JABADOR. Apparently a Hispanized form of the African Arabic _jabdali_ = a gold-embroidered waistcoat. JACA, or HACA. _Span._ A pony, or small riding horse. JARA CANALLIS. _Rom._ The only authority I have succeeded in finding for this word is Z. ii. * 61. “_Jaracañales_, guards, officers of the revenue.” It may possibly be derived from the Bohemian gypsy _xáro_, Hungarian _háro_ = sabre, and the Span._ canalla_, but I have no reason to suppose that the word _xáro_ or _háro_ was known to the gypsies of Spain. JARGON. _Eng._ Originally a Fr. word, meaning any unintelligible sound, as that of birds, then applied to the strange speech of the _Gueux_; and so to any unknown tongue. Borrow himself says of the gypsies, “when wishing to praise the proficiency of any individual in their tongue, they are in the habit of saying, ‘He understands the seven jargons’” (Z. ii. 125). Frampton Boswell is recorded (G. i. 374) to have stated that Romany was not one of “the seven languages,” “but,” adds Mr. Hinde Groome, “what he meant thereby, goodness alone knows.” The historian Mazaris (A.D. 1416) states that at that time the Peloponnesus was inhabited by seven principal nations, one of which was that of the Egyptians. These “Egyptians” are held by M. Bataillard to have been gypsies (_ib._ iii. 154), and I would suggest that we have here the origin of “the seven jargons.” The number seven seems to be in a special way connected with the children of Roma. For other instances see Leland, _English Gypsies_, p. 218; Gr. 171. JAUN, JAUNA. _Basque_. Lord, the lord. JAUNGVICOA. _Basque_. The Lord God. _Jaun_ = man, sir, lord; _Gincoa_ or _Jincoa_ = God. JEHINNIM. _Arab._ and _Hebr._ Hell. JENNUT. _Arab._ Paradise. Usually written, _jannat_. JENTE. _Span._ See GENTE. JIN. _Arab._ In classic English, _genie_ (Arabic and Persian _jinn_), a class of spirits lower than the angels. JOHÁR. _Arab._ A pearl. JOJABAR, JONJABAR. _Rom._ To deceive. From _jojána_, deceit. See HOK. JORGE, dimin. JORGITO. _Span._ George. JOROBADO. _Span._ A hunchback. The verb _jorobar_ means “to worry.” JUEZ. _Span._ A judge. JUMAL. _Arab._ Friday. More correctly, _jum_‘_a_. JUNTA. _Span._ and _Port._ An assembly, meeting, council, governing body. JUNTUNÓ. _Rom._ A listener, spy, sneak. From _junar_, _junelar_, to listen. P. ii. 221; Pp. 497; M. viii. 75. JUSTICIA. _Span._ A legal tribunal, or the magistrate or magistrates who constitute it. _Absol_, justice. * * * * * KAFIR. _Arab._ Not a Moslem. KANDRISA. According to Borrow, Turkish trousers. Possibly the same as the African Arabic _ḳan dūra_ = long shirt, _toga talaris_. KAPUL UDBAGH. According to Borrow = “There is no God but one.”