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

“A King and no Army,” vi. 10.

“A mighty matter” may also mean “A masterful man” (reading Imraan = man for Amran = matter), ii. 204.

A’atú Al-Wírah = gave in their submission, v. 405.

—— corresponds with Turk. “Wírah wírmek” = to capitulate (St.) v. 405.

Abadan = never at all, iii. 52.

Abadid (like Khadídán) non-significant, i. 103.

Abárík (Al-), pl. of Ibrík, an ewer containing water for the Wuzu-ablution, ii. 170.

’Abbás bin Mirdás (Chief of the Banu Sulaym) i. 40.

Abbasides traced their descent from Al-Abbas, i. 14.

’Abbús Al-, an intensive word meaning “Very stern faced,” vi. 232.

Abd al-Malik bin Marwán (not to be confounded with the Caliph, the tenth of the series) vi. 179.

Abd al-Malik bin Sálih, i. 159.

Abdullah Chelebi, called in old translation “Scheffander-Hassan,” vi. 177.

Abhak (composite word) i. 40.

Abíkám = “Abicam,” a Chaldæan Astrologer (Chavis) and Abimacam (Gauttier) vi. 26.

Ablution of whole body necessary after car. cop., v. 93.

Ab o hawá = climate, iii. 362.

Abraham (according to Jews and Christians emigrated to Harrán from “Ur of the Chaldees”) iii. 270.

—— (according to Moslem born in Harrán) iii. 269.

—— the “Friend of Allah,” vi. 104.

Absurdities to a European reader, are but perfectly natural to an Eastern coffee-house audience, v. 477.

Abtál (pl. of Batal) = champions, athletes (tr. “braves”) ii. 42.

Abtar = tailless (as applied to class of tales such as “Loves of Al-Hayfa and Yusuf”) v. 210.

Abú al-Hasan (cleverness of) i. 30.

—— al-Hasan-al-Khalí’a, i.e., The Wag (old version “debauchee”) i. 1.

—— al-Tawáif (pron. “Abu tawáif”) the Father of the (Jinn-) tribes, ii. 84.

—— Antiká = father of antiquities (new noun in Arabic) iii. 11.

—— Hamámah = “Father of a Pigeon” (i.e., surpassing in swiftness the carrier pigeon) v. 380.

—— Ishák, i.e., Ibrahim of Mosul the Musician, i. 14.

—— Ja’dah = father of curls (=a wolf) iv. 14.

—— Kásim al-Tambúrí = Abú Kásim the Drummer, iv. 209.

—— Niyyah and Abu Niyyatayn, History of various versions of the names, iv. 334.

290Abú Nowás (appearing in The Nights, a signal for an outburst of obscenity), ii. 153.

—— Sábir = Father of the Patient (one), i. 81.

—— Sahíh = (flight to) a sure and safe place, vi. 149.

—— Sumayk = “Father of the Fishlet” (in old ver. “Yapousmek”) vi. 16.

—— Sumayk the Pauper, i.e., “The Father of the little Fish,” vi. 15.

Abúyah (a Fellah, vulg. for “Abí”) v. 418.

Adab = accomplishments, ii. 68.

“Adab” translated “Arabic,” i. 48.

Adam’s Sons = a term that has not escaped ridicule amongst Moslems, iii. 149.

Addíki = I will give thee (in the language of Fellahs) vi. 189.

Address to inanimate object highly idiomatic and must be cultivated by practical Arabists, iii. 150.

’Adu = an enemy (tr. “foe”) ii. 14.

Adi (Arab.) = So it is, v. 448.

Adí in Egypt. (not Arabic) is = that man, the (man) here, v. 118.

’Adím al-Zauk (Arab.), tr. “Lack-tacts” = to our deficiency in taste, manners, etc. (Here denoting “practical joking”) v. 455.

Adíní = Here am I, v. 118.

’Adl (Al-) = the Notary, i. 219.

Adoption of slave lads and lasses common among Moslems, i. 76.

’Adrán (Arab.) tr. “Sheeted,” the ✓ being ’Adr = much and heavy rain, iv. 7.

’Adúl = Assessors, i. 327.

Áfák Al- (pl. of Uík) “elegant” for the universe (tr. “all the horizons”) v. 66.

Afandiyah Al- (Arab.) = Efendis, iv. 41.

’Afár, tr. “sand devils,” a word frequently joined with “Ghubár” = dust (St.) iv. 262.

Affidavit amongst Moslems, iii. 411.

