A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments, Now Entituled the Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 10 (of 17)

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Appendix II.

Contributions to the Bibliography of the Thousand and One Nights, and their Imitations, with a Table shewing the contents of the principal editions and translations of the Nights. By W. F. Kirby, Author of “Ed-Dimiryaht, an Oriental Romance;” “The New Arabian Nights,” &c.

Appendix I.

INDEX I.
INDEX TO THE TALES AND PROPER NAMES.

N.B.—The Roman numerals denote the volume, the Arabic the page.

• Abdullah the Fisherman and Abdullah the Merman, ix. [165].
• —— bin Fazl and his brothers, ix. [304].
• —— bin Ma’amar with the Man of Bassorah and his slave-girl, v. [69].
• Abd al-Rahman the Moor’s story of the Rukh, v. [122].
• Abu Hasan al-Ziyadi and the Khorasan Man, iv. [285].
• Abu Hasan, how he brake Wind, v. [135].
• Abu Isa and Kurrat al-Ayn, The Loves of, v. [145].
• Abu Ja’afar the Leper, Abu al-Hasan al-Durraj and, v. [294].
• Abu Kir the Dyer and Abu Sir the Barber, ix. [134].
• Abu al-Aswad and his squinting slave-girl, v. [80].
• Abu al-Husn and his slave-girl Tawaddud, v. [189].
• Abu al-Hasan al-Durraj and Abu Ja’afar the Leper, v. [294].
• Abu al-Hasan of Khorasan, ix. [229].
• Abu Mohammed hight Lazybones, iv. [162].
• Abu Nowas, Harun al-Rashid with the damsel and, iv. [261].
• Abu Nowas and the Three Boys, v. [64].
• Abu Sir the Barber, Abu Kir the Dyer and, ix. [134].
• Abu Suwayd and the handsome old woman, v. [163].
• Abu Yusuf with Harun al-Rashid and his Wazir Ja’afar, The Imam, iv. [1].
• Abu Yusuf with Al-Rashid and Zubaydah, The Imam, iv. [153].
• Adam, The Birds and Beasts and the Son of, iii. [114].
• Adi bin Zayd and the Princess Hind, v. [124].
• Ajib, The History of Gharib and his brother, vi. [257].
• Ala al-Din Abu al-Shamat, iv. [29].
• Alexandria (The Sharper of) and the Master of Police, iv. [269].
• Ali bin Bakkar and Shams al-Nahar, iii. [162].
• Ali of Cairo, The Adventures of Mercury, vii. [172].
• Ali Nur al-Din and Miriam the Girdle-Girl, viii. [264].
• Ali the Persian and the Kurd Sharper, iv. [149].
• Ali Shar and Zumurrud, iv. [187].
• Ali bin Tahir and the girl Muunis, v. [164].
• Al-Malik al-Nasir (Saladin) and the Three Chiefs of Police, iv. [271].
• Almsgiving, The Woman whose hands were cut off for, iv. [281].
• Amin (Al-) and his uncle Ibrahim bin al-Mahdi, v. [152].
• Anushirwan, Kisra, and the village damsel, v. [87].
• Anushirwan, The Righteousness of King, v. [254].
• Angel of Death and the King of the Children of Israel, The, v. [250].
• —— with the Proud King and the Devout Man, The, v. [246].
• —— and the Rich King, The, v. [248].
• Anis al-Jalis, Nur al-Din Ali and the damsel, ii. [1].
• Ape, The King’s daughter and the, iv. [297].
• Apples, The Three, i. [186].
• Arab Girl, Harun al-Rashid and the, vii. [108].
• Arab Youth, The Caliph Hisham and the, iv. [101].
• Ardashir and Hayat al-Nufus, vii. [209].
• Asma’i (Al-) and the three girls of Bassorah, vii. [110].
• Ass, The Ox and the, i. [16].
• Ass, The Wild, The Fox and, ix. [48].
• Ayishah, Musab bin al-Zubayr and his wife, v. [79].
• Aziz and Azizah, Tale of, ii. [298].
• Azizah, Aziz and, ii. [298].
• Badawi, Ja’afar the Barmecide and the old, v. [98].
• ——, Omar bin al-Khattab and the young, v. [99].
• —— and his Wife, The, vii. [124].
• Badi’a al-Jamal, Sayf al-Muluk and, vii. [314].
• Badr Basim of Persia, Julnar the Sea-born, and her Son King, vii. [264].
• Badr al-Din Hasan, Nur al-Din Ali of Cairo and his son, i. [195].
• Baghdad, The Haunted House in, v. [166].
• ——, Khalifah the Fisherman of, viii. [145].
• ——, The Porter and the Three Ladies of, i. [82].
• ——, (The ruined man of) and his slave-girl, ix. [24].
• ——, The Sweep and the noble Lady of, iv. [125].
• Bakun’s Story of the Hashish-Eater, iii. [91].
• Banu Tayy, The Lovers of the, v. [137].
• Banu Ozrah, The Lovers of the, v. [70].
• Barber’s Tale of himself, The, i. [317].
• Barber’s First Brother, Story of the, i. [319].
• Barber’s Second Brother, Story of the, i. [324].
• Barber’s Third Brother, Story of the, i. [328].
• Barber’s Fourth Brother, Story of the, i. [331].
• Barber’s Fifth Brother, Story of the, i. [335].
• Barber’s Sixth Brother, Story of the, i. [343].
• Barber, Abu Kir the Dyer and Abu Sir the, ix. [134].
• Barber-Surgeon, Ibrahim bin al-Mahdi and the, iv. [103].
• Barmecide, Ja’afar the, and the old Badawi, v. [98].
• Bassorah (the man of) and his slave-girl, Abdullah bin Ma’amar with, v. [69].
• ——, Al-Asma’i and the three girls of, vii. [110].
• ——, (Hasan of) and the King’s daughter of the Jinn, viii. [7].
• ——, The Lovers of, vii. [130].
• Bath, Harun al-Rashid and Zubaydah in the, v. [75].
• Bathkeeper’s Wife, The Wazir’s Son and the, vi. [150].
• Beanseller, Ja’afar the Barmecide and the, iv. [159].
• Bear, Wardan the Butcher’s adventure with the Lady and the, iv. [293].
• Beasts and the Son of Adam, The Birds and, iii. [16].
• Behram, Prince of Persia, and the Princess Al-Datma, vi. [184].
• Belvedere, The House with the, vi. [188].
• Birds and Beasts and the Carpenter, The, iii. [114].
• Birds, The Falcon and the, iii. [154].
• Birds (the Speech of), The page who feigned to know, vi. [169].
• Black Slave, The pious, v. [261].
• Blacksmith who could handle fire without hurt, The, v. [271].
• Blind Man and the Cripple, The, ix. [67].
• Boys, Abu Nowas and the Three, v. [64].
• Boy and Girl at School, The Loves of the, v. [73].
• Boy and the Thieves, The, ix. [95].
• Boy (The woman who had to lover a) and the other who had to lover a man, v. [165].
• Brass, The City of, vi. [83].
• Broker’s Story, The Christian, i. [262].
• Budur and Jubayr bin Umayr, The Loves of, iv. [228].
• Budur, Kamar al-Zaman and, iii. [212].
• Bukhayt, Story of the Eunuch, ii. [49].
• Bulak Police, Story of the Chief of the, iv. [273].
• Bull and the Ass (Story of), i. [16].
• Bulukiya, Adventures of, v. [304].
• Butcher’s adventure with the Lady and the Bear, Wardan the, iv. [293].
• Butter, The Fakir and his pot of, ix. [40].
• Cairo (New) Police, Story of the Chief of the, iv. [271].
• —— (Old) Police, Story of the Chief of the, iv. [274].
• ——, The Adventures of Mercury Ali of, vii. [172].
• Caliph Al-Ma’amun and the Strange Doctor, iv. [185].
• Caliph, The mock, iv. [130].
• Cashmere Singing-girl, The Goldsmith and the, vi. [156].
• Cat and the Crow, The, iii. [149].
• —— and the Mouse, The, ix. [35].
• Champion (The Moslem) and the Christian Lady, v. [277].
• Chaste Wife, The Lover’s Trick against the, vi. [135].
• Christian Broker’s Story, The, i. [262].
• City of Labtayt, The, vi. [83].
• Cloud (The saint to whom Allah gave a) to serve him, v. [274].
• Cobbler (Ma’aruf the) and his wife Fatimah, x. [1].
• Confectioner, his Wife and the Parrot, The, vi. [132].
• Crab, The Fishes and the, ix. [34].
• Craft and Malice of Women, The, vi. [122].
• Cripple, The Blind Man and the, ix. [67].
• Crow, the Fox and the, iii. [150].
• —— and the Serpent, The, ix. [46].
• Crow, The Cat and the, iii. [149].
• Crows and the Hawk, The, ix. [53].
• Dalilah the Crafty and her daughter Zaynab the Coney-catcher, The Rogueries of, vii. [144].
• Datma (The Princess Al-), Prince Behram of Persia and, vi. [184].
• Death (The Angel of) and the King of the Children of Israel, v. [250].
• —— —— with the Proud King and the Devout Man, v. [246].
• —— —— and the Rich King, v. [248].
• Debauchee and the Three-year-old Child, The, vi. [208].
• Desert (The old woman who dwelt in the) and the pilgrim, v. [186].
• Device (The Wife’s) to cheat her husband, vi. [152].
• Devil, Ibrahim of Mosul and the, vii. [113].
• ——, Isaac of Mosul and his mistress and the, vii. [136].
• Devout Israelite, The, iv. [283].
• —— Tray-maker and his wife, The, v. [264].
• —— Prince, The, v. [111].
• —— woman and the two wicked elders, The, v. [97].
• Dibil al-Khuzai and Muslim bin al-Walid, v. [127].
• Dish of Gold, The man who stole the Dog’s, iv. [265].
• Doctor (The strange) and the Caliph Al-Maamun, iv. [185].
• Dog’s Dish of Gold, The man who stole the, iv. [265].
• Dream, The ruined man who became rich through a, iv. [289].
• Drop of Honey, The, vi. [142].
• Duban, The Physician, i. [45].
• Dunya, Taj al-Muluk and the Princess, ii. [283].
• Durraj (Abu al-Hasan al-) and Abu Ja’afar the Leper, v. [294].
• Dust, The woman who made her husband sift, vi. [143].
• Dyer, Abu Sir the Barber and Abu Kir the, ix. [134].
• Eagle, The Sparrow and the, iii. [155].
• Ebony Horse, The, v. [1].
• Egypt (The man of Upper) and his Frank wife, ix. [19].
• Elders, The Devout woman and the two wicked, v. [97].
• Eldest Lady’s Story, The, i. [162].
• Enchanted Spring, The, vi. [145].
• —— Youth, The, i. [69].
• Envied, The Envier and the, i. [123].
• Envier and the Envied, The, i. [123].
• Eunuch Bukhayt, Tale of the, ii. [49].
• —— Kafur, Tale of the, ii. [51].
• Fakir and his jar of butter, The, ix. [40].
• Falcon and the Partridge, The, iii. [138].
• Falcon, King Sindibad and his, i. [50].
• Fatimah, Ma’aruf the Cobbler and his wife, x. [1].
• Fath bin Khakan (Al) and Al-Mutawakkil, v. [153].
• Ferryman of the Nile and the Hermit, The, v. [288].
• First Old man’s Story, i. [27].
• Fisherman, Abdullah the Merman and Abdullah the, ix. [165].
• —— of Baghdad, Khalifah the, viii. [145].
• ——, The Foolish, ix. [93].
• —— and the Jinni, The, i. [38].
• ——, Khusrau and Shirin and the, v. [91].
• Fishes and the Crab, The, ix. [43].
• Five Suitors, The Lady and her, vi. [172].
• Flea and the Mouse, The, iii. [151].
• Folk, The Fox and the, vi. [211].
• Forger, Yahya bin Khalid and the, iv. [181].
• Fox and the Crow, The, iii. [150].
• Fox and the Folk, The, vi. [211].
• Fox, The Wolf and the, iii. [132].
• Francolin and the Tortoises, The, ix. [113].
• Frank King’s Daughter, Ali Nur al-Din and the, viii. [264].
• Frank wife, The man of Upper Egypt and his, ix. [19].
• Fuller and his son, The, vi. [134].
• Generous friend, The poor man and his, iv. [288].
• Ghanim bin Ayyub the Thrall o’ Love, ii. [45].
• Gharib and his brother Ajib, The History of, vi. [257].
• Girl, Harun al-Rashid and the Arab, vii. [108].
• Girl at School, The Loves of the Boy and, v. [73].
• Girls of Bassorah, Al-Asma’i and the three, vii. [110].
• Girls, Harun al-Rashid and the three, vi. [81].
• —— ——, and the two, v. [81].
• Goldsmith and the Cashmere Singing-Girl, The, vi. [156].
• Goldsmith’s wife, The water-carrier and the, v. [89].
• Hajjaj (Al-) Hind daughter of Al-Nu’uman and, vii. [96].
• —— and the pious man, v. [269].
• Hakim (The Caliph Al-) and the Merchant, v. [86].
• Hammad the Badawi, Tale of, ii. [104].
• Hariri (Al-) Abu Zayd’s lament for his impotency. Final Note to vol. viii.
• Harun al-Rashid and the Arab girl, vii. [108].
• —— and the Slave-Girl and the Imam Abu Yusuf, iv. [153].
• —— with the Damsel and Abu Nowas, iv. [261].
• —— and Abu Hasan the Merchant of Oman, ix. [188].
• —— and the three girls, v. [81].
• —— and the two girls, v. [81].
• —— and the three poets, v. [77].
• —— and Zubaydah in the Bath, v. [75].
• Hashish-Eater, Bakun’s tale of the, ii. [91].
• Hasan of Bassorah and the King’s daughter of the Jinn, viii. [7].
• Hasan, King Mohammed bin Sabaik and the Merchant, vii. [308].
• Hatim al-Tayyi: his generosity after death, iv. [94].
• Haunted House in Baghdad, The, v. [166].
• Hawk, The Crows and the, ix. [53].
• Hayat al-Nufus, Ardashir and, vii. [209].
• Hedgehog and the wood Pigeons, The, iii. [156].
• Hermit, The Ferryman of the Nile and the, v. [288].
• Hermits, The, iii. [125].
• Hind, Adi bin Zayd and the Princess, v. [124].
• Hind daughter of Al-Nu’uman and Al-Hajjaj, vii. [96].
• Hind (King Jali’ad of) and his Wazir Shimas, ix. [32].
• Hisham and the Arab Youth, The Caliph, iv. [101].
• Honey, The Drop of, vi. [142].
• Horse, The Ebony, v. [1].
• House with the Belvedere, The, vi. [188].
• Hunchback’s Tale, The, i. [255].
• Husband and the Parrot, The, i. [52].
• Ibn al-Karibi, Masrur and, v. [109].
• Ibrahim al-Khawwas and the Christian King’s Daughter, v. [283].
• —— bin al-Khasib and Jamilah, ix. [207].
• —— of Mosul and the Devil, vii. [113].
• —— bin al-Mahdi and Al-Amin, v. [152].
• —— bin al-Mahdi and the Barber-Surgeon, iv. [103].
• —— —— and the Merchant’s Sister, iv. [278].
• Ifrit’s mistress and the King’s Son, The, vi. [199].
• Ignorant man who set up for a Schoolmaster, The, v. [119].
• Ikrimah al-Fayyaz, Khuzaymah bin Bishr and, vii. [99].
• Imam Abu Yusuf with Al-Rashid and Zubaydah, The, iv. [153].
• Introduction. Story of King Shariyar and his brother, i. [1].
• Iram, The City of, iv. [113].
• Isaac of Mosul’s Story of Khadijah and the Caliph Maamun, iv. [119].
• Isaac of Mosul and the Merchant, v. [129].
• Isaac of Mosul and his Mistress and the Devil, vii. [113].
• Island, The King of the, v. [290].
• Iskandar Zu Al-Karnayn and a certain Tribe of poor folk, v. [252].
• Israelite, The Devout, iv. [283].
• Jackals and the Wolf, The, ix. [103].
• Ja’afar the Barmecide and the Beanseller, iv. [159].
• —— —— and the old Badawi, v. [98].
• Ja’afar bin al-Hadi, Mohammed al-Amin, and, v. [93].
• Jamilah, Ibrahim bin al-Khasib, and, ix. [207].
• Janshah, The Story of, v. [329].
• Jali’ad of Hind and his Wazir Shimas, King, ix. [32].
• Jeweller’s Wife, Kamar al-Zaman and the, ix. [246].
• Jewish Kazi and his pious Wife, The, v. [256].
• Jewish Doctor’s Tale, The, i. [288].
• Jinni, The Fisherman and the, i. [38].
• Jinni, The Trader and the, i. [24].
• Jubayr bin Umayr and Budur, The Loves of, iv. [228].
• Judar and his brethren, vi. [213].
• Julnar the Sea-born and her son King Badr Basim of Persia, vii. [264].
• Justice of Providence, The, v. [286].
• Kafur, Story of the Eunuch, ii. [51].
• Kalandar’s Tale, The first, i. [104].
• ——, The second, i. [113].
• ——, The third, i. [130].
• Kamar al-Zaman and Budur, iii. [211].
• —— and the Jeweller’s Wife, ix. [246].
• Kazi, the Jewish, and his pious wife, v. [256].
• Khadijah and the Caliph Maamun, Isaac of Mosul’s Story of, iv. [119].
• Khalif the Fisherman of Baghdad (note from Bresl. Edit.), viii. [184].
• Khalifah the Fisherman of Baghdad, viii. [145].
• Khawwas (Ibrahim al-) and the Christian King’s daughter, v. [283].
• Khorasan, Abu Hasan al-Ziyadi and the man from, iv. [285].
• ——, Abu al-Hasan of, ix. [229].
• Khusrau and Shirin and the Fisherman, v. [91].
• Khuzaymah bin Bishr and Ikrimah al-Fayyaz, vii. [99].
• King Jali’ad, Shimas his Wazir and his son Wird Khan, ix. [32].
• King of the Island, The, v. [290].
• —— and the Pilgrim Prince, The Unjust, ix. [50].
• —— and the virtuous wife, The, v. [121].
• —— and his Wazir’s wife, The, vi. [129].
• King’s Daughter and the Ape, The, iv. [297].
• —— Son and the Ifrit’s Mistress, The, vi. [199].
• —— —— and the Merchant’s Wife, The, vi. [167].
• —— —— and the Ghulah, The, vi. [139].
• Kings, The Two, ix. [65].
• Kisra Anushirwan and the Village Damsel, v. [87].
• Kurd Sharper, Ali the Persian and the, iv. [149].
• Kurrat al-Ayn and Abu Isa, v. [145].
• Kus Police and the Sharper, Chief of the, iv. [276].
• Labtayt, The City of, iv. [99].
• Lady of Baghdad, The Sweep and the noble, iv. [125].
• Lady’s Story, The Eldest, i. [162].
• Lady and her five suitors, The, vi. [172].
• —— and her two Lovers, The, vi. [138].
• Ladies of Baghdad, The Porter and the Three, i. [82].
• Laughed again, The man who never, vi. [160].
• Lazybones, Abu Mohammed hight, iv. [162].
• Leper, Abu al-Hasan al-Durraj and Abu Ja’afar the, v. [294].
• Lover, The mad, v. [138].
• Lover who feigned himself a thief (to save his mistress honour), The, iv. [155].
• Lover’s trick against the chaste Wife, The, vi. [135].
• Lovers of Bassorah, The, vii. [130].
• —— of the Banu Tayy, The, v. [137].
• —— of the Banu Ozrah, The, v. [70].
• ——, The Lady and her two, vi. [138].
• —— of Al-Medinah, The, vii. [139].
• ——, The Three unfortunate, v. [133].
• Loves of the Boy and Girl at School, The, v. [73].
• Loves of Abu Isa and Kurrat al-Ayn, The, v. [145].
• Maamun, Isaac of Mosul’s Story of Khadijah and the Caliph, iv. [119].
• —— (Al-) and the Pyramids of Egypt, v. [105].
• —— and the strange Scholar, The Caliph, iv. [185].
• Ma’an bin Zaidah and the Badawi, iv. [97].
• Ma’an the son of Zaidah and the Three Girls, iv. [96].
• Mad Lover, The, vii. [139].
• Madinah (Al-), The Lovers of, vii. [139].
• Magic Horse, The, v. [1].
• Mahbubah, Al-Mutawakkil and his favourite, iv. [291].
• Malik al-Nasir (Al-) and the three Masters of Police, iv. [271].
• —— and his Wazir, vii. [142].
• Man and his Wife, The, ix. [98].
• Man who never laughed during the rest of his days, The, vi. [160].
• Man (The Woman who had to lover a) and the other who had to lover a boy, v. [165].
• Man of Upper Egypt and his Frankish Wife, ix. [19].
• Man of Al-Yaman and his six Slave-girls, iv. [245].
• Man who stole the dog’s dish of gold, iv. [268].
• Man who saw the Night of Power (Three Wishes), vi. [180].
• Man’s dispute with the learned Woman about boys and girls, v. [154].
• Maruf the Cobbler and his wife Fatimah, x. [1].
• Mansur, Yahya bin Khalid and, iv. [179].
• Masrur and Ibn al-Karibi, v. [109].
• Masrur and Zayn al-Mawasif, viii. [205].
• Merchant of Oman, The, ix. [188].
• —— and the Robbers, The, ix. [100].
• —— and the two Sharpers, The, iii. [158].
• Merchant’s Sister, Ibrahim bin al-Mahdi and the, iv. [278].
• —— Wife, The King’s son and the, vi. [167].
• —— Wife and the Parrot, The, i. [52].
• Mercury Ali of Cairo, The Adventures of, vii. [172].
• Merman, and Abdullah the Fisherman, Abdullah the, ix. [165].
• Miller and his wife, The, v. [82].
• Miriam, Ali Nur al-Din and, viii. [264].
• Miser and Loaves of Bread, The, vi. [137].
• Mock Caliph, The, iv. [130].
• Mohammed al-Amin and Ja’afar bin al-Hadi, v. [93].
• Mohammed bin Sabaik and the Merchant Hasan, King, vii. [308].
• Money-changer, The Thief and the, iv. [275].
• Monkey, The Thief and his, iii. [159].
• Moslem Champion and the Christian Lady, The, v. [277].
• Mouse, The, and the Cat, ix. [35].
• Mouse and the Flea, The, iii. [151].
• Mouse and the Ichneumon, The, iii. [147].
• Muunis, Ali bin Tahir and the girl, v. [164].
• Musab bin al-Zubayr and Ayishah his wife, v. [79].
• Muslem bin al-Walid and Dibil al-Khuzai, v. [127].
• Mutawakkil (Al-) and Al-Fath bin Khakan, v. [153].
• —— and his favourite Mahbubah, iv. [291].
• Mutalammis (Al-) and his wife Umaymah, v. [74].
• Naomi, Ni’amah bin al-Rabi’a and his Slave-girl, iv. [1].
• Nazarene Broker’s Story, The, i. [262].
• Necklace, The Stolen, vi. [182].
• Niggard and the Loaves of Bread, The, vi. [137].
• Night of Power, The man who saw the, vi. [180].
• Nile (The Ferryman of the) and the Hermit, v. [288].
• Ni’amah bin al-Raby’a and Naomi his Slave-girl, iv. [1].
• Nur al-Din Ali and the damsel Anis al-Jalis, ii. [1].
• Nur al-Din of Cairo and his son Badr al-Din Hasan, i. [195].
• Ogress, The King’s Son and the, vi. [139].
• Old Man’s Story, The First, i. [27].
• —— —— The Second, i. [32].
• —— —— The Third, i. [36].
• Old Woman, Abu Suwayd and the handsome, v. [163].
• Omar bin al-Nu’uman and his Sons Sharrkan and Zau al-Makan, The Tale of King, ii. [77].
• Omar bin al-Khattab and the young Badawi, v. [99].
• Oman, The Merchant of, ix. [188].
• Otbah and Rayya, vii. [91].
• Page who feigned to know the speech of birds, The, vi. [169].
• Paradise, The Apples of, v. [141].
• Parrot, The Merchant’s wife and the, i. [52].
• Partridge, The Hawk and the, iii. [138].
• Peacock, The Sparrow and the, iii. [161].
• Persian and the Kurd Sharper, Ali the, iv. [149].
• Physician Duban, The, i. [45].
• Physician’s Story, The Jewish, i. [288].
• Pilgrim and the old woman who dwelt in the desert, The, v. [186].
• Pilgrim Prince, The Unjust King and the, ix. [50].
• Pious black slave, The, v. [261].
• Pigeons, The Hedgehog and the, iii. [156].
• Pigeons, The Two, vi. [183].
• Platter-maker and his wife, The devout, v. [264].
• Poets, Harun al-Rashid and the three, v. [77].
• Police of Bulak, Story of the Chief of the, iv. [273].
• —— of Kus and the Sharper, the Chief of the, iv. [276].
• —— of New Cairo, Story of the Chief of the, iv. [271].
• —— of Old Cairo, Story of the Chief of the, iv. [274].
• —— (The Three Masters of), Al-Malik, al-Nasir and, iv. [271].
• Poor man and his friend in need, The, iv. [288].
• Porter and the Three Ladies of Baghdad, The, i. [82].
• Portress, The Tale of the, i. [173].
• Prince Behram and the Princess Al-Datma, vi. [184].
• ——, the Ensorcelled, i. [69].
• —— and the Ghulah, The, i. [54].
• ——, The Devout, v. [111].
• —— (the Pilgrim), The Unjust King and, ix. [50].
• Prior who became a Moslem, The, v. [141].
• Providence, The justice of, v. [286].
• Purse, The Stolen, vi. [209].
• Pyramids of Egypt, Al-Maamun and the, v. [105].
• Queen of the Serpents, The, v. [298].
• Rake’s trick against the chaste Wife, The, vi. [135].
• Rayya, Otbah and, vii. [91].
• Reeve’s Tale, The, i. [278].
• Rogueries of Dalilah the Crafty and her daughter Zaynab the Coney-catcher, The, vii. [144].
• Rose-in-Hood, Uns al-Wujud and the Wazir’s Daughter, v. [12].
• Ruined Man of Baghdad and his Slave-girl, The, ix. [24].
• —— who became rich again through a dream, The, iv. [189].
• Rukh, Abd al-Rahman the Moor’s Story of the, v. [122].
• Sa’id bin Salim and the Barmecides, v. [94].
• Saint to whom Allah gave a cloud to serve him, The, v. [274].
• Saker and the Birds, The, iii. [154].
• Sandal-wood Merchant and the Sharpers, The, vi. [202].
• Sayf al-Muluk and Badi’a al-Jamal, vii. [314].
• School, The Loves of the Boy and the Girl at, v. [73].
• Schoolmaster who fell in love by report, The, v. [117].
• ——, The Foolish, v. [118].
• ——, The ignorant man who set up for a, v. [119].
• Serpent, The Crow and the, ix. [46].
• Serpent-charmer and his Wife, ix. [56].
• Serpents, The Queen of the, v. [298].
• Sexes, Relative excellence of the, v. [154].
• Shahryar and his brother, King (Introduction), i. [1].
• Shahryar (King) and his brother, i. [2].
• Shams al-Nahar, Ali bin Bakkar and, iii. [162].
• Sharper of Alexandria and the Chief of Police, The, iv. [269].
• Sharper, Ali the Persian and the Kurd, iv. [149].
• ——, The Chief of the Kus Police and the, iv. [276].
• ——, The Simpleton and the, v. [83].
• Sharpers, The Merchant and the Two, iii. [158].
• ——, The Sandal-wood Merchant and the, vi. [202].
• Sharrkan and Zau al-Makan, The History of King Omar bin Al-Nu’uman and his Sons, ii. [277].
• Shaykh’s Story (The First), i. [27].
• —— (The Second), i. [32].
• —— (The Third), i. [36].
• Shepherd and the Thief, The, ix. [106].
• Shimas, King Jali’ad of Hind and his Wazir, ix. [32].
• Shipwrecked Woman and her child, The, v. [259].
• Shirin and the Fisherman, Khusrau and, v. [91].
• Simpleton and the Sharper, The, v. [83].
• Sindibad and his Falcon, King, i. [50].
• Sindbad the Seaman and Sindbad the Porter, vi. [1].
• ——, First Voyage of, vi. [4].
• ——, Second Voyage of, vi. [14].
• ——, Third Voyage of, vi. [22].
• ——, Fourth Voyage of, vi. [34].
• ——, Fifth Voyage of, vi. [48].
• ——, Sixth Voyage of, vi. [58].
• ——, Seventh Voyage of, vi. [68].
• —— (note from Cal. Edit.), vi. [78].
• Singing-girl, The Goldsmith and the Cashmere, vi. [156].
• Six Slave-girls, The Man of Al-Yaman and his, iv. [245].
• Slave, The pious black, v. [261].
• Slave-girl, The ruined man of Baghdad and his, ix. [24].
• Slave-girls, The Man of Al-Yaman and his six, iv. [245].
• Sparrow and the Eagle, The, iii. [155].
• —— and the Peacock, The, iii. [161].
• Spider and the Wind, The, ix. [59].
• Spring, The Enchanted, vi. [145].
• Squinting slave-girl, Abu al-Aswad and his, v. [80].
• Stolen Necklace, The, vi. [182].
• —— Purse, The, vi. [209].
• Suitors, The Lady and her five, vi. [172].
• Sweep and Noble Lady of Baghdad, The, iv. [125].
• Tailor’s Tale, The, i. [300].
• Taj al-Muluk and the Princess Dunya, The Tale of, ii. [263].
• Tawaddud, Abu al-Hasan and his slave-girl, v. [189].
• Thief, The Lover who feigned himself a, iv. [155].
• —— and the Shroff, The, iv. [275].
• —— and his Monkey, The, iii. [159].
• ——, The Shepherd and the, ix. [106].
• —— turned Merchant and the other Thief, The, v. [107].
• Thieves, The Boy and the, ix. [95].
• ——, The Merchant and the, ix. [100].
• ——, The Two, v. [107].
• Three-year-old-child, The Debauchee and the, vi. [208].
• Three Apples, The, i. [186].
• Three unfortunate Lovers, v. [133].
• Three Wishes, or the Man who longed to see the Night of Power, The, vi. [180].
• Tortoise, The Water-fowl and the, iii. [129].
• Tortoises, The Heathcock and the, ix. [113].
• Trader (the) and the Jinni, i. [24].
• Trick (The Lover’s) against the chaste wife, vi. [135].
• —— (The Wife’s) against her husband, vi. [152].
• Two Kings, The, ix. [56].
• Two Pigeons, The, vi. [183].
• Umaymah, Al-Mutalammis and his wife, v. [74].
• Unfortunate Lovers, The Three, v. [133].
• Unjust King and the Pilgrim Prince, The, ix. [50].
• Uns al-Wujud and the Wazir’s Daughter Rose-in-Hood, v. [32].
• Upper Egypt (The man of) and his Frank wife, ix. [19].
• Walid bin Sahl, Yunus the Scribe and the Caliph, vii. [104].
• Wardan, the Butcher, Adventure with the Lady and the Bear, iv. [293].
• Water-carrier and the Goldsmith’s Wife, The, v. [89].
• Water-fowl and the Tortoise, The, iii. [129].
• Wazir and the Sage Duban, The, i. [45].
• Wazir, Al-Malik al-Nasir and his, vii. [142].
• —— of Al-Yaman and his young brother, The, v. [71].
• Wazir’s Son and the Hammam-Keeper’s Wife, The, vi. [152].
• —— Wife, The King and his, vi. [129].
• Weasel, The Mouse and the, iii. [147].
• Weaver, The Foolish, iii. [159].
• Wife, The Badawi and his, vii. [124].
• —— (the Chaste) The Lover’s Trick against, vi. [135].
• ——, The King and his Wazir’s, vi. [129].
• ——, The Man and his Wilful, ix. [98].
• —— (The Merchant’s) and the Parrot, i. [52].
• —— (The Virtuous) and the King, v. [121].
• Wife’s device to cheat her husband, The, vi. [152].
• —— trick against her husband, The, v. [96].
• Wild Ass, The Jackal and the, ix. [48].
• Wilful Wife, The Man and his, ix. [98].
• Wind, The Spider and the, ix. [59].
• Wird Khan (King) and his Women and Wazirs, ix. [90].
• Wolf and the Fox, The, iii. [132].
• Wolf, The Foxes and the, ix. [103].
• Woman (The shipwrecked) and her child, v. [259].
• Woman’s trick against her husband, v. [96].
• Woman who made her husband sift dust, The, iv. [281].
• Woman whose hands were cut off for Almsgiving, The, iv. [281].
• Women, The Malice of, vi. [122].
• ——, The Two, v. [165].
• Yahya bin Khalid and the Forger, iv. [181].
• —— and Mansur, iv. [179].
• —— and the Poor Man, v. [92].
• Yaman (The Man of Al-) and his six slave-girls, iv. [245].
• —— (The Wazir of Al-) and his young brother, v. [71].
• Yunus the Scribe and the Caliph Walid bin Sahl, vii. [104].
• Zau al-Makan, The History of King Omar bin al-Nu’uman and his Sons Sharrkan and, ii. [77].
• Zayn al-Mawasif, Masrur and, viii. [205].
• Zaynab the Coney-Catcher, The Rogueries of Dalilah the Wily, and her Daughter, vii. [144].
• Zubaydah in the Bath, Harun al-Rashid and, v. [75].
• Zumurrud, Ali Shar and, iv. [187].

INDEX II.
ALPHABETICAL TABLE OF THE NOTES
(ANTHROPOLOGICAL, &c.)

Prepared by F. Steingass, Ph.D.

• A’amash (Al-), traditionist, v. [81].
• A’amash (Al-) = one with watering eyes, vi. [96].
• A’aráf (Al-) = partition-wall (chapter of the Koran), v. [217].
• A’araj (Al-), traditionist, v. [81].
• Aaron’s rod, ii. [242].
• —— (becomes with Moslems Moses’ staff), v. [238].
• Abá, Abáah = cloak of hair, ii. [133]; viii. [42].
• Abá al-Khayr = my good sir, etc., ix. [54].
• Abad = eternity, without end, ii. [205].
• Abbás “hero eponymus” of the Abbasides, i. [188].
• —— (= the grim-faced) iv. [138].
• Abbasides (descendants of the Prophet’s uncle), ii. [61].
• —— (black banners and dress), ii. [64], [292].
• ’Abd = servile, iii. [44].
• Abd al-Ahad = slave of the One (God), vi. [222].
• Abd al-Azíz (Caliph), ii. [166].
• Abd al-Malik (Caliph), ii. [77], [167].
• Abd al-Kádir of Gilán (founder of the Kádiri order), iv. [41].
• Abd al-Malik ibn Marwán (Caliph), iii. [319]; iv. [7].
• Abd al-Rahím = slave of the Compassionate, vi. [221].
• Abd al-Salám = slave of salvation, vi. [211].
• Abd al-Samad = slave of the Eternal, vi. [221].
• Abd al-Samad al-Samúdí (for Samanhúdí?), vi. [87].
• Abdallah (a neutral name), v. [141].
• Abdallah bin Abbás, companion and traditioner, i. [304].
• Abdallah bin Abí Kilábah, iv. [113].
• Abdallah bin al-Zubayr, iii. [318].
• Abdallah bin Málik al-Khuzá’í, iv. [181].
• Abdallah bin Mas’úd (traditionist), v. [81].
• Abdallah bin Sálim (traditionist), v. [81].
• Abdallah ibn al-Mu’tazz (poet-prince), x. [39].
• Abdún (convent of) x. [40].
• Abhak = Allah bless him and keep (see Sal’am), ii. [24].
• ’Abír (a fragrant powder sprinkled on face, body and clothes), viii. [240].
• Abjad (Hebrew-Arabic alphabet), v. [229].
• —— (logogriphs derived from it), viii. [93].
• Ablution (difference of fashion in performing it), v. [112].
• —— (obligatory after copulation), viii. [305].
• Abraham (an Imám to mankind), ii. [203].
• —— (place of) ii. [272]; iv. [148].
• —— (the Friend = mediæval St. Abraham), v. [205]; vi. [270].
• Abtan (Al-) = the most profound (see Bátiní), vi. [221].
• Abú al-Abbás al-Mubarrad (grammarian), v. [138].
• Abú al-Abbás al-Rakáshí (poet), v. [77].
• Abú al-Ayná, v. [164].
• Abú al-Hamlát = father of assaults, burdens, pregnancies, vii. [149].
• Abú al-Hasan (not Husn), iii. [162].
• Abú al-Husn = Father of Beauty (a fancy-name), v. [189].
• Abú al-Hosayn (Father of the Fortlet) = fox, iii. [132].
• Abú al-Lays (Pr. N.) = Father of the Lion, ix. [211].
• Abú al-Muzaffir = Father of the Conqueror, iv. [166].
• Abú al-Nowás (Pr. N.) = Father of the Sidelocks, iv. [55], [264].
• Abú al-Ruwaysh = Father of the Feather-kin, viii. [77].
• Abú al-Sa’ádát = Father of Prosperities, viii. [148]; x. [29].
• Abú al-Sakhá = Father of Munificence, vii. [133].
• Abú Alí, see Di’ibil al-Khuzá’i.
• Abú Alí al-Husayn the Wag, vii. [130].
• Abú Ámir bin Marwán (Wazir to Saladin), vii. [142].
• Abú Bakr (Caliph) ii. [167], [197]; v. [235].
• Abú Bakr Mohammed al-Anbárí (grammarian), v. [141].
• Abú Dalaf al-Ijili (a soldier famed for liberality and culture), ix. [189].
• Abú Fáris = Father of Spoils (lion), v. [40].
• Abú Hanífah (founder of the Senior School), ii. [207].
• —— (scourged for refusing to take office), ii. [210].
• Abú Hassán al-Ziyadí, iv. [258].
• Abú Házim, ii. [205].
• Abú Horayrah (uncle of Mohammed), v. [81].
• Abú Hosayn = Father of the Fortlet (fox), vi. [211].
• Abú Ishak (Hárún’s cup-companion), ii. [302].
• Abú Karn = Father of the Horn (unicorn?), vi. [21].
• Abú Kidr = Father of the Cooking-pot, i. [304].
• Abú Kír = Father of the Pitch (Abou Kir), ix. [134].
• Abú Kurrat = Father of Coolness (Chamæleon), iii. [165].
• Abú Lahab and his wife, viii. [291].
• Abú Lúlúah (murderer of Caliph Omar), ii. [162].
• Abú Maryam (a term of contempt), viii. [306].
• Abú Miján (song of), x. [41].
• Abú Mohammed al-Battál (hero of an older tale), viii. [335].
• Abú Músà al-Ashárí, ii. [162].
• Abú Riyáh = Father of Winds (a toy), ii. [93].
• Abú Shámah = Father of the Cheek-mole, i. [269].
• Abú Shámmah = Father of a Smeller or nose, i. [269].
• Abú Shawárib = Father of Mustachios, i. [269].
• Abú Shiháb, Father of the Shooting-star = evil spirit, i. [221].
• Abú Sír (corruption of Pousiri = Busiris), ix. [134].
• Abú Sirhán = Father of (going out to pray by) Morning, iii. [146]; ix. [104].
• Abú Tabak = Father of Whipping, x. [5].
• Abú Tammám (poet), v. [157].
• Abú Yakzán = awakener (ass, cock), i. [16], [18].
• Abú Yúsuf (the Lawyer), iv. [153].
• Abú Zanád (traditionist), v. [81].
• Abú Zarr (companion of the Prophet), ii. [200]; v. [102].
• Abyssinians (hardly to be called blackamoors), vi. [63].
• Account asked from outgoing Governors, vii. [102].
• Account of them will be presently given = “we leave them for the present,” vii. [157].
• Acids applied as counter-inebriants, viii. [32].
• Acquit me of responsibility = pardon me, ii. [76].
• —— (formula of dismissing a servant), vi. [243].
• Acquittance of all possible claims after business transactions (quoted on Judgment-Day), ix. [285].
• ’Ád (tribe of the prehistoric Arabs) i. [65]; iii. [294]; ix. [174].
• ’Ád bin Zayd (poet), v. [124].
• Adab = anything between good education and good manners, i. [132]; ix. [41].
• Adam’s loins, iv. [111].
• Adam’s Peak (Ar. Jabal al-Ramun), vi. [65].
• Ádamí = an Adamite (opposed to Jinn), ix. [169].
• Adan = our Aden, viii. [248].
• Address without vocative particle more emphatic, vii. [125].
• Addressing by the name not courteous, vii. [114].
• Adí (son of Hátim al-Táyyí), iv. [95].
• Ádil (Al-) = the Just (Caliph Omar), v. [103].
• ’Ádilíyah (Mosque in Cairo), x. [6].
• Adím = leather (Bulghár, Morocco), viii. [80].
• Adím al-Zauk = lack-tact, ix. [206].
• Adites (first and second), vi. [269].
• Adl = just (ironically), iv. [271].
• Adm (Udm) = any relish, iv. [128].
• Admiral (fishing for the King’s table), ix. [159].
• Adnán (Arab genealogy begins with), v. [100].
• —— (land of Arabia), vi. [94].
• Adolescent (Un, aime toutes les femmes), vii. [299].
• Adultery (none without an adulterer), v. [90].
• —— (to be proved by four witnesses), v. [97].
• —— (son of = base-born), ix. [331].
• —— (son of, to one’s own child), iii. [219].
• Æolipyla, ii. [101].
