A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments, Now Entituled the Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 05 (of 17)

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[575]. A phrase always in the Moslem’s mouth: the slang meaning of “we put our trust in Allah” is “let’s cut our stick.”

[576]. Koran liii. 14. This “Sidrat al-Muntahá” (Zizyphus lotus) stands in the seventh heaven on the right hand of Allah’s throne: and even the angels may not pass beyond it.

[577]. Arab. “Habash”: the word means more than “Abyssinia” as it includes the Dankali Country and the sea-board, a fact unknown to the late Lord Stratford de Redcliffe when he disputed with the Porte. I ventured to set him right and suffered accordingly.

[578]. Here ends vol. ii. of the Mac. Edit.

END OF VOLUME V.

INDEX.

• A’aráf (Al-) = partition-wall (chapter of the Koran), [217]
• Aaron’s Rod (becomes with Moslems Moses’ Staff), [238]
• A’amash (Al-), traditionist, [81]
• A’araj (Al-), traditionist, ib.
• Abdallah (a neutral name), [141]
• Abdallah bin Mas’úd (traditionist), [81]
• Abdallah bin Salim (traditionist), ib.
• Abjad (Hebrew-Arabic alphabet), [229]
• Ablution (difference of fashion in performing it), [112]
• Abraham (the friend of God), [205]
• Abrogating and abrogated (versets), [194]
• Abú al-Abbás al-Mubarrad (grammarian), [138]
• Abú al-Abbás al-Rakáshi (poet), [77]
• Abú al-Ayná, [164]
• Abu al-Husn = Father of Beauty (a fancy name), [189]
• Abú Ali, see Di’ibil al-Khuzá’i.
• Abu Bakr (Caliph), [235]
• Abu Bakr Mohammed al-Anbári (grammarian), [141]
• Abú Háris = Father of spoils (lion), [40]
• Abú Horayrah (uncle of Mohammed), [81]
• Abu Tammám (poet), [157]
• Abú Zanád (traditionist), [81]
• Abú Zarr (Companion of the Apostle), [102]
• Adi bin Zayd (poet), [124]
• Adil (Al-) = the Just (Caliph Omar), [103]
• Adnán (Arab genealogy begins with), [100]
• Adultery (etc. to be proved by four witnesses), [97]
• Adulteress (none without an adulterer), [90]
• Ahrám (Al-) = the Pyramids, [105]
• Akabah (mountain pass near Meccah), [295]
• Akásirah = sons of the royal Chosroës, [10]
• Akhír al-Zamán = the latter days, [304]
• Alam = way-mark, etc., [191]
• Alcove (corruption of al-Kubbah), [18]
• Aleppo (noted for debauchery), [64]
• Ali bin Mohammed bin Abdallah bin Táhir (Governor), [163]
• Ali ibn Abí Tálib, [213]; [225]
• Alish takish (acting woman and man alternately), [65]
• Allah (desire unto), [164]
• —— (corporeality of?), ib.
• —— requite you abundantly =, [171]
• —— (seeking refuge with), [200]
• —— (names of), [214]
• Allaho Akbar of prohibition, [196]
• Alhamdolillah (pronounced to avert the evil eye), [7]
• Almá = brown- (not “damask-”) lipped, [66]
• Ambiguity, [44]
• Amín (Al-), Caliph, [93]; [152]
• Amru bin Ma’di Karib (poet), [147]
• Amru bin Masa’dah (Pr. N.), [145]
• ‘Amúriyah = the classical Amorium, [141]
• “Ana” (from Night ccclxxxi.-ccccxxiv.), [64]
• Aná a’amil = I will do it (Egypto-Syrian vulgarism), [367]
• Ant (chapter ix. of the Koran), [213]
• Anthropophagy (allowed when it saves life), [186]
• Anúshirwán = Anúshín-rawán = Sweet of Soul, [87]
• ‘Ar (Al-) = shame, [138]
• Arab al-Arabá = Arab of pure and genuine blood, [101]
• Arab horses (breeds of), [246]
• Arab-land and Ajam = all the world over, [136]
• Arafat (mount where the victims are not slaughtered), [295]
• Arithmetic (not mastered by Moslems), [236]
• Arsh = the ninth Heaven, [167]
• Asháb al-Suffah, [102]
• Atbák = trays, [264]
• Ayishah bint Talhah (granddaughter of Abu Bakr), [79]
• Ayn = eye, for helper, [60]
• Ayns (verset of the 140), [217]
• Azal = eternity without beginning (opposed to Abad = infinity), [390]
• Azán = call to prayer, [201]
• Ba’albak = Ba’al’s-city, [51]
• Bactrian camel, [371]
• Badal = substitute, [249]
• Badawi (truth-telling and blunt in speech), [98]
• Badinján = Solanum pomiferum, or S. Melongena, [4]
• Bahak = white leprosy, [294]
• Bahr al-Kunúz = Sea of Treasures, [37]
• Bahrwán (Pr. N. for Bihrún?), [329]
