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

Note 65 — THE STORY OF THE THREE SHARPERS.[17]

Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2

Arab. “Darbálah.” Scott (p. 24) must have read “Gharbálah” when he translated “A turban full of holes as a sieve.” In classical Arabic the word is written “Darbalah,” and seems to correspond with the Egyptian “Darábukkah,” a tabor of wood or earthenware figured by Lane (M.E. chapt. xviii.). It is, like the bowl, part of the regular Darwaysh’s begging gear.

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