Volume 6 — Appendix II. ALPHABETICAL TABLE OF THE NOTES (ANTHROPOLOGICAL, &c.) (continued 2)

—— al-Nassáj (the Weaver) i. 344.

—— Kathír = This is right good (also “abundant kindness”), ii. 275.

Khayyál = sturdy horseman, i. 320.

“—— kabr-hu maftúh” (proverb) i. 320.

318Khazíb-dye, v. 200.

Khaznah = the Treasury = 1,000 kis or purses, each 500 piastres, £5,000, iv. 74, 180.

—— (Khazínah) or 10,000 Kís each = £5, v. 236.

Khaznat al-Siláh (Arab.) = the ship’s armoury, v. 403.

Khil’ah = robe of honour, consists of many articles, such as a horse, sword, etc., iv. 235; v. 410.

Khila’h dakk al-Matrakah, tr. “whereon plates of gold were hammered” (an especial kind of brocade) vi. 81.

Khimár (Arab.) = head-veil (a covering for the back of the head), v. 255.

Khizr = the Green Prophet, v. 301.

Khorasan (including our Afghanistan) in a chronic state of rebellion in Al-Rashid’s reign, ii. 167.

Khubz mutabbak = platter-bread, i. 3.

—— Samíz = firsts bread, i. 261.

Khudá, mod. Pers. form of Old Khudáí = Sovereign-King, iii. 269.

Khudadad (derivation), iii. 269.

“—— and his brothers,” position of, compared with Galland, iii. 303.

—— relative position of, iii. 269.

Khutbah = sermon, i. 350.

Khurtúm = the trunk of an elephant, iii. 19.

Khuwáj = hunger, iii. 61.

“Khwájá” for “Khwájah,” iii. 61.

Khwájah = merchant and gentleman, iii. 61.

—— is also a honorific title given by Khorásánis to their notables, iii. 61.

—— and Khawáját (Pers.) = merchants (Arab.), i. 332.

—— (spelt elsewhere “Khwájá”), iv. 50; corresponds with our “good man,” iv. 62.

—— Hasan al-Habbál = Master Hasan the Ropemaker, iii. 341.

Kíb (pl. “Kiyáb” and “Akyáb”) = a small thick mat used to produce shade (St.) v. 215.

Kidnapping (by Dervishes) iv. 153.

Kidr = a cooking pot, i. 48.

Kikán (pl. of Kík) tr. “raven,” vi. 147.

Kimcobs = velvets with gold embroidery, iii. 140.

King’s Eye = Royal favour, i. 61.

King consummates his marriage in presence of his virgin sister-in-law, ii. 268.

—— Kulayb (“little dog”) al Wá’il, ii. 263.

—— Nabhán, ii. 192.

—— of the Kingdoms (i.e. of the worlds visible and invisible), ii. 6.

—— of Bashan, iii. 19.

—— in Persia speaks of himself in third person, and swears by his own head, etc., iii. 531.

“King’s Command is upon the head and the eyes” = must be obeyed, iii. 164.

Kinnab = hemp, vi. 62.

Kinship, Terms of, iii. 373.

Kintár = a quintal, 98 to 99 lbs. avoir. (in round numbers, a cwt.) vi. 29.

Kiosque, traced through the Turk. Kúshk (pron. Kyúshk) to the Pers. “Kushk” = an upper chamber, iv. 151.

—— or belvedere (used to avoid confusion between Kiosque and window) iii. 140.

Kirámát = miracles, iii. 181.

Kírát (Carat), most often one twenty-fourth of the dinar, iii. 91.

Kirm Al- (Arab. and Pers.) = a worm, vi. 5.

Kirsh (pron. “Girsh”) the Egyptian piastre = one-fifth of a shilling, iv. 72; 281.

—— (Arab.), pop. “Girsh” = a dollar, iv., 281.

—— = piastre, v. 226.

—— (Arab.) = piastre, vi. 175.

Kis = purse = 500 piastres = £5, iv. 74.

Kís = usually the Giberne or pellet-bag (here the “bow-cover”) vi. 53.

Kishk = ground wheat, eaten with sheep’s milk soured, etc., vi. 160.

Kisra = Kutrú (Bresl.) Kassera (Chavis and Cazotte) i. 60.

Kisrá = Chosroës, i. 97.

“Kisrat al-yábisah ’ala ’l-Rík, etc.” = a slice of dry bread on the spittle, for it absorbs ... phlegm on the mouth of the stomach (St.) v. 51.

“Kissing him upon the mouth,” i. 153.

—— the hand, the action of a servant or slave ii. 81.

Kitáb = book, written bond, ii. 27.

Kit’ah humrah = a small quantity of red brickdust to which wonderful medicinal powers are ascribed (St.) vi. 125.

319Knife and salt placed on the stomach (Ar. Kalb) to repel evil spirits, i. 26.

“Kohl’d her eyes,” v. 292.

Kohl-powder, v. 292.

Koran quoted—i. 25, 51, 52, 100, 134, 148, 353; ii. 215, 175, 270, 271, 197, 177, 106, 101; iv. 201, 242, 252, 254; v. 44, 47, 48, 49, 50, 56, 58, 180, 460; vi. 100, 104, 156, 157.

Kubbah = a dome-shaped tent (tr. “Pavilion”) i. 99.

—— (square building with cupola) i. 119.

—— = vault, cupola, iv. 290.

“Kubbat al-’Asáfír” = the Dome of the Birds, vi. 181.

Kubúr = tombs, i. 295.

Kuhná, Syriac singular, according to dictionaries (St.) iv. 320.

——, Al- (Arab.), pl. of Káhin = diviner, priest (tr. “Cohens”) iv. 320.

“Kúl,” vulg. for “Kul” = “tell me”; a constant form in this MS., vi. 5.

Kuláh meant for “Kuláh” a Dervish’s cap (St.) v. 108.

Kúlanj (Arab.) = a true colic, iv. 177.

“Kullu Shayyin lí mu’as’as” = all to me is excitement, vi. 174.

Kumájah = First bread (i.e., Bread unleavened and baked in ashes) i. 8.

Kumri = turtle-dove, v. 151.

Kunafání = a baker of kunáfah = a vermicelli cake often eaten at breakfast, iv. 127.

Kunaym Madúd = Kingdom of Dineroux, i. 55.

Kunná nu’tíhu li-ahad = we should have given him to someone (Dr. Steingass also explains) vi. 73.

Kunyah (Arab.), the pop. mispronunciation of “Kinyah” = “bye-name” (gen. taken from favourite son, etc.) vi. 83.

Kurbáj (Arab.) = Cravache (“Scourge”) iv. 214.

“Kurbán-at básham” = May I become thy Corban or Sacrifice (formula used in addressing the Shah) iii. 530.

Kursí = Throne, i. 10.

Kursí (Arab.), here = a square wooden seat without back, used for sitting cross-legged (tr. “chair”) iv. 52.

Kursí stool = the stool upon which the Síníyah, or tray of tinned copper, is placed, iv. 170.

Kurúd = apes (occurring as a rhyme twice in three couplets) v. 190.

Kurúsh (Arab.), pl. of Kirsh, the Egyptian piastre = one-fifth of a shilling, iv. 72.

Kút = food not to be confounded with “Kuwwat” = force, iv. 225.

—— al-Kulúb, iv. 225.

Kutb (Al-) al-Ghauth (Arab.) = lit. “The pole-star of invocation for help” (tr.“Prince of the Hallows”) the highest degree of sanctity in the mystic fraternity of Tasawwuf, v. 426.

Kuthayyir = “the dwarf,” i. 41.

—— ’Azzah (contemporary of Jamíl), i. 41.

Kuwárah = that which is cut off from the side of a thing, iv. 179.

Kuwayyis (dim. of Kaus), much used in Egypt as an adj. for “pretty,” etc., iv. 350.

La’ab al-Andáb (Arab.) = javelin-play, iii. 154.

Lá af’al (“I will do naught of the kind”) more commonly Má af’al, i. 296.

La’alla = peradventure (used to express expectation of possible occurrence) ii. 20.

Lá baas = “No matter” or “All right,” (tr. “No harm be upon you”) i. 160.

—— Haula = there is no Majesty, etc., v. 359.

“—— Haul of Allah is upon thee,” i.e., it is a time when men should cry for thy case, v. 359.

La-hu Diráah (for Diráyah = prudence) fí tabírí’l-mulúk = tr. “Also he had control,” v. 465.

“Lá iláha illa ’llah,” the refrain of Unity, v. 403.

“—— khuzitat Ayday al-Firák,” meaning, “May Separation never ornament herself in sign of gladness at the prospect of our parting,” v. 200.

—— tafzah-ní = Do not rend my reputation. (St.) iv. 295.

Laban = milk soured (tr. “Curd”) ii. 54.

320Laban, pop. word for milk artificially soured, v. 352.

—— halíb (a trivial form) = sweet milk, v. 352.

La’bat Shawáribu-hu = lit. “his mustachios played” (tr. “curled”) v. 273.

Labbah (Arab.), usually part of the throat where ornaments are hung or camels stabbed (tr. “necklace”) iv. 68.

Labbayka = here am I (tr. “Here I stand”) iv. 317.

“Laffa ’l-isnayn bi-zulúmati-h” = tr. winding his trunk around them (latter word = Khurtúm the trunk of an elephant) iii. 19.

Laght (also pron. Laghat), a synonym of “Jalabah” = clamour, tumult. (St.) iv. 342.

Lahd, Luhd = tomb-niche, i. 292.

Lájawardí, tr. “lapis lazuli,” iii. 444.

Lajlaja = tied (his tongue was) ii. 186.

Lakasha = be conversed with, v. 285.

—— one of the words called “Zidd,” i.e., with opposite meanings, v. 285.

Lakh (Anglicised “lac”) = 100,000, iii. 357.

Laklaka-há (Arab.), an onomatopœia, v. 265.

“Lam yakthir Khayrak”; this phrase (pron. “Kattir Khayrak”) is the Egypt. and Moslem. equiv. for our “thank you,” v. 60.

“—— yanúb al-Wáhidu min-hum nisf haffán,” tr. “each took his turn thereat and drank without drinking his full,” v. 11.

—— Dr. Steingass explains and translates, “And none took his turn without sipping a few laps.” v. 11.

La-nakhsifanna = I would assuredly, ii. 23.

Lane, quoted, i. 3, 10, 11, 13, 16, 17, 21, 29. 31, 34, 146, 290; ii. 246; iii. 38, 119, 334, 492; iv. 19, 29, 34, 43, 45, 55, 56, 122, 209, 243, 257, 293, 296; v. 28, 86, 90, 97, 226, 265, 291, 351, 363, 426; vi. 46, 53, 74, 178.

Last march (to the next world) ii. 202.

Lauh = tablet (of the heart) iii. 386.

“Lawá’a-hu,” a clerical error for “láwa’a-hu.” (St.) iv. 306.

Lawwaha (Arab.) = lit. pointing out, making clear (tr. “bobbed”) iv. 190.

“—— -hu,” a conjectured reading for “lawá’a-hu.” (St.) iv. 306.

Laysa fi ’l-diyári dayyár = “nor is there a wight in the site” (a favourite jingle) ii. 275.

Learned men exorcising some possible “Evil Spirit” or “the Eye,” a superstition begun with the ancient Egyptians, iv. 60.

Learn from thyself what is thy Lord (Sufi language) = in Gr. γνῶθι σεαυτόν, and corresponding with our “looking up through nature to nature’s God,” v. 276.

Leather from Al-Táif, ii. 242.

Legal defects (which justify returning a slave to the slave-dealer) ii. 141.

Lens, origin of, and its applied use in telescopes and microscopes, iii. 432.

“Letters of Mutalammis” (“Uriah’s letters”) are a lieu commun in the East, vi. 94.

Lex talionis (the essence of Moslem and all criminal jurisprudence) i. 100.

Liallá (i.e., li, an, lá) = lest, i. 140.

Libás (Arab.) = clothes in general (tr. “habit”) vi. 103.

Libwah = lioness, i. 152.

Lieutenant of the bench, ii. 24.

Lijám (Al-) w’al-Bílám = the latter being a Tábi’ or dependent word used only for a jingle, v. 381.

Lilláhi durrak = Gifted of Allah, ii. 200.

Lion lashing flank with tail, iv. 160.

Litám = the mouth-band for man (tr. “Litham”) v. 139.

Lithám = the coquettish fold of transparent muslin used by women in Stambul, ii. 172.

“Live thy head, O King, for ever and aye!” (a formula announcing death of supposed enemy) vi. 17.

Líwán (Arab.) = Saloon, iii. 71.

—— al-barrání (Arab.) lit. = the outer bench in the “Maslakh” or apodyterium (tr. “outside the calidarium”) iv. 56.

Liyah (? Liyyah) = Lign-aloes, vi. 125.

321Líyúth (pl. of Layth) = Lions (used for “warriors”) i. 14.

Lodging in the Khan, vi. 95.

Long hand, or arm, means power (Arab. idiom) i. 114.

Long lock left on shaven poll, i. 233.

“Look-at-me-and-thou-shalt-know-me” (compound name) v. 276.

Love-fit distinguished by the pulse or similar obscure symptoms, vi. 174.

Love (for “sleep”) ii. 164.

“Love thy friends and hate thy foes,” the religion of nature, vi. 34.

Lovers dressing themselves up and playing the game of mutual admiration, v. 153.

Lovers of Al-Hayfá and Yúsuf (note concerning) v. 123.

Low-caste and uneducated men rise suddenly to a high degree, vi. 194.

“Loz” (Heb. and “Lauz” Arab.) = fruit of the Almond-tree = Amygdalus communis, vi. 7.

“Luh” = to him for “Lí” = to me, iv. 282.

Lukmah (Arab.) = a balled mouthful (tr. “morsels”) v. 264.

Lúlúah = The Pearl or Wild Heifer, ii. 95.

Lume eterno (of the Rosicrucians) = little sepulchral lamps, burned by the Hebrews, Greeks and Romans, iii. 72.

“Luss,” is after a fashion λῃστὴς (the Greek word however includes piracy while the Arab term is mostly applied to petty larcenists), v. 337.

Lute, beautiful song of the, v. 152.

Ma’adabah = wake or funeral feast before death, vi. 16.