• Balábil, pl. of bulbul (nightingale) and ballalah (grief), [244]
• Baldrick (Hamáil), [158]
• Banú Ozrah (tribe renowned as lovers), [70]
• Baras = white leprosy, [294]
• Barmahát (seventh Coptic month), [231]
• Barmúdah (eighth Coptic month), [232]
• Basmalah = pronouncing the formula Bismillah, [206]
• —— (commonly pronounced “Bismalah”), [213]
• Bat (has seed like a man’s), [85]
• —— (Arab. Khuffásh, Watwát), [226]
• Baydak = pawn in chess, [243]
• Bayt (Al-) = the house (cage), [269]
• Be! and It Becometh, [240]; [286]
• Beard combed by the fingers in the Wuzú, [198]; [209]
• Bida’ah = Innovation, [167]
• Biká’a = convents (pilgrimages to), [125]
• Bint Shumúkh (Pr. N. = daughter of pride), [382]
• Bird (created by Jesus), [211]
• —— (seen by Abu Bakr in the cave), [235]
• Birds (songs and cries of), [50]
• Bismilláh = in the name of Allah, [206]
• Bizá’at = capital, business-concern, [81]
• Blast (of the last trumpet), [310]
• Brain (fons veneris in man), [46]
• Brasier (Kánún, Mankal), [273]
• Breast-bone (Taráib), [132]
• Breath (healing by the), [29]
• Bridal couch (attitudinising thereon), [75]
• Brotherhood (sworn in Allah Almighty), [43]
• Bulbul (departed with Tommy Moore. Englished by “nightingale”), [48]
• Bull (of the Earth = Gáw-i-Zamín), [324]
• Caliphate (defective title to), [116]
• Camel (-colts roasted whole), [135]
• —— (feeding on and vindictiveness), [135]
• —— (Bactrian), [371]
• Carat = ¹⁄₂₄ of a dinar or miskal something under 5d., [277]
• Chess, [243]
• Circumcision (how practised), [209]
• —— (female), [279]
• Cities (two-mosqued for large and consequently vicious ones), [66]
• Clitoris (Zambúr) and its excision, [279]
• Coffee (first mention of), [169]
• Coloquintida (Hanzal), [19]
• Commune (Jamá’at), [205]
• Covered (the, chapter of the Koran), [215]
• Cow (chapter ii. of the Koran), [211]
• Creation (is it and its Empire not His?), [266]
• Crepitus ventris and Ethnology, [137]
• Cubit (the Háshimi = 18 inches), [371]
• Damon and Pythias, [104]
• Dáni wa gharíb = friend and foe, [42]
• Dánik = sixth part of a dirham, [112]
• Dead (buried at once), [190]
• Death (from love), [134]
• —— (every soul shall taste of it), [166]
• —— (of a good Moslem), [167]
• Devil (stoned at Mina), [203], [212]
• Devotees (address Allah as a lover would his beloved), [263]
• Dí’ibil al-Khuzá’i (poet), [127]
• Dimyat (vulg. Dumíyat) = Damietta, [171]
• Dissection (practised on Simiads), [220]
• Diyár-i-Bakr = maid-land, [66]
• Doggrel (royal), [55]
• —— (phenomenal), [288]
• —— (sad), [297]
• Door (behind it the door-keeper’s seat), [173]
• Dreams (lovers meet in), [47]
• Eatables (their exchange must be equal), [204]
• Eating (how it should be done), [206]
• Empire (endureth with infidelity but not with tyranny), [187]
• Eunuchs (and their wives), [46]
• —— (avoid allusion to their misfortune), [47]
• Eve (Arab. Hawwá), [139]
• Exaggerations, [306]
• Eye (likened to the letter Sád, the brow to Nun), [34]
• —— (Ayn, for helper), [60]
• Fá’il = agent, active (Sodomite), [156]
• Fakír = religious mendicant, [39]
• Fakru (Al-) fakhrí = poverty is my pride (saying of Mohammed), [268]
• Fál = omen, [126]
• Fars = Persia, [26]
• Fart (in return for chaff), [99]
• —— (and Badawi “pundonor”), [137]
• Fast (and its break), [201]
• —— (when forbidden), [265]
• Fátihah (position of the hands in reciting it), [80]
• —— (recited seven times for greater solemnity), [134]
• Faylasúf = philosopher, [234]
• Fealty of the Steep, [295]
• Fi’l-Khawáfik = among the flags, etc., [61]
• Fingers and toes (separated to wash between them), [198]
• “Fire (of Hell) but not shame”, [138]
• Fire (handled without injury, a common conjuring trick), [271]
• Fire-sticks (Zind, Zindah), [52]
• Fishár = squeeze of the tomb, [111]
• Fisherman (Arab contrasted with English), [51]
• “Forbid not yourselves the good things which Allah hath allowed you”, [216]
• Formication (accompanying a paralytic stroke), [251]
• Fruits (fresh and dry), [314]
• Garden (with rivers flowing under it, Koranic phrase), [356]
