Note 5 — STORY OF THE SULTAN OF AL-YAMAN AND HIS THREE SONS.[1]
Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2
I have hitherto translated “wa adraka (masc.) Shahrázáda al-Sabáh,” as = And Shahrazad perceived the dawn of day; but it is more correct as well as more picturesque to render the phrase “was surprised (or overtaken) by the dawn.”