Ma’ádin (Arab.) = Minerals (tr. “ingredients”) iv. 139.

Má al-Fasíkh = water of salt-fish (tr. “dirty brine”) (St.) v. 292.

Maamún (Al-) al-Hákim b’Amri’llah = The Secure, the Ruler by Commandment of Allah, ii. 281.

Maamún (Al-) Seventh Abbaside (A.H. 198–227) i. 175.

Mabásim (pl. of Mabsim) = a smiling mouth, ii. 162.

Madáfi al-Salámah (Arab.) = the cannon of safe arrival, iv. 124.

“Made small their sleeves and breasts” = habited themselves in the garments of little people, vi. 42.

Madínat al-Andalús = City of Andalús, (usually Seville) v. 402.

“Madínat al-Nabi.” City of the Prophet, and vulg. Al-Madínah the City, v. 43.

Madmen in hot climates enjoy throwing off their clothes, ii. 22.

Mad’úr, here translated (even if thou hadst been) “an invited guest,” v. 41.

—— it may also be a synonym and be rendered “as though thou wert a boor or clown” (St.) v. 41.

Máfrúkah (an improvement upon the Fatírah) a favourite dish with the Badawí (St.) v. 349.

Mafyaat, Al- (Arab.) = lit. “a shady place” (tr. here “mysterious subjects”) iv. 14.

Maghárah = a cave, a souterrain, iii. 15.

Maghbún usually = deceived, cajoled, v. 366.

Maghribi (vulg. Maghrabi) iv. 43.

——, the Magician (in classical Arabic “Maghribi = a dweller in the Sunsetland”) iii. 53.

Maghrib = set of sun, v. 151.

Maháshim (acc. to Bocthor, is a pl. without a singular, meaning “les pàrties de la génération”) (St.) v. 359.

Maháshima-k = good works, merits (in a secondary sense, beard, mustachios) tr. here “yard,” v. 359.

Mahazzin (for Maházim) al Zerdukkaut (for al-Zardakhán) according to Scott “Saffron—yoke of eggs, etc.;” according to Lane “apron napkins of thick silk” (tr. here “silken napkins”) iv. 55–56.

Mahdi (Al-) Third Abbaside (A.D. 775–785) i. 165.

Máh-i-Khudáí = the sovereign moon, iii. 269.

Mahkamah, i.e., the Kazi’s Court-house, iv. 169.

—— (Place of Judgment) or Kazi’s Court at Cairo, mostly occupied with matrimonial disputes, v. 363.

Mahmá = as often as = Kullu má, vi. 54.

322“Mahmud the Persian and the Kurd Sharper,” a poor version of “Ali the Persian and the Kurd Sharper,” iv. 242.

Mahr = marriage settlement, i. 283.

—— = dowry, settled by the husband upon the wife, v. 28.

Ma’húd min ghayr Wa’d, Al- (Arab.) = “the door where the appointment had taken place without risk threatened,” iv. 66.

Maidenhead, taking it held to be porter’s work, iv. 57. Decency compels maidens to show unwillingness in parting with, iv. 135.

Mail-coat Davidian (Heron, “A massy cuirass of Haoudi”) vi. 242.

Majlis garm karná = to give some life to the company (tr. “to warm them into talk”) iii. 535.

Majnún = “A madman,” ii. 22.

Ma’jún (Arab.) pop. applied to an electuary of Bhang (Cannabis sativa) (tr. “confections”) iv. 56.

Májúr Al- (Arab.) for “Maajúr” = a vessel, an utensil, v. 291.

Makán mahjúb = a retired room, i. 11.

Makhzúm = nose pierced, i. 47.

Making a picture (or statue), which artist cannot quicken, a process demanded on Doomsday, ii. 194.

Makrán, the well-known Baloch province West of Sind, i. 335.

Makrúh = blameable, not actually damnable, ii. 46.

Mál = wealth, i. 47.

—— = flocks and herbs (in Badawi parlance) iv. 3.

—— (in text), tr. “coin” (also applied to “hidden treasure” amongst Badawin) v. 313.

—— wa Ghawál (Arab.) = moneys and treasures, iv. 3.

“—— wa Nawál,” iv. 3.

Malay Aigla = Sandal wood (tr. Eaglewood) iii. 20.

Malik Shah = King (Arab.) King (Persian) i. 131.

—— (King), a title loosely applied in Arabic, ii. 191.

Malláh (Al-) = the salting ground, ii. 54.

Ma’lúmah (Arab.) = far-famed (may also mean “made known” or “afore-mentioned”) iv. 276.

Mameluke (like unto a), i.e., well-fed, sturdy, bonny, v. 472.

—— Beys (dignity forbidding them to walk even the length of a carpet) iii. 177.

Mamrak, or small dome built over pavilions (also Pers. “Bádhan”) ii. 82.

—— = dome-shaped skylight, ii. 39.

Ma ’múrah (Arab.) = haunted, v. 118.

Man metamorphosed into a woman, vi. 136.

—— of Al-kays, the (pre-Islamitic poet) v. 181.

—— with El, or God = Israel, vi. 100.

Manetho’s account of Moses, vi. 112.

“Mandíl” (kerchief) of mercy, iv. 31.

—— (kerchief) used by women “on the loose” in default of water to wipe away results of car. cop., v. 94.

Manjaník (Arab.) from the Greek Μάγγα νον or Μηχανὴ = a catapult, iv. 117.

Mankalah, a favourite game in Egypt, iii. 180.

Manná’ = a refuser, a forbidder, v. 185.

Mansúrah (Al-) = opinions differ as to the site of, i. 341.

Ma’rafah (Al-) = the place where the mane grows (tr. “crest”) i. 298.

Marhúm (Al-) = my late brother (tr. “my brother who hath found mercy”) iii. 58.

Máristán = Mad house, i. 18.

—— = The Bedlam, iv. 207.

Máriyah (Maria, Mary) a non-Moslem name, ii. 194.

Marj = the open grassy space on left bank of Baradah (Damascus) River, vi. 169.

—— Sali = cleft meadow (here and below) to “Green Meadow,” ii. 227.

Marjánah = the “Coralline” (from Marján = red coral), tr. “Morgiana,” iii. 378.

“Marham al-akbar, Al-” (Arab.) = the greater salve, v. 51.

Markab mausúkah (from ✓ “Wask” = conceiving, being pregnant) v. 474.

—— tr. “a vessel in cargo (and about to set sail),” v. 474.

Market (Central) = the great Bazar, the Indian “Chauk,” iii. 422.

323Marmar Sumáki (Arab.) = porphyry of which ancient Egypt supplied finest specimens (tr. “Sumáki marble”) iii. 139.

Marocco earliest occurrence of name, ii. 252.

Marriages (Morganatic) iii. 33.

Marriage portion, v. 28.

“Marrying below one,” i. 94.

“Martabah” = a mattress, placed upon “Mastabah” (bench) or upon its “Sarír” (framework of jaríd or midribs of the palm) becomes the “Díwan” = Divan, v. 68.

Martabán, iv. 204. See Bartamán, iv. 204.

Martabat Saltanah (for “Sultániyah”) which may mean a royal Divan, v. 68.

Martha and Mary (Fátimah and Halímah) v. 318.

Marwazí = Marw (derived from Sansk. Maru or Marw) i. 288.

Marzbán = guardian of the Marches, i. 234.

Masalah = a question (tr. “catch-question”) i. 138.

Masarat fí-há = and she used hard words to her, i. 31.

Masbúbah, tr. “Cakes,” v. 347.

Mas’h, tr. “robe” (of hair) vi. 157.

Mashá’ íli (Arab.) the cresset-bearer, who acted hangman (tr. “Linkman”) iv. 23.

“Mashá’ilíyah jaftáwát wa fánúsín” = “(cresset) bearers of double torches and lanterns” (St.) vi. 67.

Masháli = three parallel gashes drawn down cheek of child (to prevent kidnapping) iv. 153.

Mashrút Shadak (Arab.) = split-mouthed, iv. 91.

Maslakh = stripping room (also Ká’ah) iii. 133.

Massage (Greek synonym μάσσω and Latin “Massare”) iv. 177.

—— needlessly derived from Arab. “Mas’h” = rubbing, kneading, iv. 177.

Massa-hu’l Fakr = poverty touched him, vi. 105.

Masser, vulg. for Misr, Egypt Grand Cairo; from Misraim, Son of Cham, vi. 25.

Mastúrah = veiled (tr. “curtained”) i. 309.

Matamor (Arab. “Matmúrah”) = Sardábah, a silo for storing grain, etc., vi. 17.

Matáyá Al- = Wight, vi. 162.

Matmúrah = a silo, matamor, or “underground cell,” i. 84

Maugraby used as an opprobrious term (Fr. Maugrebleu) iv. 43.

Maunds (fifty) = about 100 lbs., i. 250.

Maut Ahmar = violent or bloody death (tr. “red death”) ii. 11.

Mauza’ (Arab.) = a place, an apartment, a saloon (here tr. “hall”) iii. 71.

Ma’úzatáni = The two Preventives (two chapters from the Koran) ii. 101.

Mawálid (pl. of Maulid) = lit. “nativity festivals,” (here “funeral ceremonies”) ii. 187.

Mawázi (pl. of Mauz’) = lit. places, shifts (tr. “positions”) ii. 112.

May God never requite thee for me with good (i.e., Damn your soul for leading me into this danger) ii. 39.

—— I not be bereft of these steps = may thy visits never fail me, ii. 110.

“—— it be fortunate to thee,” a little precatory formula to keep off the Evil Eye, iv. 119.

Maydán = plain, iii. 145.

Mayzah (Arab.) = the large hall with a central fountain for ablution attached to every great mosque (tr. “lavatory”) v. 458.

Mayzar (Pers.) = a turband; in Arab. “Miizar” = a girdle, a waistcloth, vi. 53.

Mazarát (Arab.) from ✓ “Mazr” = (an egg) being addled (tr. qualms) iv. 177.

Mazbúh = slaughtered for good, v. 159.

Mazlúm (Al-) = the wronged, vi. 59.

Mazrab Al- = the care of the place, vi. 251.

Meccah and Al-Medinah = The two Sanctuaries, ii. 220.

Medicine-man (Israelite) always a favourite amongst Moslems and Christians, v. 160.

Medinah (Al-), whose title is “Al-Munawwarah” = the Illumined, iii. 58.

Merchants wear dagger and sword, ii. 38.

Mesmerism (“impose her hand upon his head”) iii. 189.

324Mesopotamia (Heb. Naharaym, Arab. Al-Jazírah) iii. 269.

Met (Sindi) = a kind of clay, iii. 348.

Mezzízah = applying styptics to the wound (third operation of circumcision), v. 217.

Miat Mamlúk Kitáb (Arab.) latter word meaning “one of the Book, a Jew” or Christian, iv. 85.

Miat wa arba’at ’ashar Súrat = the 114 chapters of the Alcoran, i. 147.

Mídí, clerical error for “Mayyidí,” an abbreviation of Muayyadí = quarter farthing, iv. 127.

Miftáh (prop. “Miftah”) = key used throughout the Moslem East, v. 265.

Mihaffah bi-takhtrawán (Arab.) = a covered litter, iii. 33.

Mihrján (Al-) = the Autumnal Equinox, i. 129.

—— Al- (a P.N. not to be confounded with Maháráj = Great Rajah) v. 123.

Mihtár, also may mean superintendent, head equerry, chief of military band (St.) (here tr. “Shaykh of the Pipers”) v. 298.

—— (in text) = a prince, a sweeper, a scavenger, v. 298.

Miizar (Arab.) = a girdle, a waistcloth, vi. 53.

“Mík! Mík!” an onomatopy like “Couïc, Couïc,” vi. 158.

Mikshat (Arab.) whose ✓ would be “Kasht” = skinning a camel (tr. “Whittle”) iv. 100.

Miláh (pleasant) for Mubáh (permitted), iii. 38.

Milah = the cut (first operation of circumcision) v. 217.

Miláyah = a sheet of cotton used as apparel, iv. 220.

“Mi’lakat (pop. cor. for Mil’akat al-Hilál”) may be the spoon or hollow part of an ear-picker (St.) v. 108.

Milk, specific gravity of, iv. 238.

—— and dates, a favourite food, i. 59.

—— time (father has no connection with the mother during) iv. 350.

—— time was passed (two years) usual time amongst savages and barbarians, iv. 350.

Mín (who) for “Man,” a Syro-Egyptian form common throughout the MS., iii. 14.

’Min al-’Án wa sá’idan” lit. = from this moment upwards, vi. 189.

—— al-Malábis (Arab.) pl. of “Malbas” = anything pleasant or enjoyable, iv. 149.

—— al-Malábis (Arab.) pl. of “Milbas” = dress, garment, iv. 149.

—— ba’ada-hu (making Jesus of later date than Imr al Kays) v. 199.

“—— ba’di an” for “Min ba’di má” = after that, iii. 34.

—— ghayr Wa’ad = without appointment (tr. “casually”) v. 373.

“—— Min Hakk la-hu Asl an ’and-ná huná Rájil,” a thoroughly popular phrase = “Of a truth hath any right or reason to say that here in this house is a man?” v. 247.

—— (Dr. Steingass explains and translates) v. 247.

“—— kuddám-ak” (meaning doubtful), v. 113.

—— perhaps it means “from before thee,” i.e., in thy presence (St.) v. 113.

Míná = a port, both in old Egypt. and mod. Pers., vi. 258.

Mi’ráj = ascent to heaven made by Apostle and return therefrom, etc.—History of, vi. 121.

Mirror, a compromising magical article of many kinds, iii. 23.

Mirrors, made to open and shut in the East, iii. 24.

Mirwad = iron axle of pulley, etc.—hence a bar of metal (tr. “ingot”) iv. 142.

Mirza Mohammed Husayn Khan, originally a Bakkál (greengrocer) made premier of Fath Ali Shah’s Court, vi. 194.

Misallah (pl. “Misáll”) = a large needle for sewing canvas, iv. 288.

Miskah = Bit o’ Musk, i. 16.

Miskál is the weight of a dinar = 1½ dirham = 71–72 grains avoir., vi. 244.

“Misla’l-Kalám” (? a cler. error for “misla ’l-Kiláb”) = as the dogs do (St.) v. 282.

