The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 02 [Supplement]

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INDEX.

• Abárík (Al-), pl. of Ibrík, an ewer containing water for the Wuzu-ablution, [170].
• Abtál (pl. of Batal) = champions, athletes (tr. “braves”), [42].
• Abú al-Tawáif (pron. “Abut-tawáif”), the Father of the (Jinn-) tribes, [84].
• Abú Nowás (appearing in The Nights, a signal for an outburst of facetiæ), [153].
• Adab = accomplishments, [68].
• ’Adi = an enemy (tr. “foe”), [14].
• Afras = lit. a better horseman (tr. “doughtier”), [105].
• Ahbábu-ná pl. for sing. = my beloved (tr. “my friends”), [103].
• ’Akíl, first cousin of Mahommed, [164].
• Akwà min dahni’l-lauz = more strengthening than oil, [75].
• ’Alà kulli hál = “whatever may betide” or “willy nilly,” [283].
• ’Alam al-Din = “Flag of the Faith,” [4].
• Alaykum = “Peace be on you” (addressed to a single person), [52].
• ’Alkam = the bitter gourd, colocynth, [218].
• Allah, (“An alms, for the love of”), [44].
• —— be the judge between me and thee, [52].
• —— decreed of old, [90].
• —— “Enter in the name of” = Bismillah, [38].
• —— Gifted of, [200].
• —— I look to, for aid, [202].
• —— is All-great, [125].
• —— “I seek refuge with” i.e., Allah forfend, [9].
• —— made easy to me, [53].
• —— Men, who resign themselves to = i.e., Moslems who practice the Religion of Resignation, [271].
• Allah open to thee the door of subsistence, [44].
• —— removed to the mercy of = he died, [78].
• —— Take refuge with, from the Evil eye of her charms, [245].
• —— This is the deposit of, then thy deposit = “I commit him to thy charge under God,” [184].
• —— whom Allah save and assain, [173].
• Allah ya’tík = Allah will give it thee, not I, [44].
• “A mighty matter” may also mean “A masterful man” (reading Imraam = man for Amran = matter), [204].
• Amín al-Hukm = “Faithful of Command,” [7].
• ’Anbar (tr. “Ambergris”), [67].
• ’Anká (Al-) = lit. “The long-necked” (bird), [128].
• “Après moi le déluge,” [123].
• Arab lovers jealous of their mistresses’ nightly phantom, [179].
• Arab, of noble tribe, always first to mount his own mare, [248].
• Arja’ = lit. return (tr. “desist”), [105].
• Arzi-há = in its earth, its outlying suburbs (tr. “environs”), [198].
• Ashírah = clan, [225].
• At her last breath, when cured by the magic of love, [243].
• Atwash (Al-) = one notable for levity of mind, [16].
• A’zán-hú = lit. “its ears” (tr. “its pegs”), [159].
• Aznání = emaciated one, [214].
• Bahár = ox-eye herb, [13].
• Bakar (Ox) and Taur (Bull), Moslem emblems of stupidity, [178].
• Balass ruby = of rare wood set with rubies, [251].
• Balát = the flags (slabs of limestone and sandstone), [21].
• Baliyah = bane and bale (to jingle with “Bábiliyah”), [153].
• Banát al-hawá = lit. daughters of love (tr. “a merry girl”), [137].
• Banú Shaybán = the King’s own tribe, [199].
• Barári = deserts, [16].
• Barber, the usual operator in circumcision, [116].
• Bashkhánah (Al-) = the curtain, [165].
• Bathing after copulation kept up by both sexes in ancient Rome, [142].
• Bí-adabí = being without Adab (= rudeness, etc.), [68].
• Bibars (pron. “Baybars”), [3].
• Bid’ah = lit. an innovation, a new thing (tr. “accursed custom”), [266].
• Bi jildi ’l-bakar = a cow hide, [96].
• “Bilád al-Maghrib (al-Aksa” in full) = the Farthest Land of the Setting Sun (tr. “Sundown-Land”), [252].
