Note 559 — THE MERCHANT’S DAUGHTER AND THE PRINCE OF AL-IRAK[498]
Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2
In the text, “Wa sába’l-dár wa Zaujatu-hu mutawassíyín bi-há.” [I cannot explain to myself the plural “Mutawaṣṣín” unless by supposing that the preceding “Sáb al-Dár” is another blunder of the scribe for “Sáhibu ’l-Dár” when the meaning would be: “and the master of the house and his wife took charge of her (the nurse) during the days of suckling.”—St.]