Volume 2 — INDEX.

Abárík (Al-), pl. of Ibrík, an ewer containing water for the Wuzu-ablution, 170.

Abtál (pl. of Batal) = champions, athletes (tr. “braves”), 42.

Abú al-Tawáif (pron. “Abut-tawáif”), the Father of the (Jinn-) tribes, 84.

Abú Nowás (appearing in The Nights, a signal for an outburst of facetiæ), 153.

Adab = accomplishments, 68.

’Adi = an enemy (tr. “foe”), 14.

Afras = lit. a better horseman (tr. “doughtier”), 105.

Ahbábu-ná pl. for sing. = my beloved (tr. “my friends”), 103.

’Akíl, first cousin of Mahommed, 164.

Akwà min dahni’l-lauz = more strengthening than oil, 75.

’Alà kulli hál = “whatever may betide” or “willy nilly,” 283.

’Alam al-Din = “Flag of the Faith,” 4.

Alaykum = “Peace be on you” (addressed to a single person), 52.

’Alkam = the bitter gourd, colocynth, 218.

Allah, (“An alms, for the love of”), 44.

—— be the judge between me and thee, 52.

—— decreed of old, 90.

—— “Enter in the name of” = Bismillah, 38.

—— Gifted of, 200.

—— I look to, for aid, 202.

—— is All-great, 125.

—— “I seek refuge with” i.e., Allah forfend, 9.

—— made easy to me, 53.

—— Men, who resign themselves to = i.e., Moslems who practice the Religion of Resignation, 271.

Allah open to thee the door of subsistence, 44.

—— removed to the mercy of = he died, 78.

—— Take refuge with, from the Evil eye of her charms, 245.

—— This is the deposit of, then thy deposit = “I commit him to thy charge under God,” 184.

—— whom Allah save and assain, 173.

Allah ya’tík = Allah will give it thee, not I, 44.

“A mighty matter” may also mean “A masterful man” (reading Imraam = man for Amran = matter), 204.

Amín al-Hukm = “Faithful of Command,” 7.

’Anbar (tr. “Ambergris”), 67.

’Anká (Al-) = lit. “The long-necked” (bird), 128.

“Après moi le déluge,” 123.

Arab lovers jealous of their mistresses’ nightly phantom, 179.

Arab, of noble tribe, always first to mount his own mare, 248.

Arja’ = lit. return (tr. “desist”), 105.

Arzi-há = in its earth, its outlying suburbs (tr. “environs”), 198.

Ashírah = clan, 225.

At her last breath, when cured by the magic of love, 243.

Atwash (Al-) = one notable for levity of mind, 16.

A’zán-hú = lit. “its ears” (tr. “its pegs”), 159.

Aznání = emaciated one, 214.

386Bahár = ox-eye herb, 13.

Bakar (Ox) and Taur (Bull), Moslem emblems of stupidity, 178.

Balass ruby = of rare wood set with rubies, 251.

Balát = the flags (slabs of limestone and sandstone), 21.

Baliyah = bane and bale (to jingle with “Bábiliyah”), 153.

Banát al-hawá = lit. daughters of love (tr. “a merry girl”), 137.

Banú Shaybán = the King’s own tribe, 199.

Barári = deserts, 16.

Barber, the usual operator in circumcision, 116.

Bashkhánah (Al-) = the curtain, 165.

Bathing after copulation kept up by both sexes in ancient Rome, 142.

Bí-adabí = being without Adab (= rudeness, etc.), 68.

Bibars (pron. “Baybars”), 3.

Bid’ah = lit. an innovation, a new thing (tr. “accursed custom”), 266.

Bi jildi ’l-bakar = a cow hide, 96.

“Bilád al-Maghrib (al-Aksa” in full) = the Farthest Land of the Setting Sun (tr. “Sundown-Land”), 252.

Bishr and Hind (two well-known lovers), 211.

“Bismillah” = Enter in the name of Allah, 38.

“Bismillah; in the name of the Lord” = “Let us go,” etc., 85.

Blackening faces a promise of Hell-fire, 42.

Blood-feuds troublesome to travellers, 222.

Bráhmani = Hindu, Indian, 111.

Branchlet = a youth’s slender form, 162.

Breslau Ed. quoted, 3, 54, 55, 63, 67, 151, 183, 191, 259, 263, 275.