• Bishr and Hind (two well-known lovers), [211].
• “Bismillah” = Enter in the name of Allah, [38].
• “Bismillah; in the name of the Lord” = “Let us go,” etc., [85].
• Blackening faces a promise of Hell-fire, [42].
• Blood-feuds troublesome to travellers, [222].
• Bráhmani = Hindu, Indian, [111].
• Branchlet = a youth’s slender form, [162].
• Breslau Ed. quoted, [3], [54], [55], [63], [67], [151], [183], [191], [259], [263], [275].
• Bridegroom offers coffee and Halwá to friends after a “happy night,” [142].
• Brutality of a Moslem mob, [168].
• Bukhti = The Bactrian or double-humped dromedary, [235].
• Bunduki (adj. of Bunbuk) = Venetian, [204].
• Burka’ = the face veil of Egypt, etc., [172].
• Calcutta Edition quoted, [137], [141].
• Carrion, animals that died without beingceremonially killed, [175].
• Chamber, a dangerous word in English, [129].
• Chapter of the Cow (Koran), [175].
• Chess rarely played for money in Europe, [205].
• “Children” used for fighting men, [224].
• Circumcision, [90].
• Citadel of Lead = Capital of King Al-Shisban, [117].
• Couch of Circumcision, [111].
• Cranes of Ibycus, [59].
• “Cried out from her head” = Sang in tenor tones which are always in falsetto, [238].
• Crucifixion by nailing to an upright board, [49].
• Cup-companions = the professional Ráwis or tale reciters, [266].
• Dáhiyat al-Dawáhí = a calamity of the Calamities, [119].
• Dara’ or Dira’ = armour (tr. “jerkin”), [209].
• Darb = lit. a road (tr. “street”), [8].
• Daur al-Ká’ah = the opening made in the ceiling for light (tr. “the opening of the saloon”), [23].
• Dawát = ink-case (containing the reed-pens, etc.), [211].
• Daylam (Al-) prison, [142].
• Dayr al-Tin = “The Convent of Clay,” a Coptic monastery near Cairo, [284].
• Delights of Paradise promised by the Prophet, [244].
• Destiny, [61].
• Die thou and be thou an expiation for the shoe-latchet of Kulayb, [263].
• Dignity, permissible in royalty, affected by dames in Anglo-Egypt, [110].
• Dimity (der. from “Damietta”), [210].
• Divorce and marriage to Mahommed of the wife of Zayd (his adopted son), [197].
• “Dog or hog” = a Jew or a Christian, [147].
• Dromedaries the only animals used for sending messages over long distances, [249].
• Du’á = supplication, prayer as opposed to “Salát” = divine worship, [94].
• Dukhán = lit. smoke, [126].
• Dukhúlak = lit. thy entering (tr. “thy courtesy”), [109].
• Durráj (tr. Francolin), [60].
• Easterns startled by sudden summons to the presence of a king, [210].
• “Empty gourds,” Eastern succedaneum for swimming corks, [286].
• “Every one cannot go to Corinth,” [74].
• Exchange of salams a sign of safety, [86].
• Executioner, difficulty in Marocco about finding one who becomes obnoxious to the Thár or blood-feud, [54].
• Fajj = mountain pass (Spanish, Vega = also a mountain plain), [117].
• Falling backwards in laughter rare amongst the Badawin, [202].
• Farásah = lit. Knowing a horse (tr. “Visnomy”), [96].
• Farkalah (φραγέλλιον) = cattle whip, [47].
• Farkh Warak = a slip of paper, [114].
• Farsh = bed or straw-spread store room where apples are preserved, [113].
• Fawwák (chair of), [72].
• Fazl (Al-) the elder brother of Ja’afar, [71].
• Fityán (pl. of Fatà) = my fine fellows, [42].
• Flower = the breast, [252].
• Fumigating gugglets (with musk), [275].
• Gave her the hire of her going forth (i.e. Engaged her for a revel and paid her in advance), [44].
• Ghalílí = my yearning (tr. “my thirst”), [102].
