A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments, Now Entituled the Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 01 (of 17)

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INDEX.

• Abbas "hero eponymus" of the Abbaside dynasty, [188]
• Abdullah ibn Abbas, companion and traditioner, [304]
• Abú Kidr=father of the cooking-pot, ib.
• Abú Shámah=father of a cheek-mole, [269]
• Abú Shámmah=father of a smeller or nose, ib.
• Abú Shawárib=father of mustachios, ib.
• Abu Shiháb, father of the shooting star=evil spirit, [221]
• Abú Yakzán=the wakener=ass, [16]
  • =cock, [18]
• Ad=tribe of prehistoric Arabs, [65]
• Adab=anything between good education and good manners, [132]
• Aghá=master, politely applied to an Eunuch, [235]
• Ahdab, hunchback=classical Ak'as, [213]
• A'in=Smiter with the evil eye, [123]
• Ajal=appointed period of life, [74]
• 'Ajami=foreigner, esp. Persian, [120]
• Ajuz, for old woman, highly insulting; use Shaybah, [174]
• Akásirah=Kisra-Kings, [75]
• Akrás=cakes, [83]
• Al-Aftah=Broad-o'-Brow, [17]
• Al-Ajam=region not Arab, Persia, [2]
• Al-Amin, son and successor of Hárún al-Rashíd, [185]
• Al-Aríf=monitor, [231]
• Al-Asr=time or prayer of mid-afternoon, [240]
• Al-Bashárah=gift of good tidings, guerdon, [30]
• Al-Bostáni=gardener, family name from original occupation, [266]
• Al-Faranj=European, [296]
• Al-Hasá=plain of pebbles, west of Damascus, [234]
• Al-Kahánah=the craft of a Káhin or soothsayer, [28]
• Al-Maamún, son and successor of Hárún al-Rashíd, [185]
• Al-Málihah=salt-girl; beautiful, [340]
• Al-Mustansir bi'llah=one seeking help in Allah, [317]
• Al-Nashshár=sawing, [335]
• Al-Níl=flood season corresponding to mid-summer, [290]
• Al-Rauzah=the gardens, [291]
• Al-Safar Zafar=voyaging is victory, [250]
• Al-Sahr=magic, black art, [305]
• Al-Záhir bi'llah=one pre-eminent by the decree of Allah, [317]
• Al-Zalamah (tyrants, oppressors)=police and employés, [273]
• Allah! Allah!=I conjure thee by God, Passim
• Allah hath said, formula of quoting the Koran, [61]
• Allah Karím=Allah is all beneficent, [32]
• Allah will open thee, a formula of refusing, ib.
• Ailaho a'alam=God is all knowing, [2]; [50]
• Allahumma=Yá Allah with emphasis, [39]
• Amán=quarter, mercy, [342]
• Amír=Military Commandant, [259]
• Amír al-Muuminín=Prince of the Faithful, [112]
• Amrad=beardless and handsome, effeminate, [327]
• Amsár=cities, [11]
• Amshát (combs) perhaps=Kunáfah (vermicelli), [83]
• Andam=the gum called dragon's blood; brazilwood, [176]
• Arab al-Arabá=prehistoric tribes of the Arabs, [112]
• Arab al-Musta'ajimah=barbarised Arabs, ib.
• Arab al-Musta'aribah=naturalised Arabs, ib.
• Arab al-Muta'arribah=Arabised Arabs, ib.
• Arakiyah=white scull-cap, [215]
• Ardabb (Irdabb)=about five bushels, [263]
• Arún (Heb.)=in his shirt, [78]
• Asal-nahl=bee's honey, [271]
• Ashkánián=race of Persian Kings, [78]
• Astrolabe, father of our sextant, [304]
• Atr=any perfume, [335]
• Auhashtani=thou hast made me desolate, [62]
• Awálim pl. of Alimah=dancing girls, [214]
• Aysh (Egypt.)=Ayyu shayyin for classical "Má"=what, [79]
• Aywa (for Ay w' Alláhi)=Ay, by Allah, [303]
• Azim="deuced" or "mighty fine", [178]
• Báb=gate; chapter, [136]
• Báb al-Farádís=gate of the gardens at Damascus, [240]
• Babel=Gate of God, [85]
• Babes of the eyes=pupils, [100]
• Badawi's dying farewell, [75]
• Bádhanj=wind-shaft, ventilator, [257]
• Badmasti=le vin mauvais, [88]
• Baghlah=she-mule, [129]
• Bahr=water cut or trenched in the earth, sea, large river, [44]
• Bahr al-muhít=circumambient ocean, [133]
• Balid=simpleton, [17]
• Ballán=body servant, [311]
• Ballánah=tire-woman, ib.
