INDEX.

A’amash (Al-) = one with watering eyes, [96]
Abd al-Ahad = slave of the One (God), [221]
Abd al-Rahím = slave of the Compassionate, [211]
Abd al-Salám (Pr. N.) = slave of salvation, [211]
Abd al-Samad = slave of the Eternal, [221]
Abd al-Samad al-Samúdi (for Samanhúdi?), [87]
Abraham the friend = mediæval “St. Abraham”, [270]
Abtan (Al-) = the most profound (see Bátiní), [221]
Abu Karn = Father of the Horn (unicorn?), [21]
Abu Hosayn = Father of the Fortlet (fox), [211]
Abyssinians (hardly to be called blackamoors), [63]
Acquit me of responsibility (formula of dismissing a servant), [243]
Adam’s Peak (Ar. Jabal al-Ramun), [65]
Adites (first and second), [269]
Adnán (land of) = Arabia, [94]
Ahwáz (city and province of Khuzistan), [287]
Ahl al-Bait = the person of the house (euphemistically for wife), [199]
Ajíb (Pr. N.) = wonderful, [257]
Akh = brother (wide signification of the word), [243]
Albatross (supposed never to touch land), [33]
Alcinous (of the Arabian Odyssy), [65]
Allah (be praised whatso be our case), [3]
—— (“the Manifest Truth”), [93]
—— is omniscient, (formula used when telling an improbable tale), [210]
—— (the Opener), [216]
—— (it is He who gives by our means), [233]
—— (sight comprehendeth Him not), [283]
Almenichiaka, [124]
Almond-Apricot, [277]
Amalekites, [264]; [265]
Amid (Amidah), town in Mesopotamia, [106]
Anbar (Ambar) = ambergris, [60]
Andalusian = Spanish (i.e. of Vandal-land), [101]
Angels (ride piebalds), [146]
Antar and the Chosroë, [285]
—— (contest with Khosrewan), [289]
Apodosis omitted, [203]; [239]
Apes (isle of), [23]
—— (and their lustful propensities), [54]
—— (gathering fruits), [56]
Arab (style compared with Persian), [125]
Arar = Juniper, [95]
Aristomenes and his fox, [45]
Arúbah (Al-) = Friday, [190]
Armenians (porters of Constantinople), [1]
Asaf bin Barkhiya (Solomon’s Wazir), [99]
Asháb al-Ráy (epithet of the Hanaff school), [146]
Asoka’s wife and Kunála, [127]
Ashjár = door-posts or wooden bolts, [191]
Aurat = shame, nakedness (woman, wife), [30]
—— (of man and woman), [118]
Ayát al-Naját = Verses of Safety, [108]
Báb al-Nasr = Gate of Victory (at Cairo), [234]
Bundukániyah (quarter of Cairo), [254]
Banú Abbás (their colours black), [86]
—— Kahtán, [260]
—— Nabhán, [262]
—— Umayyah (their colours, white), [86]
Banyán = Ficus Indica, [81]
Barge (Ar. Bárijah), [24]
Bárijah (pl. bawárij) = Jarm, barge, ib.
Batáikh (batáyikh) = water-melons, [208]
Bath (suggesting freshness from coition), [135]
—— and privy favourite haunts of the Jinns, [141]
—— (not to be entered by men without drawers), [150]
Bathsheba and Uriah, and their congeners, [129]
Bátini = a gnostic, a reprobate, [221]
Bawwáb = door-keeper, [189]
Beckoning (Eastern fashion of, the reverse of ours), [109]
Benches (in olden Europe more usual than chairs), [26]
Berbers from the Upper Nile (the “Paddies” of Egypt), [189]
Bilád al-Filfil = home of pepper (Malabar), [38]
Birds (sing only in the pairing season), [15]
—— (huge ones discovered on the African coast), [17]
—— (left to watch over wives), [132]
—— (pretended understanding of their language), [169]
Birkat = tank, pool, etc., [57]
Biunes, bisexuals and women robed with the sun, [168]
Black (colour of the Abbasides), [86]
Box-trick (and Lord Byron), [168]
Brass (Ar. Nuhás asfar), [83]
