Note 117 — Chapter VI
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Sonini, in his travels in Egypt, called it hobezé; there is, however, no h in the word, but a guttural k (خ) an error originating in a partial, and but an oral, knowledge of the Arabic language; or possibly he had seen the word written by a professed Arabian scholar, who frequently omits the punctuation, which he can make out by the tenour of the discourse; in this case the word would have been written with the letter h (ح).