• Banj=Nibanj=Nepenthe, hemp, [70]
• Baradiyah=wide-mouthed jug, [36]
• Bárid=vain, foolish, insipid, [213]
• Barley, food for horses, [345]
• Barmecides, [188]
• Basaltic statues in Hauranic ruins give rise to the idea of men metamorphosed into black stones, [170]
• Basil=the Indian Tulsi, Ocymum basilicum, [19]
• Basil of the bridges=pennyroyal, [91]
• Bastinado of women, [183]
• Bayáz al-Sultáni=the best kind of gypsum, [270]
• Bazar of Damascus famous in the Middle Ages, [2]
• Beheading or sacking a faithless wife unlawful but leniently looked upon, [181]
• Before the face of Allah=for the love of God, [135]
• Bi'l-Salámah=in safety (to avert the evil eye), [288]
• Birkat al-Habash=Abyssinian pond, [291]
• Bismillah=in the name of God, [40]
• —— said before taking action, [80]
• —— a civil form of dismissal, [98]
• ——="fall to!", [264]
• Blackamoors preferred by debauched women, [6]
• Blind notorious for insolence, etc., [330]
• Blinding a common practice in the East, how done, [108]
• Blue and yellow turbans prescribed to Christians and Jews, [77]
• Boils and pimples supposed to be caused by broken hair-roots, [275]
• Breast broadening with delight, [48]
• Breast straitened, the converse of breast broadening (48), [119]
• Bride's throne, [215]
• Búzah=beer, [72]
• Cairenes held exceedingly debauched, [298]
• Cairo nothing without the Nile, [295]
• Camel, how slaughtered, [347]
• Carpet-beds, [294]
• Chaff or banter allowed even to modest women, [267]
• Champing sign of good breeding, [345]
• Chess-anecdote, [132]
• Children carried astraddle upon hip or shoulder, [308]
• Claims of maidenhead, [190]
• Clapping of hands to summon servants, [177]
• Clever young ladies dangerous in the East, [15]
• Conception on the bride-night rare, [227]
• Confession after concealment a characteristic of the servile class, [53]
• Confession on the criminal's part required by Moslem Law, [274]
• Confusion of metaphors characteristic of The Nights, [86]
• Contemplation of street-scenery one of the pleasures of the Harem, [319]
• Corpse pollutes him who touches it, [295]
• Cutting off the right hand Koranic punishment for theft, [274]
• Cutting of the navel string preliminary to naming the babe, [231]
• Cutting the rope=breaking bounds, [349]
• Dajlah=Tigris, Heb. Hid-dekel, [180]
• Dakhíl-ak=under thy protection, [61]
• Damascus women famed for sanguinary jealousy, [295]
• Darabukkah=tom-tom, [311]
• Darbar=public audience, [29]
• Dastúr=leave, permission, [66]
• Daughter of my uncle=my wife, [69]
• Daurak=narrow-mouthed jug, [36]
• Despite his nose=against his will, [26]
• Destiny blindeth human sight, [67]
• Dinár=gold piece, Daric, Miskál, [32]
• Dirham=silver piece, [33]
• "Dog" and "hog" popular terms of abuse, [188]
• Drinking first to show that the draught is not poisoned, [88]; [295]
• "Drop" unknown to the Eastern gallows, [260]
• Dunyázád=world-free, [14]
• Dust-storm in tropical lands, [111]
• Elephant's roll (to Hindu)=swaying and graceful gait, [217]
• Erotic inferences drawn from parts of body, [350]
• Eternal truth of The Nights, [7]
• Eunuch best go-between, [282]