Breath (of crocodiles, serpents, etc.), [29]
Brides of the Treasure, [109]
Brother (has a wide signification amongst Moslems), [243]
Bukjah = bundle, [226]
Bulád (Pers. Pulád) = steel, [115]
Burka’ = face-veil, [131]; [192]
Cairene vulgarism, [278]
Camel (seen in a dream is an omen of death; why?), [92]
Camphor (primitive way of extracting it), [21]
Camphor-apricot, [277]
Cannibals and cannibalism, [36]
Ceruse (Ar. Isfídáj), [126]
Ceylon (Ar. Sarandib), [64]; [81]
City of Brass, [83]
Cocoa-nut (Ar. Jauz al-Hindi), [55]
Colossochelys = colossal tortoise, [33]
Colours (of the Caliphs), [86]
—— (names of), [111]
Commander of the Faithful (title introduced by Omar), [247]
Comorin (derivation of the name), [57]
“Consecrated ground” (unknown to Moslems), [161]
Cousin (first, affronts an Arab if she marries any save him without his leave), [145]
Created for a mighty matter (i.e. for worship and to prepare for futurity), [91]
Crocodiles (breath of), [29]
Crow (an ill-omened bird), [170]
Dabbús = mace, [249]
Dáhish (Al-) = the Amazed, [96]
Dajjál (Al-) = Moslem Anti-Christ, [11]
Darakah = target, [9]
Datura Stramonium (the insane herb), [36]
“Daughters of God” (the three), [282]
David (hauberks of his make), [113]
Death (manners of, symbolised by colours), [250]
Death-prayer (usually a two-bow prayer), [70]
Delight of the Intelligent, etc. (fancy title of a book), [80]
Despotism (tempered by assassination), [206]
Dhámí = the Trenchant (sword of Antar), [271]
Diamonds (occurring in alluvial lands), [18]
Dihlíz = passage, [10]
Do not to others what thou wouldest not they do unto thee, [125]
Door-keepers (in Egypt mostly Berbers), [189]
Drinking bouts (attended in bright dresses), [175]
Elliptical expression, [288]
Emerald (mace-head of), [67]
—— (rods in lattice-windows), [117]
“Enfants Terrible” in Eastern guise, [211]
Envying another’s wealth wrongs him, [77]
Euphemisms, [75]; [145]
Evil (befalling thee is from thyself), [138]
Family (euphemistically for wife), [75]
Fás = city of Fez, [222]
Fárikín for Mayyafárikín (city in Diyar-bakr), [107]
Farz = obligatory prayer, [193]
Fátihah (repeated to confirm an agreement), [217]
Fátimah (Pr. N. = the weaner), [145]
Fatimite (Caliphs, their colours green), [86]
Fausta and Crispus, [127]
Fire (there is no blower of = utter desolation), [15]
—— (forbidden as punishment), [26]
—— (none might warm himself at their), [261]
Fish (-islands), [6]
—— (the ass-headed), [33]
—— (great = Hút, common = Samak), [69]
Flea (still an Egyptian plague), [205]
Food-tray of Sulayman, [80]
Fox (Ar. Abú Hosayn, Sa’lab), [211]
Fruit of two kinds, [277]
Fulk = boat, [62]
Fustát = Old Cairo, [87]
Galactophagi (use milk always in the soured form), [201]
Gems and their mines, [18]
Ghazá-wood = yellow-flowered Artemisia, [192]
Ghúl = ogre, cannibal, [36]
“Greatness belongeth to God alone” (used elliptically), [288]
Green (colour of the Fatimite Caliphs), [86]
Grimm’s “Household Tales” quoted, [230]
Háfiz (f. Háfizah) = 1, traditionist; [2], one who can recite the Koran by rote, [195]
Halíb = fresh milk, [201]
Hauráni towns (weird aspect of), [102]
—— —— (their survival accounted for by some protracted drought), [116]
Heart-ache (for stomach-ache), [194]
Herb (the insane), [36]
Hippopotamus, [33]
House-breaking (four modes of), [247]
