Note 134 — TALE OF HARUN AL-RASHID AND ABDULLAH BIN NAFI’.[131]
Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2
Arab. “Adab:” see vol. i. 132, etc. In Moslem dialects which borrow more or less from Arabic, “Bí-adabí” = being without Adab, means rudeness, disrespect, “impertinence” (in its modern sense).