/zh/ replacing /dzh/?

A. Maberry maberry at U.WASHINGTON.EDU
Wed Sep 25 18:42:30 UTC 2002


On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, FRITZ JUENGLING wrote:
>
> What is it in Urdu (would that be the language that the guy (people) spoke who named it?). I don't think it would be Hindi.
> fritz
>

Probably Persian taj = "crown", mahal (technically, mahall) "palace".
Actually a mausoleum built by Shahjahan for his favorite wife, Mumtaz.

allen
maberry at u.washington.edu



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