340 ([return])
[ A huge marquee or pavilion-tent in India.]
341 ([return])
[ The Jinn feminine; see vol. i. 10. The word hardly corresponds with the Pers. "Peri" and Engl. "Fairy," a creation, like the "Dív," of the so-called "Aryan," not "Semitic," race.]
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[ Galland makes the Fairy most unjustifiably fear that her husband is meditating the murder of his father; and the Hindí in this point has much the advantage of the Frenchman.]
343 ([return])
[ Pers. = "Light of the World"; familiar to Europe as the name of the Grand Moghul Jehángír's principal wife.]
344 ([return])
[ The Arab stirrup, like that of the Argentine Gaucho, was originally made of wood, liable to break, and forming a frail support for lancer and sworder. A famous chief and warrior, Abú Sa'íd al-Muhallab (ob. A. H. 83 = 702) first gave orders to forge foot-rests of iron.]