• Æsop the fable-writer, x. [117].
• Af’à = ὄφις (a snake), ix. [37].
• Affirmative and negative particles, vii. [195].
• Afridun (Furaydun) absurd name for a Greek king, ii. [82].
• Africa (suggested derivation of the name), vii. [60].
• Aftah (Al-) = Broad-’o-Brow, i. [17].
• Aghá = master, sir, gentleman (politely applied to a Eunuch), i. [235]; ii. [50].
• —— (Al-) for chief police officer, vii. [156].
• Ahassa bi ’l-shurbah = “he smelt a rat,” vii. [144].
• Ahd (Al-) wa al-Mísák = oath and covenant, ix. [327].
• Ahdab = hunchback (opposed to Ak’as), i. [213].
• Áhirah = strumpet (see Fájirah), viii. [109].
• Ahjár al-Kassárín = falling-stones, viii. [334].
• Ahl al-Bayt = the person of the house (euphemistic for wife), vi. [199].
• Ahlan = as one of the household, viii. [269].
• Ahmad = the praised one, Mohammed, ii. [226].
• Ahmad al-Danaf (Pr. N.) = Calamity Ahmad, iv. [75].
• —— bin Abí Dawád (High Chancellor to the Abbasides), ix. [244].
• —— bin Hanbal (founder of the fourth Moslem School), ii. [204].
• Ahnaf (Al-) bin Kays, ii. [160].
• Ahr (ihr) = fornication, in the sense of irreligion, ii. [258].
• Ahrám (Al-) = the Pyramids, v. [105].
• Ahwáz (city and province of Khuzistan), vi. [287].
• “Aidance from Allah and victory are near,” ix. [317].
• ’Áin = Smiter with the evil eye, i. [123].
• Air (I fear it for her when it bloweth), viii. [53].
• ’Ajáib al-Hind = marvels of Ind, x. [153].
• Ajal = appointed time of life, i. [74].
• —— = yes verily, vii. [195].
• ’Ajam (Al-) = region not Arab, Persia, i. [2].
• ’Ajami = foreigner, esp. Persian, i. [120].
• Ajíb (Pr. N.) = wonderful, vi. [257].
• Ajúz, for old woman, highly insulting, i. [174].
• ’Ajwah = dates pressed into a solid mass and deified, vii. [14].
• Akabah (mountain pass near Meccah), v. [295].
• Akákír = drugs, spices, vii. [147].
• Akásirah (= Kisra-Kings), i. [75]; ix. [323].
• —— (= sons of the royal Chosroës), v. [10].
• Akh = brother (wide signification of the word), vi. [243].
• Akh al-Jahálah = Brother of Ignorance, iii. [162].
• Akhawán shakíkán = (two) brothers german, viii. [340].
• Ákhir al-Zamán = the latter days, v. [304].
• Akhlát (town in Armenia), vii. [88].
• Akhzar = green, grey, fresh (applied to cheek-down), ii. [292].
• Akík (Al-), two of the name, vii. [140].
• ’Akík = carnelian (“seal with seals of”), viii. [228].
• Akíl (son of Abú Tálib), viii. [172].
• ’Akká = Acre, ix. [19].
• Akkám = Cameleer, Caravan-manager, iv. [40].
• Akl al-hishmah = eating decorously, ix. [337].
• Akmám, pl. of Kumm = sleeve, petal, viii. [275].
• Akr Kayrawán = ball of silver-dross, viii. [267].
• Akún fidá-ka = I may be thy ransom, viii. [36].
• Akyál, title of the Himyarite Kings, vii. [60].
• Akrás = cakes, i. [83].
• Al (the Article with Proper Names), iii. [309].
• Alà júdi-k = to thy generosity, ix. [150].
• Alá al-Din (Aladdin) = Glory of the Faith, iv. [29], [33].
• Alà kulli hál = in any case, any how, viii. [272].
• Alà mahlak = at thy leisure, ix. [168].
• Alà raghm = in spite of, vii. [121].
• A’láj = sturdy miscreants, x. [38].
• Alak = clotted blood, iii. [26].
• Alam = way-mark etc., v. [191].
• —— (not Ilm) al-Din = flag of the faith, ii. [19].
• Aláma = alá-má = upon what? wherefore? iv. [201].
• Alas for his chance of escaping = there is none, vii. [183].
• Alast (day of), iv. [111].
• Albatross (supposed never to touch land), vi. [33].
• Alchemy (its practice has cost many a life), viii. [11].
• Alcinous (of the Arabian Odyssy), vi. [65].
• Alcove (corruption of Al-Kubbah), v. [18].
• Ál Dáud (David’s family), iv. [50].
• Aleppo (noted for debauchery), v. [64].
• Alexander (of the Koran) not to be confounded with the Macedonian, ii. [199].
• Alexandria (praise of), viii. [289].
• Alfí = one who costs a thousand, iv. [225].
• Alhambra = (Dár) al-Hamrá, the Red, vii. [49].
• Alhamdulillah (pronounced to avert the evil eye), v. [7].
• Alí bin Abí Tálib (Caliph), v. [213]; 225.
• —— (his deeds of prowess), ii. [108].
• —— (murder of), iii. [319].
• —— bin Mohammed bin Abdallah bin Táhír (Governor), v. [164].
• —— al-Mulúk = high of (among the Kings), vii. [354].
• —— al-Zaybak (Pr. N. = Mercury Ali), iv. [75]; vii. [172].
• —— Shár (Pr. N.), iv. [187].
• Alif (stature like one), iii. [236]; iv. [249].
• —— Há, Wáw as tests of calligraphy, vii. [112].
• Alish Takish (acting woman and man alternately), v. [65].
• All will not be save well = it will be the worse for him, ix. [293].
• Allah (will open thee) a formula of refusal, i. [32].
• —— (hath said) formula of quoting the Koran, i. [61].
• —— (names, by Edwin Arnold), ii. [28].
• —— Wa’llahi tayyib (exclamation of the Egyptian Moslem), ib. [34].
• —— (His name pronounced against the evil eye), iv. [34].
• —— (is all-knowing, swearing by, forbidden), ib. ~gutenberg 53254 .
• —— = (I don’t know), ib. ~gutenberg 53254 .
• —— (give thee profit), iii. [17].
• —— (unto, we are returning), ib. [317].
• —— (desire unto), v. [104].
• —— (corporality of?), ib. [104].
• —— (requite you abundantly = “thank you”), ib. [171].
• —— (seeking refuge with), ib. [200].
• —— (names of), ib. [214].
• —— (be praised whatso be our case), vi. [3].
• —— (the “Manifest Truth”), ib. [93].
• —— (is omniscient), formula used when telling an improbable tale, ib. [210].
• —— (the Opener), ib. [216].
• —— (it is He who gives by our means), ib. [233].
• —— (sight comprehendeth Him not), ib. [283].
• —— (confound the far One, hard swearing), vii. [155].
• —— (succour the Caliph against thee), ib. [159].
• —— (is All-knowing for our tale is no “Gospel truth”), ib. [209].
• —— (I take refuge with—from gainsaying thee = God forbid that I should oppose thee), viii. [53].
• —— (perpetuate his shadow), ib. [170].
• —— (we seek refuge with him from the error of the intelligent), ib. [327].
• —— (will make no way for the Infidels over the True Believers), ix. [16].
• —— (I seek refuge with), ib. [35].
• —— (He was jealous for Almighty), ib. [104].
• —— (I fear him in respect of = I am governed by Him in my dealings with), ib. [123].
• —— (pardon thee, showing that the speaker does not believe in another’s tale), ib. [154].
• —— (the Provider), ib. [166].
• —— (for the love of), ib. [170].
• —— (Karím = God is bountiful), ib. [167].
• —— (grant thee grace = pardon thee), ib. [283].
• —— (yasturak = will veil thee), ib. [309].
• —— (sole Scient of the hidden things, be extolled), ib. [311].
• —— (raised the heavens without columns, etc.), ib. [324].
• —— (will make things easy = will send us aid), x. [2].
• —— (give thee quittance of responsibility), ib. [11].
• —— (will send thee thy daily bread), ib. [13].
• Allah! Allah! = I conjure thee by God, i. [346].
• Alláh Karím = Allah is all beneficent, i. [32].
• Allaho a’alam = God is all knowing, i. [2], [50].
• Allaho akbar (as a war cry), ii. [89]; v. [196]; vii. [8]; viii. [265].
• Allahumma = Yá Allah with emphasis, i. [39].
• Allusions (far-fetched, fanciful and obscure), iii. [58], [169], [176], [263].
• Almá = brown- (not “damask-”) lipped, v. [66].
• Almás = Gr. Adamas, ix. [325].
• Almenichiaka, vi. [124].
• Almond-apricot, vi. [277].
• Alms to reverend men to secure their prayers, ii. [71].
• Alnashar (Story of), x. [146].
• Aloes, see Sabr.
• —— (well appreciated in Eastern medicine), ix. [100].
• —— (the finest used for making Nadd), ix. [150].
• Alpinism (unknown), iii. [324].
• Al-Safar Zafar = voyaging is victory, i. [250].
• Alwán (pl. of Laun, colour) = viands, dishes, viii. [23].
• Amáim (pl. of Imamah) = turbands, iv. [100].
• ’Amal = action, operation (applied to drugs etc.), ix. [274].
• ’Amala hilah for tricking, a Syro-Egyptian vulgarism, vii. [43].
• Amalekites, vii. [264], [265].
• Amám-ak = before thee, vii. [94].
• Amán = quarter, mercy, i. [342].
• ’Amáriah (Pr. N. of a town), vii. [353].
• Amazon (a favourite in folk-lore), ii. [96].
• Amazons (of Dahome), viii. [39].
• Ambar al-Khám = rude Ambergris, viii. [85].
• Ambiguousity, v. [44].
• Amend her case = bathe her, etc., vii. [266].
• Amid (Amidah) town in Mesopotamia, vi. [106].
• Amín (Al-) = the Trusted of Allah, iv. [261].
• —— —— son and successor of Hárún al-Rashíd, i. [185]; v. [93], [152].
• Ámín (Amen) = So be it! ix. [131].
• Amír = military commander, i. [259].
• ’Ámir = one who inhabiteth, haunter, x. [6].
• Amír and Samúl = Jones, Brown and Robinson, iv. [106].
• Amír al-Muuminín = Prince of the Faithful, i. [112].
• Ammá ba’ad = but after (initiatory formula), ii. [37].
• ’Amm = uncle (polite address to a father-in-law), x. [32].
• Ammá laka au ’alayka = either to thee (the gain) or upon thee (the loss), ix. ii.
• Amor discende non ascende, iii. [240].
• Amr (Al-) = command, matter, affair, ix. [67].
• Amrad = beardless and handsome, effeminate, i. [327].
• Amrú (pronounced Amr) or Zayd = Tom, Dick or Harry, iv. [2].
• —— bin Ma’adi Karib (poet), v. [147].
• —— bin Masa’dah (Pr. N.), v. [145].
• Amsá = he passed the evening, etc., iii. [239].
• Amsár (pl. of Misr) = cities, i. [11].
• —— = settled provinces, vii. [371].
• Amshát (combs) perhaps = Kanáfah (vermicelli), i. [83].
• Amtár, pl. of Matr, q.v., iii. [295].
• Amúd al-Sawári = the Pillar of Masts (Diocletian’s column), viii. [323].
• Amúríyah = the classical Amorium, v. [141].
• “Ana” (from Night ccclxxxi. to ccccxxiv.), v. [64].
• Ana a’amil = I will do it (Egypto-Syrian vulgarism), v. [367].
• Ana fí jíratak = I crave thy intercession (useful phrase), iv. [83].
• Anagnorisis, admirably managed, viii. [104].
• Analphabetic Amírs, ix. [126].
• Ánasa-kum = ye are honoured by knowing him, x. [11].
• Anbár (pronounced Ambár), town on the Euphrates, iv. [152].
• Anbar (Ambar) = ambergris, vi. [60].
• Andalíb = nightingale (masc. in Arab.), viii. [282].
• Andalusian = Spanish (i.e. of Vandal-land), vi. [101].
• Andam = the gum called dragon’s blood; brazil-wood, i. [176]; iii. [263]; viii. [225].
• Anemone on a tomb, ii. [325].
• Angels (taking precedence in the order of created beings), ix. [81].
• —— (appearing to Sodomites), iii. [301].
• —— (ride piebalds), vi. [146].
• —— (shooting down the Jinn), viii. [292].
• Anís al-Jalís = the Cheerer of the Companion, ii. [5].
• Animals (have no fear of man), ix. [181].
• Anista-ná = thy company gladdens us, viii. [231].
• Anklet-ring and ear drops (erotic meaning of), ii. [318].
• Ansár = Medinite auxiliaries, vii. [92]; viii. [183].
• Ant (chapter ix. of the Koran), v. [213].
• Antar (Romance quoted), iv. [41].
• —— (and the Chosroë), vi. [285].
• —— (contest with Khosrewan), vii. [289].
• Anthropophagy (allowed when it saves life), v. [186].
• Antiochus and Stratonice, iv. [10].
• Ants (a destructive power in tropic climates), ix. [46].
• Anúshírwán = Anúshín-rawán = Sweet of Soul, v. [87].
• Anwá, pl. of Nau, q.v., viii. [266].
• Anwár = lights, flowers, viii. [270]; 282.
• Anyáb (pl. of Náb) = grinder teeth, ix. [140].
• Ape-names (expressing auspiciousness), iii. [159].
• Apes (isle of) vi. [23].
• —— (and their lustful propensities), vi. [54].
• —— (gathering fruits), vi. [56].
• —— (remnant of some ancient tribe), vii. [346].
• Apodosis omitted, vi. [203], [239].
• Apple (wine), iv. [134].
• —— (many a goodly one rotten at the core), iv. [187].
• Apricots (various kinds), viii. [268].
• ’Ár (Al-) = shame, v. [138].
• Arab al-Arbá = prehistoric tribes of the Arabs, i. [112]; v. [101].
• —— al-Musta’ajimah = barbarised Arabs, ib.
• —— al-Musta’aribah = naturalised Arabs, ib.
• —— al-Muta’arribah = Arabised Arabs, ib.
• —— (exaggerates generosity), ii. [36].
• —— (shouting under his ruler’s palace), ib. [39].
• —— temperament, ib. [54], [101], [181].
• —— cap (Turtúr), ib. [143].
• —— (Derivation of the name), ib. [140].
• —— (pathos), iii. [55].
• —— (the noble merciful), ib. [88].
• —— (shop), ib. [163].
• —— (style compared with Persian), vi. [125].
• A’ráb = dwellers in the desert, ix. [293].
• Arab horses (breeds of), v. [246].
• Arab-land and Ajam = all the world over, v. [136].
• Arabian Night converted into an Arabian Note, vii. [314].
• Arabian Odyssey, viii. [7].
• Arabs (for plundering nomades), x. [25].
• Arafat (Mount, where the victims are not slaughtered), v. [295].
• —— (day of), ii. [169].
• Arák (capparis shrub), ii. [54].
• —— (tooth-stick of the wild caper-tree; Aráka = I see thee), iii. [275].
• Arakíyah = white scull-cap, i. [215].
• Ar’ar = Juniper-tree, “heath,” iii. [254]; vi. [95].
• Ardabb (Irdabb) = five bushels, i. [263].
• Ardeshir (Artaxerxes), three Persian Kings of the name, ii. [156]; vii. [209].
• Ardhanárí = the half-woman, iii. [306].
• Arianism and early Christianity, x. [190].
• Aríf (Al-) = monitor, i. [231].
• Arísh (Al-), frontier town between Egypt and Palestine, ix. [286].
• ’Aríshah = arbour, etc., ix. [219].
• Aristomenes and his fox, vi. [45].
• Arithmetic (not mastered by Moslems), v. [236].
• Arithmology (cumbrous in Arabic for lack of the higher numerals), ix. [123].
• Ark al-Haláwat = vein of sweetness, for penis, iv. [51].
• Arman = Armenia, ii. [273].
• Armaníyah (Armenia), iv. [182].
• Armenians (porters of Constantinople), vi. i.
• Arm-pits (taking a dismounting person under the, a sign of respect), iv. [24].
• Arms and armour, x. [86].
• Army (divided into six divisions), iii. [290].
• Arsh = the ninth Heaven, v. [167].
• Artál, see Rotl.
• Artists in cosmetics, x. [234].
• Arúbah (Al-) = Friday, vi. [190].
• Arún (Heb.) = in his shirt, i. [78].
• ’Arús (Al-) = the bride (tropical name for wine), viii. [203].
• As’ad = more (or most) fortunate, iii. [346].
• Asaf bin Barkhiya (Solomon’s Wazir), vi. [99]; vii. [318]; viii. [133].
• Asáfírí = sparrow-olives, iii. [295].
• ’Asákír = corner-terminals of a litter, x. [32].
• Asal Kasab = cane-honey, x. [3].
• Asal Katr = drip-honey, x. [2].
• Asal Nahl = bee’s honey, i. [271].
• Ásár = traces, ix. [255].
• Ash’ab (proverbial for greed), x. [15].
• Asháb = companions, vii. [92]; viii. [183].
• Asháb al-Ráy (epithet of the Hanafi school), vi. [146].
• Asháb al-Suffah, v. [102].
• Asháb al-Ziyá = Feudatories, vii. [327].
• Ashhab = grey-white, ii. [116].
• A-Sharíf anta = art thou a noble, ix. [231].
• Ashírah = clan, vii. [121].
• Ashjár = door-posts or wooden bolts, vi. [191].
• Ashkánián, race of Persian Kings, i. [78].
• Asídah (custard, pap), iv. [37].
• Ásim = defending, vii. [314].
• Askar jarrár = drawing (i.e. conquering) army, vii. [85].
• Aslah = head-kerchief, ii. [59].
• Aslán (Pr. N., probably for Arslan = lion), iv. [78].
• Asma’í (Al-), author of Antar, iv. [159]; vii. [110].
• Asoka’s wife and Kunála, vi. [127].
• Ass (held ill-omened), ii. [25].
• —— (-goad), iii. [116].
• —— (voice “most ungrateful”), iii. [117].
• —— (the wild, “handy” with his hoof), iii. [235].
• Asr (Al-) = time or prayer of mid-afternoon, i. [240].
• Astár (pl. of Satr = chopper?), viii. [184].
• Astarte (primarily the planet Venus?), x. [229].
• Astrolabe, father of our sextant, i. [304].
• Aswad = black (used for any dark colour), viii. [268].
• ’Atb = blame, reproach (for disgrace), viii. [112].
• Atbák = trays, v. [264].
• Atheist (Ar. Zindík), viii. [27].
• Atmár = rags (for travelling clothes), vii. [114].
• Atnáb = tent-ropes, viii. [240].
• Atr = any perfume, i. [355].
• Atsah (Al-) = sneezing, ix. [220].
• ’Attár = perfume-seller, druggist, x. [8].
• Attraction of like to like, ii. [296].
• Auhashtaní = thou hast made me desolate, i. [62].
• ’Aúj = Persian town, Kúch (?), ix. [347].
• Aun (of Jinns, etc.), iv. [88].
• Aurat = shame, nakedness (woman, wife), vi. [30].
• —— (of man and woman), vi. [118].
• Avanie (Ar. Gharámah), viii. [151].
• Avaunt = Ikhsa, be chased like a dog, vii. [45].
• Awáh! Awáh! = Alas! Alas!, ii. [321].
• Awák = ounces (pl. Ukíyah, q.v.), viii. [12].
• ’Awálim, pl. of ’Álimah = dancing girls, i. [214].
• ’Awáshik = hucklebones, cockles, ix. [268].
• Awwá (name of Satan’s wife), iii. [229].
• Awwádah = lute-player, iv. [142].
• Áyat = Coranic verses, ii. [242]; iii. [307]; iv. [142].
• Áyát al-Naját = Verses of Safety, vi. [108].
• Áyishah bint Talhah (grand-daughter of Abú Bakr), v. [79].
• Aylúlah = slumbering after morning prayers, ii. [178].
• Ayn = eye (for helper), v. [60].
• Ayns (verset of the 140), v. [217].
• Aysh (Egypt.) = Ayyu Shayyin for classical “Má” what, i. [79].
• ’Aysh = that on which man lives (for bread), x. [3].
• Ayshat al-durrah murrah = the sister-wife has a bitter life, iii. [308].
• Aywá (Ay wa’lláhi) = Ay, by Allah, i. [303]; vii. [195].
• Aywan = saloon with estrades, vii. [347].
• Ayyás (Issus of Cilicia), iv. [76].
• Ayyúb = Job, ii. [45].
• Azal = eternity without beginning (opposed to Abad = infinity) ii. [205]; v. [390].
• Azán (call to prayer), ii. [306]; v. [209].
• Az’ar = having thin hair; tail-less, ix. [185].
• Azarbiján = Kohistán, vii. [104].
• Azdashír, misprint for Ardashir, vii. [209].
• Azghán = camel litters, ii. [282].
• Azím = “deuced” or “mighty fine,” i. [178]; ix. [40].
• Azíz (fem. Azízah) = dear, excellent, highly prized, ii. [298].
• ’Azíz (Al-) al-Misr = Magnifico of Misraim, ix. [119].
• Azrak = blue-eyed (so is the falcon!), vii. [164]; viii. [4].
• Azrár (buttons), ii. [318].
• Ba’albak = Ba’al’s city, v. [51].
• Báb = gate, chapter, i. [136]; vii. [3].
• —— (sometimes for a sepulchral cave), ix. [286].
• Báb (Al-) al-’Ali = Sublime Porte, x. [5].
• Báb al-Bahr and Báb al-Barr, viii. [55], [318].
• Báb al-Farádís = gate of the gardens at Damascus, i. [240].
• Báb al-Lúk (of Fostat), iv. [259].
• Báb al-Nasr = Gate of Victory (at Cairo), vi. [234]; x. [6].
• Báb al-Salám (of the Al-Medínah Mosque), iv. [288].
• Babel = Gate of God, i. [85].
• Babes of the eye = pupils, i. [100]; iv. [246].
• Baboon (Kird) has a natural penchant for women, iv. [297].
• Bábúnaj = white camomile, iii. [58].
• Babylonian eyes = bewitching ones, viii. [278].
• Bachelor not admitted in Arab quarters, iii. [191].
• Back-parts compared to revolving heavens, iii. [18].
• Bactrian camel, v. [371].
• Badal = substitute, v. [249].
• Badawí (not used in the Koran for Desert Arab), ii. [140].
• —— (bonnet), ib. [143].
• —— (a fool as well as a rogue), ib. [146].
• —— (cannot swim), iii. [69].
• —— (baser sort), ib. [70].
• —— (shifting camp in spring), ib.
• —— (noble), ib. [88].
• —— (bluntness and plain-speaking of), iv. [102]; v. [98].
• Badawi’s dying farewell, i. [75].
• Bádhanj = windshaft, ventilator, i. [257].
• Bád-i-Sabá = breeze o’ the morn, ii. [181].
• Badinján = Solanum pomiferum or S. Melongena, v. [4].
• Badlah Kunúzíyah = treasure-suit, ix. [331].
• Badmasti = le vin mauvais, i. [88].
• Badrah = 10,000 dirhams, iv. [281].
• Badr Básim = full moon smiling, vii. [274].
• Bághdád = Garden of Justice, iii. [100].
• —— (House of Peace), viii. [51].
• —— (of Nullity, opposed to the Ubiquity of the World), ix. [13].
• Baghlah = she-mule, i. [129].
• Bahá al-Dín ibn Shaddád (Judge Advocate-General under Saladin), ix. [23].
• Bahádur = the brave, iii. [334].
• Baháim (pl. of Bahímah = Behemoth) applied to cattle, iv. [54].
• Bahak = white leprosy, v. [294].
• Bahímah, mostly = black cattle, ix. [71].
• Bahr = water cut or trenched in the earth, sea, large river, i. [44].
• Bahr (Al-) al-azrak = Blue River, not “Blue Nile,” viii. [4].
• Bahr al-Kunúz = Sea of Treasures, v. [37].
• Bahr al-Muhít = circumambient ocean, i. [133].
• Bahrám (Varanes) = planet Mars, iii. [339].
• Bahramání = Brahman, iv. [101].
• Bahríyah = crew, viii. [17].
• Bahrwán (Pr. N. for Bihrún?), v. [329].
• Bakh! Bakh! = bravo! brava!, ii. [151]; iv. [121].
• Bakhkharaní = he incensed me, ix. [238].
• Bakhshish naturalized as Anglo-Egyptian, iii. [45].
• —— (such as to make a bath-man’s mouth water), ix. [151].
• Bakk = bug, iii. [328].
• Bakkát = greengrocer, vii. [295].
• Baklámah = almond-pastry, ii. [311].
• Balábil pl. of bulbul (nightingale) and of balbalah (grief) v. [244].
• Balah = green date, ii. [314].
• Baldricks (Ar. Hamáil) v. [158].
• Balíd = simpleton i. [17].
• Ballán = body-servant, i. [311].
• Ballánah = tire-woman, i. [311].
• Ballúr (Billaur) = crystal, etc., iii. [194].
• Baltiyah = Labrus Niloticus (fish) viii. [290].
• Bán = myrobolan, vii. [247]; viii. [322].
• Banát = daughters, protégées, viii. [39].
• Banát al-Na’ash = the Great Bear, iii. [28], [221].
• Bandaged eyes (before beheading) iv. [145].
• Bands of bandits, iii. [101].
• Bandukáníyah (quarter of Cairo) vi. [254].
• Banj = Nibanj = Nepenthe, i. [70].
• Banner (bound to a spear sign of investiture) iii. [307]; vii. [101].
• Banní (Bunní) = Cyprinus Bynni, viii. [189].
• Banquets (royal) iv. [212].
• —— (daintily deviced) iv. [226].
• Banú Abbás (their colours black) vi. [86].
• —— al-Asfar (people of the yellow faces) ii. [220].
• —— Isráíl, iv. [283].
• —— Kahtán, vi. [260].
• —— Nabhán, vi. [262].
• —— Shaybán (tribe) iv. [233].
• —— Tamim (tribe) vii. [125].
• —— Umayyah (their colours white) vi. [86].
• —— ’Uzzah (tribe famous for love passion) ii. [304]; v. [70].
• Banyán = Ficus Indica, vi. [81].
• Baradiyah = wide-mouthed jug, i. [36].
• Baras = white leprosy, v. [294]; viii. [24].
• Barge (Ar. Bárijah) vi. [24].
• Bárid = cold (vain, foolish, insipid) i. [213]; iii. [7].
• Baríd = Post, vii. [340].
• Bárijah (pl. bawárij) = Jarm, barge, vi. [24].
• Barley, food for horses, i. [345].
• Barmahát (seventh Coptic month) v. [231].
• Barmecides (Ar. Barámikah) i. [188].
• Barr al- (history of the family) x. [137].
• Barmúdah (eighth Coptic month) v. [232].
• Barr al-Manákhah in Al-Medinah, ii. [139].
• Barsh = matting, ii. [18].
• Barsh (Bars) commonest form of Bhang, iv. [31].
• Bartaut = Berthold, ix. [8].
• Barzakh = bar, partition, Hades, ii. [325].
• Basaltic statues in Hauranic ruins give rise to the idea of men transformed into black stones, i. [170].
• Bashárah (al-) = gift of good tidings, guerdon, i. [30].
• Báshik (small sparrow-hawk) iii. [61].
• Basil = the Indian Tulsi, i. [19].
• Basil of the bridges = Ocymum basilicum, pennyroyal, i. [91].
• Basmalah = pronouncing the formula Bismillah, v. [206]; ix. [1].
• —— (commonly pronounced Bismillah) v. [213].
• Bastardy (a sore offence amongst Moslems) viii. [115].
• Bastinado of women, i. [183].
• Bat (has seed like a man’s) v. [85].
• Batáikh (Batátíkh) = water melons, vi. [208].
• Batánah = lining, vii. [330].
• Batárikah (half ecclesiastic half military term) viii. [256], [319].
• Batárikh = roe, spawn, ix. [139].
• Bath (first, after sickness) iii. [266].
• —— (coming out of, shows that consummation has taken place) iv. [244].
• —— (suggesting freshness from coition) vi. [135].
• —— (and privy, favourite haunts of the Jinns) vi. [141].
• —— (not to be entered by men without drawers) vi. [150].
• —— (may it be a blessing to thee) viii. [200].
• —— (setting it a-working, turning on the water, hot and cold) ix. [149].
• Bathers pay on leaving the Hammám, ii. [332].
• Bathsheba and Uriah (congeners of) vi. [129].
• Bátiní = gnostic; a reprobate, ii. [29]; vi. [221].
• Batíyah = jar, flagon, viii. [323].
• Batrak (Batrik) = patriarch, ii. [89].
• Batrík (Bitrík) = patricius, ii. [89].
• Batshat al-Kubrá = the great disaster (battle of Badr) vii. [55].
• Battál (Al-), story of, x. [74], [75].
• Battásh al-Akrán = he who assaults his peers, vii. [55].
• Battle-pieces, vii. [61].
• Bawd (admirably portrayed) iv. [4].
• Bawwáb = door-keeper, vi. [189].
• Bawwák = trumpeter (a discreditable character) viii. [192].
• Bayáz = Silurus Bajad (cat-fish) viii. [150].
• Bayáz = whiteness (lustre, honour) viii. [295].
• Bayáz al-Sultáni = the best kind of gypsum, i. [270].
• Baydah (Al-) = pawn in chess, v. [243].
• Bayt (Al-) = the house (for cage) v. [269].
• Bayt al-Mukaddas = Jerusalem, ii. [132].
• Bayt Sha’r = house of hair; Bayt Shi’r = a couplet, viii. [279].
• Bayzatán = testicles (egg-story) ii. [55].
• Báz (vulg. for Tabl) = kettledrum, viii. [18].
• Bazar (locked at night) x. [13].
• Bazar of Damascus famous in the Middle Ages, i. [2].
• Bází (Pers. Báz) = F. peregrinator, hawk, falcon, iii. [138].
• Be! and It is (the creative word) v. [240], [286].
• Bead thrown into a cup (signal of delivery) vii. [324].
• Bean-eating in Egypt, iv. [160].
• Beard (long, and short wits) iii. [247].
• —— (forked, characteristic of a Persian) iii. [325].
• —— (combed by the fingers in the Wuzú) v. [198], [209].
• Beast with two backs (Eastern view of) vii. [35].
• Beast-stories (oldest matter in The Nights) iii. [114].
• Beauties of nature provoke hunger in Orientals, iii. [32].
• Beckoning (Eastern fashion the reverse of ours) vi. [109].
• Before the face of Allah = for the love of God, i. [135].
• Beheading or sacking of a faithless wife unlawful but connived at, i. [181].
• Belle fourchette (greatly respected) ix. [219].
• Belle passion in the East, ii. [62].
• Belt (Ar. Kamar) viii. [156].
• “Ben” of an Arab shop as opposed to “but,” iv. [93].
• Benches (in olden Europe more usual than chairs) vi. [26].
• Berbers from the Upper Nile (the “Paddies” of Egypt) vi. [189].
• Bestiality (fatally common amongst Egyptians) iv. [299].
• Betrothed (for “intended to be married with regal ceremony”) x. [55].
• Better largesse than the mace, viii. [163].
• Bhang (its kinds and uses) ii. [123].
• —— (properties of the drug) iii. [91].
• —— (preparation of) iv. [31].
• —— (drugging with = tabannuj) iv. [71].
• Bida’ah = innovation, v. [167].
• Bier (the bulging = hadbá) iv. [63].
• Bi-fardayn = “with two singles” (for with two baskets) viii. [162].
• Biká’a (= low-land) ii. [109].
• —— (= convents, pilgrimages to) v. [125].
• Bilád al-Filfil = home of pepper (Malabar) vi. [38].
• Bilád al-Rúm (applied to France) viii. [339].
• Bilád al-Súdán = Land of the Blacks (our Soudan) iii. [75].
• Bilál (first Muazzin) ii. [306]; iii. [106].
• “Bilking” (popular form of) ix. [145].
• Bilkís and her throne, ii. [79]; viii. [82].
• Bi ’l-Salámah = in safety (to avert the evil eye) i. [288].
• Bint ’arús = daughter of the bridegroom (Ichneumon) iii. [147].
• Bint Shumúkh (Pr. N.) = Daughter of Pride v. [382].
• Bir (Al-) al-Mu’utallal = the Ruined Well, vii. [346].
• Bird (created by Jesus) v. [211].
• —— seen by Abú Bakr in the cave, v. [235].
• Bird-girls, viii. [29].
• Birds (sing only in the pairing season) vi. [15].
• —— (huge ones discovered on the African coast) vi. [17].
• —— (left to watch over wives) vi. [132].
• —— (pretended understanding of their language) vi. [169].
• —— (songs and cries of) v. [50].
• Birkah = pool of standing wafer, iv. [270]; vi. [75].
• Birkat al-Habash = Abyssinian pond, i. [391].
• Birth-stool (Ar. Kursí al-Wiládah) ii. [80].
• Bishr (al-Háfí = Barefoot) ii. [203]; ix. [21].
• Bisát (Al-) wa ’l-masnad = carpet and cushion, viii. [55].
• Bismillah = in the name of God, i. [40]; v. [206].
• —— (said before taking action) i. [80].
• —— (civil form of dismissal) i. [98].
• —— (= fall to) i. [264].
• —— (= enter in Allah’s name) viii. [202].
• —— (parodied) ii. [223].
• Bismillah Námí = Now please go to sleep, viii. [178].
• Biting the finger ends (not nails) sign of confusion, etc., ii. [38].
• Biunes, bisexuals and women robed with the sun, vi. [168].
• Bizá’at = capital, business concern, v. [81].
• Black (colour of the Abbaside banner) ii. [292]; vi. [86].
• Blackamoors preferred by debauched women, i. [6].
• Black-mail (paid to the Badawin of Ramlah) iv. [76].
• Blast (of the last trumpet) v. [310].
• Blaze (Ar. Ghurrah, q.v.) iii. [118].
• Blessings at the head of letters, vii. [133].
• Blind (The, notorious for insolence) i. [330].
• Blinding a common practice in the East, now done, i. [108].
• Blue and yellow turbans prescribed to Christians and Jews, i. [77].
• Blue-eyed (frequently = fierce-eyed) iv. [192].
• Blue-eyes = blind with cataract or staring, glittering, hungry, vii. [164].
• Boasting of one’s tribe, iii. [80].
• Boccaccio quoted: i. [12], [174], [202], [251], [305]; ii. [82], [112]; iv. [36], [155]; v. [134].
• Boccaccio and The Nights, x. [160].
• Body-guard (consists of two divisions) iv. [62].
• Boils and pimples supposed to be caused by broken hair-roots, i. [275].
• Book (black as her) x. [1].
• Books (of the Judgment-day) viii. [294].
• Bostán (female Pr. N.) = flower-garden, iii. [345].
• Bostáni = gardener, family name from original occupation, i. [266].
• Boulgrin, Bougre, Bougrerie (derivations of the terms) x. [249].
• Bow, a cowardly weapon, vii. [123].
• Box (Ar. ’Ulbah) viii. [71].
• Box-trick (and Lord Byron) vi. [168].
• Boycotting (Oriental forms of) viii. [302].
• Brain (fons veneris in man) v. [46].
• Brasier (Kánún, Minkal) v. [273].
• Brass (Ar. Nuhás asfar) vi. [83].
• Braying of the ass, iii. [117].
• Bread and salt (to be taken now “cum grano salis”) iv. [200].
• Bread and salt (bond of) viii. [12].
• Breast broadening with delight, i. [48].
• —— straitened, the converse of the previous, i. [119].
• Breast-bone (Taráib) v. [132].
• Breath (healing by the) v. [29].
• —— (of crocodiles, serpents, etc.) vi. [29].
• Breeze (rude but efficacious refrigerator) iv. [199].
• Breslau Edition quoted, i. [14], [52], [53], [54], [203], [217], [234], [245], [255], [345]; ii. [77]; iii. [162], [181], [211], [259]; iv. [96], [113], [181]; v. [9], [17], [24], [27], [32], [42]; vi. [27], [30], [37], [44], [46], [56], [57], [84], [100], [129], [138], [148], [168], [180], [196], [207], [211], [213], [242], [247]; vii. [145], [150], [168], [172], [173], [177], [202], [262], [315], [316], [320], [321], [324], [326], [327], [329], [331], [341], [342], [343], [350], [353], [354], [362], [363], [367]; viii. [7], [18], [66], [98], [113], [197], [242], [264], [273]; ix. [33], [42], [59], [63], [156], [159], [169], [185], [187]; x. [54], etc.
• Breslau Edition (mean colloquialisms thereof) x. [169].
• Brethern (for kinsfolk) ix. [26].
• —— (of trust and brethren of society = friends and acquaintances) ix. [75].
• Bridal couch (attitudinising thereon) v. [75].
• Bride of the Hoards, vi. [109]; vii. [147]; x. [31].
• Bride-night, rarely conceived in, i. [227].
• Bride’s throne, i. [215].
• Bridle (not to be committed to another) vii. [304].
• Brother (has a wide signification amongst Moslems) vi. [243].
• —— (of Folly = a very fool) ii. [279].
• —— (of Purity) iii. [150].
• —— (of Ignorance = Ignoramus) iii. [163].
• —— (“of the Persians”) iv. [12].
• Brotherhood (forms of making) iii. [151].
• —— (sworn in Allah Almighty) v. [43].
• —— of Futurity = lookers out for a better world, ii. [197].
• Brow (like the letter Nún) iv. [249].
• Bruising the testicles a feminine mode of murdering men, iii. [3].
• Búdakak (Bútakah) = crucible, viii. [8].
• Budúr (Badoura) = full moons, iii. [228]; iv. [249].
• Buffalo = bœuf á l’eau (?) ix. [181].
• Buhayrah = tank, cistern, viii. [29].
• Buka’ah = Cœlesyria, ii. [109].
• Buka’at al-dam = place of blood (where it stagnates) iv. [68].
• Bukhayt = little good luck, ii. [48].
• Bukhtí (dromedary) ii. [177]; iii. [67].
• Bukjah = bundle, vi. [226].
• Bulád (Pers. Pulád) = steel, vi. [115].
• Bulak Edition quoted, i. [11], [45], [68], [117], [145], [203]; ii. [1], [83], [185], [187]; iii. [181], [211], [212]; vi. [5], [11], [21], [27]; vii. [18], [57], [139], [173], [269], [359]; ix. [185].
• Bulbul (departed with Tommy Moor, Englished by “Nightingale”) v. [48].
• Bull (followers preceding) ii. [98].
• Bull (of the Earth = Gáw-i-Zamín) v. [324].
• Búm = owl (introduced to rhyme with Kayyúm = the Eternal) viii. [286].
• Bunn = kind of cake, ix. [172].
• Burckhardt quoted, i. [66], [214]; ii. [18], [143]; iii. [59], [101], [138], [147], [179], [278], [308]; iv. [31], [48], [112], [217], [259]; v. [77], [80], [119]; vii. [91], [93], [136], [147], [156]; viii. [23], [91], [93], [156], [285]; x. [144].
• —— (fable anent his death) iv. [78].
• Burdah = mantle or plaid of striped stuff, vii. [95].
• —— (poem of the) iv. [115].
• Burká = nose-bag, ii. [52]; vi. [131], [192].
• Burning (a foretaste of Hell-fire) ix. [158].
• Bursting of the gall-bladder = our breaking of the heart, ii. [322].
• Burying a rival, ii. [58].
• Buttons (Ar. Azrár) ii. [318].
• Búzah = beer, i. [72].
• Byron (depreciated where he ought to be honoured most) vii. [268].
• Bystanders forcing on a sale, viii. [310].
• Cabbala = Spiritual Sciences, ii. [151].
• Cæsarea, ii. [77].
• —— “of Armenia,” ii. [273].
• Cairene (vulgarism) vi. [278].
• —— (chaff) iv. [215].
• —— (slang) iv. [75].
• —— (jargon) x. [8].
• —— (savoir faire) x. [10].
• —— (bohomie) x. [28].
• —— (knows his fellow Cairene) x. [35].
• Cairenes held exceedingly debauched, i. [298].
• Cairo, see Misr.
• —— (nothing without the Nile) i. [295].
• Caitiff = Captivus, ii. [109].
• Calamity (i.e., to the enemy) x. [33].
• Calcutta Edition quoted, i. [17], [52]; iii. [181], [211]; iv. [274]; v. [80], [325], [383]; vi. [27], [29], [77], [116].
• Caliphate (defective title to) v. [116].
• Caliphs ’Abd al-’Azíz, ii. [166].
• —— ’Abd al-Malík, ii. [77], [167]; iii. [319]; iv. [7].
• —— Abú Bakr, ii. [167], [197].
• —— Alí, ii. [108].
• —— Amin (Al-) i. [185]; v. [93], [152].
• —— Hakim (Al-) bi-Amri ’lláh, iv. [296].
• —— Harún al-Rashíd, viii. [160]; ix. [17].
• —— Hishám bin ’Abd al-Malik, ii. [170]; vii. [104].
• —— Maamun (Al-) i. [185]; iv. [109].
• —— Mahdí (Al-) vii. [136].
• —— Mansúr (Al-) ii. [142], [153], [210].
• —— Mu’áwiyah, ii. [160], [161].
• —— Musta’ín (Al-) bi ’lláh, ix. [246].
• —— Mustansir (Al-) bi ’lláh i. [317].
• —— Mu’tasim (Al-) bi ’llah, iii. [81]; ix. [232].
