Note 70 — PRINCE AHMAD AND THE FAIRY PERI-BANU.[63]
Richard Francis Burton translation
The text has “But-Khánah” = idol-house (or room) syn. with “But-Kadah” = image-cuddy, which has been proposed as the derivation of the disputed “Pagoda.” The word “Khánah” also appears in our balcony, origin. “balcony,” through the South-European tongues, the Persian being “Bálá-khánah” = high room. From “Kadah” also we derive “cuddy,” now confined to nautical language.