Afkah, a better Fakih or theologian, i. 244.

Afrákh al-Jinn, lit. = Chicks of the Jinns (tr. “Babes of the Jinns”) v. 202.

Afras = lit. a better horseman (tr. “doughtier”) ii. 105.

Africa (Arab. “Afrikíyah”), here used for the limited tract about Carthage (Tunis), i.e., Africa Propria, iii. 76.

Aghá of the Janákilah = the Chief man (Aghá) of the Gypsies, iv. 72.

Ágháwát (Aghas), meaning Eunuch officers and officials, iii. 112.

“Ahádís” esp. referred to the sayings of Mahommed, vi. 41.

Ahádís al-Kudus = sentences attributed to Archangel Gabriel, vi. 41.

—— al-Nabawí = the actual words pron. by Mahommed, vi. 41.

Ahbábu-ná pl. for sing. = my beloved (tr. “my friends”) ii. 103.

Ahmar = red, ruddy brown, dark brown, v. 347.

Ahú ’inda-k, tr. “Whatso thou broughtest here it be” (Pure Fellah speech), v. 366.

—— ma’í = “Here it is with me” (Pure Fellah speech), v. 265.

Ahwas al-’Ansárí (Al-) (Al-Akhwass Breslau Ed.) i. 42.

Ahyaf (alluding to Al-Hayfá) = (with waist full-) slight, v. 175.

“Ahy Tys” for which read “Tuhà Tays” a general feast (Houdas), vi. 187.

“Air hath struck me and cut my joints,” i.e., “I suffer from an attack of rheumatism” (common complaint in even the hottest climates), v. 160.

’Ajáib (pl. of ’Ajíb) = “Marvellous!” (used in Pers. as well as Arab.) iii. 181.

Ajal = the appointed day of death (tr. “appointed term”) i. 129.

’Ajam = Barbarian-land, v. 213.

Ajdár = Malady, vi. 162.

Ajíjíyah, possibly Ajínniyah = a dish of dough, vi. 160.

’Ajlan = a hasty man, i. 265.

Ajr (Al-) = Heaven, i. 290.

’Ajúz, a woman who ceases to have her monthly period (tr. “the old woman”) v. 52.

’Ajúz nahs = a foul crone, i. 310.

’Akákír (pl. of ’Akkár) = aromatic roots (tr. “simples”) i. 282.

Akbá’ pl. of “Kub’” = in pop. language, any part of garment covering head (St.) vi. 48.

“Akbá’ wa Zarábíl” tr. “Caps and slippers,” vi. 48.

Akhaztu dam wajhhi-há (Arab.) = “I bled her of the hymeneal blood,” iv. 42.

291Akhbarú-hu (Arab.) = have given him (Yahyà) tidings, v. 156.

Akhmitu Ghazla-há lit. = thicken her yarn or thread, i. 206.

Akhyash Abná Sháh (second name may be “Shah of the Ebna” or Persian incolæ of Al-Yaman) vi. 12.

Akík = carnelian stone, v. 130.

—— Al- (Arab.) = carnelian, v. 52.

’Akíl, first cousin of Mahommed, ii. 164.

“Akkada la-hu ráy,” plur. of “ráyat” = a banner, i. 137.

“Akkál bula’hu” = commit all manner of abominations, vi. 70.

’Akl (Arab.) = comprehension, understanding, iv. 193.

“Akram” = the more generous (St.) iv. 304.

“Akrás al-Jullah,” tr. “dung cakes” (St.) v. 292.

Akwà min dahni’l-lauz = more strengthening than almond oil, ii. 75.

Akyál, pl. of “Kayl” = Kings of the Himyarite peoples, vi. 232.

“Ál bin Imrán” probably the name of some Prince of the Jinns, vi. 126.

’Alà al-Kaylah = “the place where they usually slept the siesta,” i. 34.

’Alà-Aklí, tr. “thou deservest naught for this,” v. 85.

“’Alà bábi ’lláh” (Arab.) = for the love of the Lord, gratis, etc., a popular phrase (tr. “At the Gate of Allah Almighty”) iv. 138.

“’Alà ghayri tarík” (Arab.) = “out of the way” (like Pers. “bí Ráh”) (St.) v. 224.

A hámati-hi = “upon the poll of his head” (rendered here “upon the nape of his neck”) v. 191.

Alà hudúd (or Alà hadd) al-Shauk (Arab.) = fulfilling all our desires, iv. 114.

