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• BANDARI

  Mikhail Pelevin

  the dialect spoken by the native population of Bandar ʿAbbās, administrative center of the Hormozgān province, and of its environs. Bandari belongs to the southwestern group of the Iranian languages. It is tightly encircled by a number of other, less known dialects located between Lārestān and Bašākerd.

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• BANG

  G. Gnoli, ʿA.-A. Saʿīdī Sīrjānī

  a kind of narcotic plant. In older Arabic and Persian sources banj is applied to three different plants: hemp (Cannabis sativa or indica), henbane (Hyoseyamus niger, etc.), and jimsonweed (Datura stramonium). i. In ancient Iran.  ii. In modern Iran.

• BANG KAUP, JOHANN WILHELM MAX JULIUS

  P. Zieme

  (known as Willy), German orientalist (1869-1934). From 1893 onward Bang Kaup also devoted time to research in the promising area of the Old Turkish stone inscriptions.

• BANGĀLA

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  See BENGAL.

• BANGAṦ

  D. Balland

  one of the least-known Pashtun tribes in the Solaymān range, Pakistan, and one of the few that are not named after eponymous ancestors.  

• BANĪ ARDALĀN

  P. Oberling

  a Kurdish tribe of northwestern Iran, now dispersed in Sanandaj (Senna) and surrounding villages.

• BANĪ ḤARDĀN

  J. Perry

  a Shiʿite Arab tribe of Howayza (Ḥawīza) district in Ḵūzestān.

• BANĪ LĀM

  J. Perry

  a numerous and historically important Shiʿite Arab tribe of northwestern Ḵūzestān, southern Lorestān, and adjacent parts of Iraq.

• BANĪ SĀLA

  J. Perry

  a Shiʿite Arab tribe of Howayza (Ḥawīza) district in Ḵūzestān.

• BANĪ TAMĪM

  J. Perry

  an Arab tribe of western Ḵūzestān, both settled and nomadic, raising sheep and camels. Their range lies between Howayza and Ahvāz.