• Eunuch employed as porter, [343]
• Eunuch-in-Chief a most important Jack in office, [283]
• Eunuchs, different kinds of, [132]
• Euphemistic formulas to avoid mentioning unpleasant matters, [31]
• Exaggeration part of humour, [12]
• Eyebrows joined a great beauty in Arabia, [227]
• Eyes of me=my dears, [163]
• Face-veil="nose-bag", [82]
• Fakír=religious mendicant generally, [95]
• Falcon=blinding the quarry, [51]
• Fals ahmar=a red cent, [321]
• Faráiz=orders expressly given in the Koran, [169]
• Farajíyah=a long sleeved robe, [210], [321]
• Fass=bezel of a ring, gem cut en cabochon, contenant for contenu, [165]
• Fata=a youth; generous man, etc., [67]
• Favours foreshadowing downfall, [48]
• Female depravity going hand in hand with perversity of taste, [73]
• Fiat injustitia ruat cœlum, [253]
• First personal pronoun placed first for respect, [237]
• Fitnah=revolt, seduction, mischief; beautiful girl; aphrodisiac perfume, [219]
• Following one's face=at random, [347]
• Friday night=our Thursday night, [269]
• Friday Service described, [313]
• Frolics of highborn ladies, [328]
• "Fun"=practical jokes of the largest, [20]
• Futur=breakfast, [300]
• Gall-bladder and liver allusions, [219]
• Ghadir=a place where water sinks, lowland, [233]
• Ghamz=winking, signing with the eye, [292]
• Gharíb=foreigner, [95]
• Ghawází=singing girls, [214]
• Ghazl al-banát (spinning of girls)=vermicelli, [83]
• Ghilmán=Wuldán, the beautiful youths of Paradise, [211]
• Ghútah=thickly grown lowland, [115]
• Ghúlah=ogress, [55]
• Going straight to the point preferred to filer le parfait amour, [268]
• Gold makes bold, [340]
• Ground-floor usually let for shops, [319]
• Habb=grain of the heart, [250]
• Habbániyah=grain-seller's quarter, [269]
• Habíb, euphemism for lover, [223]
• Hayhát, onomatopoetic=heigh-ho!, [76]
• Hair should be allowed all to grow or be shaven off, [308]
• Hair-dyes all vegetable matter, [326]
• Halab=Aleppo, [292]
• Hammam, going to the=convalescence, [288]
• ——, showing that a woman's monthly ailment is over, [286]
• Harím=Harem, used for the inmates, wife, etc., [165]
• Harísah, a favourite dish, [131]
• Hasanta ya Hasan=bene detto, Benedetto!, [251]
• Hashísh, intoxicant prepared of hemp, [225]
• Haste ye to salvation, part of the Azán, [224]
• Hátif=mysterious voice, [142]
• Hauk! Hauk!=heehaw!, [221]
• Head in the poke=into the noose, [179]
• High-bosomed damsel a favourite with Arab tale-tellers, [84]
• Hog, popular term of abuse, [188]
• Horoscopes, etc., [213]
• Horseplay frequently ending in bastinado, [325]
• House of Peace=Baghdad, [139]
• Houses of Lamentation in Moslem burial-grounds, [94]
• Humming not a favourite practice with Moslems, [311]
• Hunchback looked upon with fear and aversion, [258]
• Húr al-Ayn=with eyes of lively white and black, [90]
• Hurr=gentleman, [254]
• Hurry is from Hell, [264]
• Iblis=Despairer, [13]
• Ibn Harám=son of adultery, abuse not necessarily reflecting on the parent, [231]
• Ibrat=needle-graver and Ibrat=warning, a favourite jingle, [104]
• Ibrík=ewer, and Tisht=basin, used for washing the hands, [241]
• Id al-Kabír=the Great Festival, [28]
