Volume 3 — INDEX.

654Abadan = never at all, 52.

Áb o hawá = climate, 362.

Abraham (according to Moslem born in Harrán), 269.

Abraham (according to Jews and Christians emigrated to Harrán from “Ur of the Chaldees”), 270.

Abú Antíká = father of antiquities (new noun in Arabic), 11.

Adam’s Sons = a term that has not escaped ridicule amongst Moslems, 149.

Address to inanimate object highly idiomatic and must be cultivated by practical Arabists, 150.

Affidavit amongst Moslems, 411.

Africa (Arab. “Afrikíyah”), here used for the limited tract about Carthage (Tunis), i.e. Africa Propria, 76.

Ághás, meaning Eunuch officers and officials, 112.

Ajáib (pl. of ’Ajíb) = “Marvellous!” (used in Pers. as well as Arab.), 181.

Alaeddin, i.e. the “Height or Glory (’Alá) of the Faith (al-Dín),” pron. Aláaddeen, 51.

Alaeddin, a favourite with the stage, 51.

’Alamah = an undeflowered virgin, 119.

Alexander the Great = Lord of the Two Horns, 148.

Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves (variants), 369.

’Álim = a learned man, 119.

Allah (Prince ’Ajíb forbidden to call upon name of), 18.

Allah, Shadow of—a title of the Shah, 531.

Almahs (fem. of ’Álim = a learned man) = professional singing and dancing-girls, 119.

Almás, Arab. (from ἀδάμας, and in Hind. “Hírá” and “Panná”) = diamond, 354.

“Ambergris’d” (aphrodisiac), 31.

Áminah, i.e. the secure (fem.), 326.

’Andalíb, nightingale, 506.

Aphrodisiacs, 133.

’Arab al-’Arbá = Arabian Arabs, 134.

Arab al-Arbá = prehistoric Arabs, 145.

Ardashír (King), son of Bábak, 180.

Arstable (astrolabe), 159.

’Asá = Staff, one of the properties of Moslem Saints, 183.

Asáfírí (olives, etc.), 405.

Asfandiyâr = two heroes of the Shahnámeh, both types of reckless daring, 524.

Ashkhás (pl. of Shakhs) = images (vulg. used in Moslem realms in the sense of persons or individuals), 12.

Ashrafí (Port. Xerafim), a gold coin whose value has varied, 294.

Astrolabe, (tr. “Astronomical-gear”), 159.

Astrology and astronomy, 159.

’Atík = antique, 11.

Ay Ni’am (Yea, verily, Yes indeed), an emphatic and now vulgar expression, 14, 31.

Aysh (Arab.) = Ayyu Shayyin and Laysh = li ayyi Shayyin, a popular corruption of olden date, 122.

“Aysh Khabara-k?” = how art thou? 122.

655Ayyám al-Nifás (Arab.) = the forty days after labour, during which a woman may not cohabit with her husband, 502.

Baba used in Pers., Turk. and Hindostani for Dad! Dear! Child! 311.

Baba Abdullah = Daddy Abdullah, 311.

Backgammon = “(jeu de) dames,” a term of European origin, 180.

Bádám or Bídám (almond), used by way of small change, 348.

Badr al-Budúr, i.e. Full moon of full moons, 95.

Bágh = Royal tiger, 530.

Baghdad (explained), 25.

Bahman, meaning one of the Spirits that presides over beasts of burden, 502.

Bakht = luck, good fortune, 331.

Bánú = a lady, a dame of high degree, 419.

Banú Adam = Sons of Adam (as opposed to Banú Elohim = Sons of the Gods), 88.

Banú al-Asfar = Sons of the yellow (Esau’s posterity in Edom), 88.

Banú al-Khashkhash = Sons of the (black) poppy (viz. Ethiopians), 88.

Bassorah-city = “Balsorah” (Galland), “Bansrá” (H.V.), 3.

Bayt al-Mukaddas = Sanctified House, 407.

Bazzistán (Arab.-Pers.) = market-place for Bazz = cloth, 431.

