Note 7 — THE CALIPH’S NIGHT ADVENTURE.
Richard Francis Burton translation
In Galland it is Sidi Nouman; in many English translations, as in the “Lucknow” (Newul Kishore Press, 1880), it has become “Sidi Nonman.” The word has occurred in King Omar bin al-Nu’uman, vol. ii. 77 and 325, and vol. v. 74. For Sídí = my lord, see vol. v. 283; Byron, in The Corsair, ii. 2, seems to mistake it for “Sayyid.”
High in his hall reclines the turban’d Seyd,
Around—the bearded chiefs he came to lead.