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Supplemental Nights to the Book of the Thousand and One Nights — Volume 2 (of 6)

Note 197 — TALE OF HARUN AL-RASHID AND ABDULLAH BIN NAFI’.[131]

Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2

For the etymology of Julnár—Byron’s “Gulnare”—see vol. vii. 268. Here the rhymer seems to refer to its origin; Gul (Arab. Jul) in Persian a rose; and Anár, a pomegranate, which in Arabic becomes Nár = fire.

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