s. f, Chair; a raised foundation, plinth, a story of a house; a generation, genealogy; the eighth heaven, or, according to some the ninth; the throne of God (according to Muhammadan belief):—kursí námá, s. m. A genealogical table or tree; genealogy:—kursí nashín, s. m. One entitled to a seat in a Darbár, or to the honour of a chair; i. q. Kursí.