Bridegroom offers coffee and Halwá to friends after a “happy night,” 142.

Brutality of a Moslem mob, 168.

Bukhti = The Bactrian or double-humped dromedary, 235.

Bunduki (adj. of Bunbuk) = Venetian, 204.

Burka’ = the face veil of Egypt, etc., 172.

Calcutta Edition quoted, 137, 141.

Carrion, animals that died without beingceremonially killed, 175.

Chamber, a dangerous word in English, 129.

Chapter of the Cow (Koran), 175.

Chess rarely played for money in Europe, 205.

“Children” used for fighting men, 224.

Circumcision, 90.

Citadel of Lead = Capital of King Al-Shisban, 117.

Couch of Circumcision, 111.

Cranes of Ibycus, 59.

“Cried out from her head” = Sang in tenor tones which are always in falsetto, 238.

Crucifixion by nailing to an upright board, 49.

Cup-companions = the professional Ráwis or tale reciters, 266.

Dáhiyat al-Dawáhí = a calamity of the Calamities, 119.

Dara’ or Dira’ = armour (tr. “jerkin”), 209.

Darb = lit. a road (tr. “street”), 8.

Daur al-Ká’ah = the opening made in the ceiling for light (tr. “the opening of the saloon”), 23.

Dawát = ink-case (containing the reed-pens, etc.), 211.

Daylam (Al-) prison, 142.

Dayr al-Tin = “The Convent of Clay,” a Coptic monastery near Cairo, 284.

Delights of Paradise promised by the Prophet, 244.

Destiny, 61.

Die thou and be thou an expiation for the shoe-latchet of Kulayb, 263.

Dignity, permissible in royalty, affected by dames in Anglo-Egypt, 110.

Dimity (der. from “Damietta”), 210.

Divorce and marriage to Mahommed of the wife of Zayd (his adopted son), 197.

“Dog or hog” = a Jew or a Christian, 147.

Dromedaries the only animals used for sending messages over long distances, 249.

Du’á = supplication, prayer as opposed to “Salát” = divine worship, 94.

387Dukhán = lit. smoke, 126.

Dukhúlak = lit. thy entering (tr. “thy courtesy”), 109.

Durráj (tr. Francolin), 60.

Easterns startled by sudden summons to the presence of a king, 210.

“Empty gourds,” Eastern succedaneum for swimming corks, 286.

“Every one cannot go to Corinth,” 74.

Exchange of salams a sign of safety, 86.

Executioner, difficulty in Marocco about finding one who becomes obnoxious to the Thár or blood-feud, 54.

Fajj = mountain pass (Spanish, Vega = also a mountain plain), 117.

Falling backwards in laughter rare amongst the Badawin, 202.

Farásah = lit. Knowing a horse (tr. “Visnomy”), 96.

Farkalah (φραγέλλιον) = cattle whip, 47.

Farkh Warak = a slip of paper, 114.

Farsh = bed or straw-spread store room where apples are preserved, 113.

Fawwák (chair of), 72.

Fazl (Al-) the elder brother of Ja’afar, 71.

Fityán (pl. of Fatà) = my fine fellows, 42.

Flower = the breast, 252.

Fumigating gugglets (with musk), 275.

Gave her the hire of her going forth (i.e. Engaged her for a revel and paid her in advance), 44.

Ghalílí = my yearning (tr. “my thirst”), 102.

Gharbíyah (province in Egypt), 16.

Ghattí = “Cover it up,” 158.

Ghaur (or lowland) = the fall of the waist, 252.

Ghuráb al-bayn = Raven of the wold or of parting, 126.

Ghusl-ablution, 20.

Giant Face (a parallel to the “Bodiless Head”), 102.

Guest-fires, 249.

Hæmorrhage stopped by plunging the stump into burning oil, 168.

Hájib = eyebrow or chamberlain, 252.

Haláwah = Sweetmeat, 127.

Haláwat al-Miftáh = Sweetmeat of the Key-money (tr. “douceur of the Key”), 20.

Halfah grass, 46.

Hamd (Al-) = Allah-lauds, 221.

Hamzah, uncle of Mahommed, 164.

Hárát (or quarters) closed at night with strong wooden doors, 9.

Harísah = meat pudding, 277.