• Gharbíyah (province in Egypt), [16].
• Ghattí = “Cover it up,” [158].
• Ghaur (or lowland) = the fall of the waist, [252].
• Ghuráb al-bayn = Raven of the wold or of parting, [126].
• Ghusl-ablution, [20].
• Giant Face (a parallel to the “Bodiless Head”), [102].
• Guest-fires, [249].
• Hæmorrhage stopped by plunging the stump into burning oil, [168].
• Hájib = eyebrow or chamberlain, [252].
• Haláwah = Sweetmeat, [127].
• Haláwat al-Miftáh = Sweetmeat of the Key-money (tr. “douceur of the Key”), [20].
• Halfah grass, [46].
• Hamd (Al-) = Allah-lauds, [221].
• Hamzah, uncle of Mahommed, [164].
• Hárát (or quarters) closed at night with strong wooden doors, [9].
• Harísah = meat pudding, [277].
• Hatif = an ally, [234].
• Hauráni = (native of Hauran), Job’s country, [50].
• Haykal (Ar. and Heb.) = a large space, a temple (tr. “hallowed fane”), [175].
• He is of the lords of houses = folk of good family, [169].
• “Hell-flame but not shame,” proverb, [148].
• Hibá = dust.
• Hijáz (Al-) = The Moslem’s Holy Land, (Cap. Meccah), [193].
• Himà = the tribal domain (tr. “tribe-land”), [215].
• Hirfah = a trade, a guild, a corporation (here the officers of police), [54].
• “His eyes turned in his head” (to show the whites, as happens to the mesmerised), [242].
• Horse-thief chained to four pickets of iron, [224].
• House of the Elephant (at chess) = the Castle’s square, [205].
• Hujjat = a legal deed (may also mean “an excuse”), [27].
• Husn tadbir = lit. “beauty of his contrivance” (tr. “Seemliness of his stratagem”), [29].
• I cannot fill my eye with the twain = cannot look at them long, [88].
• “I commit him to thy charge under God,” [184].
• “If his friend the Devil be overstrong for thee, flee him rather than be slain,” [202].
• If my hand were changed = if my hand had lost its cunning, [78].
• “I have not any eye that can look at him” = “I cannot bear to see him,” [110].
• Ihramat li al-Salát = she pronounced the formula of Intention (Hiyat) (tr. “the Prohibition”), [94].
• Iklím = clime, [3].
• ’Iláj (Al-) = insertion (tr. “horizontal refreshment”), [185].
• Imam = Antistes or fugleman at prayer who leads off the orisons, [101].
• Inscriptions on metal trays sold to Europeans (also on table-cloths), [87].
• Iraks (two) = Irák Arabí (Chaldæa) and ’Ajami (Western Persia), [191].
• ’Irk = vein (of our eye) equiv. to “the apple of the eye,” [144].
• Irregular use of inn, perpetuated in some monster hotels throughout Europe, [20].
• Irtiyád = a place where the urine spray may not defile the dress (tr. “a place to make water”), [13].
• Isaac of Mosul, the greatest of Arab Musicians, [70].
• I smell the scent of the Jinn, [125].
• “I think not otherwise” = “I am quite sure,” [119].
• I will lay down my life to save thee from sorrow—a common-place hyperbole of love, [181].
• ’Iyál-hu = lit. his family (tr. wives), [8].
• Jabal (Al-) al-Mukawwar = the Crescent Mountain (from Kaur = a park), [119].
• Jabhat = the lintel, opposed to the threshold (tr. here “‘forehead’ of his shop”), [137].
• Jamal fálij = the palsy-camel, [235].
• Jamrah = a bit of burning charcoal, [122].
• —— = a live coal, [87].
• Jazírah = insula, Island, used in the sense of “peninsula,” [220].
• Jinns of Northern Europe, [86].
• Job (traditions of), [50].
• Julnár = Gulnare, [100].
• Kamariyah (der. from Kamar = Moon) = coloured glass windows, [39].
• Kásid = messenger, [37].