• Gáw-i-Zamín = the Bull of the Earth, [324]
• Genealogy (Arab, begins with Adnan), [100]
• Ghatrafán (Pr. N. = proud, petulant), [361]
• Ghaut = Sarídah, q.v., [223]
• Ghazanfar ibn Kamkhíl = Lion, son of (?), [363]
• Ghilmán (counterpart of the Houris), [64]
• Ghimd (Ghamad) = scabbard, [158]
• Ghoonj (Ghunj) = art of moving in coition, [80]
• Ghusl = complete ablution, [199]
• Girl (of nine plus five = in her prime), [192]
• Greetings before the world, [34]
• Habash = Abyssinia and something more, [395]
• Habbazá! = good this!, [52]
• Hádi (Al-), Caliph, [93]
• Hadís = saying of the Apostle, tradition, [201]
• Hajar Jahannam = hell-stone, lava, basalt, [378]
• Hajj = pilgrimage, [202]
• Hákim (Al-) bi-Amri llah (Caliph, not to be confounded with the Fatimite), [86]
• Hakk (Al-) = the Truth (Allah), [284]
• Halabi Shelebi = the Aleppine is a fellow fine, [64]
• Hamáil = baldrick, [158]
• Hamám = wood-pigeon, [49]
• —— (al-Ayk) = “culver of the copse”, ib.
• Hammám (hired for private parties), [63]
• Handfuls (the two), [207]
• Hands (their feel guides the physician), [220]
• Hands (how held in reciting the Fátihah), [80]
• —— (bitten in repentance), [191]
• Hanút = tavern, booth, etc., [142]
• Hanzal = coloquintida, [19]
• Haríri (Al-) = the silk-man (poet), [158]
• Harjáh = (a man of) any place?, [27]
• Hásib Karím al-Dín (Pr. N.), [298]
• Háshimí cubit = 18 inches, [371]
• “Haunted” = inhabited by Jinns, [175]
• Hawwá = Eve, [139]
• Haykal = temple, chapel, [192]
• Hazár = (the bird of) a thousand (songs), [48]
• Hazramaut (the Biblical Hazarmaveth), [136]
• Heart (from a, full of wrath = in spite of himself), [68]
• Hindí = Indian Moslem opposed to Hindú, [1]
• Hindibá = Endive, [226]
• Hírah (Christian city in Mesopotamia), [124]
• Hirakl (monastery of), [138]
• Hishám ibn Orwah (traditionist), [81]
• Hizb = section of the Koran, [217]
• Honayn (scene of one of Mohammed’s battles), [66]
• Honey (bees’, as distinguished from cane honey), [300]
• “Honey-moon” (lasts a week), [62]
• Horses (Arab breeds), [246]
• Hosh = mean courts at Cairo, [170]
• Hour (of Judgment), [235]
• House (haunted = inhabited by Jinns), [175]
• Hudúd al-Haram = bounds of the Holy Places, [148]
• Humours (of Hippocrates), [218]
• Hydropathic treatment of wounds held dangerous, [200]
• Hypocrite (Munáfik), [207]
• Iblís (Cherubim cherished by Allah), [319]
• —— (cursed and expelled), [320]
• Ibn Abbás (Companion), [212]
• I’itikáf (Al-) = retreat, [202]
• Ikálah (Al-) = cancelling, “resiliation,” [204]
• Iksir (Al-) = an essence (the philosopher’s “stone”), [315]
• Iláh = God, [196]
• Ilm al-Káf = K-science for Alchemy, [307]
• Images (of living beings forbidden), [3]
• —— = statues, [223]
• Impurity (ceremonial different from dirtiness), [209]
• Imsák = retention (prolongatio veneris), [76]
• In’ásh =raising from the bier (a “pick-me-up”), [67]
• Indrajál = white magic, [307]
• Innovation (Arab. Bida’ah), [167]
• Intention (of prayer, Niyat), [163]; [196]
• Intercession (disputed doctrine), [241]
• Iskandar Zú al-Karnayn = Alexander Matagrobolized, [252]
• Isráfíl (blows the last trumpet), [310]
• Istikhárah = praying for direction by omens, etc., [44]
• Istinshák = snuffing water through the nostrils, [198]
• Ja’afar bin Musá al-Hádi (Caliph), [93]
• Jabal Mukattam (sea-cliff upon which Cairo is built), [383]
• Jabal Núr, [215]
• Jabal al-Saklá (Thaklá) = mount of the women bereft of children, [37]
• Jábir bin Abdallah (disciple of Mohammed), [215]
• Jahannam = Hell, [306]; [318]
• Jalálah = saying “Jalla Jalálu-hu” = magnified be His Majesty, [217]
• Calla = gaberdine, [265]
• Jamá’at = community, [205]
• Jámi’ = cathedral mosque, [261]
• Jámi’ayn = two cathedrals, [66]
• Jamm = ocean, [93]
• Jánsháh (Pr. N. = King of Life), [326]
• Jarír (poet), [148]
• Jauzar = Bubalus (Ariel antelope), [130]
• Jawári = slave-girls, rhyming with dam’u jári = flowing tears, [160]
• Jesus (bird of), [211]
• —— (crucified in effigy), [238]
• —— (compared with Adam), ib.
