A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments, Now Entituled the Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 09 (of 17)

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[554]. Abdullah met his wife on Thursday, the night of which would amongst Moslems be Friday night.

[555]. i.e. with Sa’idah.

END OF VOL. IX.

INDEX

• Abá al-Khayr = my good sir, etc., [54]
• Abú al-Lays (Pr. N.) = Father of the Lion, [211]
• Abú Dalaf al-Ijilí (a soldier famed for liberality and culture), [189]
• Abú Kír = Father of the Pitch (Abou Kir), [134]
• Abú Sír (corruption of Pousiri = Busiris), [134]
• Abú Sirhán = wolf, [104]
• Acquittance of all possible claims after business transactions, [285]
• Ád and Thamúd (pre-historic tribes), [174]
• Adab = scholarship, [41]
• Ádamí = an Adamite (opposed to Jinn), [169]
• Adím al-Zauk = lack-tact, [206]
• Admiral (fishing for the King’s table), [159]
• Adultery (son of = base born), [331]
• Af’à = ὄφις (a snake), [37]
• Ahd (Al-) wa al-Misák = oath and covenant, [327]
• Ahmad bin Abí Duwád (High Chancellor to the Abbasides), [244]
• “Aidance from Allah and victory are near”, [317]
• Akásirah = Chosroës-Kings, [323]
• Akl al-Hishmah = eating decorously, [337]
• Akka = Acre, [19]
• Alà júdi-k = to thy generosity, [150]; [208]
• Alà mahlak = at thy leisure, [168]
• All will not be save well = it will be the worse for him, [293]
• Allah (will make no way for the Infidels over the True Believers), [16]
• —— (I seek refuge with), [35]
• —— (he was jealous for Almighty), [104]
• —— (I fear Him in respect of = I am governed by Him in my dealings with), [123]
• —— (pardon thee, showing that the speaker does not believe in another’s tale), [154]
• —— (the Provider), [166]
• —— (for the love of), [170]
• —— (Karím = God is bountiful), [167]
• —— (grant thee grace = pardon thee), [283]
• —— (yastura-k = will veil thee), [309]
• —— (sole Scient of the hidden things be extolled), [311]
• —— (raised the heavens without columns), [324]
• Almás = Gr. Adamas, [325]
• Aloes (well appreciated in Eastern medicine), [100]
• —— (the finest used for making Nadd), [150]
• ’Amal = action, operation (applied to drugs etc.), [274]
• Ámín (Amen) = So it be!, [131]
• Ammá laka au ’alayka = either to thee (the gain) or upon thee (the loss), [11]
• Amr (Al) = command, matter, affair, [67]
• Analphabetic Amirs, [126]
• Angels (taking precedence in the order of created beings), [81]
• Animals (have no fear of man), [181]
• Ants (a destructive power in tropic climates), [46]
• Anyáb (pl. of Náb) = grinder teeth, [140]
• A’ráb = dwellers in the Desert, [293]
• ’Arísh (Al-) frontier town between Egypt and Palestine, [286]
• ’Aríshah = arbour, etc., [219]
• Arithmology (cumbrous in Arabic for the lack of the higher numerals), [123]
• Ásár = traces, [255]
• A-Sharíf anta = art thou a noble?, [231]
• ’Atsah = sneezing, [220]
• ’Aúj = Persian town Kúch (?), [347]
• Awák = pl. of Ukíyyah q.v., [216]
• ’Awáshik = hucklebones, cockles, [268]
• Az’ar = having thin hair; tailless, [185]
• Azím (in the slang sense of “mighty fine”), [40]
• Azíz (Al-) al-Mizr = Magnifico of Misraim, [119]
• Báb = gate, etc. (sometimes for a sepulchral cave), [286]
• Badlat Kunúzíyah = treasure-suit, [331]
• Baghdád of Nullity (opposed to the Ubiquity of the World), [13]
• Bahá al-Dín ibn Shaddád (Judge Advocate General under Saladin), [23]
• Bahímah = black cattle, [71]
• Bakhkharaní = he incensed me, [238]
• Bakhshish (to make a bath-man’s mouth water), [151]
• Bartaut = Berthold, [8]
• Basmalah = saying, Bismilláh, [1]
• Batárikh = roe, spawn, [139]
• Bath (setting it a-working = turning on the water), [149]
• Belle fourchette (greatly respected), [219]
• Bilking (popular form of), [145]
• Bishr Barefoot (Sufi ascetic), [21]
• Breslau edition quoted, [33]; 42; 59; 63; 156; 159; 169; 185; [187]
• Brethren (for kinsfolk), [26]
• —— (of trust and brethren of society = friends and acquaintances), [75]
• Bunn = kind of cake, [72]
• Buffalo = bœuf à l’eau (?), [181]
• Bulak ed. quoted, [185]
• Burning (a foretaste of Hell-fire), [158]
• Caliphs:—
  • Mu’tazid (Al-), [229]
  • Mutawakkil (Al-), [232]
  • Mu’tasim (Al-), ib.