—— -Khárúf (for “Kharúf”) a common phrase for an innocent, a half idiot, v. 283.

Misr = used in a threefold sense for Egypt, old Cairo and new Cairo, iii. 34.

Misraim (the dual Misrs) vi. 12.

325“Misri” here = local name (in India applied exclusively to sugar candy) v. 352.

“Mithkála Zarratin” (translations by Author, Rodwell, Houdas and Steingass) v. 48.

“Mizr” in Assyrian = “Musur,” in Heb. = “Misraim,” in Arab. “Misr,” corrupted to Masser, vi. 12.

Mizwad (or Mizwád) = lit. provision bag, ii. 222.

Modesty in story of Alaeddin, iii. 148.

Mohammed Ali Pasha (“the Great”) ii. 9.

Mohsin = i.e., one who does good, a benefactor, v. 321.

“Moormen,” famed as Magicians, iii. 54.

More cutting = more bewitching, ii. 143.

Morier and the literal translation of the “Arabian Nights,” iii. 191.

Morning and evening = day and night for ever, ii. 195.

Moses (by name Osarsiph = Osiris-Sapi), history of by (Manetho) vi. 112.

Moslem school described, iv. 98.

Moslems all know how to pray, i. 13.

—— bound to see True Believers buried, i. 289.

—— make Wuzú-ablution and pray dawn-prayers before doing anything worldly, iii. 141.

—— shun a formal oath, i. 304.

—— think the more you see of them the more you like them, ii. 208.

Mother (all women resembled her); an absurd statement to the West but true in the East, iii. 97.

—— the head of the household (Kabírah) vi. 83.

“—— of Hospitality” is the Sikbáj (Pers. Sikbá) = principal dish set before guests, vi. 159.

—— of our Harím = my wife, v. 283.

“—— of Strengthening” (meat pudding) vi. 159.

—— takes rank before the wife, according to Moslem fashion, iii. 301.

“Mothers” the prime figures of geomancy, daughters being secondary, iii. 156.

Mourning-dress, iv. 248.

Mouse, passing over food, makes it impure for a religious Moslem to eat, v. 239.

Moyah (in text), or as Fellah of Egypt says “Mayyeh,” or the Cairenne “Mayya” and other forms, v. 323.

“Muábalát min shaani-ká” = (From early dawn) I have wearied myself, vi. 178.

Muaddib al-Atfál (Arab.) = one who teacheth children, iv. 95.

Muajjalah = money paid down before consummation (=£25) ii. 141.

Mu’ajjalah = coin paid contingent on divorce (=about £75) ii. 141.

Mu’ammarjiyah (master masons) vulg. Egypt. for “Mu’ammarín” (tr. “architects”), iv. 228.

Mu’arris = pander, i. 206.

Mu’awizzatáni (Al-) “Two Refuge-takings,” iv. 252.

Mubáh = an action not sinful (harám) or quasi-sinful (makrúh) (tr. “lawfully”) ii. 12.

Mubárak = The blessed or well omened, iii. 13.

Mubarbasah (Arab.) in the fem. because referring to noun Tíz = anus (St.) iv. 291.

Mubattat (Arab.) from batt = a duck (tr. “duck-shaped”) iv. 27.

Mudáwi Al- = the man of the people who deals in simples, etc. (as opposed to scientific practitioner) v. 326.

Mubdi’ = the beginner, the originator, v. 196.

Mubtalí Al = sore (leprous), v. 301.

Muhandisín = geometricians, architects, for “Muhandisín,” iv. 228.

Muhat takáat = usually “with torn veils,” metaphor meaning in disgrace (tr. “unveiled”) ii. 46.

Muhibbattu (Al-), fem. or “Muhibb” lover (in Tasawwuf particularly = “lover of God”) (St.) v. 393.

Muhjat al-kulúb = “Core” or “Life-blood of hearts,” v. 201.

“Muhkaman,” a word never found in the Koran, v. 47.

Mu’ín al-Din = “Aider of the Faith,” ii. 5.

Mu’izz bi-Díni ’llah, Al- (first Fatimite Caliph raised to the throne of Egypt), tale of, v. 43.

Mukábalah, the third form of “Kabil” = requital, retaliation (St.) vi. 55.

Mukabbab (Arab.) = vaulted, arched, &c. (tr. here “heaped”) iv. 9.

326Mukaddam = Captain, ii. 7.

—— (Anglo-Indicè “Muccuddum”) = overseer, v. 310.

Mukattaf al-Yadayn = arms crossed behind his back (a servile posture) iii. 16.

“Mukawwamína (Al-) wa Arbábu ’l Aklám,” the latter usually meaning “scribes skilled in the arts of caligraphy,” v. 374.

Mukh, lit. = brain, marrow (tr. “dimple”) v. 86.

Mukhaddarát = maidens concealed behind curtains and veiled in the Harem, ii. 265.

Mukrif = lit. born of a slave father and free mother (tr. “blamed lad,”) vi. 137.

Mulberry-tree in Italy bears leaves till the end of October, and the foliage is as bright as spring verdure, vi. 7.

Mulúkhíyá (der. from Gr. μαλάχη from μαλάσσω = to soften) a favorite vegetable, iv. 176.

Mulúkhiyah náshiyah (Arab.) lit. = flowing (tr. “gravied mallows”) iv. 176.

Munáfik (Arab.) = “an infidel who pretendeth to believe in Al-Islam” (tr. “hypocrite”) iii. 83.

Munajjim = Astrologer (authority in Egyptian townlets) i. 66.

Munawwarah (Al-) = the Illumined (title given to Al-Medinah) iii. 58.

—— (Al-) = the enlightened, v. 43.

Munír = “The brilliant,” the enlightened, ii. 100.

Munkati’ah = lit. “cut off” (from the weal of the world) tr. “defenceless,” i. 337.

Munkar and Nakír, the Interrogating Angels, i. 294.

Munnaskif (for manáshif) al fillfillee; according to Scott “compound of peppers” “red, white and black;” according to Lane and tr. here drying towels of Líf or palm-fibre, iv. 56.

Murafraf (passive) from Rafraf = anything overhanging something else (St.) iv. 338.

Murakhkhim = a marble cutter = simply a stone-mason, vi. 60.

Muruwwah lit. = manliness, i. 303.

Músà (Moses), vi. 112.

Músà wa Múzi = Músà the Malignant (Múzí = vexatious, troublesome) v. 321.

—— (Dr. Steingass reads Muusí, the malignant, the malefactor) v. 321.

Musáfahah = palm (of the hand) ii. 225.

Musajja’ (Arab.) = rhymed prose or Saj’a, iv. 133.

Musallà = Prayer-place, i. 313.

Musawwadatayn (Arab.) = lit. two black things, rough copies, etc. (tr. “affright”) iii. 87.

Mushayyadát, tr. “high-builded,” iii. 66.

Musician, also a pederast, i. 209.

Músiká (Arab.) classically “Musikí,” = Μουσικὴ, Pers. Músikár = Music, iii. 137.

Muslimína, the inflect. plur. of “Muslim” = a True Believer, v. 367.

Mustafà = the chosen Prophet, Mohammed, v. 203.

—— bin Ism’aíl (began life as apprentice to a barber and rose to high dignity) v. 110.

Mustanda = strong box, ii. 9.

Mustapha, iii. 53.

Mustaráh (Al-) = Chapel of Ease (a favourite haunting-place of the Jinn), ii. 85.

Musulmán (our “Mussalman,” too often made pl. by “Mussalmen”) is corrupted Arab. used in Persia, Turkey, etc., v. 367.

Mutahattil (Al-) usually = one who forsakes the world (tr. “oyster”) i. 215.

Mutahaddisín = novi homines, upstarts (tr. “of the number of the new”) ii. 82.

Mutalammis (“Jarír bin ’Abd al-Masíh”) a poet of “The Ignorance,” vi. 94.

“Mutalaththimín” = races in North Africa whose males wear the face-swathe (“Lithám”) of cloth, v. 139.

“Mutasa’lik” for “Moutasa’lik = like a Sa’lúk” = lean of limb, vi. 122.

Mutátí bi zahri-h (Arab.) = “hanging an arse,” v. 459.

Mutawallí = Prefect (of Police) ii. 30.

Mutawassí ... al-Wisáyat al-támmah (Wisáyat is corr. noun) = he charged himself with her complete charge, i.e., maintenance (St.) v. 474.

Mu’tazid bi ’llah Al-, Caliph, vi. 124.

327Mut’ah = temporary and extempore marriage, the Pers. Sí’ghah, iii. 33.

Muwaswas (Al-) = Melancholist, i. 264.

Muzawwaj = married, vi. 170.

Muzfir (Al-) = the Twister, ii. 95.

Mysteries of Marriage-night but lightly touched on, because the bride had lost her virginity, v. 417.

Naakhaz bi-lissati-him (in text), tr. “until I catch them in their robbery” (see under “Luss”) v. 337.

—— (Dr. Steingass reads “Balsatahum” = until I have received their “ransom”) v. 337.

Na’sh = a box like our coffin, but open at the top, iv. 289.

Nabbút (Egyptian and Syrian weapon), iii. 482.

—— = a quarter-staff, opp. to the “Dabbús” or club-stick of the Badawin, etc., v. 250.

Nabít, son of “Ashur,” vi. 3.

Nabíz = date-wine (or grape-wine) i. 160.

Nabk = lote tree or Zizyphus lotus, for sprinkling corpses, iv. 257.

Náblús = Samaria, iii. 271.

Nádán (Arab.) = the “unknowing” (as opp. to Naudán, the equiv. of Pers. “New of knowledge”) vi. 11.

Nadan (in Assyrian story) = Nathan Kin of the people of Pukudu, vi. 3.

——, The Fool, vi. 3.

Nádán (Pers.) = fool, vi. 3.

Nadb = brandishing or throwing the javelin, iii. 154.

Nadd, a compound perfume, ii. 108.

Naddábah = public wailing-woman, vi. 17.

Nafas lit. = breath (tr. “air”) i. 124.

Náfishah = Pers. “Náfah” der. from the ✓ “naf” = belly or navel (the part in the musk-deer supposed to store the perfume) v. 207.

Nagus = a pear, vi. 160.

Naharaym (Heb.) = Mesopotamia, iii. 269.

Nahawand, “Nahávand” the site in Al-Irak where the Persians sustained their final defeat at the hands of the Arabs (A.H. 21) v. 209.

—— also one of many musical measures (like the Ispaháni, the Rásti, etc.) v. 209.

Nahnu = we (for I) ii. 28.

“Nahs” = something more than ill-omened, something nasty, foul, uncanny, vi. 71.

Náhú (from ✓ “Nauh”) = making ceremonious “Keening” for the dead, vi. 17.

Náihah = the præfica or myriologist, ii. 171.

Na’ím = “the Delight” (also a P. N. of one of the Heavens) v. 199.

Náim (Al-) wa al-Yakzán = The Sleeper and the Waker, i. 1.

Na’íman = may it be pleasurable to thee (said by barber after operation) v. 106.

Najmat al-Sabáh = constellation of Morn, vi. 173.

Nákah = She-dromedary, i. 315.

Nakáír al- (pl. of Nakír = a dinghy, a dug-out) tr. “canoes,” vi. 258.

“Naked intercessor” (one who cannot be withstood) ii. 83.

Nakdí = the actual dowry as opposed to the contingent dowry, vi. 43.

Nakhing = making the camels kneel, iii. 314.

Nakkál, or coffee-house tale-teller, iv. 235.

Nakl (Arab.) = copying, describing, transcribing, iv. 193.

“Nakshat” and “Sifrat,” tr. Coin and Gold, iii. 29.

Nákús, or the Gong = Bell, vi. 100.

Name, not appearing in unedited tales, till much after the proper time for specifying it, iv. 299.

Names for clouds, rain, etc., in Arab. well nigh innumerable, vi. 241.

“Na’mil ma’allazí, etc., makídah,” idiom “I will do him brown,” iv. 282.

Nard = table, iii. 180.

Nardashír (Nard Ardashír?) iii. 180.

Nás malmúmín = assembled men, a crowd of people (St.) v. 253.

Nasím = the Zephyr, or the cool north breeze of Upper Arabia, v. 197.

Nasrín = moss-rose, ii. 115.

Nassafa = libavit, delibavit, etc. (St.) v. 11.

Natar (watching) for “Nataf” (indigestion, disgust) v. 63.

Natawású sawíyah = Solace ourselves with converse, v. 395.

328Natawású sawíyah (cler. error for “Natawánású Shuwayyah” = “let us divert ourselves a little”) (St.) v. 395.

Na’tázu (Arab.) viii. form of ’áza = it escaped, lacked, &c.; hence this form “we need” tr. “we require” (St.) iv. 290.

Nátúr (Arab.) pro. a watchman (tr. “old man”) iv. 204.

—— Al- = the Keeper, esp. of a vineyard, vi. 57.

Naubah, lit. = a period, keeping guard (here a band of pipes and drums playing at certain periods) v. 299.

Naudán (Arab.) equiv. to the Pers. “New of knowledge” as opp. to “Nádán” the “unknowing,” vi. 11.

Navel string, treatment of, v. 411.

Náwús = Tower of Silence, i. 264.

Nawwáb (pl. of Náib) = a Nabob (tr. lit. “deputies”) ii. 8.

Nayízáti (Arab. afterwards “Nuwayzátí” and lastly “Rayhání”) = a man who vends sweet and savoury herbs (tr. “Herbalist”), v. 298.

Naynawah, i.e., “Fish-town” or “town of Nin” = Ninus the founder, vi. 3.

—— in mod. days the name of a port on east bank of Tigris, vi. 3.

—— or “town of Nin” = Ninus, the founder, vi. 3.

Naysán, the Syro-solar month = April, vi. 27.

Nazaránah prop. = the gift (or gifts offered by Moslem noble to his feudal superior) iii. 486.

Názilah = descent (of calamity), ii. 176.

Názir al-Mawáris = “Inspector of Inheritances,” ii. 286.

Náz o andáz (Pers.) = coquetry in a half-honest sense (tr. “amorous liveliness”), iii. 285.

Názúk, prob. a corr. of Pers. “Názuk” = adj. = delicate, nice, vi. 67.

Nazúr = one who looks intently, for Názir, a looker, vi. 18.