• —— Mutawakhil (Al-) ’alà ’lláh, iv. [291]; v. [153]; ix. [232].
• —— Mu’tazid (Al-) ix. [229].
• —— Mu’tazz (Al-) ix. [242].
• —— ’Omar, ii. [158], [159], [162], [164]; v. [103].
• —— ’Othmán, ii. [163]; v. [215].
• —— Sulaymán bin ’Abd al-Malik, ii. [167]; vii. [99].
• —— Tá’í (Al-) li ’lláh, iii. [51], [307].
• —— Walíd (Al-) ii. [167]; iii. [69]; iv. [100]; vii. [106].
• —— Wásik (Al-) iii. [81].
• —— Záhir (Al-) bi ’lláh, i. [317].
• Calligraphy, iv. [196].
• Camel (how slaughtered) i. [347]; iv. [95].
• Camel-load = 300 lbs., for long journeys 250 lbs., ii. [45].
• —— (-men do not accept drafts on futurity) ii. [69].
• —— (-colts roasted whole) v. [135].
• —— (feeding on and vindictiveness) v. [135].
• —— (Bactrian) v. [371].
• —— (seen in a dream is an omen of death; why?) vi. [92].
• Camels (breeds of) iii. [67], [110].
• —— (names) iii. [110].
• —— (haltered; nose-ring used for dromedaries) iii. [120].
• —— (Mehari, Mehríyah) iii. [277].
• —— (red the best kind) viii. [303].
• Camphor (simile for a fair face) iii. [174].
• —— (primitive way of extracting it) vi. [21].
• Camphor-apricot, vi. [277].
• Cannibal tribes in Central Africa, ii. [48].
• Cannibalism in the New World, x. [243].
• Cannibals and cannibalism, vi. [36].
• Canton (city of) vii. [334].
• Capo bianco, coda verde, iv. [36].
• Capotes melancholiques, vii. [190].
• Carat (= Kirát) iii. [239].
• —— (= 1/24 of a dinar or miskal, something under 5d.) v. [277].
• Caravaggio (picture of St. Rosario) x. [219].
• Caravan (each one has to keep his place in a) ii. [184].
• Carelessness of the story-teller, ix. [4].
• Carmel = Karam-El (God’s vineyard) viii. [203].
• Carnelion stone bit with pearls = lips bit with teeth in sign of anger, iii. [179].
• Carpet (let him come to the King’s = before the King as referee) ix. [110].
• Carpet-room = throne-room, ix. [121].
• Carob (Cassia fistularis) ii. [241].
• —— bean, emblem of constancy, iii. [315].
• Carpet-beds, i. [294].
• Carrier-pigeons, ii. [247].
• Castration (texts justifying or enjoining it) x. [227].
• Cat (puss, etc.) iii. [149].
• Cat-fish (Ar. Bayáz) viii. [150], [151].
• Catamites (rising to highest rank in Turkey) iv. [225].
• —— (in Turkish baths) iv. [226].
• Cask (for “home” of the maiden wine) x. [38].
• —— in Auerbach’s Keller, viii. [131].
• Ceruse (Ar. Isfídáj) vi. [126].
• Cervantes and Arab romance, iii. [66].
• Ceylon (Ar. Sarandib) vi. [64], [81].
• Chaff, ii. [15]; iii. [23]; viii. [147], [152], [157], [189].
• —— or banter allowed even to modest women, i. [267].
• Chameleon (Father of Coolness) iii. [165].
• Champing, sign of good breeding, i. [345].
• Change (sudden, of disposition) viii. [213].
• Character-sketch (making amends for abuse of women) x. [24].
• Chaste forbearance towards a woman frequently causes love, vii. [189].
• Chastity (merchandise in trust from Allah) iv. [43].
• Chawáshiyah = Chamberlains, vii. [327].
• Cheating (not only venial but laudable under circumstances) viii. [217].
• Checkmate (Pers. Ar.) = the King is dead, viii. [217].
• Cheese a styptic, iii. [3].
• Chess and chessmen, ii. [104]; v. [243].
• Chess anecdote, i. [132].
• Chewing a document that none may see it after, ii. [39].
• Child of the nurse, etc. = delicately reared, iv. [34].
• Children (carried astraddle upon hip or shoulder) i. [308].
• —— (one of its = a native of) x. [8].
• China (kingdom) iv. [175].
• China-ware displayed on shelves, ii. [52].
• Chinese shadows, iv. [193].
• Chin-veil donned (showing intention to act like a man) viii. [99].
• Cider (Ar. Sharáb al-tuffáh) iv. [134].
• Circumcision (how practised) v. [209].
• —— (female) v. [279].
• Citadel (contains the Palace) ix. [102].
• Cities (two-mosqued, for large and consequently vicious ones) v. [66].
• City of Brass (Copper) iv. [176]; vi. [83].
• Claimant of blood-revenge, iv. [109].
• —— and Defendant, iv. [150].
• Claims of maidenhead, i. [190].
• Clairvoyance of perfect affection, x. [26].
• Clapping hands preliminary to a wrestling-bout, ii. [91].
• Clapping of hands to summon servants, i. [177]; iii. [173].
• Clerical error of Bulak Edition, ii. [114].
• Clever young ladies dangerous in the East, i. [15].
• Climate (water and air) ii. [4].
• Clitoris (Ar. Zambúr) and its excision, v. [279].
• Cloak (Ar. Abáah) viii. [42].
• Clogs = Kubkáb, iii. [92].
• Closet (the forbidden and the bird-girls) viii. [29].
• Cloth of frieze and cloth of gold, iv. [145].
• “Cloth” (not “board” for playing chess) ix. [209].
• Clothes (tattered, sign of grief) iv. [158].
• Clothing and decency, ix. [182].
• Clout (hung over the door of a bath shows that women are bathing) ix. [153].
• Cocoa-nut (Ar. Jauz al-Hindí) vi. [55].
• Coffee (see Kahwah) ii. [261].
• —— (first mention of) v. [169]; x. [90].
• —— (anachronism) viii. [274].
• —— (mention of probably due to the scribe) ix. [141].
• —— (its mention shows a comparatively late date) ix. [255].
• Cohen (Káhin) = diviner priest, esp. Jewish, ii. [221].
• Coition (postures of) iii. [93].
• —— (the seal of love) viii. [304].
• —— (local excellences of) viii. [304].
• —— (ablution obligatory after it) viii. [305].
• Cold-of-countenance = a fool, iii. [7].
• Cold speech = a silly or abusive tirade, iii. [7].
• Colocasia (Ar. Kallakás) viii. [151].
• Coloquintida (Ar. Hanzal) v. [19].
• Colossochelys = colossal tortoise, vi. [33].
• Colours (of the Caliphs) vi. [86].
• —— (names of) vi. [111].
• Combat reminding of that of Rustam and Sohráb, vii. [89].
• “Come to my arms my slight acquaintance,” ix. [177].
• Commander of the Faithful (title introduced by Omar) vi. [247].
• Commune (Ar. Jamá’ah) v. [205].
• Comorin (derivation of the name) vi. [57].
• “Compelleth” in the sense of “burdeneth,” vii. [285].
• Compliment (model of a courtly one) viii. [165].
• Composed of seed by all men shed = superfetation of iniquity, viii. [15].
• Comrades of the Cave, iii. [128].
• Conception on the bride-night rare, i. [227].
• Conciseness (verging on obscurity) ix. [171].
• Confession after concealment, a characteristic of the servile class, i. [53].
• —— on the criminal’s part required by Moslem law, i. [274].
• Confusion (of metaphors characteristic of The Nights) i. [86].
• —— (of religious mythologies by way of “chaff”) viii. [152].
• —— (universal in the undeveloped mind of men) ix. [78].
• Conjugal affection (striking picture of) vii. [243].
• Conjunctiva in Africans seldom white, vii. [184].
• Connection (tribal, seven degrees of) vii. [121].
• Consecrated ground (unknown to Moslems) vi. [161].
• Constipation (La) rend rigoureux, iii. [242].
• Consul (Sháh-bandar) iv. [29].
• —— (Kunsul) iv. [84].
• Contemplation of street-scenery, one of the pleasures of the Harem, i. [319].
• Continuation in dignities requested by office-holders from a new ruler, ii. [192].
• Contract (artful between squalor and gorgeousness) ix. [170].
• Contrition for romancing, viii. [66].
• Converts, theoretically respected and practically despised, vii. [43].
• Copa d’agua, apology for a splendid banquet, vii. [168].
• Coptic convents, ii. [86].
• —— visitations to, still customary, ii. [110].
• Copulation (praying before or after) ii. [161].
• —— (postures of) iii. [93].
• Coquetries (requiring as much inventiveness as a cotillon) x. [58].
• Coral (name of a slave-girl) ii. [101].
• Corpse pollutes the toucher, i. [295].
• Cousin (term of familiarity = our “coz”) ii. [43].
• —— (first, affronts an Arab if she marries any save him without his leave) vi. [145].
• —— (has a prior right to marry a cousin) ix. [225].
• Covered (The, chapter of the Koran) v. [215].
• Cow (chapter ii. of the Koran) v. [211].
• Cowardice equally divided, iii. [173].
• —— (proverb anent) viii. [333].
• —— (of the Fellah, how to be mended) ix. [5].
• Cowrie (shells, etc., for small change) iv. [77].
• Craft (many names for, connected with Arabic) ix. [138].
• Creases in the stomach insisted upon, [130].
• Created for a mighty matter (i.e. for worship and to prepare for futurity) vi. [91].
• Creation (is it and its Empire not His?) v. [269].
• —— (from nothing) ix. [77].
• Crenelles = Sharáríf, iv. [165].
• Crepitus ventris and ethnology, v. [137].
• Crescent of the breakfast-fête, ix. [250].
• Crescent-like = emaciated, viii. [300].
• Crew (Ar. Bahríyah, Nawátíyah) viii. [17].
• Criss-cross row, iii. [236].
• Crocodiles (breath of) vi. [29].
• Cross-bows, vii. [62].
• Crow (an ill-omened bird) vi. [170].
• Crow-claw and camel-hoof, iv. [217].
• Cruelty (the mystery of) explained only by a law without law-giver, ix. [37].
• —— (of the “fair sex” in Egypt) x. [45].
• Cry (that needs must be cried) x. [21].
• Cubit (the Háshimí = 18 inches) v. [371].
• Cuirasses against pleasure, cobwebs against infection, vii. [190].
• Cundums (French letters) vii. [190].
• Cup and cup-bearer, ii. [327].
• Curs (set them on the cattle = show a miser money, etc.) x. [18].
• Cursing intelligible, swearing meaningless, although English, ii. [312].
• Curtain (screening a reverend woman from the sight of men-invalids) ix. [347].
• Cutting (alluding to the scymitar) ii. [231].
• —— (bones before flesh = “sharp as a razor”) iv. [295].
• —— (off the right hand, Koranic punishment for theft) i. [274].
• —— (of the navel string preliminary to naming the babe) i. [231].
• —— the rope = breaking bounds, i. [349].
• Cynocephalus (kills men and rapes women) vii. [344].
• Dáa al-Kabír (Great Evil) = Dáa al-Fíl (Elephantine Evil, i.e. Elephantiasis) viii. [24].
• Dabbús = mace, vi. [249].
• Dádat = nurse (Pers.) viii. [209].
• Dáhish (Al-) = the Amazed, vi. [96].
• Dáirah = circle, inclosure, ix. [287].
• —— (for a basin surrounded by hills) ix. [317].
• Dajláh (Dijlah) = Tigris (Heb. Hid-dekel) i. [180]; viii. [150].
• Dajjál (Al-) = Moslem Anti-Christ, vi. [11].
• Dakhíl-ak = under thy protection, i. [61].
• Dakiánús = Decianus, ii. [244].
• Dakkah = settle, vii. [111]; viii. [84].
• Dalak = foot-rasp, iv. [254].
• Dalhamah (Romance of) iii. [112].
• Dalíl = guide; f. Dalílah = misguiding woman, bawd, ii. [329].
• Damascus women famed for sanguinary jealousy, i. [295].
• Damon and Pythias, v. [104].
• Damsel of the tribe = daughter of the chief, vii. [95].
• Danaf (Al-) = distressing sickness, iv. [75].
• Dandán (N.P.) = tooth, ii. [83].
• Dandán (a monstrous fish), ix. [179].
• Dání wa Gharíb = friend and foe, v. [42].
• Dánik = sixth of drachma or dirham, ii. [204]; v. [112].
• Dár al-Na’ím = Dwelling of Delight, viii. [183].
• Dara’ (dira’) = habergeon, coat of ringmail, etc. iii. [109].
• Darabukka = tom-tom, i. [311].
• Darakah = target, vi. [9].
• Darb al-Ahmar = Red Street (in Cairo) x. [8].
• Darb al-Asfar = the Street called Yellow, iv. [93].
• Darbar = public audience, i. [29].
• Dárfíl = dolphin, ix. [346].
• Darr al-Káil = divinely he spoke who said, iv. [20].
• Darrij = Let them slide, iv. [220].
• Dastúr = leave, permission, i. [66].
• Datura Stramonium (the insane herb) vi. [36].
• Dáúd = David, ii. [286].
• Daughter of my uncle = my wife, i. [69].
• “Daughters of God” (the three) vi. [282].
• —— (of Sa’adah = zebras) iii. [65].
• —— (of the bier = Ursa major) iii. [28], [221].
• Daulat (Pr. N.) = fortune, empire, kingdom, vii. [347].
• Daurak = narrow-mouthed jug, i. [36].
• David (makes coats of mail) ii. [286]; vi. [113].
• Dawá’ = medicine (for a depilatory) ix. [155].
• Dawát = wooden inkcase with reed-pens, ix. [122].
• Dawn-breeze, ii. [181].
• Day of Doom (mutual retaliation) iii. [128].
• —— (length of) iii. [299].
• —— (when wealth availeth not, etc.) ix. [16].
• —— (ye shall be saved from its misery) ix. [315].
• Daylam (Al-), soldiers of = warlike as the Daylamites, viii. [82].
• Daylamites, ii. [94].
• Dayyús = pimp, wittol, ix. [297].
• Dead (buried at once) v. [190].
• Death (from love) v. [134].
• —— (every soul shall taste of it) v. [166].
• —— (of a good Moslem) v. [167].
• —— (manners of, symbolised by colours) vi. [250].
• —— (simply and pathetically sketched) x. [47].
• “Death in a crowd as good as a feast” (Persian proverb) iii. [141].
• Death-prayer (usually a two-bow prayer) vi. [70].
• Debts (of dead parents sacred to the children) ix. [311].
• Deeds of prowess not exaggerated, ii. [108].
• Deity of the East despotic, iv. [118].
• —— after the fashion of each race, iv. [267].
• Delicacy of the female skin, ix. [321].
• “Delight of the Intelligent” (fancy title of a book) vi. [80].
• Demesne (Ar. Himà) viii. [225].
• Democracy of despotism, ix. [94].
• Depilation (Solomon and Bilkis) iv. [256].
• Deposits are not lost with Him = He disappointeth not, etc., vii. [334].
• Despite his nose = against his will, i. [26].
• Despotism (tempered by assassination) vi. [206].
• Destiny blindeth human sight, i. [67].
• Destructiveness of slaves, ii. [55].
• Devil (was sick, etc.) ii. [264].
• —— (stoned at Mina) v. [203], [212].
• —— (allowed to go about the world and seduce mankind) ix. [82].
• Devotees (address Allah as a lover would his beloved) v. [263].
• —— (white woollen raiment of) vii. [214].
• Dhámí = the Trenchant (sword of Antar) vi. [271].
• Diamond (its cutting of very ancient date) ix. [325].
• Diamonds (occurring in alluvial lands) vi. [18].
• Diaphoresis (a sign of the abatement of a disease) ix. [146].
• Dihlíz = passage, vi. [10].
• Di’ibil al-Khuzá’í (poet) v. [127].
• Dijlah (Tigris), River and Valley of Peace, viii. [51].
• Dimágh = brain, meningx (for head) vii. [178].
• Dimyat (vulg. Dumíyat) = Damietta, v. [171].
• Dín (Al-) al-a’raj = the perverted Faith, ix. [11].
• Dínár = gold-piece, Daric, Miskál, i. [32].
• —— (description of one) ix. [294].
• Dinghy (Kárib) iv. [168].
• Dirás = thrashing sled, ii. [108].
• Dirham = silver-piece, i. [33].
• Dirham-weight = 48 grains avoir., ii. [316].
• Dirhams (50,000 = about £1,250) vii. [105].
• —— (thousand = £375) viii. [10].
• Disposition (sudden change of) viii. [213].
• Dissection (practised on simiads) v. [220].
• Dist (Dast) = large copper cauldron, viii. [177].
• Diversion of an Eastern Potentate, viii. [171].
• Divining rod (dowsing rod) iv. [73].
• Divorce (triple) iii. [292].
• Díwán (fanciful origin of the word) ix. [108].
• Díwán al-Baríd = Post-office, vii. [340].
• Diyár-i-Bakr = maid-land, v. [66].
• Do not to others what thou wouldest not they do unto thee, vi. [125].
• “Dog” and “hog” popular terms of abuse, i. [188].
• Doggrel (royal) v. [55].
• —— (phenomenal) v. [288].
• —— (sad) v. [297].
• —— (not worse than usual) viii. [225], [228].
• Dogs (clothed in hot-damp countries) iv. [266].
• —— (in Eastern cities) vii. [202].
• Don Juan quoted, ix. [190].
• Donánmá (rejoicings for the pregnancy of a Sultana) vii. [324].
• Donkey-boy, like our “post-boy,” of any age, vii. [160].
• Donning woman’s attire in token of defeat, vii. [188].
• Doomsday (horrors of, come upon a man) ii. [232].
• Door (behind it the door-keeper’s seat) v. [173].
• Door-hinges, ii. [214].
• Door-keepers (in Egypt mostly Berbers) vi. [189].
• Doors (usually shut with a wooden bolt) iii. [198].
• —— (pulled up = raised from the lower hinge-pins) vii. [352].
• Double entendre, iii. [234]; viii. [153], [251].
• Dove and turtle-dove female, ii. [23].
• Down (of the cheek) ii. [246].
• Dozd o Kázi (Persian book) ii. [55].
• Drama (in Turkey and Persia) x. [167].
• Dramatic scene (told with charming naïveté) x. [9].
• Draught of air (Zug) feared by Orientals, ii. [9].
• Drawbridges in Coptic convents, ii. [94].
• Dream (Speaker in a) iv. [239].
• Dreams (true at later night) iii. [258].
• —— (lovers meet in) v. [47].
• —— (play an important part in the romances of chivalry) viii. [113].
• Dress (scarlet, of a King in anger) iv. [72].
• Drinking at dawn, iii. [20].
• —— their death-agony = suffering similar pain, iii. [315].
• —— (before or after dinner) vii. [132].
• —— (in the dark disliked) ii. [59].
• —— first to show the absence of poison, i. [88], [295].
• —— bouts (attended in bright dresses) vi. [175].
• Dromedary (see Camel).
• —— (guided by a nose-ring) iii. [120].
• “Drop” unknown to the Eastern gallows, i. [260].
• Drop (black, of the heart) iv. [251].
• Drowning (a martyr’s death) ix. [158].
• “Drugging” not a Badawi sentiment, ii. [122].
• Drugs (is this an art of ——?) vii. [147].
• Drunk with the excess of his beauty, iv. [34]; vii. [162].
• Drunken habits of Central African races, vii. [357].
• Drunken son (excused by mother, rebuked by father) viii. [287].
• Dúbarah (Dubárá) = Dubrornik, Ragusa, ii. [219].
• Due demanded leads to imprisonment for arrears, viii. [170].
• Dukhán = smoke (meaning tobacco for the Chibouk) ix. [156].
• Dukhúl = going in to the bride, iv. [30].
• Dúláb = waterwheel; buttery; cupboard, ix. [306].
• Dung (used as fuel, etc.) ii. [149].
• Dunyá (Pr. N.) = world, iii. [7], [319]; x. [27].
• Dunyázad = world free (?) i. [14].
• Durbar of idols, ix. [325].
• Durká’ah = lower part of the floor (opposed to Liwán) iv. [71].
• Durrah (vulg. for Zarrah, q.v.)
• Dust-storm in tropical lands, i. [111].
• Duwámah = whirlpool, ix. [93].
• Ear-drop = penis, ii. [318].
• “Early to bed,” etc. (modern version of the same) vii. [217].
• East and West (confounded by a beauty-dazed monk) viii. [279].
• Easterns sleep with covered heads, iii. [345].
• Eatables (their exchange must be equal) v. [204].
• Eating (together makes friends) iii. [71].
• —— (gives rights of guest-ship) iv. [214].
• —— (superstitious belief in its power) iv. [218].
• —— (how it should be done) v. [206].
• Eating and drinking (before thinking of the lover) viii. [260].
• Eedgáh (see Idgáh) ii. [202].
• Effendi (Turkish title = our esquire) iv. [53].
• Eggs for testicles, ii. [55].
• Eginhardt (belonged to the clerical profession) viii. [326].
• Egypt (derivation of the name) ix. [286].
• Egyptian (= archi-) polisonnerie, iii. [243].
• Egyptian vulgarism, iv. [107].
• —— characteristic, iv. [260].
• Elephant (derivation of the word) ii. [104].
• Elephant-faced, Vetála, vii. [34].
• Elephant’s roll = swaying and graceful gait, i. [217].
• Elephants frightening horses, vii. [61].
• Elevation (nothing strange in sudden), x. [53].
• Eli-Fenioun = Polyphemus, vii. [361].
• Elliptical expression, vi. [288].
• Elliptical style of the Eastern storys-teller, ix. [160].
• Emancipation (the greater = pardon for sins or holy death), ii. [105].
• Embracing (like the Lám embraceth the Alif), iv. [243].
• Emerald (white?), iv. [164].
• —— (mace-head of), vi. [67].
• —— (-rods in lattice windows), vi. [117].
• Emirs (of the wild Arabs) = “Phylarchs” ix. [323].
• Emma (hides her lover under her cloak), ix. [8].
• Empire (endureth with infidelity but not with tyranny), v. [187].
• Enemy (his offered hand to be kissed or cut off), ii. [142].
• “Enfants terribles” in Eastern guise, vi. [211].
• Entertainments (names of), viii. [231].
• Envying another’s wealth wrongs him, vi. [77].
• Ephesus (The Matron of), x. [220].
• —— (The Seven Sleepers of), iii. [128].
• Epistasis without prostasis, ix. [240].
• Ernest (Duke of Bavaria, Romance of), x. [153].
• Erotic inferences drawn from parts of the body, i. [350].
• —— specialists amongst the Ancients, x. [201].
• Eternal truths of The Nights, i. [7].
• Eunuch best go-between, i. [282].
• —— employed as porter, i. [343].
• —— different kinds of, i. [132].
• —— (if without testes only, highly prized), ii. [90].
• —— (driving the people out of a lady’s way), iv. [126].
• —— (who have studied the Harím), iv. [228].
• —— (and their wives), v. [46].
• —— (avoid allusion to their misfortune), v. [47].
• Eunuch-in-Chief a most important Jack-in-Office, i. [283].
• Euphemisms, i. [31]; iii. [68], [102], [209], [267], [338]; vi. [75], [145]; vii. [134], [142]; viii. [173]; ix. [180], [224]; x. [4], [27].
• Euphemy (announcing death), iv. [61].
• —— (thou shalt die), iv. [90].
• —— (all is well), iv. [138].
• —— (the far one is a Nazarene), iv. [215].
• Euphuistic speech, vii. [285]; ix. [43].
• Euthanasia and anæsthetics, ix. [90].
• Evacuation (and constipation), iii. [242].
• Eve (Ar. Hawwá), v. [139].
• —— (the true seducer), iii. [166].
• Evil (befalling thee is from thyself), vi. [138].
• Exaggeration part of humour, i. [12].
• —— characteristic of The Nights, iv. [273]; v. [306].
• Expiation of oaths, ii. [186].
• Eye (darkening from vine or passion), iii. [224].
• —— (orbits slit up and down the face of a hideous Jinn), iii. [235].
• —— (man of the = pupil), iii. [286].
• —— (white = blind), iii. [323].
• —— (the evil), on children, iv. [37].
• —— (babes of the), iv. [246].
• —— (likened to the letter Sád, the brow to Nún), v. [34].
• —— (for helper), v. [60].
• —— (Thou shalt be in mine = I will keep thee as though thou wert the apple of my eye), viii. [90].
• “Eye of the needle” (for wicket), ix. [320].
• Eyebrows joined a great beauty in Arabia, i. [227].
• Eyes (of me = my dears), i. [163].
• —— (hot = full of tears), ii. [99].
• —— (becoming white = blind), ii. [283].
• —— (bandaged before beheading), iv. [145].
• —— (blue ones), iv. [129].
• —— (one-eyed men), iv. [194].
• —— (plucking or tearing out of, a Persian practice), vii. [359].
• —— (“sunk” into the head for our “starting” from it), vii. [36].
• —— (Babylonian = bewitching), viii. [278].
• —— (no male has ever filled mine = none hath pleased me), ix. [222].
• Fables proper (oldest part of The Nights), iii. [114].
• Face-veil = “nose-bag” i. [82].
• Faces (on the Day of Judgment), iv. [249].
• Fadaises of a blue stocking, ii. [156].
• Faghfúr (Mosl. title for the Emperor of China), vii. [335].
• Fá’il = agent, active (Sodomite), v. [156].
• Fa-immá ’alayhá wa-immá bihá = whether (luck go) against it or (luck go) with it, viii. [157].
• Faintings and trances (common in romances of chivalry), viii. [118].
• Fairer to-day than fair of yesterday = ever increasing in beauty, iii. [331].
• Fájirah = harlot (often mere abuse without special meaning), viii. [109].
• Fakíh = divine, vii. [325].
• Fakír = religious mendicant generally, i. [95]; v. [39].
• —— (the, and his jar of butter; congeners of the tale), ix. [40].
• Fakru (Al-) fakhrí = poverty is my pride (saying of Mohammed), v. [268].
• Fál = omen, v. [136].
• Falak (clearing) = breaking forth of light from darkness, iii. [22].
• Falastín, degraded to “Philister,” vii. [101].
• Falcon (see Hawk, Bází).
• Falcon (blinding the quarry), i. [51].
• Falling on the back (a fair fall in wrestling), ii. [92].
• —— (with laughter), iii. [306].
• Fals ahmar = a red cent, i. [321].
• Familiarity between the great and paupers, ii. [32].
• —— of girls with black slave-boys, ii. [49].
• Family (euphemistically for wife), vi. [75].
• Far off one (the, shall die), iv. [90].
• Faráis (pl. of farísah) = shoulder-muscles, vii. [219].
• Faráiz = orders expressly given in the Koran, i. [169].
• Farajíyah = a long-sleeved robe, i. [210], [321].
• Faránik (Al-) = letter-carrier, vii. [340].
• Faranj (Al-) = European, i. [296].
• Faráshah, noun of unity of Farásh = butterfly-moth, vii. [305].
• Fard Kalmah = a single word (vulgarism), viii. [188].
• Faríd = unique; union-pearl, x. [54].
• Fárikí, adjective of Mayyáfárikín, vii. [1].
• Fárikín for Mayyáfárikín (city in Diyar-bakr), vi. [107].
• Fáris = rider, knight, vii. [314].
• Farj = slit; Zawí ’l-Furúj = slit ones, ii. [49].
• Farkh Akrab (vulgarism for Ukayrib) = a young scorpion, iv. [46].
• Farkh Samak = fish-chick (for young fish), viii. [149].
• Farrásh, a man of general utility, tent-pitcher, etc., vii. [4].
• Fars = Persia, v. [26].
• Farsakh = parasang, iv. [230].
• —— = three English miles, ii. [114].
• Farsalah = parcel, viii. [162].
• Fart (in return for chaff), v. [99].
• —— (and Badawí “pundonor”), v. [137].
• Farting for fear, iii. [118].
• Farz = obligatory prayer, vi. [193].
• —— (mentioned after Sunnat because jingling with Arz), ix. [15].
• Fás = city of Fez, vi. [222].
• Fass = bezel of a ring, gem cut en cabochon, contenant for contenu, i. [165]; ii. [97].
• Fast (and its break), v. [201].
• —— (when forbidden), v. [265].
• Faswah = susurrus, ix. [291].
• Faswán Salh al-Subyán (Pr. N.) = Fizzler, Dung of children, ix. [11].
• Fat and Thin (dispute between), iv. [254].
• Fatà = a youth; generous man, etc., i. [67].
• Fatalism and Predestination, ix. [45].
• Fate (written in the sutures of the skull), viii. [237].
• —— (and Freewill), ix. [60].
• Fath = opening (e.g. of a maidenhead), viii. [348].
• —— (Al-) bin Khákán (boon companion of Al-Mutawakkil), ix. [245].
• Father of Bitterness = the Devil, vii. [116].
• Fátihah (the opening chapter of the Koran), iv. [36].
• —— (position of the hands in reciting it), v. [80].
• —— (recited seven times for greater solemnity), v. [184].
• —— (repeated to confirm an agreement), vi. [217].
• —— (quoted), vii. [286].
• —— (pronounced to make an agreement binding), ix. [138].
• Fátimah (Pr. N.), = the Weaner, vi. [145].
• —— (daughter of Mohammed), viii. [252].
• Fatimite (Caliphs, their colours green), vi. [86].
• Fátin = tempter, seducer, iii. [82].
• Fátir = Creator (chapter of the Koran), vii. [366].
• Fatís = carrion, corps crévé, vii. [181].
• Fatúrát = light food for early breakfast, x. [12].
• Fausta and Crispus, vi. [127].
• Favours foreshadowing downfall, i. [48].
• —— (not lawful until sanctified by love), viii. [226].
• Fawn (for a graceful youth), viii. [329].
• Faylasúf = philosopher, v. [234].
• Flaylasúfíyah = philosopheress, vii. [145].
• Faylúlah = slumbering after sunset, ii. [178].
• Fayyáz (Al-) = the overflowing (with benefits), vii. [99].
• Fazl = grace, exceeding goodness, vii. [220].
• Fealty of the Steep, v. [295].
• Fearing for the lover first, vii. [256].
• Fee delicately offered, vii. [162].
• Feet (lack the European development of sebaceous glands), viii. [43].
• —— (coldness of, a symptom of impotence), viii. [317].
• Fellah = peasant, husbandman, ix. [40].
• Fellah chaff, ix. [152].
• Female depravity going hand in hand with perversity of taste, i. [73].
• Female (Amazon) Island, viii. [60].
• Feminine mind prone to exaggeration, viii. [25].
• —— friend does not hesitate to prescribe fibs, viii. [37].
• —— persistency of purpose (confirmed by “consolations of religion”), viii. [99].
• Festival (Ar. ’Íd), viii. [142].
• Fí al-Khawáfik = among the flags, etc., v. [61].
• Fí al-Kamar = in the moonshine (perhaps allusion to the Comorin Islands), vii. [269].
• Fiat injustitia ruat Cœlum, i. [253].
• Fidá = ransom, self-sacrifice, viii. [36].
• Fidáan = instead of, viii. [36].
• Fig and sycamore (unclean allusion in), viii. [269].
• Fig = anus, vii. [151].
• Fights easily provoked at funerals or wedding processions, vii. [190].
• Fikh = theology, vii. [325].
• Fillet = the Greek “Stephane,” viii. [209].
• Fillets hung on trees to denote an honoured tomb, vii. [96].
• Fine feathers make fine birds, viii. [201].
• Fingán (for Finján) = (coffee-) cup, viii. [200].
• Finger in mouth (sign of grief), ii. [302].
• —— (run round the inside of a vessel), viii. [200].
• Finger-tips (making marks in the ground), viii. [72].
• Fingers (names of), ix. [160].
• Fingers and toes (separated to wash between them), v. [198].
• Finján = egg-shell cup for coffee, ix. [268].
• Firásah = physiognomy, viii. [326].
• Firdaus = Paradise, ix. [214].
• Firdausi, the Persian Homer, quoted, iii. [83].
• Fire (and sickness cannot cohabit), iii. [59].
• —— (worshippers slandered), iii. [326].
• —— (of Hell, but not shame), v. [138].
• —— (handled without injury, a common conjuring trick), v. [271].
• —— (there is no blower of = utter desolation), vi. [15].
• —— (forbidden as punishment), vi. [26].
• —— (none might warm himself at their), vi. [261].
• —— = Hell (home of suicides), ix. [25].
• Fire-arms mentioned, vii. [62].
• Fire-sticks (Zand, Zandah), v. [52].
• Firmán = Wazirial order, iv. [61].
• First at the feast and last at the fray, iii. [81].
• First personal pronoun placed first for respect, i. [237].
• Fí sabíli ’llahi = on Allah’s path (martyrdom), iv. [247].
• Fish (begins to stink at the head), ii. [168].
• —— (-island), vi. [6].
• —— (the ass-headed), vi. [33].
• —— (great = Hút, common = Samák), vi. [69].
• —— (changed into apes, true Fellah “chaff”), viii. [147].
• —— (of Paradise, promising acceptance of prayer), viii. [163].
• Fishár = squeeze of the tomb, v. [111].
• Fisherman (Arab contrasted with English), v. [51].
• Fist (putting into fist = putting one’s self at another’s mercy), iii. [155].
• Fitnah = revolt, seduction, mischief, beautiful girl, aphrodisiac perfume, i. [219]; ii. [76].
• Fits of religious enthusiasm, ii. [132].
• Flatterers (the worst of foes), ii. [11].
• Flattery (more telling because proceeding from the heart), viii. [104].
• Flatulence produced by bean-eating, iv. [160].
• Flea (still an Egyptian plague), vi. [205].
• Flirtation impossible in the East, vii. [181].
• Floor (sitting upon the, sign of deepest dejection), vii. [314].
• Flowers of speech, ii. [88].
• Flying for delight, iii. [26].
• Food-tray of Sulayman, vi. [80].
• Folk follow their King’s faith, ii. [157].
• Following one’s face = at random, i. [347].
• Food (partaken gives rights of protection), iv. [214].
• —— (superstitious belief in its power), iv. [218].
• Foot (smallness of, sign of blood), iii. [227].
• —— (prehensile powers of the Eastern), vii. [179].
• “Forbid not yourselves the good things which Allah hath allowed you,” v. [216].
• “Forcible eateth feeble,” ix. [179].
• Fore-arm (for proficiency), ix. [306].
• Formality (a sign of good breeding), viii. [308].
• Formication (accompanying a paralytic stroke), v. [251].
• Formula of praise pronounced to avert the evil eye, iii. [224].
• Fortune makes kneel her camel by some other one = encamps with a favourite, iii. [141].
• “Forty days” = our “honeymoon,” viii. [47].
• Foster-brother (dearer than kith and kin), iii. [256].
• Fountain-bowl (ornamented with mosaic, etc.), ii. [310].
• Fourteen (expressed by seven and seven, or five and five plus four), viii. [70].
• Fox (Ar. Abú Hosayn, Salab), vi. [211].
• —— (cunning man), iii. [132].
• —— and jackal (confounded by the Arabic dialects), x. [123].
• Frail (Ar. Farsalah), viii. [162].
• Frame (crescent-like by reason of its leanness), viii. [300].
• Freedom (granted to a slave for the sake of reward from Allah), ix. [243].
• Freeing slaves for the benefit of the souls of the departed, iii. [211].
• Freewill (and the Korán), iv. [275].
• French letters (all about them), vii. [190].
• Friday night = our Thursday night, i. [269].
• Friday service described, i. [313].
• Friend (feminine, does not hesitate to prescribe a fib), viii. [37].
• Friends (weeping when they meet after long parting), iv. [26].
• —— (“damned ill-natured ones”), iv. [137].
• Frolics of high-born ladies, i. [328].
• Front-teeth wide apart (a beauty amongst the Egyptians, not the Arabs), viii. [147].
• Fruit of two kinds, vi. [277].
• Fruits (fresh and dry), v. [314].
• Fulán (fulano in Span. and Port.) = a certain person, iii. [191]; iv. [278].
• Fulk = boat, vi. [62].
• Full, Fill = Arabian jessamine, viii. [273].
• Fumigations to cite Jinnís, etc., vii. [363]; ix. [29].
• “Fun” = practical jokes of the largest, i. [220].
• “Fundamentals (Usúl), remembered” = the business is not forgotten, ii. [15].
• Funduk = Fondaco, viii. [184].
• Funeral oration on an Arabian Achilles (after Haríri), viii. [348].
• Funerals (meritorious to accompany), ii. [46].
• Furát = Euphrates (derivation of the name), ix. [17].
• Furaydun, see Afridun, ii. [82].
• Furkán = Korán, iv. [90].
• Fustát = Old Cairo, vi. [87].
• Fútah = napkin, waistcloth, vii. [345].
• Futúh = openings, victories, benefits, iii. [304].
• —— (openings, victories), iv. [51].
• Futúr = breakfast, i. [300]; ix. [307].
• Fuzayl bin ’Iyáz (Sufí ascetic), ix. [21].
• Galactophagi (use milk always in the soured form), vi. [201]; vii. [360].
• Gall-bladder and liver allusions, i. [219].
• Galland, Antoine (memoir of), x. [96] seqq.
• “Gallery” (speaking to the), viii. [128].
• Gamin (faire le), iii. [304].
• Garden (in the Prophet’s tomb at Al-Medinah), vii. [91].
• —— (the Perfumed of the Cheikh Nefzaoui), x. [133].
• Gardeners touchy on the point of mated visitors, ii. [22].
• Gardens (with rivers flowing underneath, Koranic phrase), v. [356].
• Gate (of war opened), ix. [9].
• Gates (two to port towns), iii. [281].
• —— (of Heaven are open), ix. [221].
• —— (shut during Friday devotions from fear of “Sicilian Vespers”), ix. [259].
• Gaw-i-Zamín = the Bull of the Earth, v. [324].
• Gazelles’ blood red (dark red dye), x. [12].
• Gems and their mines, vi. [18].
• Genealogy (Arab, begins with Adnán), v. [100].
• Generosity (an Arab’s ideal because the reverse of his nature), ii. [36].
• —— (peculiar style of), vii. [323].
• Geography in its bearings on morality, iii. [241].
• Geomantic process, iii. [269].
• German translations of The Nights, x. [112], seqq.
• Ghábah = thicket, ii. [85]; iv. [40].
• Ghadir = a place where water sinks, low land, i. [233].
• Ghadr = cheating, viii. [217].
• Gháliyah (Al-) = older English Algallia, viii. [220].
• Ghalyun = galleon, ix. [138].
• Ghamz = winking, signing with the eyes, i. [292].
• Ghandúr = a gallant, vii. [181].
• Gharám (Pr. N.) = eagerness, desire, love-longing, iii. [172].
• Gharámah = avanie, viii. [151].
• Gharíb = foreigner, i. [95].
• Ghashím = “Johnny Raw,” ii. [330].
• Gháshiyah = étui, scabbard; sleeved cloak, iv. [131].
• Ghatrafán (Pr. N.) = proud, petulant, v. [361].
• Ghaut = Sarídah, q.v., v. [223].
• Ghawási = singing girls, i. [214].
• Ghaylúlah = slumbering in the morning, ii. [178].
• Ghayúr = jealous (applies to Time), viii. [67].
• Ghazá = Artemisia (a desert shrub), ii. [24]; iii. [220]; vi. [192]; ix. [27].
• Ghazálah = gazelle (a slave-girl’s name), ix. [209].
• Ghazanfar ibn Kamkhíl = Lion son of (?), v. [363].
• Ghayb (Al-) = secret purpose; future, ix. [314].
• Ghazbán (N.P.) = an angry, violent man, ii. [125].
• Ghází = fighter for the faith, ii. [240]; viii. [211].
• Ghazl al-banát (girls’ spinning) = vermicelli, i. [83].
• Ghazwah = raid, foray, razzia, ii. [217].
• Ghilmán = Wuldán, the beautiful youths of Paradise, i. [211].
• —— (counterpart of the Houris), v. [64].
• Ghimd (Ghamad) = scabbard, v. [158].
• Ghoonj (Ghunj) = art of motitation in coition, v. [80].
• Ghost (phantom = Tayf), iii. [252].
• Ghúl = ogre, cannibal, vi. [36].
• Ghúlah = ogress, i. [55].
• Ghulámíyah = girl dressed like a boy to act cup-bearer, x. [39].
• Ghull = iron collar, ix. [333].
• Ghúls (whose bellies none may fill but Allah), ix. [152].
• Ghuráb al-Bayn = raven of parting, iv. [52]; vii. [226].
• Ghuráb = galleon (grab), viii. [323].
• Ghurbah (Al-) Kurbah = “Travel is Travail,” ix. [257].
• Gurrah = blaze on a horse’s forehead, iii. [118]; x. [40].
• Ghusl = complete ablution, v. [80].
• Ghusl al-Sihhah = washing of health, iii. [266].
• Ghussah = calamity which chokes, wrath, ii. [147].
• Ghútah = thickly grown lowland, i. [115].
• Giants (arriving in Peru, probably the Caribs of the Brazil), x. [243].
• “Gift (from me to” etc. = “I leave it to you, sir”), vii. [292].
• —— (is for him who is present), ix. [225].
• Giraffe, exceedingly timid, vii. [54].
• —— unfit for riding, vii. [62].
• Girding the Sovereign (found in the hieroglyphs), vii. [328].
• Girl (of nine plus five = in her prime), v. [192].
• Give a man luck and throw him into the sea, iii. [341].
• Glance compared with a Yamáni sword, ii. [127].
• Gloom = black hair of youth, vii. [277].