Alà kám (for “kam,” how much?) peasants’ speech, iv. 224.

Alà kulli hál = “whatever may betide” or “willy nilly,” ii. 283.

“Alà Tarík al-Satr wa al-Salámah,” meaning that each other’s wives did not veil before their brothers-in-law, i. 270.

’Alá Yadín = Aláeddín, 265.

Alaeddin, a favourite with the stage, iii. 51.

Alaeddin, i.e. the “Height or Glory (’Alá) of the Faith (al-Din),” pron. Aláaddeen, iii. 51.

“’Alái al-Din” = Alaeddin, vi. 50.

’Alaka = he hung, iv. 149.

’Alakah khárijah = an extraordinary drubbing, vi. 84.

’Alam = a pile of stones (tr. a “mark”), i. 229.

’Alam al-Din = “Flag of the Faith,” ii. 4.

’Alamah = an undeflowered virgin, iii. 119.

’Álamína (’Awálim) = the (three) worlds, vi. 249.

Alaykum = “Peace be on you” (addressed to a single person) ii. 52.

Alexander the Great = Lord of the Two Horns, iii. 148.

“Alfi Hájatan” meaning “What dost thou want (in the way of amusement)? I am at thy disposal,” vi. 178.

“Alhamdolillah = Glory be to God!” = grace after meat, iv. 337.

Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves (variants) iii. 369.

Ali bin Ibrahim, “a faithful Eunuch” (Scott) v. 184.

Ali, son-in-law of the Prophet (supposed author of Al-Jafr) vi. 168.

“Al-’iddah,” term of widowhood of divorcée, pregnant woman, etc., vi. 178.

“Alif, bá, tá, sá” (A.B.C.D.). The latter written with a Sin instead of a Thá, showing vulg. use which extends from Alex. to Meccah, vi. 37.

’Álim = a learned man, iii. 119.

’Alkam = the bitter gourd, colocynth, ii. 218.

Alkermes, i.e., “Al-Kirm” (Arab. and Pers.) = a worm, cochineal, vi. 5.

Allah (accomplish on them the ordinance of the Almighty) i. 100.

“Allah! Allah!” here meaning “Haste! haste!” iv. 71.

—— = “I conjure thee by God,” v. 302.

—— (Allah! Allah! sign of impatience) = Look sharp! i. 231.

—— Almighty hath done this = here lit. “hath given it to him,” v. 27.

—— (“An alms, for the love of”) ii. 44.

—— (and again by Allah) i. 9.

—— (be the judge between me and thee), ii. 52.

292Allah! (called upon to witness a lie) i. 261.

—— (decreed of old), ii. 90.

—— (do thou be steadfast of purpose and rely upon) = “Let us be off,” pop. parlance, v. 66.

—— (“Enter in the name of” = Bismillah), ii. 38.

—— (Gifted of) ii. 200.

—— háfiz-ik (Arab.) = the pop. Pers. expression, “Khudá Háfiz” (“Allah be thy safeguard”) iv. 218.

—— (in peace of) i. 6.

—— (I look to, for aid) ii. 202.

—— (“I seek refuge with,” i.e., Allah forfend) ii. 9.

—— (I seek refuge with) = God forfend, i. 185.

—— (I will give him the covenant of) i. 179.

—— (is All-great) ii. 125.

—— (is threatening unbelievers) i. 51.

“—— kill all woman-kind,” v. 304.

—— (made easy to me) ii. 53.

—— (Men who resign themselves to = i.e., Moslems who practise the Religion of Resignation) ii. 271.

—— (name of, taken in vain) i. 87.

—— (O spirit of) i. 251.

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

“—— openeth,” “Allah veileth,” civil forms of refusal, iv. 315.

—— (open to thee the door of subsistence) ii. 44.

—— (Prince ’Ajíb forbidden to call upon name of), iii. 18.

—— (removed to the mercy of = he died) ii. 78.

“—— sent down a book confirmed,” a passage not Koranic, v. 47 (not a literal quotation, but alludes to Koran iii., 5) (St.) v. 47.

—— Shadow of—a title of the Shah, iii. 531.

—— (sued for pardon of Almighty) a pious exclamation (“Astaghfiru ’llah”) v. 136.

—— (Take refuge with, from the Evil eye of her charms) ii. 245.

—— (the peace of, be upon you and the ruth of Allah) i. 14.

Allah (This is the deposit of, then thy deposit = “I commit him to thy charge under God”) ii. 184.

