Note 625 — TALE OF HIMSELF TOLD BY THE KING.[608]
Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2
[In Ar. “khallí-ná nak’ud,” a thoroughly modern expression. It reads like a passage from Spitta Bey’s Contes Arabes Modernes, where such phrases as: “khallí-ná niktib al-Kitáb,” let us write the marriage contract, “ma-tkhallihsh (for “má takhallíhu shay”) yishúfak,” let him not see thee, and the like are very frequent.—St.]