I'm sorry Dr. Bill, but this word is beyond my scope of whatever language it belongs to... It has a ring of belonging to Urdu, but my knowledge of that language being limited to the common words used in Hindi, I'm unable to place it. I did try to look it up in a few online Urdu dictionaries I could find, but none of them has anything to say about it... I guess we'll have to put it up to someone more knowledgeable...