• Katl = killed (Irish “Kilt”), [182].
• “Kayásirah” (Cæsars) opp. to Akásirah, [263].
• Kayrawán = Curlew, [93].
• Kazi, ex-officio guardian of the orphans and their property, liable to punishment in case of fraud, [10].
• Khalíj (Al-), The Canal (Grand Canal of Cairo), [286].
• Khayr kathír = This is right good (also “abundant kindness”), [275].
• Khorasan (including our Afghanistan), in a chronic state of rebellion in Al-Rashid’s reign, [167].
• King consummates his marriage in presence of his virgin sister-in-law, [268].
• —— Kulayb (“little dog”) al-Wá’il, [263].
• —— Nabhán, [192].
• —— of the Kingdoms (i.e. of the worlds visible and invisible), [6].
• Kissing the hand, the action of a servant or slave, [81].
• Kitáb = book, written bond, [27].
• Koran quoted—
  • ii. 148, [215].
  • ii. 168, [175].
  • xx. 30, [270].
  • xxxiii. 35, [271].
  • xxxiii. 38, [197].
  • xlvii. 16, [177].
  • lvi. 87, 88, [106].
  • cxiii., cxiv., [101].
• La’alla = peradventure (used to express expectation of possible occurrence), [20].
• Laban = milk soured (tr. “curd”), [54].
• Lajlaj = tied (his tongue was), [186].
• La-nakhsifanna = I would assuredly, etc., [23].
• Lane quoted, [246].
• Last march (to the next world), [202].
• Laysa fi ’l-diyári dayyár = “nor is there a wight in the site” (a favourite jingle), [275].
• Leather from Al-Táif, [242].
• Legal defects, (which justify returning a slave to the slave-dealer), [141].
• Lieutenant of the bench, [24].
• Lilláhi durrak = Gifted of Allah, [200].
• Lithám = the coquettish fold of transparent muslin used by women in Stambul, [172].
• Love (for “sleep”), [164].
• Lúlúah = The Pearl or Wild Heifer, [95].
• Maamún (Al-) al-Hákim b’Amri’llah = The Secure, the Ruler by Commandment of Allah, [281].
• Mabásim (pl. of Mabsim) = a smiling mouth, [162].
• Madmen in hot climates enjoy throwing off their clothes, [22].
• Majnún = “A madman,” [22].
• Making a picture (or statue), which artist cannot quicken, a process demanded on Doomsday, [194].
• Makrúh = blameable, not actually damnable, [46].
• Malláh (Al-) = the salting ground, [54].
• Malik (King), a title loosely applied in Arabic, [191].
• Mamrak, or small dome built over pavilions (also Pers. “Bádhanj”), [82].
• Mamrak = dome-shaped skylight, [39].
• Máriyah (Maria, Mary) a non-Moslem name, [194].
• Marj Salí = cleft meadow (here and below) tr. “Green Meadow,” [227].
• Maròcco, earliest occurrence of name, [252].
• Maut ahmar = violent or bloody death (tr. “red death,”) [11].
• Ma’úzatáni = The Two Preventives (two chapters from the Koran), [101].
• Mawálid (pl. of Maulid) = lit. “nativity festivals,” (here “funeral ceremonies”), [187].
• Mawázi (pl. of Mauza’) = lit. places, shifts (tr. “positions”), [112].
• May God never requite thee for me with good (i.e. Damn your soul for leading me into this danger), [39].
• May I not be bereft of these steps = may thy visits never fail me, [110].
• Meccah and Al-Medinah = The two Sanctuaries, [220].
• Merchants wear dagger and sword, [38].
• Mizwad (or Mizwád) = lit. provision bag, [222].
• Mohammed Ali Pasha (the “Great”), [9].
• More cutting = more bewitching, [143].
• Morning and evening = day and night for ever, [195].
• Moslems think the more you see of them the more you like them, [208].
• Mu’ajjalah = money paid down before consummation, [141].
• Mu’ajjalah = coin paid contingent on divorce, [141].
