Shabanu Vocabulary
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- A camel whose name means "happy heart"
- Xhush Dil
- A flat, round bread made of whole wheat and water and cooked in a flat pan over an open fire
- chapati
- The family's finest camel
- Guluband
- A thorny desert plant that camels like to eat
- pogh
- An islamic festival that ends a period of fasting
- Eid
- A baby camel whose name means "sweet"
- Mithoo
- Muslim fighters engaged in battle with a non-Muslim enemy
- mujahideen
- A monotheistic religion of the mIddle East, Africa, and Asia
- Islam
- A puppy whose name means "lion heart"
- Sher Dil
- The money of India and Pakistan
- Rupee
- A freshwater pond that serves as a water supply for desert nomads
- toba
- The month of daytime fasting in the Islamic religion
- Ramadan
- a greeting
- salaam
- a respectful title
- sahib
- "Giddyap" to a camel
- hunteray
- A shawl made of wool so fine it can pass through a lady's ring
- shatoosh
- A person who follows the religion of Islam
- Muslim
- A pipe
- hookah
- A cloth worn by women as a head cover
- chadr
- The holy book of Islam, written in the Arabic language
- Koran
- A green desert plant with edible sweet red flowers
- kharin (pronounced khuh-reen)
- A tribe of Baluchistan
- Marri
- Asalaam-o-Aleikum
- Traditional Greeting
- Part of the marriage ceremony in which women have their hands and feet painted in intricate designs with henna
- mahendi
- A tribe living in easter Iran, southwestern Pakistand, and southern Afghanistan
- Bugti
- A long piece of cloth usually worn wrapped around the waist
- lungi
- Allah-o-Akbar
- "God is Great!"
- God in Arabic, the language of the Islamic religion
- Allag