Note 438 — TALE OF MOHSIN AND MUSA.[435]

In the text “Músà wa Múzí,” the latter word = vexatious, troublesome. [I notice that in the MS. the name is distinctly and I believe purposely spelt with Hamzah above the Wáw and Kasrah beneath the Sín, reading “Muusí.” It is, therefore a travesty of the name Músà, and the exact counterpart of “Muhsin,” being the active participle of “asáa,” 4th form of “sáa,” = he did evil, he injured, and nearly equivalent with the following “Muuzí.” The two names may perhaps be rendered: Muhsin, the Beneficent, and Muusí, the Malignant, the Malefactor.—St.]