• Mubáh = an action not sinful (harám) or quasi-sinful (makrúh) (tr. “lawfully”), [12].
• Muhattakát = usually “with torn veils,” metaphor meaning in disgrace (tr. “unveiled”), [46].
• Mu’ín al-Din = “Aider of the Faith,” [5].
• Mukaddam = Captain, [7].
• Mukhaddarát = maidens concealed behind curtains and veiled in the Harem, [265].
• Munír = “The brilliant,” the enlightened, [100].
• Musáfahah = clapping palm (of the hand), [225].
• Mustauda = strong box, [9].
• Mustaráh (Al-) = Chapel of Ease (a favourite haunting-place of the Jinn), [85].
• Mutahaddisín = novi homines, upstarts (tr. “of the number of the new,”) [82].
• Mutawallí = Prefect (of Police), [30].
• Muzfir (Al-) = the Twister, [95].
• Nadd, a compound perfume, [108].
• Nahnu = we (for I), [28].
• Náihah = the præfica or myriologist, [171].
• “Naked intercessor” (one who cannot be withstood), [83].
• Nasrín = moss-rose, [115].
• Nawwáb (pl. of Náib) = a Nabob (tr. lit. “deputies”), [8].
• Názilah = descent (of calamity), [176].
• Názir al-Mawáris = “Inspector of Inheritances,” [286].
• Necklace-pearls = the cup-bearer’s teeth, [253].
• Ni’am = Yes (an exception to the Abbé Sicard’s rule), [19].
• Night beset his back = darkened behind him, [197].
• Niká (lit. sand hill) = the swell of the throat, [252].
• Nún al-taakid = the N of injunction, [23].
• Nuzhat-í = pleasance, [45].
• Ocular testimony demanded by Moslem law, [17].
• Oil, anointing with, for incipient consumption, [75].
• “On my shop” = bit of boarding wherethe master sits, or on a stool in thestreet, [281].
• Orisons = the prayers of the last day andnight, [94].
• Palace between two rivers = In Rauzah-island, [281].
• Palace not the place for a religious andscrupulous woman, [229].
• Part and parts = more or less thoroughly, [152].
• Parturition and death easy compared withboth processes in the temperates of Europe, [23].
• Payne quoted, [28], [54], [67], [73], [85], [110], [112], [154], [191], ib., [200], [227], [231], [248], [251], [267], [275], [281].
• Perjury easily expiated amongst Moslems, [38].
• Pilgrimage quoted—
  • i. 62, 20
  • i. 87, 71
  • i. 100, 281
  • i. 119, 54
  • i. 127, 152
  • i. 173, 9
  • i. 321, 63
  • i. 338, 220
  • ii. 57, ib.
  • ii. 297, 222
  • iii. 68, 59
  • iii. 385, 22
  • iii. 385, 51
• “Plied him with wine,” a favourite habit with mediæval Arabs, [50].
• Poetry (Persian,) often alludes to the rose, etc., [99].
• Police (Eastern), [6].
• Professional singers, becoming freed women and turning “respectable,” [254].
• Pummel of the saddle, [85].
• Quarters, containing rooms in which girls are sold, [71].
• Queen Shu’á’ah = Queen Sunbeam, [107].
• “Quench that fire for him” (i.e. hush up the matter), [15].
• Raas Ghanam = a head of sheep (form of expressing singularity common to Arabic), [207].
• Raba’ = lit. spring quarters (tr. “a lodging house”), [19].
• Rasílah = a (she) partner (tr. “accompanyist”), [44].
• Rayhánah, i.e. the “Basil,” mostly a servile name, [20].
• Red Camel (Ahmar), [248].
• Rikkí al-Saut = soften the sound (or “lower thy voice”), [89].
• Rúhí = lit. my breath (tr. “my sprite”), [120].
• Rustaki, from Rustak, a quarter of Baghdah, [209].
• Saff Kamaríyát min al-Zujáj = glazed and coloured lunettes, [39].
• Sahbá = red wine, [99].
• Sáhils, or shore-lands, [3].
• Sákiyah = water-wheel, [47].