—— (while Almighty Allah willed) = a long time, i. 351.

—— (whom Allah save and assain) ii. 173.

—— ya’tik = Allah will give it thee, (not I) ii. 44.

Allah’s path (a Martyr on) = a Martyr of love, vi. 131.

Alláho Akbar = God is most Great (war cry) v. 403.

“Allazí ’amaltu fí-him, etc.” = Those to whom I did a good turn, requite me with the contrary thereof (St.) iv. 253.

Almahs (fem. of ’Álim = a learned man) = professional singing and dancing girls, iii. 119.

Almás, Arab. (from ἀδάμας, and in Hind. “Hírá” and “Panná”) = diamond, iii. 354.

Almond-Tree “Be not like unto the,” (a lieu commun in the East) vi. 7.

—— = the Heb. “Sháked” and the fruit is “Loz” (Arab. Lauz) = Amygdalus communis, vi. 7.

Alms-gift = whatso exceedeth Viaticum (“Jáizah”), or the three days guest hospitality, vi. 26.

Alwán, pl. of Laun, meats of all kinds and colours, vi. 122.

“Amán” (Arab.) = quarter, mercy (tr. “safety”) iv. 30.

Amán = Pardon (lit. “security”), i. 118.

Amawi Mosque of Damascus, one of the four Wonders of the Moslem world, iv. 36.

“Ambergris’d” coffee, sherbet, etc., (aphrodisiac) iii. 31.

’Amil Rasad (Arab.) = lit., acting as an observatory, iv. 341.

Amín = Overseer, i. 67.

—— al-Hukm = “Faithful of Command,” ii. 7.

—— (Al-) Sixth Abbaside A.D. 809–13, i. 175.

Áminah, i.e., the secure (fem.) iii. 326.

Amírala (wife of Emir-Ben-Hilac-Salamis) meaning, if anything, “Colonel” or Captain, R.N., vi. 225.

293Ammál (Arab.), vulg. written with initial Hamzah = “Verily”, “I believe you my boy” (tr. “Assuredly”), vi. 11.

’Ammál (Arab.). With the Ayn may mean “he intended,” or “he was about to,” vi. 11.

’Ammir = cause to flourish (tr. “Take and people”), i. 243.

Amourist justified in obtaining his object by fair means or foul, i. 313.

Amsaytu = I came at evening, i. 316.

Amsik (Arab.), a “chaff” with the Turks—meaning cunnus-penis, iv. 93.

—— lisána-k (Arab.) = “hold thy tongue,” iv. 93.

’An Abí = (a propitiatory offering) for my father, i. 265.

“Ana ’l-Tabib, al-Mudáwi” (Arab.) = I am the leach, the healer, v. 326.

“Aná min ahli zálika,” tr. “I am of the folk of these things” (vulg. equiv. would be “Kizí,”) (for “Kazálika,” “Kazá”) = so (it is) v. 50.

Anakati-h (Arab.) tr. “neck,” v. 427.

Anbar (tr. “Ambergris”) ii. 67.

“—And the Peace!” = “There is an end of the matter,” vi. 105.

’Andalíb, nightingale, iii. 506.

Andromeda and Perseus, Myth of, brought down to St. George and the Dragon, iv. 261.

’Anfakati-h = the hair between the lower lips and the chin, also chin itself (St.), v. 427.

’Anká (Al-) = lit. “The long-necked” (bird), ii. 128.

Animals (lower) breeding with men, iv. 331.

Anjar = a flat platter (Pers.) iv. 143.

“Annus Domini” = Age (the worst disease in human life) iv. 3.

Ant, Koranic legend of the, vi. 99.

Ant’ amilta maskhará (for maskharah) matah (for matà) idiomatical Fellah-tongue, v. 269.

—— aysh (for “man” decidedly not complimentary) “What (thing) art thou?” v. 298.

“Anta jáibb(un) bas rájul (an) wáhid (an)” = veritable and characteristic peasant’s jargon, v. 359.

Antum fí Kháshin wa básh (an error for Khásh-másh) = a miserable condition, vi. 137.

Anushirwán (in full Anúshínrawán) = sweet of soul, P.N. of Pers. King, vi. 44.

Aorist, preceded by preposition “bi,” v. 432.

Aphrodisiacs, iii. 133.

Apocrypha, Tobias, etc., iv. 78.

“Après moi le déluge,” ii. 123.

’Arab al-’Arbá = Arabian Arabs, iii. 134.

