Siyar al-mutaʾakhkhirin 45.1.2

45.1.2

PERSIAN. Chopdar. To-day that word would be sounded Asfadd, or Estade. Berid, Berid-i-namih, the bearer of this letter; and although use has introduced the Arabick word Hammal for Porter, yet Berid is also used. Perid, and also Peri-endeh, contracted into Perendeh. Perid, is Persian for he flew. Nam, name; and also Namidän, to name. Tahmidän, which is hardly used by any but by Grooms and Jockeys, but which, like an infinity of other Persian words, has been preserved in India, betwixt which and Persia we perceive so early as four thousand years ago, a constant intercourse, a constant vassalage on the part of the former, with an amazing similarity in language, religious tenets, and worships. Tahmna in India, signifies to stop, appease, and also to be stopped; and that it is still in use in Persia in the same sense it bore thousands of years ago, may be proved by Nadyr-shah's first title, which was Tahm-asp-Cüli-qhan, Equorum Domitor Cüli-qhan, and also the Lord Soldier to Tahm-asp, and not Tatnas or Tomas-cùli-qhan as is written in so many books; for the epithet of horse breaker, so often given by Homer and Virgil to Diomedes, was also much affected by the Persians, who being horse-men born, were much pleased with those same names, which the Greeks made so much use of, and which referred to some love for horses, or to some talent in horseman-ship, Philo-hippus, alias Philippus, Heges-hippus, Archi-hippus, &c., &c.