• Sammár = reciters, [3].
• Santír = psalteries, [246].
• Sat down (in sign of agitation), [211].
• Sawákí = channels, [93].
• Severance-spies = stars and planets, [236].
• Shahrazad and Shahryar, [259].
• Shaking his clothes (in sign of quitting possession), [205].
• Sharárah = a spark, [87].
• Sharí’at, forbidding divorce by compulsion, [147].
• Sharifí = a sequin, [143].
• Sharkíyah (province in Egypt), [16].
• Sharr fi al-Haramayn = wickedness in the two Holy Places, [220].
• Shawáhid (meaning that heart testifies to heart) tr. “hearts have their witnesses,” [87].
• Shaybání (Al-) = “Of the Shaybán tribe,” 191, [199].
• Shaykh al-Hujjáj = Shaykh of the Pilgrims, [63].
• “Shaykh al-Tawaif” may mean “Shaykh of the Tribes” (of Jinns), [117].
• Shayyan li ’lláh = lit. (Give me some) Thing for (the love of) Allah (tr. “An alms, for the love of Allah”), [44].
• Sházz = Voice (doubtful if girl’s, nightingale’s, or dove’s), [244].
• “She heard a blowing behind her” (a phenomena well known to spiritualists), [101].
• “She will double thy store of presents,” [111].
• Shuhbá (Al-) = Ash-coloured, verging upon white, [110].
• Sídí = “my lord” (here becomes part of a name), [151].
• Sijn al-Dam = the Prison of Blood, [161].
• Sim’án-son = son of Simeon, i.e. a Christian, [175].
• Singing and music blameable (Makrúh), though not actually damnable, [46].
• Sir fi hálik (pron. Sirfhák) = Go about thy business, [44].
• Sirr (a secret), afterwards Kitmán (concealment) = keeping a lover down-hearted, [218].
• Sitt al-Miláh = Lady or princess of the Fair (ones), [155].
• Slaves fond of talking over their sale, [94].
• Sons of Adam = his Moslem neighbours, [30].
• Sons of the Path = Travellers, Nomads, Wild Arabs, [213].
• “Son of the Road” = a mere passer-by, a stranger, [235].
• “Spoiling for a fight,” [199].
• “Squeezed my ribs,” a bear-like attack, common amongst lower orders of Egypt and Syria, [47].
• Sunnah and Farz = The practice (of the Prophet) and the Holy Law (Koranic), [10].
• Surah = Koranic chapter; here possibly clerical error for Súrah—sort (of food), [173].
• Súsan = the lily (in Heb.), [116].
• Swooper of the Jinn, [202].
• Táb = “tip-cat,” [54].
• Táf (Al-) a suburb of Baghdah, [71].
• Tahzíb = reforming morals, amending conduct, etc., [240].
• Talákan báyinan = a triple divorce before witnesses, [148].
• Tamkín = gravity, assurance (tr. “Self-possession”), [8].
• Tarfah = Tamarisk, [252].
• Tarjumán = a dragoman (tr. “Truchman”), [185].
• Thaghr al-Khánakah = The narrows of the (Dervishes’) convent, [74].
• Thieves with hands lopped off, [44].
• “Thine is ours and on thee shall be whatso is on us” = we will assume thy debts and responsibilities, [247].
• This girl is a fat piece of meat (i.e. “There are good pickings to be had out of this job”), [17].
• Thiyáb ’Amúdiyah = striped clothes, [79].
• Those noble steps = thine auspicious visits, [82].
• Thou comest to bring us victory = “comest thou to our succour,” [201].
• Thrust his finger up his fundament (a diabolical way of clapping hands in applause), [89].
• ’Tis more acceptable to me than a red camel, [248].
• Tobbas = “Successors” or the Himyaritic Kings, [263].
• “To-day wine, and to-morrow business,” [177].
• Tohfah = a Choice Gift, [79].
• Tohfat al-Humaká = Choice Gift of the Fools, [73].
• Tohfat al-Kulúb = Choice Gift of the Hearts, [73].