• Carelessness of the story-teller, [4]
• Carpet (let him come to the King’s = before the King as referee), [110]
• Carpet-room = Throne-room, [121]
• Citadel (contains the Palace), [102]
• “Cloth” (not “board” for playing chess), [209]
• Clothing and decency, [182]
• Clout (hung over the door of a bath shows that women are bathing), [153]
• Coffee (mention of probably due to the scribe), [141]
• —— (its mention shows a comparatively late date), [255]
• “Come to my arms, my slight acquaintance”, [177]
• Conciseness (verging on obscurity), [171]
• Confusion (universal in the undeveloped mind of man), [78]
• Contrast (artful, between squalor and gorgeousness), [170]
• Cousin (has a prior right to marry a cousin), [225]
• Cowardice of the Fellah (how to be cured), [5]
• Craft (many names for, connected with Arabic), [138]
• Creation from nothing, [77]
• Crescent of the breakfast-fête, [250]
• Cruelty (the mystery of explained only by a Law without a Law-giver), [37]
• Curtain (screens a reverend woman from the sight of men-invalids), [347]
• Dáirah = circle, inclosure, [287]
• —— (for a basin surrounded by hills), [317]
• Dandán (monstrous fish), [179]
• Dárfíl = dolphin, [346]
• Dawá = medicine (for a depilatory), [155]
• Dawát = wooden inkcase with reed-pens, [122]
• Day (when wealth availeth not), [16]
• —— (ye shall be saved from its misery), [215]
• Dayyús = pimp, wittol, [297]
• Debts (of dead parents sacred to the children), [311]
• Delicacy of the female skin, [321]
• Democracy of despotism, [94]
• Devil (allowed to go about the world and seduce mankind), [82]
• Diamond (its cutting of very ancient date), [325]
• Diaphoresis (a sign of the abatement of a disease), [146]
• Dín al-a’raj = the perverted faith, [11]
• Dinár = denarius (description of one), [294]
• Díván (fanciful origin of the word), [108]
• Don Juan quoted, [190]
• Drowning (a martyr’s death), [158]
• Dukhán = smoke (meaning tobacco for the Chibouk), [156]
• Dúláb = waterwheel; buttery; cupboard, [306]
• Durbar of idols, [325]
• Duwámah = whirlpool, [93]
• Egypt (derivation of the name), [286]
• Elliptical style of the Eastern story-teller, [160]
• Emirs (of the wild Arabs = Phylarchs), [322]
• Emma (hides her lover under her cloak), [8]
• Epistasis without prostasis, [240]
• Euphemistic speech, [180]; [224]
• Euphuistic speech, [43]
• Euthanasia and anæsthetics, [90]
• “Eye of the needle” (for wicket-door), [320]
• Eyes (no male has ever filled mine = none has pleased me), [222]
• Fakír (the, and his jar of butter; congeners of the tale), [40]
• Farz (mentioned after Sunnah because jingling with Arz), [15]
• Fasyán Salh al-Subyán (Pr. N.) = Fizzle, Dung of Children, [11]
• Faswah = susurrus, [291]
• Fatalism and predestination, [45]
• Fate and Freewill, [80]
• Fath (Al-) bin Khakán (boon companion), [245]
• Fátihah (pronounced to make an agreement binding), [138]
• Fellah = peasant, husbandman, [40]
• Fellah chaff, [152]
• Fingers (names of), [160]
• Finján = egg-shell cup for coffee, [268]
• Firdaus = Paradise, [214]
• Fire = Hell (home of suicides), [25]
• “Forcible eateth feeble”, [179]
• Fore-arm (for proficiency), [306]
• Freedom (granted to a slave for the sake of reward from Allah), [243]
• Fumigations (to exorcise demons, etc.), [29]
• Furát = Euphrates (derivation of the name), [17]
• Futúr = breakfast, [307]
• Fuzayl bin ’Iyáz (Sufi ascetic), [21]
• Gate (of war opened), [9]
• Gates (of Heaven are open), [221]
• —— (shut during Friday devotion), [259]
• Ghaliyún = galleon, [138]
• Ghazálah = gazelle (a slave-girl’s name), [209]