Necklace-pearls are the cup-bearer’s teeth, ii. 253.

“Necks” per synecdochen for heads, i. 47.

Negative emphatic in Arabic, i. 206.

Negemet-il-Souper (Heron) = Najmat al-Sabah = constellation of morn, vi. 173.

Negroids dreaded by Hindús, iii. 276.

Never may neighbour defy thee, etc. (May thy dwelling-place never fall into ruin), i. 15.

“New lamps for old” as in “Alaeddin,” iv. 322.

Ni’am = Yes (an exception to the Abbé Sicard’s rule), ii. 19.

Night beset his back = darkened behind him, ii. 197.

Niká (or sand hill) = the swell of the throat, ii. 252.

Níl (=the high Nile), iv. 215.

Ním = Persian Lilac (Melia Azadirachta) used as preventative to poison, i. 64.

Nimak-harám, tr. “a traitor to the salt,” iii. 286.

Ním-chihreh (Pers.) = Half-man (Arab. “Shikk”), iv. 76.

Nímshah = half sword or dagger, i. 14.

Nisf ra’as sukkar Misri, tr. “half a loaf of Egyptian sugar,” v. 352.

Níshábúr (Arab form of Nayshápúr = reeds of (King) Shápur), i. 270.

Nisrín, an island, prob. fabulous, where amber abounds, vi. 12.

“Niyat” (or intention) not pure, cause of King’s failure, v. 111.

Niyyah (Arab.) = intent (normal pun upon the name), iv. 339.

Nizál = dismounting to fight on foot, vi. 231.

“None misses a slice from a cut loaf,” v. 393.

Nose (large in a woman indicating a masculine nature), i. 345.

“No thing poketh and stroketh more strenuously than the Gird,” or hideous Abyssinian Cynocephalus,—popular Eastern belief, iv. 333.

Nukl-i-Pishkil = goat-dung bonbons, i. 288.

Nún al-taakid = the N. of injunction, ii. 23.

Nur al-Nihár = Light of the Day, iii. 419.

Nur Jehán (Pers.) = “Light of the World,” iii. 473.

Nusf = half a dirham, drachma or franc, iv. 19–37.

Nusfs = Halves (i.e., of dirhams), i. 300.

—— (180 in these days = about 10d.), iv. 98.

Nu’umán (Al-), King of the Arab kingdom of Hirah, i. 170.

329Nuwab (broken plur. of “Naubah,”) the Anglo-Indian Nowbut (tr. “Drums”), i. 324.

Nuwájiru ’l-wukúfát = Settlement of bequeathal, v. 467.

—— (Steingass reads “nuwájiru”) (for “nuájiru”) ’l-wakúfát and translates “letting for hire such parts of my property as were inalienable” (St.), v. 467.

Nuzhat al-Fuád = “Delight of the Vitals” (or heart), i. 25.

—— al-Zaman = “Delight of the age,” v. 180.

Nuzhat-í = pleasance, ii. 45.

“O man, O miserablest of men, O thou disappointed,” etc., characteristic words of abuse, v. 359.

O my son! O my Child! (repetition a sign of kindness and friendliness) iv. 269.

O my uncle (to elder man): O my cousin! (to youth) iv. 119.

O rider of the jar, i.e., a witch, vi. 76.

O thousand-horned (thousandfold cuckold) i. 247.

O vile of birth (Asl) a man’s origin being held to influence his conduct throughout life, i. 62.

“O Woman,” popular form of address, iii. 108.

“O worshipper of Allah,” i.e., “O Moslem, opposed to enemy of Allah” = a non-Moslem, v. 460.

Oarsman stands to his work in the East, iii. 25.

Oath of triple divorce irrevocable, i. 246.

Obedience to children common in Eastern folk-lore, vi. 90.

Ober-Ammergau “Miracle play,” i. 250.

Objects (better kept hidden) seen with naked eye by telescope (vulgar belief) iii. 438.

Ocular testimony demanded by Moslem law, ii. 17.

“Of which a description will follow in its place,” a regular formula of the Ráwí, or professional reciter, v. 131.

Og bin ’Unk (=Og of the Neck), the fabled King of Bashan, iii. 19.

Oil, anointing with for incipient consumption, ii. 75.

“Old lamps for new lamps—who will exchange?” iii. 159.

’Omán, name of the capital of Eastern Arabia, vi. 139.

Omar ’Adi bin Artah, i. 39.

—— bin Abd al-Aziz = the good Caliph, i. 39.

—— ibn Abi Rabí’ah, the Korashí (i.e. of the Koraysh tribe) i. 41.

Ommiades, Cathedral Mosque of, one of the wonders of the Moslem world, vi. 172.

Onager, the Gúr-i-Khár of Persia, iii. 282.

—— (wild ass) confounded with Zebra, iii. 282.

“One day of the days,” a phrase emphasising the assertion that it was a chance day, iv. 75.

Only son has a voice in the disposal of his sister, vi. 83.

“On my shop” = bit of boarding where the master sits, or on a stool in the street, ii. 281.

“Open the spittle” = to break the fast, v. 51.

Original sin, vi. 247.

Orisons = the prayers of the last day and night, ii. 94.

Osarsiph = Osiris-Sapi (Moses) vi. 112.

“Otbah hath a colic,” vi. 77.

“Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings, &c.,” an idea not less Moslem than Christian, iv. 271.

Pá-andáz = carpets and costly cloths, (spread between Baghdad and Meccah for Harun al-Rashid) iii. 177.

—— = cloth to tread upon, vi. 259.

—— (Pers.) = a carpet made of costly stuffs—a perquisite of royal attendants, iii. 141.

Padding introduced to fill up the “night,” v. 460.

Paggí = Tracker, iv. 8.

Palace between two rivers = the Nílotic Rauzah-island, ii. 281.

—— not the place for a religious and scrupulous woman, ii. 229.

330Papal bulls and Kings’ letters (in Mediæval Europe) were placed for respect on the head, iii. 89.

Parasang (Gr. παράσάγγης), iii. 456.

Parks on the Coasts of Tropical Seas, i. 320.

Part and parts = more or less thoroughly, ii. 152.

Parturition and death compared with both processes in the temperates of Europe, ii. 23.

Parwez, older pronunciation of the mod. (Khusrau) “Parvíz,” iii. 502.

Pashkhánah = a mosquito-curtain, iii. 121.

Pay-day for boys in Egypt (Thursday) iv. 98.

Payne quoted, i. 1, 8, 11, 34, 56, 134, 165, 209, 222, 238, 278, 286, 288, 289, 306, 311, 312, 322, 327, 338, 344; ii. 28, 54, 67, 73, 85, 110, 112, 154, 191, ib., 200, 227, 231, 238, 251, 263, 267, 275, 281; iv. 332; v. 55, 69.

Paysá (pice) = two farthings and in weight = ½ an oz., iii. 352.

Pear-tree, not found in Badawi land, v. 117.

Penalty inflicted to ensure obedience, iii. 336.

Pennyroyal (here mere “shot”; the orig. has “Baítharán”) v. 458.

Perceval C. de, quoted, vi. 89.

Peri-Banu (The Fairy) iii. 419.

—— (Parí) in its modern form has a superficial resemblance to “Fairy,” iii. 419.

Peris, iii. 419.

Perízádah = Fairy-born, iii. 502.

Perjury easily expiated amongst Moslems, ii. 38.

Perspired in her petticoat trowsers (a physical sign of delight in beauty, usually attributed to old women) v. 142.

Pertinence (in couplets) not a sine quâ non amongst Arabs, v. 135.

Phantasms from the Divine presence of ‘Ali ’Aziz Efendi, the Cretan, iii. 41.

Pharaoh (of Hebrew Scriptures) has become with the Arabs “Fir’aun,” the dynastic name of Egyptian kings, vi. 12.

Pharos of Alexandria, one of the four Wonders of the Moslem world, iv. 36.

Philomelet, The shrilling, iv. 245.

Physiognomist, a favourite character in Arabic folk-lore, iv. 107.

“Physiognomy (‘Firásah’) unless there be the science of, other science availeth not,” iv. 10.

Piastre (Egyptian) = one-fifth of a shilling, iv. 72.

Pictures of faces whose eyes seem to follow beholders, iii. 427.

Pigeon blood, used to resemble the results of a bursten hymen, v. 29.

Pilaff (Turco-English form of Persian Puláo) iii. 326.

Pilgrimage quoted, i. 285, 337, 228, 207, 205, 42, 165, 194; ii. 20, 71, 281, 54, 152, 9, 63, 220, ib., 222, 59, 22, 51; iii. 314, 330, 405, 406; iv. 35, 38, 153, 196, 208, 343; v. 43, 180, 214; vi. 9, 83, 99, 104, 105, 131, 174.

Pilgrims settle in the two Holy Places, iii. 406.

Pír = saint, spiritual guide, iii. 8.

Pírozah = turquoise (Arab. form Fíruzah) iii. 270.

“Písh-namáz” (Pers.) = fore-prayer, iii. 380.

Pit = grave, i. 88.

“Plied him with wine,” a favourite habit with mediæval Arabs, ii. 50.

Poetry (Persian) often alludes to the rose, etc., ii. 99.

“Pointing the moral,” iii. 265.

Police (Eastern) ii. 6.

Porphyry quarries in Middle Egypt, rediscovery of, vi. 60.

Practical joking, a dangerous form of fun, as much affected by Egyptians as Hibernians, v. 455.

“Prayer of Moses, the man of God,” vi. 103.

Prayers at burial, beginning with four “Takbírs,” i. 290.

—— for the dead recited over bier, iii. 380.

——, whilst at, the Moslem cannot be spoken to, i. 197.

Precious stones, Arab superstitions concerning, v. 130.

331Precocious children, iii. 416.

Pretext for murdering an enemy to his faith (Jewish) an idea prevalent in Eastern world utterly wrong, v. 214.

“Pretty Fanny’s ways” amongst Moslems, v. 85.

Priah = tearing the foreskin (second operation of circumcision) v. 217.

Primitive attire of Easterns in hot climate, iii. 20.

Prince, petty Indian, preceded in state processions by led horses whose saddles are studded with diamonds, iii. 134.

Prison had seven doors (to indicate its formidable strength) v. 233.

Prisoners expected to feed themselves in Moslem lands, v. 338.

Professional dancer, i.e., a public prostitute, iv. 29.

—— singers, become freed women, turned out “respectable,” ii. 254.

Prothesis without apodosis, figure, iv. 29.

Public gaol = here the Head Policeman’s house. In mod. times it is part of the wall in Governor’s palace, v. 337.

Pummel of the saddle, ii. 85.

Punishment by flogging, vi. 9.

Purse = Kis = 500 piastres = £5, iv. 74.

Purses, one thousand compose the Treasury (“Khaznah”) = £5,000, iv. 74.

Puzzling questions and clever replies, a favourite exercise in the East, vi. 97.

Quarters, containing rooms in which girls are sold, ii. 71.

Queen Shu’á’ah = Queen Sunbeam, ii. 107.

“Quench that fire for him” (i.e. hush up the matter) ii. 15.

“Quicker to slay than Amrú bin Kulsum” (Proverb) vi. 94.

Raas Ghanam = a head of sheep (form of expressing singularity common to Arabic) ii. 207.

—— Sukkar = Loaf sugar, v. 352.

Raba’ = lit. spring quarters (tr. “a lodging house”) ii. 19.

Rabí’a vi. 245.

Rabite (steed of purest) = an Arab of noble strain, iii. 287.

Radáh (a form of “Rádih”) = “the large hipped,” v. 198.

Radíf or back-rider, common in Arabia, v. 162.

Rádih, a P.N. (St.) v. 161.

“Rafá al-Bashkhánah” = he raised a hanging, a curtain (tr. “the arras”) iii. 121.

Rafaka (and “Zafaka”) = took their pleasure, v. 282.

Rábíb = monk or lion (tr. “God-fearing”) vi. 155.

Rahíl = Rachel, iii. 355.

Ráhilah = a riding camel, i. 315.

“Rahúm” for “Rahím” (Doric form) = compassionate, vi. 18.

Rahwán (cor. of Rahbán) = one who keeps the (right) way, i. 191.

“Rá’ih fayn” = wending (art thou) whither? iv. 207.

Ráih yasír (Arab.) = about to become (peasant’s language) iii. 131.

Rain and bounty are synonymous, i. 43.

Ra’ís (fem. Ra’ísah) the captain, the skipper (not the owner) iv. 125., v. 22.

Raisins, an efficacious “pick-me-up,” v. 51.

Rajah of Baroda, iii. 134.

Rajul ikhtiyár, tr. “a man of a certain age” (polite term for old man) v. 402.

—— Ja’ídí = Larrikin, iv 280.

—— Khuzari (Arab.) = a green-meat man (tr. “costermonger”) v. 291.

—— Khwájá = Gentleman, v. 254.

“Rákiba-há”; the technical term for demoniac possession, v. 326.

Ram’s mutton preferred in wilder tribes of the East, because it gives the teeth more to do, v. 299.

Ramaha bi-h = bolted with him, v. 382.

Rankah or “Ranakah” prob. for “Raunakah,” which usually means “troubled” (speaking of water) (St.) v. 66.

Rape, i. 311.

Rasátík (pl. of Rusták) = villages, i. 256.

332Rashákah Al- (Arab.) a word not found in common lexicons, said to be a fork with three prongs, here probably a hat stand (tr. “peg”) (St.) v. 244.

Rasílah = a (she) partner (tr. “accompanyist”) ii. 44.

Rasmál (vulg. Syrian and Egyptian form of Raas al-mál = stock in trade) = capital in hand, i. 248.

Ratl (Arab.) pron. by Europeans “Rotl” (Rotolo) = a pound, iii. 128; iv. 295.

“Rauzah” in Algiers was a royal park, vi. 243.

“Rauz al-Sanájirah” = plain of the Sinjars, vi. 243.

Ráwi = a professional tale-teller (tr. “Seer”) i. 56.

Rayhánah, i.e. the “Basil,” mostly a servile name, ii. 20.

Razah = cedar or fir (old controversy) vi. 5.

Rází (Al-) = a native of Rayy City, i. 288.

Reading of “meat and drink” enjoyed by Arabs as much as by Englishmen, iv. 160.

