Note 390 — KING SHAH BAKHT AND HIS WAZIR AL-RAHWAN.[295] (continued 2)

Arab. “Yá Madyúbah,” prob. a clerical error for “Madyúnah,” alluding to her many debts which he had paid. Here, however, I suspect the truly Egyptian term “Yá Manyúkah!” = O thou berogered; a delicate term of depreciation which may be heard a dozen times a day in the streets of Cairo. It has also a masculine form, “Yá Manyúk!”