“Bean and ’twas split, A,” proverb suggesting “par nobile fratrum,” 179.

Bilisht = The long span between thumb-tip and minimus-tip, 353.

Bishangarh, 422.

Bisnagar (corruption of Sanskrit Vijáyanagara = City of Victory), 422.

“Blood hideth not from blood” (equiv. to Scotch “Blood is thicker than water”), 54.

Blood revenge religiously laudable, 180.

“Blood speaking to blood,” popular superstition, excusing unwarrantable liberties in Royal personages, 531.

Breslau Ed. quoted, 51.

Bridge at Baghdad made of the ribs of Og bin ’Unk (= Og of the Neck), 19.

Brow white as day and hair black as night (common conceit), 96.

Bukhárí = a place for steaming, 355.

Bulbul-i-hazár-dástán (Arab.), usually shortened to “Hazár” = (bird of a thousand tales = the Thousand), generally called ’Andalíb, 506.

But-Khánah = idol-house, syn. with But-Kadah = image-cuddy (tr. “Pagodas”), 427.

“Cage of Clapham,” 501.

Cairo (magnificent city of Egypt), 58.

Camel (not customary to mount lady upon in India), 294.

Camel (“Ushtur” or “Unth”), 294.

Camphor, use of, 361.

Carpet (the Flying), prototype of, 425.

Changes, contradictions and confusions inherent in Arab. stories, 93.

Chhuchhundar, Hind. (Sorex cærulescens) = musk-rat, 500.

China = the normal Oriental “despotism, tempered by assassination,” 164.

Chob-dár = rod-bearer, mace-bearer, usher, etc., 125.

Circus tricks with elephants, horses, etc., 430.

Coinage of Baghdad, 294.

Conclusions of Tales compared, 303.

Crows, audacious, and dangerous to men lying wounded, 344.

Dahab ramli (Arab.) = gold-dust washed out of the sand, placer-gold (tr. “pure sand-gold”), 126.

Darbár (Hind.), term for Royal Levée = Selám (Pers.), 451.

Darwaysh (Pers.), pron. by Egyptians “Darwísh,” 313.

Daryábár, der. from “Daryá,” the sea, and “bár” = region, 281.

Daryábár (Pers. = the ocean land), a fancy name for a country, 281.

“Dasht-i-lá-siwá-Hú” = a desert wherein is none save He (Allah), a howling wilderness, 284.

“Daughters” secondary figures in geomancy, “mothers” being primary, 156.

“Daughter shall be in his name” = betrothed to her, 110.

656“Dhobí-ká kuttá, na Ghar-ká na Ghát-ká” (Hindí saying) = a washerman’s tyke, nor of the house nor of the Ghát-dyke, 491.

Dhol = drums, 137.

Diamonds, 354.

Din (Al-); omission of, in proper names very common, 3.

Dínárzád and Shahrázád (for Dunyázád and Shahrázád), 3.

Divan-door, dismounting at, the highest of honours, 136.

Divan or Darbár (levée), being also a lit de justice and a Court of Cassation, 107.

Díwan—origin of Fr. “Douane” and Ital. “Dogana,” etc., 7.

Diyár Bakr, lit. Homes (or habitations) of Bakr (pron. “Diyár-i-Bekír”), 269.

Dogs, hatred of, inherited from Jewish ancestors, 330.

“Dream is the inspiration of the True Believer, The,” 8.

Dress, exchange of, 171.

Earthquakes (curious coincidence), 21.

Eaves-dropping (favourite incident of Eastern Storiology), 492.

Egypt (magnificent city of) = Cairo, 58.

Envious Sisters, The (various versions), 491.

Evil eye, to keep off the = one of the functions of iron and steel, 146.

Fair play not a jewel to the Eastern mind, 180.

Fakír, a title now debased in Nile Valley to an insult = “poor devil,” 313.

Fakír here the Arab. syn. of the Pers. “Darwaysh,” 313.

Fakír also come to signify a Koran-chaunter, 314.

“Falling-place of my head” = picturesque term for “birthplace,” 58.

Fals (or Fils) = a fish scale, a spangle of metal, 294.

