Note 9 — STORY OF THE SULTAN OF AL-YAMAN AND HIS THREE SONS.[1]
Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2
Arab. “Bitá’í” = my own. I have already noticed that this is the Egypt form and the Nilotes often turn the ’Ayn into an H, e.g. Bitáht for Bitá’at, e.g. Ash-Shabakah bitáht as-Sayd, thy net for fishing. (Spitta Bey, Contes Arabes Modernes, p. 43.)