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[ Arab. "Yaum al-Jum'ah" = Assembly-day, Friday: see vol. vi. 120.]
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[ A regular Badawi remedy. This Artemisia (Arab. Shayh), which the Dicts. translate "wormwood of Pontus," is the sweetest herb of the Desert, and much relished by the wild men: see my "Pilgrimage," vol. i. 228. The Finnish Arabist Wallin, who died Professor of Arabic at Helsingfors, speaks of a "Faráshat al- Shayh" = a carpet of wormwood.]
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[ "Sáhibi-h," the masculine; because, as the old grammar tells us, that gender is more worthy than the feminine.]
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[ i.e. his strength was in the gold: see vol. i. 340.]
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[ Arab. "Haysumah" = smooth stones (water-rounded?).]