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1. buzkashi, n. View full entry 1956
...An Afghan sport played by teams on horseback competing for the carcass of a goat (see quots.)....
2. jerid | jereed, n. View full entry 1662
...A wooden javelin, about five feet long, used in games by Persian, Turkish, and Arabian horsemen. Also, A game in which this is used....
3. kadish, n. View full entry a1817
...An Arabian horse that is not a thoroughbred; a cross-bred horse, a nag; a gelding....
4. Mameluke, n. View full entry 1511
...A member of the regime established and maintained by emancipated white military slaves (originally Kipchaks, later Circassians) which ruled Egypt as a sultanate from 1250 until 1517, continuing...
5. mancala, n. View full entry 1687
...A board game, originally Arabic but now common throughout Africa and Asia, played by two players on a board with rows of holes or hollows, having as its object the capture, or...
6. syce | sais, n. View full entry 1650
...In parts of Africa and Asia, and esp. in India, a servant who attends to horses, a groom; also, an attendant who follows on foot a mounted horseman or a carriage....
7. Turcoman, n. View full entry 1600
...A member of a branch of the Turkish people, consisting of a number of mainly nomadic and pastoral tribes inhabiting the region lying east of the Caspian Sea and about the Sea...
8. Turki, adj. (and n.) View full entry 1782
...Turkish; belonging to the typical Turkic languages, East and West Turki, and to the peoples speaking them....
9. yarak, n. View full entry 1855
...in yarak: (of a hawk) in proper condition for hunting....
