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Hassan Bar Bahlul: Lehksiqon (Syriac Lexicon)

(10th) (Christian bishop)

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Taken from: Orientalia Romana, Volume 8 Istituto italiano per il Medio ed Estremo Oriente

 

ustar-gaw-palang (1) (=giraffe) literally the Camel- cow-leopard; the word is taken from Persian.

(1) repeated among many others: Ibn al-Fakih al Hamadhani (903); Musa Ud-Damiri (d1405); Zad Sparam (9th); Ibn Bakhtishu (1295); Al-Raghib al-Isfahani (1109); Hassan Bar Bahlul (10th); Mohammad ebn Mahmud ebn Ahmad Tusi (1160); Jahiz's Kitab al-Hayawan (869); Tha'alibi (d1038); Ibn Manzur (1290);