Arab al-Arbá = prehistoric Arabs, iii. 145.

—— lovers jealous of their mistresses’ nightly phantom, ii. 179.

——, of noble tribe, always first to mount his own mare, ii. 248.

“Arabia Deserta” (Mr. Doughty’s) quoted v. 10, 53, 405.

’Arafát, fête of; the day of the Sermon, when pilgrims sleep at Muzdalifah, vi. 41.

Arafshah = superintendent, i. 20.

’Arakiyah = Skull-cap, vi. 48.

Arám (pl. of Irm), a beautiful girl, a white deer (tr. “Reems”) i. 43.

’Aramramí = flocking and crowding, vi. 195.

Ardabb (prop.) “Irdabb” = five bushels, iv. 290.

Ardashir (King), son of Bábak, iii. 180.

“Arghá” for “Arkhá” = he “brayed” (like an ostrich) for “his limbs relaxed,” iv. 31.

Arja’ = lit. return (tr. here “Desist”) ii. 105.

Armaghánát (Arab.) pl. of “Armaghán” (Pers.) a present, iv. 59.

Arm-pit, Hair shaven or plucked from, iv. 153.

’Arsah (Arab.) akin to Mu’arris = a pimp, a pander, iv. 208.

“Arsh,” = the Ninth Heaven, v. 178.

Arstable (astrolabe) iii. 159.

“Art thou (Al-Hajjáj) from Cairo,” a neat specimen of the figure anachronism. (Al-Hajjáj died A.H. 95; Cairo built A.H. 358) v. 41.

’Arús muhallíyah “a bride tricked out,” v. 468.

Arwà written with a terminal yá is a woman’s P.N. in Arabic, i. 94.

294Arz (Arab.), from the Heb. “Arz” or “Razah” (✓ raz = to vibrate) = Cedar (of Lebanon), vi. 5.

Arzi-há = in its earth, its outlying suburbs (tr. “Environs”) ii. 198.

’Asá = Staff, one of the properties of Moslem Saints, iii. 183.

“’Asá Fír,” i.e. “Fír is rebellious,” vi. 102.

’As’as = to complicate a matter, vi. 174.

Asáfír, pl. of “’Usfúr” = a bird, a sparrow, vi. 102.

Asáfírí (olives, etc.) iii. 405.

Asár, clerical error for Sár = Vendetta, blood revenge, i. 134.

Asfandíyâr = two heroes of the Shahnameh, both types of reckless daring, iii. 524.

’Ashama, lit. = he greeded for, v. 285.

Ashdak, usually applied to a wide-chapped face, iv. 91.

Ashghaftíní (see Shaghaftíní) vi. 15.

Ashírah = clan, ii. 225.

Ashkhákh Al- (Arab.), pl. of Shakhkh = lit. the “Stales” (tr. “Skite and piss”) (Steingass reads “bi ’l-Shakhákh” the usual modern word for urine) v. 265.

Ashkhás (pl. of Shakhs) = images = (vulg. used in Moslem realms in the sense of persons or individuals) iii. 12.

Ashrafí (Port. Xerafim), a gold coin whose value has varied, iii. 294.

’Asharah Mlah (Al) = ten times one, hundred, ib. “one hundred for the (i.e., every) ten” (St.) iv. 28.

Ashrafi, a gold coin of variable value, iv. 143; the Portuguese Xerafim, iv. 38.

Ash-Shabakah bitáht al-Sayd = thy net for fishing, iv. 9.

’Ashshár or Tither, i. 243.

Ashur, four sons of (according to Arabs) vi. 3.

’Ásí (Al-) = rebel, syn. with Pers. “Yághí,” i. 134.

Aská-hu ’alakah = gave him a sound drubbing (’alakah), vi. 58.

Asmá al-Adwíyah = names of the medicines, i. 283.

Ass (loan of) usually granted gratis in Fellah villages and Badawi camps, v. 460.

—— (the “cab” of modern Egypt), v. 281.

Assemblage of dramatis personæ at end of a scene highly artistic and equally improbable, v. 31.

Asshúr = Assyria, vi. 3.

Assyrian correspondence, the simplicity of, vi. 12.

“Astaghfiru ’llah,” a pious exclamation, humbling oneself before the Creator (tr. “sued for pardon of Almighty Allah”) v. 136.

Astrology and astronomy, iii. 159.

Astrolabe (tr. “Astronomical-gear”) iii. 159.

Asúr, in the text, “Atúr,” the scriptural “Asshur” = Assyria, vi. 3.