Hút = great fish, [69]
Ichthyological marvels, [33]
‘Iddah (of widowhood), [256]
Imlik (great-grandson of Shem), [264]
Inconsequence (characteristic of the Eastern Saga), [61]
—— (of writer of The Nights), [205]
Insula (for Peninsula), [57]
Inverted speech, [262]
Irak, etc., used always with the article, [291]
Isbánír = Ctesiphon (?), [279]
Isfídáj = ceruse, [126]
Ishárah = signing, beckoning, [109]
Izár = waist cloth, [50]
Jabal al-Ramun = Adam’s Peak, [65]
Jarm (Ar. Bárijah), [24]
Jauz al-Hindi = cocoa-nut, [55]
Javelins, [263]
Jawáb-club, [262]
Joseph and Potiphar’s wife, [127]
Júdar (Classical Arab name), [213]
—— (and his brethren, version of a Gotha MS.), [257]
Júdariyah (quarter of Cairo), [254]
Jum’ah = assembly (Friday), [120]; [190]
Jumblat (for Ján-pulád, Life o’ Steel, Pr. N.), [115]
Justice (poetical in the Nights), [255]
Kabáb (mutton or lamb grilled in small squares), [225]
Kahramán (Persian hero), [257]
Kahtan (sons of), [260]
Kala (island), [47]
Kalamdán = reed-box (ink-case), [167]
Kánún = furnace, brazier, [5]
Kaum = razzia; tribe, [266]
Karawán = Charadrius œdicnemus, [1]
Karkadán, etc. = rhinoceros, [21]
Karkar (Carcer?), Sea of Al-, [101]
Karún (lake), [217]
Kashmír people (have a bad name in Eastern tales), [156]
Kassar’ Allah Khayr-ak = Allah increase thy weal, [233]
Kazdír = tin, [39]
Kasr = palace, one’s house, [240]
Kawwás = archer, Janissary, [241]
Kázi of the army (the great legal authority of a country), [131]
Khalíyah = bee-hive; empty, [246]
Kháwí (skin of), [66]
Khurj (Al-) = saddle-bag (las Alforjas), [224]
Khwájah (Howajee) = schoolmaster, man of letters, etc., [46]
Khwárazm = land of the Chorasmioi, [113]
Killed (once more = Hibernicè kilt), [171]
Kiná’ = veil, [192]
Kingfisher (Lucian’s), [49]
Kintar = a hundred weight (quintal), [94]
Kitfír (Itfír) = Potiphar, [172]
Kízan fukká’a = jars for fukká’a (a kind of beer), [88]
Koran quoted (xxiv. 39), [93]
—— (lii. 21), [95]
—— (ix. 51; xiv. 15), [108]
—— (xxxviii. 11), [115]
—— (iv. 81), [138]
—— (iv. 78; xli 28), [144]
—— (ix. 51), [191]
—— (iii. 17), [270]
—— (xiii. 3), [277]
—— (vi. 103), [282]
Kulayb (and his domain), [261]
Kuta’ah = a bit cut off, etc., [272]
La’an = curse, [178]
Laban = milk artificially soured, [201]
Laban-halíb = fresh milk, ib.
Ladies of the family (waiting upon the guests), [237]
Lake Kárún, [217]
Lane quoted, [1]; [8]; [11]; [33]; [61]; [66]; [80]; [191]; [196]; [214]; [216]; [247]; [257]; [282]
Lasting Calamity = a furious knight, [290]
Laylat al-Kadr = Night of power, [180]
Leaving one standing (pour se faire valoir), [252]
Líf = fibre of palm-fronds, [50]
Litholatry of the old Arabs, [269]
Living (the, who dieth not), [67]
Mace (Ar. Dabbús), [249]
Magháribah (pl. of Maghribi) = Western man, Moor, “Maurus”, [220]
Maháráj = great Rajah, [8]; [67]
Maid and Magpie, [182]
Mál = Badawi money, flocks, “fee”, [267]
Mankind (creates its analogues in all the elements), [121]
Mann = from two to six pounds, [80]
Mares (impregnated by the wind), [9]
Markúb = shoe, [207]
Marmar = marble, alabaster, [95]
Mastabah = bench of masonry, [26]
Maund, see Mann, [80]
Mihráj = Maháráj q.v., [67]
Miknás = town Mequinez, [223]
Miknasah = broom, [158]
Milk (Ar. Laban, Halíb), [201]
—— (by nomades always used in the soured form), ib.
