INDEX.

'Abd = servile, [44]
Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan (Caliph), [319]
Abdullah ibn al-Zubayr, [318]
Abú Kurrat = father of coolness (Chameleon), [165]
Abu 'l-Hasan (not Husn), [162]
Abu 'l-Hosayn (father of the Fortlet) = fox, [132]
Abú Sirhán = father of (going out to pray by) morning, [146]
'Ad (pre-historic Arab tribe), [294]
Adultery (son of, to one's own child), [219]
Akh al-Jahálah = brother of ignorance, [162]
Al (the article with Proper Names), [309]
Alak = clotted blood, [26]
Ali (murder of), [319]
Alif (stature like), [236]
Allah (give thee profit), [17]
—— (unto, we are returning), [317]
Allusions (far-fetched, fanciful and obscure), [58], [169], [176], [263]
Alpinism (unknown), [324]
Amor discende non ascende, [240]
Amsa = he passed the evening, etc., [239]
Amtár, pl. of Matr, q.v., [295]
Andam = Brazil-wood, dragon's blood, [263]
Angels (appearing to Sodomites), [301]
Ape-names (expressing auspiciousness), [159]
Arab (pathos), [55]
—— (the noble merciful), [88]
—— (shop), [163]
Arák = (tooth-stick of the) wild caper-tree; Ará-ka = I see thee, [275]
Ar'ar = Juniper-tree, "heath," 254
Ardhanárí = the half-woman, [306]
Army (divided into six divisions), [290]
As'ad = more (or most) fortunate, [346]
Asáfírí = sparrow-olives, [295]
Ass (goad), [116]
—— (voice "most ungrateful"), [117]
—— (the wild, "handy" with his hoof), [235]
Ayát = signs, Koranic verses, [307]
Ayshat al-durrah murrah = the sister-wife has a bitter life, [308]
Awwá (name of Satan's wife), [229]
Bábúnaj = white camomile, [58]
Bachelor not admitted in Arab quarters, [191]
Back-parts compared to revolving heavens, [18]
Badawi (cannot swim), [69]
—— (baser sort), [70]
—— (shifting camp in spring), ib.
—— (noble), [88]
Baghdad = Garden of Justice, [100]
Bahadur = the brave, [334]
Bahram (varanes) = planet Mars, [339]
Bakhshish naturalized as Anglo-Egyptian, [45]
Bakk = bug, [328]
Bulúr (Billaur) = crystal, etc., [194]
Banát al-Na'ash = the Great Bear, [28], [221]
Bands of bandits, [101]
Banner (bound to a spear, sign of investiture), [307]
Bárid (cold = silly, contemptible, foolish), [7]
Báshik (small sparrow-hawk), [61]
Bath (first after sickness), [266]
Bází (Pers. Báz) = F. peregrinator, hawk, falcon, [138]
Beard (long, and short wits), [247]
—— (forked, characteristic of a Persian), [325]
Beast-stories (oldest matter in The Nights), [114]
Beauties of nature provoke hunger in Orientals, [32]
Bhang (properties of the drug), [91]
Bilád al-Súdán = Land of the blacks (our Soudan), [75]
Bilál (benefits), name of Mohammed's Mu'ezzin, [106]
Bint 'arús = daughter of the bridegroom (Ichneumon), [147]
Birds denote the neighbourhood of a village, [280]
Bismillah (Bi 'Smi 'lláh = in the name of God, etc.), [182]
Blaze (see Ghurrah), [118]
Boasting of one's tribe (see Renowning it), [80]
Bostán (female Pr. N.) = flower-garden, [345]
Braying of the ass, [117]
Brothers of Purity, [150]
—— of ignorance = Ignoramus, [163]
Brotherhood (forms of making), [151]
Bruising the testicles a feminine mode of murdering men, [3]
Budúr (Badoura) = full moons, [228]
Bukhti (two-humped camel), [67]
Caliphs Tái li'llah, [51], [307]
—— Walíd (Al-), [69]
—— Mu'atasim bi 'llah, [81]
—— Wásik (Al-), ib.
—— Abd al-Malik bin Marwan, [319]
—— Ali, ib.
—— Mu'áwiyah, ib.
