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Baluch, Baluchi, n. and a.|bəˈluːtʃ, bəˈluːtʃɪ| Also 7 Bolloch, Balloch, Buluch, Boloch, 8 Ballowch, 9 Belooch(e, -ee, Bloach, Bilochee, Baloochi, etc. [Pers. Balūchī.] A. n. 1. An inhabitant or native of Baluchistan, a region lying between the lower Indus and south-east Persia. 2. The Iranian language of Baluchistan. B. adj. Of or pertaining to this people or their language.
1616T. Roe Let. 27 Nov. (1899) II. 353 Subiect to the robberyes of the Balooches. 1617Purchas Pilgrimage (ed. 3) 550 The Persian Gulfe hath beene awed, and the Arabike or Red Sea tamed, in requitall of the Turkes and Buluches Trecheries. 1619in W. Foster Eng. Factories India (1906) 84 [They blame the] ‘Bolloches’ [for the disaster]. 1727A. Hamilton New Acc. E. Indies I. 107 They were lodged in a Caravanseray, where the Ballowches came with about 300 to attack them. 1816H. Pottinger Trav. Beloochistan 53 The Belooches, who form..the whole of the population throughout Beloochistan, are a people whose origin is so obscure [etc.]. 1848L. R. Stacy Narr. Beloochistan & Affghanistan 72 The Brahooe and Belooche tribes. 1875R. Caldwell Languages of India 4 The languages spoken on the further side of the Indian frontier, such as Belûchi, on the north-west. 1875Encycl. Brit. III. 300/1 (Baluchistan) The country derives its name from the Baluches, but the Brahoes are considered the dominant race. 1882Floyer Unexpl. Baluchistan 158 One tribe of Balūchis will ‘chapao’, or plunder, another tribe directly they get a chance. 1885Encycl. Brit. XVIII. 655/2 Baluch, the language of Baluchistan..very closely akin to New Persian. 1886Ibid. XX. 109/2 Baluchi is spoken on the same frontier, farther south, adjacent to Baluchistan. 1920Blackw. Mag. Aug. 185/2 He spoke only Baluchi and indifferent Persian. 1925Ibid. Apr. 490/2 He knew exactly the line of conduct which would most effectively appeal to the Baluch nature. |