Hatif = an ally, 234.

Hauráni = (native of Hauran), Job’s country, 50.

Haykal (Ar. and Heb.) = a large space, a temple (tr. “hallowed fane”), 175.

He is of the lords of houses = folk of good family, 169.

“Hell-flame but not shame,” proverb, 148.

Hibá = dust.

Hijáz (Al-) = The Moslem’s Holy Land, (Cap. Meccah), 193.

Himà = the tribal domain (tr. “tribe-land”), 215.

Hirfah = a trade, a guild, a corporation (here the officers of police), 54.

“His eyes turned in his head” (to show the whites, as happens to the mesmerised), 242.

Horse-thief chained to four pickets of iron, 224.

House of the Elephant (at chess) = the Castle’s square, 205.

Hujjat = a legal deed (may also mean “an excuse”), 27.

Husn tadbir = lit. “beauty of his contrivance” (tr. “Seemliness of his stratagem”), 29.

I cannot fill my eye with the twain = cannot look at them long, 88.

“I commit him to thy charge under God,” 184.

“If his friend the Devil be overstrong for thee, flee him rather than be slain,” 202.

If my hand were changed = if my hand had lost its cunning, 78.

“I have not any eye that can look at him” = “I cannot bear to see him,” 110.

388Ihramat li al-Salát = she pronounced the formula of Intention (Hiyat) (tr. “the Prohibition”), 94.

Iklím = clime, 3.

’Iláj (Al-) = insertion (tr. “horizontal refreshment”), 185.

Imam = Antistes or fugleman at prayer who leads off the orisons, 101.

Inscriptions on metal trays sold to Europeans (also on table-cloths), 87.

Iraks (two) = Irák Arabí (Chaldæa) and ’Ajami (Western Persia), 191.

’Irk = vein (of our eye) equiv. to “the apple of the eye,” 144.

Irregular use of inn, perpetuated in some monster hotels throughout Europe, 20.

Irtiyád = a place where the urine spray may not defile the dress (tr. “a place to make water”), 13.

Isaac of Mosul, the greatest of Arab Musicians, 70.

I smell the scent of the Jinn, 125.

“I think not otherwise” = “I am quite sure,” 119.

I will lay down my life to save thee from sorrow—a common-place hyperbole of love, 181.

’Iyál-hu = lit. his family (tr. wives), 8.

Jabal (Al-) al-Mukawwar = the Crescent Mountain (from Kaur = a park), 119.

Jabhat = the lintel, opposed to the threshold (tr. here “‘forehead’ of his shop”), 137.

Jamal fálij = the palsy-camel, 235.

Jamrah = a bit of burning charcoal, 122.

—— = a live coal, 87.

Jazírah = insula, Island, used in the sense of “peninsula,” 220.

Jinns of Northern Europe, 86.

Job (traditions of), 50.

Julnár = Gulnare, 100.

Kamariyah (der. from Kamar = Moon) = coloured glass windows, 39.

Kásid = messenger, 37.

Katl = killed (Irish “Kilt”), 182.

“Kayásirah” (Cæsars) opp. to Akásirah, 263.

Kayrawán = Curlew, 93.

Kazi, ex-officio guardian of the orphans and their property, liable to punishment in case of fraud, 10.

Khalíj (Al-), The Canal (Grand Canal of Cairo), 286.

Khayr kathír = This is right good (also “abundant kindness”), 275.

Khorasan (including our Afghanistan), in a chronic state of rebellion in Al-Rashid’s reign, 167.

King consummates his marriage in presence of his virgin sister-in-law, 268.

—— Kulayb (“little dog”) al-Wá’il, 263.

—— Nabhán, 192.

—— of the Kingdoms (i.e. of the worlds visible and invisible), 6.

Kissing the hand, the action of a servant or slave, 81.

Kitáb = book, written bond, 27.

Koran quoted— ii. 148, 215. ii. 168, 175. xx. 30, 270. xxxiii. 35, 271. xxxiii. 38, 197. xlvii. 16, 177. lvi. 87, 88, 106. cxiii., cxiv., 101.

La’alla = peradventure (used to express expectation of possible occurrence), 20.

Laban = milk soured (tr. “curd”), 54.

Lajlaj = tied (his tongue was), 186.

La-nakhsifanna = I would assuredly, etc., 23.

