Supplemental Nights to the Book of the Thousand and One Nights — Volume 4 (of 6)

Note 119 — THE STORY OF THE THREE SHARPERS.[17] (continued 2)

Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2

Arab. “Kahramánah;” the word has before been explained as a nurse, a duenna, an Amazon guarding the Harem. According to C. de Perceval (père) it was also the title given by the Abbasides to the Governess of the Serraglio.

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