A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments, Now Entituled the Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 04 (of 17)

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• Abbás = the grim-faced, [138]
• Abd al-Kádir of Gilán (founder of the Kádiri order), [41]
• Abd al-Malik bin Marwán (Caliph), [7]
• Abdullah bin Abí Kilábah, [113]
• Abdullah bin Málik al-Khuzá´i, [181]
• Abraham (Place or stone of), [148]
• Abu al-Muzaffir = Father of the Conqueror, [166]
• Abu Nowas (Pr. N. = father of the side-locks), [55]; [264]
• Abu Hassán al-Ziyádi, [258]
• Abu Yúsuf (the Lawyer), [153]
• Adam’s loins, [111]
• Adi (son of Hátim al-Táyyí), [95]
• Adl = just (ironically), [271]
• Adm (Udm) = any relish, [128]
• Ahmad al-Danaf (Pr. N. = Calamity-Ahmad), [75]
• Akkám = cameleer, caravan-manager, [40]
• Alá al-Din (Aladdin) Glory of the Faith, [29]; [33]
• Aláma = alá-má = upon what? wherefore, [201]
• Alast (day of), [111]
• Al Dáud (David’s family), [50]
• Alfi = one who costs a thousand, [225]
• Ali al-Zabak (Pr. N. = Mercury Ali), [75]
• Alif-like stature, [249]
• Ali Shar (Pr. N.), [187]
• Allah (His name pronounced against the evil eye), [34]
• Allah (swearing by, forbidden), [175]
• —— is all-knowing (= I don’t know), [283]
• Amáim (pl. of Imámah) = turbands, [100]
• Amín (Al-) = the Trusted of Allah, [261]
• Amír and Samúl = Jones, Brown and Robinson, [106]
• Amrú (pronounced Amr) and Zayd = Tom, Dick or Harry, [2]
• Ana fí jírat-ak = I crave thy intercession (useful phrase), [83]
• Anbár (pronounced Ambár), town on the Euphrates, [152]
• Antar (Romance quoted), [41]
• Antiochus and Stratonice, [10]
• Apple(-wine), [134]
• —— (many a goodly one rotten at the core), [187]
• Ark al-Haláwat = vein of sweetness, sugar stick, for penis, [51]
• Armaníyah (Armenia), [182]
• Arm-pits (taking a dismounting person under the, a sign of respect), [24]
• Artál (see Rotl)
• Asídah (custard, pap), [37]
• Aslán (Pr. N. probably for Arslán = lion), [78]
• Asma´i (Al-), author of Antar, [159]
• Aun (of Jinns, etc.), [88]
• Awwádah = a lute-player, [142]
• Ayat (Coranic verset, sign, miracle), ib.
• Ayyás (Issus of Cilicia), [76]
• Báb al Lúk (of Fustát), [259]
• Báb al Salám (of the Al-Medínah Mosque), [288]
• Babes of the eyes, [246]
• Baboon (Kird), has a natural penchant for women, [297]
• Badawi (bluntness and plain-speaking of), [102]
• Badrah = 10,000 dirhams, [281]
• Baháim (pl. of Bahímah = Behemoth) applied to cattle, [54]
• Bahramáni = Brahman, [101]
• Bakh Bakh! = well done!, [121]
• Bandage eyes (before beheading), [145]
• Banquets (royal), [212]
• —— (daintily devised), [226]
• Banú Isráíl, [283]
• —— Shaybán (Badawi tribe), [233]
• Barsh (Bars), commonest form of Bhang, [31]
• Bath, coming out of, shows that consummation has taken place, [244]
• Bawd (admirably portrayed), [4]
• Bean-eating in Egypt, [160]
• “Ben” of an Arab shop as opposed to the “but”, [93]
• Bestiality (fatally common amongst Egyptians), [299]
• Bhang (preparation of), [31]
• —— (drugging with = tabannuj), [71]
• Bier the (bulging = Hadbá), [63]
• Birkah = pool of standing water, [270]
• Black-mail (paid to the Badawin of Ramlah), [76]
• Blue-eyed (frequently = fierce-eyed), [192]
• Boccaccio quoted, [36]
• Body-guard (consists of two divisions), [62]
• Bread and Salt (to be taken now “cum grano salis”), [200]
• Breeze (rude but effective refrigerator), [199]
• “Brother of the Persians”, [12]
• Brow (like Nún), [249]
• Budúr = moons, [249]
• Buka´at al-Dam = place of blood (where it stagnates), [68]
• Burckhardt (fable anent his death), [78]
• Cairo (see Misr).