Million (no Arabic word for, expressed by a thousand thousand), [98]
“Mis”-conformation (prized by women), [156]
Moses (describes his own death and burial), [116]
Moslem (kind feeling shown to a namesake), [13]
—— (corpses should be burnt under certain circumstances), [26]
—— (commonplace of condolence), [41]
—— (sales, formula of), [73]
—— (consecrated ground unknown to them), [161]
—— (a free-born’s sale is felony), [240]
Mother (waiting upon the adult sons), [237]
Mrigatrishná = the thirst of the deer (mirage), [93]
Mufti (Doctor of Law), [254]
Muhammad, Ahmad and Mahmúd, [273]
Muráhanah = game of forfeits, [204]
Murders (to save one’s life approved of), [44]
Músá bin Nusayr (conqueror of Spain), [86]
Musáfahat = joining palms for shaking hands, [287]
Na’al = sandal, shoe, horse-shoe, [207]
Nabhán (sons of), [262]
Nábigah al-Zubyáni (pre-Islamitic poet), [85]
Nahr = river, [163]
Najásah = nastiness (anything unclean), [178]
Nakedness (Ar. Aurat), [30]
Nákús = wooden gong (used as bell), [47]
Neighbours (frequently on the worst of terms), [236]
“New Arabian Nights”, [257]
Nuhás (vulg. Nihás, Nahás) asfar = brass, [83]
Nusf = half-dirham, [214]
Opener (of the door of daily bread), [216]
Ophidia (of monstrous size), [29]
Palace (of the Caliphs of Baghdad), [189]
Palaces (avoided by the pious), [182]
Partridges (story of the two), [183]
Pausing as long as Allah pleased = musing a long time, [109]
Pearl-fisheries, [60]
Pepper (and the discovery of the Cape route), [38]
—— (-plantations shaded by bananas), [57]
Phædra and Hippolytus, [127]
Philosophic (used in a bad sense), [257]
Pidar sokhtah = (son of a) burnt father (Persian insult), [26]
Pilgrimage quoted (i. 297), [57]
—— (i. 180), [61]
—— (i. 349; iii. 73), [263]
—— (ii. 116; iii. 190), [264]
—— (i. 370), [276]
—— (i. 298), [277]
—— (ii. 332), [287]
Poetical justice (administered with vigour in The Nights), [25]
Poison (deadly only in contact with abraded skin), [202]
Polyphemus (in Arab garb), [24]
—— (no Mistress P. accepted), [27]
Precautions (thwarted by Fate and Fortune), [167]
Predestination (not Providence, a Moslem belief), [202]
Prisons (Moslem), [244]
Privy and bath favourite haunts of the Jinns, [141]
Property (left by will), [213]
Prophets (and their agnomina), [270]
Prostration (must be made to Allah only), [136]
Prothesis without apodosis (a favourite style in Arabic), [203]; [239]
Punctilios of the Desert, [264]
Quarter (son of the = neighbour), [236]
Ra’ad al-Kásif (Pr. N. = the loud-pealing Thunder), [221]
Rafw = artistic style of darning, [198]
Rahmah (Pr. N. = the puritanical “Mercy”), [226]
Rais = captain, master (not owner) of a ship, [12]
Rape (rendered excusable by wilfulness), [187]
Ráy = rede (“private judgment”), [146]
Ráyí = rationalist, ib.
Red habit (sign of wrath), [250]
Refusal of a demand in marriage a sore insult, [262]
Relations between Badawi tribes, [267]
Retorts (of a sharp Fellah), [232]
Ring (in memoriam), [199]
—— (lost in the Harím raises jealous suspicion), [200]
Rivers (underground), [63]
Robe (the hidden, story of), [188]
Ruby (of exceptional size), [66]
Rustak (Al-), city of Oman, [289]
Rukh (the world-wide Wundervogel), [16]
—— (study of, by Prof. Bianconi), [49]
Sá’a (measure of corn, etc.), [203]
Sabbah-ak’ Allah bi’l khayr = Allah give thee good morning, [196]
Sabúr = Sapor II, [274]
Safe-guard (I am in thy = I appeal to thy honour), [158]
Sahmhu = his shaft, [100]
Sahím al-Layl (Pr. N. = he who shooteth an arrow by night), [261]
Sail = torrent, [164]
Sá’ikah = thunderbolt, [271]
Sailor (Ar. equivalents for), [242]
Sáis = groom, horsekeeper (Syce), [9]
Sajjádah = prayer-rug, [193]
Saksar (Pers. Sag-sar = dogs’ heads), [37]
Sa’lab = fox, [211]
Saláhitah (Al-), island, [30]
Salámát = Welcome!, [232]
Sales (formula of), [73]
Samak = common fish, [69]
Samúm = poisonous wind (Simoon), [88]
Sandal (Ar. Na’al), [207]
Saráb = mirage, [93]
Sarandib = Selan-dwípa (Ceylon), [64]
Sásá bin Shays, [274]
Satan (his malice weak in comparison with that of women), [144]
Sea of Al-Karkar, [101]
Sea-stallion (myth of the), [9]
Serpent (breaks the bones of its devoured prey by winding round a tree or rock), [29]
—— (preserving from sickness), [66]
—— (in Ar. mostly feminine), [75]
Shakiriyah = Kshatriya caste, [10]
Shamardal (Al-) = the Tall One, [221]
Shams al-Daulah (imaginary king of Egypt), [241]
Shaykh al-Bahr = the Chief of the Sea (-coast), [51], [53]
Shaykh of the thieves (one of the worthies of a Moslem capital), [204]
Shays = Ab Seth, [283]
Shoe (Ar. Markúb, Na’al), [207]
Shrouds (carried by the pilgrims to Meccah), [61]
Sight comprehendeth Him not, etc., [282]
Signs of Allah = Koranic versets, [144]
Simoon (Ar. Samúm = poisonous wind), [88]
Sindbád (not to be confounded with the eponym of the Sindibád-námah), [4]
Sindibád the Sage, [124]
Sindibád-námah (Persian romance), [122]
Sindibad-námah (quoted), [129]; [132]; [134]; [139]; [143]; [145]; [150]; [152]; [169]; [180]; [183]; [188]; [202]
Sírah (small fish, fry, sprat), [216]
Siyághosh, see Tufah.