Lane quoted, 246.

Last march (to the next world), 202.

Laysa fi ’l-diyári dayyár = “nor is there a wight in the site” (a favourite jingle), 275.

Leather from Al-Táif, 242.

Legal defects, (which justify returning a slave to the slave-dealer), 141.

Lieutenant of the bench, 24.

Lilláhi durrak = Gifted of Allah, 200.

Lithám = the coquettish fold of transparent muslin used by women in Stambul, 172.

Love (for “sleep”), 164.

Lúlúah = The Pearl or Wild Heifer, 95.

389Maamún (Al-) al-Hákim b’Amri’llah = The Secure, the Ruler by Commandment of Allah, 281.

Mabásim (pl. of Mabsim) = a smiling mouth, 162.

Madmen in hot climates enjoy throwing off their clothes, 22.

Majnún = “A madman,” 22.

Making a picture (or statue), which artist cannot quicken, a process demanded on Doomsday, 194.

Makrúh = blameable, not actually damnable, 46.

Malláh (Al-) = the salting ground, 54.

Malik (King), a title loosely applied in Arabic, 191.

Mamrak, or small dome built over pavilions (also Pers. “Bádhanj”), 82.

Mamrak = dome-shaped skylight, 39.

Máriyah (Maria, Mary) a non-Moslem name, 194.

Marj Salí = cleft meadow (here and below) tr. “Green Meadow,” 227.

Maròcco, earliest occurrence of name, 252.

Maut ahmar = violent or bloody death (tr. “red death,”) 11.

Ma’úzatáni = The Two Preventives (two chapters from the Koran), 101.

Mawálid (pl. of Maulid) = lit. “nativity festivals,” (here “funeral ceremonies”), 187.

Mawázi (pl. of Mauza’) = lit. places, shifts (tr. “positions”), 112.

May God never requite thee for me with good (i.e. Damn your soul for leading me into this danger), 39.

May I not be bereft of these steps = may thy visits never fail me, 110.

Meccah and Al-Medinah = The two Sanctuaries, 220.

Merchants wear dagger and sword, 38.

Mizwad (or Mizwád) = lit. provision bag, 222.

Mohammed Ali Pasha (the “Great”), 9.

More cutting = more bewitching, 143.

Morning and evening = day and night for ever, 195.

Moslems think the more you see of them the more you like them, 208.

Mu’ajjalah = money paid down before consummation, 141.

Mu’ajjalah = coin paid contingent on divorce, 141.

Mubáh = an action not sinful (harám) or quasi-sinful (makrúh) (tr. “lawfully”), 12.

Muhattakát = usually “with torn veils,” metaphor meaning in disgrace (tr. “unveiled”), 46.

Mu’ín al-Din = “Aider of the Faith,” 5.

Mukaddam = Captain, 7.

Mukhaddarát = maidens concealed behind curtains and veiled in the Harem, 265.

Munír = “The brilliant,” the enlightened, 100.

Musáfahah = clapping palm (of the hand), 225.

Mustauda = strong box, 9.

Mustaráh (Al-) = Chapel of Ease (a favourite haunting-place of the Jinn), 85.

Mutahaddisín = novi homines, upstarts (tr. “of the number of the new,”) 82.

Mutawallí = Prefect (of Police), 30.

Muzfir (Al-) = the Twister, 95.

Nadd, a compound perfume, 108.

Nahnu = we (for I), 28.

Náihah = the præfica or myriologist, 171.

“Naked intercessor” (one who cannot be withstood), 83.

Nasrín = moss-rose, 115.

Nawwáb (pl. of Náib) = a Nabob (tr. lit. “deputies”), 8.

Názilah = descent (of calamity), 176.

Názir al-Mawáris = “Inspector of Inheritances,” 286.

Necklace-pearls = the cup-bearer’s teeth, 253.

Ni’am = Yes (an exception to the Abbé Sicard’s rule), 19.

Night beset his back = darkened behind him, 197.

Niká (lit. sand hill) = the swell of the throat, 252.

Nún al-taakid = the N of injunction, 23.

Nuzhat-í = pleasance, 45.

Ocular testimony demanded by Moslem law, 17.

Oil, anointing with, for incipient consumption, 75.

390“On my shop” = bit of boarding wherethe master sits, or on a stool in thestreet, 281.

