Note 2 — THE CALIPH’S NIGHT ADVENTURE.
Richard Francis Burton translation
Here the Arab. syn. of the Pers. “Darwaysh,” which Egyptians pronounce “Darwísh.” In the Nile Valley the once revered title has been debased to an insult = “poor devil” (see Pilgrimage i, pp. 20–22); “Fakír” also has come to signify a Koran-chaunter.