Faraj (Al-) ba’d al-Shiddah = (Joy after Annoy), compared to Khudadad and his brothers, 269.

Farajíyah = gaberdine, 30.

“Farz,” devotions, 328.

Fátimah = a weaner, 181.

Fellah, natural fear of—being seen in fine gear, which would have been supposed to be stolen, 171.

Fí ghuzúni zálika (Arab.), a peculiar phrase (tr. “meanwhile”), 142.

Fils (or Fals) = a fish scale, a spangle of metal, 294.

Firozábádí (author of “Kámús”), Tale of, 84.

Firúzah (Arab.) = turquoise, (Pers. form Pírozah), 270.

Flying Carpet (prototype of), 425.

Food, calls for, at critical times not yet wholly obsolete amongst the civilised of the nineteenth century, 113.

Force of, fancy, 182.

Funeral, Customs at, 380.

Gáikwár, 134.

Galland quoted, 3, 12, 18, 19, 20, 22, 51, 53, 71, 77, 82, 87, 91, 108, 110, 116, 140, 158, 160, 167, 171, 297, 303, 321, 327, 331, 334, 335, 341, 348, 351, 353, 355, 363, 369, 377, 380, 385, 416, 422, 429, 446, 472, 500, 506.

Gandharba-lagana (fairy wedding) of the Hindus, 448.

Gandharbas = heavenly choristers, 448.

Gardens of the Hesperides and of King Isope (Chaucer), 74.

“Ghánim bin Ayyúb = the Thrall o’ Love”—position of in Arab. texts compared with Galland, 303.

Ghashím (Arab.), from the root “Ghashm” (iniquity) = a “Johnny Raw”—a “raw laddie,” 91.

Ghát (pop. “Ghaut”) = the steps (or path) which lead to a watering place, 491.

Ghayr an (Arab.) = otherwise that, except that (tr. “Still”), 82.

Ghazn = a crease—a wrinkle, 142.

Gheir (Syriac) = for (der. from Greek γὰρ), 82.

Ghúlah = an ogress (fem. of Ghúl), 327.

Giallo antico, verd’ antico = serpentine limestone, 139.

Gil-i-sar-shúí (Pers.) = head-washing clay (tr. “fuller’s earth”), 348.

Glass tokens (for coins), 351.

657Há! Há! so Háka (fem. Háki), Arab. = Here for thee (tr. “There! there!”), 89.

Habashi = an Abyssinian, 276.

Habshí (chief) of Jinjírah (= Al-Jazirah, the Island), admiral of the Grand Moghul’s fleets, 276.

Háfiz = traditionist and Koran reader, 341.

Hálah mutawassitah (Arab.) = middle-class folk, 94.

Hamídah = the Praiseworthy (according to Totárám Shayyán, instead of Fatimah = a weaner), 181.

Hammam-hu (Arab.) = bathed, i.e. scraping, kneading, soaping, etc., 133.

Harrán, King of, 269.

Harrán (the Hebrew Charran), 269.

Harun al-Rashid and his famous pilgrimage from Baghdad to Meccah, 177.

Hátif, or invisible speaker, 519.

Hindostani Version quoted, 3, 4, 6, 8, 11, 12, 19, 26, 27, 33, 51, 57, 61, 75, 79, 82, 85, 87, 95, 96, 97, 105, 113, 114, 116, 125, 129, 133, 137, 140, 144, 147, 148, 150, 158, 159, 160, 161, 166, 167, 170, 171, 174, 175, 180, 185, 188, 189, 294, 297, 355, 377, 380, 422, 446.

Hizám = girdle, sash, waist-belt, tr. “waist-shawl,” 20.

Horses used in India, 297.

Hydrophobia in Egypt, 330.

Hypocrites = those who feign to be Moslems when they are miscreants, 83.

Ibn mín, a vulgarism for “man,” 53.

Ibrahim al-Harráni (Arab. title for Abraham), 270.

“’Iddah” = days during which a widow cannot marry (tr. “widowhood”), 379.