• Jew (prefers dying on the floor, not in bed), [248]
• Judgment (hour of), [235]
• Juzám = black leprosy, [294]
• Kadisíyah (Al-), city in Irák, [294]
• Káfs (verset of the three-and-twenty), [217]
• Kahwajiyah = coffee-makers, [169]
• Kalamdán = pen-case, [239]
• Kalla-má = it is seldom, [150]
• Kanjifah = pack of cards, [243]
• Kánun = brasier, [272]
• Kári = Koran-reader, [216]
• Karkh (Al-), quarter of Baghdad, [127]
• Kárun = Korah of the Bible, [225]
• Kawáid (pl. of Káid = governor), [145]
• Khabál = pus flowing from the damned, [162]
• Khalíl (Al-) = the friend, i.e. of Allah = Abraham, [205]
• Khayál (Al-) = phantom, “ghost,” dream-visitor, [348]
• Khaysamah (traditionist), [81]
• Khawwás (Al-) = basket-maker, [283]
• Khilál = toothpick (emblem of emaciation), [44]
• Khizr (Al-), the Green Prophet, [384]
• Khuffásh = Bat, [226]
• Khunsá = hermaphrodite (also catamite), [91]
• Khusrau Parwíz and Shírín, ib.
• —— (his wealth), ib.
• Khutnah = circumcision, [209]
• Kiblah (turning towards it in mortal danger), [39]
• —— (anything opposite) applied to the Ka’abah, [196]
• Kiblatayn = the two Kiblahs (Meccah and Jerusalem), ib.
• Killed = Hibernicè “kilt”, [5]
• King (the, and the Virtuous Wife), [122]
• Kisrà = the Chosroë (applied to Anushirwan), [87]
• Kiss (without moustachio = bread without salt), [165]
• Kit (of the traveller in the East), [174]
• Kiyák (fourth Coptic month), [231]
• Kneeling (in prayer exclusively Christian), [196]
• Kohl-needle in the Kohl-case = res in re, [97]
• Korah (Kárún), [225]
• Koran quoted (xxvi. 5, [6]), [78]
• —— (xxxiii. 48), [101]
• —— (xxxviii. 2), [102]
• —— (vii. 195), [143]
• —— quoted (x. 36), [145]
• —— (iv. 38, [175]; ii. 282), [155]
• —— (xii. 51), [159]
• —— (xxvi. 165), [161]
• —— (xxi. 36), [166]
• —— (vii. 148), [191]
• —— (iv. 160), [194]
• —— (viii. 66), [203]
• —— (xxxix. 67; lxxviii. 19), [207]
• —— (vii. 63, [71], [83]), [210]
• —— (chapt. of The Cow), [211]
• —— (xvi. 92; xxxix. 54; lxx. 38), ib.