• —— (Chaff), [215]
• —— (Slang), [75]
• Calligraphy, [196]
• Camel-slaughtering (Nahr), [95]
• Capo bianco, Coda verde, [36]
• Catamites (rising to highest rank in Turkey), [225]
• —— (in Turkish baths), [226]
• Chastity (merchandise in trust from Allah), [43]
• Child of the nurse, etc. = delicately reared, [34]
• China (kingdom), [175]
• Chinese Shadows, [193]
• Cider (Arab. Sharáb al-Tuffáh), [134]
• City of Brass (Copper), [176]
• Claimant of blood-revenge, [109]
• —— and Defendant, [150]
• Cloth of frieze and cloth of gold, [145]
• Clothes (tattered, sign of grief), [158]
• Consul (Shah-bandar), [29]
• —— (Kunsul), [84]
• Cowrie (shells, etc., for small change), [77]
• Crenelles = Sharáríf, [165]
• Crow-claw and Camel-hoof, [217]
• Cutting bones before flesh = “sharp as a razor”, [295]
• Dalak = footrasp, [254]
• Danaf (Al-) = the Distressing Sickness, [75]
• Darb al-Asfar = the Street called Yellow, [93]
• Darr al-Káil = divinely he spoke who said, [20]
• Darrij = Let them slide, [220]
• Deity of the East despotic, [118]
• —— after the fashion of each race, [267]
• Depilation (Solomon and Bilkís), [256]
• Dinghy (Kárib), [168]
• Divining-rod (dowsing-rod), [73]
• Dogs (clothed in hot-damp countries), [266]
• Dream (Speaker in a), [239]
• Dress (Scarlet of a King in anger), [72]
• Drop (black, of the heart), [251]
• Drunk (with one’s own beauty), [34]
• Dukhúl = going in to the bride, [30]
• Durká’ah = lower part of the floor (opposed to Liwán), [71]
• Eating (gives rights of guestship), [214]
• —— (superstitious belief in its power), [218]
• Efendi (Turkish title = our esquire), [53]
• Egyptian vulgarism, [107]
• —— characteristic, [260]
• Embracing (like the Lám embraceth the Alif), [243]
• Emerald (white?), [164]
• Eunuchs (driving the people out of a lady’s way), [126]
• —— (who have studied the Harím), [228]
• Euphemy (announcing death), [61]
• —— (thou shalt die), [90]
• —— (all is well), [138]
• —— (the far one is a Nazarene), [215]
• Exaggeration characteristic of The Nights, [273]
• Eye (the Evil) on children, [37]
• —— (babes of the), [246]
• Eyes (bandaged before beheading), [145]
• —— (blue), [192]
• —— (one-eyed men), [194]
• Faces (on the day of Judgment), [249]
• Far off one (the, shall die), [90]
• Farkh Akrab (vulgarism for Ukayrib) = a young scorpion, [46]
• Farsakh = parasang, [230]
• Fat and Thin (dispute between), [254]
• Fátihah (the opening chapter of the Koran), [36]
• Firmán = Wazirial order, [61]
• Fí sabíli ´llahi = on Allah’s path (martyrdom), [247]
• Flatulence produced by bean-eating, [160]
• Food (partaken gives rights of protection), [214]
• —— (superstitious belief in its power), [218]
• Freewill (and the Korán), [275]
• Friends weeping when they meet after long parting, [26]
• —— (“damned ill-natured” ones), [137]
• Fulán = Fulano, a certain person, [278]
• Furkán = Koran, [90]
• Futúh (openings, victories), [51]
