Hákim = a ruler, an executive officer.
Hakím = a native doctor, who practises on Western or Hippocratic lines.
Halwa = a kind of sweet pudding, very popular with the Afgháns.
Hazrat ’Esa = the Muhammadan appellation for our Lord Jesus Christ.
Hujra = a guest-house, where travellers are accommodated in Afghán villages. It differs from chauk in that it is more specialized for the use of travellers, while the latter is more for the use of the village folk.
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’Íd = a Muhammadan feast-day. There are two chief feasts—the “’Id-el-fitr,” or day following the fast-month of Ramazán, and the “’Id-el-zoha” or “’Id-el-bakr,” which is the Feast of Sacrifice, in memory of Abraham’s would-be sacrifice of his son.
Izzat = honour: a word constantly in an Afghán’s thoughts and conversation, but which even he is not always able to define.