Note 412 — CŒLEBS THE DROLL AND HIS WIFE AND HER FOUR LOVERS.
Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2
In text a “Mihtár” = a prince, a sweeper, a scavenger; the Pers. “Mihtar,” still used in Hindostani. [In Quatremère’s Histoire des Sultans Mamlouks “Mihtár” occurs also in the sense of superintendent, of head-equerry, and of chief of a military band. See Dozy Supp. s. v.—St.]