Camels (breeds of), [67], [110]
—— (names), [110]
—— (haltered, nose-ring used for dromedaries), [120]
—— (Mehari, Mahríyah), [277]
Camphor (simile for a fair face), [174]
Carat = Kirát, [239]
Carnelion stone bitten with pearls = lips with teeth in sign of anger, [179]
Cat (puss, etc.), [149]
Cervantes and Arab Romance, [66]
Chaff, [23]
Chameleon (father of coolness), [165]
Cheese a styptic, [3]
Clapping hands to call servants, [173]
Clogs = Kubkáb, [92]
Coition (postures of), [93]
Cold-of-countenance = a fool, [7]
Cold speech = a silly or abusive tirade, ib.
Comrades of the Cave, [128]
Constipation (La) rend rigoureux, [242]
Copulation (postures of), [93]
Cowardice equally divided, [173]
Criss 'cross Row, [236]
Dalhamah (Romance of), [112]
Dara' (dira) = habergeon, coat of ring-mail, etc., [109]
Daughters of Sa'adah = zebras, [65]
—— of the bier = Ursa major, [28], [221]
Day of Doom (mutual retaliation), [128]
—— (length of), [299]
"Death in a crowd as good as a feast" (Persian proverb), [141]
Divorce (triple), [292]
Doors (usually shut with a wooden bolt), [198]
Double entendre, [234]
Dreams (true at later night), [258]
Drinking at dawn, [20]
—— their death agony = suffering similar pain, [315]
Dromedary (see Camel).
—— (guided by a nose-ring), [120]
Dunyá (P. N.) = world, [7], [319]
Durrah (vulg. for Zarrat q.v.).
Easterns sleep with covered heads, [345]
Eating together makes friends, [71]
Egyptian (= archi-) polissonnerie, [243]
Euphemy, [68], [102], [209], [267], [338]
Evacuation (and Constipation), [242]
Eve (the true seducer), [166]
Eye (darkening from wine or passion), [224]
—— (orbits slit up and down the face of a hideous Jinn), [235]
Eye (man of the = pupil), [286]
—— (white = blind), [323]
Fables proper (oldest part of The Nights), [114]
Fairer to-day than fair of yesterday = ever increasing in beauty, [331]
Falak (clearing) = breaking forth of light from darkness, [22]
Falcon (see Hawk, Bází), [154]
Falling on the back with laughter, [306]
Farting for fear, [118]
Fátin = tempter, seducer, [82]
Firdausi, the Persian Homer, quoted, [83]
Fire and sickness cannot cohabit (see Kayy), [59]
—— worshippers slandered, [326]
First at the feast and last at the fray, [81]
Fist (putting into fist = putting oneself at another's mercy), [155]
Flying for delight, [26]
Foot, smallness of, sign of "blood", [227]
Formula of praise pronounced to avert the evil eye, [224]
Fortune makes kneel her camel by some other one = encamps with a favourite, [141]
Foster-brother (dearer than kith and kin), [256]
Fox, cunning man (see Wolf), [132]
Freeing slaves for the benefit of the souls of the departed, [211]
Fulán (fulano in Span. and Port.) = a certain person, [191]
Futúh = openings, victories, benefit, [304]
Gamin (faire le), ib.
Gates (two to port towns), [281]
Geography in its bearings on Morality, [241]
Geomantic process, [269]
Gharám (Pr. N.) = eagerness, desire, love-longing, [172]
Ghazá (Artemisia-shrub), [220]
Ghost (phantom = Tayf), [252]
Ghurrah = blaze on a horse's forehead, [118]
Ghusl al-Sihhah = washing of health, [266]
Give a man luck and throw him into the sea, [341]
Goad (of the donkey-boy), [116]
Gossamer (names for), [217]
Grave (levelling slave and sovereign), [323]
Hair-strings (of black silk), [311]
—— (significance of), [313]
Hájib = groom, chamberlain, [233]
Hajín (tall camel), [67]
Hámah (soul of a murdered man in form of a bird sprung from his head), [293]
Hammam-bath a luxury as well as a necessity, [19]
Hands behind the back (posture of submission), [218]
—— stained in stripes like ring-rows of a chain-armour, [176]
Hárút and Marút (sorcerer-angels), [217]
Harwalah = pas gymnastique, [121]
Hashsháshín = assassins, [91]
Hashish, see Bhang, ib.
—— orgie in London, ib.