• Tohfat al-Sudúr = Choice Gift of the Breasts (i.e. of the hearts), [84]–[133].
• True believer imitates sayings and doings of the Apostle, [173].
• Turkumániyah = Turcomanish (tr. “dragomanish”), [191].
• ’Úd = primarily “wood”; then a “lute” (tr. here “fuel”), [178].
• ’Udúl (pl. of Ádil) = men of good repute (tr. “notables”), [25].
• ’Ummár = the Jinn (tr. “Haunters”), [102].
• ’Urkúb, a Jew of Yathrib, [164].
• ’Urs (Al-) w’al-Tuhúr = “the wedding (which does not drop out of the tale) and the circumcision,” [90].
• Veil me = protect my honour, [147].
• Veil (raiser of) means a fitting purchaser, [73].
• Violateth my private apartment, [243].
• Voice (mysterious), [51].
• Wakálah (Egyptian term for a Khan), [153].
• Wakhímah = an unhealthy land, [87].
• Where am I, and where is the daughter, etc.? = “What have I to do with, etc.,” [7].
• “Whoso journeyeth not enjoyeth not,” [152].
• “Whoso keeneth for himself is not like whoso is hired to keen.” Proverb = “If you want a thing done, etc.,” [171].
• Wine and Wassail, loose talk, etc., a favourite subject with lewd Moslems, [34].
• Wine, carrion and pork lawful to Moslem if used to save life, [176].
• “With love and gladness,” [137].
• Women, drowsy charms of, [252].
• Yad (Al-) al-bayzá = lit. The white hand (tr. “largesse”), [123].
• Yáfis bin Nuh = Japhet, son of Noah, [111].
• Yaftah’ Allah = Allah open (to thee the door of subsistence), [44].
• Yá Khawand = “O lord and master,” [12].
• Yá Mu’arras = O fool and disreputable (tr. “O pimp”), [21].
• Ya’tamidúna hudà-hum = purpose the right direction (tr. “those who seek their salvation”), [32].
• Yá Zínat al-Nisá = O adornment of womankind, [207].
• “Ye are quit of,” etc. = You are welcome to it and so it becomes lawful (halál) to you, [161].
• Yúnus = Ibn Habíb, a friend of Isaac of Musul, [71].
• Za’amú = they opine, they declare (tr. “They set forth”), [55].
• Zabídún (here probably a clerical error for Zabíd, Capital of Tahámah), [193].
• Zafáir al-Jinn = Adiantum capillus Veneris, [95].
• Zalamah (Al-) = the policeman (tr. “men of violence”), [52].
• Zirtah = fart, [56].
• Zur ghibban, tazid hibban = visits rare keep friendship fair, [209].
• Zuwaylah Gate, [8].

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[1]. Bresl. Edit., vol. xi. pp. 321–99, Nights dccccxxx-xl.

[2]. Arab. “Iklím” from the Gr. κλίμα, often used as amongst us (e.g. “other climes”) for land.

[3]. Bibars whose name is still famous and mostly pronounced “Baybars,” the fourth of the Baharite Mamelukes whom I would call the “Soldans.” Originally a slave of Al-Sálih, seventh of the Ayyubites, he rose to power by the normal process, murdering his predecessor, in A.D. 1260; and he pushed his conquests from Syria to Armenia. In his day “Saint” Louis died before Tunis (A.D. 1270.)

[4]. There are sundry Sáhils or shore-lands. “Sahil Misr” is the River-side of Cairo often extended to the whole of Lower Egypt (vol. i. 290): here it means the lowlands of Palestine once the abode of the noble Philistines; and lastly the term extends to the sea-board of Zanzibar, where, however, it is mostly used in the plur. “Sawáhil” = the Shores.

[5]. Arab. “Sammár” (from Samar, = conversatio nocturna), = the story-teller who in camp or house whiles away the evening hours.

[6]. “Flag of the Faith:” Sanjar in old Persian = a Prince, a King.

[7]. “Aider of the Faith.”