• Ghabah = a copse, [40]
• Gháshiyah = étui, scabbard; sleeved cloak, [131]
• Ghuráb al-Bayn = raven of parting, [52]
• Gold (different names of, required by Arabic rhetoric), [97]
• Goody goody preachments, [187]
• Gong (Mudawwarah), [135]
• Hábáb (Habá) = motes, [257]
• Habzalam (Pr. N. = seed of tyranny; “Absalom”?), [66]
• Hadbá (the bulging bier), [63]
• Hadís = tradition of the Prophet, [207]
• Hair-dyes (Mohammed), [194]
• Hájj (or Háji, not Hajji), [215]
• Hajjáj (Al-) bin Yúsuf, Governor, of Al-Hijáz and Al-Irák, [3]
• Hajjám = barber-surgeon, cupper, bleeder, [112]
• Haláwah = sweetmeat, [60]
• Hákim (Al-) bi-Amri ´llah, [296]
• Hand (left, how used), [129]
• —— (white, symbol of generosity; black of niggardness), [185]
• —— (his for her), [279]
• Harím (double entendre = Harem and Honour), [98]
• —— (= wife), [126]
• —— (hot-bed of Sapphism and Tribadism), [234]
• Harrák (ship = Carrack?), [130]
• Hasan bin Sahl (Wazir of Al-Maamún), [124]
• Hasab = quantity, opposed to Nasab = birth, [171]
• Hásid = an envier, [137]
• Hátim of Tayy (proverbial for Liberality), [94]
• Hazramaut (Hazarmaveth), [118]
• Heart (black drop in), [256]
• Heaven (Na´ím), [143]
• Hell (Sa´ír), ib.
• —— (cold as well as hot), [253]
• Hibál = ropes, [193]
• Homme acheté = de bonne famille, [225]
• Húd (prophet = Heber?), [118]
• Hurák = tinder, [108]
• Hurry (in a newly married couple indecent), [244]
• Hurúf al-Mutabbakát = the flattened sounds, [223]
• “I told you so” (even more common in East than West), [69]
• Ibrahím bin al-Mahdi (Pretender to the Caliphate), [103]
• Ibrahím al-Mosili, [108]
• Imám (The Seventh = Caliph Al-Maamún), [111]
• —— (the fugleman at the prayer-niche), [227]
• Imámah = turband, [100]
• Inconsequence (of the Author of The Nights), [155]
• Infirmity (and infirm letters), [243]
• Inscriptions (on trays, plates, etc.), [235]
• Inshallah = D.V., [286]
• Insomnia (curious treatment of), [229]
• Irádah = Sultan’s order, [61]
• Iram (the Many-columned), [113]
• Irony, [271]
• Irreverence (Egyptian), [47]
• Isaac (Ishák) of Mosul, [119]
• Ishmael (place of his sacrifice), [75]
• Istinjá = washing the fundament after stool, [129]
• Ja’afar the Barmecide (mode of his death), [159]
• —— (river or rivulet), [292]
• Jabal al-Tárik = Gibraltar, [100]
• Jacob’s daughters, [14]
• Jawán (Pr. N.; Pers. = youth, juvenis), [208]
• Job (a Syrian), [221]
• “Joyance is three things,” etc., [254]
• Jufún = eyebrows or eyelashes, [260]
• Jugular vein (from —— to ——), [92]
• Justice (poetical, not done), [28]
• Juzám = leprosy, [51]
• Ka’ab al-Ahbár (of the Scribes, two of the name), [115]
• Ka’abah (Pilgrim clinging to its curtain), [125]
• Kabbázah = a “holding woman”, [227]
• Kahirah = City of Mars (Cairo), [271]
• Kahramán (Pers.) = braves, heroes, [115]
• Kallá = prorsus non, [257]
• Kaptán = Capitano, [85]
• Kara Gyuz (see Khiyál).
