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[ "Hisában tawíl" = a long punishment.]
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[ The rod of Moses (see pp. 76-77) is the great prototype in Al-Islam of the staff or walking stick, hence it became a common symbol of dignity and it also served to administer ready chastisement, e.g. in the hands of austere Caliph Omar.]
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[ An onomatopy like "Coüic, Coüic." For "Maksah," read "Fa-sáha" = and cried out.]
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[ "Zindík" = Atheist, Agnostic: see vols. v. 230; viii. 27.]
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[ "Harísah" = meat-pudding. In Al-Hariri (Ass. xix.) where he enumerates the several kinds of dishes with their metonomies it is called the "Mother of Strengthening" (or Restoration) because it contains wheat—"the Strengthener" (as opposed to barley and holcus). So the "Mother of Hospitality" is the Sikbáj, the Persian Sikbá, so entitled because it is the principal dish set before guests and was held to be royal food. (Chenery pp. 218, 457.) For the latter see infra.]