• Glooms gathering and full moons dawning, for hands and eyes, vii. [247].
• Gloria (in = the Italian term for the venereal finish), viii. [329].
• Glossarium eroticum, x. [221].
• Gnostic absurdities, x. [191].
• Goad (of the donkey-boy), iii. [116].
• Godiva (an Arabic lady—of the wrong sort), ix. [261].
• Going straight to the point preferred to filer le parfait amour, i. [268].
• Gold (makes bold), i. [340].
• —— (different names of, required by Arabic rhetoric), iv. [97].
• —— (when he looked at it, his life seemed a light thing to him), vii. [240].
• —— (liquid = Vino d’Oro), x. [40].
• Gold-pieces (stuck on the cheeks of singing-girls, etc.), viii. [275].
• Goody-goody preachments, iv. [187].
• Gong (Ar. Mudawwarah), iv. [135].
• Good news, Inshallah = is all right with thee?, ix. [224].
• Gospel of Infancy, ii. [228].
• Gossamer (names for), iii. [217].
• Gourd (Ar. Hanzal), ix. [165].
• Grammatical double entendres, ix. [272].
• Grandfather’s name given familiarly, ii. [15].
• Grapes (bunch of, weighing twenty pounds no exaggeration), vii. [358].
• Grave (levelling slave and sovereign), iii. [323].
• “Greatness belongeth to God alone” (used elliptically), vi. [288].
• Green (colour of the Fatimite Caliphs), vi. [86].
• Green gown (Anglo-Indicè = white ball-dress with blades of grass behind), viii. [32].
• Green garb (distinguishing mark of Al-Khizr), ix. [324].
• Greetings before the world, v. [34].
• Grelots lascifs, x. [238].
• Grim joke (showing elation of spirits), vii. [324].
• Grimm’s “Household Tales” quoted, vi. [230].
• Groom (falling in love with), viii. [345].
• Ground (really kissed), vii. [257].
• Ground-floor usually let for shops, i. [319].
• Guadalajara = Wady al-Khara (of dung), ix. [10].
• “Guebre” introduced by Lord Byron, viii. [8].
• Guest-rite, vii. [121].
• Gull-fairs, viii. [90].
• Gypsies (their first appearance in Europe), x. [89].
• Habáb (Habá) = motes, iv. [257].
• Habash = Abyssinia and something more, v. [395].
• Habb = grain of the heart, i. [250].
• Habb al ’ubb (a woman’s ornament), vii. [205].
• Habbániyah = grain-seller’s quarter, i. [269].
• Habba-zá! = good this!, v. [52].
• Habíb, euphemism for lover, i. [223].
• Habíbí wa tabíbí = my love and leach, ix. [299].
• Habitations (names given to them by the Arabs), viii. [229].
• Habl = cord; cause, viii. [100].
• Habzalam (Pr. N. = seed of tyranny; “Absalom”?), iv. [66].
• Hadas = surmise, vii. [302].
• Hadbá (the bulging bier), iv. [63].
• Hádí (Al-), Caliph, v. [93].
• Hadíd = iron, ii. [310].
• Hadís = tradition of the Prophet, iv. [207]; v. [201].
• Hadís = saying of the Apostle, tradition, v. [201].
• Háfiz (f. Háfizah) = 1. traditionist; 2. one who can recite the Koran by rote, vi. [195].
• Háfiz quoted, viii. [120].
• Hafsah (Caliph Omar’s daughter and wife of Mohammed), ii. [165].
• Hafsites (Dynasty in Mauritania), ii. [165].
• Hail (within sight of the Equator), vii. [336].
• Hair (should be allowed all to grow or be shaven off), i. [308].
• Hair-dyes (all vegetable matter), i. [326].
• —— (Mohammed on), iv. [194].
• Hair-strings (of black silk), iii. [311].
• —— (significance of), iii. [313].
• Hájah = a needful thing (for something, somewhat), vii. [349].
• Hajar-coinage, vii. [95].
• Hajar Jahannam = hell-stone, lava, basalt, v. [378].
• Hájib = groom, chamberlain, ii. [304]; iii. [233].
• Hajín (tall camel), iii. [67].
• Hajj = Pilgrimage, v. [202].
• Hájj (or Hájí, not Hajji), iv. [215].
• Hajj al-Akbar and Hajj al-Asgar, ii. [169].
• Hajjáj (Al-), bin Yúsuf, Governor of Al-Hijáz and Al-Irák, iv. [3]; vii. [97].
• Hajjám = barber-surgeon, cupper, bleeder, iv. [112].
• Hákim = ruler, not to be confounded with Hakím, doctor, etc., vii. [29].
• Ha’kim (Al-) bi-amri ’llah (Caliph), iv. [296].
• —— (not to be confounded with the Fatimite), v. [86].
• Hakk (Al-) = the Truth (Allah), v. [284].
• Hakk = right (Hakkí = mine), viii. [335].
• Halab = Aleppo, i. [292].
• Halabí Shalabí = the Aleppine is a fellow fine, v. [64].
• Haláwah = sweetmeat, iv. [60]; vii. [205].
• Haláwat al-Salámah = sweetmeat for the returning of a friend, viii. [325].
• Halfah-grass (Poa), ii. [18].
• Halíb = fresh milk, vi. [201].
• Halímah = the mild, gentle (fem.), ix. [265].
• Haling by the hair a reminiscence of “marriage by capture,” viii. [40].
• Hallaling, Anglo-Indian term for the Moslem rite of killing animals for food, vii. [9].
• Halumma = bring! vii. [117].
• Halummú = drew near (plur.), ix. [44].
• Halwá = sweetmeats, ii. [47], [212].
• Hamadán (town in Persian Mesopotamia), ix. [212].
• Hámah (soul of a murdered man in form of a bird sprung from his head), iii. [293].
• Hamáil = baldricks, v. [158].
• Hamám = wood-pigeon, v. [49].
• —— (al-Ayk) = culver of the copse, v. [49].
• Hamath = Hightown, ii. [178].
• Hamíd (fem. Hamidah) = praiseworthy, satisfactory, ix. [76].
• Hammál al-Hatabi = one who carries fuel, vii. [59].
• Hammám (going to the = convalescence), i. [288].
• —— (ditto, showing that women’s courses are over), i. [286].
• —— (hired for private parties), v. [63].
• Hammám-bath (a luxury as well as necessity), iii. [19].
• Hamzah (uncle of the Prophet), viii. [172].
• Hanabát = “hanap” viii. [202].
• Hanbal, see Ahmad bin Hanbal, ii. [204].
• Hand (left, how used), iv. [129].
• —— (white, symbol of generosity; black of niggardness), iv. [185].
• —— (his for her), iv. [279].
• —— (cut off in penalty for theft), viii. [164].
• —— (cut off for striking a father), viii. [287].
• Handfuls (the two), v. [207].
• Handkerchief of dismissal, x. [47].
• Hands (behind the back, posture of submission), iii. [218].
• —— (stained in stripes like ring-rows of a chain armour), iii. [176].
• —— (how held in reciting the Fátihah), v. [80].
• —— (bitten in repentance), v. [191].
• —— (their feel guides the physician), v. [220].
• Hanien = pleasant to thee! after drinking, ii. [5].
• Hanífah, see Abú Hanífah, ii. [207].
• Hanút = tavern, booth, etc., v. [142].
• Hanzal = gourd, v. [19]; ix. [165].
• Harámí = one who lives on unlawful gains, ix. [147].
• Harbak = javelin, vii. [45].
• Hard of heart and soft of sides, ii. [5].
• Hardly he (equivalent for), vii. [333].
• Harf = letter, syllable, ii. [307].
• Harf al-Jarr = a particle governing the oblique case; mode of thrusting and tumbling, ix. [272].
• Harím = Harem, used for the inmates, i. [165].
• —— double entendre (= Harem and Honour), iv. [9].
• —— (= wife), iv. [126].
• —— (hot-bed of Sapphism and Tribadism), iv. [334].
• Harírí (Al-), = the silk-man (poet), v. [158].
• —— (lines quoted from), x. [44].
• Harísah, a favourite dish, i. [131].
• Harjáh = (a man of), any place, v. [27].
• Hark, you shall see, ix. [14].
• Harrák (ship = Carrack?), iv. [130].
• Harrákát = carracks (also used for cockboat), vii. [336].
• Hárún al-Rashíd (described by Al-Siyúti), viii. [160].
• —— (as a poet), ix. [17].
• —— (said to have prayed every day a hundred bows), ix. [339].
• —— (and Charlemagne), x. [135].
• Hárút and Márút (sorcerer angels), iii. [217].
• Harwalah = pas gymnastique, iii. [121].
• Hasá (Al-) = plain of pebbles, west of Damascus, i. [234].
• Hasab = quantity opposed to Nasab = birth, iv. [171].
• Hasab wa nasab = inherited degree and acquired dignity, iv. [171]; vii. [279].
• Hasan al-Basri (theologian), ii. [165].
• Hasan bin Sahl (Wazir of Al-Maamún), iv. [124].
• Hasanta yá Hasan = bene detto, Benedetto!, i. [251].
• Háshimí = descendant of Háshim (Mohammed’s great-grandfather), ix. [24].
• —— cubit = 18 inches, v. [371].
• —— vein, ii. [19].
• Hashísh (intoxicant prepared of hemp), i. [225]; iii. [91].
• —— (orgie in London), iii. [91].
• —— (said to him = his mind, under its influence, suggested to him), viii. [155].
• Hashsháshún = assassins, iii. [91].
• Hásib Karím al-Dín (Pr. N.), v. [298].
• Hásid = an envier, iv. [137].
• Hásil, Hásilah = cell, viii. [184], [196].
• Hassún (diminutive of Hasan), viii. [81].
• Haste ye to salvation, part of the Azán, i. [224].
• Hátif = mysterious voice, i. [142].
• Hatím = broken wall (at Meccah), vii. [219].
• Hátim (Pr. N.) = black crow, vii. [350].
• Hátim al-Asamm (the Deaf), ii. [207].
• Hátim of Tayy (proverbial for liberality), iv. [94].
• Hattín (battle of), ix. [19].
• Haudaj (Hind. Howda) = camel-litter for women, viii. [235].
• Hauk! Hauk! = hee haw! i. [221].
• “Haunted” = inhabited by Jinns, v. [175].
• Haurání towns (weird aspect of), vi. [102].
• —— —— (their survival accounted for by some protracted drought), iv. [116].
• Hawá al-Uzri = platonic love, ii. [304].
• Hawar = intensity of black and white in the eyes, iii. [233].
• Háwi = juggler playing tricks with snakes, iii. [145]; ix. [56].
• Háwiyah (name of a Hell), viii. [346].
• Hawk, iii. [61], [138].
• Hawwá = Eve, v. [139].
• Hayát al-Nufús = Life of Souls, iii. [283].
• Hayhát, onomatopoetic for lover, i. [76].
• Haykal = temple, chapel, v. [192].
• Hazár = (the bird of) a thousand (songs), v. [48].
• Hazár Afsáneh (tales from the), ix. [32]; x. [72], [93].
• Házir and Bádí = townsman and nomad, iii. [234].
• Hazramaut (Hazarmaveth), iv. [118]; v. [136].
• Hazrat = our mediæval “presentia vostra,” viii. [254].
• Hazza-hu = he made it (the javelin) quiver, vii. [45].
• “He” for “she” out of delicacy, ii. [179].
• Head (must always be kept covered), iii. [275].
• Head in the poke = into the noose, i. [179].
• Head-kerchief (déshabillé), ii. [328].
• Headsman delaying execution, iii. [42].
• “Hearer” not “reader” addressed, viii. [316].
• Heart (black drop in the), iv. [256].
• —— (from one full of wrath = in spite of himself), v. [68].
• Heart-ache (for stomach-ache = mal au cœur), vi. [194].
• Heaven (Ar. Na’ím), iv. [143].
• Heavens (names of the seven), viii. [111].
• Hell (Sa’ír), iv. [143].
• —— (cold as well as hot), iv. [253].
• Hells (names of the seven and their intended inhabitants), viii. [111].
• Hemistichs divided, iii. [166].
• Henna-flower (its spermatic odour), vii. [250].
• Herb (the insane), vi. [36].
• Hermaphrodites (Ar. Khunsá), iii. [306].
• Heroes and heroines of love-tales are bonnes fourchettes, vii. [300].
• Heroine of Eastern romance eats well, iii. [168].
• Heroism of a doubtful character, viii. [27].
• Hesperides (apples of the, probably golden nuggets), viii. [272].
• Hetairesis and Sotadism (the heresies of love), x. [215].
• Hibá = cords, garters, ii. [236].
• Hibál = ropes, iv. [193].
• High-bosomed damsel a favourite with Arab tale-tellers, i. [84].
• Hijáz (Al-) = Moslem Holy Land, ii. [306].
• Hijl = partridge, iii. [138].
• “Him” for “her,” iii. [78].
• Himà = guarded side, demesne, viii. [102], [225].
• Himalayan brothers, ii. [211], [260].
• Hind (Al-) al-Aksà = Outer Hind or India, ix. [116].
• Hind bint Asmá and the poet Jarír, vii. [96].
• Hindí = Indian Moslem opposed to Hindú, v. [1].
• Hindibà = endive, v. [226].
• Hinges (of ancient doors), iii. [41].
• Hippic syphilis, x. [90].
• Hippopotamus, vi. [33].
• Hips (their volume admired), ii. [285].
• —— (leanness of, “anti-pathetic” to Easterns), iii. [226].
• Hírah (Christian city in Mesopotamia), v. [124].
• Hirakl (monastery of), v. [138].
• “His” for “her,” viii. [50].
• Hisham bin Abd al-Malik (Caliph), ii. [170]; vii. [104].
• Hishám ibn Orwah (traditionist), v. [81].
• Hisn al-Fákihat = Fortalice of Fruits, vii. [75].
• Hiss = (sensual) perception, vii. [302].
• Hizám = girdle, viii. [160]; x. [36].
• Hizb = section of the Koran, v. [217].
• Hobbling a camel (how done), vii. [119].
• Hog, popular term of abuse, i. [188].
• Holiness supposed to act as talisman, ii. [251].
• Holy Writ (punned upon), viii. [348].
• Homme acheté = de bonne famille, iv. [225].
• Honayn (scene of one of Mohammed’s battles), v. [66].
• Honey (of bees as distinguished from cane honey), v. [300].
• —— (simile for the delights of the world), ix. [64].
• “Honeymoon” (lasts a week), v. [62].
• Honour amongst thieves, ii. [159].
• Hoof (of the wild ass), iii. [235].
• Horoscopes, etc., i. [213].
• Horripilation = goose flesh, iii. [2].
• Horse (names of), iii. [72].
• Horse-stealing honourable, iii. [73].
• Horseplay frequently ending in bastinado, i. [325].
• Horses (not taught to leap), ii. [89].
• —— (Arab breeds), v. [246].
• Hosh = mean courts at Cairo, v. [170].
• Hospitals hated, ii. [70].
• Host (enters first as safeguard against guet-apens) iii. [208].
• Hour (of Judgment), v. [235].
• Houris, iii. [233].
• House (haunted = inhabited by Jinns), v. [175].
• —— (the Holy of Allah = Ka’abah), ix. [178].
• House of Peace = Baghdad, i. [139].
• “House of Sadness,” viii. [64].
• House-breaking (four modes of), vi. [247].
• Houses of Lamentation in Moslem burial-grounds, i. [94].
• Housewife (looks to the main chance), viii. [144].
• Hubb al-Watan = patriotism, ii. [183].
• Hubkah = doubling of a woman’s waistcloth, vii. [180].
• Hubúb (Pr. N.) = awaking; blowing hard, viii. [209].
• Húd (prophet = Heber?), iv. [118].
• Hudhud = hoopoe, iii. [128].
• Hudúd al-Haram = bounds of the Holy Places, v. [148].
• Hullah = dress, vii. [180].
• Hulwán al-miftáh = dénier à Dieu, ix. [212].
• Huwayná (Al-) = now drawing near and now moving away, ix. [250].
• Humbly (expressed by “standing on their heads”), viii. [279].
• Humility of the lovelorn Princess artfully contrasted with her previous furiosity, vii. [261].
• Humming not a favourite practice with Moslems, i. [311].
• Humours (of Hippocrates), v. [218].
• Hump-back (graphically described), viii. [297].
• Hunchback looked upon with fear and aversion, i. [258].
• Hunger (burns), ii. [144].
• Hungry judges, “hanging judges,” ii. [198].
• Húr, pl. = Houris, iii. [233].
• Húr al-Ayn = with eyes of lively white and black, i. [90].
• Hurák = tinder, iv. [108].
• Hurr = gentleman, i. [254].
• —— = free, noble, independent, opp. to ’Abd = servile, iii. [44].
• Hurry is from Hell, i. [264].
• —— (in a newly married couple indecent), iv. [244].
• Hurúf al-mutabbakát = the flattened sounds, iv. [223].
• Hút = great fish, vi. [69].
• Hydropathic treatment of wounds held dangerous, v. [200].
• Hymeneal blood resembles that of pigeon-poult, ii. [50].
• Hypocrite (Ar. Munáfik), v. [207].
• Hysterical Arab temperament, ii. [54], [101], [181].
• Ibáziyah sect, vii. [125].
• Iblís (diabolus) = Despairer, i. [13]; iii. [22]; ix. [300].
• —— (Cherubim cherished by Allah), v. [319].
• —— (cursed and expelled), v. [320].
• Ibn Abbás (Companion), v. [212].
• Ibn Abdún al-Andalúsí (poet), iii. [319].
• Ibn Abí Anfa, ii. [200].
• Ibn al-Kirnás = son of the chase (for Persian Kurnas = pimp, cuckold?), viii. [157].
• Ibn al-’Ukáb (Pr. N.) = Son of the Eagle, viii. [198].
• Ibn Hamdún (transmitter of poetry and history), ix. [229].
• Ibn Harám = son of adultery, abuse not necessarily reflecting on the parent, i. [231].
• Ibn ’Irs = weasel, ix. [114].
• Ibn Muljam (murderer of the Caliph Ali), iii. [319].
• Ibn Síná = Avicenna, iii. [34].
• Ibráhím bin Adham, ii. [203].
• Ibrahím bin al-Mahdí (Pretender to the Caliphate) iv. [103].
• Ibrahim al-Mausilí, iv. [108]; ix. [304].
• Ibrat = needle graver and ’Ibrat = warning, a favourite jingle, i. [104].
• Ibrík = ewer, and Tisht = basin, used for washing the hands, i. [241]; vii. [146].
• Ibrísam = raw silk, floss, vii. [352].
• Ichneumon (mongoose), iii. [147].
• Ichthyological marvels, vi. [33].
• ’Íd = festivals (the two of Al-Islám), viii. [142].
• Id al-Kabír = the Great Festival, i. [28].
• Iddat = months of a woman’s enforced celibacy after divorce, iii. [292].
• —— (of widowhood), vi. [256]; x. [43].
• Ídgáh (place of prayer), ii. [202].
• Ifrít, divided into two races like mankind, i. [11].
• Ifrítah = she-Ifrit, i. [34].
• Ihdak = encompassing, as the white encloses the black of the eye, i. [49].
• Ihtiláj-námah = Book of palpitations, viii. [25].
• Ihtilám = wet dream as a sign of puberty, vii. [183].
• Ihtizáz = shaking with delight, i. [50].
• I’itikáf (Al-) = retreat, v. [202].
• Ijtilá = displaying of the bride on her wedding night, vii. [198].
• Ikálat (Al-) = cancelling, “resiliation,” v. [204].
• Ikh! Ikh! (cry to a camel to make it kneel down), ii. [139].
• Ikhlás (Al-) = Chapter of Unity, iii. [307].
• Ikhtiyán al Khutan = Khaitan (?), x. [9].
• Ikhwán al-Safá = Brethren of Purity, iii. [150].
• Iklíl = diadem, now obsolete, i. [270].
• Iklím = the seven climates of Ptolemy, i. [233].
• Iksah = plait, etc., vii. [150].
• Iksír (Al-) = dry drug (from ξηρον), v. [315]; viii. [9].
• Ikyán = living gold, viii. [272], [275].
• Iláh = God, v. [196].
• Iláh al-Arsh = the God of the Empyrean, iii. [106].
• Iliad and Pentaur’s Epic, vii. [362].
• Ill is thy abiding place, iii. [137].
• Ill-treatment (a plea for a lawful demand to be sold), viii. [55].
• Ilm al-Káf = K-science for Alchemy, v. [307].
• Ilm al-Rúhání = Spiritualism, i. [305].
• Images of living beings forbidden, v. [3].
• —— (= statues), v. [223].
• Imám = leader, antistes, ii. [203].
• —— (the Seventh = Caliph al-Maamún), iv. [111].
• —— (the fugleman at the prayer-niche), iv. [227].
• Imámah = turband, iv. [100].
• Imlik (great-grandson of Shem), vi. [264].
• Improvising still common among the Badawin, i. [39].
• Impudence (intended to be that of a captive Princess), viii. [295].
• Impurity (ceremonial different from dirtiness), v. [209].
• Imsák = retention (prolongatio veneris), v. [76].
• Inadvertency of the tale-teller, viii. [141].
• In’ásh = raising from the bier (a “pick-me-up”), v. [67].
• Incest (lawful amongst ancient peoples), i. [110].
• —— (repugnant to Moslem taste), ii. [172].
• Inconsequence (of the Author of The Nights), iv. [155].
• —— (characteristic of the Eastern Saga), vi. [61].
• —— (of writer of The Nights), vi. [205].
• Incuriousness of the Eastern story-teller vii. [57].
• Index finger (Sháhid), ii. [300].
• Indian realm, vii. [336].
• Indrajál = white magic, v. [307].
• Infidel should not be killed unless refusing to become a Moslem or a tributary, vii. [64].
• Infirmity (and infirm letters), iv. [243].
• Inheritance, law of, settled by the Koran, i. [174].
• Inkcase (descendant of the wooden palette with writing reeds), viii. [178].
• ’Innín = impotence, viii. [317].
• Innovation (Ar. Bida’ah), v. [167].
• Insane (treatment of the), iii. [256].
• Inscriptions (on trays, plates, etc.), iv. [235].
• Inshád = conjuring by Allah, i. [11].
• —— = reciting, improvising, ii. [126].
• Inshallah (Allah willing) = D.V., iv. [286]; viii. [104].
• Inshallah bukrah = to-morrow D.V., ii. [324].
• Insolence and licence of palace-girls, i. [286].
• Insomnia (curious treatment of), iv. [229].
• Insula (for peninsula), vi. [57].
• Intellect of man stronger than a Jinní’s, i. [43].
• Intention (of prayer, Niyat), v. [163], [196].
• Intercession-doctrine disputed amongst Moslems, ii. [40]; v. [241].
• Internally wounded = sick at heart, i. [5].
• Inverted speech (forms of), ii. [265]; vi. [262]; viii. [179].
• Inwá = jerking the date-stone, i. [25].
• Irádah = Sultan’s order, iv. [61].
• Irák = level country beside river banks, ii. [132].
• —— (etc., used always with the article), vi. [291].
• —— (for Al-Irák in verse), vii. [20].
• Iram (the many-columned), iv. [113]; x. [29].
• Irán = hearse; Moses’ ark, vii. [207].
• Irdabb, see Ardabb.
• Irishman (the typical, in Arab garb), viii. [191].
• —— and his “convarter,” x. [3].
• ’Irk = root, also sprig, twig, ix. [251].
• Iron (conjures away friends), ii. [316].
• Iron padlock (instead of the usual wooden bolt), iii. [198].
• Irony, iii. [291]; iv. [271]; viii. [3], [164].
• Irreverence (Egyptian), iv. [47].
• Isaak (Ishák) of Mosul, iv. [119].
• Isbánír = Ctesiphon (?), vi. [279].
• Isengrim (wolf), iii. [146].
• Isfídáj = ceruse, vi. [126].
• Ishá = the first watch of the night, i. [175].
• Ishárah = signing, beckoning, vi. [109]; viii. [233].
• Ishk ’uzrí (in the sense of platonic love), vii. [121]; ix. [250].
• Ishmael (place of his sacrifice), iv. [75].
• Ishtar-Ashtaroth (her worship not obsolete in Syria), x. [230].
• Iskandar Zú al-Karnayn (= Alexander Matagrobolised), v. [252]; x. [57].
• Iskandaríyah = city of Alexander, viii. [289].
• Island for land, viii. [317].
• Ism al-A’azam = the Most Great Name of Allah, viii. [133].
• Ismid = (Ithmid) stibium (eye-powder), iii. [307].
• Israfíl (blows the last trumpet), v. [310].
• Istahi = have some shame, ix. [255].
• Istikbál = coming forth to greet, ii. [287].
• Istikhárah = praying for direction by omens, etc., v. [44].
• Istinjá = washing the fundament after stool, iv. [129].
• Istinsháh = snuffing water through the nostrils, v. [198].
• Istitá’ah (= ableness), ix. [80].
• —— (= freewill), ix. [83].
• Ithmid (stibium antimone) = Sp. Althimod, ii. [103].
• “I told you so” (even more common in East than West), iv. [69].
• Italian Translations of The Nights, x. [114].
• Izár = sheet worn as veil, i. [163]; vi. [50].
• J (How it came to take the place of Y in the English Bible), ii. [43].
• Ja’afar contrasting strongly with his master, i. [102].
• —— (mode of his death), iv. [159].
• —— (his suspected heresy), x. [141].
• —— (river or rivulet), iv. [292].
• Ja’afar bin Musà al-Hádí (Caliph), v. [93].
• Jabábirah = tyrants, giants, conquerors, vii. [84]; ix. [109], [323].
• Jabal = mountain (for mountainous island), ix. [315].
• Jabal al-Ramun = Adam’s Peak, vi. [65].
• Jabal al-Saklá (Thaklá) = mount of the woman bereft of children, v. [37].
• Jabal al-Tárik = Gibraltar, iv. [100].
• Jabal Mukattam (sea-cliff upon which Cairo is built), v. [383].
• Jabal Núr, v. [215].
• Jabarsá, the city of Japhet, vii. [40], [43].
• Jabarti = Moslem Abyssinian, ii. [15].
• Jábír Atharát al-Kirám = Repairer of the slips of the generous, vii. [100].
• Jábir bin Abdallah (disciple of Mohammed), v. [215].
• Jackal’s gall (used aphrodisiacally), x. [123].
• Jacob’s daughters, iv. [14].
• Jadíd = new (coin), copper, x. [12].
• Jáh = high station, dignity, ix. [174].
• Jahábiz pl. of Jahbaz = acute, intelligent, ix. [62].
• Jahannam = Hell, v. [306], [318].
• Jahárkas = Pers. Chehárkas, four persons, i. [266].
• Jalájil = small bells for falcons, viii. [271].
• Jalálah = saying “Jalla Jalálu-hu” = magnified be His Majesty, v. [217].
• Jalálikah = Gallicians, ix. [156].
• Jaland, not Julned, vii. [16].
• Jalláb = slave dealer, iii. [340].
• Jallábiyah = gaberdine, v. [265].
• Jamá’at = community, v. [205].
• Jamal (Gamal) = camel, iii. [110].
• Jámi’ = cathedral mosque, v. [261].
• Jámi’án = two cathedrals, v. [66].
• Jamíl ibn Ma’amar (poet), ii. [102]; vii. [117].
• Jamíz (Jummayz) = sycamore fig, iii. [302].
• Jamm = ocean, v. [93].
• Janázah = bier with corpse, ii. [46].
• Janázir for Zanájír = chains, ix. [309].
• Jannat al-Khuld = the Eternal Garden, ix. [214].
• Jannat al-Na’ím = The Garden of Delights, i.e. Heaven, i. [98]; iii. [19].
• Jánsháh (Pr. N.) = King of Life, v. [329]; vii. [82].
• Japhet (Ar. Yáfis or Yáfat), vii. [40].
• —— his sword, vii. [41].
• Jar (ridden by witches), viii. [131].
• Jarír (poet), v. [148].
• Jarm (Ar. Bárijah), vi. [24].
• Jarrah = jar, viii. [177].
• Jars for cooling water, ii. [21].
• Jásalik (Al-) = Καθολικὸς, Primate, ii. [228].
• Jauharah (Pr. N. = Jewel), vii. [307].
• Jauz al-Hindi = cocoa-nut, vi. [55].
• Jauzá = Gemini, x. [38].
• Jauzar = Bubalus (Ariel), v. [130].
• Javelines, vi. [263].
• Jawáb-club, vi. [262].
• Jawámard for Jawanmard = un giovane, a brave, vii. [17].
• Jawán (Pr. N.) Pers. = a youth, juvenis, iv. [208].
• Jawárí = slave-girls rhyming with dam’a jári = flowing tears, v. [160].
• Jawarnah (Júrnah) = Zara, ii. [219].
• Jawáshiyah = guards, viii. [330].
• Jawásís, pl. of Jásús, = spies (for secret police), ix. [13].
• Jáwish = apparitor, sergeant, royal messenger, ii. [49].
• Jazírah = Peninsula, Arabia, i. [2]; vii. [333].
• Jazírah (Al-) = Mesopotamia, vii. [100].
• Jazírát al-Khalidát = Eternal Isles = Canaries, i. [141].
• Jazirat ibn Omar (island and town on the Tigris), x. [40].
• Jesus (bird of), v. [211].
• —— (crucified in effigy), v. [238].
• —— (compared with Adam), v. [238].
• Jew (prefers dying on the floor, not in bed), v. [248].
• —— (never your equal, either above or below you), viii. [153].
• —— (marrying a Moslemah deserves no pity), viii. [262].
• Jeweller (in Eastern tales generally a rascal), iii. [186].
• Jews (adepts in magic), ii. [233].
• Jihád = fighting for the Faith, iii. [39].
• Jilá = displaying the bride before the bridegroom, i. [174].
• Jíbbáb = habergeon, buff-jacket, gown, vii. [156]; ix. [290].
• Jink (Al-) = effeminates, x. [19].
• Jinn = the French génie, the Hindu Rakshasa or Yaksha, i. [10].
• Jinnís (names of), iii. [225].
• Job (a Syrian), iv. [221].
• Joining prayers, iii. [174].
• Jokh = broadcloth, ii. [111].
• Jokh al-Saklát = rich brocade on broadcloth, viii. [202].
• Joseph of the Koran very different from him of Genesis, i. [13].
• —— (and Potiphar’s wife), vi. [127].
• “Joyance is three things,” etc., iv. [254].
• Judad (for Judud) pl. of Jadíd = new coin, viii. [121].
• Júdar (classical Arab name), vi. [213].
• —— (and his brethren, version of a Gotha MS.), vi. [257].
• Júdariyah (quarter of Cairo), vi. [254].
• Judgment (hour of), v. [235].
• Judri = small-pox, i. [256].
• Jufún = eyebrows or eyelashes, iv. [260].
• Juggling with heaven, viii. [168].
• Jugular vein (from — to —), iv. [92].
• Jujube-sherbet, ii. [317].
• Julnár = Pers. Gul-i-anár (pomegranate flower), vii. [268].
• Jum’ah = assembly (Friday), vi. [120], [190].
• Jumblat (for Ján-pulád, Life o’ Steel, Pr. N.), vi. [115].
• Jummár = palm-pith and cabbage, viii. [270].
• Junayd al-Baghdádí (Sufi ascetic), ix. [21].
• Junún = madness, i. [10].
• Juráb mi’adat-hu (bag of his belly = scrotum), ii. [233].
• Justice (poetical, not done), iv. [28].
• —— (poetical in The Nights), vi. [255].
• Juzám = (black) leprosy, iv. [51]; v. [294]; viii. [24].
• Ka’ab al-Ahbár (of the Scribes, two of the name), iv. [115].
• Ka’abah (Pilgrims clinging to its curtain), iv. [125].
• Ká’ah = ground-floor hall, i. [85].
• —— = fine house, mansion, i. [292].
• —— (= messroom, barracks), vii. [167].
• Ka’ak al ’Íd = buns (cake?), vii. [196].
• Kaannahu huwa = as he (was), he, vii. [233].
• Ka’b = heel, ankle, metaph. for fortune, vii. [177].
• Kabáb (mutton or lamb grilled in small squares), vi. [225].
• Kabasa = he shampoo’d, ix. [213].
• Kabbát = saucers, viii. [12].
• Kabbázah = a “holding woman,” iv. [127].
• Kábul men noted for Sodomy, i. [299].
• Kadisíyah (Al-) city in Irák, v. [294].
• Kádús pl. Kawádís = pot of a waterwheel, ix. [218].
• Káf, popularly = Caucasus, i. [72], [133].
• Kaff Shurayk = a single “Bunn,” q.v., ix. [172].
• Káfir = Infidel, Giaur, ii. [292].
• Kafr = village (in Egypt and Syria), x. [27].
• Káfs (verset of the three-and-twenty), v. [217].
• Kafúr (Pr. N.) = Camphor, ii. [47].
• Kafrà = desert place, viii. [337].
• Kahánah (Al-) = the craft of a Káhin or soothsayer, i. [28].
• Kahbah = whore, i. [70].
• Kahíl = whose eyes are kohl’d by nature, iii. [346].
• Kahílat al-Taraf = having the eyelids lined with kohl, i. [63].
• Káhirah = City of Mars (Cairo), iv. [271].
• Kahkahah = horse-laughter, i. [350].
• Kahlá (fem.) = nature-kohl’d, iii. [232].
• Kahramán (Pers.) = braves, heroes, iv. [115]; vi. [257].
• Kahramánat = nursery governess, i. [231]; ix. [221].
• Kahtán (sons of), vi. [260].
• Kahwah (Kihwah) = strong old wine, ii. [261].
• —— (Al-), used for coffee-house, ix. [256].
• Kahwajíyah = coffee-makers, v. [169].
• Káid = leader, i. [330].
• Ka’ka’at = jangling noise, vii. [21].
• Kákilí = Sumatran (eagle-wood), x. [57].
• Kala (island), vi. [47].
• Kalak = raft, vii. [342].
• Kalam = reed-pen, i. [128].
• —— = leg-cut, ii. [107].
• Kalám al-Mubáh = the permitted say, i. [29].
• Kalám wáti = vulgarism, ii. [113].
• Kalam-dán = reed-box (ink-case), iv. [167]; v. [239].
• Kalandar = mendicant monk, i. [94].
• Kalandars (order of), x. [84].
• Kallá = prorsus non, iv. [257].
• Kalla-má = it is seldom, v. [150].
• Kallim al-Sultán (formula of summoning), ix. [224].
• Kámah = fathom, ii. [56].
• Kamán = Kamá (as)-anna (that, since, because), viii. [197].
• Kamar = belt, viii. [156].
• Kamar al-Zamán (Pr. N.) = Moon of the Age, iii. [213]; ix. [247].
• Kamaráni (Al-) = the two moons for sun and moon, iii. [300].
• Káma-Shástra (Ars Amoris Indica), iii. [93].
• Kámat Alfiyyah = straight figure, i. [85]; iii. [236].
• Kámil wa Basít wa Wáfir = the names of three popular metres, viii. [91].
• Kamín al-Bahrayn = lurking-place of the two seas, vii. [353].
• Kamís = shift, etc., i. [293].
• Kammir (Imp.) = brown (the bread), x. [14].
• Kanát = subterranean water-course, iii. [141].
• Kanjifah = pack of cards, v. [243].
• Kánmákán (Pr. N.) = “was that which was,” ii. [280].
• Kantar (quintal) = 98·99 lbs. avoir. ii. [233].
• Kánún (dulcimer, “zither”), iii. [211].
• Kánún = brasier, v. [272]; vi. [5].
• Kanz = enchanted treasure, ix. [320].
• Kapoteshwara and Kapoteshí, iii. [126].
• Kaptán = Capitano, iv. [85]; ix. [139].
• Kara Gyuz, see Khiyál.
• Kárah = budget, large bag, ix. [216].
• Karaj (town in Persian Irak), vii. [77].
• Karawán = Charadrius œdicnemus, vi. [1].
• Karbús = saddle-bow, viii. [77].
• Kári = Koran-reader, v. [216].
• Kárib (pl. Kawárib) = dinghy, iv. [168].
• Karím = generous (cream of men), ii. [35].
• Kárizán (Al-) = the two mimosa-gatherers, vii. [93].
• Karkadán, etc. = rhinoceros, vi. [21].
• Karkar (Carcer?), Sea of Al-, vi. [101].
• Karkh (Al-), quarter of Baghdad, v. [127]; ix. [313].
• Karmút = Silurus Carmoth Niloticus, viii. [185].
• Karr’aynan = keep thine eye cool, vii. [229].
• Karrat azlá ’hu = his ribs felt cold (from hearty eating), viii. [189].
• Kárún = Korah of the Bible, v. [225].
• —— (lake), vi. [217].
• Karúrah = bottle for urine, iv. [11].
• Kasa’ah = wooden bowl, porringer, iv. [283].
• Kasab (Al-) = acquisitiveness, ix. [80].
• Kasabah = rod (measurement), ii. [328].
• Kasabát = canes; bugles, ii. [298].
• Kásid = Anglo-Indian Cossid, vii. [340].
• Kasídah = ode, elegy, iii. [262].
• Kasídahs (their conventionalism), ix. [250].
• Kasr (= palace, one’s house), vi. [240].
• —— (= upper room), ix. [283].
• Kasr al-Nuzhat = palace of delights, ii. [22].
• Kasr (Al-) al-Mashíd = the high-built castle, vii. [346].
• Kasrí (Al-) Governor of the two Iráks; iv. [155].
• Kat’a = bit of leather, i. [20].
• Katá = sand-grouse, i. [131]; iv. [111].
• Kataba (for tattooing), vii. [250].
• Kátala-k Allah = Allah strike thee dead (facetiously), iv. [264], [265].
• Katf = pinioning, i. [106].
• Kathá-Sarit-Ságara, poetical version of the Vrihat-Kathá, i. [12]; x. [160], etc.
• Kathír = much, “no end,” x. [10].
• Katíl = the Irish “kilt,” iv. [139].
• Katúl (Al-) = the slayer, iii. [72].
• Kashmír people (have a bad name in Eastern tales), vi. [156].
• Kassara ’llah Khayrak = Allah increase thy weal, vi. [233].
• Kaukab al-durrí = cluster of pearls, viii. [291].
• Kaukab al-Saláh = Star of the Morning, ix. [301].
• Kaum = razzia; tribe, vi. [266].
• Kaun = being, existence, ix. [63].
• Kaus al-Banduk = pellet-bow, i. [10].
• Kausaj = man with a thin, short beard, cunning, tricksy, iii. [246].
• Kausar, lieu commun of poets, i. [241]; ii. [186]; iv. [196].
• Kawáid (pl. of Káid = governor), v. [145].
• Kawárib, see Kárib.
• Kawwád = pimp, i. [316]; vii. [98].
• Kawwás = archer, janissary, vi. [241].
• Káyánián, race of Persian kings, i. [75].
• Kayf hálak = how de doo? vii. [336].
• Kayim (professional wrestler, names of such), ii. [93].
• Kaylúlah = siesta, i. [51]; ii. [178]; viii. [191].
• Kayrawán = the Greek Cyrene, viii. [317].
• Kaysaríyah = superior kind of Bazar, i. [266].
• Kaysúm = yellow camomile, iii. [58].
• Kaywán (Persian for Saturn), ii. [75].
• Kayy (Al-) = cautery, the end of medicine-cure, iii. [59].
• Kayyimah = guardian (fem.), viii. [330].
• Káz (Al-) = shears, viii. [9].
• Kazá, Kismat and “Providence,” vii. [135].
• Kazdír = Skr. Kastíra (tin), iv. [274]; vi. [39].
• Kází = judge in religious matters, i. [21].
• Kázi al Kuzát = Chief Justice, ii. [90]; viii. [245].
• Kází of the army (the great legal authority of a country), vi. [131].
• Kazíb al-Bán = willow-wand, ii. [66].
• Kazis (the four of the orthodox schools), ii. [39].
• Kerchief (of mercy), i. [343].
• —— (of dismissal), iii. [295].
• —— (shaking and throwing the), iv. [62].
• “Key” = fee paid on the keys being handed to a lodger, vii. [212].
• Khabál = pus flowing from the damned, v. [162].
• Khadd = cheek, vii. [277].
• Khádim = servant, politely applied to a castrato, i. [235]; ix. [237].
• Khadiv (not Kédivé), ix. [119].
• Kháfiyah = concealed; Kháinah = perfidy, vii. [320].
• Khafz al-Jináh = lowering the wing (demeaning oneself gently), ix. [33].
• Khák-bák = “hocus pocus,” etc., viii. [328].
• Khal’a al-’izár = stripping of jaws or side-beard, vii. [248].
• Khalanj = a hard kind of wood, i. [154]; ii. [269]; viii. [271].
• Khalbús = buffoon, ii. [143]; vii. [195].
• Khalí’a = worn out; wit, i. [311]; iv. [229]; vii. [130].
• Khálid bin al-Walíd, ii. [203].
• —— bin Safwán, ii. [107].
• Khálidán (for Khálidát) = the Canaries, iii. [212].
• Khalífah = Vicar of Allah; successor of a Santon, i. [184].
• Khalílu ’llah (friend of Allah = Abraham), ii. [132]; v. [205].
• Khalíyah = bee-hive; empty (pun on), vi. [246]; ix. [291].
• Khalkínah = copper cauldron, viii. [177].
• Khammárah = wine-shop, tavern, “hotel,” iv. [79].
• Khán = caravanserai, i. [92]; iii. [14].
• Khán al-Masrúr, in Cairo, famous in the 15th century, i. [265].
