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

Note 118 — ALAEDDIN; OR, THE WONDERFUL LAMP.

Richard Francis Burton translation

Arab. “Ghashím” = a “Johnny Raw” from the root “Ghashm” = iniquity: Builders apply the word to an unhewn stone; addressed to a person it is considered slighting, if not insulting. See vol. ii. 330.

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