• Ghayb (Al-) = secret purpose; future, [314]
• Ghazá-wood, [27]
• Ghull = iron collar, [333]
• Ghúls (whose bellies none may fill but Allah), [152]
• Ghurbah (Al-) Kurbah = “Travel is Travail”, [257]
• Gift (is for him who is present), [225]
• Godiva (an Arabic of the wrong sort), [261]
• Good news, Inshallah = is all right with thee?, [224]
• Gourd (Ar. Hanzal), [165]
• Grammatical double entendre, [272]
• Green garb (distinguishing mark of Al-Khizr), [324]
• Guadalajara = Wady al-Khar (of dung), [10]
• Habíbí wa tabíbí = my love and leach, [299]
• Halímah = the mild, the gentle (fem.), [265]
• Halummú = draw near (plur.), [44]
• Hamadán (town in Persian Irák), [212]
• Hamíd (fem. Hamídah) = praiseworthy, satisfactory, [76]
• Hanzal = gourd, [165]
• Harámí = one who lives on unlawful gains, [147]
• Harf al-Jarr = particle governing the oblique case, mode of thrusting, tumbling, [272]
• Hark, you shall see, [14]
• Harún al-Rashíd (as a poet), [17]
• —— (said to have prayed every day a hundred bows), [339]
• Háshimí = descendant of Háshim, [24]
• Hattín (battle of), [19]
• Háwí = Serpent-charmer, [56]
• Hazár Afsáneh (tales from the), [32]
• Hind (Al-) al-Aksà = Outer Hind or India, [116]
• Honey (simile for the delights of the World), [64]
• House (the Holy of Allah = Ka’abah), [178]
• Hulwán al-miftáh = denier à Dieu, [212]
• Huwayná (Al-) = now drawing near and now moving away, [250]
• Iblís = Diabolos, [300]
• Ibn Hamdún (transmitter of poetry and history), [229]
• Ibn ’Irs = weasel, [114]
• Ibrahím of Mosul, [304]
• ’Irk = root, also sprig, twig, [251]
• Ishk ’uzrí (in the sense of platonic love), [250]
• Istahi = have some shame, [255]
• Istitá’ah = ableness, [80]
• —— (= freewill), [83]
• Jabábirah (pl. of Jabbár = giants), [109]
• —— (= conquerors), [323]
• Jabal = mountain (for mountainous island), [315]
• Jáh = high station, dignity, [174]
• Jahábizah (pl. of Jahbiz) = acute, intelligent, [62]
• Jalálikah = Gallicians, [156]
• Janázir (for Zanájir) = chains, [309]
• Jannat al-Khuld = the Eternal Garden, [214]
• Jawásís (pl. of Jásús) = spies (for secret police), [13]
• Jilbáb = gown, [290]
• Junayd al-Baghdádí (Sufi ascetic), [21]
• Kabasa = he shampoo’d, [213]
• Kádús (pl. Kawádís) = pot of a water-wheel, [218]
• Kaff Shurayk = a single “Bunn” q.v., [172]
• Kahramánah = duenna etc., [221]
• Kahwah (Al-) = coffee-house, [256]
• Kallim al-Sultán (formula of summoning), [224]
• Kamar al-Zamán = Moon of the Age, [247]
• Kanz = enchanted treasure, [320]
• Kaptán = Captain, [139]
• Kárah = budget, large bag, [216]
• Karkh (Al-), quarter of Baghdád, [313]
• Kasab (Al-) = acquisitiveness, [80]
• Kasídahs (their conventionalism), [250]
• Kasr = upper room, [283]
• Kaukab al-Saláh = Star of the morning, [301]
• Kaun = being, existence, [63]
• Khádim = eunuch, [237]
• Khadiv (not Kedive), Prince, [119]
• Khafz al-Jináh = lowering the wing (demeaning oneself gently), [33]
• Kháliyah (pun on), [291]
• Khara al-Sús = Weevil’s dung, [10]
• Khatt Sharíf = noble letter, [309]
• Khayr wa’Áfiyah = well and in good ease, [94]
• Khinsir = little (or middle) finger, [160]
• Khitáb = exordium, [126]
• Khizánah (Al-) = treasury, [22]
• Kidrah = pot, kettle, lamp-globe, [320]
• Killing (of an unfaithful wife commended by public opinion), [297]
• Kimkháb = brocade, [221]
• Kitáb al-Kazá = book of law-cases, [110]
• Koran quoted (ix. 33), [15]
• —— (xxvi. 88, [89]; iv. 140), [16]
• —— (lvii. 88), [33]
• —— (lxxxi. 40), [59]
• —— (xii. 28), [119]
• —— (xl. 36; lxvii. 14; lxxiv. 39; lxxviii. 69; lxxxviii. 17), [166]