• Khánakah = Dervishes’ convent, vii. [177].
• Khanjar = hanger, i. [232]; iii. [90].
• Khara = dung (lowest insult), ii. [56].
• —— (holy merde), ii. [223].
• Khara al-Sús = weevil’s dung, ix. [10].
• Kharajú = they (masc.) went forth (vulgarism for Kharajna) (fem.), viii. [144].
• Khassat-hu = she gelded him, iii. [47].
• Khatmah = reading or reciting of the whole Koran, i. [277].
• Khatt Sharíf = royal hand letter, ii. [39]; ix. [309].
• Khattíyah = writer, &c., spear, from Khatt Hajar, ii. [1].
• Khátún (Turk. lady), iv. [66]; vii. [146].
• —— (follows the name), vii. [323], [347].
• Khauf (Al-) maksúm = fear (cowardice) is equally apportioned, iii. [173].
• Khaukhah = tunnel, viii. [330].
• Khayál (Al-) = phantom ghost, v. [348].
• Khayr = good news by euphemy, iv. [138].
• Khayr wa ’Áfiyah = well and in good ease, ix. [94].
• Khaysamah (traditionist), v. [81].
• Khayt hamayán = threads of vanity (gossamer), iii. [217].
• Khayzáran = rattan, ii. [66]; iv. [255].
• Kháwí (skin of), vi. [66].
• Khawwás (Al-) = basket-maker, v. [283].
• Khaznah (Khazinah) = 1,000 kís of £5 each, ii. [84]; iii. [278].
• Khazrá (al-) = the Green, palace of Mu’áwiyah, vii. [124].
• Khiláf (Khaláf) = Salix Ægyptiaca, ii. [66].
• Khilál = toothpick (emblem of attenuation), v. [44]; viii. [258].
• Khinsir = little (or middle) finger, ix. [160].
• Khinzír = hog, i. [108].
• Khirad Shah = King of Intelligence, vii. [73].
• Khishkhánah = cupboard, vii. [199].
• Khitáb = exordium of a letter, ix. [126].
• Khizáb (dye used by women), iii. [105].
• Khizánah (Al-) = treasury, ix. [22].
• Khizr (the Green Prophet), iv. [175]; v. [384].
• Khiyál (Chinese shadows), iv. [193].
• Khubz = scones, i. [131].
• Khuff = walking shoes, i. [82]; iv. [107].
• Khuffásh = bat (animal), v. [226].
• Khuld = fourth heaven (of yellow coral), viii. [47].
• Khumásíyah = five feet high, iv. [191].
• Khunsa = flexible, flaccid (hermaphrodite, also catamite), iii. [306]; v. [91].
• Khurj (Al-) = saddle-bag (las Alforjas), vi. [224].
• Khusrau Parwiz and Shírín, v. [91].
• —— (his wealth), v. [91].
• Khusyatán = testicles, ii. [55].
• Khutnah = circumcision, v. [209].
• Khutúb (Pr. N.) = affairs, misfortunes, viii. [209].
• Khwájah (Howajee) = schoolmaster, man of letters, &c., vi. [46].
• Khwárazm = land of the Chorasmioi, vi. [113].
• Khyas! Khyas! onomatopoetic, used in a sea-spell, i. [228].
• Kiblah (turning towards it in mortal danger), v. [39].
• —— (anything opposite) applied to the Ka’abah, v. [196].
• Kiblatayn = the two Kiblahs (Meccah and Jerusalem), v. [196].
• Kidrah = pot, kettle, lamp-globe, ix. [320].
• Kíl wa Kál = it was said and he said (chitchat), iv. [207].
• Killed = Hibernicè “kilt,” v. [5]; vi. [171].
• Killing (of an unfaithful wife commended by public opinion), ix. [297].
• Kímiyá = Alchemy (from χυμεία = wet drug), viii. [9].
• Kimkhab = (velvet of) “Kimcob,” viii. [201]; ix. [221].
• Kiná’ = veil, vi. [192].
• Kinchin lay (Arab form of), iii. [102].
• King (dressing in scarlet when wroth), iv. [72].
• —— (the, and the Virtuous Wife), v. [122].
• Kingfisher (Lucian’s), vi. [49].
• King’s barber a man of rank, i. [351].
• Kintár = a hundredweight (quintal), vi. [94].
• Kír = bellows, viii. [9].
• Kiráb = wooden sword-case, viii. [267].
• Kirám = nobles; Kurám = vines, viii. [203].
• Kirámat = prodigy, ii. [237]; iv. [45].
• Kirát (bean of Abrus precatorius), vii. [289].
• —— (weight = 2–3 grains; length = one finger-breadth), iii. [239].
• Kird = baboon, iv. [297].
• Kirsh al-Nukhál = Guts of bran, viii. [169].
• Kisás (Al-) = lex talionis, vii. [170].
• Kishk (Kashk) = porridge, iv. [214].
• Kisrà = the Chosroë, (applied to Anushirwan) v. [87].
• Kiss (without mustachio = bread without salt), v. [165].
• “Kiss key to Kitty,” i. [323].
• “Kiss ground” not to be taken literally vii. [210].
• Kissing (the eyes, a paternal salute), i. [125].
• —— (like a pigeon feeding its young), iii. [275].
• —— (names for), iv. [259].
• —— (en tout bien et en tout honneur), viii. [25].
• —— the ground of obedience (Persian metaphorical phrase), vii. [354].
• Kissis = ecclesiast, ii. [228].
• Kit (of the traveller in the East), v. [174].
• Kitáb al-Kazá = book of law-cases, ix. [110].
• Kitáb al-Fihrist (and its author), x. [71].
• Kitf al-Jamal = camel shoulder-blade, vii. [167].
• Kitfír (Itfír), = Potiphar, vi. [172].
• Kiyakh (fourth Coptic month), v. [231].
• Kízán fukká’a = jars for fukká’a (a kind of beer), vi. [88].
• Kneeling in prayer (exclusively Christian), v. [196].
• Knife, “bravest of arms,” vii. [123].
• Knight-errant of the East, ii. [77].
• Knuckle-bone, ii. [314].
• Kohl = powdered antimony for the eyelids, i. [89].
• —— proverbially used, i. [278].
• —— (-powder keeps the eyes from inflammation), ii. [291].
• —— (applying of = takhíl), iii.57.
• —— (-eyed = Kahlá), f. iii. [232].
• —— (he would steal it off the eye-ball = he is a very expert thief), iv. [68].
• Kohl’d with Ghunj = languour-kohl’d, x. [40].
• Kohl-needle in the Kohl-case = res in re, v. [97].
• Kohls (many kinds of), viii. [10].
• Koka Pandit (Hindú Ars Amandi), iii. [93].
• Korah (Kárún), v. [225].
• Koran quoted: (xx.), i. [2].
• —— (ii. [34]; xxv. 31; xix. [69]), i. [13].
• —— (xxvi.), i. [39].
• —— (xxvii.), i. [42].
• —— (v.; xx.), i. [119].
• —— (vii.; xviii.), i. [169].
• —— (i.), i. [208].
• —— (lvi. 9), i. [211].
• —— (lx.), i. [220].
• —— (v.), i. [240].
• —— (cviii.), i. [241].
• —— (xvii.), i. [249].
• —— (xxxvi. 69), i. [251].
• —— (cv.), i. [256].
• —— (ii.; ix.), i. [257].
• —— (v.; viii. [17]), i. [274].
• —— (iii.), i. [298].
• —— (iii. [128]), i. [307].
• —— (xxxviii. 19), ii. [37].
• —— (xciv. 11; cv. 59), ii. [38].
• —— (iv.), ii. [64], [78].
• —— (iii. [57]), ii. [79].
• —— (vii.; lxxvi.; lxxxvi.), ii. [91].
• —— (iv.; xxii.), ii. [95].
• —— (iii. [89]), ii. [132].
• —— (ix.; xxxiii.), ii. [140].
• —— (iv. [88]), ii. [146].
• —— (v.), ii. [186].
• —— (ii. etc.), ii. [198].
• —— (ii. [185]), ii. [199].
• —— (lxxiv. 1, 8; xcvi.), ii. [201].
• —— (xvi. 74; ii. [118]), ii. [203].
• —— (lvi. 6; xxviii.; vii.; ix.), ii. [205].
• —— (xxviii. 22–27), ii. [207].
• —— (xiv. 34), ii. [225].
• —— (lxi.), ii. [226].
• —— (ii.; iii. [141]), ii. [228].
• —— (x. [25]), ii. [239].
• —— (ii. [149]; xcv.), ii. [242].
• —— (xix. [170]), ii. [281].
• —— (xviii.), ii. [293].
• —— (xcvi. 5), ii. [298].
• —— (xxiv.), ii. [312].
• —— (vii. [21].), ii. [316].
• —— (x. [10], [12]; lvi. 24, 26; lxxxviii. 17, 20), iii. [19].
• —— (xii. 31), iii. [21].
• —— (cxiii. 1), iii. [22].
• —— (ii. [186]; lx. [1]), iii. [39].
• —— (lxxvi.), iii. [57].
• —— (ii. [23]), iii. [65].
• —— (xxxi. 18; lxvii. 7), iii. [117].
• —— (ii. [191]), iii. [123].
• —— (xviii.; xxii. 20; lxxxvii.), iii. [128].
• —— (ii. [96], [256]), iii. [217].
• —— (ii.; iii.; xxxvi.; lv.; lxvii.; cxiii.; cxiv.), iii. [222].
• —— (ii. [32]; xviii. 48), iii. [223].
• —— (xxiii. 20; xcv. 1), iii. [276].
• —— (xxvi.), iii. [294].
• —— (xi.), iii. [301].
• —— (xxiii. 38), iii. [302].
• —— (ii.; li. 9; xxxv. 11), iii. [304].
• —— (cxii.), iii. [307].
• —— (xxiv. 39), iii. [319].
• —— (xxi.), iii. [323].
• —— (iv. [38]), iii. [332].
• —— (xxv. 70), iv. [5].
• —— (xii. 84, 93, 96; xvi.), iv. [14].
• —— (opening chapter), iv. [36].
• —— (xiii. 14), iv. [43].
• —— (chapter Yá Sín), iv. [50].
• —— (xvii. 85), iv. [80].
• —— (xlix. Inner Apartments), iv. [102].
• —— (xvi. 112), iv. [102].
• —— (xii. 92), iv. [111].
• —— (lxxxix. [6], [7]), iv. [115].
• —— (iii. [178]), iv. [156].
• —— (xvi.), iv. [174].
• —— (ii. [224]), iv. [175].
• —— (xxi. 38), iv. [244].
• —— (iii. [103]; vii. [105]; xxvii. 12), iv. [249].
• —— (cxiv. 1), iv. [251].
• —— (ii. [26]), iv. [254].
• —— (ii. [64]; xxvii.), iv. [256].
• —— (xvii. 62; xxxvi. 16), iv. [259].
• —— (xli. 46), iv. [275].
• —— (xxvi. 5, 6), v. [78].
• —— (xxxiii. 48), v. [101].
• —— (xxxviii. 2), v. [102].
• —— (vii. [195]), v. [143].
• —— (x. [36]), v. [145].
• —— (xxvi. 165), v. [161].
• —— (xxi. 36), v. [166].
• —— (vii. [148]), v. [191].
• —— (iv. [38], [175]; ii. [282]), v. [155].
• —— (xii. 51), v. [159].
• —— (iv. [160]), vi. [194].
• —— (viii. [66]), v. [203].
• —— (xxxix. [67]; lxxviii. 19), v. [207].
• —— (vii. [63], [71], [83]), v. [210].
• —— (chapt. of The Cow), v. [211].
• —— (xvi. 92; xxxix. [54]; lxx. [38]), v. [211].
• —— (ii. [28], [137]; xii. 18; xvi. 100; li. 57), v. [212].
• —— (ix.; xxvi. 30; xcvi. 1, 2), v. [213].
• —— (ii. [158]; xvii. 110), v. [214].
• —— (v. [4]; xxx.; lxxiv; cx. [1]), v. [215].
• —— (iv. [124]; v. [89], [116]), v. [216].
• —— (vii. [154]; xi. 50), v. [217].
• —— (xvii. 39), v. [221].
• —— (ii. [216]; v. [92]), v. [223].
• —— (x. [5]; xxii. 60; xxxvi. 40; lxx. [40]), v. [228].
• —— (xxxi. 34), v. [231].
• —— (xxxvii. 5), v. [233].
• —— (xxxvi. 37, 38), v. [234].
• —— (xx. [57]; xxii. 7), v. [235].
• —— (lxxxi. 18), v. [236].
• —— (iii.; vii. [110]), v. [238].
• —— (xii. 10), v. [239].
• —— (xxxvi. 82), v. [240].
• —— (vi. [44]), v. [250].
• —— (vii. [52]), v. [269].
• —— (xxxvi. 82), v. [286].
• —— (v. [108]), v. [287].
• —— (xiii. 41), v. [290].
• —— (xxxviii. 34), v. [310].
• —— (vii.), v. [320].
• —— (xxvii.), v. [337].
• —— (xxvii. 16), v. [355].
• —— (liii. 14), v. [393].
• —— (xxiv. 39), vi. [93].
• —— (lii. 21), vi. [95].
• —— (ix. [51]; xiv. 15), vi. [108].
• —— (xxxviii. 11), vi. [115].
• —— (iv. [81]), vi. [138].
• —— (iv. [78]; xli. 28), vi. [144].
• —— (ix. [51]), vi. [191].
• —— (iii. [17]), vi. [270].
• —— (xiii. 3), vi. [277].
• —— (vi. [103]), vi. [282].
• —— (iii. [11]; i. [42]; viii. [9]), vii. [55].
• —— (cxi.), vii. [59].
• —— (xxxiii.), vii. [92].
• —— (xx. [102]), vii. [164].
• —— (ii. [286]), vii. [285].
• —— (ii. [61]; xxii. 44), vii. [346].
• —— (xxxv.), vii. [366].
• —— (iii. [90]), viii. [51].
• —— (xxxix. [54]), viii. [182].
• —— (vi. [99]), viii. [267].
• —— (xvi. 69; ii. [216]; v. [92]), viii. [277].
• —— (cxiii. 1, 3), viii. [285].
• —— (cxi. 184), viii. [291].
• —— (xvii.; xviii.; lxix; lxxxiv.), viii. [294].
• —— (ix. [33]), ix. [15].
• —— (xxvi. 88, 89; iv. [140]), ix. [16].
• —— (lvii. 88), ix. [33].
• —— (lxxxi. 40), ix. [59].
• —— (xii. 28), ix. [119].
• —— (xl. 36; lxvii. 14; lxxiv. 39; lxxviii. 69; lxxxviii. 17), ix. [166].
• —— (cviii. 3), ix. [185].
• —— (xxiv.), ix. [316].
• —— (cx. [1]), ix. [317].
• —— (xxxvi. 55, 58), ix. [322].
• —— (li. 18, 19), ix. [324].
• —— (lxxxix.), x. [29].
• Koran (abrogating and abrogated passages), v. [194].
• —— (most excellent chapter of), v. [211].
• —— (eminent and curious verses of), v. [211].
• —— (first English translation owing to France), x. [100].
• Koss ibn Sa’idah (Bishop of Najrán), ii. [37].
• Kubád = shaddock, ii. [310]; viii. [272].
• Kubbah (Al-) = alcove, v. [18].
• Kubkáb = bath-clogs, iii. [92].
• Kuds (Al-), see Bayt al-Mukaddas, ii. [132].
• Kúfah (Al-) founded by Omar, iv. i.
• —— (revolutionary spirit of), iv. [3].
• Kúfiyah = coif, etc., ii. [230].
• Kufr = rejecting the True Religion, i. [169].
• Kuhaylat (breed of Arab horses), iii. [346].
• Kulayb allows no one to approach his camp-fire, ii. [77]; vi. [261].
• Kulkasá = colocasia roots, i. [272].
• Kullah = gugglet, i. [36].
• Kulzum (Al-), old name of Suez-town, vii. [348].
• Kumasrá (Kummasrá), = pear, vii. [357].
• Kumayt (Al-) = bay horse with black points, vii. [128].
• Kumkum (cucurbite, gourd-shaped vessel), i. [42]; iv. [68], [178].
• Kumm = sleeve (used as a bag), iv. [107]; viii. [267].
• Kun = Be (the creative word), iii. [317].
• Kunáfah = vermicelli cake, x. [1].
• Kundur = frankincense, ix. [7].
• Kunfuz = hedgehog, ii. [88].
• Kunsul = Consul, iv. [84].
• Kunyat = patro- or matro-nymic, iv. [287].
• Kúr = furnace, viii. [9].
• —— = forge where children are hammered out (?), viii. [46].
• Kurbáj = cravache, viii. [17].
• Kurbán = sacrifice, viii. [16].
• Kurds (Xenophon’s and Strabo’s Carduchi), iii. [100].
• Kurdús = body of horse, ix. [111].
• Kurrá = teachers of the correct pronunciation of the Koran, i. [113].
• Kurrah = ball in the Polo game, ii. [329].
• Kurrat al-Ayn = coolness of the eye, i. [72]; v. [145].
• Kurs (has taken the place of Iklíl), i. [270].
• Kursán (Al-) = “Corsaro,” a runner, viii. [323].
• Kursí (choir, throne) = desk or stool for the Koran, i. [167]; vii. [311].
• Kursí al-wiládah = birth-stool, ii. [80].
• Kús (town in Upper Egypt), iv. [276].
• Kus(s) = vulva, viii. [93].
• Kush’arírah = horripilation, symptom of great joy, i. [251].
• Kussá’a = curling cucumber, iv. [98].
• Kusúf = eclipse of the moon, viii. [291].
• Kút al-Kulúb, viii. [158].
• Kutá’ah = a bit cut off, etc., vi. [272].
• Kutayt = little tom-cat, ii. [39].
• Kutb = axle, pole; hence prince, doyen in sainthood, v. [384].
• Kuthayyir (poet), ii. [102].
• Kutr Misr = tract of Egypt, ix. [286].
• Kutub al-Báh = Books of Lust, x. [201].
• Kuzía Fakán (Pr. N.) = “it was decreed by destiny, so it came to pass,” ii. [175].
• Lá adamnak = Heaven deprive us not of thee, i. [268].
• Lá Bás (bi-zálik = there is no harm in that), iv. [164].
• —— (in Marocco) = “I am pretty well,” viii. [274].
• —— (= no harm is [yet] done), ix. [102].
• Lá haula, etc. = there is no Majesty, etc., i. [65].
• La iláha illá ’lláh = there is no God but the God (tahlíl), ii. [336].
• Lá kabbata hámíyah = no burning plague, x. [14].
• Lá rajma ghaybin = without stone-throwing of secrecy, ix. [1].
• Lá rayba fí-hi, ii. [210].
• Lá tankati’í = sever not thyself from us, ix. [245].
• Lá tuwáhishná = do not make me desolate, i. [62].
• Lá tuwákhizná = do not chastise us = excuse us, i. [164].
• La’alla = haply, belike; forsure, certainly, ix. [49].
• La’ab = (sword-) play, vii. [44].
• La’abah = a plaything, a puppet, a lay figure, i. [245].
• La’al = ruby, v. [342].
• La’an = curse, v. [250]; vi. [178].
• Láb (Old Pers. for Sun), vii. [296].
• Laban (= milk artificially soured), vi. [201].
• —— (= sweet milk), vii. [360].
• —— halíb = fresh milk, vi. [201].
• Labbayka (= Here am I, called Talbiyah), i. [226]; ii. [227].
• —— (pronounced on sighting Meccah), v. [203].
• Labbis al-Búsah tabkí ’Arúsah = clothe the reed and it will become a bride, viii. [201].
• Labtayt (Pr. N. = Toledo), iv. [99].
• Lactation (term of), v. [299].
• —— (no cohabitation during), v. [299].
• Ladies of the family (waiting upon the guests), vi. [237].
• Láhik = the Overtaker, viii. [341].
• Láit = one acting like the tribe of Lot, sodomite, ix. [253].
• Lajlaj = rolling anything in the mouth; stammering, ix. [322].
• Lájuward, see Lázuward, iii. [33].
• Lake Kárún, vi. [217].
• Lakít = fœtus, foundling, contemptible fellow, vii. [145].
• Lámí (Al-) = the l-shaped, forked (os hyoïdes), v. [219].
• Lámíyat = poem rhyming in L, iii. [143].
• Lane quoted: i. [1], [36], [42], [74], [77], [83], [93], [100], [104], [131], [147], [163], [201], [210], [213], [215], [217], [223], [245], [259], [269], [270], [291], [311], [314], [317], [340];ii. [5], [38], [41], [46], [56], [77], [80], [89], [93], [131], [167], [206], [215], [243], [292], [304], [314], [315], [328], [332]; iii. [20], [30], [44], [112], [114], [116], [117], [141], [162], [176], [181], [191], [211], [212], [222], [259], [322], [331], [341]; iv. [2], [12], [46], [55], [63], [66], [82], [95], [96], [107], [110], [124], [136], [144], [152], [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]; v. [2], [32], [33], [37], [44], [45], [64], [104], [112], [120], [121], [144], [145], [189], [201], [231], [259], [273], [286], [298]; vi. [1], [8], [11], [17], [33], [49], [57], [61], [66], [80], [180], [191], [196], [214], [216], [247], [257], [282]; vii. [95], [96], [111], [113], [118], [119], [123], [124], [135], [136], [139], [144], [172], [182], [195], [196], [209], [250], [269], [275], [280], [282], [303], [306], [309], [314], [322], [328], [346], [354], [357]; viii. [14], [18], [21], [27], [35], [53], [62], [68], [77], [80], [84], [94], [97], [102], [122], [124], [128], [131], [147], [148], [155], [156], [166], [177], [179], [180], [187], [205], [264], [285], [298], [337];ix. [32], [33], [146], [168], [170], [182], [221], [222], [224], [226], [229], [246], [291], [304], [307]; x. [1], [11], [12], [19], [34], [36], [50], [52], [70], [115].
• Language of signs, ii. [304].
• Languages (study of, should be assisted by ear and tongue), x. [96].
• Largesse (better than the mace), viii. [163].
• Lasm (Lathm) = kissing the lower face, iv. [259].
• Lasting calamity = furious knight, vi. [290].
• Latter night = hours between the last sleep and dawn, i. [24].
• Laughing in one’s face not meant for an affront, i. [320].
• Laughter rare and sign of a troubled mind, i. [248].
• Lauh = tablet used as slate, v. [73].
• Lauh al-Mahfúz = the Preserved Tablet (of Allah’s decrees), v. [322].
• Lauláka = but for thee, for thy sake, v. [306].
• Laun = colour, hue (for dish), vii. [185].
• Láwandiyah (Al-) = Levantines, ix. [275].
• Layálí = nights, future, fate, iii. [318].
• Layl (night) frequently = the interval between sunset and sunset, ii. [260].
• Laylá (female Pr. N.), iii. [135].
• —— wa Majnún (love poem), iii. [183].
• Laylat al-Kábilah = to-night, ix. [271].
• Laylat al-Kadr = Night of Power, vi. [180].
• Laylat al-Wafá = the night of completion of the Nile-flood, i. [291].
• Laylat ams = yesternight, vii. [186].
• Lazá (Hell for Jews), ii. [140]; viii. [346].
• Lázuward = lapis lazuli, azure, iii. [33]; ix. [190].
• Leaving one standing (pour se faire valoir), vi. [252].
• Leg-cut (severs horse’s leg), ii. [220].
• Legs (making mute the anklets), vii. [131].
• —— (shall be bared on a certain day), ix. [253].
• Lentils (cheapest and poorest food in Egypt), x. [31].
• Leprosy (white = bahak or baras, black = juzám), v. [294].
• —— (thickens voice), iv. [50].
• —— (shows first at the wrist), iv. [51].
• Lesbianism, x. [209].
• Letter (reading not always understanding), ii. [112].
• —— (model specimen), iv. [57].
• —— (toren tears a kingdom), vii. [2].
• Letters and letter-writing, iii. [24].
• —— (French), vii. [190].
• Li-ajal = for the sake of, low Egyptian, ii. [113].
• Libdah (skull-cap of felt) sign of a religious mendicant, iii. [62].
• Liberality (men proverbial for their), iv. [96].
• —— (after poverty), viii. [182].
• Libraries (large ones known by the Arabs), viii. [79].
• —— (much appreciated by the Arabs), x. [175].
• Lice bred by perspiration, ii. [69].
• Lie (only degrading if told for fear of telling the truth), ix. [87].
• —— (simulating truth), ix. [223].
• Lieu d’aisance (in Eastern crafts), ix. [332].
• Líf = fibre of palm-fronds, v. [45]; vi. [50].
• Life (by the, of thy youth) oath of women, iv. [49].
• —— (cheap in hot countries), iv. [275].
• Life-breath in the nostrils = heart in the mouth, i. [42].
• Light (of salvation shining from the face of Prophets), ix. [324].
• Light-worshippers (are liars), iv. [252].
• Lijám shadíd = sharp bit, ix. [70].
• Like mother, like daughter, i. [299].
• Li ’lláhi darru-ka = the Lord has been copious to thee, iv. [20].
• Lion (beguiled by flattery), v. [40].
• —— (as Sultan of the beasts jealous of a man’s power), x. [34].
• —— at home, lamb abroad, ii. [183].
• Lisám (mouth-band for men, chin-veil) = Tasmak for women, ii. [31], [230]; iii. [283].
• Lisán al-Hamal = lamb’s tongue (plantain), viii. [273].
• Listening not held dishonourable, vii. [279].
• Litholatry of the old Arabs, vi. [269].
• Liver = seat of passion, i. [27].
• —— (for heart), iii. [240].
• —— (and spleen held to be congealed blood), v. [220].
• Living (the, who dieth not), vi. [67].
• Liwá = Arab Tempe, vii. [115].
• Liwán = Al-Aywán, iv. [71]; vii. [347].
• Liyyah = fat sheep (calves like tails of), viii. [291].
• Lizzat al-Nisá (erotic poem), iii. [93].
• Loathing of prohibition, ix. [279].
• Locks (Mohammed’s), ii. [230].
• Logah = Arabic language, also a vocabulary, dictionary, i. [251].
• Logogriphs, viii. [93].
• Lokman (three of the name), x. [118].
• Loosening the hair an immodesty in women sanctioned only by a great calamity, i. [314].
• Lord for Lady = she, v. [60].
• —— (of the East and West), v. [228].
• Lost on Allah’s way = martyr, ii. [330].
• Lot (this is ours = I have been lucky and will share with you), ix. [328].
• Lot, see Lútí.
• Lote-tree (beyond which there is no passing), v. [393].
• Lots = games of chance, v. [223].
• Love (pure, becomes prophetical), iii. [6].
• —— (the ear conceiveth it before the eye), iii. [9].
• —— (ten stages of), iii. [36].
• —— (martyrs of), iii. [211].
• —— (platonic, see vol. ii. [104]), iii. [232].
• —— (ousting affection), iii. [240].
• —— (martyrs of), iv. [205].
• —— (clairvoyance), iv. [238].
• —— (excess of), iv. [238].
• —— (strange chances of), v. [71].
• —— (deaths from), v. [134].
• —— (made public disgraces), v. [151].
• —— (man and woman with regard to), vii. [299].
• —— (called upon to torment the lover still more), viii. [75].
• —— (cruelty of), x. [26].
• Love-children (exceedingly rare amongst Moslems), viii. [115].
• Love-liesse (never lacked between folk, i.e. people of different conditions), viii. [212].
• Lovers in Lazá (hell) as well as in Na’ím (heaven), iii. [58].
• —— (parting of, a stock-topic in poetry), iii. [58].
• —— (buried together), v. [71].
• —— (model ones, becoming an ordinary married couple), v. [92].
• —— (becoming Moslems secure the good will of the audience), viii. [224].
• Loving folk = something more than benevolence, ii. [2].
• Lúk-Gate (proverb referring to), iv. [259].
• Lukmah = mouthful, i. [261]; vii. [367].
• Lukmán (Æsop of the Arabs), ii. [199].
• Lukmán (three of the name), iii. [264]; x. [118].
• Lullilooing (Tahlíl Zagrútah, Kil), ii. [80].
• Lúlúah = union pearl; wild cow, ix. [218].
• Lumá = dark hue of the inner lips, iv. [251].
• Lupin-flour used as soap, ii. [136].
• Luss = thief, robber, ix. [106].
• Lute (personification of), viii. [281].
• Lutf (servile name = elegance, delicacy), iv. [232].
• Lútí (of the people of Lot = Sodomite), v. [161].
• Lying (until one’s self believes the lie to be truth), x. [14].
• Lynch-law (the modern form of Jus talionis), v. [103].
• Lymph (alluding to the “Neptunist” doctrine), ix. [77].
• Lynx (trained for hunting), ii. [293].
• Má al-Khalaf, see Khiláf, ii. [136].
• Má al-Maláhah = water (brilliancy) of beauty, viii. [47].
• Má Dáhiyatak = what is thy misfortune? (for “what ill business is this?”), ix. [137].
• Má kaharaní ahadun = none vexeth (or has overcome) me, ix. [156].
• Ma’abíd (singer and composer), v. [147].
• Maamún (Al), son and successor of Hárún al-Rashíd, i. [185]; iv. [109].
• Ma’an bin Záidah, iii. [236]; iv. [96].
• Ma’áni-há (her meanings = her inner woman), iv. [146].
• Ma’arúf = kindness, favour, x. [1].
• Mace (Ar. Dabbús), vi. [249].
• —— (a dangerous weapon), vii. [24].
• Macnaghten’s Edition, x. [81].
• Madfá = cannon, showing modern date, i. [223].
• Madinat al-Nabí (Al-Medínah) = City of the Prophet, iv. [114].
• Madness (there is a pleasure in), iv. [204].
• Mafárik (Al-) = partings of the hair, vii. [222].
• Mafa’úl = patient, passive (Catamite), v. [156].
• Magazine (as one wherein wheat is heaped up = unmarried), vii. [372].
• Magháribah (pl. of Maghribí = Western man, Moor, “Maurus”), vi. [220].
• Maghdád (for Baghdád, as Makkah and Bakkah), viii. [51].
• Maghrib (al-Aksà) = the land of the setting sun, ix. [50].
• Magic studied by Jews, ii. [234].
• Magic Horse (history of the fable), v. [2].
• Magnet Mountains, fable probably based on the currents, i. [140].
• Mahá = wild cattle, vii. [280].
• Mahall = (a man’s) quarters, viii. [229].
• Mahall al-Zauk = seat of taste, sensorium, ix. [83].
• Maháráj = great Rajah, vi. [8], [67].
• Mahayá = Má al-Hayát = aqua vitæ, vii. [132].
• Mahdí (Al-) Caliph, vii. [136]; ix. [334].
• Mahmil (mahmal) = litter, ii. [131].
• Mahmúdah = praiseworthy; confection of aloes, viii. [35].
• Mahr = marriage dowry, settlement, vii. [126]; ix. [32].
• Mahríyah (Mehari) = blood-dromedary, iii. [277].
• Maid and Magpie, vi. [182].
• Mail-coat and habergeon, simile for a glittering stream, i. [291].
• Ma’ín, Ma’ún = smitten with the evil eye, i. [123].
• Maintenance (of a divorced woman during Iddah), ix. [32].
• Majájah = saliva, vii. [280].
• Ma’janah (a place for making bricks), ii. [17].
• Majlis = sitting (to a woman), iii. [92].
• Majnún = madman, i. [10]; iii. [72].
• Majzúb = drawn, attracted (Sufí term for ecstatic), v. [57].
• Maka’ad = sitting-room, iv. [78].
• Makhaddah = pillow, ii. [70].
• Makkamah = Kazí’s Court, i. [21].
• Making water, i. [259].
• Mál = Badawi money, flocks, “fee,” vi. [267].
• Malak = level ground, viii. [285].
• Malak or Malik = Seraph or Sovran, i. [253].
• Malákay bayti ’l-ráhah = slabs of the jakes, x. [51].
• “Making men” (and women), x. [199].
• Malakút (Al-) = the world of spirits (Sufi term), viii. [145].
• Male children (as much prized as riches), ix. [316].
• Malíhah (al-) = salt-girl; beautiful, i. [340].
• Malik (used as “king” in our story-books), ii. [1].
• —— bin Dínár (theologian) ii. [204]; vii. [261].
• —— (taken as title), iii. [51].
• —— (traditionist), v. [81].
• —— al-Khuzá’i (intendant of the palace), v. [95].
• —— (Al-) al-Násir = the conquering King, iv. [271]; vii. [142]; ix. [19].
• Málik (door-keeper of Hell), iii. [20].
• Malik Kawí = very handsome (Cairene vulgarism), vii. [150].
• Malikhulíyà (Al-) = melancholy, v. [221].
• Malocchio or Gettatura (evil), ix. [247].
• Mamlúk (white slave trained to arms), i. [81].
• Mamarr al-Tujjár = passing place of the traders, viii. [155].
• Mamrak = sky-window, etc. viii. [156].
• Man (extract of despicable water), iii. [16].
• —— (is fire, woman tinder), iii. [59].
• —— (shown to disadvantage in beast-stories), iii. [115].
• —— (his destiny written on his skull), iii. [123].
• —— (pre-eminence above women), iii. [332].
• —— (handsomer than woman), iv. [15].
• —— (his advantages above woman), v. [155].
• —— (one’s evidence = two women’s), v. [155].
• —— (one’s portion = two women’s), v. [155].
• —— (created of congealed blood), v. [213].
• —— (one worthier in Allah’s sight than a thousand Jinn), viii. [5], [44].
• —— (created after God’s likeness, rather a Jewish-Christian than a Moslem doctrine), ix. [79].
• —— (I am a man of them = never mind my name), ix. [238].
• —— (of the people of Allah = a Religious), ix. [51].
• —— (his wrong is from the tongue), ix. [309].
• Manáf (idol), v. [129].
• Manár al-Saná = Place of Light, viii. [104].
• Manáshif (pl. of Minshafah, q.v.), viii. [92].
• Manázil (stations of the Moon), v. [228].
• Mandíl = kerchief, ii. [301].
• Maniyat = death; muniyat = desire, iii. [291].
• Manjanikát (Al-) = Mangonels, vii. [335].
• Mankind (creates its analogues in all the elements), iv. [121].
• —— (superior to Jinn), ix. [339].
• Mann = from two to six pounds, vi. [80].
• Man’s creation, ii. [91].
• Mansúr (Pr. N.) = triumphant, ix. [310].
• Mansúr (Al-) Caliph, ii. [142], [153], [210].
• —— bin Ammár, ii. [204].
• —— al-Nimrí (poet), iv. [179].
• Mansúr wa Munazzam = oratio soluta et ligata, viii. [226].
• Manumission of slaves, ii. [55].
• Manzil (Makám) = (a lady’s) lodgings, viii. [229].
• Maragha = he rubbed his face, ii. [60].
• Marba’ = summer quarters, iii. [79].
• Mardán-i-Ghayb (Himalayan brothers), ii. [211].
• Mares (impregnated by the wind), vi. [9].
• Marhúb = terrible, viii. [180].
• Marhúm (f. Marhúmah) = late lamented, ii. [129], [196].
• Márid = contumacious, i. [41].
• Máridúna = rebels (against Allah), vii. [39].
• Ma’rifah = article, ix. [272].
• Máristán (from Pers. Bímáristán = place of sickness), i. [288].
• Marján = Coral-branch (slave name), iii. [169].
• Marjánah (Pr. N.) = Coral-branch, ii. [100].
• —— (Morgante, Urganda, Morgain), vii. [373].
• Markúb = shoe, vi. [207].
• Marmar = marble, i. [295]; vi. [95].
• Marocco (tenanted by three Moslem races), x. [222].
• Marriage (not valid without receipt of settlement), i. [276].
• —— (if consummated demands Ghusl), iii. [286].
• —— (by capture), viii. [40].
• —— (one of the institutions of the Apostles), viii. [137].
• Marriage-sheet inspected, ii. [50].
• Married men profit nothing, iii. [2].
• —— never once (emphasises poverty), viii. [145].
• Marseille (probably alluded to), viii. [315].
• Marsín = myrtle, vii. [290].
• Martyrdom, iv. [247].
• —— (of the drowned), ix. [340].
• Martyrs (still alive), ii. [242].
• —— (of love), iii. [211]; iv. [205].
• Marwah (ground-wave in Meccah), v. [203].
• Marwazí = of Marw (Margiana), iii. [222].
• Marwán bin al-Hakam (Governor of al-Medinah), vii. [125].
• Maryam (a Christian name), viii. [306].
• Maryam al-Husn = place of the White doe (Rím) of beauty, viii. [321].
• Marz-bán = Warden of the Marches, Margrave, iii. [256].
• Masculine for feminine, vii. [140].
• Má sháa ’llah (as Allah willeth) = well done, iii. [92].
• Mashallah = the English “Cock’s ’ill” with a difference, x. [52].
• Mashhad = head and foot stone of a grave, x. [53].
• Mashá’ilí = cresset-bearer, for public crier, hangman, i. [259]; iv. [61].
• Masíhí = follower of the Messiah, i. [258].
• Maskharah = buffoon, ii. [143]; vii. [195].
• Maskhút = transformed (mostly in something hideous), a statue, i. [165].
• Maslamah bin Abd al-Malik. ii. [167].
• Massacre (the grand moyen of Eastern state-craft), ix. [110].
• Massage, i. [172].
• Mastabah = bench of masonry, vi. [26].
• Masúkah = stick used for driving cattle, viii. [147].
• Matáf = place of Tawáf, q.v.
• Matárik (pl. of mitrak) = targes, ix. [225].
• Matmúrah = underground cell, ii. [39].
• Matr (pl. amtár) = large vessel of leather or wood, iii. [295].
• Matta’aka ’llah = Allah permit thee to enjoy, ix. [125].
• Matting (of Sind, famous), v. [146].
• Maukab (Al-) = Procession-day, iv. [287].
• Maulid = nativity, ix. [289].
• Maund, see Mann, vi. [80].
• Maurid = desert well and road to such, iii. [33].
• Mausil (Mosul) alluding to the junction of Assyria and Babylonia, i. [82].
• Mausúl (Al-) = the conjoined (for relative pronoun or particle), ix. [272].
• Maut = death, vii. [147].
• Mauz = Musa (Banana), iv. [201].
• Mawwál (for Mawálíyah) = short poem, viii. [94]; 151.
• “May thy life be prolonged,” iv. [62].
• Mayázib (pl. of mízáb) = gargoyles, vii. [136].
• Maydán = parade-ground, i. [46].
• Maydán al-Fíl = race-course of the Elephant, vii. [326].
• Maymúnah (proverbial noun now forgotten), i. [57].
• Maysir = game of arrows, v. [223].
• Maysúm (Badawi wife of Caliph Mu’áwiyah), ii. [160].
• Maysum’s song, vii. [97].
• Mayyáfárikín, ancient capital of Diyár Bakr, vii. [1].
• Meat rarely coloured in modern days, i. [310].
• Medicine (rules and verses bearing on domestic), v. [222].
• Melancholy (chronic under the brightest skies), iv. [239].
• Men (is there a famine of?) = are men so few? iv. [295].
• Meniver = menu vair (Mus lemmus), ix. [321].
• Menses (coition during, and leprosy), viii. [34].
• Menstruous discharge (made use of as a poison), ix. [101].
• Merchant (worth a thousand), x. [8].
• Merchants and shopkeepers carrying swords, i. [54].
• Mercury Ali (his story sequel to that of Dalílah), vii. [172].
• Mercy (quality of the noble Arab), iii. [88].
• Mer-folk (refined with the Greeks, grotesques with other nations), ix. [169].
• Messiah (made a liar by the Miscreants), ix. [15].
• Metamorphosis (terms of), vii. [294].
• Metempsychosis and sharpers’ tricks, v. [84].
• Metrical portion of the Nights (threefold distribution of), x. [67].
• Miao or Mau = cat, i. [220].
• Mihráb and Minaret (symbols of Venus and Priapus?), i. [166].
• Mihráj = Maháráj, q.v.; vi. [67].
• Mikashshah = broom, iv. [208].
• Mihrgán = Sun-fête, degraded into Michaelmas, v. [1].
• Mikbas (pot of lighted charcoal), iv. [246].
• Mikhaddah = cheek-pillow, viii. [273].
• Mikmarah = cover for a brasier, extinguisher, v. [120].
• Miknás = town Mequinez, vi. [223].
• Miknasah = broom, vi. [158].
• Mi’lakah = spoon, ix. [141].
• Milh = salt, i. [340].
• Military and Police sneered at, iv. [270].
• Milk (white as, opposed to black as mud), iv. [140].
• —— (soured), v. [225].
• —— (Ar. Laban, Halíb), vi. [201].
• —— (by nomades always used in the soured form), vi. [201].
• Milk-drinking races prefer the soured milk to the sweet, vii. [360].
• Million (no Arabic word for, expressed by a thousand thousand), vi. [98].
• Mím-like mouth, iv. [249].
• Míms (verset of the sixteen), v. [217].
• Mina (and the stoning of the Devil), v. [203].
• Minaret (simile for a fair young girl), iii. [69].
• Mind (one by vinegar, another by wine = each goes its own way), iv. [72].
• “Mine” (various idioms for expressing it), iii. [335].
• Minínah = biscuit, iv. [86].
• Minshafah (pl. Manáshif) = drying towel, viii. [92].
• Mikra’ah = palm-rod, i. [99].
• Miracle (minor, known to Spiritualism), v. [144].