• Ifrít, divided into two races like mankind, [11]
• Ifritah=she-Ifrit, [34]
• Ihdák=encompassing, as the white encloses the black of the eye, [49]
• Ihtizáz=shaking with delight, [50]
• Iklíl=diadem, now obsolete, [270]
• Iklím=the seven climates of Ptolemy, [233]
• Ilm al-Ruháni=Spiritualism, [305]
• Improvising still common amongst the Badawin, [39]
• Incest lawful amongst ancient peoples, [110]
• Inheritance, law of, settled by the Koran, [174]
• Inshád=conjuring by Allah, [11]
• Insolence and licence of palace girls, [286]
• Intellect of man stronger than a Jinni's, [43]
• Internally wounded=sick at heart, [5]
• Inwá=jerking the date-stone, [25]
• Ishá=the first watch of the night, [175]
• Izár=sheet worn as veil, [163]
• Ja'afar=contrasting strongly with his master, [102]
• Jahárkas=Pers. Chehár-kas, four persons, [266]
• Jannat al-Na'ím=The Garden of Delights i.e. Heaven, [98]
• Jazírah=Peninsula, Arabia, [2]
• Jazírát al-Khálidát=Eternal Isles=Canaries, [141]
• Jilá=displaying the bride before the bridegroom, [174]
• Jinn=the French génie, the Hindu Rakshasa or Yaksha, [10]
• Joseph of the Koran very different from him of Genesis, [13]
• Judri=small-pox, [256]
• Junún=madness, [10]
• Ká'ah=ground-floor hall, [85]
• Ká'ah (saloon)=fine house, mansion, [292]
• Kábul-men noted for Sodomy, [299]
• Káf, popularly=Caucasus, [72], [133]
• Kahbah=whore, [70]
• Kahílat al-taraf=having the eyelids lined with Kohl, [63]
• Kahkahah=horse-laughter, [350]
• Kahramánát=nursery governess, [231]
• Káid=leader, [330]
• Kalam=reed-pen, [128]
• Kalám al-Mubáh=the permitted say, [29]
• Kalandar=mendicant monk, [94]
• Kámat Alfiyyah=straight stature, [85]
• Kamís=shift, etc., [293]
• Kat'a=bit of leather, [20]
• Katá=sand-grouse, [131]
• Katf=pinioning, [106]
• Kathá-Sarit-Ságara=poetical version of the Vrihat-Kathá, [12]
• Kaus al-Banduk=pellet-bow, [10]
• Kausar=a lieu commun of poets, [241]
• Kawwád=pimp, [316]
• Káyánián race of Persian Kings, [75]
• Kaylúlah=siesta, [51]
• Kaysariyah=superior kind of Bazar, [266]
• Kazi=judge in religious matters, [21]
• Kerchief of mercy, [343]
• Khádim=servant, politely applied to a castrato, [235]
• Khalí'a=worn out; wag, [311]
• Khalífah=Vicar of Allah; successor of a Santon, [184]
• Khan=caravanserai, [92]
• Khan Al-Masrúr, in Cairo, famous in the 15th century, [265]
• Khanjar=hanger, [232]
• Khatmah=reading or reciting the whole Koran, [277]
• Khinzír=hog, [108]
• Khubz=scones, [131]
• Khuff=walking shoes, [82]
• Khyas, Khyas, onomatopoetic, used in a sea-spell, [228]
• King's barber a man of rank, [351]
• "Kiss, key to Kitty", [323]
• Kissing the eyes a paternal salute, [125]
• Kohl=powdered antimony for the eyelids, [89]
• —— proverbially used, [278]
• Koran quoted (xx.), [2]
• —— (ii. 34), [13]
• —— (xxv. 31), ib.
• —— (xix. 69), ib.
• —— (xxvi.), [39]
• —— (xxvii.), [42]
• —— (v., xx.), [119]
• —— (vii., xviii.), [169]
• —— (i.), [208]
• —— (lvi. 9), [211]
• —— (lx.), [220]
• —— (v.), [240]
• —— (cviii.), [241]
• —— (xvii.), [249]
• —— (xxxvi. 69), [251]
• —— (cv.), [256]
• —— (ii., ix.), [257]
• —— (v.), [274]
• —— (viii. 17), ib.
