Note 369 — THE TAILOR AND THE LADY AND THE CAPTAIN.[364]
Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2
In the Arab. “Al-Ashkhákh,” plur. of “Shakhkh” and literally “the stales” meaning either dejection. [I read: “bi ’l-Shakhákh,” the usual modern word for urine. “’Alayya Shakhákh” is: I want to make water. See Dozy Suppl. s.v.—St.]