• —— (ii. 28, [107]; xii. 18; xvi. 100; li. 57), [212]
• —— (ix.; xxvii. 30; xcvi. 1, [2]), [213]
• —— (ii. 158; xvii. 110), [214]
• —— (v. 4; xxx.; lxxiv. 1; xcvi.; cx. 1), [215]
• —— (iv. 124; v. 89, [116]), [216]
• —— (vii. 154; xi. 50), [217]
• —— (xvii. 39), [221]
• —— (ii. 216; v. 92), [223]
• —— (x. 5; xxii. 60; xxxvi. 40; lxx. 40), [228]
• —— (xxxi. 34), [231]
• —— (xxxvii. 5), [233]
• —— (xxxvi. 37, [38]), [234]
• —— (xx. 57; xxii. 7), [235]
• —— (lxxxi. 18), [236]
• —— (iii.; vii. 110), [238]
• —— (xii. 10), [239]
• —— (xxxvi. 82), [240]
• —— (vi. 44), [250]
• —— (vii. 52), [269]
• —— (xxxvi. 82), [286]
• —— (v. 108), [287]
• —— (xiii. 41), [290]
• —— (xxxviii. 34), [310]
• —— (vii.), [320]
• —— (xxvii.), [337]
• —— (xxvii. 16), [355]
• —— (liii. 14), [393]
• —— (abrogating and abrogated passages), [194]
• —— (most excellent chapter of), [211]
• —— (eminent and curious verses of), ib.
• Kubbat (Al-) = alcove, [18]
• Kurrat al-Ayn (Pr. N. = coolness of the eye), [145]
• Kutb = axle, pole; hence prince, doyen in sainthood, [384]
• La’al = ruby, [342]
• La’an = curse, [250]
• Labbay’ka = here I am (pronounced on sighting Meccah), [203]
• Lactation (term of), [299]
• —— (no cohabitation during), ib.
• Lámi (Al-) = the l-shaped, forked (os hyoïdes), [219]
• Lane quoted, [32]; [33]; 37; [44]; 45; [64]; 104; [112]; 120; [121]; 145; [189]; 201; [286]; 298
• Lauh = tablet used as slate, [73]
• —— al-Mahfúz = the Preserved Tablet (of Allah’s decrees), [322]
• Lau lá-ka = but for thee, for thy sake, [306]
• Leprosy (white = bahak or baras, black = juzám), [294]
• Líf = fibre of palm-fronds, [45]
• Lion (beguiled by flattery), [40]
• Liver and spleen (held to be congealed blood), [220]
• Lord for Lady = she, [60]
• —— (of the East and West), [228]
• Lote-tree (beyond which there is no passing), [393]
• Lots = games of chance, [223]
• Love (strange chances of), [71]
• —— (deaths from), [134]
• —— (made public, disgraces), [151]
• Lovers (buried together), [71]
• —— (model ones, becoming an ordinary married couple), [92]
• Lúti (of the people of Lot = Sodomite), [161]
• Lynch-law (the modern form of Jus talionis), [103]
• Ma’abid (singer and composer), [147]
• Mafa’úl = patient, passive (Catamite), [156]
• Magic Horse (history of the fable), [2]
• Majzúb = drawn, attracted (Sufi term for an ecstatic), [57]
• Málik (traditionist), [81]
• —— al-Khuzá’i (intendant of the palace), [95]
• Málik bin Dínár (theologian), [261]
• Malikhulíya (Al-) = melancholy, [221]
• Man (advantages of, above woman), [155]
• —— (one’s evidence = two women’s), ib.
• —— (one’s portion = two women’s), ib.
• —— (created of congealed blood), [213]
• Manáf (idol), [129]
• Manázil (Stations of the Moon), [228]
• Marwah (ground-wave in Meccah), [203]
• Matáf = place of the Tawáf, q.v., [203]
• Matting (of Sind famous), [146]
• Maysar = game of arrows, [223]
• Medicine (rules and verses bearing on domestic), [222]
• Metempsychosis and sharpers’ tricks, [84]
• Mihrgán = Sun-fête, degraded into Michaelmas, [1]
• Mikmarah (Makmarah) = cover for a brasier, extinguisher, [120]
• Milk (soured), [225]
• Míms (verset of the sixteen), [217]
• Mina (and the stoning of the Devil), [203]
• Miracle (minor, known to Spiritualism), [144]
• Mirza Abdullah-i-Hichmakáni = Master Abdullah of Nowhere, [27]
• Misra (twelfth Coptic month), [232]
• Modesty (behind a curtain), [162]
• Mohammed (mentioned in the Koran), [210]
• —— al-Amín (Caliph), [93]
• Monasteries (best wine made in), [65]
• —— (Arab. Biká’a), [125]
• —— (places of confinement for madmen), [139]
• Months (of peace), [54]
• —— (Coptic names of), [221]; [232]
• —— (Arabic names explained), [233]
• Moon (simile for female beauty), [8]
• —— (shall be cloven in twain), [217]
• —— (its stations), [28]
• Mosul (exempted from idolatrous worship), [64]
• Moustachio (salt to a kiss), [165]
• Muffawak = well-notched (arrow), [33]
• Muharramát = unlawful things, [148]
• Mukarrabín = those near Allah, [319]
• Mujáwirin = lower servants, sweepers, etc., [19]
• Mukrí = Koranist, [216]
• Mulákát = going to meet an approaching guest, [330]
• Munáfik = hypocrite, [207]
• Munkar and Nakír (the questioning Angels), [111]
• Murder (to be punished by the family), [103]
• Mus’ab bin al-Zubayr, [79]
• Musallá = place of prayer, oratory, [261]
• Musk (sherbet flavoured with), [66]
• Muslim bin al-Walíd (poet), [128]
• Mutalammis (Al-), the poet and his fatal letter, [74]
• Mutawakkil (Al-), ala ‘llah (Caliph), [153]
• Mutawwif = leader in the Tawáf, q.v., [203]
• Muunis (Pr. N. = Companion), [164]
• Nafahát = breathings, benefits, [29]
• Náf’i (traditionist), [204]
• Nága-kings (of Hinduism), [302]
• Najíb (al-taraf = son of a common Moslemah by a Sayyid, q.v.), [259]
• —— (al-tarafayn = whose parents are both of Apostolic blood), ib.