“If Almighty Allah have appointed unto thee aught thou shalt obtain it without toil and travail”—a favourable sentiment, 10.

“’Ifr” (fem. ’Ifrah) = a wicked and dangerous man, 80.

Ifrít, mostly derived from “’afar” = dust, 80.

’Ilm al-Ghayb (Arab.) = the Science of Hidden Things, 452.

’Ilm al-Híah, gen. tr. “Astrology”—here meaning Scientific Physiognomy, 32.

’Ilm al-Mukáshafah = the Science by which Eastern adepts discover man’s secret thoughts (tr. “Thought-reading”), 539.

’Ilm al-Raml = (Science of the Sand), our geomancy, 156.

Imám = a leader of prayer, 380.

Imám = an antistes—a leader in prayer (a word with a host of meanings), 27.

’Imán = faith, prayer, 380.

’Imárah = a building, tr. here souterrain (probably clerical error for Maghárah = a cave, a souterrain), 15.

Improbable details on which stories depend, 160.

“I must present myself before him (the King) with face unveiled,” a Persian custom for women, 533.

Infanticide (in accordance with the manners of the age), 497.

“I will hire thee a shop in the Chauk”—Carfax or market-street, 61.

Jabábirah—fabled Giant rulers of Syria, 86.

Jám = either mirror or cup (meaning doubtful), 440.

Jám-i-Jamshíd, a well worn commonplace in Moslem folk-lore, 440.

Jaríd = The Cane-play, 327.

Jaríd, pop. Jeríd = the palm frond used as javelin, 145.

Jatháni = the wife of an elder brother (tr. “sister-in-law”), 373.

Jauharjíyyah, tr. jewellers (an Arab. plur. of an Arabised Turkish sing.—ji for—chí = (crafts) man), 95.

Jazírah (Al-) (Arab.) = Mesopotamia, 269.

“Jews hold lawful to them the good of Moslems” (Comparison of Jew and Christian in matters relating to dealing), 93.

Jewels (luminous), 354.

Jinníyah = the Jinn feminine, 470.

Ká’ah (Arab.) = the apodyterium or undressing room upon which the vestibule of the Hammam opens (tr. “great hall”), 133.

658Kabbaltu = I have accepted, i.e. I accept emphatically, 37.

“Káká Siyáh” (Pers.), i.e. “black brother” (a domestic negro), pronounces Názi-núzí, 285.

Káma (Arab.) = he rose; equiv. to “he began” in vulg. speech, 389.

Káma-Shástra = the Cupid-gospel, 429.

Kám Khudáí = master of his passions, 269.

Kanání (plur. of Kinnínah) = glass bottles, 92.

Kandíl (Al-) al-’ajíb = the Wonderful Lamp, 135.

Kár’ah, now usually called “Maslakh” = stripping room, 133.

Karúr = a crore, 129.

Kashákísh (Arab.), from the quadrille. ✔ Kashkasha = he gathered fuel (here tr. “fuel sticks”), 67.

Kasír (the Little one), 390.

Kattu from “Katta” = he cut (in breadth, as opposed to Kadda = he cut lengthwise), 52.

Kauri (or “Cowrie,” Cypræa moneta), 348.

Kawárijí (Arab.) = one who uses the paddle, a rower (tr. “boatman”), 18.

Kazzák = Cossacks, bandits, etc. (here tr. “pirates”), 288.

Khatíbah (more usually “Khutbah”) = the Friday sermon preached by the Khatíb, 492.

Khawábí (Arab.) (pl. of Khábiyah) = large jars usually of pottery, 11.

Khudá, mod. Pers. form of old Khudáí = Sovereign-King, 269.

Khudadad (derivation), 269.

“Khudadad and his brothers,” position of, compared with Galland, 303.

Khudadad and his brothers, relative position of, 269.

Khurtúm = the trunk of an elephant, 19.

Khuwáj = hunger, 61.

“Khwájá” for “Khwájah,” 61.

Khwájah = merchant and gentleman, 61.

Khwájah is also a honorific title given by Khorásánis to their notables, 61.

