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Kuh e Hajji Koshteh

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Elevation
  
1,395 m

Parent peak
  
Alborz

Mountain range
  
Alborz

Parent range
  
Alborz

Kuh-e Hajji Koshteh

Location
  
North Khorasan Province, Iran

Kuh-e Hajji Koshteh (Persian: کوه حاجی کشته ‎‎; mountain with aromatic pines or Alhagi-mountain Asparagus Mountain) is a mountain of the Alburz in Iran. It is situated near Nishapur in the North Khorasan Province.

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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. This is nothing other than Alhagi. 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 (traditionally called slaked lime) means Calcium hydroxide or Iron or gold ore.

Books

  • John Richardson: Steingass, Francis Joseph, ed. (1892).A Comprehensive Persian-English Dictionary: Including the Arabic Words and Phrases to be Met with in Persian Literature, being Johnson and Richardson's Persian, Arabic, and English Dictionary Revised, Enlarged. London: Crosby Lockwood & Son (Low). [OCLC: 43797675]
  • Noureddeen Mohammed Abdullah al-Shirazi (1st ed. 1793):Ulfáz Udwiyeh or the Materia Medica In the Arabic, Persian, and Hindevy Languages, Cambridge University Press, 2013 ISBN 978-1-108-05609-0
  • William Kirkpatrick:[3] A vocabulary Persian Arabic and English, containing such words [...], London, 1785 p .191
  • Francis Joseph Steingass: (first ed. London 1884), A Comprehensive Persian English Dictionary, Published by Gautam Jetley, 3rd ed. New Delhi, 2005, ISBN 81-206-0670-1
  • John Richardsohn:Wilkens, Charles, ed. (1810) [4], London: F. & C. Rivingson, p. 626 and p. 628

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