• —— (iii.), [298]
• —— (iii. 128), [307]
• Kufr=rejecting the True Religion, [169]
• Kulkasá=colocasia roots, [272]
• Kullah=gugglet, [36]
• Kumkum=a gourd-shaped bottle for sprinkling scents, [42]
• Kári=teacher of the correct pronunciation of the Koran, [113]
• Kurrat al-Ayn=coolness of the eye, [72]
• Kurs has taken the place of Iklíl, [270]
• Kursi (choir, throne)=desk or stool for the Koran, [167]
• Kush'arírah=horripilation, symptom of great joy or fear, [251]
• La'abat=a plaything, a puppet, a lay figure, [245]
• Lá adamnák=Heaven deprive us not of thee, [268]
• Labbayka=Here am I, called Talbiyah, [226]
• Laylat al-Wafá=the night of completion of the Nile-flood, [291]
• Lá Haula, etc.=there is no Majesty etc., [69]
• Lá tawáhishná=do not make us desolate, [62]
• Lá tawákhizná=do not chastise us=excuse us, [164]
• Latter night=hours between the last sleep and dawn, [24]
• Laughing in one's face not intended as an affront, [320]
• Laughter rare and sign of a troubled spirit, [248]
• Life-breath in the nostrils=heart in the mouth, [42]
• Like mother like daughter, [299]
• Liver=seat of passion, [27]
• Loghah=Arabic language, also a vocabulary, dictionary, [251]
• Loosening the hair an immodesty in women sanctioned only by a great calamity, [314]
• Lukmah=mouthful, [261]
• Madfa'=cannon, showing modern date, [223]
• Magnet Mountains, fable probably based on the currents, [140]
• Mail-coat and habergeon simile for a glittering stream, [291]
• Ma'ín, Ma'ún=smitten with the evil eye, [123]
• Majnún=madman, [10]
• Making water, [259]
• Mahkamah=Kazi's Court, [21]
• Malik or Malak=Seraph or Sovran, [253]
• Mamlúk=white slaves trained to arms, [81]
• Márid=contumacious Jinni, [41]
• Máristán (from Pers. Bímáristán=place of sickness), [288]
• Marmar=marble, [295]
• Marriage not valid without receipt of settlement, [276]
• Mashá ilí=bearer of a cresset (Mash'al), [259]
• Masíhi=follower of the Messiah, [258]
• Maskhút=transformed (mostly into something hideous); a statue, [165]
• Massage (shampooing), [172]
• Mausil (Mosul) alluding to the junction of Assyria and Babylonia, [82]
• Maydán=parade ground, [46]
• Maymúnah, proverbial name now forgotten, [57]
• Meat rarely coloured in modern days, [310]
• Merchants and shopkeepers carrying, swords, [54]
• Miao or Mau=cat, [220]
• Mikra'ah=palm-rod, [99]
• Mihráb and Minaret, symbols of Venus and Priapus?, [166]
• Milh=salt, [340]
• Miracles performed by Saints' tombs, [241]
• Miskál=71-72 grams in gold, used for dinar, [126]
• Mizr, Mizar=beer, [72]
• Moles compared with pearls, [177]
• Monday=second day, reckoning from Sabbath (Saturday), [266]
• Money carried in the corner of a handkerchief, [271]
• Monoculars unlucky to meet, [333]
• Mosul stuff=muslin, [229]
• Mounds=rubbish heaps outlying Eastern cities, [71]
• Mouth compared to the ring of Sulayman, [84]
• Mu'arras=pimp, [338]
• Muháfiz=district-governor, [259]
• Muhakkak="Court-hand", [129]
• Muhammarah=fricandoed, [286]
• Mujtabá=the Accepted, [77]
• Munakkishah=woman who applies the dye to a face, [270]
• Murtazá=the Elect, [77]
• Mustapha=the Chosen, ib.
• Mutawalli=Prefect of Police, [259]
• Muzayyin=Figaro of the East, [304]
• Nabút=quarter-staff, [234]
• Nadd, a compound perfume, [310]
• Naddábah=mourning woman, [311]
• Nadím=cup-companion, [46]
• Nafas=breath, [107]
• Nafs=soul, life, ib.
• Nahás asfar=brass, [40]
• Nahás (ahmar)=copper, ib.