Orisons = the prayers of the last day andnight, 94.

Palace between two rivers = In Rauzah-island, 281.

Palace not the place for a religious andscrupulous woman, 229.

Part and parts = more or less thoroughly, 152.

Parturition and death easy compared withboth processes in the temperates of Europe, 23.

Payne quoted, 28, 54, 67, 73, 85, 110, 112, 154, 191, ib., 200, 227, 231, 248, 251, 267, 275, 281.

Perjury easily expiated amongst Moslems, 38.

Pilgrimage quoted— i. 62, 20 i. 87, 71 i. 100, 281 i. 119, 54 i. 127, 152 i. 173, 9 i. 321, 63 i. 338, 220 ii. 57, ib. ii. 297, 222 iii. 68, 59 iii. 385, 22 iii. 385, 51

“Plied him with wine,” a favourite habit with mediæval Arabs, 50.

Poetry (Persian,) often alludes to the rose, etc., 99.

Police (Eastern), 6.

Professional singers, becoming freed women and turning “respectable,” 254.

Pummel of the saddle, 85.

Quarters, containing rooms in which girls are sold, 71.

Queen Shu’á’ah = Queen Sunbeam, 107.

“Quench that fire for him” (i.e. hush up the matter), 15.

Raas Ghanam = a head of sheep (form of expressing singularity common to Arabic), 207.

Raba’ = lit. spring quarters (tr. “a lodging house”), 19.

Rasílah = a (she) partner (tr. “accompanyist”), 44.

Rayhánah, i.e. the “Basil,” mostly a servile name, 20.

Red Camel (Ahmar), 248.

Rikkí al-Saut = soften the sound (or “lower thy voice”), 89.

Rúhí = lit. my breath (tr. “my sprite”), 120.

Rustaki, from Rustak, a quarter of Baghdah, 209.

Saff Kamaríyát min al-Zujáj = glazed and coloured lunettes, 39.

Sahbá = red wine, 99.

Sáhils, or shore-lands, 3.

Sákiyah = water-wheel, 47.

Sammár = reciters, 3.

Santír = psalteries, 246.

Sat down (in sign of agitation), 211.

Sawákí = channels, 93.

Severance-spies = stars and planets, 236.

Shahrazad and Shahryar, 259.

Shaking his clothes (in sign of quitting possession), 205.

Sharárah = a spark, 87.

Sharí’at, forbidding divorce by compulsion, 147.

Sharifí = a sequin, 143.

Sharkíyah (province in Egypt), 16.

Sharr fi al-Haramayn = wickedness in the two Holy Places, 220.

Shawáhid (meaning that heart testifies to heart) tr. “hearts have their witnesses,” 87.

Shaybání (Al-) = “Of the Shaybán tribe,” 191, 199.

Shaykh al-Hujjáj = Shaykh of the Pilgrims, 63.

“Shaykh al-Tawaif” may mean “Shaykh of the Tribes” (of Jinns), 117.

Shayyan li ’lláh = lit. (Give me some) Thing for (the love of) Allah (tr. “An alms, for the love of Allah”), 44.

Sházz = Voice (doubtful if girl’s, nightingale’s, or dove’s), 244.

“She heard a blowing behind her” (a phenomena well known to spiritualists), 101.

391“She will double thy store of presents,” 111.

Shuhbá (Al-) = Ash-coloured, verging upon white, 110.

Sídí = “my lord” (here becomes part of a name), 151.

Sijn al-Dam = the Prison of Blood, 161.

Sim’án-son = son of Simeon, i.e. a Christian, 175.

Singing and music blameable (Makrúh), though not actually damnable, 46.

Sir fi hálik (pron. Sirfhák) = Go about thy business, 44.

Sirr (a secret), afterwards Kitmán (concealment) = keeping a lover down-hearted, 218.

Sitt al-Miláh = Lady or princess of the Fair (ones), 155.

Slaves fond of talking over their sale, 94.

Sons of Adam = his Moslem neighbours, 30.

Sons of the Path = Travellers, Nomads, Wild Arabs, 213.

“Son of the Road” = a mere passer-by, a stranger, 235.

“Spoiling for a fight,” 199.

“Squeezed my ribs,” a bear-like attack, common amongst lower orders of Egypt and Syria, 47.