Reading placed in more honourable place than writing (“Writing and reading,” as opposed to “Reading and writing”) vi. 5.

Red camel (Ahmar) ii. 248.

Red robes a sign of displeasure, iv. 297.

Red Sea (Holy Writ does not say that Pharaoh was drowned in) vi. 99.

Rent his robes (usually a sign of quiet, here a mark of strong excitement) v. 71.

Retribution confined to this life, and belief that Fate is fruit of man’s actions (Mosaic theory) vi. 140.

Re-union after severance—modesty in Alaeddin as contrasted with Kamar al-Zamán, etc., iii. 176.

Revetment of old wells in Arabia, mostly of dry masonry, v. 132.

Rheumatism, a common complaint in even the hottest climates, v. 160.

Riddle or conundrum, vi. 97.

Riding men as asses, a facetious exaggeration of an African practice, vi. 240.

Right hand (seated at the) a place of honour in Europe; amongst Moslems the place would be to the left, iii. 136.

Ríh = Wind, gust (of temper), pride, rage, v. 58.

Rikáb (Arab.) = Stirrup + “dár” (Pers.) = holder (tr. “groom”) iv. 24.

Rikkí al-Saut = soften the sound (or “lower thy voice,”) ii. 89.

“Ring and the Lamp” have a magical effect over physique and morale of the owner, iii. 104.

Ring given as token to show fair play, i. 248.

Rísah (copyist’s error for “Rishah”) = a thread, feather, line, iv. 259.

“Rise that I may seat myself in thy stead” (addressed to the full moon)—true Orientalism, iii. 151.

Ríshah = feather, plume, (usual meaning) Dr. Steingass explains, iv. 259.

Rising up and sitting down, usual sign of emotion, i. 348.

Riyál (from, the Span. “Real”) = royal (coin) tr. “real”, iv. 284.

“Rizk” equiv. for “Al-Rizku ’l-hasanu” = any good thing obtained without exertion (St.) iv. 245.

—— maksúm (Al-), an old and sage byword pregnant with significance, iv. 245.

Roc or vulture, vi. 23.

Rod of Moses became a common symbol of dignity, etc., vi. 157.

Rods of Moses and Aaron, vi. 98, 99.

Rodwell quoted, v. 42, 48.

Roger, old name of the parish bull in rural England, iv. 203.

“Rose up and sat down,” a sign of agitation, v. 328.

Rosso antico (mostly a porphyry) iii. 139.

Roum = Greeks, i. 134.

—— city of (Rúmí) vi. 89.

“Rub’a” (Arab.) pl. Arbá = the fourth of a “Waybah” (tr. “half a quartern”) iv. 128.

“Rudaynían,” from “Rudaynah,” either a woman or a place, vi. 230.

Rúh Allah lit. = breath of Allah (tr. “Spirit of Allah”) i. 251.

Rúhi = lit. my breath (tr. “my sprite”) ii. 120.

Rukh = Roc, iii. 186.

—— (the mythical—mixed up with the mysterious bird Símurgh) iii. 188.

333Rukhám = marble or alabaster, here used for building material, vi. 60.

Rumh = lance, i. 90.

Rúmí (“Roum”) in Marocco and other parts of Moslem world is still syn. with our “European,” vi. 89.

Rusáfiyah = a cap, i. 160.

“Rushdu ’llah” or “Al-Hudà,” spiritual direction or divine grace received from Allah, vi. 104.

Russians (Asiatics have a very contemptible opinion of the) v. 119.

Rustáki, from Rusták, a quarter of Baghdad, ii. 209.

Rutab wa manázil = degrees and dignities, i. 217.

Sá’ah = the German Stunde, our old “Stound” (meaning to Moslems the spaces between prayer-times) v. 151.

“Sa’alab” or “Tha’lab” = Fox, vi. 146.

Sabba raml = cast in sand (may be clerical error for “Zaraba raml” = he struck sand, i.e., made geomantic figures), here tr. “striking a geomantic table,” iii. 68.

“Sabbal’alayhim (for ’alayhinna, the usual masc. pro fem.) Al-Sattár” (Arab.) = lit. “the Veiler let down a curtain upon them,” v. 276.

Sabbath (the) = the Saturday, iii. 64.

Sabt = Sabbath, Saturday, v. 228, 324.

Sa’d = prosperity, iii. 341.

Sádah (Al-) wa al-Khatáyát tr. “various colors both plain and striped,” v. 223.

“Sádát wa Ashráf” = Sayyids and Sharífs, vi. 233.

Sa’dí = prosperous, iii. 341.

Sàdir (Al-) w al-Ghádí = those who went forth betime (the latter may mean those who came for the morning meal) iii. 27.

Saff Kamaríyát min al-Zujáj = glazed and coloured lunettes, ii. 39.

Safíh = slab over the grave (tr. “pave”) i. 41.

Safúl (Al-) = ranks of fighting men, or rows of threads on a loom, i. 48.

Sáhah = courtyard (as opposed to “Bathah” = inner court), i. 284.

Sáhal for Sahal (broad “Doric” of Syria) iii. 125.

Sahará pron. Sahrá, i. 251.

Sahbá = red wine, ii. 99.

(“Sahha) ’alakah (=a something) fí hazá ’l-Amri” = albeit I will take no part, vi. 245.

Sáhib = owner (same as “Dallál” = broker) iv. 224.

“—— al-Hayát” = astronomer (may also = a physiognomist) v. 289.

“—— al-jayyid” (Al-) (Arab.) = excellent companion, vi. 5.

Sáhibi-h = his mate (masculine) iv. 346.

Sáhils, or shorelands, ii. 3.

Sahl meaning “the easy tempered” (Scott writes “Sohul”) v. 138.

Sahrá (Arab.) = desert (applied by Persians to waste grounds about a town: hereto “barren hill-country”) iii. 67.

Sahríj = Cistern, v. 5.

Sails hoisted and canvas loosed (anchors weighed and canvas spread) i. 321.

Sajálmah-bird, unknown to dictionaries, prob. species of hawk, vi. 35.

“Sakalat” (Pers.) or “Saklatún,” whence Mr. Skeat would derive “scarlet,” vi. 5.

Sakf (flat roof), must have a parapet (a Jewish precaution neglected by Al-Islam) v. 219.

Sakhrah = labour, i. 84.

Sakhtúr (Arab.) for “Shakhtúr” tr. “batel,” v. 163.

Sákiyah = water-wheel, ii. 47.

Sakk (pl. “Sikák” and “Sukúk”) = “nail” (St.) v. 380.

Sakká (Arab.) = a water carrier, vi. 46.

“—— Sharbah,” who supplies water to passengers in streets, vi. 46.

Salaku-hu wa nashalú-hu = “they scored it,” v. 395.

“Salám” here = Heaven’s blessing, vi. 97.

Salám pronounced after prayers, i. 14.

Salásín = thirty (a clerical error for “three”) iv. 310.

Salát, sundry technical meanings, vi. 103.

—— = the formal ceremonious prayer, vi. 103.

“Salb” = impalement, everywhere else meaning crucifixion, vi. 206–1.

334“Sálihín” (Arab.) = the Saints, the Holy ones (tr. “the Hallows”) iv. 218.

Salkh (Arab.) = flaying (meaning also a peculiar form of circumcision) v. 214.

Salt rubbed on wounds to staunch the blood, v. 97.

Samár (Arab.) from Pers. “Sumar” = a reed, a rush, v. 226.

Samaria (according to Moslems, Shamrín and Shamrún) iii. 271.

Samaritans, vi. 160–1.

Samáwah, confounded with Kerbela—a desert with a place of pilgrimage, iii. 484.

——, Desert of, iii. 484.

—— (Town on Euphrates) iii. 484.

Samd = carpets and pots and pans (tr. Vaiselle) vi. 64.

Samhari, vi. 229.

Sámiri Al-, Golden Calf of, vi. 160.

——, translated by Christian commentators as “Samaritan,” vi. 160.

Sammán = quail, v. 151.

“Samman” (for “Sammán”) = quails, vi. 66.

“——” or “Summán” (classically “Salwá”) = quails, vi. 147.

Sammár = reciters, ii. 3.

Samm Sá’ah (in text), tr. “poison of the hour,” v. 352.

Samson’s enigma (Judges xiv. 12), vi. 106.

Sandarúsah (Arab.) = red juniper gum (from Pers. “Sandar” = amber) tr. “Sandarach,” vi. 141.

Sanják (in modern parlance) = minor

province, iv. 245.

—— (Turk.) = flag, banner, iv. 245.

—— -dar = the banner-bearer, ensign, iv. 245.

Sankharíb the Sovran, vi. 3.

Santír = psalteries, ii. 246.

Sapídaj (corresponding with “Isfidaj”), tr. “ceruse” or white lead, v. 130.

Sára’a hu wa láwa’a-hu = he rushed upon him and worried him (St.) iv. 266.

Sára la-hu Shanán, tr. “In his new degree he was feared,” v. 472.

—— (Steingass reads “Thániyan” = and he became second to him (the Sultan), i.e., his alter ego) v. 472.

Sar’a’l-Lijám, tr. “bridal thongs,” v. 385.

“Sárayah” (for “Saráyah,” Serai, Government House), tr. “Palace,” v. 6.

Saráy not to be confounded with Serraglio = Harem, iv. 234.

—— (Pers.) official head-quarters of the Walí, iv. 234.

Sára yuráshí-h, tr. “kindness and liberality,” v. 473.

—— (“Yuráshí” and “Yuráshú” are the 6th form of “rashá, yarshú”) = he bestowed a gift (principally for the sake of bribery), he treated kindly (St.) v. 473.

Sardáb = a souterrain, v. 117.

Sarhádún = “Sarkhadom” (Gauttier). The great usurper Sargon, vi. 6.

Sarír = a bier without the corpse, iv. 289.

“Sarkhah adwat la-há al-Saráyah” = a cry to which the Palace women raised an echo (St.) iv. 272.

Sarmújah (Arab.) = sandals, slippers, etc., v. 442; from Pers. “Sarmúzah,” a kind of hose or gaiter worn over a boot (St.) v. 217.

Sarráf = a money changer (tr. “shroff”) iii. 333.

—— Sarra Surrah (Surratan) = he tied up a purse (St.) v. 412.

Sarsarah (cler. error for “Akhaza (?) surratan”) = he took a purse, v. 462.

Sárú (dakhalú, jalasú, etc.), in the plural for the dual—popular and vulgar speech, iii. 66.

Sat down (in sign of agitation) ii. 211.

Satíhah (Arab.) = a She-Satíh, iv. 69.

Satl = water-can (Lat. and Etruscan Situla and Situlus, a water-pot) i. 291.

Sattár (Arab.) = “The Veiler” iv. 31 (corresponding with “Jupiter Servator”) iv. 270.

Sawábi (a regularly formed broken plural of a singular “Sábi’” = the pointing one) (St.) v. 419.

Sawáki = channels, ii. 93.

Sayabán (Pers.) = canopy, iv. 129.

Sayf kunúzí = a talismanic scymitar (tr. “magical sword”) v. 426.

Sayfu (Al-) w’-al Kalanj = scymitar and dagger, v. 381.

Sayyád, lit. = a fisherman, vi. 161.

Sayyáh (Al-) = the Shrieker, iv. 245.

Sayyid (descendant of Hasan) and the Sharíf (der. from Husayn) = difference between, v. 39.

335“Sáza, Yasízu” (Arab.) tr. “genealogist,” not a dictionary word—perhaps a clerical error for “Sāsa” = he groomed or broke in a horse, iv. 21.

Scarlet (red, violet, white, green) vi. 5.

“Sciences are of three kinds, etc.” iv. 10.

Scott quoted, iv. 3, 7, 14, 19, 27, 35, 43, 45, 55, 56, 59, 67, 74, 80, 90, 95, 97, 109, 127, 169, 176, 189, 244, 297, 303, 307, 334, 351; v. 3, 17, 21, 22, ib. 24, 30, 36, 39, 44, 50, 63, 65, 105, 114, 116, 119, 120, 123, 125, 138, 153, 184, 210, 213, 214, 227, 231, 253, 263, 273, 321, 335, 347, 357, 465.

Seal-ring (or Signet-ring) iii. 72.

Second-sight (Egypt. “Darb al-Mandal”) iv. 45.

Secret, difficult for an Eastern to keep, i. 342.

Seed pearls made into great pearls (also rubies and branch-coral) i. 197.

Seeking to release Soul of Prince who had perished, iii. 298.

Semi-abortions (preservation of, a curse in sixth century) iii. 498.

Sentiment, morbid and unmasculine French, contrasted with the healthy and manly tone of the Nights, v. 267.

Serraglio-palace; der. from Serai (Pers.) = a palace, also der. from Cerrar (Spanish and Portuguese) = to shut up, iii. 128.

Service (yearly value of his fief), i. 256.

Seven ages of woman-kind, v. 56.

—— handwritings, vi. 226.

Severance-spies = stars and planets, ii. 236.

Sha’abán (his face gladdening as the crescent moon of) v. 142.

Shabakah = net (hung over shop during absence of shopkeeper) i. 205.

Shabaytar = the Shuhrúr (in MS. Suhrúr) = a blackbird, v. 151.

—— also called “Samaytar” and “Abu al-Ayzar” = the father of the brisk one (a long-necked bird like heron) (St.) v. 151.

“Shadow of Allah,” a title of the Shah, iii. 531.

Shaghaf = violent love, joy, grief, vi. 15.

Shaghaftíní (also “Ashghaftíní”) from Shaghaf = violent love, joy, grief = “Thou hast enamoured me,” vi. 15.

Shaghrí (Pers.), e.g. “Kyafsh-i-Shaghri” = slippers of shagreen, iii. 282.

Shagreen (der. from Pers.) “Shaghri,” produced by skin of wild ass, iii. 282.

Shah Bakht = King Luck, i. 191.

Shah-Goase (Shah Ghawwás = King Diver), vi. 233.

Shahbán, Bresl. Edit. form of Shahryár = City-keeper, for City-friend, i. 334.

Sháhbander = King of the port, a harbour master, v. 254.

Sháhinsháh = King of kings, iii. 534.

—— a title first assumed by Ardashír, iii. 500.

Sháhmiyánah = a huge marquee or pavilion tent in India, iii. 469.

Sháhrazád (in Mac. Edit. Shahrázád) i. 334.

