Note 76 — HASSAN OR THE CHILD OF THE PYRAMID (continued 4)

This is one of the many instances which our language affords of the changes which words undergo in passing from the Arabic into European tongues, especially when the words contain that impracticable ayn, to which the reader’s notice has already been called. This word is written in the original ayn, t, and r, and should therefore be rendered âtr or ôtr. Some English dictionaries correctly write it “attar.”