• Names (of God), [214]
• —— (= magical formulæ), [369]
• Nation (its power consists in its numbers of fighting men), [255]
• Nay = reed-pipe, [50]
• Názih = travelled far and wide, [52]
• Night (its promise spread with butter that melteth with day-rise), [77]
• Nímchahrah = half-face (Pers. a kind of demon), [333]
• Niyat = intention, purpose of prayer, [163]
• Noachian dispensation (revived al-Islám), [372]
• Nún (simile for the eyebrow), [34]
• Nu’uman (Al-) bin Munzir (tyrant of Hírah), [74]
• Obayd’ Allah (Pr. N.), [164]
• Ocean (Jamm), [93]
• —— (of darkness), [309]
• Old age (graphically described), [3]
• Old woman (polite equivalents for), [163]
• Olemá (pl. of Álim) = the learned in the law, [183]
• Omar (Caliph) entitled al-Ádil, the Just, [103]
• Omen (Fál), [136]
• Othmán bin Affán (Kátib al-Koran), [215]
• Palsy (creeps over him), [251]
• Paper (his = the whiteness of his skin), [161]
• Parapets (on terrace-roofs made obligatory by Moses), [72]
• Parasite (Tufayli), [130]
• Payne quoted, [44]; [49]; 65; [112]; 161; [192]; 204; [346]
• Pearls shaded by hair = teeth under moustachio, [157]
• Persian (“I am a, but not lying now”), [26]
• —— (poets mostly addressing youths), [156]
• Physiologists (practise on the simiads), [220]
• Physis and Antiphysis, [320]
• Picnics (on the Rauzah island), [169]
• Pilgrimage quoted (i. 22), [39]
• —— (ii. 287), [44]
• —— (iii. 218), [49]
• —— (i. 16), [97]
• —— (ii. 344), [100]
• —— (i. 10), [112]
• —— (ii. 161), [119]
• —— (i. 352), [158]
• —— (ii. 320), [196]
• —— (i. 110), [201]
• —— (iii. 193, [205], [226], [282]), [203]
• —— (iii. 248), [212]
• —— (iii. 92), [220]
• —— (ii. 322), [224]
• —— (i. 362), [225]
• —— (ii. 288), [236]
• Plaisirs de la petite oie (practised by eunuchs), [46]
• Pleasure prolonged (en pensant à sa pauvre mère, etc.), [76]
• Polo (“Goff”), [32]
• Poverty (Holy), [269]
• Prayer (without intention, Arab. Niyat is valueless), [163]
• —— (offered standing or prostrating), [196]
• —— (of a sick person said as he best can), [200]
• —— (intonations of the voice in), ib.
• —— (call to, Azán), [201]
• —— (is a collector of all folk), ib.
• Preachments (to Eastern despots), [254]
• Prolongatio veneris (Imsák), [76]
• Prophets (named in the Korán), [210]
• Providence (and Justice), [286]
• Purgation (Easterns most careful during), [154]
• Pyramids (Al-Ahrám), [105]
• —— (containing unopened chambers?), [106]
• Pyramidennarren, ib.
