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

Note 496 — THE KAZI SCHOOLED BY HIS WIFE.

Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2

He began to fear sorcery, Satan, etc. “Muslimína” is here the reg. Arab. plur. of “Muslim” = a True Believer. “Musulmán” (our “Mussalman” too often made plur. by “Mussalmen”) is corrupted Arab. used in Persia, Turkey and India by the best writers as Sa’adi; the plur. is “Musulmánán” and the Hind. fem. is Musalmání. Francois Pyrard, before alluded to, writes (i. 261) “Mouselliman, that is, the faithful.”

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