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Supplemental Nights to the Book of the Thousand and One Nights — Volume 1 (of 6)

Note 472 — KING SHAH BAKHT AND HIS WAZIR AL-RAHWAN.[295] (continued 2)

Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2

Arab. “Lá af’al”; more commonly Má af’al. Má and Lá are synonymous negative particles, differing, however, in application. Má (Gr. μὴ) precedes definites, or indefinites: Lá and Lam (Gr. οὐ) only indefinites as “Lá iláha” etc.

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