Hawar = intensity of black and white in the eyes, [233]
Háwí = juggler playing tricks with snakes, [145]
Hawk, see Báshik, Bazi, [61], [138]
Hayát al-Nufús = Life of Souls, [283]
Házir and Bádi = townsman and nomad, [234]
Head (must always be kept covered), [275]
Headsman delaying execution, [42]
Hemistichs divided, [166]
Hermaphrodites (Khunsa), [306]
Heroine of Eastern Romance eats well, [168]
Hijl = partridge, [138]
"Him" for "her", [78]
Hinges (of ancient doors), [41]
Hips, leanness of, "anti-pathetic" to Easterns, [226]
Hoof (of the wild ass), [235]
Horripilation = gooseflesh, [2]
Horse (names of the), [72]
—— stealing honourable, [73]
Host (enters first as safe-guard against guet-apens), [208]
Houris, [233]
Hudhud = hoopoe, [128]
Húr, see Houris, [233]
Hurr = free, noble, independent opp. to 'Abd = servile, [44]
Iblis = the Despairer, [223]
Ibn Abdun al-Andalúsi (poet), [319]
Ibn Muljam (murderer of the Caliph Ali), [319]
Ibn Síná = Avicenna, [34]
Ichneumon (mongoose), [147]
Iddat = months of a woman's enforced celibacy after divorce, [292]
Ikhlás (Al-) = chapter of unity, [307]
Ikhwán al-Safá = Brethren of Purity, [150]
Ilàh al-Arsh = the God of the Empyrean, [106]
Ill is thy abiding place, [137]
Insane (treatment of the), [256]
Iron padlock (instead of the usual wooden bolt), [198]
Irony, [291]
Isengrin (wolf), [146]
Ismid = stibium (eye-powder), [307]
Jalláb = slave-dealer, [340]
Jamal (Gamal) = camel, q.v., [110]
Jamíz (Jammayz) = sycamore-fig, [302]
Jannat al-Na'ím = Garden of Delight, [19]
Jeweller (in Eastern tales generally a rascal), [186]
Jihád = fighting for the faith, [39]
Jinnis (names of), [225]
Joining prayers, [174]
Kahlil = whose eyes are kohl'd by nature, [346]
Kahlá = nature-kohl'd, [232]
Káma-Shástra (Ars Amoris Indica), [93]
Kamar al-Zamán (Camaralzaman = Moon of the Age), [213]
Kamaráni = the two moons for sun and moon, [300]
Kámat Alfiyyah = a shape like the letter Alif, [236]
Kanát = subterranean water-course, [141]
Kánún (dulcimer, "zither"), [211]
Kapoteshwara and Kapoteshí, [126]
Kasídah = Ode, elegy, [262]
Katúl (Al-) = the slayer, [72]
Kausaj = man with a thin, short beard, cunning, tricksy, [246]
Kaysún = yellow camomile, [58]
Kayy (Al-) = cautery, the end of medicine-cure, [59]
Kerchief of Dismissal, [295]
Khálidán (for Khálidát) = the Canaries, [212]
Khán (caravanserai) and its magazines, [14]
Khanjar = dagger, hanger (poisoned), [90]
Khassat-hu = she gelded him, [47]
Khauf (Al-) maksúm = fear (cowardice) is equally apportioned, [173]
Khayt hamayán = threads of vanity (gossamer), [217]
Khaznah = treasury of money (£5,000), [278]
Khizáb (dye used by women), [105]
Khunsa = flexible, flaccid (hermaphrodite), [306]
Kiblah = fronting-place of prayer
Kissing (like a pigeon feeding its young), [275]
Kinchin lay (Arab form of), [102]
Kirát (weight = 2-3 grains; length = one finger-breadth), [239]
Kohl (applying of = takhíl), [57]
—— -eyed = Kahlá, f., [232]
Koka Pandit (Hindu ars Amandi), [93]
Koran quoted (x. 10-12; lvi. 24-26; lxxxviii. 17-20), [19]
—— (xii. 31), [21]
—— (cxiii. 1), [22]
—— (ii. 186; lx. 1), [39]
—— (lxxvi.), [57]
—— (ii. 23), [65]
—— (xxxi. 18; lxvii. 7), [117]
—— (ii. 191), [123]
—— (xviii.; xxii. 20; lxxxvii.), [128]
—— (ii. 96, [256]), [217]
—— (ii.; iii.; xxxvi.; lv.; lxvii.; cxiii.; cxiv.), [222]
—— (ii. 32; xviii. 48), [223]
—— (xxiii. 20; xcv. 1), [276]
—— (xxvi.), [294]
—— (xi.), [301]
—— (xxiii. 38), [302]