• Miracles (performed by Saints’ tombs), i. [241].
• —— (disclaimed by Mohammed but generally believed in), iii. [346].
• —— (growing apace in the East), ix. [336].
• Mirage = Saráb, iii. [319].
• Mirbad (Al-) market-place at Bassorah, vii. [130].
• Mirzà ’Abdullah-i-Híchmakání = Master Abdullah of Nowhere, v. [27].
• “Mis”-conformation (prized by women), vi. [156].
• Mishammah = an old gunny-bag, ix. [171].
• Miskál = 71–72 grams in gold, used for dinar, i. [126]; ix. [262].
• Misr, Masr = Capital (applied to Memphis, Fostat and Cairo), vii. [172].
• —— (for Egypt), vii. [370].
• Misra (twelfth Coptic month), v. [232].
• Misrayn (Al-) = Basrah and Kúfah, vii. [371].
• Mitrahinna (Minat-ro-hinnu) = port at mouth of canal, ii. [237].
• Mizr, Mizar = beer, i. [72].
• Modesty (behind a curtain), v. [162].
• Mohammed (best of the first and last), ii. [11].
• —— (Mustafa), ii. [40].
• —— (his letter to the Mukaukis), ii. [79].
• —— (Periclytus and Paracletus), ii. [226].
• —— (abhors the shaveling), ii. [248].
• —— (bearer of glad and bad tidings), ii. [257].
• —— (Congratulator and Commiserator), ii. [260].
• —— (Best of Mankind), ii. [263].
• —— (“born with Kohl’d eyes”), iii. [232].
• —— (his uncles), iv. [22].
• —— (traditional saying of), iv. [35].
• —— (cleanses the Ka’abah of idols), iv. [80].
• —— (on dyeing the hair, etc.), iv. [194].
• —— (on lovers), iv. [205].
• —— (on his being seen in sleep), iv. [287].
• —— (places the “black stone”), iv. [261].
• —— (mentioned in the Koran), v. [210].
• —— (Allah’s right hand), vii. [366].
• —— (sent with the guidance and True Faith), ix. [15].
• —— (before and after the Hijrah), x. [196].
• Mohammed al-Amín (Caliph), v. [93].
• Mohammed bin Sulaymán al-Rabi’í (Governor of Bassorah), vii. [130].
• Moharram = first month of the Moslem year, viii. [71].
• Mohr = signet, vii. [329].
• Mohtasib = inspector of weights and measures, etc., viii. [293].
• Mole on cheek (black as Bilál), iv. [142].
• Moles compared with pearls, i. [177].
• Monasteries (best wine made in), v. [65].
• —— (Ar. Biká’a), v. [125].
• —— (places of confinement for madmen), v. [139].
• Monday = second day reckoning from Sabbath, i. [266].
• Money (carried in the corner of a handkerchief), i. [271].
• —— (large sums weighed), i. [281]; ii. [145].
• —— (carried round the waist), viii. [288].
• —— (let lie with the folk = not dunned for), ix. [311].
• Monkery (abhorred by Mohammed), ii. [248].
• —— (none in Al-Islam), viii. [137].
• Monoculars (unlucky to meet), i. [333].
• —— (famed for mischief), iv. [194]; viii. [318].
• Monsters (abounding in Persian literature), vii. [399].
• Months (of peace), v. [54].
• —— (Coptic names of), v. [221], [232].
• —— (Arabic names explained), v. [233].
• Moon (blighting effect of its rays), ii. [4].
• —— masculine in Semitic, ii. [45].
• —— (masc., Sun fem.), iii. [28]; iv. [261].
• —— (simile for female beauty), v. [8].
• —— (shall be cloven in twain), v. [217].
• —— (its stations), v. [228].
• —— (taking in hand the star = girl handing round the cup), ix. [192].
• Moon-faced (not absurd), iv. [192].
• Moons (for cup-bearers), viii. [227].
• Moore (Thomas, anticipated), iii. [305].
• Morality (geographical and chronological), iii. [241].
• —— (want of, excused by passion), iii. [269].
• Morbi venerei, x. [88].
• Morning draught, iii. [20].
• “Morosa voluptas,” vii. [132].
• Mortal (one better in Allah’s sight than a thousand Jinn), viii. [5], [44].
• Moses (derivation of the name), ii. [205].
• —— and Jethro, ii. [205].
• —— and the next world, ii. [206].
• —— and Al-Khizr, ii. [263].
• —— (describes his own death and burial), vi. [116].
• Moslem (model Conservative), ii. [13].
• —— (external), ii. [29].
• —— (familiarity between high and low), ii. [32].
• —— (peasants kind-hearted), ii. [69].
• —— (kind feeling shown to a namesake), vi. [13].
• —— (corpses should be burnt under certain circumstances), vi. [26].
• —— (commonplaces of condolence), vi. [41].
• —— (sales, formula of), vi. [73].
• —— (consecrated ground unknown to them), vi. [161].
• —— (a free-born’s sale is felony), vi. [240].
• —— (dignity contrasting with Christian abasement), viii. [5], [44].
• —— (can circumcise, marry and bury himself), viii. [22].
• —— (on a journey tries to bear with him a new suit of clothes for the festivals and Friday service), ix. [51].
• —— (bound to discharge the debts of his dead parents), ix. [311].
• —— (doctrine ignores the dictum, “ex nihilo nihil fit”), ix. [63].
• —— (resignation, noble instance of), x. [42].
• Moslems (their number preordained), viii. [154].
• —— (deal kindly with religious mendicants), ix. [51].
• —— (not ashamed of sensual appetite), ix. [84].
• —— (bound to abate scandals amongst neighbours), ix. [98].
• —— (husbands among them divided into three classes), ix. [263].
• Mosque al-Ahzáb = mosque of the troops, vii. [92].
• Mosques serving as lodgings for poor travellers, ii. [69].
• Mosul (exempted from idolatrous worship), v. [64].
• —— stuff = muslin, i. [229].
• Mother (waiting upon the adult sons) vi. [237].
• —— (in Arab tales = ma mère), viii. [27].
• Mother’s milk = nature, ii. [44].
• Mounds = rubbish heaps outlying Eastern cities, i. [71].
• Mountain (coming from the = being a clodhopper), iii. [324].
• —— (sit upon the = turn anchorite), iii. [324].
• —— (the, at Cairo), iv. [294].
• Mountains (the pegs of the earth), iv. [174].
• Mourning (perfumes not used during), iii. [63].
• —— (normal term of forty days), ix. [311].
• Moustachio (salt to a kiss), v. [165].
• Mouth compared to the ring of Sulayman, i. [84].
• Mrigatrishná = the thirst of the deer (mirage), vi. [93].
• MS. copy of The Nights (price of one in Egypt), vii. [312].
• Muákhát = entering in a formal agreement for partnership, viii. [232].
• Mu’allim = teacher, master (address to a Jew or Christian), viii. [150].
• Mu’arras = pimp, i. [338].
• Mu’attik al-Rikáb = Liberator of Necks, vii. [331].
• Mu’áwiyah (Caliph), ii. [160], [161].
• —— (his Moses-like “mildness”), iii. [286].
• Muayyad (Sultan and calligrapher), ii. [32].
• Muazzin (who calls to prayer), ii. [306].
• Mubárak (f. mubárakah) = blessed (a favourite slave-name), ix. [58].
• Mubárakah = the blessed (fem.), ix. [330].
• Mudarris = professor, x. [8].
• Mudawwarah (a gong?), iv. [135].
• Muftí (Doctor of Law), vi. [254].
• Muhabbat (Al-) al-gharizíyah = natural affection, viii. [110].
• Muháfiz = district-governor, i. [259].
• Muhájirún = companions in Mohammed’s flight, vii. [92].
• Muhakkah = “Court-hand,” i. [129].
• Muhallil, see Mustahall.
• Muhammad, Ahmad and Mahmúd, vi. [273].
• Muhammarah = fricandoed, i. [286].
• Muhárabah = doing battle, ix. [92].
• Muharramát (the three forbidden things), iii. [340]; v. [148].
• Mu’ín al-Din = Aider of the Faith, vii. [354].
• Mujáhid (Al-) = fighter in Holy War, iii. [51].
• Mujáhidún, plur. of the previous, iii. [39].
• Mujauhar = damascened, vii. [84].
• Mujáwirún = lower servants, sweepers, etc. v. [119].
• Mujtabá = the Accepted, i. [77].
• Mukaddam (Anglo-Indicè Muccudum) = overseer, iv. [42].
• Mukarrabún = those near Allah, v. [319].
• Mukhammas = cinquains, iii. [280].
• Mukri = Koranist, v. [216].
• Mulabbas = dragées, vii. [205].
• Mulákát = going to meet an approaching guest, v. [330].
• Mulberry-fig (for anus), iii. [302].
• Mummery = “Mahommerie” x. [178].
• Munádamah = table-talk, “conversation over the cup,” vii. [309].
• Munáfik = hypocrite, v. [207].
• Munakkishah = woman who applies the dye to a face, i. [270].
• Munawwarah (Al-) = the Illumined (title of Al-Medinah), vii. [95].
• Munázarah = dispute, ix. [243].
• Munázirah = like (fem.), ix. [243].
• Munkar and Nakír (the questioning angels), v. [111]; ix. [163]; x. [47].
• Munkasir (broken) = languid, iv. [195].
• Munkati’ = cut off, viii. [24].
• Muráhanah = game at forfeits, vi. [204].
• Murder (to be punished by the family), v. [103].
• —— (to save one’s life approved of), vi. [44].
• Murjiyy (sect and tenets), iii. [341].
• Murtazà = the Elect, i. [77].
• Músà = Moses, ii. [205].
• Músá bin Nusayr (conqueror of Spain), vi. [86].
• Mus’ab bin al-Zubayr, v. [79].
• Musáfahah = joining palms for “shaking hand,” vi. [287]; vii. [52]; ix. [342].
• Musáhakah = tribadism, vii. [132].
• Musáhikah = tribade, viii. [130].
• Musakhkham (Al-) = the defiled Cross, ii. [220].
• Musallà = place of prayer, oratory, v. [261].
• Musámarah = chatting at night, iv. [237]; vii. [217].
• Music (forbidden by Mohammed), ix. [31].
• Musk (scent of heaven), ii. [300].
• —— (sherbet flavoured with), v. [66].
• Mushayyad = lofty, high-builded, viii. [23].
• Muslim bin al-Walíd (poet), v. [128].
• Musquito caught between the toes, vii. [179].
• Musrán (Al-) guts, vii. [190].
• Mustafà (the chosen) = Mohammed, i. [77]; ii. [40].
• Mustahakk = deserving, x. [52].
• Mustahall (Mustahill) = one who marries a thrice divorced woman and divorces her to make her lawful for her first husband, iv. [48].
• Musta’ín (Al-) bi ’lláh (Caliph), ix. [246].
• Mutalammis (Al-), the poet and his fatal letter, v. [74].
• Mustansir bi ’llah (Al-) = one seeking help in Allah, i. [317].
• Mutanakkir = disguised, proud, reserved, vii. [101].
• Mu’tasim (Al-) bi ’llah (Caliph), iii. [81]; ix. [232].
• Mutawakkil (Al-) Caliph, iv. [291]; v. [153]; ix. [232].
• Mutawallí = Prefect of Police, i. [259].
• Mutawwif = leader in the Tawáf, q.v. v. [203].
• Mu’tazid (Al-) bi ’lláh (Caliph), ix. [229].
• Mu’tazz (Al-) bi ’lláh (Caliph), ix. [242].
• Mu’ujizah = miracle of a prophet, ii. [237].
• Muunah = provisions, vii. [232]; ix. [104].
• Muunis (Pr. N. = Companion), v. [164].
• Muwaffak = well-notched, v. [33].
• Muwallad = a slave born in a Moslem land, iv. [291].
• Muwashshah (stanza), iv. [54].
• Muzaní (Al-), ii. [208].
• Muzayyin (Figaro of the East), i. [304].
• Myrtle-bush = young beard, iv. [143].
• Mystification explained by extraordinary likeness, viii. [40].
• Na’al = sandal, shoe, horse-shoe, vi. [207].
• Náb (pl. Anyáb) = canine tooth, tusk, vii. [339].
• Nabbút = quarter-staff, i. [234]; viii. [186].
• Nabhán (sons of), vi. [262].
• Nabí = prophet, ix. [178].
• Nábighah al-Zubyání (pre-Islamitic poet), vi. [85].
• Nadd (a compound perfume), i. [310].
• Naddábah = mourning woman, i. [311].
• Nadím = cup-companion, i. [46].
• Nafahát = breathings, benefits, v. [29].
• Nafakah = sum necessary for the expenses of the pilgrimage, ix. [178].
• Nafas = breath, i. [107].
• Nafs = soul, life, i. [107].
• Náfi’ (traditionist), v. [204].
• Náfilah = supererogatory Koran recitation, iii. [222].
• Nafísah (great-grand-daughter of the Imám Hasan), iv. [46].
• Nafísah (Pr. N.) = the Precious one, viii. [328].
• Nafs-í = my soul for “the flesh,” vii. [118].
• Nafs Ammárah = “the Flesh,” viii. [31].
• —— al-Nátikah = intellectual soul, viii. [31].
• —— al-Ghazabíyah = animal function, viii. [31].
• —— al-Shahwáníyah = vegetative property, viii. [31].
• Nága-kings (of Hinduism), v. [302].
• Nahás (vulg. for Nuhás, q.v.), ii. [327]; iv. [178].
• Náhí-ka = let it suffice thee, x. [22].
• Nahnu málihín = we are on term of salt, i. [344].
• Nahr = slaughtering a camel by stabbing, iv. [95].
• Nahr = river, vi. [163].
• Nahs = nasty, i. [301].
• Ná’i al-maut = messenger of death, vii. [226].
• Náihah = keener, hired mourner, i. [311].
• Na’ím = delight (name for Heaven), iii. [19]; iv. [143].
• Na’íman = may it benefit thee! after bathing, etc., ii. [5].
• Naïveté (of the Horatian kind), ix. [215].
• Najásah = nastiness (anything unclean), vi. [178].
• Najíb (al-taraf = son of a common Moslemah by a Sayyid, q.v.), v. [259].
• Najíb (al-tarafayn = whose parents are both of Apostolic blood), v. [259].
• Najis = ceremonially impure, ix. [337].
• Nájiyah = Salvadora, ii. [145].
• Najm al-Munkazzi = shooting star, viii. [329].
• Najm al-Sabáh (Pr. N.) = Star o’ Morn, viii. [107].
• Najrán (in Syria), ii. [232].
• Naká = sand-hill, x. [27].
• Nakat = to spot; to handsel, viii. [266].
• Naked = without veil or upper clothing, vii. [151].
• Nakedness (Ar. Aurat), vi. [30].
• —— (paraphrased), i. [327].
• Nakfúr = Nicephorus, ii. [77].
• Nakh = make a camel kneel down by the cry Ikh! Ikh! ii. [139].
• Nákhúzah Zulayt = skipper rapscallion, viii. [175].
• Nakíb, a caravan-leader, chief, syndic, i. [269].
• Nákisátu ’aklin wa dín = failing in wit and faith, ix. [298].
• Nakkár = Pecker (a fabulous fish), ix. [184].
• Nakl-i-safar (move preliminary to a journey), ii. [84].
• Nákús = wooden gong (used as bell), vi. [47]; viii. [328].
• Name of Allah introduced into an indecent tale essentially Egyptian, i. [12].
• Names (of God), v. [214].
• —— (= magical formula), v. [369].
• —— (frequently do not appear till near the end of a tale), vii. [43], [75], [274].
• —— (approved by Allah), ix. [165].
• Naming of a child, ii. [174].
• Naming a girl by name offensive, vii. [286].
• Naml (ant) simile for a young beard, iii. [58].
• Námúsiyah = mosquito curtains, viii. [330].
• Napoleonic pose (attitude assumed by a slave), ix. [320].
• Nár (fire), ii. [163].
• —— (fem., like the names of other elements), viii. [16].
• Narcissus (with negro eyes = yellowish white), ii. [24].
• Narcissus and Hippolytus (assumed as types of morosa voluptas, etc.), x. [215].
• Narjis = Narcissus, i. [294].
• —— (name of a slave-girl), viii. [176].
• Nashshár (Al-) = the sawer, i. [335].
• Násik = a devotee, ix. [40].
• Naskh = copying hand, i. [128].
• Nasím = Zephyr (emendation for Nadím = cup-companion), viii. [62].
• Násir (Pr. N.) = triumphing, ix. [310].
• Nasrání = follower of Him of Nazareth, i. [258].
• Nat’a = leather used by way of table-cloth, i. [20].
• Nat’a al-dam = the leather of blood, i. [318]; ii. [41].
• Nation (its power consists in its numbers of fighting men), v. [255].
• Nau (pl. Anwá) = setting of one star simultaneous with another’s rising, viii. [266].
• Naurúz = new (year’s) day, iv. [244].
• Navel, as to beauty and health, i. [84].
• —— (largeness of, much appreciated), viii. [33].
• Nawá = date-stone; Nawáyah = severance, ii. [315].
• Nawátíyah = crew (navigata, nauta), viii. [17].
• Nay = reed-pipe, v. [50].
• Naysábúr (town in Khorasan), ix. [230].
• Názih = travelled far and wide, v. [52].
• Názir = overseer, ii. [304]; iii. [233].
• Nearness of seat a mark of honour, i. [250].
• Negro (Legend of his origin), iv. [250].
• Negroes preferred by debauched women, i. [6].
• —— (familiarity of boys with white girls), ii. [49].
• —— (their skin assumes dust-colour in cold, etc.), ii. [127].
• Negrofied races like “walking tun-butts,” iv. [255].
• Neighbour before the house, companion before the journey, ii. [207].
• Neighbours (frequently on the worst of terms), vi. [236].
• Nemo repente fuit turpissimus (not believed in by Easterns), ix. [91].
• “New Arabian Nights,” vi. [257].
• New-moon of Ramazán watched for, i. [84].
• New moon of the Festival = Crescent of the breakfast, ix. [249], [250].
• News (what is behind thee of, O Asám), viii. [222].
• Ni’am = yes in answer to a negative, vii. [195].
• Ni’amat = a blessing, iv. [1].
• Night (and day, not day and night, with the Arabs), iii. [121].
• —— (-cap), iii. [222].
• —— (“this” = our “last”), iii. [249].
• —— (for day), iii. [318].
• —— (its promise spread with butter that melteth with day-rise), v. [77].
• —— (its last the bitter parting), vii. [243].
• —— (consists of three watches), i. [175]; viii. [330].
• Níl (Al-) = flood season corresponding to summer, i. [290].
• Nílah = indigo, dye-stuff, ix. [144].
• Nile-water sweet and light, i. [290].
• Nímchahrah = half-face (Pers., a kind of demon), v. [333].
• Nimr = leopard, ix. [63].
• Nimrod of the desert, ii. [291].
• Nimsá = Cermans, ii. [219].
• Nimshah (Namshah?) = dagger of state, ii. [193].
• Nineteen the age of an oldish old maid in Egypt, i. [212].
• Nisáb (Al-), smallest sum for stealing which the hand is mutilated, iv. [157].
• Niták, a woman’s waistcloth, vii. [180].
• Níyah (Al-) = ceremonial intention of prayer, v. [163]; x. [254].
• Nizámí (Persian poet), iii. [183].
• Noachian dispensation (revived Al-Islam as revealed to Adam), v. [372].
• Noisy merriment scandalous to Moslem “respectability,” i. [95].
• Nostrils (his life-breath was in his, = his heart was in his mouth), vii. [258].
• Nostrums for divining the sex of the unborn child, vii. [268].
• Nothing for nothing a sexual point d’honneur, i. [87].
• Nuhás (vulg. Nahás) = copper, brass, i. [40]; ii. [327]; iv. [178], [230]; vi. [83].
• Nukl = quatre mendiants, ix. [177], [213].
• Numbering the streets, etc. a classical custom, viii. [88].
• Nún (simile for the eyebrow), v. [34].
• Nún-like brow, iv. [249].
• Nuptial sheet (inspection of), iii. [289].
• Nur al-Huda (Pr. N.) = Light of Salvation, iii. [17]; viii. [97].
• Núrayn = two lights (town in Turkestan), vii. [88].
• Nusf = half-dirham, ii. [37]; vi. [214]; ix. [139], [167].
• Nusk = piety, abstinence from women, ix. [243].
• Nu’umán (Al-) bin Munzir (tyrant of Hírah), v. [74].
• Nu’umán’s flower = anemone, ii. [325].
• Nuzhat al-Zamán = delight of the age, ii. [81].
• Nymphomania (ascribed to worms in the vagina), iv. [298].
• Oath (a serious thing amongst Moslems), i. [179].
• —— (inconsiderately taken), ii. [136].
• —— (kept to the letter), iv. [70].
• —— (retrieved by expiation), viii. [263].
• —— (of divorce), viii. [287], [311].
• Obayd Allah (Pr. N.), v. [164].
• Obayd ibn Táhir (Under-Prefect of Baghdad), iv. [291].
• Object first seen in the morning determines the fortunes of the day, viii. [147].
• Obscene abuse meant as familiarity, not insult, ii. [88].
• O Camphor (antiphrase = O snowball), iii. [40].
• Ocean (Jamm), v. [93].
• —— (of darkness), v. [309].
• “Off-with-his-head” style (not to be taken literally), ix. [308].
• Offering for naught = closing with the offer, ii. [4].
• Offerings (pious = ex votos, etc.), vii. [150].
• Oftentimes the ear loveth before the eye, iii. [9].
• Ohod (battle of), ii. [165].
• Old age (graphically described), v. [3].
• “Old maids” ignored in the East, vii. [286].
• “Old Man of the Sea” (a Márid or evil Jinn), vii. [338].
• Old woman (polite equivalents for), v. [163].
• Oldest matter in The Nights the beast-stories, iii. [114].
• Olemá (pl. of ’Álim) = the learned in the law, v. [183].
• —— (Time-serving), x. [44].
• Omán = Eastern Arabia, i. [83].
• —— (with capital Maskat = Omana Moscha), vii. [24].
• Omar bin al-Khattáb (Caliph), ii. [158], [159], [162], [164]; v. [103].
• Omar-i-Khayyám (astronomer-poet), ix. [230].
• Omen (Fál), v. [136].
• Onanism (discouraged by circumcision), x. [233].
• One-eyed men considered rascals, iv. [194].
• Opener (of the door of daily bread), vi. [216].
• Opening doors without a key is the knavish trick of a petty thief, vii. [182].
• Ophidia (of monstrous size), vi. [29].
• Orange (a growth of India), viii. [272].
• Oriental orgie different from European, i. [93].
• Othello (even he does not kill Emilia), ix. [300].
• Othmán (Caliph), ii. [163].
• —— (Kátib al-Kuran), v. [215].
• Oubliettes (in old Eastern houses), iii. [327].
• Out of the sight of my friend is better and pleasanter, iii. [315].
• O whose thrall am I, etc. = To her (I drink), viii. [224].
• Pain (resembling the drawing of a tooth), x. [21].
• Palace (of the Caliph at Baghdad), vi. [189].
• Palaces (avoided by the pious), vi. [182].
• —— (in ruins for want of repair), x. [61].
• Palgrave and Al-Islam, x. [189].
• Palmerin of England, viii. [64].
• Palm-stick (a salutary rod), ii. [22].
• Palsy (creeps over him), v. [251].
• Pander-dodge to get more money, i. [302].
• Panel-dodge fatally common, i. [323].
• Paper (his = the whiteness of his skin), v. [161].
• Paradise (of the Moslem not wholly sensual), iii. [19]; ix. [322].
• Parapets (on terrace-roofs made obligatory by Moses), v. [72].
• Parasite (Ar. Tufaylí), v. [130].
• Parent (ticklish on the Pundonor), ix. [288].
• Paris Jockey-club scene anticipated, i. [327].
• Parisian MSS. of The Nights, x. [104].
• Parody on the testification of Allah’s Unity, i. [177]; iii. [215].
• Parrot-story a world-wide folk-lore, i. [52].
• Particles of swearing, viii. [310].
• Partner in very deed, viii. [181].
• Partridge (Ar. Hijl), iii. [138].
• Partridges (story of the two), vi. [183].
• Pashas’ agents for bribery in Constantinople, iv. [183].
• Passengers in difficulties take command, i. [140].
• Pathos (touch of), iii. [55].
• Patience (cutting the cords of), iii. [178].
• Pausing as long as Allah pleased = musing a long time, vi. [109].
• Pay-chest (of a Hammám bath), ix. [152].
• Payne quoted, i. [129], [150], [167], [209], [217]; ii. [19], [185], [304]; iii. [58], [130], [162], [172], [193], [252], [275], [291]; iv. [50], [54], [66], [197], [221], [222]; v. [44], [49], [65], [86], [112], [161], [192], [204], [346]; vii. [16], [18], [57], [123], [178], [277], [337]; viii. [21], [32], [64], [70], [72], [80], [117], [125], [130], [131], [148], [158], [168], [179], [216], [223], [224], [262], [264], [271], [275], [278], [279], [282], [293], [294], [298], [314], [326], [327]; ix. [22], [28], [79], [84], [86], [89], [171], [212], [224], [226], [227], [250], [251], [265], [268], [290]; x. [50], [52], [74], [104], [140], [142], [167].
• Peaches (Sultani and Andam), viii. [270].
• Pearl supposed to lose 1 per cent. per ann. of its lustre, i. [165].
• Pearl-fisheries, vi. [60].
• Pearls (shaded by hair = teeth under mustachio), v. [157].
• —— (fresh from water), vii. [240].
• —— (resting on the sand-bank), ix. [164].
• Pears (various kinds of), viii. [269].
• Peccadillo in good olden days (murder), iv. [275].
• “Péché philosophique” (the, in France), x. [249].
• Pederasts (list of famous), x. [252].
• Pehlevi version of the Panchatantra, x. [120].
• Pen and Preserved Tablet, ii. [68].
• Pencilling the eyes with Kohl, vii. [250].
• Penis (as to anus and cunnus), iii. [303].
• —— (Ark al-Halawat), iv. [51].
• —— (correspondence of size), iv. [52].
• —— (and its succedanea), x. [239].
• Pens (gilded = reeds washed with gold), vii. [112].
• People of His affection = those who deserve His love, ix. [92].
• Pepper (and the discovery of the Cape route), vi. [38].
• —— (-plantations shaded by bananas), vi. [57].
• Perfumes (not used during mourning), iii. [63].
• —— (natural), iii. [231].
• Periphrase containing a negative adds emphasis, ii. [83].
• Persian (“I am a, but not lying now”), v. [26].
• —— (poets mostly addressing youths), v. [156].
• Persians always suspected, viii. [8].
• Persians (delighting in practical jokes), ix. [177].
• Person (Ar. Shakhs), iv. [97]; viii. [159].
• Peshadians (race of Persian Kings), i. [75].
• Petrified folk, ix. [318].
• Phaedra and Hippolytus, vi. [127].
• Pharao (signs to), iv. [249].
• “Philippi” and “Alexanders” in Sidon, ii. [82].
• Philosophic (used in a bad sense), vi. [257].
• Physical prognostication familiar to Mesmerists, ii. [72].
• Physiognomy (Ar. Firásah, Kiyáfah), viii. [326].
• Physiologists (practise on the simiads), v. [220].
• Physis and Anti-physis, v. [320].
• Picnics (on the Rauzah island), v. [169].
• Pidar-sokhtah = (son of a) burnt father (Persian insult), vi. [26].
• Pièces de circonstance (mostly mere doggrel), ii. [261]; viii. [59].
• Pigeon (language, etc.), iii. [126].
• —— (blood of the young), ib. [289].
• Pilgrimage quoted, i. [28].
• —— (iii. [11]), ib. [46].
• —— (i. [5]; ii. [196]), ib. [51].
• —— (ii. [71]), ib. [74].
• —— (ii. [309]), ib. [77].
• —— (iii. [126]), ib. [97].
• —— (i. [86]), ib. [107].
• —— (iii. [31], etc.), ib. [112].
• —— (i. [327]), ib. [120].
• —— (ii. [198]), ib. [123].
• —— (iii. [104]), ib. [134].
• —— (iii. [350]), ib. [138].
• —— (i. chapt. xi.), ib. [140].
• —— (iii. [137]), ib. [170].
• —— (iii. [200]), ib. [174].
• —— (iii. [60], [62]) ib. [208].
• —— (i. [202]), ib. [214].
• —— (ii. [275]), ib. [215].
• —— (i. [118]), ib. [219].
• —— (ii. [215]), ib. [220].
• —— (iii. [125], [232]), ib. [226].
• —— (i. [313]), ib. [228].
• —— (iii. [63]), ib. [230].
• —— (i. [84]; iii. [43]), ib. [245].
• —— (i. [127]), ib. [250].
• —— (ii. [175]), ib. [256].
• —— (i. [160]), ib. [258].
• —— (i. [255]; i. [60]), ib. [266].
• —— (iii. [263]), ib. [269].
• —— (iii. [201], [202]), ib. [284].
• —— (i. [53]), ib. [294].
• —— (i. [240]; iii. [35], [36]), ib. [308].
• —— (i. [11]; iii. [285]), ii. [5].
• —— (i. [261]; iii. [7]), ib. [15].
• —— (i. [210]; 346), ib. [31].
• —— (ii. [77]), ib. [40].
• —— (iii. [330]), ib. [113].
• —— (ii. [113]), ib. [114].
• —— (i. [99]), ib. [316].
• —— (ii. [274]), ib. [326].
• —— (ii. [176]; i. [174]), ib. [330].
• —— (i. [276]), ib. [338].
• —— (iii. [333]), ib. [124].
• —— (iii. [12]), ib. [131].
• —— (iii. [254]), ib. [132].
• —— (i. [222]; ii. [91]), ib. [139].
• —— (ii. [118]), ib. [140].
• —— (i. [121]), ib. [163].
• —— (ii. [227]), ib. [165].
• —— (iii. [226], [342], [344]), ib. [169].
• —— (ii. [49]), ib. [178].
• —— (i. [305]), ib. [180].
• —— (iii. [322]), ib. [203].
• —— (ii. [89]), ib. [220].
• —— (iii. [115]), ib. [224].
• —— (iii. [232]), ib. [227].
• —— (i. [346]), ib. [230].
• —— (iii. [78]), ib. [236].
• —— (ii. [110]), ib. [242].
• —— (iii. [171]–175; 203), ib. [272].
• —— (iii. [113]), ib. [286].
• —— (iii. [71]), ib. [293].
• —— (ii. [105], [205]), ib. [317].
• —— (ii. [58]; iii. [343]), ib. [327].
• —— (i. [110]), ib. [330].
• —— (ii. [22]), iii. [7].
• —— (iii. [77]), ib. [65].
• —— (iii. [14]), ib. [67].
• —— (i. [216]), ib. [81].
• —— (i. [64]), ib. [91].
• —— (iii. [185]), ib. [107].
• —— (iii. [270]), ib. [118].
• —— (iii. [208]), ib. [121].
• —— (iii. [218]), ib. [126].
• —— (i. [52]), ib. [151].
• —— (iii. [307]), ib. [159].
• —— (i. [99]), ib. [163].
• —— (iii. [239]), ib. [174].
• —— (iii. [22]), ib. [226].
• —— (ii. [282]), ib. [241].
• —— (iii. [144]), ib. [252].
• —— (ii. [213], [321]), ib. [304].
• —— (iii. [192]–194), ib. [319].
• —— (i. [106]), ib. [324].
• —— (i. [75]–77), iv. [6].
• —— (i. [285]; ii. [78]), ib. [36].
• —— (iii. [306]), ib. [75].
• —— (i. [123]), ib. [78].
• —— (iii. [295]), ib. [80].
• —— (iii. [303]), ib. [95].
• —— (ii. [119]), ib. [114].
• —— (i. [213]), ib. [115].
• —— (iii. [156], [162], [216], [220]), ib. [125].
• —— (iii. [168], [174], [175]), ib. [148].
• —— (ii. [329]), ib. [254].
• —— (iii. [192]), ib. [261].
• —— (i. [43]), ib. [293].
• —— (i. [22]), v. [39].
• —— (ii. [287]), ib. [44].
• —— (iii. [218]), ib. [49].
• —— (i. [16]), ib. [97].
• —— (ii. [344]), ib. [100].
• —— (i. [10]), ib. [112].
• —— (ii. [161]), ib. [119].
• —— (i. [352]), ib. [158].
• —— (ii. [320]), ib. [196].
• —— (i. [110]), ib. [201].
• —— (iii. [193], [205], [226], [282]), ib. [203].
• —— (iii. [248]), ib. [212].
• —— (iii. [92]), ib. [220].
• —— (ii. [322]), ib. [224].
• —— (i. [362]), ib. [225].
• —— (ii. [288]), ib. [236].
• —— (i. [297]), vi. [57].
• —— (i. [180]), ib. [61].
• —— (i. [349]; iii. [73]), ib. [263].
• —— (ii. [116]; iii. [190]), ib. [264].
• —— (i. [370]), ib. [276].
• —— (i. [298]), ib. [277].
• —— (ii. [332]), ib. [287].
• —— (iii. [90]), vii. [3], [4].
• —— (i. [377]), ib. [9].
• —— (iii. [191]), ib. [21].
• —— (i. [14]), ib. [80].
• —— (ii. [62]–69), ib. [91].
• —— (ii. [130], [138], [325]), ib. [92].
• —— (ii. [3]), ib. [95].
• —— (iii. [336]), ib. [104].
• —— (i. [59]), ib. [171].
• —— (i. [120]), ib. [172].
• —— (ii. [300]), ib. [124].
• —— (ii. [24]), ib. [140].
• —— (i. [124]), ib. [177].
• —— (iii. [66]), ib. [181].
• —— (ii. [52]–54), ib. [202].
• —— (i. [62]), ib. [212].
• —— (iii. [165]), ib. [219].
• —— (iii. [70]), viii. [137].
• —— (iii. [365]), ib. [157].
• —— (ii. [248]), ib. [172].
• —— (ii. [130], etc.), ib. [183].
• —— (ii. [207]), ib. [273].
• —— (i. [176]), ib. [287].
• —— (ii. [82]), ib. [291].
• —— (i. [88]), ib. [300].
• —— (i. [9]), ix. [50].
• —— (i. [235]), ib. [51].
• —— (iii. [66]), ib. [81].
• —— (i. [20]), ib. [165].
• —— (ii. [285]–287), ib. [175].
• —— (iii. [224], [256]), ib. [178].
• —— (i. [99]), ib. [262].
• —— (ii. [48]), ib. [307].
• —— (i. [314]), ib. [315].
• Pilgrimage not perfected save by copulation with the camel, viii. [157].
• Pilgrims (offcast of the = a broken down pilgrim left to die on the road), ix. [290].
• Pillow (wisádah, makhaddah), taking to = taking to one’s bed, ii. [70].
• Pistachio-nut (tight-fitting shell of), iv. [216].
• Pitching tents within dog-bark from Royalty disrespectful, ii. [294].
• Plain (ground), synonyms for, i. [46].
• Plain-speaking (of the Badawí), iv. [102].
• Plaisirs de la petite oie (practised by Eunuchs), v. [46].
• Plates as armature, iii. [216].
• Plato (his theory of love), x. [209].
• Play “near and far” = “fast and loose,” x. [22].
• Pleasure prolonged (en pensant à sa pauvre mère, etc.), v. [76].
• Pleiads (the stars whereby men sail), viii. [304].
• Plunder sanctioned by custom, ii. [68].
• Plur. masc. used by way of modesty by a girl addressing her lover, i. [98].
• Plural of Majesty, iii. [16]; iv. [156].
• Poetical justice (administered with vigour in The Nights), vi. [25].
• Poetry of the Arabs requires knowledge of the Desert to be understood, i. [230].
• Poets (four, whose works contraried their character), x. [253].
• Poison (deadly only in contact with abraded skin), vi. [202].
• Poisons in the East, ix. [101].
• Poke (counterfeit), iii. [302].
• Policeman (called in, a severe punishment in the East; why?), ix. [137].
• Police-master legally answerable for losses, vii. [161].
• Polissonnerie (Egyptian), iii. [243]; iv. [226].
• Polo (“Goff”), v. [32].
• Poltroon (contrasted with a female tiger-lamb), ix. [224].
• Polygamy and Polyandry in relation to climate, iii. [241].
• Polyphemus (in Arab garb), vi. [24].
• —— (no Mrs. P. accepted), vi. [27].
• Pomegranate fruit supposed to contain seed from Eden garden, i. [134].
• —— (Hadís referring to), viii. [267].
• Porcelain (not made in Egypt or Syria), iv. [164].
• Postillon (Le), iii. [304].
• Postures of coition, iii. [93].
• Potter (simile of the), ix. [77].
• Pouch (Ar. Surrah), viii. [71].
• Poverty (Holy), v. [269].
• Powders (coloured in sign of holiday making), x. [51].
• Power (whoso has it and spareth, for Allah’s reward he prepareth), ix. [340].
• Prayer (for the dead lack the Sijdah), ii. [10].
• —— (of Ramazan), ii. [202].
• —— (rules for joining in), iii. [174].
• —— (two-bow), iii. [213].
• —— (-niche = way-side chapel), iii. [324].
• —— (without intention, Ar. Niyat, is valueless), v. [163].
• —— (offered standing or prostrating), v. [196].
• —— (of a sick person as he best can), v. [200].
• —— (intonation of the voice in), v. [200].
• —— (call to, Azán), v. [201].
• —— (is a collector of all folk), v. [201].
• Praying against (polite form for cursing), ix. [293].
• Pre-Adamite doctrine, x. [179].
• Preachments (to Eastern despots), v. [254].
• Precautions (thwarted by Fate and Fortune), vi. [167].
• Precedence (claims pre-eminence), viii. [285].
• Precedent (merit appertains to), iii. [264].
• Predestination (not Providence, a Moslem belief), vi. [202].
• Pre-eminence (appertaineth to precedence), viii. [285].
• Preliminaries of a wrestling bout, ii. [92].
• Premier (Le, embellit), viii. [86].
• Preposterous venery, iii. [304].
• Presence (I am in thy = thy slave to slay or pardon), ix. [124].
• Preserved tablet, ii. [68].
• Preventives (the two), iii. [222].
• Price (without abatement = without abstracting a large bakhshish), ix. [152].
• —— (shall remain), ix. [262].
• Pride of beauty intoxicates, iv. [34].
• Priest hidden within an image (may date from the days of Memnon), ix. [324].
• Prima Venus debet esse cruenta, iii. [289].
• Prime Minister carrying fish to the cookmaid, i. [63].
• Prince (of a people is their servant), ix. [99].
• Prin´cess, English; Prince´ss, French, vii. [245].
• Prison (in the King’s Palace), ix. [52].
• Prisons (Moslem), vi. [244].
• Privy, a slab with slit in front and a round hole behind, i. [221].
• —— and bath favourite haunts of the Jinns, vi. [141].
• Procès verbal (customary with Moslems), iv. [73].
• Prognostication frequently mentioned, ii. [72].
• —— (from nervous movements), viii. [25].
• Prolixity (heightening the effect of a tale), x. [50].
• Prolongatio veneris (Imsák), v. [76].
• Prominence of the pugaeic muscles insisted upon, ii. [98].
• Property (of the heirless lapses to the treasury), iv. [62].
• —— (left by will), vi. [213].
• Prophets (have some manual trade), ii. [286].
• —— (named in the Koran), v. [210].
• —— (and their agnomina), vi. [270].
• Proportion of horse and foot in Arab and Turcoman armies, vii. [1].
• Prostitution (never wholly abolished in Al-Islam), viii. [115].
• Prostration (must be made to Allah only), vi. [136].
• Protestants (four great Sommités), vii. [124].
• Prothesis without apodosis (a favourite style in Arabic), vi. [203], [239].
• Proverbs true to nature, i. [307].
• Providence (and Justice), v. [286].
• Province (“some” = Sancho Panza’s “insula”), ii. [188].
• Puellæ Wakwakienses, viii. [89].
• Puns (wretched and otherwise), ii. [64], [179], [182]; iv. [258]; vii. [53], [288], [307]; viii. [35], [228], [329]; ix. [278], [289]; x. [11], [27].
• Punctilios of the Desert, vi. [264].
• Purgation (Easterns most careful during), v. [154].
• Purifying (after evacuation), ii. [326].
• Purity of love attains a prophetic strain, iii. [6].
• Pyramidennarren, v. [106].
• Pyramids (Ar. Al-Ahrám), v. [105].
• —— (containing unopened chambers?), v. [106].
• —— (verses on the), x. [150].
• Qanoon-e-Islam quoted on the subject of horoscopes, etc. i. [213].
• Quarter (son of the = neighbour), vi. [236].
• Queen’s mischief = the mischief which may (or will) come from the Queen, viii. [98].
• Question (expressing emphatic assertion), ix. [182].
• Questions (indiscreet, the rule throughout Arabia), iii. [105].
• Quibbling away (a truly diplomatic art), v. [86].
• Ra’ad al-Kásif (Pr. N.) = the loud-pealing Thunder, vi. [221].
• Ra’ad Sháh A. P. = thunder-king, vii. [55].
• Raas al-Mál = capital, viii. [248].
• Raat-hu = she saw him, viii. [298].
• Ra’áyá (pl. of Ra’íyat) = Ryot, iii. [215].
• Rabbatí = my she-Lord, applied to the fire, vii. [36].
• Rabelaisian humour of the richest, iv. [152].
• Rabite, classical term for a noble Arab horse, iii. [72].
• Racing a favourite pastime, ii. [273].
