Definition of the word 'Babar' part deux

[Guest Jigsaw_Puzzled_Singh]

With reference to a couple of 'discussions' presently taking place on the main page of this forum. I have previously on this forum given explanations (or pointless 'lectures', whatever you wish to call it) about both those topics. If you don't want to read what I write that's fine but I do find it odd that a few weeks or months later some numptey always seems to decide to start a brand new thread about things I've already covered. Alas...never mind...anyways, the first one is the thread about the word for tiger, i.e. Babbar:

In one of my linguistics threads here in the past I explained how the Punjabi word for tiger comes from the Persian word 'Babbar' and indeed the English word for tiger, i.e.....err….Tiger....also comes from Persian in that it comes from the Persian / Punjabi word for arrow, i.e Teer. An arrow, as you know, travels very fast and the Greeks took the Persian word and used it for Tigris and western European languages,i.e English took the word from the greek. Also fairly interesting is the fact that our Punjabi /Persian word for tiger: Babbar does have a roundabout connection to the English word 'Barber' as the English word is taken from the olde French word 'barb' which means the sharp end of a Teer (arrow)

 

And the other thread on the main page was, for some very very strange reason, started by someone just a few very short weeks after I started and finished a thread here about 'Sikhs in Shanghai' in which I not only told him that although at one point the Sikh community in Shanghai was the largest of all diaspora Sikh communities it is now all but gone, I also posted a photograph of the building that used to be the Gurdwara and told him where it was. I'm really not sure why I bothered starting a thread called 'The Sikhs of Shanghai' in which I state there are no Sikhs there now and state where the old defunct Gurdwara is only for some numptey to come along exactly 2 weeks later start a thread called 'The Sikhs of Shanghai' in which he asks if there any Gurdware / Sikhs there. But, that pretty much sums up this forum in a nutshell. Links to the new current thread and original thread below: