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Supplemental Nights to the Book of the Thousand and One Nights — Volume 5 (of 6)

Note 612 — TALE OF HIMSELF TOLD BY THE KING.[608]

Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2

In text “Nuwájiru ’l-wukúfát.” [I read “nuwájiru (for “nuájiru”) ’l-wukúfát,” taking the first word to be a verb corresponding to the preceding, “nabí’u,” and the second a clerical error for “al-Maukúfát.” In this case the meaning would be: “and letting for hire such parts of my property as were inalienable.”—St.]

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