Budha in Hindustani really signifies an old man.
The same Gipsy, observing on the chimney-piece a quaint image of a Chinese griffin--a hideous little goblin with wings--informed me that the Gipsy name for it was a Seemor or Seemorus, and further declared that the same word meant a dolphin.

"But a dolphin has no wings," I remarked.
"Oh, hasn't it ?" rejoined the Gipsy; "its _fins_ are its wings, if it hadn't wings it could not be a Seemor." I think I recognise in this Seemor, the Simurgh or Griffin of Persian fable.

{112} I could learn nothing more than this, that the Gipsy had always regarded a dolphin as resembling a large-headed winged monster, which he called a Seemor.
NAG is a snake in Hindustani.

The English Gipsies still retain this primaeval word, but apply it only to the blind-worm.

It is, however, remarkable that the Nag, or blind-worm, is, in the opinion of the Rommany, the most mysterious of creatures.