CLOTHING xxv. Clothing of the Baḵtīārīs and other Lori speaking tribes Members of the Lori-speaking ethnic groups, including the Lors…

FELT (Mid. and New. Pers., namad), material produced by process of felting, the entanglement of animal fiber in all directions,…

DOMESTIC ANIMALS (Pers. ḥaywān-e ahlī; cf. ahlīkardan/šodan “to domesticate, be domesticated”), a group of animals raised or maintained in captivity…

Bibliography: J.-P. Digard, Techniques des nomades Baxtyâri, Cambridge and Paris, 1981. L. Dupree, Afghanistan, Princeton, N.J., 1978; repr. Princeton, N.J., 1980. i….

DĀM-DĀRĪ (animal husbandry). The first known domestication of certain animals took place in various parts of Persia: Kurdistan, where sheep…

ČŪPĀN (or čōbān “shepherd”; Mid. Pers. and NPers. šobān; Orm. ṧwan, čupān, špōn; Yid. čupān, xəš(u)wān; Shugh., ṧibōne, čupān; Par….

CATTLE. The word “cattle” has no precise equivalent in Iranian languages, in which bovines are commonly designated by the words…

TENTS in Iran i. General Survey Čādor “tent,” is a portable dwelling characteristic of certain nomad groups. It consists of…

BOZ, the domestic goat. The earliest evidence for the domestication of the goat has been found in Iran (ca. 10,000…

GYPSY. Gypsies are generally referred to by the term kowli in Persian, seemingly a distortion of kāboli, i.e., coming from…

GYPSY i. GYPSIES OF PERSIA Gypsies are generally referred to by the term kowli in Persian, seemingly a distortion of…

GUSFAND (Mid. Pers. gōspand, sheep, ovine). In Persian a clear distinction is made between ewe (miš), ram (quč), and lamb…

GABBA (gava in Kurdish and Lori, Īzadpanāh, s.v.; ḵersak in Baḵtīārī, Digard, pp. 128-31), a hand-woven pile rug of coarse…

CAT ii. PERSIAN CAT In western Europe and in North America, what are called “Persian cats” are a breed of…