• —— (cviii. 3), [185]
• —— (xxiv.), [316]
• —— (cx. 1), [317]
• —— (xxxvi. 55–58), [322]
• —— (li. 18–19), [324]
• Kundur = frankincense, [7]
• Kurdús = body of horse, [111]
• Kutr Misr = tract of Egypt, [286]
• La’alla = haply, belike; forsure, certainly, [49]
• Lá baas = no harm is (yet) done, [102]
• Lá rajma ghaybin = without stone-throwing of secrecy, [1]
• Lá tankati’í = sever not thyself from us, [245]
• Láit = one acting like the tribe of Lot, sodomite, [253]
• Lajlaj = rolling in the mouth, stammering, [322]
• Lane quoted, [32]; 33; 146; 168; 170; 171; 182; 221; 222; 224; 226; 229; 246; 291; 304; [307]
• Láwandiyah (Al-) = Levantines, [275]
• Laylat al-Kábilah = to-night, [271]
• Lázuward = Ultramarine, [190]
• Legs (shall be bared on a certain day), [253]
• Lie (only degrading if told for fear of telling the truth), [87]
• —— (simulating truth), [223]
• Lieu d’aisance (in Eastern crafts), [332]
• Light (of salvation shining from the face of Prophets), [324]
• Lijám shadíd = sharp bit, [70]
• Loathing of prohibition, [279]
• Lot (this is ours = I have been lucky and will share with you), [328]
• Lúlúah = Union-pearl; wild cow, [218]
• Luss = thief, robber, [106]
• Lymph (alluding to the “Neptunist” doctrine), [77]
• Má Dáhiyatak = What is thy misfortune?, [137]
• Mahdí (Al-), Caliph, [334]
• Má kahara-ní = none vexeth (or has overcome) me, [156]
• Maghrib (al-Aksà) = the land of the setting sun, [50]
• Mahall al-Zauk = seat of taste, sensorium, [83]
• Mahr = dowry (mode of its payment), [32]
• Maintenance (of a divorced woman during ’Iddah), [32]
• Male children (as much praised as riches), [316]
• Malik (Al-) al-Násir (Sultan Saladin), [19]
• Malocchio or Gettatura (evil eye), [247]
• Man (created after God’s likeness), [79]
• —— (I am one of them = never mind my name), [238]
• —— (of the people of Allah = a Religious), [51]
• —— (his wrong is from the tongue), [309]
• Mankind (superior to the Jinn), [339]
• Mansúr (Pr. N.) = triumphant, [310]
• Ma’rifah = article, [272]
• Martyrdom of the drowned, [340]
• Massacre (the grand moyen of Eastern state-craft), [110]
• Matárik (pl. of Mitrak) = targes, [225]
• Matta’aka ’lláh = Allah permit thee to enjoy, [125]
• Maulid = nativity, [289]
• Mausúl (Al-) = the conjoined (for relative pronoun or particle), [272]
• Meniver = menu vair (Mus lemmus), [312]
• Menstruous discharge (made use of as a poison), [101]
• Mer-folk (refined with the Greeks, grotesques with other nations), [169]
• Messiah (made a liar by miscreants), [15]
• Mi’lakah = spoon, [141]
• Miracles (growing apace in the East), [336]
• Mishannah = old gunny-bag, [171]
• Miskál = about three penny weights, [262]
• Mohammed (sent with the guidance and True Faith), [15]
• Money (let lying with the folk = not dunned for), [311]
• Moon (taking in hand the star = girl handing round the cups), [192]
• Moslem (on a journey, tries to bear with him a new suit of clothes for the festivals and Friday service), [51]
• —— (bound to discharge the debts of his dead parents), [311]
• —— (doctrine ignores the dictum “ex nihilo nihil”), [63]
• Moslems (deal kindly with religious mendicants), [51]
• —— (not ashamed of sensual appetite), [84]
• —— (bound to abate scandals amongst neighbours), [98]
• —— (husbands among them divided into three classes), [263]
• Mourning (normal term of forty days), [311]
• Mubárak = blessed (a favourite slave-name), [58]
• Mubárakah = the blessed (fem.), [330]
• Muhárabah = doing battle, [92]
• Munázarah = dispute, [243]
• Munázirah = like (fem.), ib.