Shahrazád and Shahryar, ii. 259.

Shahr-Bánu (Pers.) = City-queen, iii. 486.

Shahrbáz (W. M. MS.) = City-player or city-falcon, iv. 6.

Shahrzádah (W. M. MS.) = “City born” (for “Shahrázád”) iv. 6.

Shahwah (Arab.) = lust, iii. 33.

Shahwah dáram = I am lustful, iii. 33.

Shá’il, copyist’s error for “Shághil,” act. part of Shughl = business affairs, v. 245.

—— (Here probably for the fuller “Shughl shághil”) = an urgent business (St.) v. 245.

Shajarat al-Durr = Branch of Pearl, i. 12.

—— Rih = Wind-tree (?) iv. 138.

Shakbán = the end of cloth, gown, cloak, etc. (Houdas) vi. 189.

Sháked (Heb.) = Almond-tree, vi. 7.

Shakhat, tr. here “revile” (St.) v. 3.

Shakhs = carven image, v. 30.

—— either a person or an image (here tr. “Image”) iii. 18.

—— mafsúd = man of perverted belief (i.e., an infidel) i. 352.

Shaking his clothes (in sign of quitting possession) ii. 205.

“—— out his skirts,” a sign of willingly parting with possessions, iii. 316.

Shakk (Arab.) = splitting or quartering, v. 96.

Shaklaba (here = “shakala”) = he weighed out (money), he had to do with a woman (tr. “tumbled”) v. 291.

336Shalabi = a dandy, a macaroni (from the Turk. Chelebi) v. 243.

Shám = Syria (and its capital) called Damascus (Cotheal MS.) vi. 167.

Sham’ádín, a would-be Arabic plural of the Persian “Sham’adán” = candlestick, chandelier, iii. 109.

Shamámah (or “Chamama,” accord. to Gauttier and Heron) vi. 68.

Shámat = cheek mole (beauty spot), applied to Damascus (Shám) vi. 167.

“Shám ba’d az nisf-i-shab” = dinner after midnight = supper (St.) iv. 244.

Shame (uncovered my), in this instance “head and face,” v. 329.

Shámiyánah = a royal pavilion (cor. of Pers. “Sayabán” = canopy) iv. 129.

Shámiyát bi al-Nár, an Inquisitorial costume (tr. “a black habit bepatched with flame colour”) iv. 79.

Shampooing (practice of) i. 116.

Shamrín (and Shamrún) = Samaria, iii. 271.

Shamúl (fem.) = liquor hung in the wind to cool, i. 42.

Sharárah = a spark, ii. 87.

Sharí’at, forbidding divorce by compulsion, ii. 147.

Sharif (a descendant from Mohammed) i. 285.

Sharífí = a sequin, ii. 143.

Sharkh (Arab.) = in dicts. the unpolished blade of hiltless sword (tr. here “a butcher’s chopper”) iv. 220.

Sharkíyah (province in Egypt) ii. 16.

Sharr (Al-) (“the wickedness”) last city in Meckran before entering Sind, i. 336.

—— fi al-Haramayn = wickedness in the two Holy Places, ii. 220.

Shásh = a small compact white turband and distinctive sign of the true Believer, v. 143.

Shashmah (from Pers. “Chashmah” = fountain) tr. “privies,” v. 458.

Shástras—Hindu Scripture or Holy Writ, iii. 429.

Shatárah (prop. cleverness), signifying vileness and rashness (St.) v. 220.

Shawáhid (meaning that heart testifies to heart) tr. “hearts have their witnesses,” ii. 87.

Shawwara binta-hu = he gave a marriage outfit to his daughter (St.) v. 28.

Shaybání (Al-) = “Of the Shaybán tribe” ii. 191.

Shayh = Artemisia, iv. 343.

Shaykh becomes ceremonially impure by handling a corpse, i. 290.

——, for humility, sits at the side of room, not at the top (“Sadr”) iv. 84.

—— of Islam, v. 317.

—— or head of the Guild for thieves, iv. 282.

—— al-Hujjáj = Shaykh of the Pilgrims, ii. 63.

—— al-Islám, the Chief of the Moslem Church, iv. 69.

“—— al-Tawaif” may mean “Shaykh of the Tribes” (of Jinns) ii. 117.

Shayyan li’lláh = lit. (Give me some) Thing for (the love of) Allah (tr. “An alms, for the love of Allah”) ii. 44.

Shayy bi-lásh = lit. “a thing gratis or in vain” (here tr. “matters beyond the range of matter”) iii. 68.

Sházz = Voice (doubtful if girl’s, nightingale’s, or dove’s) ii. 244.

“She had never gone or come” = she was in her own home, iii. 183.

“—— heard a blowing behind her” (a phenomenon well known to spiritualists) ii. 101.

“—— will double thy store of presents,” ii. 111.

Sherbet and coffee, mention of, makes the tale synchronous with that of Ma’aruf or the xvii. century, iv. 55.

Sherífí pl. of Sherífíyah (Egyptian form); here “Ashrafis,” iv. 336.

Shi’ah doctrine, v. 178.

Shikk (Arab.) = Half-man, iv. 69, 76.

Ship’s crew run on shore on their own business immediately the vessel cast anchor, v. 475.

Shísheh-ká paysá = a (pice) small coin of glass, iii. 351.

Shīve-Zād, iii. 47.

“Shobási,” for “Sobáshí,” vi. 191.

Shooting shafts and firing bullets at the butt, practised by Easterns on horseback, v. 421.

Shroft (Arab Sayrafi) i. 298.

337Shubbák = lattice (also “Mashrabiyah” = latticed balcony) i. 29.

“Shúf-hu,” (Arab.) (colloquial form of “Shuf-hu”) = look upon him, iii. 58.

Shuhbá (Al-) = Ash-coloured, verging upon white, ii. 110.

“Shuhrúr al-kanísah” = the Blackbird of the Church (Christians in Syria call St. Paul, on account of his eloquence) (St.) v. 151.

“Shurbah” (Pers. Shorbah) = mess of pottage (tr. “dish of roast meat”) iv. 22.

Shúwár (Arab.) = trousseau (St.) v. 28.

Si’at rizki-h = the ease with which he earned his livelihood (tr. “fortune”) i. 282.

Sibák (Arab.) usually = a leash (for falconry) tr. “silken cord,” vi. 46.

Sídí mistaken for Sayyid, iii. 321.

—— = my lord, iii. 321.

—— = “my lord” here becomes part of a name, ii. 151.

—— Nu’uman (sometimes “Sidi Nouman,” or “Sidi Nonman”) iii. 321.

Sífah (Arab.) lit. = a quality (tr. “property”) iv. 102.

Signet-ring made of carnelian, v. 52.

—— of kingship (important sign of sovereignty) v. 112.

Sijn al-Dam = the Prison of Blood, ii. 161.

Sikálah (Sing.) = scaffolding, vi. 61.

Sikbáj a marinated stew like Zirbájah, vi. 160.

—— (Pers. Sikbá) called “Mother of Hospitality,” being principal dish set before guests, vi. 159.

Sikkah (pl. Sikak) = (amongst other meanings) “an iron post or stake” (St.) v. 380.

Silk, Moslems may be shrouded in it, i. 26.

Silken napkins, iv. 55.

—— platters, iii. 93.

Simá’a lit. hearing applied idiomatically to the ecstacy of Darwayshes when listening to esoteric poetry, v. 151.

Sim’án-son = son of Simeon, i.e., a Christian, ii. 175.

Símiyá = fascination (a form of magic) vi. 132.

Simsim (or “Samsam”) The grain = Sesamum Orientale, iii. 370.

Sin akhi-irib = Sini (Lunus, or the Moon-god) increaseth brethren (Etymology of “Sankharíb”) vi. 3.

Sín Al- (in text) = China (here “Al-Sind”) v. 194.

Sinaubar (tr. “pine”) may also mean pistachio-tree, vi. 163.

Sind Revisited quoted, iv. 8; v. 3.

—— (so-called from Sindhu, the Indus, Pers. “Sindáb”) v. 3.

Sindiyán (from the Persian) = holm-oak, i. 247.

Singing and music blameable (Makrúh), though not actually damnable, ii. 46.

Síníyah = tray of tinned copper, iv. 170.

Sir fí hálik (pron. Sirfhák) = Go about thy business, ii. 44.

Sirhán = wolf, iv. 19.

Sirr (a secret), afterwards Kitman (concealment) = keeping a lover down-hearted, ii. 218.

“Sirru ’l-iláhi,” i.e., the soul which is “divinæ particula auræ” (tr. “Divine mystery”) v. 466.

Sirt’anta = thou hast become (for Sirtu ana = I have become) v. 86.

Sístán (Persian) Arab. Sijistán, i. 56.

Sitt al-Miláh = Lady or princess of the Fair (ones) ii. 155.

“Sitt-há” (Arab.), tr. “Mistress” (Mauritanians prefers “Sídah” and Arabian Arabs “Kabírah”) = the first lady, Madame Mère, v. 364.

Siwán (Arab.) pl. Siwáwín = pavilion, iv. 113.

Skin of wild ass produce the famous shagreen, iii. 282.

Slave become a King (no shame to Moslems) i. 348.

Slaves fond of talking over their sale, ii. 94.

——, when useless, made to “walk a plank” or tossed into the sea, v. 405.

Sleep at mid-forenoon (and afternoon) considered unwholesome by Easterns, iv. 324.

“—— with both feet in one stocking” (Irish saying for “Have a care of thyself”) v. 442.

Sleeping postures, iii. 183.

—— with drawn sword between man and maid, iii. 116.

338“Smell the air” = a walk, a “constitutional,” iii. 397.

“Smoke of camel’s dung” to drive off Evil Spirits, iv. 78.

Smoking and coffee, v. 236.

Sneezes (ceremony when a Moslem), iv. 95.

“Snsál” for “Salsál” = lit. chain (tr. “borders”) vi. 235.

Soghd Samarkand = plain of Samarkand, iii. 436.

“Solaced himself by gazing upon the trees and waters,” a feeling well known to the traveller, v. 390.

Soldiers serving on feudal tenure, i. 256.

Solomon’s Judgment, Moslem version of, iv. 236.

“Some one to back us,” i. 135.

“Son of a minute, The,” i.e., which would take effect in the shortest time, iii. 171.

“Son of the Road” = a mere passer-by, a stranger, ii. 235.

Son (youngest of three) generally Fortune’s favourite in folk-lore, iii. 453.

Sons = Men, a characteristic Arab. idiom, i. 2.

—— of Adam = his Moslem neighbours, ii. 30.

—— of the Path = Travellers, nomads, wild Arabs, ii. 213.

Soudans, Two, iv. 305.

Soul of Prince who had perished (seeking to release) iii. 298.

“Spare not blows to thy child,” a barbarous sentiment of Biblical inspiration, vi. 9.

“—— the rod and spoil the child,” vi. 9.

“Spoiling for a fight,” ii. 199.

Spreading (the mats, mattresses, rugs, etc., of well-to-do Eastern lodging) v. 233.

“Squeezed my ribs,” a bear-like attack, common amongst lower orders of Egypt and Syria, ii. 47.

Standards and colours, an unfailing accompaniment of the Jinn army, iv. 89

“Stick wherewith he tapped and drew lines in absent fashion on the ground,” v. 10.

Stirrup, The Arab, iii. 478.

Stomach has two mouths, œsophagic above and pyloric below, v. 52.

Stone tied in kerchief or rag, weapon for fighting, v. 350.

Story of the First Lunatic (variants) iv. 49.

Story-telling, servile work, v. 34.

St. Paul, called by the Christians in Syria “Shuhrúr al-Kanísah,” the Blackbird of the Church (on account of his eloquence) (St.) v. 151.

Stranger invites a guest during pilgrimage-time, i. 195.

“Striking palm upon palm,” i.e., in sign of despair, iv. 252.

—— the nape = “boxing ears” (Moslem equiv.) vi. 35.

“Subaudi” = “that hath not been pierced” (a virgin) v. 223.

Subjects (men who pay taxes) i. 256.

Subjects (Persian) both women and men are virtually King’s slaves, iii. 533.

Subú’ (Arab.) for Yaum al-Subú’ = Septena-festival on the seventh day after a birth, marriage, or return from pilgrimage, iv. 122.

Sufrah = the cloth (tr. “table cloth”) iv. 69.

—— of leather = circular leather which acts as provision bag and tablecloth, iv. 162.

—— umm jalájil (Arab.) lit. = an eating cloth with little bells, iv. 169.

Sugar (Europe-made white) avoided by Moslems as unlawful, v. 352.

—— (Sukkar), v. 352.

Suicide, Hindus adepts in, iii. 166.

—— rare in Moslem lands, i. 325.

Sujjádah = lit. a praying carpet (tr. “rug”) iv. 52; v. 225.

Sukkar from Pers. “Shakkar” (whence Lat. Saccharum) the generic term, v. 352.

Sullam (pl. “Salálim”) popularly used for a flight of steps (tr. here souterrain-stairs) iii. 75.

Sultan, amongst Arabs may denote any dignity from a Shaykh to a Sultan, vi. 226.

“—— and his Sons etc.,” same as Scott’s “Story of the Three Princes, etc.,” iv. 44.

—— of Al-Yaman and his three Sons (ver. taken from Zotenberg’s “Chronique de Tabari”), iv. 3.

—— of the Jánn preceded by sweepers;

339always appears in the form of “second sight” called by Egyptians “Darb al-Mandal,” iv. 45.

Sultanate for Women Custom of Al-Islam, a strong precedent against queenly rule, i. 350.

Sulúk (Arab.) a sufistical expression, the road to salvation (tr. “paths”), iii. 185.

Summák = a plant with acid flavour, dried, pounded, and peppered with meat, vi. 160.

Sun fare backwards = “to eclipse the sun,” vi. 107.

Sunnah = the practice, etc., of the Prophet, v. 193.

—— and Farz = The practice (of the Prophet) and the Holy Law (Koranic) ii. 10.

Supernatural agency makes the most satisfactory version of tale, v. 118.

Supper comes first because the day begins at sundown, iv. 120.

—— (“dinner after midnight”). See Shah’s diary (St.) iv. 244.

Surah = Koranic chapter; here possibly clerical error for Súrah sort (of food), ii. 173.

