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• GALBANUM

  Hushang Aʿlam

  (Pers. bārīja, bārzad), a slightly bitter odorous gum resin obtained from several Asian umbelliferous plants, for which numerous medicinal uses have been recorded.

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• ḠĀLEB DADA, MOḤAMMAD ASʿAD

  Tahsın Yazici

  also known as Mehmed Esad Galib Dede, Shaikh Ḡāleb, or Şeyh Galib (b. Istanbul, 1757; d. Galata, 1799) poet in Turkish and Persian.

• ḠĀLEB, Mīrzā ASAD-ALLĀH Khan

  Munibur Rahman

  (b. Agra, 1797; d. Delhi, 1869), one of the greatest poets of Muslim India who wrote poems in both Persian and Urdu.

• GALEN

  Cross-Reference

   See JĀLINUS.

• GALERIUS

  Cross-Reference

  See NARSEH.

• GĀLEŠĪ

  Cross-Reference

  See GĪLĀN x. LANGUAGES

• GALĪN QAYA

  Cross-Reference

  dialect. See HARZANDĪ.

• GALLIMARD PRESS

  Cross-Reference

  See PUBLISHING HOUSES.

• ḠALYĀN

  Shahnaz Razpush and EIr

  or QALYĀN (nargileh); a water pipe chiefly used in the Middle East and Central Asia for smoking tobacco. It is composed of several parts: the bādgīr (chimney); sar-e ḡālyān or sarpūš (the top bowl; sar-ḵāna in Afghanistan); tana (the body); mīlāb (the immersion pipe); ney-e pīč (hose); and kūza (the reservoir of water).

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• ḠALZĪ

  Cross-Reference

  See ḠILZĪ.