūs-ī P adj. Made of ebony.

آبگینه ābgīna P s. m. Glass, a mirror, a looking- glass, a drinking glass; wine; a diamond.

آتش زني ātash-zan-ī P s. f. Striking fire.

آساني āsān-ī P s. f. Facility, easiness, ease.

آستانه āstāna P s. m. Same as آستان q. v. آستانه بوسي āstāna-bos-ī, s. f. Kissing the threshold; paying respects.

آسماني āsmān-ī P adj. Heavenly, celestial, from heaven, sky-coloured, cerulean, azure. آسماني تیروغیره āsmānī tīr wa g̠ẖairah, An arrow, &c. shot in the air. S. اسمرت स्मृति (r. समृ Remember) ismirti or smr̤iti, s. f. The Hindū law.