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

Note 532 — THE MERCHANT’S DAUGHTER AND THE PRINCE OF AL-IRAK[498]

Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2

In Arab. “Khálat-kí insánun,” meaning also to lie with: compare the Gr. μίγνυμι Lat. misceo. [The same word occurs presently in another tropical sense: “Khálata-há al-Khajal wa ’l-Hayá” = shame and abashment mixed with her, i.e. suffused or overwhelmed her.—St.]

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