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

Note 503 — THE MERCHANT’S DAUGHTER AND THE PRINCE OF AL-IRAK[498]

Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2

In the margin is written “Kbb,” possibly “Kubb” for “Kubbah” = a vault, a cupola. [I take “Kubba” for the passive of the verb “Kabba” = he cut, and read “Fajwatun” for “Fajwatan” = “and in that cave there is a spot in whose innermost part from the inside a crevice is cut which,” etc.—St.]

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