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Supplemental Nights to the Book of the Thousand and One Nights — Volume 3 (of 6) Part 1

Note 170 — ALAEDDIN; OR, THE WONDERFUL LAMP. (continued 2)

Richard Francis Burton translation

Arab. “Músiká,” classically “Musikí” = Μουσικὴ: the Pers. form is “Músikár”; and the Arab. equivalent is Al-Lahn. In the H. V. the King “made a signal and straightway drums (dhol) and trumpets (trafír) and all manner wedding instruments struck up on every side.”

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