The Institutes of Akbar 217.1

217.1

Magasí (fly-bitten); zirihí (steelblue); amirí (?); zamirí (a colour between zirihí and amirí ; His Majesty invented this name) ; chíní (porcelain blue) ; naftí (grey like naphta) ; shafaqí (violet) ; ’údi (aloewood coloured); surmaí (dark grey, like powder of antimony); Kishmishí (dark brown, like currants) ; halwáí (light-brown like Halwá sweetmeat) ; çandalí (light-brown, like sandelwood); jigarí (brown) ; nabátí (greyish white); dúghí (bluish-white, like sour milk) ; wushkí (of the same colour as the gum called wushk ;) jiláná (chiláná ?) ; kirat (brown, like a new earthen pot? ); nílfarí (bluish-white); azraq (a colour between yellow and brown; His Majesty applies this name in this sense); átashí (black brown) ; shaftálú (peach coloured) ; gulí gaz coloured (?); yellow ; kághazí (yellowish, like native paper); zágh (grey like a crow) ; aqrá (a colour between white and brown); muharraqí (a dirty black) ; khizrí (a colour between greenish and ’údí); ábí (water coloured) ; surmag (a name invented by His Majesty to express a colour between surmaí and magasí).