• Kárib (pl. Kawárib) = dinghy, [168]
• Karúrah = bottle for urine, [11]
• Kasa’ah = wooden bowl, porringer, [283]
• Kasri (Al-) Governor of the two Iraks, [155]
• Katá = sand-grouse, [111]
• Kátala-k Allah = Allah strike thee dead (facetiously), [264]; [265]
• Katíl = the Irish “kilt”, [139]
• Kausar (river of Paradise), [196]
• Kawárib (see Kárib).
• Kazdír = Skr. Kastíra (Tin), [274]
• Kerchief (shaking and throwing the), [62]
• Khalí’a = a wag, a wicked wit, [229]
• Khammárah = wine-shop, tavern, “hotel”, [79]
• Khátún (Turk. Lady), [66]
• Khayr = good news by euphemy, [138]
• Khayzarán = rattan-palm, [255]
• Khizr (the Green Prophet), [175]
• Khiyál (Chinese shadows), [193]
• Khuff = walking-boot, [107]
• Khumásiyah = five feet high, [191]
• Kíl wa Kál = it was said and he said (chit-chat), [207]
• King (dressing in scarlet when wroth), [72]
• Kirámát = Saints’ miracles, [45]
• Kird = baboon, [297]
• Kishk (Kashk) = porridge, [214]
• Kissing (names for), [259]
• Kohl (he would steal it off the eye-ball = a very expert thief), [68]
• Koran quoted (xxv. 70), [5]
• —— (xii. 84, [93], [96]; xvi.), [14]
• —— (opening chapter), [36]
• —— (xiii. 14), [43]
• —— (chapter Yá Sín), [50]
• —— (xvii. 84), [80]
• —— (xlix., Inner Apartments), [102]
• —— (xvi. 112), ib.
• —— (xii. 92), [111]
• —— (lxxxix. 6-7), [115]
• —— (iii. 178), [156]
• —— (xvi.), [174]
• —— (ii. 224), [175]
• —— (xxi. 38), [244]
• —— (iii. 103; vii. 105; xxvii. 12), [249]
• —— (cxiv. 1), [251]
• —— (ii. 26), [254]
• —— (ii. 64; xxvii.), [256]
• —— (xvii. 62; xxxvii. 16), [259]
• —— (xli. 46), [275]
• Kúfah (Al-) founded by Omar, [1]
• —— (revolutionary spirit of), [3]
• Kumkum (cucurbite, gourd-shaped vessel), [68]; [178]
• Kumm = sleeve, used as a bag, [107]
• Kunyat = patro- or matro-nymic, [287]
• Kunsul = Consul, [84]
• Kús (town in Upper Egypt), [276]
• Kussá’a = curling cucumber, [98]
• Lá baas bi-zálik = there is no harm in that, [164]
• Labtayt (Pr. N. = Toledo), [99]
• Lane quoted, [2]; [55]; [63]; [66]; [84]; [95]; [96]; [107]; [110]; [124]; [136]; [160]; [164]; [171]; [181]; [187]; [189]; [191]; [196]; [199]; [200]; [202]; [204]; [205]; [209]; [212]; [214]; [219]; [222]; [228]; [231]; [233]; [244]; [254]; [268]; [271]; [273]; [279]; [287]; [297].
• Lasm (Lathm) = kissing the lower face, [259]
• Leprosy (thickens voice), [50]
• —— (shows first at the wrist), [51]
• Letter (model specimen), [57]
• Liberality (men proverbial for their), [96]
• Life (by the, of thy youth) oath of women, [49]
• —— (cheap in hot countries), [275]
• Light-worshipers (are liars), [252]
• Li’lláhi darru-ka = the Lord has been copious to thee, [20]
• Liwán = Al-Aywán, [71]
• Love (martyrs of), [205]
• —— (clairvoyance), [238]
• —— (excess of), ib.