Suráyyát (lit. the Pleiades) and Sham’ádin, a would-be plural (Arabic) of the Persian “Sham’adán” = candlestick, chandelier, iii. 109.

Surúr = joy, contentment, v. 200.

Súsah (Arab.) = weevil, moth, worm, iv. 23.

Súsan = the lily (in Heb.) ii. 116.

Su’ubán (Arab.) = cockatrice (tr. “Basilisk”) v. 427.

“Suwán” (Arab.) lit. = rock syenite, hard stone, flint (tr. “mace”) iv. 24.

Suwaydá al-Kalb (the black one of the heart) = original sin (synonymous with “Habbat al-Kalb” = the grain in the heart), both metaphorically used for “original sin.” (St.) vi. 247.

“Suwayd” and “Suwaydá,” diminutives of “Aswad” = black. (St.) vi. 247.

Suwaydá, lit. “a small and blackish woman,” vi. 247.

Swooper of the Jinn, ii. 202.

Symmetromania, Arab., iv. 67.

Syria, city of (“the stubbornest of places and the feeblest of races”) v. 41.

“Syrian and three women of Cairo” (Variants) v. 273.

Ta’-ám = Millet seed (tr. “grain”) i. 5.

Taannafú = making “long noses,” i. 300.

Ta’arkalak, (Arab.) = waylay thee, vi. 7.

Taawíl = the commentary or explanation of Moslem Holy Writ, v. 43.

Ta’ayyun = influence (especially by the “’Ayn” (evil) Eye) tr. “fascinate,” v. 166.

Táb = “tip-cat,” ii. 54.

Tábah = gag, vi. 184.

Tabaristán (adj. Tabari), whereas Tabaráni = native of Tiberias, i. 94.

Tabariyyah = Gennesaret (Chinnereth, Cinneroth) where, according to some Moslems, the Solomon was buried, vi. 101.

Tabíb Al- = the scientific practitioner (in pop. parlance) v. 326.

Tabshálím, (a word which appears to be a corruption bearing a resemblance to “Dabshalim,” meaning “a mighty king”) vi. 23.

Ta’dilú = Swerve (also “Ye do injustice”) i. 52.

Táf (Al-) a suburb of Baghdah, ii. 71.

Tafazzal (Arab.) a useful word employed in invitations, equiv. to “Have the kindness” iv. 84; Tafazzalú, iv. 233.

Taffaytu-hu = extinguish (tr. “put it out”) iii. 84.

Tafl (Arab.) = a kind of clay, iii. 348.

Tafrik wa’l-jam’a = division and union, i. 222.

Tá-Há = the Koranic chapter No. XX. revealed at Meccah, v. 180.

——, whose first 14–16 verses are said to have converted the hard-headed Omar, vi. 157.

“Tahlíl” = making word or deed canonically lawful, v. 43.

Tahrím = rendering any action “harám” or unlawful, v. 43.

Tahzib—reforming morals, amending conduct, etc., ii. 240.

Tai = Man of the tribe of Tay, i. 180.

Taí Al- (relative adjective of irregular formation) v. 46.

340Tail, lashing his (lion’s) symptom of rage distinguishing felines from canines, iv. 161.

Tá’il al-Wasf = “Drawer out of Descriptions,” v. 185.

Tajní = lit. thou pluckest (the fruit of good deeds) vi. 104.

Tajrís, rendered by a circumlocution “Bell,” v. 337.

Ták (or Tákah) = a little wall-niche, iii. 351.

Takbír and Tahlíl, i.e., Crying the war cry, “Alláho Akbar” = “God is most Great,” and “Lá iláha illa ’llah” the refrain of Unity, v. 403.

Takhsa-u, tr. “baffled,” a curious word of venerable age (St.) v. 44.

Takht Raml = table of sand, geomantic table, v. 153.

Takhtrawán = mule-litter, vi. 181.

Ta’kil (Arab.) tying up a camel’s foreleg above the knee, iv. 23.

Tákiyah = litter, i. 99.

—— = calotte or skull-cap, iv. 120.

Takrit, a town in Mesopotamia celebrated for its velvets, etc. (St.) iv. 337.

Takrúri = a Moslem negroid from Central and Western North Africa, iv. 298.

Takwà (form gen. used for “Ittikà”) = fearing God, vi. 96.

Talákan báinan = a triple divorce before witnesses, ii. 148.

Talámizah = disciples (sing. Talmíz) i. 251.

Tale of the Simpleton Husband i. 239. (W. M. Version) v. 116.

Tales were told before the peep of day, i. 359.

Tamanná (Arab.) = “She saluted the king by kissing her finger tips and raising them to her brow,” iii. 108.

Tamásil = (the Pavilion of) Pictures (generally carved images), i. 29.

Tambúr der. from “Tabl” = a drum (hence modern “Tambour”) iv. 209.

Tá-mera (Coptic) = the Land of the Nile Flood, vi. 12.

Tamím (Arab.) pl. of Tamímat = spells, charms, amulets, “Thummim,” iv. 332.

Tamkín = gravity, assurance (tr. “Self-possession”) ii. 8.

Tamtar Aysh? (Arab.) i.e., Ayyu Shayyin “What do the skies rain!” iv. 207.

Tannúr = large earthern jar (tr. “oven-jar”) i. 208.

—— = oven, (misprint for “Kubúr” = Tombs) i. 265.

Tanzíl = coming down, revelation of the Koran, v. 43.

Tarábulus-town (also Atrábulus) arabisations of Tripolis, iv. 169.

Tarajjama, frequently used in this MS. (St.) iv. 242.

—— = he deprecated, v. 12.

“Tarajjum,” taking refuge from Satan the Stoned (Rajím) vi. 190.

Tarammá al-Mahramah (throwing the handkerchief) used in the old forms of choosing a mate, iv. 31.

Tarbíyatí = yearling, i. 348.

Tarfah = Tamarisk, ii. 252.

Tari (Arab.) lit. = wet (tr. “soothing”) iv. 71.

Tarjumán = a dragoman (tr. “Truchman”) ii. 185; vi. 89.

Tarjumánah (fem. of “Tarjumán” = a dragoman) = lit. an “interpreter” woman, vi. 89.

Tarkah = “A gin,” a snare, i. 16.

Tartara (Arab.) tr. “perked up” (prob. an emphatic reduplication of Tarra = “sprouting, pushing forward”) v. 443.

Tasawwuf (mystic fraternity of) v. 426.

Tasht = “basin” (the consonantic outline being the same as of “tashshat”) = she was raining, sprinkling (St.) a possible pun, v. 147.

Tasill sallata’l-Munkatí’ín = lit. “raining on the drouth-hardened earth of the cut-off” (tr. “Watering the dry ground”) i. 345.

Tastaghís (Arab.) = lit. crying out “Wa Ghausáh!”—“Ho to my aid” (tr. “Help! Help!”) v. 157.

Tatadakhkhal ’alay-h = “sue his protection,” vi. 134.

Tauhán al-Husán, tr. “lost in the waste,” v. 409.

Tawáf = Circuiting (an act of worship) iii. 298.

Tawánís (instead of “Tawánis,” pl. of Taunas), tr. “cordage” (St.) v. 133.

341Tayhál (pl. “Tawáhil”) for the usual “Tihál” = spleen (St.) v. 53.

Taylasán-hood, iv. 34.

Tays = myriads of, vi. 187.

Tayyibah = the good, sweet or lawful, v. 43.

Tazaghzagha, gen. = he spoke hesitatingly, he scoffed (tr. “waxed wroth”) v. 106.

“Tazaghghara fí-hi” (rendered pop.) “he pitched into him” (St.) v. 106.

Tazarghít (error for “Zaghrítah”) = the cry of joy, v. 429.

—— (numerous forms of) (St.) v. 430.

“Ten camel loads” about a ton, at the smallest computation of 200 lbs. to each beast, v. 395.

Ter-il-bas (Tayr Táús?), a kind of peacock, made to determine elections by alighting on the head of a candidate, v. 26, 27. (Old Translation.)

Teshurah = a gift offered with the object of being admitted to the presence, iii. 100.

Thag, equiv. to our English “Thug,” iii. 374.

—— = simply a “cheat,” but may also mean a robber, assassin, etc. (tr. “Bandits”) iii. 374.

Thaghr al-Khánakán = The narrows of the (Dervishes’) convent, ii. 74.

Thakálah (Arab.) = heaviness, dulness, stupidity (tr. “horseplay”) v. 457.

Thaníyyat al-’Ukáb = the Vulture’s Pass, vi. 181.

“That a standard be borne over his head,” i. 161.

Thayyib (Arab.) = a woman who has known man but once, iv. 333.

“The Astrologers lied,” i. 122.

Theatre (shifting) iii. 429.

The babe to the blanket, and the adultress to the stone, i. 271.

“The chick is unsatisfied till, etc.” a translation which presupposes the reading “Farkhah lá atammat” and would require “hattà” or “ilà” to express “till” (St.) iv. 302.

“The green stick is of the trees of Paradise,” vi. 9.

“The hoard hath gone from me, and I have waxed feeble,” i.e., his strength was in the gold, iv. 347.

“Them” for “her” (often occurrence of) v. 178.

“There is not a present (Teshurah) to bring to the man of God,” iii. 100.

“The reed-pen wrote what ’twas bidden write” = “Destiny so willed it,” vi. 51.

“There is no harm to thee, and boon of health befal thee,” auspicious formula, vi. 174.

The sumptuary laws compelling Jews to wear yellow turbands, i. 286.

The sand appeared in the sunlight like unto ropes (author and Steingass explain) vi. 32.

“The world was turned topsy-turvy,” i.e., there was a great movement and confusion, iv. 262.

Thieves with hands lopped off, ii. 44.

“Thine is ours and on thee shall be whatso is on us” = we will assume thy debts and responsibilities, ii. 247.

Thirst takes precedence of hunger, iii. 320.

This girl is a fat piece of meat (i.e., “There are good pickings to be had out of this job”) ii. 17.

This matter is not far to us = “is not beyond our reach,” v. 311.

“This night” for “last night,” vi. 128.

Thiyáb ’Amúdiyah = striped clothes, ii. 79.

Those noble steps = thine auspicious visits, ii. 82.

Thou comest to bring us victory = “thou comest to our succour,” ii. 201.

Thought reading, iii. 539.

“Thou hast been absent overlong,” a kindly phrase pop. addressed to the returning traveller, v. 444.

“Thou hast done justice” (’adalta), also means “Thou hast swerved from right.” “Thou hast wrought equitably” also = “Thou hast transgressed,” i. 51.

Three Sisters and their Mother, Defects in the Story of, iv. 165

“Three things lack permanency, Wealth without trading, Learning without disputation, Government without justice,” (Sa’di in the Gulistan) iii. 6.

Throwing the kerchief (tarammá al Mahramah) used in the old form of choosing a mate, iv. 31. See iv. 264.

342“Thummim” der. from “Tôm” = completeness, iv. 332.

Thursday = pay day for the boys in Egypt, iv. 98.

Thrust his finger up his fundament (a diabolical way of clapping hands in applause) ii. 89.

“Thy commands, O my mother, be upon my head,” iii. 89.

“Thy Highness,” a form of addressing royalty common in Austria, iii. 108.

“Thy rose-hued cheek showeth writ newwrit,” i.e., the growing beard and whisker is compared with black letters on a white ground, v. 148.

Tigris, The (Hid-dekel) iv. 151.

Time, division of, in China and Japan, v. 90.

Tín (Arab.) = clay, mud (used with Tob forming walls of Egypt and Assyria) vi. 24.

“Tirrea Bede” (Night 655) note concerning, v. 119.

’Tis more acceptable to me than a red camel, ii. 248.

Tisht (a basin for the ewer), tr. “tray,” v. 428.

Tither, unable to do evil, i. 245.

TKhDH (=takhuz-hu, according to author); may be either 2nd or 8th form of “ahad” in the sense that “thou comest to an agreement (Ittihád) with him,” v. 189.

TMT, i.e., Tammat = She (the tale) is finished, vi. 38.

Tobáni = unbaked brick, i. 34.

Tobbas = “Successors” or the Himyaritic kings, ii. 263.

Tobe = the Anglo-Oriental form of “Thaub” = in Arabia a loose robe like a night-gown, vi. 139.

“To-day wine, and to-morrow business,” ii. 177.

“To eat skite” = to talk or act foolishly, vi. 70.

Toilette, carrying a portable, iv. 303.

Tohfah = A gift, i. 16.

—— = a choice gift, ii. 79.

Tohfat al-Humaká = Choice Gift of the Fools, ii. 73.

—— al-Kulúb = Choice Gift of the Hearts, ii. 73.

Tohfat al-Sudúr = Choice Gift of the Breasts (i.e., of the hearts) ii. 84–133.

Tomb of the Moslem, iv. 293.

Torture endured through Eastern obstinacy, i. 293.

Towáb Al- (Arab. pl. of Per. and Turk. “Top”) = cannon, vi. 186.

Trafír = trumpets, iii. 137.

“Treasure-trove,” the possession of exposing the owner to torture, iii. 105.

True believer imitates sayings and doings of the Apostle, ii. 173.

Tú bará Thag hai = thou art a precious rascal, iii. 374.

Tuhà = cooked meat, vi. 187.

Tuhál or Tihál (Arab.) in text “Tayhál,” tr. “spleen,” v. 53.

Turayyih (mod. form for “turawwih”) (St.) iv. 301.

Turcoman blood (steed of) iii. 297.

Turkish Tales by Petis de la Croix, iv. 13.

Turkumániyah = Turcomanish (tr. “dragomanish”) ii. 191.

Turquoise stone, held as a talisman in the East, iii. 270.

Turtúr = the Badawi’s bonnet, v. 255.

“Tutmájíyah” for “Tútmáj” = vermicelli, vi. 160.

Tutty, in low Lat. “Tutia” prob. from Pers. “Tutiyah” = protoxide of zinc, v. 352.

Tuzáribí may mean “Dost thou play the part of” (St.) vi. 57.

Twelvemonths, i.e., a long time, i. 319.

“Uaddíki,” Taadiyah (iid. of Adá, he assisted) = sending, forwarding (tr. “Carry”) ii. 77.

’Ubb (Arab.) = bulge between breast and outer robe (tr. “breast pocket”) iii. 317.