—— (ii.; li. 9; xxxv. 11), [304]
—— (cxii.), [307]
—— (xxiv. 39), [319]
—— (xxi.), [323]
—— (iv. 38), [332]
Kubkáb = bath clogs, [92]
Kuhailat (breed of Arab horses), [346]
Kun = be, the creative word, [317]
Kurds (Xenophon's and Strabo's Carduchi), [100]
Lájuward, see Lázuward, [33]
Lámiyat = poem rhyming in L, [143]
Layáli = nights, future, fate, [318]
Layla (female Pr. N.), [135]
—— (wa Majnún, love poem), [183]
Lázuward = lapis lazuli, azure, [33]
Letters and letter-writing, [24]
Libdah (skull-cap of felt) sign of a religious mendicant, [62]
Lisám = mouth-veil, [283]
Liver (for heart), [240]
Lizzat al-Nisá (erotic poem), [93]
Love (pure, becomes prophetical), [6]
—— (the ear conceiveth it before the eye), [9]
—— (ten stages of), [36]
—— (martyrs of), [211]
—— (platonic, see vol. ii. 104), [232]
—— (ousting affection), [240]
Lovers in Lazá (hell) as well as Na'ím (heaven), [58]
—— (parting of, a stock-topic in poetry), [58]
Lukmán (two of the name), [264]
Ma'an bin Zá'idah, [236]
Mahríyah (Mehari) = blood-dromedary, [277]
Majlis = sitting (to a woman), [92]
Majnún (Al-) = the mad, [72]
Málik (door-keeper of Hell), [20]
Malik (king) taken as title, [51]
Man (extract of despicable water), [16]
—— (is fire, woman tinder), [59]
—— (shown to disadvantage in beast-stories), [115]
—— (his destiny written on his skull), [123]
—— (pre-eminence above women), [332]
Maniyat = death; muniyat = desire, [291]
Marba' = summer quarters, [79]
Marján = Coral-branch (slave-name), [169]
Marriage (if consummated demands Ghusl), [286]
Married men profit nothing, [2]
Martyrs of love, [211]
Márwazi = of Marw (Margiana), [222]
Marz-bán = Warden of the Marches, Margrave, [256]
Má sháa 'llah (as Allah willeth) = well done!, [92]
Matr = large vessel of leather or wood, [295]
Maurid = desert-well and road to such, [33]
Mercy (quality of the noble Arab), [88]
Minaret (simile for a fair young girl), [69]
Miracles (disclaimed by Mohammed but generally believed in), [346]
Mirage = Saráb, [319]
Mohammed ("born with Kohl'd eyes"), [232]
Moon masc., Sun fem., [28]
Moore (Thomas, anticipated), [305]
Morality (geographical and chronological), [241]
—— (want of, excused by passion), [269]
Morning-draught, [20]
Mountain, coming from the = being a clod-hopper, [324]
—— sit upon the = turn anchorite, ib.
Mourning, perfumes not used during, [63]
Mu'atasim (Al-) bi'llah (Caliph), [81]
Mu'áwiyah (his Moses-like "mildness"), [286]
Muharramát (the three forbidden things), [340]
Mujáhid (Al-) = fighter in Holy War, [51]
Mujáhidún = who wage war against infidels, [39]
Mukhammas = cinquains, [280]
Mulberry-fig (for anus), [302]
Murjiy (sect and tenets), [341]
Náfilah = supererogatory Koran-recitation, [222]
Na'ím (name for Heaven), [19]
Naml (ant) simile for a young beard, [58]
Názir = eye or steward, [233]
Night (and day, not day and night with the Arabs), [121]
—— cap, [222]
—— "this" = our "last", [249]
—— for day, [318]
Nizámi (Persian Poet), [183]
Nuptial sheet (inspection of the), [289]
Núr al-Hudá (Pr. N. = Light of Guidance), [17]
O Camphor (antiphrase = O snowball), [40]
Oftentimes the ear loveth before the eye, [9]
Oldest matter in The Nights the beast-stories, [114]
Oubliettes (in old Eastern houses), [327]
Out of sight of my friend is better and pleasanter, [315]
Paradise of Mohammed not wholly sensual, [19]
Parody of the Testification, [215]
Partridge = Hijl, [138]
Pathos (touch of), [55]
Patience (cutting the cords of), [178]
