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

Note 236 — THE TEN WAZIRS; OR THE HISTORY OF KING AZADBAKHT AND HIS SON.[130] (continued 2)

Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2

Arab. “Al-’Ásí” the pop. term for one who refuses to obey a constituted authority and syn. with Pers. “Yághí.” “Ant ’Ásí?” Wilt thou not yield thyself? says a policeman to a refractory Fellah.

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