• Raff = shelf running round a room, viii. [122].
• Ráfisi = denier, Shí’ah, iv. [44].
• Rafw = artistic style of darning, vi. [198].
• Rag (burnt, used as styptic), iv. [108].
• Rághib = the Desirous, v. [145].
• —— (= expecter; Záhid = rejecter), viii. [315].
• Ráh = pure old wine, iv. [186].
• Rahan = pledge, ix. [311].
• Ráhatáni (Al-) = the two rests, viii. [342].
• Rahíl (small dromedary), iii. [67].
• Rahim, Rihm = womb for uterine relations, vii. [123].
• Rahmah (Pr. N.) = the puritanical “Mercy,” vi. [226].
• Raiment of devotees (white wool), vii. [214].
• Rais = captain, master (not owner) of a ship, i. [127]; vi. [12].
• Raising the tail, sign of excitement in the Arab blood-horse, iii. [84].
• Rajab = worshipping (seventh Arab month), v. [54].
• Rajaz = the seventh Bahr of Arabic prosody, i. [251].
• Rajul ikhtiyár = a middle-aged man, i. [55].
• Rakham = aquiline vulture, viii. [20].
• Rákí (distilled from raisins), v. [65].
• Rakb = fast-going caravan, iv. [254].
• Ramazán (moon of), viii. [33].
• Ramlah (half-way house between Jaffa and Jerusalem), vi. [103].
• Rank (derived from Pers. rang = colour), ii. [192].
• —— (thine is with me such as thou couldst wish = I esteem thee as thou deservest), ix. [41].
• —— (conferred by a Sovereign’s addressing a person by a title), ix. [119].
• Rape (rendered excusable by wilfulness), vi. [187].
• Rás al Killaut = Head of Killaut, a son of the sons of the Jinn, ix. [8].
• Rás al-Tín = Headland of Clay (not Figs), v. [112].
• Rashaa = fawn beginning to walk, v. [149].
• Rashád = garden-cresses or stones; viii. [194].
• Rashíd = the heaven-directed, viii. [194].
• Rashid (Pasha, etc.), iv. [202].
• Rashid = Rosetta, viii. [288].
• Rasíf (Al-) river-quay, dyke, viii. [150].
• Rasm = usage (justifies a father killing his son), ii. [7].
• Rasúl = one sent, “apostle,” not prophet, iv. [284].
• Rasy = praising in a funeral sermon, iii. [291].
• Ratánah = a jargon, iii. [200].
• Raushan = window, iii. [171].
• Raushaná (splendour) = Roxana, iii. [171].
• Rauzah (Al-) = the gardens, i. [291].
• —— (at Cairo), v. [169].
• Raven of the waste or the parting, iv. [52]; viii. [236].
• Ráwí = story-teller (also used for Reciter of Traditions), x. [163].
• Ráy = rede (“private judgment”), vi. [146].
• Ráyah káímah = pennons flying (not “beast standing”), vii. [118].
• Raydaníyah (camping ground near Cairo), i. [245].
• Rayhán = scented herb, viii. [187].
• Rayhání = a curved character, i. [128]; ii. [301].
• Ráyí = rationalist, vi. [146].
• Rayy (old city of Media), iv. [104].
• Ready to fly for delight, iii. [26].
• Ream (It. risma, Ar. rizmah), v. [108].
• Red dress (sign of wrath), iv. [72]; vi. [250].
• Red Sea (cleaves in twelve places), v. [236].
• Reed = pen (title of the Koranic chapt. lxviii), ii. [68].
• Reed-pipe (Nay), v. [50].
• Refusal of a gift, greatest affront, i. [336].
• —— (of a demand in marriage a sore insult), vi. [262].
• Relations between Badawi tribes, vi. [267].
• Rending of garments as sign of sorrow or vexation, i. [308].
• “Renowning it” (boasting of one’s tribe), iii. [80], [108].
• —— (naïve style of), vii. [347].
• Repentance (a strong plead for granting aid with a Moslem), iv. [277].
• —— (acquits the penitent), vii. [72].
• Repetition, vii. [293], [301].
• —— (of an address in token of kindness), v. [370].
• Resignation (noble instance of), x. [42].
• Respect shown to parts of the body, exuviæ, etc., i. [276].
• Rest (in Eastern travel before eating and drinking), viii. [142].
• Retorts (of a sharp Fellah), vi. [232].
• Return unto Allah, iii. [317].
• Return-Salám, viii. [309].
• Revenge (a sacred duty), viii. [26].
• Ribá = interest, usury, v. [201]; viii. [248].
• Ridding the sea of its rubbish, ix. [169].
• Riddle “surprise” (specimen of), v. [239].
• Riders (names of such on various beasts), viii. [239].
• Riding on the ass an old Biblical practice, i. [262].
• Riding on men as donkeys (facetious exaggeration of African practice), vii. [357].
• Ríf (Al-) = lowland, viii. [304].
• Rihl = wooden saddle, iii. [117].
• Rijál al-Ghayb (invisible controls), ii. [211]; x. [14].
• Rims cars, i. [131].
• Rind (rand) = willow, bay, aloes-wood, iii. [172].
• Ring (in memoriam), vi. [199].
• —— (lost in the Hárím raises jealous suspicion), vi. [200].
• Rings in the East, iv. [24].
• Rising up and sitting down sign of agitation, ii. [112].
• River (the = Tigris-Euphrates), ix. [313].
• Rivers (underground), vi. [63].
• Rizam (pl. of rizmah) = bales, reams, v. [108].
• Rizwán (approbation) = key-keeper of Paradise, iii. [15], [20]; iv. [195]; viii. [265].
• Robbing (to keep life and body together, an acceptable plea), ix. [137].
• Robe (the hidden, story of), vi. [188].
• Robing one’s self in rags = becoming a Fakír, ii. [171].
• Robinson Crusoe (with a touch of Arabic prayerfulness), v. [291].
• Rod (divining or dowsing), iv. [73].
• Roman superficiality (notable instance of), x. [116].
• Rosary, iii. [123].
• Rose (in Arab. masculine), viii. [274].
• Rose-water (for “nobility and gentry,” even in tea), v. [357].
• Rotl (pl. Artál) = rotolo, pound weight, iv. [124].
• Roum = Græco-Roman Empire, iv. [100].
• Roumi (in Marocco = European), viii. [268].
• Royalty in the guise of merchants, iii. [12].
• Rozistán = day-station, i. [29].
• Rub’ al-Kharáb (probably for the Great Arabian Desert), vii. [80]; x. [42].
• Rubb = syrup, “Rob,” ii. [3].
• Rubbamá = perhaps, sometimes (more emphatic than rubba), vii. [218].
• Rubber (shampooer), iii. [17].
• Rubhah (townlet on the frontier of Syria), iii. [52].
• Ruby (La’al, Yákút), v. [342].
• —— (of exceptional size), vi. [66].
• Rudaynah and Rudaynian lances, ii. [1].
• Rudaynian lance (like a), vii. [265].
• Rúh = spirit, breath of life, ix. [67].
• Ruh = be off, ix. [168].
• Ruh bilá Fuzúl = Begone and none of your impudence, viii. [163].
• Ruhbán = monks, viii. [256].
• Ruká’í = correspondence hand, i. [128].
• Ruk’atayn = two-bow prayer, i. [142].
• Rukb = travellers on camels, return caravan, viii. [238].
• Rukh (Roc and “Roc’s” feathers), v. [122].
• —— (the world-wide “Wundervogel”), vi. [16].
• —— (study of, by Prof. Bianconi), vi. [49].
• Rukhám = alabaster, i. [295].
• Rumourers (the two) = basin and ewer, vii. [146].
• Rustak (Al-), city of Oman, vi. [289].
• Rustam (not Rustum or Rustem), iv. [219].
• Rutub (applying to pearls = fresh from water), vii. [240].
• Ryot = liege, subject; Fellah, peasant, iii. [215].
• Sá’a (measure of corn, etc.), vi. [203].
• Sa’ad = auspiciousness, prosperity; derivatives, i. [9].
• Sa’adah (female Pr. N.), iii. [65].
• Sa’ádah = worldly prosperity and future happiness, ix. [327].
• Sa’alab = fox, iii. [132].
• Sa’alabah (name of a tribe), iii. [107].
• Sabá = Biblical Sheba, iv. [113]; vii. [316].
• Sabab = rope (hence a cause), ii. [14]; viii. [100].
• Sabaj (not Sabah) a black shell, vii. [131].
• Sabaka = he out-raced, ix. [111].
• Sabaka Kúrahá = he pierced her forge, viii. [46].
• Sabb = low abuse, iii. [311].
• Sabbágh = dyer, ii. [305].
• Sabbáh bin Rammáh bin Humám = the Comely, son of the Spearman, son of the Lion, iii. [67].
• Sabbahaka ’llah bi-’l-Khayr = Allah give thee good morning, vi. [196].
• Sabbath (kept in silence), v. [339].
• Sabbation (River), v. [337].
• Sabíhat al-’Urs = gift on the wedding morning, x. [18].
• Sábik = forerunner, viii. [341].
• Sabíkah = bar, lamina, ingot, viii. [10].
• Sabíyah = young lady, ix. [226].
• Sabr = patience and aloes, source of puns, i. [138]; viii. [35]; ix. [278].
• Sabt = Sabbath, ii. [305].
• Sabúr = Sapor II., vi. [274].
• Sacrifice (Ar. Kurbán), viii. [16].
• Sacy, Silvestre de (on the origin of The Nights), x. [76].
• Sád (Letter, simile for the eye), v. [34].
• Sadaf = cowrie, i. [19].
• Sadakah = voluntary alms, opposed to Zakát, i. [339].
• Sadd = wall, dyke, i. [114]; ii. [128].
• Sádir = returning from the water (see Wárid), iii. [56].
• Sadness (House of), viii. [64].
• Sady = Hámah, q.v.; iii. [293].
• Safà (ground-wave in Meccah), v. [203].
• Safe-guard (I am in thy = I appeal to thy honour), vi. [158].
• Saffron (aphrodisiac), ii. [234].
• Safínah = (Noah’s) Ark, ix. [310].
• Safíyu ’llah (Adam) = pure of Allah, ii. [124].
• Safwán (Pr. N.) = clear, cold, vii. [314].
• Saghr (Thagr), the opening of the lips showing the teeth, i. [156]; viii. [289].
• Sahákah = tribadism, ii. [234].
• Sáhib = companion, used as a Wazirial title, i. [237]; iv. [139]; v. [71].
• Sáhib al-Shartah = chief of the watch (Prefect of Police), i. [259].
• Sáhib Nafas = master of breath, a minor saint healing by expiration, i. [107].
• Sahífah = page, book, viii. [148].
• Sahíkah = Tribade, viii. [130].
• Sáhil (Al-) = the coast (Phœnicia), ix. [22].
• Sáhil Masr = the river side (at Cairo), i. [291].
• Sahím al-Layl (Pr. N.) = he who shooteth an arrow by night, vi. [261].
• Sáhirah = place for the gathering of souls on Doom-day, iii. [323].
• Sahm-hu = his shaft, vi. [100].
• Sahm mush ab = forked (not barbed) arrow, ix. [48].
• Sá’í = running between Safá and Marwah, ii. [327].
• Sáibah = she-camel freed from labour, iii. [78].
• —— = a woman who lets herself go (a-whoring, etc.), viii. [151].
• Sa’íd = Upper Egypt, viii. [304].
• Sa’íd bin Jubayr, ii. [201].
• Sa’íd bin Sálim (Governor of Khorasan), v. [94].
• Sa’íd bin Zayd (traditionist), v. [81].
• Sa’ídah = the auspicious (fem.), ix. [330].
• Sá’ik = the Striker (Pr. N.), vii. [35].
• Sá’ikah = thunderbolt, vi. [271].
• Sailor (Ar. equivalents for), vi. [242].
• Sáim al-dahr = perennial faster, v. [112].
• Saint, Santon (Walí), v. [112].
• Saint and Sinner, v. [115].
• Sa’ír = Hell, iv. [143].
• Sáis = groom, horsekeeper (Syce), vi. [9].
• Saj’a (= rhymed prose), i. [116].
• —— (instance of), v. [160].
• —— (bald in translation), vii. [2].
• —— (answerable for galimatias), vii. [36].
• Sajjádah = prayer-rug, vi. [193].
• Sák = calf of the leg, ii. [327].
• Sakatí = second hand dealer, iv. [77].
• Sakhr al-Jinní alluded to, i. [41]; v. [316].
• Sákí = cup bearer, ii. [27], [327].
• —— (and Sák-í), ix. [253].
• Sákin = quiescent (applied to a closing wound), ix. [255].
• Sákiyah = the Persian water-wheel, i. [123]; ix. [218].
• Sakká (Anglo-Indian Bihishti) = water-carrier, iv. [44]; v. [89].
• Sakr = hawk, ii. [293].
• Saksar (Pers. Sag-sar = dog’s head), vi. [37].
• Sa’lab = fox, jackal, vi. [211]; ix. [48], [103].
• Salaf (Al-) = ancestry (referring to Mohammed), v. [90].
• Saláhitah (Al-) island, vi. [30].
• Sal’am = S(allà) Al(lah) ’A(layhi wa, salla) M, see Abhak, ii. [24].
• Salám (to be answered by a better salutation), ii. [146].
• —— (of prayers), ii. [243].
• —— (becomes Shalúm with the Jews), viii. [223].
• —— (not returned, a Moslem form of Boycotting), viii. [302].
• Salámát = Welcome! vi. [232].
• Salát (blessing, prayer), iv. [60].
• Salát mamlúkíyah = praying without ablution, vii. [148].
• Salátah (how composed), vii. [132].
• Salb = crucifying, iii. [25].
• Sale (forced on by the bystanders), viii. [310].
• Sales (formula of), vi. [73].
• Sálifah = silken plait, viii. [223].
• Sálih = a pious man, vii. [314]; viii. [191].
• —— prophet sent to Thámúd, i. [169].
• —— (grandson of Shem?), v. [210].
• —— (his she-camel), v. [235].
• —— al-Mazani (theologian), v. [261].
• Sálihiyah = the Holy (name of a town), ix. [287].
• Salím (Pr. N. = the “Safe and Sound”), iv. [58].
• Sallah = basket of wickerwork, ix. [56].
• Salli ’alà ’l-Nabí = bless the prophet (imposing silence), v. [65].
• Salmá and Laylá = our “Mary and Martha,” i. [265].
• Salsabíl (fountain of Paradise), iii. [57]; iv. [195].
• Salutation (the first), v. [200].
• —— (Salám, unwillingly addressed to a Christian), v. [284].
• —— (from a rider to a man who stands, and from the latter to one who sits), ix. [1].
• Saluting after prayer, ix. [254].
• Sama’an wa Tá’atan to be translated variously, i. [96].
• Samak = common fish, vi. [69].
• Samandal (Al-) = Salamander, vii. [280].
• Samar = night-story, vii. [312].
• Samáwah (Al-), visitation place in Babylonian Irak, vii. [93].
• Samharí = lance of Samhar (place or maker), iv. [258].
• Samír = night-talker, vii. [217].
• Samn = melted butter, Ghi, i. [144]; iv. [53]; ix. [39].
• —— = clarified butter, ix. [39].
• Samsam (sword of the Tobba Amru bin Ma’ad Kurb), ii. [127].
• Samúm = poisonous wind (Simoon), vi. [88].
• Samúr (applied to cats and dogs, also to Admiral Seymour), iv. [57].
• Sana’á (capital of Al-Yaman), v. [16].
• —— (famed for leather and other work), vii. [130].
• Sanájik = banners, ensigns, etc., ix. [290].
• Sand (knowing by the = geomancy), ix. [117].
• Sandal (Pr. N.) = Sandal-wood, viii. [169].
• —— (scented with), v. [192].
• —— (Ar. Na’al), vi. [209].
• Sandalí (eunuch deprived of penis and testes), v. [46].
• Sandals (kissed and laid on the head in token of submission), vii. [370].
• Sandúk al-Nuzur = box of vowed oblations, viii. [330].
• Sapphic venery, ii. [234].
• Sapphism (practised in wealthy Haríms), iv. [234].
• Sappho (the “Mascula”), x. [208].
• Sar’ (epilepsy, falling sickness, possession), iv. [89]; v. [28].
• Sár = vendetta, i. [101], [114].
• Saráb = mirage, iii. [319]; vi. [93].
• Sarandíb = Selan-dvípa (Ceylon), vi. [64].
• Saráwíl = bag or petticoat trousers, i. [222].
• —— (plural or singular?), ix. [225].
• Sardáb = underground room, souterrain, tunnel, i. [340]; v. [128]; ix. [241], [274].
• Sarí al-Sakatí (Sufi ascetic), ix. [21].
• Sarídah (Tharídah) = brewis, v. [223].
• Sarír = bier (empty), ii. [46].
• Sarmújah = leggings, sandals, slippers, vii. [370].
• Sarráf = Anglo-Indian “Shroff,” i. [210]; iv. [270].
• Sásá bin Shays, vi. [274].
• Sassanides, i. [75].
• Satan (his malice weak in comparison with women’s), vi. [144].
• Satl = kettle, bucket (situla?), vii. [182].
• Sátúr = chopper, viii. [162].
• Saub (Tobe) ’Atábi = tabby silk, viii. [201].
• Saudá = black bile, melancholia, iv. [251].
• Saudawí = of a melancholic temperament, vii. [238].
• Sauf (particle to express future), ii. [269], [296].
• Saulajan = bat in “bat and ball,” ii. [329].
• Sawáb = reward in Heaven, i. [96].
• Sawád = blackness of the hair, x. [60].
• Sawáhílí = shore-men, ix. [22].
• Sawálif = tresses, locks, v. [158].
• Sawík = parched corn, vii. [303].
• Sawwáhún = wanderers, pilgrims, viii. [336].
• Sawwán = Syenite, iii. [324].
• Sayd wa Kanas = hunting and coursing, i. [9].
• Sayf (ξίφος) al-Mulúk = Sword of the Kings, vii. [325].
• Sayf Zu al-Yazan (hero of a Persian romance), viii. [21].
• Sayhún and Jayhún = Jaxartes and Bactrus, ii. [78]; v. [41].
• Sáyih = wanderer (not “pilgrim”), ix. [51].
• Sayl = torrent, vi. [164].
• Sayr = broad girdle, viii. [325].
• Sayyib (Thayyib) = woman who leaves her husband after lying once with him, viii. [324].
• Sayyib-hu = let him go, viii. [151].
• Sayyid (descendant from Mohammed through Al-Hasan), v. [259].
• Scabbard (Ar. Ghimd), v. [158].
• Scalding a stump in oil a common surgery practice, i. [297].
• Schoolmaster (derided in East and West), v. [118].
• Schools (attached to mosques), x. [174].
• Scorpions of the brow = accroche-cœurs, etc., i. [168]; viii. [209].
• Scoundrels (described with superior gusto), ix. [135].
• Scrotum (curdling in fear), ii. [233].
• Sea of Al-Karkar, vi. [101].
• Sea (striking out sparks), ix. [314].
• Sea-stallion (myth of the), vi. [6].
• Seal (and sealing-wax), iii. [189].
• —— (affixed to make an act binding), v. [184].
• —— (breaking the = taking the maidenhead), v. [154].
• Sealing a covered dish (a necessary precaution against poison), i. [244].
• Seal-ring of Solomon (oath by), vii. [317].
• Seas (the two = the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean), i. [173].
• —— (fresh = lakes and rivers), v. [326].
• Seclusion (royal, and its consequences), ix. [91].
• Secrets (instances and sayings with regard to their keeping), v. [83].
• Secrets (of workmanship, withheld from apprentices), ix. [263].
• Seditions in Kúfah caused by Caliph Othman’s nepotism, ii. [163].
• Seduction (the truth about it), iii. [166].
• Seeing sweetness of speech = finding it out in converse, ix. [14].
• Separation (spoken of as a defilement), iv. [211].
• Seeking refuge with Allah, v. [200].
• Septentriones (four oxen and their wain), ii. [3].
• Sepulchre, erroneously called a little Wali, i. [105].
• Serpent does not sting or bite, but strikes, iii. [160].
• —— (breaks the bones of its devoured prey by winding round a tree or rock), vi. [29].
• —— (breath of), vi. [29].
• —— (preserving from sickness), vi. [66].
• —— (in Ar. mostly feminine), vi. [75].
• Serving the Lord by sinning against one’s body, ii. [208].
• Set-off for abuse of women, vii. [130].
• Seven deadly sins, ii. [175].
• Seven schools or editions of the Koran, i. [113].
• Seven sleepers, iii. [128].
• Sévigné of pearls, iv. [249].
• Sha’abán (moon of), v. [191].
• Shább = youth between puberty and forty, i. [55].
• Shabistán = night station, i. [29].
• Shadow (may yours never be less), viii. [170].
• Shafáif = lower labia, viii. [93].
• Sháfi’i (school of theology), ii. [151].
• Shahádatayn = the two Testimonies, ii. [10]; iii. [346].
• Shah-bandar = lord of the port (Consul), iv. [29].
• Shah (Al-) mát = the King is dead (checkmate), viii. [217].
• Sháhid = index, pointer, ii. [300].
• Sháhmiyah (large tent), ii. [194].
• Sháh-púr = Kings son, Σαβὼρ, Sapor, v. [2].
• Shahrazád (various explanations of the name), i. [14]; ii. [3].
• Shahrimán not Shah Zemán, iii. [7], [212].
• Shahryár = city friend, i. [2].
• Shahyál bin Shárukh (Pr. N.), vii. [331].
• Shah Zamán = King of the Age, i. [2].
• Sháib al-Ingház = grey beard shaking with disapproval, iii. [307].
• Sha’ilah = link (also lamp, wick, etc.), i. [259].
• Shakespear and musical glasses, ii. [3].
• Shakespearean “topothesia” out-Shakespeared, iii. [212].
• Shakhs = a person; a black spot, iii. [26]; viii. [159].
• Shakhtúr = dinghy, vii. [362].
• Shaking and nodding the head, universal items of gesture language, i. [300].
• Shakiriyah = Kshatriya caste, vi. [10].
• Shákuríyah = chicoré, v. [226].
• Shám (Sysia) = land on the left, opposed to al-Yaman = land on the right, i. [83].
• Shámah = Khál, mole on the cheek, i. [167].
• Shamardal (Al-) = the Tall One, vi. [221].
• Shambar = Cassia fistularis, ii. [241].
• “Shame” alluded to in cursing parents of an abused person, i. [227].
• —— (extends from navel to knees), viii. [193].
• Shamlah = gaberdine, viii. [160].
• Shammara = he tucked up (sleeve or gown), vii. [133].
• Shammir = up and ready! viii. [263].
• Shampooer (rubber) = Mukayyis or bagman, iii. [17].
• Shampooing the feet, i. [117].
• Shams al-Daulah (imaginary king of Egypt), vi. [241].
• Shams al-Nahár (Pr. N.) = Sun of the Day, v. [9].
• Shams al-Zuhà (Pr. N.) = Sun of Undurn, viii. [107].
• Shamtá = the grizzled (name for wine), x. [38].
• Shanak = hanging, iii. [25].
• Shanfarà (poet), iii. [143].
• Shár, Sher and Shír, iv. [187].
• Sha’r = hair of the body, pile, ix. [157].
• Shara (Al-) mountain in Arabia, vii. [23].
• Shar’a = holy law, vii. [170].
• Sharáb al-Tuffáh = cider, iv. [134].
• Sharaf al-Banát (Pr. N.) = Honour of Maidenhood, viii. [107].
• Sharáríf = trefoil-shaped crenelles, iv. [165].
• Sharít = chopper, sword, vii. [178].
• Sharmútah = rags, tatters; a strumpet; shreds of meat = Kadíd, i. [163].
• Sharrkán (Sharrun kána) = bane to the foe, ii. [78].
• Shart = a single Talbiyah or cry Labbayka, i. [226].
• Shásh Abyaz = white turband (distinctive sign of the True Believer), viii. [8].
• Shatm = obscene abuse, i. [182].
• Shaukat = sting; pride, ii. [106].
• Shaving and depilation (process of), ii. [160]; ix. [139].
• Shaybán (Arab tribe), v. [100].
• Shaykh = an old man, elder, chief, i. [26], [55]; ii. [144].
• —— (attended by a half-witted lunatic), vii. [152].
• —— (after the type of Abú Nowás), ix. [251].
• —— (for syndic of a guild), ix. [260].
• —— (of the thieves one of the worthies of a Moslem capital), vi. [204].
• —— al-Bahr = Chief of the Sea (-coast), vi. [51], [53]; vii. [357].
• Shaykh al-Islám = Chief of the Olema, ix. [289].
• —— (his mention sign of modern composition), x. [19].
• Shaykh Nasr (Pr. N. = Elder of Victory), v. [343].
• Shaykhah Rájihah = the excellent Religious, ix. [347].
• Shaykhs (five, doubtful allusion), iii. [30].
• Shays = Ab Seth, vi. [283].
• Shaytán (Satan) term of abuse, iii. [25].
• —— (his wife and nine sons), iii. [229].
• Shayyun li ’lláhi = per amor di Dio, i. [329].
• Shawáhi (from Shauh) = having fascinating eyes, ii. [269].
• Shawáhí Umm al-Dawáhí = the Fascinator, Mother of Calamities, viii. [87].
• Shazarwán = Pers. Shadurwán, palace, cornice, etc., vii. [51].
• Shedding tears no disgrace for a man, i. [68].
• Shem hamphorash = the hundredth name of God engraved on the seal-ring of Solomon, i. [173].
• Sheríf = a descendant of Mohammed, iv. [170].
• Shibábah = reed-pipe, viii. [166].
• Shiháb = shooting stars, i. [224].
• Shikk = split man (a kind of demon), v. [333].
• Shinf = gunny-bag, v. [45].
• Shíraj = sesame oil, ix. [184].
• Shirk (partnership) = Polytheism, Dualism, Trinitarianism, i. [181]; ii. [202].
• —— (= syntheism), of love, v. [9].
• —— of the Mushrik, v. [142].
• Shiyár (old name for Saturday), ii. [305].
• Shoe (Ar. Markúb, Na’al), vi. [207].
• Shop (front shelf of, a seat for visitors), ix. [262].
• Shops composed of a “but” and a “ben,” i. [316]; iii. [163].
• “Short and thick is never quick,” iv. [194].
• Shouting under a ruler’s palace to attract attention, ii. [38].
• Shovel-iron stirrup, iii. [119].
• Shower (how delightful in rainless lands), vii. [141].
• Shroud (joined in one = shrouded together?), v. [71].
• Shrouds (carried by the pilgrims to Meccah), vi. [61].
• Shu’ayb = Jethro, ii. [205]; v. [210].
• Shúbash = bravo! vii. [195].
• Shudder preceding the magnetic trance, i. [44].
• Shuhadá = martyrs (extensive category), i. [171].
• Shuhúd = accessors of the Kazi’s court, i. [21].
• Shujá’ al-Dín (Pr. N.) = the Brave of the Faith, ix. [18].
• Shukkah = piece of cloth, ix. [236].
• Shúm (a tough wood used for staves), viii. [354].
• Shuraih (a Kazi of Kufah in the seventh century), i. [252].
• Shúshah = top-knot of hair, i. [308].
• Shuumán = pestilent fellow, iv. [75].
• Sibawayh (grammarian), vii. [233].
• Siddík = true friend, ii. [197].
• Siddíkah (Al-) = the veridical (apparently undeserved title of Ayishah), viii. [152].
• Side-muscles (her, quiver) = she trembles in every nerve, vii. [219].
• Sídí (from Sayyidí) = my lord, v. [283].
• Sídí Ibrahím bin al-Khawwás (Pr. N.), v. [283].
• Sidillah = seats, furniture, ix. [190].
• Sifr = whistling, iv. [206]; v. [333].
• Sight comprehendeth Him not, etc., vi. [282].
• Sign of the cross on the forehead, ii. [224].
• Signals of debauchees, x. [219].
• Signet-rings, iv. [24].
• Signing with the hand not our beckoning, viii. [78].
• Signs (of a Shaykh’s tent), iii. [104].
• —— (lucky in a horse), iii. [118].
• —— (to Pharao), iv. [249].
• —— (of Allah = Koranic versets), vi. [144].
• —— (by various parts of the body), viii. [233].
• —— (language of), ix. [269].
• Signum salutis, viii. [293].
• Sihr (Al-) = magic, black art, i. [305].
• Sijdah = prostration, ii. [10].
• Sijn al-Ghazab = Prison of Wrath, x. [45].
• Sikankúr = Σκίγκος, see Aphrodisiacs, iv. [32].
• Silah = conjunctive sentence, coition, ix. [272].
• Siláh-dár = armour-bearer, ii. [215].
• Simát = dinner table, i. [178].
• Simiyá = white magic, i. [305], [332].
• Simoon (Ar. Samúm = poisonous wind), vi. [88].
• Símurgh (guardian of the Persian mysteries), x. [130].
• Sin (permitted that men might repent), ix. [83].
• —— (thy, shall be on thine own neck), ix. [211].
• Sín = China, ii. [77].
• Sinai (convent famous for Ráki), v. [65].
• Sind (matting of), v. [145].
• Sindán, Sandán = anvil, viii. [8].
• Sindbád (not to be confounded with the eponym of the Sindibád-námah), vi. [4].
• Sindibád the Sage, vi. [124].
• Sindibád-námah (Persian romance), vi. [122].
• —— quoted: vi. [129], [132], [134], [139], [143], [145], [150], [152], [169], [180], [183], [188], [202].
• Singing (not harám = sinful, but makrúh = objectionable), ix. [245].
• Sinnaur = cat, prince, iii. [149].
• Sinning (for the pleasure of being pardoned), iv. [111].
• Sins (seven deadly), ii. [175].
• Sírah (small fish, fry, sprat), vi. [216]; ix. [166].
• Sisters (their abiding together after marriage frequently insisted upon), x. [56].
• Sitt al-Masháíkh = Lady of Shaykhs, v. [154].
• Skin (free from exudation sounds louder under the clapping of the hand), ix. [150].
• —— (extreme delicacy of the female), ix. [321].
• Sirát (Al-), the bridge of Hell, iv. [223].
• Sister (by adoption), viii. [25].
• Sisterhood = companions, suite, viii. [41].
• Sitting on shins and knees, a trying posture, i. [130].
• Siwák = tooth-stick; Siwá-ka = other than thou, iii. [275].
• Sixth Abbaside Caliph, error for Fifth, viii. [56].
• Siyágosh, see Tufah.
• Slain were those who were slain = many were slain, v. [364].
• Slander (poisoned = fatal), ii. [264].
• Slapping on the nape of the neck = boxing the ears, iv. [193].
• Slate (Ar. Lauh), v. [73].
• Slaughter (wholesale, for the delight of the gallery), viii. [255].
• Slaughtering (ritual for), v. [391].
• —— (by cutting the animal’s throat), viii. [44].
• Slave (holds himself superior to a menial freeman), viii. [294].
• Slave-girl (Moslemah can compel an infidel master who has attempted her seduction to sell her), vii. [203].
• —— (when newly bought frequently pretentious and coquettish), vii. [266].
• —— (can only be sold with her consent), viii. [292].
• —— (free, not forward in her address), ix. [268].
• —— (lewd and treacherous by birth), ix. [280].
• —— (to be sent as a spy into the Harims), ix. [292].
• Slaves (fancied by debauched women), i. [191].
• —— (cannibals), ii. [48].
• —— (familiarity), ii. [49].
• —— (called “Camphor,” like “Snowball”), ii. [47].
• —— (refuse to be set free), ii. [55].
• —— (manumission of), ii. [55].
• —— (destructiveness), ii. [55].
• —— (girls’ names), ii. [57].
• —— (returning from a journey), ii. [65].
• —— (Christian girls sent to Moslems), ii. [79].
• —— (girls examined as to virginity), ii. [147].
• —— (Behaving like one), ii. [270].
• —— (O Camphor), iii. [40].
• —— (set free for the benefit of the dead), iii. [211].
• —— (dealer in = Jalláb), iii. [349].
• —— (ambitious to have slaves of their own), v. [12].
• —— (if ill-treated may demand to be sold), viii. [54].
• Sledge (thrashing = tribulum), ii. [23].
• Sleeper and Waker (tale of the), iv. [96].
• Sleepers (the Seven of Ephesus), iii. [128].
• Sleeping (and slumbering), ii. [178].
• —— (with covered head and face), iii. [345].
• —— (naked), v. [8].
• —— (with head and body covered by a sheet), v. [18].
• —— (with a sword between them), vii. [352].
• Sleeplessness (contrivance against), iv. [228].
• Slice of the moon = digit of the moon, i. [91].
• Smile (like Mím), iv. [249].
• —— (and laughter), v. [193].
• Smoking out (a common practice), ii. [255].
• Smothering a rival (common in Harims), ii. [58].
• Smuggling men into the Harim, i. [282].
• Snatching off the turband, a paying industry, i. [259].
• Sneezing (etiquette of), ix. [220].
• Socrates (“sanctus pæderasta”), x. [213] seqq.
• Sodomite (Ar. Lútí), v. [161].
• —— (punished if detected), v. [160].
• Sodomites (angels appear to), iii. [301], [304].
• Sodomy (abnormally developed amongst the savages of the New World), x. [240].
• —— with women, iii. [304].
• Softness of skin highly prized, ii. [295].
• Soft-sided, attribute of beauty, i. [168].
• Soko (Maghribi form for Súk = bazar-street), viii. [230].
• Sold to thee for monies received (formula of Moslem sales), vi. [73].
• Soldiers of Al-Daylam = warlike as the Daylamites, viii. [82].
• Sole of a valley often preferred to encamp in, ii. [85].
• Solomon (his carpet), iii. [267].
• —— (his food-tray), vi. [80].
• —— (his seal-ring), vi. [84].
• —— (the Apostle of Allah), vi. [99].
• —— (his Wazir Asaf), vi. [99].
• —— (his trick upon Bilkis), vi. [113].
• —— (oath by his seal-ring), vii. [317].
• —— and David (their burial-place), v. [310].
• —— and Al-Sakhr, ii. [97].
• Solomon’s death fixing the date of a tale, i. [41].
• —— prison (the copper cucurbites in which he imprisoned the rebellious Jinns), viii. [157].
• “Son” used for “grandson” as more affectionate, i. [243].
• —— (the lamp of a dark house), ii. [280].
• —— (of a century = hundred years old), i. [126].
• —— (of Persian Kings, not Prince but descendant), iii. [163].
• —— (of ten years dieth not in the ninth), viii. [70].
• Sons of Adam = men, i. [130].
• —— of Sásán = Sassanides, i. [2].
• —— (brought as servants unto Kings), ix. [43].
• —— of the road = wayfarers, ii. [23].
• Sophia (Pr. N. and Mosque), ii. [79].
• Sortes Virgilianæ, v. [44].
• Soul (Thou knowest what is in mine and I know not what is in Thine), v. [216].
• —— (you may have his, but leave me his body), viii. [284].
• —— (for lover), ix. [25].
• Souls (doctrine of the three), v. [218].
• Spartivento = mountain whereon the clouds split, viii. [19].
• Speaker puts himself first, i. [33].
• Speaking en prince, ii. [184].
• Speaking to the “gallery,” viii. [128].
• Spears and javelines, vi. [263].
• Speech (this my = the words I am about to speak), viii. [147].
• Speech (inverted), viii. [318].
• Speech (for prayers imprecating parting), viii. [347].
• Sperm (though it were a drop of marguerite), viii. [210].
• Spider-web, frailest of houses (Koranic), ix. [59].
• Spindle (thinner than a), iii. [260].
• Spiritual Sciences (Moslem form of Cabbala), ii. [151].
• Spiritualism (the religion of the nineteenth century), ix. [86].
• Spittle dried up from fear, i. [285].
• Spoon (Ar. Mi’lakah), ix. [141].
• Spurring = kicking with the shovel-stirrup ii. [89].
• Squatting against a wall, iv. [119].
• Squeeze of the tomb (Fishás), v. [111].
• Staff broken in the first bout = failure in the first attempt, i. [64].
• Stages (ten, of love-sickness), iii. [36].
• Stallion (I am not one to be struck on the nose), vi. [262].
• Standards reversed in sign of defeat, ii. [259].
• Stations of the Moon (Ar. Manázil), v. [228].
• Stature (Alif-like), iv. [249].
• Steel (Ar. Bulád), vi. [115].
• Steward (pendant to the parable of the unjust), ix. [66].
• St. George (posture), iii. [304].
• Stirrup (walking by the), vi. [234].
• “Stone-bow” not “cross-bow,” iii. [116].
• Stoning (of the devil at Mina), v. [203].
• Stones (precious), v. [312].
• —— (ditto, and their mines), vi. [18].
• —— (removed from the path by the pious), vi. [190].
• Story-teller (picture of the), x. [164].
• Strangers (treated with kindly care), v. [171].
• “Strangers yet” (Lord Houghton quoted), v. [284].
• Street (the, called Yellow), iv. [93].
• —— (-watering), iv. [107].
• Street-cries of Cairo, vii. [172].
• Street-melodies changing with fashion, i. [311].
• Striking the right hand upon the left in sign of vexation, i. [298].
• Striking with the shoe, the pipe-stick, etc. highly insulting, i. [110].
• Stuff his mouth with jewels (reward for poetry), iv. [103].
• Stuff a dead man’s mouth with cotton, iv. [193].
• Style (of a Cairene public scribe) vii. [134].
• —— (intended to be worthy of a statesman) ix. [42].
• Su’adá = Beatrice, iv. [267].
• Subán = dragon, ix. [277].
• Subhán a’llah pronounced to keep off the evil eye, iii. [224].
• Subhat-hu = in company with him, vii. [262].
• Subh-i-kázib = false dawn, i. [78].
• Subh-i-sádik = true dawn, i. [78].
• Submission (Ar. Khafz al-Jináh = lowering the wings) ix. [74].
• Sucking the tongue = “kissing with th’ inner lip” i. [270].
• Sucking the dead mother’s breast, touch of Arab pathos, ii. [128].
• Súdán = our Soudan, iii. [75].
• Súdán-men = Negroes, viii. [266].
• Suez (Ar. Al-Suways) vi. [80].
• Súf (wool); Súfí (Gnostic) iii. [140].
• Sufiism (rise of) x. [128].
• Súfís (stages of their journey) v. [264].
• —— (address Allah as a lover would his beloved) iv. [263], [298].
• Suffah = “sofa” (shelf) iv. [275].
• Sufrah (provision-bag and table-cloth) i. [178]; v. [8]; viii. [269]; ix. [141].
• Sufyán al-Thaurí, ii. [202]; v. [81].
• Sugar-stick = German Zuckerpüppchen, i. [167].
• Sughr (Thughr) see Saghr.
• Suha, star in the Great Bear, i. [167]; iii. [28].
• Sujúd = prostration, iv. [248].
• Sukát (pl. of Sákí = cup-bearer) v. [66].
• Sukita fí aydíhim = it repented them, v. [191].
• Sukúb (Pr. N.) = flowing, pouring, viii. [209].
• Suláf al-Khandarísí (a contradiction) viii. [203].
• Suláfah = ptisane of wine, must, iv. [258]; v. [158].
• Sulamí = belonging to the Banu Sulaym tribe, vii. [93].
• Sulaymá, dim. of Salma = any beautiful woman, iii. [263].
• Sulaymán and Sakhr al-Jinní, i. [42].
• Sulaymán bin Abd al-Malik (Caliph) ii. [167]; vii. [99].
• Sulaymáníyah = Afgháns, vii. [171].
• Sullam = ladder; whipping-post, i. [331].
• Sultán (anachronistic use of the title) v. [88], [179].
• —— (fit for the service of = for the service of a temporal monarch) viii. [325].
• Sulus = engrossing hand, i. [128].
• Sumbul al-’Anbari = spikenard, viii. [273].
• Sumr = brown, black, iv. [251].
• Sums of large amount weighed, i. [281].
• Sun (greeting Mohammed) i. [45].
• —— (likened to a bride displaying her charms to man) x. [38].
• Sun and Moon (luminaries for day and night) v. [228].
• —— (do not outstrip each other) v. [228].
• Sunan (used for Rasm) = usage, customs, ix. [74].
• Sundus = brocade, v. [57].
• Sunnah = practice of the Prophet, etc., v. [36], [167].
• Sunni (versus Shí’ah) iv. [82].
• Suns (for fair-faced boys and women) viii. [242].
• Superiority of man above woman, iii. [332].
• Supernaturalismus (has a material basis) viii. [31].
• Superstitious practices not confined to the lower orders, i. [40].
• Suráhíyah (vulg. Suláhíyah) = glass-bottle, vii. [370].
• Surayyá = Stars of Wealth (lit. moderately rich) viii. [303].
• Suritu = I was possessed of a Jinn, ix. [27].
• Surrah = purse, pouch, viii. [71].
• Surriyah = concubine, i. [27].
• Susannah and the Elders in Moslem garb, v. [97].
• Sutures of the skull, iii. [123].
• Su’ubán = dragon, cockatrice = Tammím, i. [172]; vii. [322].
• Su’ud used as a counter-odour, i. [279].
• Suwán = syenite, i. [238]; ix. [316].
• Suways (Al-) = Suez, vi. [80]; ix. [10].
• Swan-maidens, v. [346]; viii. [30].
• Swearing (on Blade and Book) ii. [332].
• —— (by Allah, forbidden) iv. [175].
• Sweet (the, slang for fire) ii. [163].
• Sweetmeat of Safety, iv. [60]; viii. [105].
