Note 23 — THE SLEEPER AND THE WAKER.[1]
Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2
Arab. “Kursi,” Assyrian “Kussú” = throne; and “Korsáí” in Aramaic (or Nabathean as Al-Mas’udi calls it), the second growth-period of the “Semitic” family, which supplanted Assyrian and Babylonian, and became, as Arabic now is, the common speech of the “Semitic” world.