• Nahnu málihín=we are on term of salt, [344]
• Nahs=nasty, [301]
• Naihah=keener, hired mourner, [311]
• Nakedness paraphrased, [327]
• Nakíb a caravan-leader, chief, syndic, [269]
• Name of Allah introduced into an indecent tale essentially Egyptian, [12]
• Narjis=Narcissus, [294]
• Naskh=copying hand, [128]
• Nasráni=follower of Him of Nazareth, [258]
• Nat'a=leather used by way of table-cloth, [20]
• Nata' al-dam=the leather of blood, [318]
• Navel as to beauty and health, [84]
• Nearness of seat a mark of honour, [250]
• Negroes preferred by debauched women, [6]
• New-moon beginning Ramazán carefully looked for, [84]
• Nile-water sweet and light, [290]
• Nineteen the age of an oldish old maid in Egypt, [212]
• Noisy merriment scandalous to Moslem "respectability", [95]
• Nothing for nothing a sexual point d'honneur, [87]
• Oath a serious thing amongst Moslems, [179]
• Oman=Eastern Arabia, [83]
• Oriental orgie different from European, [93]
• Pander-dodge to get more money, [302]
• Panel-dodge fatally common, [323]
• Paris Jockey-club scene anticipated, [327]
• Parody on the testification of Allah's Unity, [177]
• Parrot-story a world-wide folk-lore, [52]
• Passengers in difficulties take command, [140]
• Pearl, supposed to lose one per cent. per ann. of its splendour, [165]
• Peshdadians, race of Persian Kings, [75]
• Plain (ground), synonyms for, [46]
• Plural masc. used by way of modesty when a girl addresses her lover, [98]
• Poetry of the Arabs requires knowledge of the Desert to be understood, [230]
• Pomegranate fruit supposed to contain seed from Eden garden, [134]
• Prime Minister carrying fish to the cookmaid, [63]
• Privy, a slab with slit in front and a round hole behind, [221]
• Proverbs true to nature, [307]
• Qanoon-e-Islam quoted on the subject of horoscopes, etc., [213]
• Raydaniyah, a camping ground near Cairo, [245]
• Rayháni=a curved character, [128]
• Rais=captain of a ship, [127]
• Rajaz=the seventh Bahr of Arabic prosody, [251]
• Rajul ikhtiyár=middle-aged man, [55]
• Refusal of a gift greatest affront, [336]
• Rending of garments as sign of sorrow or vexation, [308]
• Respect shown to parts of the body, exuviæ, etc., [276]
• Riding on the ass an old Biblical practice, [262]
• Rims cars, [131]
• Rozistan=day station, [29]
• Ruká'í=correspondence hand, [128]
• Rukhám=alabaster, [295]
• Ruka'tayn=two-bow prayer, [142]
• Sa'ad=auspiciousness, prosperity; derivatives, [9]
• Sabr=patience and aloes, source of puns, [138]
• Sadaf=cowrie, [19]
• Sadakah=voluntary alms, opposed to Zakát, [339]
• Sadd=wall, dyke, [114]
• Sáhib=companion, used as a Wazirial title, [237]
• Sáhib al-Shartah=chief of the watch (Prefect of Police), [259]
• Sáhib Nafas=master of breath, a minor saint healing by expiration, [107]
• Sáhil Masr=the river side (at Cairo), [291]
• Saj'a=rhymed prose, [116]
• Sakhr al-Jinni alluded to, [41]
• Sákiyah=the Persian water wheel, [123]
• Sálih, prophet sent to Thámúd, [169]
• Salmá and Layla=our "Mary and Martha", [265]
• Sama'an wa ta atan to be translated variously, [96]
• Samn=clarified butter, [144]
• Sár=vendetta, [101], [114]
• Saráwil=bag or petticoat trousers, [222]
• Sardábeh=underground room, [340]
• Sarráf=Anglo-Indian "Shroff", [210]
• Sassanides, [75]
• Sawáb=reward in Heaven, [96]
• Sayd wa Kanas=hunting and coursing, [9]
• Scalding a stump in oil common surgery practice, [297]
• Scorpions of the brow=accroche-cœurs, etc., [168]
• Sealing a covered dish a necessary precaution against poison, [244]
• Seas, the two=the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean, [173]
• Sepulchre, erroneously called "a little Wali", [105]
• Seven schools or editions of the Koran, [113]
• Shább=youth between puberty and forty, [55]
• Shabistan=night station, [29]
• Shakáik al-Nu'umán=anemone, [175]
• Shahrázád=city-freer, [14]
• Shahryár=city friend, [2]
• Shah Zamán=King of the Age, ib.
