Note 46 — THE STORY OF THE THREE SHARPERS.[17]
Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2
Arab. ✔ “Zabh” (Zbh) = the ceremonial killing of animals for food: see vols. v. 391; viii. 44. I may note, as a proof of how modern is the civilisation of Europe that the domestic fowl was unknown to Europe till about the time of Pericles (ob. B.C. 429).