A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments, Now Entituled the Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 03 (of 17)

by Unknown

• '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]

TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES

1. Inserted missing chapter heading on p. [1].
2. Inserted missing footnote anchor on p. [216].
3. Silently corrected simple spelling, grammar, and typographical errors.
4. Retained anachronistic and non-standard spellings as printed.