• Munkar and Nákir, [163]
• Musáfahah = joining hands, [342]
• Music (forbidden by Mohammed), [31]
• Musta’ín bi ’lláh (Caliph), [246]
• Mu’tasím (Al-) bi ’lláh (Caliph), [232]
• Mutawakkil (Al-) ’alà ’lláh (Caliph), ib.
• Mu’tazid (Al-) bi ’lláh (Caliph), [229]
• Mu’tazz (Al-) bi ’lláh (Caliph), [242]
• Muunah = provender, [104]
• Nabí = prophet, [178]
• Nafakah = sum necessary for the expenses of pilgrimage, [178]
• Naïveté (of the Horatian kind), [215]
• Najis = ceremonially impure, [337]
• Nákisátu ’aklin wa dín = failing in wit and faith, [298]
• Nakkár = Pecker (a fabulous fish), [184]
• Names (approved by Allah), [165]
• Napoleonic pose (attitude assumed by a slave), [320]
• Násik = a devotee, [40]
• Násir (Pr. N.) = triumphing, [310]
• Naysábúr (town in Khorasan), [230]
• Nemo repente fuit turpissimus (not believed in by Easterns), [91]
• Nílah = indigo, dye-stuff, [144]
• New moon of the Festival = Crescent of the breakfast, [249]; [250]
• Nimr = leopard, [63]
• Níyah (Al-) = ceremonial intention of prayer, [254]
• Nukl = quatre mendiants, dessert, [177]; [213]
• Nusf = half-dirham, [139]; [167]
• Nusk = piety, abstinence from women, [243]
• “Off-with-his-head” style (not to be taken literally), [308]
• Omar-i-Khayyám (astronomer-poet), [230]
• Othello (even he does not kill Emilia), [300]
• Paradise (of the Moslem not wholly sensual), [322]
• Parent (ticklish on the Pundonor), [288]
• Pay-chest (of a Hammám-bath), [152]
• Payne quoted, [22]; 28; 79; 84; 86; 89; 171; 212; 224; 226; 227; 250; 251; 265; 268; 282; [290]
• Pearls (resting on the sand-bank), [164]
• People of His affection = those who deserve His love, [82]
• Persians (delighting in practical jokes), [177]
• Petrified folk, [318]
• Pilgrimage quoted
• —— (i. 9), [50]
• —— (i. 235), [51]
• —— (iii. 66), [81]
• —— (i. 20), [165]
• —— (ii. 285–287), [175]
• —— (iii. 224, [256]), [178]
• —— (i. 99), [262]
• —— (ii. 48), [307]
• —— (i. 314), [315]
• Pilgrims (offcast of the = a broken down pilgrim left to die on the road), [290]
• Poisons in the East, [101]
• Policeman (called in, a severe punishment in the East), [137]
• Poltroon (contrasted with a female tiger lamb), [224]
• Potter (simile of the), [77]
• Power (whoso has it and spareth for Allah’s reward he prepareth), [340]
• Praying against (polite form of cursing), [293]
• Presence (I am in thy = thy slave to slay or pardon), [124]
• Price (without abatement = without abstracting a large bakhshish), [152]
• —— (shall remain), [262]
• Priest hidden within an image (may date from the days of Memnon), [324]
• Prince (of a people is their servant), [99]
• Prison (in the King’s Palace), [52]
• Pun, [278]; [287]
• Question (expressing emphatic assertion), [182]
• Rahan = pledge, [311]
• Rank (thine is with me such as thou couldst wish = I esteem thee as thou deservest), [41]
• —— (conferred by a Sovereign’s addressing a person with a title), [119]
• Rás al-Killaut = head of Killaut (a son of the sons of the Jinn), [8]
• Ridding the sea of its rubbish, [169]
• River (the, = Tigris-Euphrates), [313]
• Robbing (to keep life and body together an acceptable plea), [137]
• Rúh = spirit, breath of life, [67]
• Ruh = be off!, [168]
• Sa’ádah = worldly prosperity and future happiness, [327]
• Sabaka = he outraced, [111]
• Sabíyah = young lady, [226]
• Sabr = patience; aloes (pun on), [278]
• Safínah = (Noah’s) Ark, [310]
• Sáhil (Al-) = the coast (Phœnicia), [22]
• Sahm mush’ab = forked (not barbed) arrow, [48]
• Sa’ídah = the auspicious (fem.), [330]
• Sáki and Sákí, [253]
• Sákin = quiescent (applied to a closing wound), [255]
