[386]. Arab. Aznání = emaciated me.
[387]. Either the Deity or the Love-god.
[388]. Arab. “Himà” = the tribal domain, a word which has often occurred.
[389]. “O ye who believe! seek help through patience and prayer: verily, Allah is with the patient.” Koran ii. 148. The passage refers to one of the battles, Bedr or Ohod.
[390]. Arab. “Sirr” (a secret) and afterwards “Kitmán” (concealment) i.e. Keeping a lover down-hearted.
[391]. Arab. “’Alkam” = the bitter gourd, colocynth; more usually “Hanzal.”
[392]. “For Jazírah” = insula, island, used in the sense of “peninsula,” see vol. i. 2.
[393]. Meccah and Al-Medinah. Pilgrimage i. 338 and ii. 57, used in the proverb “Sharr fi al-Haramayn” = wickedness in the two Holy Places.
[394]. Arab. Al-hamd (o li’llah).
[395]. i.e. play, such as the chase, or an earnest matter, such as war, etc.