حنجره ḥanjara A vulg. ḥinjara, s. m. The throat.

حر ḥurr A (Heb. and Chald. ) adj. Free, well born, genteelly born. ¶ ḥarr, s. Heat, ardour.

حکومت ḥukūmat A (from حکم) s. f. Dominion, sovereignty, government, jurisdiction, sway, au- thority. حکومت کرنا ḥukūmat karnā, To govern, to rule.

حلق ḥalḳ A s. m. The windpipe, the throat. حلق پر چهري اچهنا ḥalḳ par chhurī achhnā (dakh. i. q. کاوش هونا) Investigation to be (?).

حقارت ḥiḳārat A (properly ḥaḳārat, from حقر) s. f. Contempt, scorn, disdain, affront, disgrace, vileness, baseness, despicableness.

حاضر ḥāẓir A (part. act. of حضور) adj. Present, ready, at hand, willing, content; the second person (in grammar). Plur. Arab. حاضرين ḥāẓirīn, Pers. حاضران ḥāẓirān, The people pre- sent. حاضر باش ḥāẓir-bāsh (be ready) adj. Content, attendant. حاضر باشي ḥāẓir-bāsh-ī, s. f. Constant attendance. حاضر جواب ḥāẓir- jawāb, adj. Pert, answering wittily, smart. حاضر جوابي ḥāẓir-jawāb-ī, s. f. Repartee. حاضر رهنا ḥāẓir rahnā, To attend, to wait on. حاضر ضامن ḥāẓir-ẓāmin, s. m. Bail security for the appearance of another, a bondsman. حاضر ضامني ḥāẓir-ẓāmin-ī, s. f. 1. The act of giving bail for another. 2. A bail-bond. حاضر و ناظر ḥāẓir-o-nāz̤ir, adj. Present and seeing. حاضر هونا ḥāẓir honā, To be at hand, to be ready, to consent.

حبس ḥabs A (Heb. ) s. m. 1. Retention, imprisonment. 2. Prison. 3. A prisoner. 4. A bank, mound, dam. 5. A tank, pond, re- servoir. حبس البول ḥabsu-l-baul, s. m. A re- tention of urine, a strangury. حبس النفس ḥabsu-n-nafas, Suffocation. حبس دم ḥabs-i-dam, s. m. 1. Retaining the breath (which some fa- ḳirs do as a religious act for a very long time. This is esteemed a means of prolonging life, on the principle, that every man has a predestined number of inspirations to make, and the more slowly these are performed, the longer will be the period of his existence). 2. An asthma. A. H. حبشني ḥabshanī, s. f. A female Abyssinian.

حرامي ḥarām-ī A s. m. A robber, assassin, doer of what is forbidden or unlawful, rascal, cheat. حرامي پلا ḥarām-ī pillā, Bastard.

حقنه ḥuḳna A (from حقن) s. m. A syringe, a squirt, a clyster-pipe, a clyster.

حور ḥūr A (from حار Heb. and Ch. To be white, to see, to have in-