• Sákiyah = water-wheel, [218]
• Sa’lab = fox, [48]; [103]
• Sálihiyah = the Holy (name of a town), [287]
• Sallah = basket of wickerwork, [56]
• Salutation (from a rider to a man on foot and from the latter to one sitting), [1]
• Saluting after prayer, [254]
• Samn = clarified butter, [39]
• Sanájik = banners, ensigns, &c., [290]
• Sand (knowing from the = geomancy), [117]
• Saráwíl = bag-trousers (plural or singular), [225]
• Sardáb = souterrain, [241]
• —— (tunnel), [274]
• Sarí al-Sakatí (Sufi ascetic), [21]
• Sawáhílí = shore-men, [22]
• Sáyih = wanderer (not “pilgrim”), [51]
• Scoundrels (described with superior glee), [135]
• Sea (striking out sparks), [314]
• Seclusion (royal, and its consequences), [91]
• Secrets of workmanship (withheld from Apprentices), [263]
• Seeing sweetness of speech = finding it out in converse, [14]
• Sha’r = hair of the body, pile, [157]
• Shaving (process of), [139]
• Shaykh (after the type of Abú Nowás), [251]
• —— (for syndic of a Guild), [260]
• —— (al-Islam = chief of the Olema), [289]
• Shaykhah Rájihah = the excellent Religious, [347]
• Shíraj = sesame oil, [184]
• Shop (front-shelf of, a seat for visitors), [262]
• Shujá’ al-Dín (Pr. N.) = the Brave of the Faith, [18]
• Shukkah = piece of cloth, [236]
• Sidillah = seats, furniture, [190]
• Signs (language of), [269]
• Silah = conjunctive sentence; coition, [272]
• Sin (permitted that man might repent), [83]
• —— (thy shall be on thine own neck), [211]
• Singing (not harám = sinful, but makrúh = objectionable), [245]
• Sírah = minnow, sprat, [166]
• Skin (free from exudation sounds louder under the clapping of the hand), [150]
• —— (extreme delicacy of the female), [321]
• Slave-girl (free, not forward in her address), [268]
• —— (lewd and treacherous by birth), [280]
• —— (to be sent as a spy into the Harims), [292]
• Sneezing (etiquette of), [220]
• Sons (brought as servants unto Kings), [43]
• “Soul” (for lover), [25]
• Spider-web frailest of houses (Koranic), [59]
• Spiritualism (the religion of the nineteenth century), [86]
• Spoon (Ar. Mi’lakah), [141]
• Steward (pendent to the parable of the unjust), [66]
• Style (intended to be worthy of a statesman), [42]
• Su’bán = dragon, [277]
• Submission (Ar. Khafz al-Jináh = lowering the wings), [74]
• Sufrah = cloth or leather upon which food is placed, [141]
• Sunan (used for Rasm = usage, customs), [74]
• Sur’itu = I was possessed of a Jinn, [27]
• Suwán = Syenite, [316]
• Suways (Suez) = little weevil, or “little Sús”, [10]
• Swevens (an they but prove true), [284]
• Taakhír = acting with deliberation, [328]
• Ta’álík = hanging lamps, [320]
• Tail (wagging of, a sign of anger with felidæ), [72]
• Táj Kisrawí = Chosroan crown, [319]
• Tájir Alfí = a merchant worth a thousand (left indefinite), [313]
• Takhmísh = tearing the face in grief, [190]
• Taksím = distribution, analysis, [77]
• Tanwín al-Izáfah = the nunnation in construction, [272]
• Taríkah = musical mode, modulation, [27]
• Taubah (Bi al-) = by means or on account of penitence, [83]
• Thongs (of the waterskins cut, preparatory to departure), [302]
• Three hundred and three score rooms = one for each day of the Moslem year, [61]
• Three things (not to be praised before death), [39]
• Threshold (marble one in sign of honour), [238]
• Tibn = bruised straw, [106]
• Timbák (Tumbák) = stronger variety of Tobacco, [136]
• Time (distribution of), [71]
• Title (used by a Sovereign in addressing a person confers the rank), [119]
• Tobacco (its mention inserted by some scribe), [136]