• Lúk-Gate (proverb referring to), [259]
• Lumà = dark hue of the inner lips, [251]
• Lutf (servile name = elegance, delicacy), [232]
• Maamun (Al-), Caliph, [109]
• Ma’an bin Záidah (Pr. N. of a generous Arab), [96]
• Ma’áni-há (her meanings = her inner woman), [146]
• Madinát al-Nabi (Al-Medinah) = City of the Prophet, [114]
• Madness (there is a pleasure in), [204]
• Maka’ad = sitting-room, [78]
• Malik (Al-) al-Násir = the conquering King, [271]
• Man (handsomer than woman), [15]
• Mansúr al-Nimri (poet), [179]
• Martyrs (of love), [205]
• Martyrdom, [247]
• Mashá’ilí = cresset-bearer, for public crier, hangman, [61]
• Maukab (Al-) = Procession-day, [287]
• Mauz = Musa (Banana), [201]
• “May thy life be prolonged”, [62]
• Melancholy (chronic under the brightest skies), [239]
• Men (is there a famine of) = are men so few?, [295]
• Mikashshah = broom, [208]
• Mikbas (pot of lighted charcoal), [246]
• Military and Police sneered at, [270]
• Milk, white as, opposed to black as mud, [140]
• Mím-like mouth, [249]
• Mind (one by vinegar, another by wine = each goes its own way), [72]
• Minínah = biscuit, [86]
• Misr (vulg. Masr) = Egypt, [29]
• Mohammed (his uncles), [22]
• —— (traditional saying of), [35]
• —— (cleanses the Ka’abah of idols), [80]
• —— (on dying the hair, etc.), [194]
• —— (on lovers), [205]
• —— (on his being seen in sleep), [287]
• —— (places the “black stone”), [261]
• Mole on cheek (black as Bilál), [142]
• Monoculars (rascals), [194]
• Moon-faced (not absurd), [192]
• Moon (masculine), [261]
• Mountain (the, at Cairo), [294]
• Mountains (the pegs of the earth), [174]
• Mudawwarah (a gong?), [135]
• Muhallil (see Mustahall).
• Mukaddam (Anglo-Indicè Mucuddum) = overseer, [42]
• Munkasir (broken) = languid, [195]
• Musámarah = chatting at night, [237]
• Mustahall (Mustahill) = one who marries a thrice divorced woman and divorces her to make her lawful for her first husband, [48]
• Mutawakkil (Al-), Caliph, [291]
• Muwallad = a slave born in a Moslem land, [291]
• Muwashshah (stanza), [54]
• Myrtle-bush = young beard, [143]
• Nafísah (great-grand-daughter of the Imám Hasan), [46]
• Nahás = brass, [178]
• —— (asfar = brass; ahmar = copper), [230]
• Nahr = slaughtering a camel by stabbing, [95]
• Na’ím = Heaven, [143]
• Nauroz = new (year’s) day, [244]
• Negro (Legend of his origin), [250]
• Negrofied races like “walking tun-butts”, [255]
• Ni’amat = a blessing, [1]
• Nisáb (Al-), smallest sum for stealing which the hand is mutilated, [157]
• Nún-like brow, [249]
• Nymphomania (ascribed to worms in the vagina), [298]
• Oath (kept to the letter), [70]
• Obayd ibn Táhir (Under-Prefect of Baghdad), [291]
• One-eyed men considered rascals, [194]
• Pashas’ (agents for bribery in Constantinople), [183]
• Payne quoted, [50]; [66]; [197]; [221]; [222]
• Peccadillo in good old days (murder), [275]
• Penis = Ark al-Haláwat, [51]
• —— (correspondence of size), [52]
• Person (Arabic Shakhs), [97]
• Pharaoh (signs to), [249]
• Pilgrimage quoted (i. 75-77), [6]
• —— (i. 285; ii. 78), [36]
• —— (iii. 306), [75]
• —— (i. 123), [78]
• —— (iii. 295), [80]
• —— (iii. 303), [95]
• —— (ii. 119), [114]
• —— (i. 213), [115]
• —— (iii. 156, [162], [216], [220]), [125]
