Koh e Haj e Kushtah

Koh-e Haji Kushtah
(Persian: کوه حاجی کشته )
Koh-e Haji Kushtah

Location in the Hindu Kush

Elevation 2,158 m (7,080 ft)
Parent peak Hindu Kush
Location
Location Samangan province, Afghanistan
Range Hindu Kush
Coordinates 35°41′41.6″N 67°49′51.1″E / 35.694889°N 67.830861°ECoordinates: 35°41′41.6″N 67°49′51.1″E / 35.694889°N 67.830861°E

Koh-e Haji Kushtah (Persian: کوه حاجی کشته ; mountain with aromatic pines) is a mountain of the Hindu Kush Range in Afghanistan. It is in Samangan province.

Etymology of the terms Hajji or Haj, Hag as Haj and their homophonies

The new Persian is written since the Middle Ages in the Arabic alphabet. [G] (Persian: گ has been changed by letter [J] (Persian: ج) or [Gh] (Persian: غ)and [P]((Persian: پ) by [F] (Persian: ف) or [B] (Persian: ب). [Papa](Persian: پاپا) to [Baba] (Persian: بابا) and [Parsi](Persian: پارسى) to [Farsi] (Persian: فارسى)and Apagan(Persian: اپگان) to Afghan (Persian: افغان).

Haj (Persian: حاج) is a Persian word Homophone, although it was Arabized and comes from the middle Persian word Hag (Persian: هاگ), but Hajj a Semitic word which also comes in Hebrew and mean Intention or attempt a journey for example to a pilgrimage. Hag or Haj has different meanings in Persian even contradictory Hajji (pilgrim) and a Haji like Hajji Firuz a Satitiker or a Comedian. There are typically two basic notation or word basic form, which has been mixed in time. Haj as word basic form (non-human) and Haji (human, pilgrims) from Hajj or Hagg.

Haj mean also the name of a thorny plant.[1][2] This is nothing other than Alhagi.[3][4][5][6][7] Haji Koshtah (Haj i kushtah) (now as Ahag i Shugofteh or Ahak i Shugofteh) or same words Haj and not Haji (Name of a thorny plant) Haji Tarkhan (Astrakhan, Haji lak Lak ( Haj i lak lak a stork), or Haj i Badam (bitter almond) (Kurdish:Hacıbadem), (Turkish: acibadem) or Hajj[8] (traditionally called slaked lime) means Calcium hydroxide or Iron or gold ore. Kushtah or Koshteh means not only killed. Its mean also dehydrated, dried, and dried fruit.[9]

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References

  1. Francis Joseph Steingass: London, 1892, p. 407
  2. Word number (716) and (732)
  3. Alhagi
  4. Oscar Nelson Allen:The Leguminosae, a Source Book of Characteristics, Uses, and Nodulation Univ of Wisconsin Press, 1981 p.34
  5. camel thorn adans alhagi
  6. see also Fehrest e Makhzan al Advieh (Persian: فهرست مخزن الادویة, Index magazine for the drugs, based on list of medicinal herbs and Their uses of the two universal genius Al Biruni and Avicenna.)traditional medicine Makhzan al Advieh
  7. Assal e Alhaj (Persian: عسل الحاج) (Honey Alhaj) is juice of Alhagi:عسل الحاج
  8. Francis Joseph Steingass:A Comprehensive Persian English Dictionary, Published by Gautam Jetley, 3st ed. New Delhi, 2005 p. 124, P. 407, P. 1490
  9. John Richardson,Charles Wilkins:p.766

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