• Too much for him (to come by lawfully), [174]
• Torrens quoted, [278]
• Toutes putes, [298]
• Trafalgar = Taraf al-Gharb (edge of the West), [50]
• Translators (should be “bould”), [224]
• Treasure (resembling one from which the talismans have been loosed), [287]
• Trébutien quoted, [33], [63]
• Tribe (the misfortune of one fortuneth another), [342]
• Truth (told so as to be more deceptive than a lie), [223]
• Tuning (peculiar fashion of Arab musicians with regard to it), [27]
• Turbands (inclining from the head-tops), [221]
• Turkey (Future of), [94]
• Turks (forming the body-guard of the Abbasides), [245]
• Tuwuffiya = he was received (into the grace of God), [54]
• Ubullah (canal leading from Bassorah to Ubullah-town), [31]
• Udm = “kitchen”, [213]
• Ukáb al-Kásir = the breaker eagle, [69]
• Úkiyyah (pl. Awák) = ounce, [216]
• Umm al-banát wa’l-banín = mother of daughters and sons, [175]
• Umm al-Su’úd (Pr. N.) = Mother of Prosperities, [173]
• ’Ummál (pl. of ’Ámil = governor), [26]
• “Unbernfen”, [180]
• ’Unnábí = between dark yellow and red (jujube-colour), [143]
• ’Urb = Arabs of pure race, [293]
• Usúl = forbears, ancestors, [246]
• Veiling her honour = saving her from being ravished, [330]
• “Vigilance Committees” (for abating scandals), [98]
• Visit (confers a blessing in polite parlance), [185]
• Visits (should not be over-frequent), [273]
• Wa = and (introducing a parenthetic speech), [282]
• Walhán (Al-), no Pr. N., [6]
• Walí ’ahd = heir presumptive, [87]
• Wartah = precipice, quagmire, etc., [81]
• Wásit = middle (town of Irák ’Arabí), [26]
• Weal (I see naught but), [180]
• Weeping (over dead friends), [187]
• Wicket (small doorway at the side of a gate), [320]
• Wife (contrast between vicious servile and virtuous of noble birth), [302]
• Wird (Pers.) = pupil, disciple, [61]
• Wittol (pictured with driest Arab humour), [269]
• Women (to be respected by the King), [73]
• —— (“great is their malice”), [119]
• —— (a case of hard lines for them), [134]
• —— (their marrying a second time reckoned disgraceful), [246]
• —— (the sin lieth with them), [297]
• —— (fail in wit and faith), [298]
• —— (practically only two ways of treating them), [303]
• —— (delicacy of their skin), [321]
• Womankind (seven ages of), [175]
• Word (the creative “Kun”), [78]
• Yá abati = O dear father mine!, [88]
• —— ahmak = O fool!, [271]
• —— bunayyí = O dear my son!, [79]
• —— fulán = O certain person!, [324]
• —— fulánah = O certain person! (fem.), [270]
• —— jáhil = O ignorant!, [52]
• —— mauláya = O my lord!, [228]
• Yastaghíbúní = they take advantage of my absence, [224]
• Yathrib (old name of Al-Medinah), [177]
• Yes, Yes and No, No trifles, [250]
• Zaffú = they conducted her (in the sense of “they displayed her”), [245]
• Zaurá (Al-) = the bow (name of Baghdád), [13]
• Zaynab and Zayd (generic names for women and men), [250]
• Zí’ah = village, hamlet, farm, [27]
• Zirt = crepitus ventris, [291]
• Ziyárah = visiting the Prophet (’s tomb), [178]
• Zukhruf = glitter, tinsel, [86]
• Zur ghibban tazid hubban = call rarely that friendship last fairly, [273]

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TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES

1. Added missing footnote anchor on p. [143].
2. Added missing footnote number on p. [318].
3. Silently corrected simple spelling, grammar, and typographical errors.
4. Retained anachronistic and non-standard spellings as printed.

A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments, Now Entituled the Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night