Khwájah Hasan al-Habbal = Master Hasan the Ropemaker, 341.

Kidí, pop. for Ka-zálika = on this wise, 174.

Kimcobs = velvets with gold embroidery, 140.

King in Persia speaks of himself in third person and swears by his own head, etc., 531.

“King’s Command is upon the head and the eyes” = must be obeyed, 164.

Kinship, Terms of, 373.

Kiosque or belvedere (used to avoid confusion between Kiosque and window), 140.

Kirámát = miracles, 181.

Kírát (Carat), most often one twenty-fourth of the dinar, 91.

“Kurbán-at básham” = May I become thy Corban or Sacrifice (formula used in addressing the Shah), 530.

La’ab al-Andáb (Arab.) = javelin-play, 154.

“Laffa ’l-isnayn bi-zulúmati-h” = tr. winding his trunk around them (latter word = Khurtúm the trunk of an elephant), 19.

Lájawardi, tr. “lapis lazuli,” 444.

Lakh (Anglicised “lac”) = 100,000, 357.

Lane quoted, 38, 119, 334, 492.

Lauh = tablet (of the heart), 386.

Lens, origin of, and its applied use in telescopes and microscopes, 432.

Líwán (Arab.) = Saloon, 71.

Lume eterno (of the Rosicrucians) = little sepulchral lamps burned by the Hebrews, Greeks and Romans, 72.

Maghárah = a cave, a souterrain, 15.

Maghrabi Sahhár = Wizard, 54.

Maghrabi, the Magician (in classical Arabic “Maghribi = a dweller in the Sunset-land”), 53.

Máh-i-Khudáí = the sovereign moon, 269.

Majlis garm Karná = to give some life to the company (tr. “to warm them into talk”), 535.

Malay Aigla = Sandal wood (tr. Eaglewood), 20.

Mameluke Beys (dignity forbidding them to walk even the length of a carpet), 177.

Mankalah, a favourite game in Egypt, 180.

659Marhúm (Al-) = my late brother (tr. “my brother who hath found mercy”), 58.

Marjánah = the “Coralline” (from Marján = red coral), tr. “Morgiana,” 378.

Market (Central) = the great Bazar, the Indian “Chauk,” 422.

Marmar Sumáki (Arab.) = porphyry of which ancient Egypt supplied finest specimens (tr. “Sumáki marble”), 139.

Marriages (Morganatic), 33.

Maslakh = stripping room (also Ká’ah), 133.

Mauza’ (Arab.) = a place, an apartment, a saloon (here tr. “hall”), 71.

Maydán = plain, 145.

Medinah (Al-), whose title is “Al-Munawwarah” = the Illumined, 58.

Mesmerism (“impose her hand upon his head”), 189.

Mesopotamia (Heb. Naharaym, Arab. Al-Jazírah), 269.

Met (Sindi) = a kind of clay, 348.

Mihaffah bi-takhtrawán (Arab.) = a covered litter, 33.

Miláh (pleasant) for Mubáh (permitted), 38.

“Min ba’di an” for “Min ba’di má” = after that, 34.

Mín (who) for “Man,” a Syro-Egyptian form common throughout the MS., 14.

Mirror, a compromising magical article of many kinds, 23.

Mirrors, made to open and shut in the East, 24.

Misr = used in a threefold sense for Egypt, old Cairo and new Cairo, 34.

Modesty in story of Alaeddin, 148.

“Moormen,” famed as Magicians, 54.

Morier and the literal translation of the “Arabian Nights,” 191.

Moslems make Wuzú-ablution and pray dawn-prayers before doing anything worldly, 141.

Mother (all women resembled her); an absurd statement to the West but true in the East, 97.

Mother takes rank before the wife, according to Moslem fashion, 301.

“Mothers,” the prime figures of geomancy, daughters being secondary, 156.

Mubárak = The blessed or well omened, 13.

Mukattaf al-Yadayn = arms crossed behind his back (a servile posture), 16.

Munáfik (Arab.) = “an infidel who pretendeth to believe in Al-Islam” (tr. “hypocrite”), 83.