Payne quoted, [130], [172], [193], [252], [275]
Penis (as to anus and cunnus), [303]
Perfumes not used during mourning, [63]
—— (natural), [231]
Pigeon (language, etc.), [126]
—— (blood of the young), [289]
Pilgrimage quoted (ii. 22), [7]
—— (iii. 77), [65]
—— (iii. 14), [67]
—— (i. 216), [81]
—— (i. 64), [91]
—— (iii. 185), [107]
—— (iii. 270), [118]
—— (iii. 208), [121]
—— (iii. 218), [126]
—— (i. 52), [151]
—— (iii. 307), [159]
—— (i. 99), [163]
—— (iii. 239), [174]
—— (iii. 22), [220]
—— (ii. 282), [241]
—— (iii. 144), [252]
—— (ii. 213, [321]), [304]
—— (iii. 192-194), [319]
—— (i. 106), [324]
Plates as armature, [216]
Plural of Majesty, [16]
Poke (counterfeit), [302]
Polissonnerie (characteristic), [243]
Polygamy and Polyandry in relation to climate, [241]
Postillon (Le), [304]
Postures of coition, [93]
Prayer (rules for joining in), [174]
—— (two-bow), [213]
—— niche = wayside chapel, [324]
Precedent (merit appertains to), [264]
Preposterous venery, [304]
Preventives (the two), [222]
Prima Venus debet esse cruenta, [289]
Purity of love attains a prophetic strain, [6]
Questions (indiscreet, the rule throughout Arabia), [105]
Ra'áyá (pl. of Ra'íyat) = Ryot, [215]
Rabite classical term for a noble Arab horse, [72]
Rahíl (small dromedary), [67]
Raising the tail sign of excitement in the Arab blood-horse, [84]
Rasy = praising in a funeral sermon, [291]
Ritánah = a jargon, [200]
Raushan = window, [171]
Raushaná (splendour) = Roxana, ib.
Ready to fly for delight, [26]
"Renowning it" (boasting of one's tribe), [80], [108]
Return unto Allah, [317]
Rihl = wooden saddle, [117]
Rind (rand) = willow, bay, aloes, wood, [172]
Rizwán (approbation) = key-keeper of Paradise, [15], [20]
Rosary, [123]
Royalty in the guise of merchants, [12]
Rubber, see Shampooer, [17]
Ruhbah (townlet on the frontier of Syria), [52]
Ryot = liege, subject; Fellah, peasant, [215]
Sa'adah (female Pr. N.), [65]
Sa'alabah (name of a tribe), [107]
Sa'alab = fox, [132]
Sabb = low abuse, [311]
Sabbáh bin Rammáh bin Humám = the Comely, son of the Spearman, son of the Lion, [67]
Sadr = returning from the water (see Wárid), [56]
Sady = Hámah, q.v., [293]
Sáhirah = place for the gathering of souls on Doom-day, [323]
Sáibah = she-camel freed from labour, [78]
Salb = crucifying, [25]
Salsabíl (fountains of Paradise), [57]
Saráb = mirage, [319]
Sawwán = Syenite, [324]
Seal and Sealing-wax, [189]
Seduction (the truth about it), [166]
Serpent does not sting or bite, but strike, [160]
Seven Sleepers, [128]
Shahádatáni (Al-) = the two Testimonies, [346]
Shahriman not Shah Zemán, [7], [212]
Sháib al-Ingház = gray beard, shaking with disapproval, [307]
Shakespearean "topothesia" out-Shakespeared, [212]
Shakhs = a person, a black spot, [26]
Shampooer (rubber) = Mukayyis or bagman, [17]
Shanak = hanging, [25]
Shanfara (poet), [143]
Shaykhs (five, doubtful allusion), [30]
Shaytán (Satan) term of abuse, [25]
—— (his wife and nine sons), [229]
Shop (Arab, a "but" and a "ben"), [163]
Shovel-iron stirrup = spur, [119]
Signs (of a Shaykh's tent), [104]
—— (lucky in a horse), [118]
Sinnaur = cat; prince, [149]
Siwák = tooth-stick; Siwá-ka = other than thou, [275]
Slaves (O Camphor), [40]
—— (set free for the benefit of the dead), [211]
—— (dealer in = Jalláb), [349]
Sleeping (with covered head and face), [345]
Sleepers (the Seven of Ephesus), [128]
Solomon (his carpet), [267]
Sodomites (angels appear to), [301], [304]
Sodomy with women, ib.
