183 ([return])
[ The term has not escaped ridicule amongst Moslems. A common fellow having stood in his way the famous wit Abú al-'Ayná asked "What is that?" "A man of the Sons of Adam" was the reply. "Welcome, welcome," cried the other, "Allah grant thee length of days. I deemed that all his sons were dead." See Ibn Khallikan iii. 57.]
184 ([return])
[ This address to an inanimate object (here a window) is highly idiomatic and must be cultivated by the practical Arabist. In the H. V. the unfinished part is the four-and-twentieth door of the fictitious (ja'alí) palace.]
185 ([return])
[ This is true Orientalism, a personification or incarnation which Galland did not think proper to translate.]
186 ([return])
[ Arab. "La'ab al-Andáb;" the latter word is from "Nadb" = brandishing or throwing the javelin.]
187 ([return])
[ The "mothers" are the prime figures, the daughters being the secondary. For the " 'Ilm al-Ram!" = (Science of the sand) our geomancy, see vol. iii. 269, and D'Herbelot's sub. v. Raml or Reml.]