Munawwarah (Al-) = the Illumined (title given to Al-Medinah), 58.

Musawwadatayn (Arab.) = lit. two black things, rough copies, etc. (tr. “affright”), 87.

Mushayyadát, tr. “ high-builded,” 66.

Músiká (Arab.), classically “Musikí,” = Μουσικὴ, Pers. Músikár = Music, 137.

Mustapha, 53.

Mut’ah = temporary and extempore marriage, 33.

Nabbút (Egyptian and Syrian weapon), 482.

Náblús = Samaria, 271.

Nadb = brandishing or throwing the javelin, 154.

Naharaym (Heb.) = Mesopotamia, 269.

Nakhing = making the camels kneel, 314.

“Nakshat” and “Sifrat,” tr. Coin and Gold, 29.

Nard = table, 180.

Nardashír (Nard Ardashír?), 180.

Nazaránah prop. = the gift (or gifts) offered by Moslem noble to his feudal superior, 486.

Náz o andáz (Pers.) = coquetry in a half-honest sense (tr. “amorous liveliness”), 285.

Negroids dreaded by Hindús, 276.

Nimak-harám, tr. “a traitor to the salt,” 286.

Nur al-Nihár = Light of the Day, 419.

Nur Jehán (Pers.) = “Light of the World,” 473.

“O Woman,” popular form of address, 108.

Oarsman stands to his work in the East, 25.

Objects (better kept hidden) seen with naked eye by telescope (vulgar belief), 438.

Og bin ’Unk (= Og of the Neck), the fabled King of Bashan, 19.

660“Old lamps for new lamps—who will exchange?” 159.

Onager, the Gúr-i-Khár of Persia, 282.

Onager (wild ass) confounded with Zebra, 282.

Pá-andáz (Pers.) = a carpet made of costly stuffs—a perquisite of Royal attendants, 141.

Pá-andáz = carpets and costly cloths (spread between Baghdad and Meccah for Harun al-Rashid), 177.

Papal bulls and Kings’ letters (in Mediæval Europe) were placed for respect on the head, 89.

Parasang (Gr. παρασάγγης), 456.

Parwez, older pronunciation of the mod. (Khusrau) “Parvíz,” 502.

Pashkhánah = a mosquito-curtain, 121.

Paysá (pice) = two farthings and in weight = ½ an oz., 352.

Penalty inflicted to ensure obedience, 336.

Peri-Banu (The Fairy), 419.

Peri (Parí) in its modern form has a superficial resemblance to “Fairy,” 419.

Peris, 419.

Perízádah = Fairy-born, 502.

Phantasms from the Divine Presence of ’Ali ’Aziz Efendi, the Cretan, 41.

Pictures of faces whose eyes seem to follow beholders, 427.

Pilaff (Turco-English form of Persian Puláo), 326.

Pilgrimage quoted, 314, 330, 405, 406.

Pilgrims settle in the two Holy Places, 406.

Pír = saint, spiritual guide, 8.

Pírozah = turquoise (Arab. form Fíruzah), 270.

“Písh-namáz” (Pers.) = fore-prayer, 380.

“Pointing the moral,” 265.

Prayers for the Dead recited over bier, 380.

Precocious children, 416.

Primitive attire of Easterns in hot climate, 20.

Prince, petty Indian, preceded in state processions by led horses whose saddles are studded with diamonds, 134.

Rabite (steed of purest) = an Arab of noble strain, 287.

“Rafá al-Bashkhánah” = he raised a hanging, a curtain (tr. “the arras”), 121.

Rahíl = Rachel, 355.

Ráih yasír (Arab.) = about to become (peasant’s language), 131.

Rajah of Baroda, 134.

Ratl (Arab.) pron. by Europeans “Rotl” (Rotolo) = pounds, 128.

Re-union after severance—modesty in Alaeddin as contrasted with Kamar al-Zamán, etc., 176.

Right hand (seated at the) a place of honour in Europe; amongst Moslems the place would be to the left, 136.

“Ring and the Lamp” have a magical effect over physique and morale of the owner, 104.