• Shaykh=an old man, elder, chief, [26]
• Shaykh, Shaybah=grey-beard, oldster, [55]
• Sha'ílah=link (also lamp, wick, etc.), [259]
• Shaking and nodding the head, universal items of gesture language, [300]
• Shám (Syria)=land on the left, opposed to Al-Yaman=land on the right, [83]
• "Shame" alluded to in cursing parents of an abused person, [227]
• Shampooing the feet, [117]
• Sharmutah=rags, tatters; strumpets; shreds of meat=Kadíd, [163]
• Shámah=Khál, mole on the cheek, [167]
• Shart=a single Talbiyah or cry Labbayka, [226]
• Shatm=obscene abuse, [182]
• Shayyun li'lláhi=per amor di Dio, [329]
• Shedding tears no disgrace for a man, [68]
• Sham hamphorash=the hundredth name of God, engraved on the seal-ring of Solomon, [173]
• Shiháb=shooting stars, [224]
• Shirk (partnership)=Syntheism, Dualism, Trinitarianism, [181]
• Shops composed of a "but" and a "ben", [316]
• Shudder preceding the magnetic trance, [44]
• Shuhadá, martyrs, extensive category, [171]
• Shuhúd=assessors of the Kazi's Court, [21]
• Shurayh, foxier than the fox, [252]
• Shúshah=topknot of hair, [308]
• Simát=dinner table, [178]
• Simiyá=white magic, [305], [332]
• Sitting on shins and knees a trying posture, [130]
• Slaves fancied by debauched women, [191]
• Slice of the moon=digit of the moon, [91]
• Smuggling men into the Harem, [282]
• Snatching off the turband a paying industry, [259]
• Soft-sided, attribute of beauty, [168]
• Solomon's death fixing the date of a tale, [41]
• "Son" used for "grandson" more affectionate, [243]
• Son of a century=hundred years old, [126]
• Sons of Adam=men, [130]
• Sons of Sásán=Sassanides, [2]
• Speaker puts himself first, [33]
• Spittle dried up from fear, [285]
• Staff broken in the first bout=failure in the first attempt, [64]
• Street melodies changing with fashion, [311]
• Striking the right hand upon the left sign of vexation, [298]
• Striking with the shoe, the pipe-stick, etc., highly insulting, [110]
• Subh-i-kázib=false dawn, [78]
• Subh-i-sádik=true dawn, ib.
• Sucking the tongue="kissing with th' inner lip", [270]
• Sufrah=dinner table, [178]
• Sugar-stick=German Zuckerpüppchen, [167]
• Suhá, star in the Great Bear, ib.
• Sulayman and Sakhr al-Jinni, [42]
• Sullam=ladder; whipping-post, [331]
• Sulus=engrossing hand, [128]
• Sums of large amount weighed, [281]
• Sun greeting Mohammed, [45]
• Superstitious practices not confined to the lower orders, [40]
• Surriyat=concubine, [27]
• Su 'ubán=dragon, cockatrice=Tannín, [172]
• Su'úd used as a counter odour, [279]
• Suwán=syenite, [238]
• Taghúm a kind of onomatopoetic grunt, [228]
• Tailor made to cut out the cloth in owner's presence, [321]
• Tákiyah, calotte worn under the Fez, scull-cap, [224]
• Talbiyah=the cry Labbayka, [226]
• Tammúz=July, [53]
• Tamar Hanná=flower of privet, [83]
• Tár=tambourine, [215]
• Tarbúsh=Pers. Sar-púsh, head cover, ib.