Sunnah and Farz = The practice (of the Prophet) and the Holy Law (Koranic), 10.

Surah = Koranic chapter; here possibly clerical error for Súrah—sort (of food), 173.

Súsan = the lily (in Heb.), 116.

Swooper of the Jinn, 202.

Táb = “tip-cat,” 54.

Táf (Al-) a suburb of Baghdah, 71.

Tahzíb = reforming morals, amending conduct, etc., 240.

Talákan báyinan = a triple divorce before witnesses, 148.

Tamkín = gravity, assurance (tr. “Self-possession”), 8.

Tarfah = Tamarisk, 252.

Tarjumán = a dragoman (tr. “Truchman”), 185.

Thaghr al-Khánakah = The narrows of the (Dervishes’) convent, 74.

Thieves with hands lopped off, 44.

“Thine is ours and on thee shall be whatso is on us” = we will assume thy debts and responsibilities, 247.

This girl is a fat piece of meat (i.e. “There are good pickings to be had out of this job”), 17.

Thiyáb ’Amúdiyah = striped clothes, 79.

Those noble steps = thine auspicious visits, 82.

Thou comest to bring us victory = “comest thou to our succour,” 201.

Thrust his finger up his fundament (a diabolical way of clapping hands in applause), 89.

’Tis more acceptable to me than a red camel, 248.

Tobbas = “Successors” or the Himyaritic Kings, 263.

“To-day wine, and to-morrow business,” 177.

Tohfah = a Choice Gift, 79.

Tohfat al-Humaká = Choice Gift of the Fools, 73.

Tohfat al-Kulúb = Choice Gift of the Hearts, 73.

Tohfat al-Sudúr = Choice Gift of the Breasts (i.e. of the hearts), 84–133.

True believer imitates sayings and doings of the Apostle, 173.

Turkumániyah = Turcomanish (tr. “dragomanish”), 191.

’Úd = primarily “wood”; then a “lute” (tr. here “fuel”), 178.

’Udúl (pl. of Ádil) = men of good repute (tr. “notables”), 25.

’Ummár = the Jinn (tr. “Haunters”), 102.

’Urkúb, a Jew of Yathrib, 164.

’Urs (Al-) w’al-Tuhúr = “the wedding (which does not drop out of the tale) and the circumcision,” 90.

Veil me = protect my honour, 147.

Veil (raiser of) means a fitting purchaser, 73.

Violateth my private apartment, 243.

Voice (mysterious), 51.

392Wakálah (Egyptian term for a Khan), 153.

Wakhímah = an unhealthy land, 87.

Where am I, and where is the daughter, etc.? = “What have I to do with, etc.,” 7.

“Whoso journeyeth not enjoyeth not,” 152.

“Whoso keeneth for himself is not like whoso is hired to keen.” Proverb = “If you want a thing done, etc.,” 171.

Wine and Wassail, loose talk, etc., a favourite subject with lewd Moslems, 34.

Wine, carrion and pork lawful to Moslem if used to save life, 176.

“With love and gladness,” 137.

Women, drowsy charms of, 252.

Yad (Al-) al-bayzá = lit. The white hand (tr. “largesse”), 123.

Yáfis bin Nuh = Japhet, son of Noah, 111.

Yaftah’ Allah = Allah open (to thee the door of subsistence), 44.

Yá Khawand = “O lord and master,” 12.

Yá Mu’arras = O fool and disreputable (tr. “O pimp”), 21.

Ya’tamidúna hudà-hum = purpose the right direction (tr. “those who seek their salvation”), 32.

Yá Zínat al-Nisá = O adornment of womankind, 207.

“Ye are quit of,” etc. = You are welcome to it and so it becomes lawful (halál) to you, 161.

Yúnus = Ibn Habíb, a friend of Isaac of Musul, 71.

Za’amú = they opine, they declare (tr. “They set forth”), 55.

Zabídún (here probably a clerical error for Zabíd, Capital of Tahámah), 193.

Zafáir al-Jinn = Adiantum capillus Veneris, 95.

Zalamah (Al-) = the policeman (tr. “men of violence”), 52.

Zirtah = fart, 56.

Zur ghibban, tazid hibban = visits rare keep friendship fair, 209.

Zuwaylah Gate, 8.