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

Note 132 — THE STORY OF THE THREE SHARPERS.[17] (continued 2)

Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2

Arab. “Amsik lisána-k”: the former word is a standing “chaff” with the Turks, as in their tongue it means cunnus-penis and nothing else. I ever found it advisable when speaking Arabic before Osmanlis, to use some such equivalent as Khuz = take thou.

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