[141]. Saḳt al-zand (Bûlâḳ edition of 1286), II. 34. Yet Aġânî, I. 147. 20, in a poem of Nuṣeyb: wa lam ara matbûʿan aḍarra min-al-maṭari.

[142]. See an example in Zeitschrift der D. M. G., 1857, V. p. 100, l. 14.

[143]. Kitâb al-aġânî, XI. 126.

[144]. Ṣaḥâḥ, s.r. ṭrḳ.

[145]. Chunnas, ‘planet,’ i.e. Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Venus, or Mercury.—Tr.

[146]. Commentary on the Ḳorân (Fleischer’s edition), II. 397. 6.

[147]. Phaleg (ed. Frankfort), II. 124.

[148]. Yerach (pausal yârach), Gen. X. 26, 1 Chr. I. 20; elsewhere yerach denotes ‘month’ and yârêach ‘moon.’—Tr.

[149]. Ibn Dureyd, Kitâb al-ishtiḳâḳ, p. 99. 9.

[150]. Culturgeschichtliche Streifzüge auf dem Gebiete des Islams, Leipzig 1873, p. viii.