“Rise that I may seat myself in thy stead” (addressed to the full moon)—true Orientalism, 151.

Rosso antico (mostly a porphyry), 139.

Rukh = Roc, 186.

Rukh (the mythical—mixed up with the mysterious bird Símurgh), 188.

Sabbath (the) = the Saturday, 64.

Sabba raml = cast in sand (may be clerical error for “Zaraba raml” = he struck sand, i.e. made geomantic figures), here tr. “striking a geomantic table,” 68.

Sa’d = prosperity, 341.

Sa’dí = prosperous, 341.

Sádí (Al-) w’al-Ghádí = those who went forth betime (the latter may mean those who came for the morning meal), 27.

Sáhal for Sahal (broad “Doric” of Syria), 125.

Sahrá (Arab.) = desert (applied by Persians to waste grounds about a town; here to “barren hill-country”), 67.

Samaria (according to Moslems, Shamrín and Shamrún), 271.

Samáwah, confounded with Kerbela—a desert with a place of pilgrimage, 484.

Sámáwah (Town on Euphrates), 484.

Sámáwah, Desert of, 484.

Sarráf = a money-changer (tr. “shroff”), 333.

Sárú (dakhalú, jalasú etc.), in the plural for the dual—popular and vulgar speech, 66.

661Seal ring (or Signet ring), 72.

Seeking to release Soul of Prince who had perished, 298.

Semi-abortions (preservation of, a curse in xixth century), 498.

Serraglio-palace; der. from Serai (Pers.) = a palace, also der. from Cerrar (Spanish and Portuguese) = to shut up, 128.

“Shadow of Allah,” a title of the Shah, 531.

Shaghrí (Pers.), e.g. “Kyafsh-i-Shaghrí” = slippers of shagreen, 282.

Shagreen (der. from Pers. “Shaghrí”) produced by skin of wild ass, 282.

Sháhinsháh = King of kings, 534.

Sháhinsháh, a title first assumed by Ardashír, 500.

Sháhmiyánah = a huge marquee or pavilion-tent in India, 469.

Shahr-Bánu (Pers.) = City-queen, 486.

Shahwah (Arab.) = lust, 33.

Shahwah dáram = I am lustful, 33.

“Shaking out his skirts,” a sign of willingly parting with possessions, 316.

Shakhs, either a person or an image (here tr. “Image”), 18.

Sham’ádín, a would-be Arabic plural of the Persian “Sham’adán” = candlestick, chandelier, 109.

Shamrín (and Shamrún) = Samaria, 271.

Shástras—Hindu Scripture or Holy Writ, 429.

Shayy bi-lásh = lit. “a thing gratis or in vain” (here tr. “matters beyond the range of matter”), 68.

“She had never gone or come” = she was in her own home, 183.

Shísheh-ká paysá = a (pice) small coin of glass, 351.

Shīve-Zād, 47

“Shúf-hu,” Arab. (colloquial form of “Shuf-hu”) = look upon him, 58.

Sídí = my lord, 321.

Sídí mistaken for Sayyid, 321.

Sídí Nu’umán (sometimes “Sidi Nouman,” or “Sidi Nonman”), 321.

Silvern platters, 93.

Simsim (or “Samsam”) The grain = Sesamum Orientale, 370.

Skin of wild ass produce the famous Shagreen, 282.

Sleeping postures, 183.

Sleeping with drawn sword between man and maid, 116.

“Smell the air” = a walk, a “constitutional,” 397.

“Son of a minute, The,” i.e. which would take effect in the shortest time, 171.

Son (youngest of three) generally Fortune’s favourite in folk-lore, 453.

Soghd Samarkand = plain of Samarkand, 436.

Soul of Prince who had perished (seeking to release), 298.

Stirrup, The Arab, 478.

Subjects (Persian) both women and men are virtually King’s slaves, 533.

Suicide, Hindus adepts in, 166.

Sullam (pl. “Salálim”) popularly used for a flight of steps (tr. here souterrain-stairs), 75.

Sulúk (Arab.) a sufistical expression, the road to salvation (tr. “paths”), 185.