• Swevens (an they but prove true) ix. [284].
• Swimming (studied in Baghdad) vi. [134].
• Sword (making invisible) iv. [176]; vi. [230].
• —— (between sleepers represents only the man’s honour) vii. [353].
• Sycamore fig (for anus) iii. [302].
• Syene (town on the Nile) iv. [152].
• Syphilis (origin of) x. [89].
• —— (hippic) x. [90].
• Syria (Shám) = left-hand land, ii. [224].
• Taakhír = acting with deliberation, ix. [328].
• Ta’álík = hanging lamps, ix. [320].
• Ta’ám = meat; millet, ii. [67].
• Táb (game) = tip-cat, ii. [314].
• Tabannuj = drugging with Bhang, iv. [71].
• Tabban lahu = perdition on him! iv. [142].
• Tábik = coffer, vii. [350].
• Tabl = kettledrum, viii. [18].
• Tablet (Ar. Lauh) v. [37].
• —— (the Preserved), v. [322].
• Tábút = bier, ark, etc., ii. [46]; vii. [207], [350].
• Tabzír = female circumcision, ii. [234].
• Tadmúrah (founds Tadmur or Palmyra) vi. [116].
• Tafazzal = favorisca (have the kindness) ii. [103].
• Taggáa, ii. [88].
• Taghaddá = he dined, vii. [180].
• Taghúm, a kind of onomatopoetic grunt, i. [228].
• Tághút (idol) iii. [217].
• Tahlíl = Refrain of Unity, ii. [236].
• Táif (Al-), town famous for scented leather, viii. [273].
• Táifí leather, viii. [303].
• Tail (wagging of, a sign of anger with felidæ) ix. [72].
• Tái’li ’llah (Caliph) iii. [51], [307].
• Tailor made to cut out the cloth in owner’s presence, i. [321].
• Táír al-bayn = parting-bird, vii. [226].
• Táj al-Mulúk Khárán = crown of the kings of amorous blandishment, ii. [291].
• Táj Kisrawí = Chosroan crown, ix. [319].
• Tájír Alfí = a merchant worth a thousand (left indefinite) ix. [313].
• Takaddum and Takádum (difference between) iv. [171].
• Tákah = arched hollow in the wall, niche, vii. [361].
• Takhíl = adorning with Kohl, iii. [57].
• Takhmísh = tearing the face in grief, ix. [10].
• Takht (sitting accommodation from a throne to a saddle, capital), v. [322]; vii. [55].
• —— (more emphatical than Sarír), vii. [328].
• Takht-rawán = moving throne (mule-litter), ii. [180]; v. [175].
• Tákiyah = calotte worn under the Fez, skull-cap, i. [224]; viii. [120].
• Taklíd = baldricking, not girding, a sword, vii. [3].
• Takliyah = onion-sauce, vii. [322].
• Takrúrí = Moslem from Central and Western North Africa, ii. [15].
• Taksím = distribution, analysis, ix. [77].
• Takwím = Tacuíno (for Almanac), vii. [296].
• Talák bi ’l-Salásah = triple divorce, iii. [292].
• Talbiyah = the cry Labbayka, i. [226]; ii. [227].
• Talking birds (watching over wives), vi. [132].
• Tamar al-Hindí (Tamarind) = the Indian date, iii. [297].
• Tamar Hanná = flower of privet, i. [83]; viii. [176].
• Tam Múz = July, i. [53].
• Ta’mím = crowning with turband or tiara; covering, wetting, v. [199].
• Tamsír (derived from Misr) = founding a military cantonment, vii. [371].
• Tanjah = Tanjiers, vi. [106].
• Tanwín al-Izáfah = the nunnation in construction, ix. [272].
• Tár = tambourine, i. [215].
• Taráib = breast-bone, v. [132].
• Tarbúsh = Pers. Sar-púsh, head cover, i. [215].
• Target (Ar. Darakah), vi. [9].
• Tárhah = head-veil, ii. [52].
• Tárík = clear the way, i. [66].
• Tárik (Jabal al-) = Gibraltar, iv. [100].
• Taríkah = musical mode, modulation, ix. [27].
• Taríkat = (mystic) path to knowledge, v. [111].
• Ta’rís-ak = thy going between (pimping), vi. [196].
• Tarjumán = truchman, i. [100].
• Tarn-Kappe (Siegfried’s), iv. [176]; viii. [120].
• Tars Daylamí = Median Targe, viii. [291].
• Tás (from Pers. Tásah), = tasse, viii. [224].
• Tasawwuf (rise of), x. [128].
• Tasbíh = saying Subhán Allah; Rosary, i. [258]; iii. [125].
• Tasmeh-pá = strap-legs, vi. [51].
• Tasním (from sanam) = a fountain in Paradise, ii. [100]; v. [264].
• Tásúmah = sandal, slipper, ii. [197].
• Taswíf = saying “Sauf,” q.v., ii. [296].
• Taub (Saub, Tobe) = loose garment, ii. [206].
• Taubah (Bi’l-) = by means or on account of penitence, ix. [83].
• Taufík (Pr. N. = causing to be prosperous), iv. [1].
• Taur (Thaur, Saur), a venerable remnant of an un-split speech, i. [16].
• Taverns, vii. [324].
• Tawáf = circumambulation of the Ka’abah, ii. [327]; vi. [242].
• Tawáshí, obnoxious name for a Eunuch, i. [235].
• Tawashshuh = shoulder-cut, ii. [107].
• Tawáf = Ka’abah-circuit, v. [203].
• Tawakkul ’alà ’llah = trust in Allah, v. [208].
• Tawíl (and Abt Vogler), viii. [96].
• Tawílan jiddan, now a Cairenism, vii. [13].
• Tayammum = washing with sand, v. [197].
• Tayf = ghost, phantom, iii. [252].
• Taylasán (turband worn by a preacher), iv. [286].
• Tayr = any flying thing, bird, vii. [227].
• Tayrab (Al-) a city, iii. [259].
• Taysh = vertigo, giddiness, x. [9].
• Tayy (noble Arab tribe), iv. [94].
• Tazríb = quilting, vii. [330].
• Tears shed over past separation, i. [283].
• —— (pouring blood like red wine), iii. [169].
• Teeth (their cleansing enjoined by Mohammed), v. [44].
• “Tell the truth!” way of taking an Eastern liar, vii. [183].
• Ten stages of love-sickness, iii. [36].
• Tent (signs of a Shaykh’s), iii. [104].
• —— (how constructed), vii. [109].
• Testicles (names for), ii. [55].
• —— (curdling in fear), ii. [233].
• —— (beating and bruising of, female mode of killing a man), iii. [3].
• Testimonies (the two = Shahádatayn), ii. [10].
• Thakílata-k Ummak = be thy mother bereaved of thee, iv. [156].
• Thamúd (prehistoric Arab tribe), iii. [294].
• Thank you (Eastern equivalent for), iv. [6]; v. [171].
• Theft (penalty of), viii. [164].
• “Them” for “her,” viii. [35].
• “There is no Majesty,” etc. as ejaculation of impatience, vii. [73].
• “They” for “she,” v. [41], [140]; viii. [281].
• Thigh-bite allowed in wrestling, ii. [93].
• Third = Tuesday, vii. [349].
• Thirst (affecting plea; why?), iv. [199].
• Thongs (of the water skins cut, preparatory to departure), ix. [302].
• Thorn of lance = eyelash, iii. [331].
• Thou fillest mine eyes = I find thy beauty all-sufficient, viii. [57].
• Thousand dinárs and five thousand dirhams = £500 and £125 respectively, i. [281].
• Thousand thousand = a million, vi. [98].
• Three days, term of hospitality, i. [3].
• Three hundred and three score rooms = one for each day of the Moslem year, ix. [61].
• Three things (are better than other three), vi. [5].
• —— (not to be praised before death), ix. [39].
• Threshold (of marble in sign of honour), ix. [238].
• Throne-verse, v. [211].
• Throwing one = bastinado on the back, i. [243].
• “Throwing the handkerchief,” vi. [285].
• Thrusting (applied to spear and lance), ii. [231].
• Thursday night (in Moslem parlance = Friday night), v. [324].
• Tibn = crushed straw, i. [16]; ix. [106].
• Tigris (Ar. Dajlah, Dijlah), viii. [150].
• Timbák (Tumbák) = stronger variety of Tobacco, ix. [136].
• Time (distribution of), ix. [71].
• Time-measurers (of very ancient date), x. [85].
• Timsah = crocodile, vii. [343].
• Tin (Kazdír) iv. [274]; vi. [39].
• Tín = fig, simile for a woman’s parts, iii. [302].
• —— = clay puddled with chaff, v. [112].
• Tinder (a styptic), iv. [108].
• Tingis = Tanjah (Tangiers), vi. [106].
• Tip-cat stick, ii. [314].
• Tíryák = theriack, treacle (antidote), iii. [65].
• Title (used by a Sovereign in addressing a person confers the rank), ix. [119].
• Tob = Span. Adobe (unbaked brick), ii. [17].
• Tobacco (its mention inserted by some scribe), ix. [136].
• —— (first mention of), x. [91].
• Tobba (Himyaritic) = the Great or Chief, i. [216].
• Tohfah = rarity, present, viii. [55].
• Tongue (of the case = words suggested by circumstances), i. [121].
• —— (made to utter (?) what is in the heart of man), v. [218].
• —— (my, is under thy feet), vii. [239].
• Too much for him (to come by lawfully), ix. [174].
• Tooth-pick (Ar. Khilál), v. [44].
• Topothesia (designedly made absurd), viii. [338].
• Tor (Mount Sinai), ii. [242].
• —— (its shaking), ii. [281].
• Torrens quoted, i. [56], [147], [203], [206], [225], [228], [251], [271]; ii. [4], [19], [38], [93]; iii. [218], [235], [249], [289]; iv. [187], [189], [236]; v. [80], [96], [188]; viii. [280], [305], [309], [319], [321], [327]; ix. [278].
• Torrents (Ar. Sayl), a dangerous feature in Arabia, vi. [164].
• Tortoise (the colossal), vi. [33].
• Torture easier than giving up cash, viii. [189].
• Tossing upon coals of fire, iii. [61].
• Touch of nature (making all the world kin), x. [24].
• Toujours perdrix, vi. [130].
• Toutes putes, ix. [298].
• Traditionists:
  • Al-Zuhrí, ii. [198].
  • Ibn Abí Aufá, ib. [200].
  • Sa’id bin Jubayr, ib. [201].
  • Sufyán al-Thaurí, ib. [202].
  • Bishr al-Háfí, ib. [203].
  • Mansúr bin Ammár, ib. [204].
• Trafalgar = Taraf al-Gharb (edge of the West), ix. [50].
• Trailing the skirts = humbly, ii. [165]; viii. [301].
• Trances and faintings (common in romances of chivalry), viii. [118].
• Transformation (sudden of character frequent in Eastern stories), viii. [178].
• Translators (should be “bould”), ix. [244].
• Traveller (a model one tells the truth when an untruth would not serve him), vi. [7].
• Travelling at night, ii. [286].
• Treasure (resembling one from which the talismans had been loosed), ix. [287].
• Treasures (enchanted in some one’s name and nature), iv. [296].
• Trébutien quoted, iv. [268]; vii. [91], [98], [139], [314], [318], [324], [331], [346], [353], [361]; ix. [33], [63]; x. [9], [54], [69], [80], [98].
• Tree of Paradise (Ar. Túbà), v. [237].
• Tribade (Ar. Sahíkah, Musáhikah), viii. [130].
• Tribadism, iv. [234].
• Tribe (one fortuneth another), ix. [342].
• Tribes (relations between), vi. [267].
• Tribulum (thrashing sledge), ii. [108].
• Tricks (two = before and behind), v. [161].
• Triregno (denoted by the Papal Tiara), ii. [236].
• Trouser-string, ii. [60].
• Truth (most worthy to be followed), v. [145].
• —— (is becoming manifest), v. [159].
• —— (told so as to be more deceptive than a lie), ix. [223].
• —— prevailing, falsehood failing, iv. [80].
• Túbà (tree of Paradise), v. [237].
• Tubah (fifth Coptic month), v. [231].
• Tufah = felis caracal, lynx, vi. [260].
• Túfán (Typhoon, etc.), iv. [156].
• Túfán = Deluge of Noah, viii. [346].
• Tufayl (proverbial intruder), iv. [123].
• Tufaylí = parasite, v. [130].
• Tulf = Sordes unguinum (fie!), viii. [195].
• Tughrà = imperial cypher, v. [184].
• Tughrái (Al-), poet, iii. [143].
• Tughyán = Kufr, rejection of the True Religion, i. [169].
• Túmár = uncial letters, i. [129].
• Tuning (peculiar fashions of Arab musicians with regard to it), ix. [27].
• Turband (not put upon the ground out of respect), i. [223].
• —— (white, distinctive of Moslems), iv. [214].
• —— (substitute for a purse), viii. [190].
• —— (worn large by the learned), v. [120].
• —— (inclining from the head-tops), ix. [221].
• “Turk” probably a late addition, i. [52].
• Turk (= Turkoman, nomade), ii. [218].
• —— (= plunderer, robber), ii. [304].
• —— (provoked to hunger by beauties of nature), iii. [32].
• —— (appears under the Abbasides), iii. [81].
• Turkey (Future of), ix. [94].
• Turks (fair boy-slaves abounding in Baghdád), v. [66].
• —— (forming the body-guard of the Abbasides), ix. [245].
• Turning round in despair against an oppressor, i. [246].
• Turtúr (an Arab’s bonnet), ii. [143].
• Tusks (of elephants, not teeth), vi. [82].
• Tuwuffiya = he was received (into the grace of God), ix. [54].
• Two sayings (double entendre), viii. [153].
• Tyrant (from, to tyrant = from official to official), vi. [214].
• ’Ubb = breast-pocket (poche au sein), viii. [205].
• Ubi aves ibi angeli, iii. [280].
• Ubullah (canal leading from Bassorah to Ubullah-town), ix. [31].
• ’Úd Jalakí = Damascus lute, ii. [100].
• Udah, properly Uta = private room of a concubine, i. [286].
• Udm = “kitchen” (see Adm), ix. [213].
• Uff ’alayka = fie upon thee (Uff = sordes aurium), viii. [195].
• Uhnúkh = Enoch (Idris?), v. [210].
• Ujb = arrogance (in the Spanish sense of gaiety, etc.), vi. [164].
• Ukáb = eagle, vulture, iv. [177].
• Ukáb al-kásir = the breaker eagle, ix. [69].
• Ukayl (Akíl?), iv. [22].
• Ukhuwán = camomile, iii. [58].
• Ukiyyah (pl. Awák) = ounce, ix. [216].
• ’Ulbah = box, viii. [71].
• Ultra-Shakespearean geography “Fars of Roum,” i. [45].
• Ulysses (the Arabian), vi. [40].
• Umámah and ’Ásikah, tale of two women now forgotten, i. [61].
• Umm al-banát wa ’l-banín = mother of daughters and sons, ix. [175].
• Umm al-raas = crown of the head, x. [44].
• Umm al Su’úd (Pr. N.) = Mother of Prosperities, ix. [173].
• Umm ’Ámir = mother of Amir, nickname for the hyena, i. [43].
• Umm Amru (mother of ’Amr) and the ass, v. [118].
• Umm Kulsum (one of the Amsál of the Arabs for debauchery), x. [194].
• ’Ummál (pl. of ’Ámil = governor), ix. [26].
• ’Umrah = lesser Pilgrimage, ii. [169]; v. [205].
• “Unberufen,” ix. [180].
• Underground rivers, vi. [63].
• Unguinum fulgor, iv. [252].
• Unhappy thou! vi. [285].
• ’Unnábí = between dark yellow and red (jujube-colour), ix. [143].
• Union opposed to “Severance,” vii. [120].
• Uns al-Wujúd (Pr. N.) = Delight of existing things, v. [33].
• Unveiling the face a sign of being a Christian, ii. [119].
• Upakoshá (Vararuchi’s wife), vi. [172].
• ’Urb = Arabs of pure race, ix. [293].
• ’Urbán = wild Arabs, i. [112].
• Urine (pollutes), iii. [229].
• Urining, ii. [326].
• —— (wiping after), iii. [229].
• Urkúb = tendon Achilles, hough, viii. [185].
• ’Urrah = dung, x. [1].
• Urwah = handle, button-hole, v. [227].
• “Use this” (i.e. for thy daily expenses), vii. [298].
• Usfúr = safflower, i. [219].
• Ushári = camel travelling ten days, iii. [67].
• Usirát (Al-), island, vi. [57].
• Usúl (= fundamentals), ii. [15].
• —— (= forbears, ancestors), ix. [246].
• Usury (Ar. Ribá), v. [201].
• —— (verset of), v. [215].
• Usus = os sacrum, v. [219].
• ’Utbí (Al-), poet, v. [133].
• Uzayr = Esdras, i. [257].
• Uzn al-Kuffah = ear (handle) of the basket, viii. [161].
• Uzrah = Azariyah, vii. [158].
• Varieties of handwriting, i. [129].
• Veil, see Lisám, ii. [31].
• Veiling her honour = saving her from being ravished, ix. [330].
• Vellication, iv. [256].
• Vengeance (of a disappointed suitor apprehended), vi. [286].
• Verses (purposely harsh), viii. [337].
• —— (aforementioned, distinguishing formula of “Hasan of Bassorah”), viii. [126].
• Versets (number of the Koranic), v. [110].
• View (gorgeous description of), viii. [30].
• “Vigilance Committees” (for abating scandals), ix. [98].
• Vile water (Koranic term for semen), vii. [213].
• Violent temper (frequent amongst Eastern princesses), vii. [254].
• Virgil (a magician), v. [44].
• Virginity of slave-girls (respected by the older slave-trader, rarely by the young), vii. [267].
• Visit (confers a blessing in polite parlance), ix. [185].
• Visits (in dreamland), v. [47].
• —— (to the tombs), vii. [124].
• —— (should not be overfrequent), ix. [273].
• Visvakarma = anti-creator, v. [320]; x. [131].
• Vivisepulture, vi. [41].
• Voice (thickened by leprosy), iv. [50].
• Wa = and (introducing a parenthetic speech), ix. [282].
• Wa’ar = rough (ground unfit for riding), vi. [140].
• Wa ba’ad (see Ammá ba’ad, vol. ii. [34]) = and afterwards, iii. [181].
• Wada’a, see Cowrie, iv. [77].
• Wadd, Suwá’a and Yagús (idols), vi. [282].
• Waddle of “Arab ladies,” iii. [37].
• Wády = valley; slayer, i. [51]; ii. [85]; iii. [234].
• Wády al-Naml = Valley of the Emmets, v. [337].
• Wady al-Ward = Vale of Roses, vi. [276].
• Wády Zahrán = Valley Flowery, v. [360].
• Waggid (Hebr. speaker in a dream), iv. [289].
• Wahk, Wahak = Lasso, vii. [61].
• Wahsh = wild beast and synonyms, i. [242].
• Wahtah (Al-) = quasi-epileptic fit, vii. [127].
• Wailing over the past, iv. [239].
• Waist (slender, hips large), iii. [278].
• Wakálah, described in Pilgrimage (i. [60]), i. [266].
• Wakíl = agent (see Pashas), iv. [182].
• Wakites (number their islands), viii. [88].
• Wakkád = stoker, i. [312]; ii. [134].
• Wák Wák (Islands of), viii. [60].
• Walad = son (more ceremonious than “ibn”), v. [386].
• Walgh = lapping of a dog, iii. [319].
• Walhán (Al-) = the distracted, iii. [226]; viii. [33]; ix. [6].
• Wáli = (civil) Governor, i. [259].
• Walí = Saint, Santon, v. [112].
• —— ’ahd = heir-presumptive, ix. [87].
• Walíd (Al-) bin Abd al-Malik, Caliph, iv. [100].
• —— bin Marwán (Caliph), ii. [167]; iii. [69].
• —— bin Sahl (Caliph), vii. [106].
• Wálidati = my mother, speaking to one not of the family, iii. [208].
• Walímah = marriage-feast, vi. [74]; viii. [231].
• Walking afoot (not dignified), vi. [227].
• Wa ’lláhi = I swear by Allah, viii. [310].
• —— tayyib = by Allah, good! ii. [34].
• Wa ’l-Salám = and here ends the matter, i. [102].
• —— (used in a variety of senses), viii. [74].
• Wanderer in the mountains = a recluse avoiding society, vi. [158].
• Wárahmatáh = Alas, the pity of it, v. [42].
• Ward = rose; Wardah = a single rose, viii. [274].
• —— (Al-) fí ’l-Akmám (Pr. N.) = Rose in Hood, v. [32].
• —— Shah = Rose King, vii. [70].
• Wardán (a Fellah name, also of a village), iv. [293].
• Wárid = resorting to the water, iii. [56].
• Waríd (jugular vein), iv. [92].
• Warm one’s self at a man’s fire, ii. [76].
• Wars (caused by trifles, frequent in Arab history), vi. [142].
• —— (Al-) = carthamus tinctorius, vii. [92].
• Wartah = precipice, quagmire, etc., x. [81].
• Washing the dead without doors only in case of poverty, ii. [10].
• Washings after evacuation, i. [220].
• Wasíf = servant; fem. Wasífah = concubine, iii. [171].
• Wásik (Al-) Caliph, iii. [81].
• Wásit = Middle (town of Irák Arabi), ix. [26].
• Wasm = tribal sign, vi. [163].
• Watad = tent-peg (also a prosodical term), viii. [279].
• Water (sight of running, makes a Persian long for strong drink), iv. [75].
• —— (had no taste in his mouth), v. [39].
• —— (-carrier = Sakká), v. [89].
• Watering the streets, iv. [107].
• Water-melons (eaten with rice and meat), vi. [208].
• Waters flowing in Heaven, iii. [65].
• Watwát = bat, v. [226].
• Way of Allah = common property, i. [91].
• Waybah = six to seven English gallons, iv. [86].
• Wayha = Alas! v. [258].
• Wayha-k, equivalent to Wayla-k, vii. [127].
• Wayla-k = Woe to thee! iii. [82].
• Wazír = Minister, i. [2].
• —— (the sharp-witted in the tales), ii. [246].
• Weal (I see naught but), ix. [180].
• Weapons (carried under the thigh), vii. [56].
• —— magic, vii. [59].
• —— new forms of, vii. [62].
• Web and pin (eye-disease of horses), viii. [341].
• Week-days (only two names for), iii. [249].
• —— (old names for), vi. [190].
• Weeping (not for form and face alone), iii. [318].
• —— (over dead friends), ix. [187].
• Whale (still common off the East African coast), vi. [11].
• What calamity is upon thee = what a bother thou art, viii. [177].
• What happened, happened = fortune so willed it, iii. [68].
• “What is it compared with,” popular way of expressing great difference, i. [37].
• What manner of thing is Al-Rashíd? = What has he to do here? viii. [176].
• “Whatso thou wouldest do, that do,” = Do what thou wilt, vii. [324].
• Where is—and where? = What a difference is there between, etc., v. [65].
• “Where lies China-land?” = it is a far cry to Loch Awe, vii. [344].
• Whistling (Sifr), iv. [206].
• —— (held to be the devil’s speech), v. [333].
• —— (to call animals to water), viii. [278].
• White as milk (opposed to black as mud, etc.), iv. [140].
• —— (hand, symbol of generosity, etc.), iv. [185].
• —— (turband, distinctive of Moslems), iv. [214].
• —— hand of Moses (sign to Pharao), iv. [249].
• —— and black faces on the Day of Judgment, iv. [249].
• —— (colour of the Ommiades), vi. [86].
• —— robes (denote grace and mercy), vi. [250].
• —— (mourning colour under the Abbasides), viii. [200].
• Whiteness (for lustre, honour), viii. [295].
• Whitening and blackening of the faces on Judgment-Day, ii. [312].
• “Who art thou?” etc. (meaning “you are nobodies”), vii. [286].
• “Whoso beguileth folk, him shall Allah beguile,” viii. [143].
• “Whoso loveth me, let him bestow largesse upon this man,” vii. [323].
• “Whoso praiseth and then blameth lieth twice,” x. [15].
• “Why don’t (can’t) you buy me?” viii. [300].
• Wicket (small doorway at the side of a gate), ix. [320].
• Wife (euphemistically spoken of in the masculine), i. [67].
• —— (Aurat), vi. [30].
• —— (called “Family”), vi. [75].
• —— (contrast between vicious servile and virtuous of noble birth), ix. [302].
• Will he not care? = he shall answer for this! vi. [245].
• Window-gardening, old practice in the East, i. [301].
• Windows (looking out of, a favourite occupation in the East and South), vi. [167].
• Wine (why strained), i. [27].
• —— (boiled) = vinum coctum, i. [132].
• —— (flying to the head, effect of the cold after a heated room), i. [224].
• —— (kahwah), ii. [261].
• —— (table and service), ii. [122].
• —— (a sun, with cupbearer for East and the drinker’s mouth for West), iii. [263].
• —— (its prohibition not held absolute), v. [224].
• —— (breeds gladness, etc.), viii. [202].
• —— (in cup, or cup in wine?), viii. [276].
• —— (Mohammed makes up his mind about it by slow degrees), viii. [277].
• Wird = the last twenty-five chapters of the Koran, v. [185].
• —— (Pers.) = pupil, disciple, ix. [61].
• Wisádah = pillow, ii. [70].
• Wisháh = belt, scarf, viii. [209].
• Wishes (tale of the three), vi. [180].
• Wiswás = diabolical temptation or suggestion, i. [106].
• Witches (and their vehicles), vi. [158].
• Witness (bear, against me, i.e. in case of my denial), vi. [286]; viii. [22].
• Witnesses (one man = two women), v. [155].
• Wittol (pictured with driest Arab humour), ix. [269].
• Wives have their night in turns, ii. [78].
• —— (why four, see Women), iii. [212].
• —— (a man’s tillage), iii. [304].
• —— (and their suitors), vi. [172].
• Wolf (wicked man); fox (cunning one), iii. [132].
• Woman, Women (debauched prefer Blackamoors), i. [6].
• —— (their depravity goes hand in hand with perversity of taste), i. [73].
• —— (old must not be called Ajúz but Shaybah), i. [174].
• —— (bastinadoed), i. [183].
• —— (chaff and banter allowed to), i. [267].
• —— (of Damascus famed for sanguinary jealousy), i. [295].
• —— (Cairene held exceedingly debauched), i. [298].
• —— mourning, i. [311].
• —— (high-born and their frolics), i. [328].
• —— (cries of), ii. [6].
• —— weeping and wailing before cenotaphs, ii. [68].
• —— maltreated under the Caliphate, ii. [69].
• —— Women captives, ii. [94].
• —— of the blue-stocking type, ii. [156].
• —— created of a crooked rib, ii. [161].
• —— (consult them and do the contrary), ii. [184].
• —— (peculiar waddle of), iii. [37].
• —— (proposing extreme measures), iii. [39].
• —— (are tinder, men fire), iii. [59].
• —— (monkish horror of), iii. [126].
• —— (Laylah, name of), iii. [135].
• —— (true seducers), iii. [166].
• —— (Wálidatí = my mother), iii. [208].
• —— (four wives, and why), iii. [212].
• —— (compared to an inn), iii. [216].
• —— (large hips and thighs), iii. [226].
• —— (small fine foot), iii. [227].
• —— (names of), iii. [239]; 263.
• —— (more passionate than men), iii. [241].
• —— (head must always be kept covered), iii. [275].
• —— (slender-waisted but full of hips, etc.), iii. [278].
• —— (Sodomy with), iii. [304].
• —— (all charges laid upon them), iii. [335].
• —— (old bawd), iv. [4].
• —— (names of), iv. [12].
• —— (less handsome than man), iv. [15].
• —— (walk and gait), iv. [16].
• —— (bride night), iv. [30].
• —— (oath of a), iv. [49].
• —— (insolence of princesses), iv. [145].
• —— (inner, her meanings), iv. [146].
• —— (answering question by counterquestion), iv. [148].
• —— (Abyssinian famous as “holders”), iv. [227].
• —— (slave-names), iv. [232].
• —— (intercourse between), iv. [234].
• —— (white-skinned supposed to be heating and unwholesome), iv. [253].
• —— (sleep naked in hot weather), v. [8].
• —— (making the first advances), v. [34].
• —— (and secrets), v. [35], [83].
• —— (wives of eunuchs), v. [46].
• —— (visiting their lovers in a dream), v. [47].
• —— (thought to be Jinn or Ghúl), v. [51].
• —— (called Zaurà, the crooked), v. [66].
• —— (allowed to absent themselves from the house of father or husband), v. [96].
• —— (instructed in “motitations”), v. [80].
• —— (apt for two tricks), v. [161].
• —— (old, polite equivalents for), v. [163].
• —— (in their prime at fourteen to fifteen), v. [192].
• —— (inferior to man), v. [155].
• —— (unveiling to a man, if not slaves, insult him), v. [194].
• —— (in Hindostaní jargon = Aurat), vi. [30].
• —— (her shame extends from head to toes), vi. [118].
• —— (their cunning and malice), vi. [144].
• —— (corrupts woman more than men do), vi. [152].
• —— (knowing enough without learning to read and write), vi. [168].
• —— (of Kashmír), vi. [156].
• —— (her female visitors unknown to the husband except by hearsay), vi. [199].
• —— (words used only by them, not by men), vi. [233].
• —— (blue-eyed of good omen), vii. [164].
• —— (stealing of their clothes), viii. [30].
• —— (her heart the only bond known by her), viii. [54].
• —— (reasons for their ageing in the East), viii. [86].
• —— (always to be addressed Ummí = my mother), viii. [87].
• —— (often hide their names from the husband), viii. [100].
• —— (semi-maniacal rancour of a good one against an erring sister), viii. [118].
• —— (when old, the most vindictive of her kind), viii. [137].
• —— (who are neither thine nor another’s), viii. [208].
• —— (their bodies impregnated with scents), viii. [279].
• —— (to be respected by the King), ix. [73].
• —— (“great is their malice”), ix. [119].
• —— (a case of “hard lines” for them), ix. [134].
• —— (their marrying a second time reckoned disgraceful), ix. [246].
• —— (the sin lieth with them), ix. [297].
• —— (fail in wit and faith), ix. [298].
• —— (practically only two ways of treating them), ix. [303].
• —— (delicacy of their skin), ix. [321].
• —— (treated leniently in a Kázi’s court), x. [4].
• Womankind (seven ages of), ix. [175].
• —— (their status in Al-Islam), x. [195].
• Wonder (= cause) in every death, i. [351].
• Word (the creative “Kun”), ix. [78].
• Words (divided in a couplet), iii. [166].
• Worlds (the three = Triloka), ii. [236].
• Wreckers, ii. [111].
• Wrestling and Wrestlers, ii. [93].
• —— (amongst the Egyptian Fellah), viii. [199].
• Writer of The Nights careless, iv. [155].
• Writing (styles of), iv. [196].
• Writing without fingers = (being unable to answer for what is written), iii. [181].
• Wuldán = Ghilmán, the beautiful youths of Paradise, i. [211].
• Wuzu-ablution = lesser ablution, i. [142].
• —— (necessary before joining in prayers), ii. [46].
• —— (Koranic order for), v. [198].
• —— (angels and devils at the side of a man who prepares for it), v. [198].
• Xisisthrus = Noah, ii. [20], [25].
• Yá A’awaz = O, one eye (obscene meaning of the phrase), viii. [185].
• Yá Abati = O dear father mine, ix. [88].
• Yá Abú al-Lithámayn = O sire of the chin-veils twain, x. [20].
• Yá Abú Libdah = O father of a felt-calotte, iii. [62].
• Yá Abú Sumrah = O father of brownness, iii. [40].
• Yá Ahmak = O fool, ix. [271].
• Yá ’Ajúz = O old woman (now insulting), v. [163].
• Yá Bunayya = O dear (lit. little) my son, ix. [79].
• Yá Ba’íd = thou distant one, euphemism for gross abuse, i. [41].
• Yá Bárid = O fool, i. [313].
• Yá Dádatí = O my nurse, “ma mie,” vii. [372].
• Yá Fulán = O certain person, iii. [191]; ix. [334].
• Yá Fulánah = O certain person (fem.), ix. [270].
• Yá Hájj = O Pilgrim, ii. [15].
• Yá házá = O this one, somewhat slightingly, i. [240].
• Yá hú = O he! Swift’s Yahoo? i. [240].
• Yá Jáhil = O ignorant, ix. [52].
• Yá Kawwád = O pimp, v. [129].
• Yá Khálatí = O mother’s sister, in addressing the old, i. [303].
• Yá Khawand = O Master, vii. [315].
• Yá Khwájah = O Master, viii. [18].
• Yá Kisrawi = O subject of the Kisrà, v. [26].
• Yá layta = would to heaven, viii. [48].
• Yá Ma’ashar al-Muslimín = Ho Moslems! iv. [149].
• Yá Mashúm = O unlucky one, i. [221].
• Yá Mauláya = O, my lord, ix. [228].
• Yá Miskín = O poor devil, vi. [219].
• Yá Mumátil = O Slow o’ Pay, viii. [169].
• Yá Nasrání = O Nazarene, iv. [199].
• Yá Sáki ’al-Dakan = O frosty-beard, v. [99].
• Yá Sáki ’al-Wajh = O false face, vii. [353].
• Yá Salám = O safety (a vulgar ejaculation), viii. [98].
• Yá Sátir = O veiler (of sins), iii. [41].
• Yá Sattár = O Thou who veilest the discreditable secrets of Thy creatures, i. [258].
• Yá Shátir = O clever one! (in a bad sense), iv. [209].
• Yá Shukayr = O little Tulip, viii. [168].
• Yá Taljí = O snowy one, iii. [40].
• Yá Tayyib al-Khál = O thou nephew of a good uncle, i. [303].
• Yá Ustá (for Ustáz) = O my master, vii. [192].
• Yá Wadúd = O loving one, iv. [54].
• Yá Sín (heart of the Koran, chapt. xxxvi.), iv. [50].
• Ya’arub (eponymus of an Oman tribe), vi. [260]; vii. [25].
• Yáfis, Yáfat = Japhet, vii. [40].
• Yaftah Alláh = Allah will open, an offer being insufficient, ii. [149].
• Yahúdí for Jew, less polite than Banú Isráil, i. [210].
• Yají miat khwánjah = near a hundred chargers, vii. [345].
• Yájúj and Májúj, v. [318].
• Yakhní = stew, broth, vii. [186].
• Yákút = ruby, garnet, etc., v. [342].
• Yaman (Al-) = right-hand region, ii. [179].
• —— (lightning on the hills of), ii. [179].
• Yásamín = Jessamine (name of a slave-girl), viii. [176].
• Yashmak (chin-veil for women), ii. [31].
• Yasrib (ancient name of Al-Medínah), iv. [114].
• Yastaghíbúní = they take advantage of my absence, ix. [224].
• Yauh (conversationally Yehh) expression of astonishment, ii. [321].
• Yauh! Yauh! = Alas! vi. [235].
• Yathrib (old name of Al-Medinah), ix. [177], see Yasrib.
• Yaum al-Íd = the great festival, i. [317].
• Yaum al-Tanádí = Resurrection Day, iii. [74].
• Yaum-i-Alast = Day of “am-I-not” (your Lord)? ii. [91].
• Yaum mubárak = a blessed day, vi. [215].
• Yellow girl (for light-coloured wine), x. [39].
• Yes, Yes! and No, No! trifles common amongst the Arabs, ii. [60]; ix. [250].
• Youth described in terms applying to women, i. [144].
• Yohanná = John, iv. [87].
• Yuhanná (Greek Physician), v. [154].
• Yúnán Yúnáníyah = Greece, ii. [82]; iv. [100].
• Yúsuf bin Omar, ii. [170].
• Yúsuf (Grand Vizier, and his pelisse), vii. [323].
• Za’ar = a man with fair skin, red hair and blue eyes (Marocco), viii. [297].
• Zabbah = lizard; bolt, vi. [247]; vii. [182].
• Zabbál = dung-drawer, etc., i. [312]; iii. [51].
• Zábít = Prefect of Police, i. [259].
• Zabiyah (Pr. N.) = roe, doe, v. [147].
• Zaffú (in the sense of “they displayed her”), ix. [245].
• Zaghab = the chick’s down, v. [165].
• Zaghzaghán (Abú Massáh = Father of the Sweeper), = magpie, vi. [182].
• Záhir bi ’llah (Al-) = one prominent by the decree of Allah, i. [317].
• Záhirí = plain honest Moslem, ii. [29].
• Zahra = the flowery, vi. [145].
• Zahr Sháh (Pr. N.), ii. [284].
• Zahrawíyah = lovely as the Venus-star, viii. [251].
• Zahwah = mid-time between sunrise and noon, vi. [35].
• Záka = he tasted, iv. [188].
• Zakar (penis) = that which betokens masculinity, iii. [3].
• Zakariyá and Zakar, iv. [51].
• Zakát = legal alms, i. [339].
• Zakhmah (Zukhmah) = strap, stirrup-leather, viii. [18].
• Zakkúm (Al-) tree of Hell, iv. [259].
• Zakzúk = young of the Shál, viii. [185].
• Zalábiyah bi- ’Asal = honey-fritters, vii. [164].
• Zalamah (Al-) = tyrants, oppressors (police and employés), i. [273]; vi. [214].
• Zalzál, son of Muzalzil = Earthquake, son of Ennosigaius, vii. [79].
• Zambúr = clitoris, i. [90]; v. [279].
• Zamiyád = guardian angel of Bihisht, see Rizwán, iii. [20], [233].
• Zanab Sirhán (wolf’s tail) = early dawn, iii. [146].
• Zand and Zandah = fire-sticks, v. [52].
• Zanj = negroes of Zanzibar, ii. [5]; vi. [104].
• Zanzibar (cannibals etc.), iv. [168].
• Zarábín = slaves’ shoes, x. [1].
• Zarbu ’l-Nawákísí = striking of gongs (pun on the word), viii. [329].
• Zardah = rice dressed with honey and saffron, ii. [313]; vii. [185].
• Zardakhánah = Zarad (Ar. for hauberk), Khanáh (Pers. for house), vii. [363].
• Zarká = the blue-eyed (Cassandre of Yamámah), ii. [103].
• Zarr wa ’urwah = button and button-hole, v. [227].
• Zarráf = giraffe, vii. [51].
• Zarrat (vulg. Durrah) = co-wife, sister-wife, iii. [308].
• Zát al-Dawáhí = Lady of Calamities, ii. [87].
• Zau al-Makán = Light of the Place, ii. [81].
• Zaurà = the crooked, for woman, v. [66].
• Zaurá (Al-) = the bow (name of Baghdad), ix. [13].
• Zawí al-furúj = habentes rimam, ii. [49].
• Záwiyah = oratory, vi. [259]; vii. [328].
• Zaybak (Al-) = the quicksilver, iv. [75].
• Zayn al-Abidín (grandson of Ali), ii. [202].
• Zayn al-Mawásif (Pr. N.) = Adornment of (good) qualities, viii. [205].
• Zaynab and Zayd (generic names for women and men), ix. [250].
• Zebra (daughter of Sa’adah), iii. [65].
• Zemzem (its water saltish), i. [284]; ii. [272].
• Zí’ah = village, hamlet, farm, ix. [27].
• Zibl = dung, iii. [51].
• Zibl Khán = Le Roi Crotte, iii. [99].
• Zidd = opposite, contrary, v. [206].
• Zikr = litanies, i. [124].
• —— (and Edwin Arnold’s Pearls of Faith), ii. [28].
• Zimbíl (Zambíl) = limp basket of palm-leaves, iv. [119].
• Zimmí = a (Christian, Jewish or Majúsí) tributary, iv. [199].
• Zinád = fire-sticks, viii. [80].
• Zindík = Agnostic, atheist, v. [230]; viii. [27].
• Zirbájah = meat dressed with cumin-seed, etc., i. [278].
• Zirt = broken wind; derivatives, ii. [88]; ix. [291].
• Ziyád bin Abí Sufyán, ii. [163].
• Ziyárat = visit to a pious person or place, i. [125].
• —— = visiting the Prophet’s tomb, ix. [178].
• Zobabah (Zauba’ah?) = sand-storm in the desert, i. [114].
• Zú al-Autád = the contriver of the stakes (Pharaoh), vi. [118].
• Zú al-Kurá’a (Pr. N.) = Lord of cattle feet, iv. [95].
• Zubaydah (Pr. N.) = creamkin, iv. [48]; viii. [56], [158].
• Zubb = penis, i. [92].
• “Zug” (draught) feared by Orientals, ii. [9].
• Zuhal = Saturn, ii. [75].
• Zuhrí (Al-), traditionist, ii. [198]; v. [81].
• Zujáj bikr = unworked glass, viii. [342].
• Zukák al-Nakíb = Syndic street, ii. [325].
• Zukhruf = glitter, tinsel, ix. [86].
• Zulf = side-lock, i. [308].
• Zulm, injustice, tyranny; worst of a monarch’s crimes, i. [190].
• Zunnár = ζωνάριον confounded with the “Janeo,” ii. [215].
• Zur ghibban tazid hubban = call rarely that friendship last fairly, ix. [273].
• Zurayk (dim. of Azrak = blue-eyed), viii. [195].
• Zurk = blue-eyed, dim-sighted, purblind, vii. [164].
• Zuwaylah gate, more correctly Báb Zawilah i. [269].

INDEX III.—A.
ALPHABETICAL TABLE OF FIRST LINES (METRICAL PORTION) IN ENGLISH.