• —— (iii. 168, [174], [175]), [148]
• —— (ii. 329), [254]
• —— (iii. 192), [261]
• —— (i. 43), [293]
• Pistachio-nut (tight-fitting shell of), [216]
• Plain-speaking of the Badawi, [102]
• Plural of Majesty, [156]
• Polissonnerie (Egyptian), [226]
• Porcelain (not made in Egypt or Syria), [164]
• Pride of beauty intoxicates, [34]
• Procès verbal (customary with Moslems), [73]
• Property (of the heirless lapses to the Treasury), [62]
• Pun, [258]
• Rabelaisian humour of the richest, [152]
• Ráfizi = denier, Shí’ah, [44]
• Rag (burnt, used as styptic), [108]
• Ráh = pure old wine, [186]
• Rakb = fast-going caravan, [254]
• Ráshid (Pasha, etc.), [202]
• Rasúl = one sent, “apostle,” not prophet, [284]
• Raven of the waste or the parting, [52]
• Rayy (old capital of Media), [104]
• Red dress (sign of wrath), [72]
• Repentance (a strong plea for granting aid with a Moslem), [277]
• Rings in the East, [24]
• Rizwán = Moslem St. Peter, [195]
• Rod (divining or “dowsing”), [73]
• Rotl (pl. Artál) = rotolo, pound-weight, [124]
• Roum = Græco-Roman Empire, [100]
• Rustam (not Rustum or Rustem), [219]
• Sabá = Biblical Sheba, [113]
• Sáhib (Wazirial title), [139]
• Sa’ír = Hell, [143]
• Sakatí = second-hand dealer, [77]
• Sakká (Anglo-Indian Bihishti) = water-carrier, [44]
• Salát (blessing, prayer), [60]
• Salím (Pr. N. = the “Safe and Sound”), [58]
• Salsabíl (fountain in Paradise), [195]
• Samharí = lance of Samhar (place or maker), [258]
• Samn = melted butter, Ghi, [53]
• Samúr (applied to cats and dogs, also to Admiral Seymour), [57]
• Sapphism (practised in wealthy Haríms), [234]
• Sara’ (epilepsy, falling sickness, possession), [89]
• Sarráf = money-changer (Shroff), [270]
• Saudá = black bile, melancholia, [251]
• Separation (spoken of as a defilement), [211]
• Sévigné of pearls, [249]
• Shah-bandar = lord of the port (Consul), [29]
• Shár, Sher and Shír, [187]
• Sharáb al-Tuffáh = cider, [134]
• Sharáríf = trefoil-shaped crenelles, [165]
• Sharíf = a descendant of Mohammed, [170]
• “Short and thick is never quick”, [194]
• Shuumán = a pestilent fellow, [75]
• Sifr = whistling, [206]
• Signet-rings, [24]
• Signs (to Pharaoh), [249]
• Sikankúr = Σκίγκος (see Aphrodisiacs), [32]
• Sinning (for the pleasure of being pardoned), [111]
• Sirát (Al-), the bridge of Hell, [223]
• Slapping on the nape of neck = “boxing the ears”, [193]
• Sleeper and Waker (Tale of the), [96]
• Sleeplessness (contrivance against), [228]
• Smile (like Mím), [249]
• Squatting against a wall, [119]
• Stature (Alif-like), [249]
• Street (the, called Yellow), [93]
• —— (watering), [107]
• Stuff his mouth with jewels (reward for poetry), [103]
• —— a dead man’s mouth with cotton, [193]
• Su’adá = Beatrice, [267]
• Suffah = “sofa” (shelf), [275]
• Sujúd = prostration, [248]
• Suláfah = ptisane of wine, [258]
• Sumr = brown, black, [251]
• Sunní (versus Shí’ah, see Ráfizí), [82]
• Swearing (by Allah forbidden), [175]
• Sweetmeat of Safety, [60]
• Sword (making invisible), [176]
• Syene (town on the Nile), [152]
• Tabannuj = drugging with Bhang, [71]
• Tabban lahu = perdition to him, [142]
• Takaddum and Takádum (difference between), [171]
• Tárik (Jabal al-) = Gibraltar, [100]