Suráyyát (lit. the Pleiades) and Sham’ádín, a would-be plural (Arabic) of the Persian “Sham’adán” = candlestick, chandelier, 109.

Taffaytu-hu = to extinguish (tr. “put it out”), 84.

Tafl (Arab.) = a kind of clay, 348.

Ták (or Tákah) = a little wall-niche, 351.

Tamanná (Arab.) = “She saluted the king by kissing her finger tips and raising them to her brow,” 108.

Tawáf = Circuiting (an act of worship), 298.

Teshurah = a Gift offered with the object of being admitted to the presence, 100.

Thag, equiv. to our English “Thug,” 374.

Thag = simply a “cheat,” but may also mean a robber, assassin, etc. (tr. “Bandits”), 374.

Theatre (shifting), 429.

“There is not a present (Teshurah) to bring to the man of God,” 100.

Thirst takes precedence of hunger, 320.

Thought-reading, 539.

“Three things lack permanency. Wealth without trading, Learning without disputation, Government without justice” (Sa’di in the Gulistan), 6.

662“Thy commands, O my mother, be upon my head, 89.

“Thy Highness,” a form of addressing royalty common in Austria, 108.

Trafír = trumpets, 137.

“Treasure trove,” the possession of exposing the owner to torture, 105.

Tú bará Thag hai = thou art a precious rascal, 374.

Turcoman blood (steed of), 297.

Turquoise stone, held as a talisman in the East, 270.

’Ubb (Arab.) = bulge between breast and outer robe (tr. “breast pocket”), 317.

“Uktuli’s-siráj,” the Persian “Chirághrá bi-kush” = kill the lamp, 84.

Unth = Camel, 294.

Ushtur = Camel, 294.

Vijáyanagara = City of Victory, 422.

Visions frequent in Al-Islam, 405.

Voices, disembodied, 515.

Wa’d al-Banât, or burial of Mauúdát (living daughters), 498.

“Wáhid min al-Tujjár,” the very vulgar style, 64.

Wahsh = Lion, 18.

Wálí = the Civil Governor, 375.

Walímah prop. = a marriage-feast, 15.

Washing hands and face—a preparatory washing as a matter of cleanliness preceding the formal Wuzú-ablution, 168.

Water-closet, wedding night in, 115.

Wazífah prop. = task, a stipend, a salary, (here tr. “duties”), 328.

Wazir expected to know everything in Oriental countries, 163.

Wedding, description of, 114.

Wedding night in water-closet, 115.

“What’s past is past and what is written is written and shall come to pass” (Sir C. Murray’s “Hassan”), 10.

“Whoso leaveth issue dieth not” (popular saying amongst Moslems), 55.

Wild ass (onager), 282.

Wild ass, meat of, 282.

Wild ass (skin of) produces the famous Shagreen, 282.

Will of man, The, a mighty motive power, 426.

Windows (first mention of in Arabic MS. of “Alaeddin”), 186.

Women (Alaeddin used to think all resembled his mother); an absurd statement to the West but true in the East, 97.

“Woven air,” local name of the Patna gauzes, 423.

Yá Rájul (for Rajul) = O man (an Egypto-Syrian form), 58.

Yámin, copyist’s error for “Yásimín,” tr. gelsamine, 19.

Yaum al-Mahshar = lit. the Day of Assembly (tr. Judgment Day), 21.

Zahab-ramlí = placer-gold, 15.

Zalm = the dewlap of sheep or goat, 19.

Zangi-i-Adam-kh’wár (tr. Ethiopian) afterwards called Habashi = an Abyssinian, 276.

Zanzibár = Blackland, 281.

Zarb Raml (Geomancy), 4.

Zayn al-Asnam, object of the tale, 38.

Zayn al-Asnam (Turkish) version by Mr. Gibb (note), 41.

Zayn al-Asnam; old ver. “Ornament (adornment?) of the Statues,” 3.

Zayn (al-Dín = Adornment of The Faith and owner of) al-Asnám = the Images, 3.

Zij = table of the stars—almanack, 159.