• Quibbling away a truly diplomatic art, [86]
• Rajab = worshipping (7th Arab month), [54]
• Rákí (distilled from raisins), [65]
• Ras al-Tín = Headland of Clay (not Figs), [112]
• Rashaa = fawn beginning to walk, [149]
• Rauzah (Al-), at Cairo, [169]
• Ream (Ital. risma, Arab. riyam), [108]
• Red Sea (cleaves in twelve places), [236]
• Reed-pipe (Nay), [50]
• Repetition (of an address in token of kindness), [370]
• Ribá = usury, [201]
• Riddle “surprise” (specimen of), [239]
• Riyam = bales (ream), [108]
• Robinson Crusoe (with a touch of Arab prayerfulness), [291]
• Rose-water (for “nobility and gentry” even in tea), [357]
• Ruby (La’al, Yákút), [342]
• Rukh (Roc) and “Roc’s” feathers, [122]
• Sabbath (kept in silence), [339]
• Sabbation (River), [337]
• Sád (Letter, simile for the eye), [34]
• Safá (ground-wave in Meccah), [203]
• Sáhib (Wazirial title), [71]
• Sa’íd bin Zayd (traditionist), [81]
• Sa’íd bin Sálim (governor of Khorasan), [94]
• Sáim al-dahr = perennial faster, [112]
• Saint, Santon (Wali), ib.
• Saint and Sinner, [115]
• Saj’a = balanced prose (instance), [160]
• Sajáh (false prophetess), [147]
• Sakhr (Jinni imprisoned by Solomon), [316]
• Sakká = water-carrier, [89]
• Salaf (Al-) = ancestry (referring to Mohammed), [90]
• Sálih (grandson of Shem?), [210]
• Sálih (his she-camel), [235]
• Sálíh al-Muzani (theologian), [261]
• Salli ala ‘l-Nabi = bless the prophet (imposing silence), [65]
• Salutation (the first), [200]
• —— (Salám, unwillingly addressed to a Christian), [284]
• Sana’á (Capital of Al-Yaman), [16]
• Sandal (scented with), [192]
• Sandali (eunuch deprived of penis and testes), [46]
• Sar’a = falling sickness, [28]
• Sardáb = underground chamber, [128]
• Sarídah (Tharídah) brewis, [223]
• Sawálif = tresses, locks, [158]
• Sayhún and Jayhún = Jaxartes and Oxus, [41]
• Sayyid (descendant from Mohammed through Al-Hasan), [259]
• Scabbard (Ar. Ghimd), [158]
• Schoolmaster (derided in East and West), [118]
• Seal (affixed to make an act binding), [184]
• —— (breaking the = taking the maidenhead), [154]
• Seas (fresh = lakes and rivers), [326]
• Secrets (instances and sayings with regard to their keeping), [83]
• Seeking refuge with Allah, [200]
• Sha’abán (moon of), [191]
• Sháh-púr = King’s son (Sábúr, Σαβὼρ, Sapor), [2]
• Shakuríyah = chicorée, [226]
• Shams al-Nahár (Pr. N. = Sun of the Day), [9]
• Shaybán (Arab tribe), [100]
• Shaykh Nasr (Pr. N. = Elder of victory), [343]
• Shikk = split man (a kind of demon), [333]
• Shinf = gunny-bag, [45]
• Shirk (= syntheism) of love, [9]
• —— of the Mushrik, [142]
• Shroud (joined in one = shrouded together?), [71]
• Shu’ayb = Jethro, [210]
• Sídí (from Sayyidi = my lord), [283]
• Sídi Ibrahím bin al-Khawwás (Pr. N.), [283]
• Sifr = whistling, [333]
• Sinai (convent famous for Rákí), [65]
• Sind (matting of), [145]
• Sitt al-Mashá’ikh = Lady of Shaykhs, [154]
• Slain were those who were slain = many were slain, [364]
• Slate (Lauh), [73]
• Slaughtering (ritual for), [391]
• Slaves (their ambition to have slaves of their own), [12]
• Sleeping (naked), [8]
• —— (with head and body covered by a sheet), [18]
• Smile (and laughter), [193]
• Sodomite (Lúti), [161]
• —— (punished detected), [160]
• Solomon and David (their burial-place), [310]
• Sortes Virgilianæ, [44]
• Soul (Thou knowest what is in mine and I know not what is in Thine), [216]
• —— (doctrine of the three), [218]
• Squeeze of the tomb (Fishár), [111]
• Stations of the Moon (Manázil), [228]
• Stones (precious), [342]
• Stoning (of the devil at Mina), [203]
• Strangers (treated with kindly care), [171]
• “Strangers yet” (Lord Houghton quoted), [284]
• Sufis (stages of their Journey), [264]
• —— (address Allah as a lover would his beloved), [263]; [298]
• Sufrah (provision-bag and table-cloth), [8]
• Sufyán (traditionist), [81]
• Sukát (pl. of Sáki = cupbearer), [66]
• Sukita fí aydíhim = it repented them, [191]
• Suláfat = must, new wine, [158]
• Sultán (anachronistic use of the title), [88]; [179]
• Sun and Moon (Luminaries for day and night), [228]
• —— (do not outstrip each other), ib.