Sold to thee for monies received (formula of Moslem sales), [73]
Solomon (his food-tray), [80]
—— (his seal-ring), [84]
—— (the Apostle of Allah), [99]
—— (his Wazír Asaf), ib.
—— (his trick upon Bilkís), [113]
Spears and javelins, [263]
Stallion (I am not one to be struck on the nose), [262]
Steel (Ar. Bulád), [115]
Stirrup (walking by the), [234]
Stones (precious, and their mines), [18]
—— (removed from the path by the pious), [190]
Suez (Ar. Al-Suways), [80]
Suways (Al-) = Suez, ib.
Swimming (studied in Baghdad), [134]
Sword (the enchanted), [230]
Tadmurah (founds Tadmur or Palmyra), [116]
Talking birds (watching over wives), [132]
Tanjah = Tangiers, [106]
Target (Ar. darakah), [9]
Ta’rísak = thy going between (pimping), [196]
Tasmeh-pá = strap-legs, [51]
Tawáf (circuit of the Ka’abah), [242]
Thousand thousand = a million, [98]
Three things are better than other three, [5]
“Throwing the handkerchief”, [285]
Tin (Ar. Kazdír), [39]
Tingis = Tanjah (Tangiers), [106]
Torrents (Ar. Sail) a dangerous feature in Arabia, [164]
Tortoise (the colossal), [33]
Toujours perdrix, [130]
Traveller (a model one tells the truth when an untruth would not serve him), [7]
Tribes (relations between), [267]
Tufah = felis caracal, lynx, [260]
Tusks (not teeth), [82]
Tyrant (from —, to tyrant = from official to official), [214]
Ujb = arrogance (in the Spanish sense of gaiety, etc.), [164]
Ulysses (the Arabian), [40]
Unhappy thou!, [285]
Underground rivers, [63]
Upakoshá (Vararuchi’s wife), [172]
Usirát (Al-), island, [57]
Vengeance (of a disappointed suitor apprehended), [286]
Vivisepulture, [41]
Wa’ar = rough ground unfit for riding, [140]
Wadd, Suwá’a and Yaghús, [282]
Wady al-Ward (the Vale of Roses), [276]
Walímah = marriage-feast, [74]
Walking afoot (not dignified), [227]
Wanderer in the mountains = a recluse avoiding society, [158]
Wars (caused by trifles frequent in Arab history), [142]
Wasm = tribal sign, [163]
Water-melons (eaten with rice and meat), [208]
Week-days (old names for), [190]
Whale (still common off the East African coast), [11]
White (colour of the Ommiades), [86]
—— robes denote grace and mercy, [250]
Wife (Aurat), [30]
—— (called “Family”), [75]
Will he not care? = he shall answer for this, [245]
Windows (looking out of, a favourite occupation in the East and South), [167]
Wishes (tale of the three), [180]
Witches (and their vehicles), [158]
Witness (bear —, against me, i.e. in case of my denial), [286]
Wives (and their suitors), [172]
Woman (in Hindostani jargon = aurat), [30]
—— (her shame extends from head to toes), [118]
—— (their cunning and malice), [144]
—— (corrupts woman more than men do), [152]
—— (knowing enough without learning to read and write), [168]
—— (of Kashmír), [156]
—— (her female visitors unknown to the husband, except by hearsay), [199]
—— (words used only by them, not by men), [233]
Ya’arub (eponymus of an Oman tribe), [260]
Yá miskín = O poor devil, [219]
Yauh! Yauh! = Alas, [235]
Yaum mubárak = a blessed day, [215]
Zabbat = lizard; bolt, [247]
Zughzaghán (Abú Massáh = Father of the Sweeper) = magpie, [182]
Zahra = the flowery, [145]
Zahwah = mid-time between sunrise and noon, [35]
Zalamah (Al-) = “tyranny”, [214]
Zanj = Zang-bar (Black-land, Zanzibar), [104]
Záwiyah = oratory, [259]
Zu al-Autád = the contriver of the stakes (Pharaoh), [118]