The Nāṣirī Generations 247.4

247.4

After punishing them he gave them the nick-name of Karlugh, which word, in Turkish, according to my authorities, signifies “the father of snow,” i. e. “pertaining to snow,” but here, “detained by the snow,” which name their descendants, who formed focus of the people of Islam, and orbit of the possessors of religion; and, as from the extremity of the territories of but, as they were not Tajziks [Can the term Sarik — or Sarigh — applied to the Tajziks by the Turks, signifying poor-spirited and the like, be the derivation of Sart? The Uzbaks call traders, and citizens, and people of the towns generally, Sarts, while others style them Bukhars], those people styled them Turk-manind, and Turk-man, the both terminations, manind and man, signifying, like, similar, &c. In this tradition, Khwarazm or the northern tracts between the Sihun and the Jihun, and not Khurasan, must be meant, because most authors agree that it was many centuries after the time assigned to Aghuz Khan before any Turk-mans made their appearance west of the Jihun or Oxus, which, by two channels, then fell into the Caspian. See note page 374. Some traditions assert that the Turk-mans have neither connexion nor affinity with the Turks, and that they are altogether of a different race, which is tolerably correct, since they are not descended from Turk, but his brother.