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Ramazan: The Muslim month of fasting
Roti: Bread made from wheat-flour, traditionally accompanying meals
Sang chatti: Sindhi term – Same as swara
Swara: Gift of a girl in marriage in settlement of a tribal dispute
Shalwar: Loose pants tied at the waist with a cord. Shalwar kameez, a
loose trouser worn with a long shirt, or kameez, is a common form of dress for
both men and women
Tandoor: Open oven used to bake bread
Tazia: Replica of Imam Hussain mausoleum in Moharram procession
Tonga: Horse drawn carriage used as transport
Ulema: Persons learned in Islam and Islamic practice
Ushr:Islamic land tax
Vani: Tradition according to which women are surrendered for
compounding a murder case. The same tradition is known as ‘swara’ in the
NWFP
Wadera: Feudal lord, with all the connotations of (a) his repressive character
in relation to the body of peasantry and community who live on and off the
lands he owns, and (b) his influence with the local official functionaries and
their superiors. Allied and more neutral terms are zamindar, the man who owns
large tracts of agricultural land, and jagirdar, the person who has inherited
extensive lands.
Watta Satta: The kind of parentally arranged marriage in which a brother
and sister of one family are married to the siblings of another.
Zakat: A tithe Islam imposes on every Muslim as a fixed proportion of
his/her income and wealth and meant as a contribution to help the poor and the
needy
Zakir: Religious preacher who mostly recounts events of the Islamic past,
usually now in Moharram at the annual commemoration of Imam Husain’s
sacrifice at Karbala
Ziarat: Devout travel to and from prayers at the holiest shrines. A special
Shia observance
Zina: Adultery. Rape is zina-bil-jabr
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State of Human Rights in 2012