Son of Persian Kings (not Prince but descendant), [163]
Spindle (thinner than a), [260]
St. George (posture), [304]
Stages (ten, of love-sickness), [36]
"Stone-bow" not "Cross-bow", [116]
Subhán a'llah pronounced to keep off the evil eye, [224]
Súdán = our Soudan, [75]
Súf (wool), Súfi (Gnostic), [140]
Suhá (Sohá) star in the Ursa Major, [28]
Sulaymá, dim. of Salmá = any beautiful woman, [263]
Superiority of man above woman, [332]
Sutures of the skull, [123]
Sycomore fig (for anus), [302]
Tághút (idol), [217]
Tá'í (Al-) li 'llah (Caliph), [51], [307]
Takhíl = adorning with Kohl, [57]
Talák bi'l-Salásah = triple divorce, [292]
Tamar al-Hindi (Tamarind) = the Indian date, [297]
Tasbíh = saying Subhán Allah; Rosary, [125]
Tayf = ghost, phantom, [252]
Tayrab (Al-) a city, [259]
Tears (pouring blood like red wine), [169]
Ten stages of love-sickness, [36]
Tent (signs of a Shaykh's), [104]
Testicles (beating and bruising of, female mode of killing a man), [3]
Thamúd (pre-historic Arab tribe), [294]
Thorn of lance = eyelash, [331]
Tín = fig, simile for a woman's parts, [302]
Tiryák = theriack, treacle (antidote), [65]
Torrens quoted, [218], [235], [249], [289]
Tossing upon coals of fire, [61]
Tughrái (Al-), poet, [143]
Turk (provoked to hunger by beauties of nature), [32]
—— (appears under the Abbasides), [81]
Ubi aves ibi angeli, [280]
Ukhuwán = camomile, [58]
Urine (pollutes), [229]
Urining (wiping after), ib.
Ushári = camel travelling ten days, [67]
Wa ba'ad (see Ammá ba'ad, vol. ii. 37) = and afterwards, [181]
Waddle of "Arab ladies", [37]
Wády = valley; slayer, [234]
Waist (slender, hips large), [278]
Walahán (Lakab of a poet = The distracted), [226]
Walgh = lapping of a dog, [319]
Walíd (Al-) Caliph, [69]
Wálidati = my mother, speaking to one not of the family, [208]
Wárid = resorting to the water, [56]
Wasíf = servant; fem. wasífah = concubine, [171]
Wásik (Al-), Caliph, [81]
Waters flowing in Heaven, [65]
Wayl-ak = Woe to thee, [82]
Week-days (only two names for), [249]
Weeping (not for form and face alone), [318]
Wives (why four, see Women), [212]
—— (a man's tillage), [304]
What happened, happened = fortune so willed it, [68]
Wine (a sun with cup-bearer for East and the drinker's mouth for West), [263]
Wolf (wicked man); fox (cunning man), [132]
Women (peculiar waddle), [37]
—— (proposing extreme measures), [39]
—— (are tinder, men fire), [59]
—— (monkish horror of), [126]
—— (Layla, name of), [135]
—— (true seducers), [166]
—— (Wálidati = my mother), [208]
—— (four wives, and why), [212]
—— (compared to an inn), [216]
—— (large hips and thighs), [226]
—— (small fine foot), [227]
—— (names of), [239], [263]
—— (more passionate than men), [241]
—— (head must always be kept covered), [275]
—— (slender-waisted but full of hips, etc.), [278]
—— (Sodomy with), [304]
—— (all charges laid upon them), [335]
Words (divided in a couplet), [166]
Writing without fingers = being unable to answer for what is written, [181]
Yá Abú Libdah = O father of a felt calotte, [62]
Yá Abú Sumrah = O father of brownness, [40]
Yá fulán = O certain person, [191]
Yá Sátir, Yá Sattár = O veiler (of sins), [41]
Yá Taljí = O snowy one, [40]
Yaum al-tanádí = Resurrection Day, [74]
Zabbál = dung-drawer, etc., [51]
Zakar (penis) = that which betokens masculinity, [3]
Zamiyád = guardian angel of Bihisht, see Rizwán, [20], [233]
Zanab Sirhán (wolf's tail) = early dawn, [146]
Zarrat (vulg. Durrah) = co-wife, sister-wife, [308]
Zebra (daughter of Sa'adah), [65]
Zibl = dung, [51]
Zibl Khán = Le Roi Crotte, [99]