• Tarík=clear the way, [66]
• Tarjumán=truchman, dragoman, [100]
• Tasbíh=saluting in the Subh, [258]
• Taur (Thaur, Saur), a venerable remnant of un-split speech, [16]
• Tawáshi, obnoxious name for a Eunuch, [235]
• Tears shed over past separation, [283]
• Thousand dirhams and thousand dinars=£125 and £500 respectively, [281]
• Three days term of hospitality, [3]
• Throwing one=bastinado on the back, [243]
• Tibn=crushed straw, [16]
• Tobba (Himyaritic)=the Great or Chief, [216]
• Tongue of the case=words suggested by the circumstances, [121]
• Tughyán=Kufr, rejection of the True Religion, [169]
• Túmár=uncial letters, [129]
• Turband not put upon the ground out of respect, [223]
• "Turk" probably a late addition, [52]
• Turning round in despair against an oppressor, [246]
• Odah, properly Uta=private room of a concubine, [286]
• Ultra-Shakspearean geography, "Fars of Roum", [45]
• Umamah and Atikah, tale of two women now forgotten, [61]
• Umm Amir=Mother of Amir, nickname for the hyena, [43]
• 'Urban=wild Arabs, [112]
• Usfur=safflower, [219]
• Uzayr=Esdras, [257]
• Varieties of handwriting, [129]
• Wady, Anglicè "valley", [51]
• Wahsh=wild-beast and synonyms, [242]
• Wakálah; described in Pilgrimage i. 60, [266]
• Wakkád=stoker, [312]
• Wali=(civil) Governor, [259]
• Wa'l-Salám=and here ends the matter, [102]
• Washings after evacuation, [220]
• Way of Allah=common property, [91]
• Wazir=Minister, [2]
• "What is it compared with," popular way of expressing great difference, [37]
• Wife euphemistically spoken of in the masculine, [67]
• Window-gardening, old practice in the East, [301]
• Wine boiled=vinum coctum, [132]
• Wine-drinking vitiates the Pilgrimage-rite, [97]
• Wine flying to the head, effect of the cold after a heated room, [224]
• Wine why strained? [27]
• Wiswás=diabolical temptation or suggestion, [106]
• Women bastinadoed, [183]
• Wonder (=cause) in every death, [351]
• Wuldán=Ghilmán, the beautiful youths of Paradise, [211]
• Wuzu-ablution=lesser ablutions, [142]
• Yá Ba'íd=O distant one, euphemism for gross abuse, [41]
• Yá bárid=O fool, [313]
• Yá hú=O he! Swift's Yahoo? [240]
• Yahúdí for Jew, less polite than Banu Isráíl, [210]
• Yá Khálati=mother's sister, in addressing the old, [303]
• Yá Mash'úm=O unlucky one, [221]
• Yá házá=O this (one), somewhat slightingly, [240]
• Yá Sattár=Thou who veilest the discreditable secrets of Thy creatures, [258]
• Yá Tayyib al-Khál=O thou nephew of a good uncle, [303]
• Yaum al-Id=the great festival, [317]
• Youth described in terms applying to women, [144]
• Zábit=Prefect of Police, [259]
• Zakát=legal alms, [339]
• Zambúr=clitoris, [90]
• Zemzem=water saltish, [284]
• Zikr=litanies, [124]
• Zírbájah=meat dressed with cumin-seed, etc., [278]
• Ziyárat=visit to a pious person or place, [125]
• Zauba'ah=sandstorm the desert, [114]
• Zubb=penis, [92]
• Zabbál=scavenger, [312]
• Zulf=side-lock, [308]
• Zulm, injustice, tyranny; worst of a monarch's crimes, [190]
• Zuwaylah gate, more correctly Báb Zawilah, [269]

TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES

1. Added missing anchors for footnotes on p. [44], p. [87], p. [181], p. [208], and p. [218].
2. Corrected footnote numbering on p. [181] and p. [182].
3. Corrected footnote anchor numbering on p. [263] and p. [272].
4. Added footnote number on p. [297].
5. Added missing page number [253] to Index entry "Malik or Malak=Seraph or Sovran" on p. [358].
6. The dates ("A.H. 86-96=105-115") on p. [208] are probably incorrect as the Caliph lived from 691-743 CE per Wikipedia.
7. Silently corrected simple spelling, grammar, and typographical errors.
8. Retained anachronistic and non-standard spellings as printed.