’Úd = primarily “wood”; then a “lute” (tr. here “fuel”) ii. 178.

’Úd Khayrázan = wood of the rattan, iv. 317.

’Udúl (pl. of Adil) = men of good repute (tr. “notables”) ii. 25.

Ukiyyah (or Wukiyyah) = ounce = 571·5 to 576 grains, vi. 163.

“Uktuli’s-siráj,” the Persian “Chirághrá bi-kush” = kill the lamp, iii. 84.

343Umm Kash’am, a slang name for death, iv. 183.

Ummálí (Arab.); gen. Ummál, an affirmation (tr. “True indeed”) iv. 193.

’Ummár = the Jinn (tr. “Haunters”) ii. 102.

Ummu ’Amrin = mother of ’Amru (slang term for “hyæna”) iv. 183.

Under my ribs = In my heart’s core, i. 339.

Unsa-k (Arab.), an expression used when drinking one’s health (tr. “Thy favour”) (St.) v. 458.

Unth = Camel, iii. 294.

Urím (lights) and Thummim (amulets), iv. 332.

Urinal (old French name for phial in which the patient’s water is sent) i. 285.

’Urkúb, a Jew of Yathrib, ii. 164.

’Urrah (Arab.) = dung, v. 75.

’Urs (Al-) w’al-Tuhúr = “the wedding” (which does not drop out of the tale) and the circumcision, ii. 90.

Usburú = be ye patient, v. 83.

Ushtur or “Unth” = camel, iii. 294.

Veil me = protect my honour, ii. 147.

Veil (raiser of) means a fitting purchaser, ii. 73.

Vellication (in cases of axilla-pile), iv. 153.

“Verily great is their craft” (Koranic quotation from “Joseph”), v. 294.

Viaticum = provision, provaunt for the way, iv. 304.

Vijáyanagara = City of Victory, iii. 422.

Violateth my private apartment, ii. 243.

Violation of the Harem (son “having” his father’s wives), very common in Egypt, v. 441.

Virginity (how proved), iv. 121.

Visions frequent in Al-Islam, iii. 405.

Vocative particles (five in Arabic), i. 85.

Voice (mysterious), ii. 51.

Voices disembodied, iii. 515.

—— from the other world, vi. 227.

Vows of Pious Moslems, v. 234.

Wa adraka Shahrázáda’l-Sabáh = And Shahrazad perceived the dawn of

day (also “was surprised by the dawn”) iv. 6.

Wa’d al-Banât, or burial of Mauúdát (living daughter) iii. 498.

“Wá Ghausáh!” = “Ho, to my aid,” v. 157.

“Wahá,” etc. (Arab.) corresponding with Syriac “ho” = behold! i. 275.

“Wa Hakki man aulání házá ’l-Mulk” = “and by the right of (my duty towards) Him who made me ruler over this kingdom” (St.) iv. 307.

“—— inní la-ar’ákum wa ar’à widádakum,” etc., tr. “And I make much of you and your love, etc.” (St.) v. 172.

—— jasad-hu yuhazdimu = his body was emitting blood freely (St.) iv. 285.

“—— Kita’h hamrah,” tr. “also a bit of cooked meat,” vi. 125.

—— Kulli Tárik = night traveller, magician, morning star, v. 378.

“—— Kuntu ráihah ursil warák” (the regular Fellah language) i. 29.

“—— lákin hú ajmalu etc.” = “and yet he was more beautiful than they, etc.” (St.) iv. 260.

“—— lá ahad tafawwaha fína” = “nor hath anyone ever spoken,” vi. 29.

“—— lá huwa ashamná min-ka talkas” (read “talkash”) ’alà Harimi-ná” tr. “that thou wouldst strive to seduce our Harím” (or “that thou hadst an itching after our Harím”) (St.) v. 285.

“—— lásh: Murádí bas ism al-Madinah” (Arab.) = For nothing: my only want is the city’s name, v. 402.

“—— lau anunahá li ’l-Mushrikín, etc.,” lines which have occurred before, v. 55.

“—— lláhi ’l-Muwaffiku ’l-Mu’ín” = God prospereth and directeth (a formula often prefixed to a book), vi. 196.

“—— min-hum man fáha,” evidently an error of the scribe for “Man nafá-hu,” v. 114.

—— Nikáh = conjugal intercourse, v. 153.

“—— sába’l-dár wa Zaujatu-hu mutawassín bi-há,” tr. “the house prospered for the master and the dame had charge of it,” v. 420.

344“Wa sába’l-dár wa Zaujatu-hu mutawassín bi-há,” Steingass explains the plural “Mutawassin,” by supposing “Sáb al-Dár” is blunder for “Sáhihu ’l-Dár” and translates “the master of the house and his wife took charge of her (the nurse) during the days of suckling” (St.) v. 420.

“—— Sawábi ’hu (Asábi ’a-hu?) fí hanaki-h’” tr. “his fingers in his mouth and sucking thereat,” v. 419.

—— Talattuf Alfázak wa ma’áník alhísán = and for the pleasingness of thy sayings and meanings so fine and fain (St.) v. 146.

“—— yabkí ’alaykum Mabálu-h” = suffer only his crime be upon you (Steingass reads “Wabál” for “Mabál,” and translates, “lest the guilt of it rest upon you”) vi. 246.

“—— zand mujauhar fí-hi Asáwir,” etc., may mean “and a forearm (became manifest) ornamented with jewels, on which were bracelets of red gold” (St.) v. 86–7.

“—— zarr-há” for “Wa dazz-há” = besprinkled her (St.) iv. 314.

—— dazzh-á (corruption in MS.) should read “wa wazzar-há” = “and he left her” (St.) iv. 462.

Waddí = Carry, i. 17.

Wadí’ah = deposit (here sig. blows), i. 247.

Wafát = death (decease, departure, as opposed to Maut = death), 223.

“Wáhid min al-Tujjár,” the very vulgar style, iii. 64.

Wahsh = Lion, iii. 18.

Wahwah Al- = the hue of metal leaves, vi. 122.

Waka’h (Arab.) = an affair (of fight) v. 403.

Wakálah = a khan or caravanserai, iv. 38.

—— = an inn (tr. “Caravanserai”), v. 455.

—— (Egyptian term for a Khan) ii. 153.

“——” or caravanserai, v. 273.

Wakhímah = an unhealthy land, ii. 87.

Wakíl (Arab.) = deputy—in marriage, 333; lit. = agent (tr. “trustee”) here corresponding with man who gives away the bride, iv. 54.

Wakt al-Zuhá (Arab.) = the division of

time between sunrise and midday (tr. “undurn hour”) iv. 69.

“Wa’l-Sultánu karaa, etc.” = “and the Sovran recited his appointed portion of the Koran, and then sat down to convivial converse” (St.) iv. 244.

Walad al-Hayáh (for “Hayát”) tr. “Thou make him a child of life,” i.e., let him be long-lived, v. 378.

Walásh (Arab.), i.e. “Was lá shayya” = and nihil (tr. “Anaught”) iv. 210.

Walawá’yh? = wa’l-aw’iyah (pl. of wi’á) = and the vessels —— shimmered like unto silver for their cleanliness, (St.) vi. 122.

Wálí = the Civil Governor, iii. 375.

—— at one time a Civil Governor, and in other ages a Master of Police, vi. 67.

Walímah prop. = a marriage feast, iii. 15.

“Waliyah” or “Waliyáh” = and why? vi. 59.

“Walwalah” or “Wilwál” (an onomatopy), general term for the wail, vi. 17.

Warayataní ilà -turáb = thou hast given me over to the ground or concealment (St.) iv. 312.

Wasayah (prob. cler. error for “wa Miah”—spelt “máyah”—and a hundred pair of pigeons) (St.) v. 217.

Washing hands and face—a preparatory washing as a matter of cleanliness preceding the formal Wuzú-ablution, iii. 168.

Water-closet, Eastern goes to, first thing in the morning, i. 13.

—— wedding night in. iii. 115.

Watukarribu ’l’-Abda ilayya (referring the verb to “Al-Sadakah” = the alms) “and in bringeth the servant near to me” (St.) iv. 335.

Waybah = the sixth of an Ardabb (Irdabb) = bushels, v. 128.

Wayha-k (before “Wayla-k”) = “Fie upon thee,” vi. 20.

Wazífah prop. = a task, a stipend, a salary, (here tr. “dutie”) iii. 328.

Wazir expected to know everything in Oriental countries, iii. 163.

Wazíru ’l-’Arif bi-lláhi Ta’álà, Al- = The Wazir-wise-in-Allah-Almighty, iv. 239.

345“We are broken to bits (Kisf,) by our own sin,” i. 155.

Weapons and furniture, (i.e., headstalls, hobbles, etc.), for mare saddled and bridled (price for slave) vi. 92.

—— taken from Easterns when embarking as passengers, ticketed and placed in cabin, v. 403.

Wedding, description of, iii. 114.

—— -night in water-closet, iii. 115.

—— night, mothers tell their daughters what to expect, iv. 42.

Week days, vi. 13.

Well, Angels choking up a, v. 332.

——, filled in over the intruding “villain” of the piece, v. 332.

Wept and laughed alternately (nearest approach in East. tales to West. hysterics) iv. 155.

“What hast thou left behind thee, O, Asám”? i.e. What didst thou see? i. 97.

What is behind thee? = What is thy news? i. 44.

“What’s past is past and what is written is written and shall come to pass” (Sir C. Murray’s “Hassan”) iii. 10.

What was his affair? = lit. “How was,” etc., i. 58.

“When Adam dolve and Eve span,” etc., vi. 102.

When Fate descended (i.e. When the fated hour came down from Heaven), i. 62.

Where am I, and where is the daughter, etc.? = “What have I to do with, etc.”, ii. 7.

“Where is the bird?” = “How far is the fowl from thee?” iv. 300.

White hand, i.e. gifts and presents, i. 226.

“White” night, i.e. “pleasant,” “enjoyable,” iv. 285.

“Whose van was not known from its rear” = “both could not be seen at the same time,” v. 189.

“—— weal Allah increase,” well nigh sole equiv. amongst Moslems of our “thank you,” v. 325.

“Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein,” i. 119.

“Whoso journeyeth not enjoyeth not,” ii. 152.

“Whoso keeneth for himself is not like whoso is hired to keen.” Proverb = “If you want a thing done, etc.,” ii. 171.

“Whoso leaveth issue dieth not” (popular saying amongst Moslems) iii. 55.

Wife (exalting the character of) whilst the Mistress is a mere shadow (kind of tale not unfrequent amongst Moslems) v. 335.

“——” used for “Harim,” iv. 28.

Wiják = a stove, a portable hearth (tr. “a brazier”) v. 110.

Wild ass (onager) iii. 282.

—— meat of, iii. 282.

—— (skin of) produces the famous Shagreen, iii. 282.

Will of man, The, a mighty motor power, iii. 426; vi. 126.

Window gardening, an ancient practice in the East, vi. 172.

Windows (first mention of in Arabic MS. of “Alaeddin”) iii. 186.

Wine and Wassail, loose talk, etc., a favourite subject with lewd Moslems, ii. 34.

Wine, carrion and pork lawful to Moslem if used to save life, ii. 176.

Witch, i. 235.

“With the tongue of the case” = words suggested by the circumstance, v. 9.

“With love and gladness,” ii. 137.

Without a vein swelling, i.e., so drunk that his circulation had apparently stopped, v. 276.

Wizzatayn = geese, v. 357.

Woman, fulfilling the desires of, fatal to love, when she revolts against any reduction of it, v. 91.

“Womankind, Allah kill all” (note by Dr. Steingass) v. 304.

Women (Alaeddin used to think all resembled his mother); an absurd statement to the West but true in the East, iii. 97.

—— (all of one and the same taste) i. 96.

“—— are of little wits and lack religion,” i. 31.

—— drousy charms of, ii. 252.

Wonders of the (Moslem) World—four in number, iv. 36.

346Wormwood, a regular Badawi remedy, iv. 343.

Wortley Montague MS. quoted, iv. 3, 6, 19, 35, 49, 74, 90, 95, 97, 101, 109.

“Woven air,” local name of the Patna gauzes, iii. 423.

“Writing and reading,” as opposed to our “Reading and writing,” vi. 5.

“Written,” either on the Preserved Tablet or on the Sutures of the Skull, v. 308.

Wuldán = Ghilmán = the boys of Paradise, vi. 128.

Xerafim, Port. for Ashrafi, iv. 38.

Yá omitted (in poetical fashion) to show speaker’s emotion, i. 149.

—— = í and Mím = m, composing the word “Ibrahím,” v. 203.

—— Abá Sábir = O Abu Sabir, i. 85.

—— ’Ars, yá Mu’arras = O pimp, O pander, v. 246.

“—— ’Arzád” prob. cler. slip for “’Urzát” (pl. of ’Urzah) = a companion, a (low) fellow, iv. 191.

“Yabahh” = saying “Bah, Bah!” vi. 253.

—— Bilál = O generosity, i. 40.

“—— Bunayyí” = lit. “O my little son,” a term of special fondness (tr. “O dear, my son”) vi. 7.

Yad (Al-) al-bayzá = lit. The white hand (tr. “largesse”) ii. 123.

Yáfis bin Núh = Japhet, son of Noah, ii. 111.

Yaftah ’Allah = Allah open (to thee the door of subsistence) ii. 44.

Yá Ghárati a-zay má huná Rájil = O, the shame of me! however, O my Lord, can there be here a man? v. 247.

—— Dr. Steingass explains and translates, v. 247.

Yá Hájjah (pron. Hággeh) = O Pilgrimess, i. 198.

Yá Házá (Arab.) = “Ho, this one,” iv. 231.

Yahjubu (Arab.) aor. of “hajaba” = he veiled, put out of sight (St.) iv. 342.

Yahya (according to Scott “Yiah”) v. 153.

Yáhyà, father of Ja’afar, made Wazir by Al-Rashid, i. 166.

“Yá Jad’án” (more gen. “Yá Jad’a” pron. Gad’a) = mon brave, iv. 191.

Yá Kabírí = my good man (tr. “my chief”) i. 12.

Yákah Thiyábish = his robe-collar rent, vi. 247.

Yá Kawáki = O thou brawler, vi. 84.