The word, as is well known, has the same import in the Hindoovee" ("Asiatic Researches," vol.i.p.

293, and vol.ii.p.

200).
This was a noble word to give a name to a body of followers supposed to be devoted to knowledge and truth.
The English Gipsy calls a mermaid a _pintni_; in Hindu it is _bint ool buhr_, a maid of the sea.

Bero in Gipsy is the sea or a ship, but the Rommany had reduced the term to the original _bint_, by which a girl is known all over the East.
"Ya bint' Eeskendereyeh." _Stan_ is a word confounded by Gipsies with both _stand_, a place at the races or a fair, and _tan_, a stopping-place, from which it was probably derived.

But it agrees in sound and meaning with the Eastern _stan_, "a place, station," and by application "country," so familiar to the reader in Hindustan, Iranistan, Beloochistan, and many other names.