23 ([return])
[ The blessed or well-omened: in these days it is mostly a servile name, e.g. Sidi Mubárak Bombay. See vol. ix. 58,330.]
24 ([return])
[ In the test "Mín" for "Man," a Syro-Egyptian form common throughout this MS.]
25 ([return])
[ "Ay Ni'am," an emphatic and now vulgar expression.]
26 ([return])
[ The MS. here has "'Imárah" = a building, probably a clerical error for Maghárah," a cave, a souterrain.]
27 ([return])
[ Arab, "Zahab-ramlí," explained in "Alaeddin." So Al-Mutanabbi sang:—]
"I become not of them because homed in their ground: * Sandy
earth is the gangue wherein gold is found.">[