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- Does anyone know how fast a Saluki runs? Either in miles per hour or kilometers per hour.Kenallen 01:26, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
Can someone do some research into the origin of this dog and it's name. The word "saluki" sounds like it must be derived from the Hellenic dynasty known as the seleucids.
- Well, the online dictionary (http://www.thefreedictionary.com/dict.asp?Word=saluki) says "Arabic saluqi, of Saluq, an ancient city of southern Arabia." Whereas The Complete Saluki Book, (Book of the Breed) by Diana Allan, Ken Allan. Copyright © 1999. excerpted on Amazon (http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/186054195X/026-0757487-4718015?v=product-description&n=266239), supports your suggestion, among others, saying (I hope this is ok to quote): "The true origin of this beautiful breed of Arabian hunting hound is lost in the mists of time and the shifting sands of the desert; even the source of the name 'Saluki' is a mystery. Saluki is an anglicism of the Arabic word saluqi, and research through medieval literature, written in Arabic, reveals several places which may have given their name to the hound of the desert. Some lexicographers have suggested that the origin of the word was derived from a town called Saluk, in Southern Arabia, which no longer exists. Saluk or Saluq was famous for its armour and hounds, and reference to the hounds is made in an early Arab verse: "Oh my hound brought by Kings from Saluk". Another line from a verse composed by an Umayyad poet reads: "They have with them their hounds of Saluq, like horses wheeling in battle, dragging on their halters." There is another place named Saluq in Armenia, to the west of the Caspian Sea. Other Arabic sources mention two towns with the name Saluqiyah, from which the Saluq might have been derived. The last and perhaps the most plausible suggestion is that the name saluqi could be derived from Seleucia (Saluqiyah in Arabic), a city on the west bank of the Tigris south of Baghdad, founded by Seleucus I in 312BC. The city was the capital of the Seleucid dynasty which survived down to circa 65AD. This implies that the word Saluki does not originate from one specific place, but is associated with the vast Middle Eastern Empire of the Seleucid dynasty."
Zooterkin 14:44, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Salukis at Southern Illinois University
Speaking of Salukis — a breed of dog — at SIU-Carbondale, mention of that town always brings to mind their second-most-famous hound, Old Boomer. Just outside of town, near the railroad tracks, stands a monument to him. It seems that a few decades into the 20th century, Old Boomer sensed a “hot box” on a coal car on a train swiftly passing through — on which his master was a trainman. Realizing, as dogs do, that an out-of-grease “hot box” could lead to derailment, he ran alongside, got up to speed, and, with one leg raised, of course, continuously peed on the site of the overheated bearing as he ran — not realizing that a bridge abutment was fast approaching — against which he bashed his brains out and died. I guess that’s why they call the canine Man’s Best Friend. That old a son of a bitch! Apparently, his master did live to fabricate the story. There’s even a trackside stone monument there to prove it.
- Posted here by Pat Briody