• Taufík (P.N.) = causing to be prosperous, [1]
• Taylasán (turband worn by a preacher), [286]
• Tayy (noble Arab tribe), [94]
• Thakilata-k Ummak = be thy mother bereaved of thee, [156]
• Thank you (Eastern equivalent), [6]
• Thirst (affecting plea; why?), [199]
• Tin (Kazdír), [274]
• Tinder (a styptic), [108]
• Torrens quoted, [187]; [189]; [235]; [236]
• Treasures (enchanted in some one’s name and nature), [296]
• Trébutien quoted, [268]
• Tribadism, [234]
• Truth prevailing, falsehood failing, [80]
• Túfán (Typhoon, etc.), [156]
• Tufayl (proverbial intruder), [123]
• Turband (white, distinctive of Moslems), [214]
• Udm (see Adm)
• Ukáb = eagle, vulture, [177]
• Ukayl (Akíl?), [22]
• Unguium fulgor, [252]
• Vellication, [256]
• Voice (thickened by leprosy), [50]
• Wada’a (see Cowrie), [77]
• Waggid (Hebr. speaker in a dream), [289]
• Wailing over the past, [239]
• Wakíl = agent (see Pashas), [182]
• Walid (Al-) bin Abd al-Malik, Caliph, [100]
• Wardán (a Fellah name, also of a village), [293]
• Waríd (jugular vein), [92]
• Water (sight of running, makes a Persian long for strong drink), [75]
• Watering the streets, [107]
• Waybah = 6 to 7 English gallons, [86]
• Whistling (Sifr), [206]
• White as milk (opposed to black as mud, etc.), [140]
• —— hand (symbol of generosity, etc.), [185]
• —— turband (distinctive of Moslems), [214]
• —— hand of Moses (sign to Pharaoh), [249]
• —— and black faces on the day of Judgment, ib.
• Woman (old bawd), [4]
• —— (names), [12]
• —— (less handsome than man), [15]
• —— (walk and gait), [16]
• —— (bride night), [30]
• —— (oath of a), [49]
• —— (insolence of princesses), [145]
• —— (inner, her meanings), [146]
• Woman (answering question by counter-question), [148]
• —— (Abyssinian famous as “holders”), [227]
• —— (slave name), [232]
• —— (intercourse between), [234]
• —— (white-skinned supposed to be heating and unwholesome), [253]
• Writer of The Nights careless, [155]
• Writing (styles of), [196]
• Yá Ma’ashar al-Muslimín = Ho! Moslems, [149]
• Yá Nasráni = O Nazarene, [199]
• Yá Shátir = O clever one (in a bad sense), [209]
• Yá Sín (heart of the Koran, chapt. xxxvi.), [50]
• Yasrib (ancient name of Al-Medínah), [114]
• Yá Wadúd = O loving one, [54]
• Yohanná = John, [87]
• Yunán = Ionia, ancient Greece, [100]
• Záka = he tasted, [188]
• Zakariyá and Zakar, [51]
• Zakkúm (Al-) tree of Hell, [259]
• Zanzibar (cannibals, etc.), [168]
• Zaybak (Al-) = the quicksilver, [75]
• Zimbíl (Zambíl) = limp basket of palm-leaves, [119]
• Zimmí = a (Christian, Jewish or Majúsí) tributary, [199]
• Zubaydah (Pr. N.) = creamkin, [48]
• Zu ‘l-Kurá’a (Pr. N.) = Lord of cattle-feet, [95]

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TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES

1. Changed bowels to bowls on p. [86].
2. Added "to" on p. [107].
3. Added missing footnote anchors on pp. [115], [231], [271], and [296].
4. Changed An to And on p. [150].
5. Changed an to am on p. [222].
6. Changed phase to phrase on p. [264].
7. Changed he to her on p. [297].
8. Silently corrected simple spelling, grammar, and typographical errors.
9. Retained anachronistic and non-standard spellings as printed.