Note 359 — TALE OF KING INS BIN KAYS AND HIS DAUGHTER WITH THE SON OF KING AL-’ABBAS.[342]
Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2
Arab. “Lilláhi darruk”; see vol. iv. 20. Captain Lockett (p. 28) justly remarks that “it is a sort of encomiastic exclamation of frequent occurrence in Arabic and much easier to comprehend than translate.” Darra signifies flowing freely (as milk from the udder) and was metaphorically transferred to bounty and to indoles or natural capacity. Thus the phrase means “your flow of milk is by or through Allah,” i.e., of unusual abundance.