• Sundus = brocade, [57]
• Sunnat = practice of the Prophet, etc., [36]; [167]
• Susannah and the Elders in Moslem form, [97]
• Swan-maidens, [346]
• Tablet (Lauh), [37]
• —— (the preserved), [322]
• Takht = throne, capital, [334]
• Takht-rawán = moving throne (mule-litter), [175]
• Ta’mím = crowning with turband or tiara; covering, wetting, [199]
• Taráib = breast-bone, [132]
• Taríkat = (mystic) path to knowledge, [111]
• Tasním (fountain in Paradise), [264]
• Tawáf = Ka’abah-circuiting, [203]
• Tawakkul ala ‘llah = trust in Allah, [208]
• Tayammum = washing with sand, [197]
• Teeth (their cleansing enjoined by Mohammed), [44]
• “Thank you” (Moslem equivalent for), [171]
• “They” for “She”, [41]; [140]
• Throne-verse, [211]
• Thursday night (in Moslem parlance = Friday night), [324]
• Tín = clay puddled with chaff, [112]
• Tongue (made to utter (?) what is in the heart of man), [218]
• Tooth-pick (Khilál), [44]
• Torrens quoted, [96]; [188]
• Tree of Paradise (Túbá), [237]
• Tricks (two = before and behind), [161]
• Truth (most worthy to be followed), [145]
• —— (is become manifest), [159]
• Tuba (tree of Paradise), [237]
• Tubah (fifth Coptic month), [231]
• Tufayli = parasite, [130]
• Tughrá = imperial cypher, [184]
• Turbands (worn large by the learned), [120]
• Turks (fair boy-slaves, abounding in Baghdad), [66]
• Ukhnúkh = Enoch (Idrís?), [210]
• Umm Amrí (mother of Amr’) and the ass, [118]
• ‘Umrah = lesser Pilgrimage, [205]
• Uns al Wujúd (Pr. N. = Delight of existing things), [33]
• Urwah = handle, button-hole, [227]
• Usury (Ribá), [201]
• —— (verset of), [215]
• Usús = os sacrum, [219]
• ‘Utbi (Al-), poet, [133]
• Versets (number of the Koranic), [110]
• Virgil (a magician), [44]
• Visits in dreamland, [47]
• Viswakarmá = anti-creator, [320]
• Wády al-Naml = Valley of the Emmets, [337]
• Wády Zahrán = Valley Flowery, [360]
• Walad = son (more ceremonious than “ibn”), [386]
• Wali = saint, Santon, [112]
• Wá Rahmatá-hu = Alas, the pity of it, [42]
• Ward (Al-) fí’l-Akmám (Pr. N. = Rose in Hood), [32]
• Water (had no taste in his mouth), [39]
• —— (carrier, Sakká), [89]
• Watwát = Bat, [226]
• Wayha = Alas!, [258]
• Where is—and where? = what a difference is there between, etc., [65]
• Whistling, (held to be the devil’s speech), [333]
• Wine (its prohibition not held absolute), [224]
• Wird = the twenty-five last chapters of the Koran, [185]
• Witnesses (one man = two women), [155]
• Women (sleep naked in hot weather), [8]
• —— (making the first advances), [34]
• —— (and secrets), [35]; [83]
• —— (wives of eunuchs), [46]
• —— (visiting their lovers in a dream), [47]
• —— (thought to be Jinn or Ghúl), [51]
• —— (called Zaurá, the crooked), [66]
• —— (allowed to absent themselves from the house of father or husband), [96]
• Women (instructed in “motitations”), [80]
• —— (apt for two tricks), [161]
• —— (old, polite equivalents for), [163]
• —— (in their prime at fourteen to fifteen), [192]
• —— (inferior to man), [155]
• —— (unveiling to a man, if not slaves, insult him), [194]
• Wuzú (Koranic order for), [198]
• —— (angels and devils at the side of a man who prepares for it), ib.
• Yá ‘Ajúz = O old woman (now insulting), [163]
• Yájúj and Májúj, [318]
• Yá Kawwád = O pímp, [129]
• Yá Kisrawí = O subject of the Kisrá, [26]
• Yákút = Ruby, garnet, etc., [342]
• Yá Sáki’ al-Dakan = O frosty-beard, [99]
• Yohanná (Greek Physician), [154]
• Zabiyah (Pr. N. = roe, doe), [147]
• Zaghab = the chick’s down, [165]
• Zambúr = clitoris (the shutter), [279]
• Zarr wa ‘urwah = button and button-hole, [227]
• Zaurá = the crooked, for woman, [66]
• Zidd = opposite, contrary, [206]
• Zind and Zindah = fire-sticks, [52]
• Zindík = Agnostic, atheist, [230]
• Zuhri (Al-), traditionist, [81]

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