At her last breath, when cured by the magic of love, ii. 243.

Athr = sign, mark, trail (tr. “Scar”) i. 280.

’Atík = antique, iii. 11.

Atrábulus (also Tarábulus), Arabisations of Tripolis, iv. 169.

Atráf (pl. of “Tarf”) = great and liberal lords (tr. “chiefs”) i. 58.

’Atrús, King (? Heron’s “Illabousatrous”) vi. 234.

Attáf (named by Heron Chebib, also “Xakem Tai-Chebib” = Hátim Tayy Habíb), vi. 169.

Attáf, Tale of (Cotheal MS.), vi. 196.

—— Tale of, title compared with Gauttier and Heron, vi. 167.

“Atúr,” scriptural “Asshur” = Assyria, vi. 3.

Atwash (Al-) = one notable for levity of mind, ii. 16.

Audáj (Arab.) pl. of “Wadaj,” applying indiscriminately to the carotid arteries and jugular veins, v. 340.

Audán (pl. of the pop. “Widn” of “Wudn” for the literary “Uzn” = ear) (St.), v. 301.

Aulád-i = sons (vulg. plural for dual), i. 132.

’Aun, a high degree among the Jinns, a tribe of the Jinn, sometimes syn. with Márid, iv. 80, 302.

’Aurat = nakedness, tr. “shame,” v. 75.

’Ausaj = bushes, v. 456.

Auzah (Arab.), a popular word in Egypt and Syria (Pers. “Oták,” and Turk. “Otah”) iv. 40.

A’úzu bi ’lláhi min al-Sháytáni’l-Rajím = I take refuge with Allah against Satan the Stoned (St.) iv. 242.

295’Awán lit. = aids, helpers (tr. “guards”), i. 253.

Award o burd (Pers.) = brought and bore away, i. 210.

Ay Ni’am (Yea, verily, Yes indeed), an emphatic and now vulgar expression, iii. 14, 31.

’Ayn turned into H., i.e., Bitáht for Bitá’at, iv. 9.

“Ayoh” (in text), tr. “here he is”; a corr. of “Í (or Ayy) hú” = yes indeed he, v. 265.

Aysh = Ayyu Shayyin, what? iv. 207.

—— (Arab.) = Ayyu Shayyin and Laysh = li ayyi Shayyin, a popular corruption of olden date, iii. 122.

“—— Khabara-k?” = how art thou? iii. 122.

Aywah (different spelling for “aywa”) = “yes indeed,” or contraction for Ay (Í) wa ’lláhi = “yes, by Allah” (St.) v. 265.

Ayyám al-Nifás (Arab.) = the forty days after labour, during which a woman may not cohabit with her husband, iii. 502.

“’Ayyik” or “Ayyuk” = a hinderer (of disease), vi. 174.

’Ayyinah, probably a misreading for ’Ayniyyah = a sample, pattern (St.) iv. 290.

’Ayyúk = Capella, a bright star, vi. 174.

Azán-hú = lit. “its ears” (tr. “its pegs”) ii. 159.

Azay má tafút-ní? = how canst thou quit me? vi. 290.

Azbad (Arab.) from ✓ Zbd (Zabd) = foaming, frothing, iv. 31.

“Azlam” = the more iniquitous (St.), iv. 304.

Azm = Koranic versets, which avert evil, vi. 19.

Aznání = emaciated one, ii. 214.

Azzamín = Charmers, i.e., men who recite the Azm, vi. 19.

Baba Abdullah = Daddy Abdullah, iii. 311.

Báb al-Nasr, the grand old Eastern or Desert-gate of Cairo, v. 457.

Baba used in Pers., Turk., and Hindostan, for Dad! Dear! Child! iii. 311.

Bábúj (from “Bábúg” from the Pers. “Pay-púsh” = foot-clothing), tr. “papoosh,” v. 442.

Bábúk, or “Bábúnak” (Pers.) = the white Camomile flower, vi. 27.

Backgammon = “(jeu de) dames,” a term of European origin, iii. 180.

Bádám or Bídám (almond), used by way of small change, iii. 348.

Badawí dogs dangerous, i. 316.

—— tent, v. 116.

Badr, Al- (pl. Budúr) = the “Full Moon,” v. 198.

Badrah, lit. a myriad, ten thousand dirhams, i. 278.

—— (Arab.) = a purse of ten thousand dirhams, v. 58.

Badr al-Budúr, i.e. Full moon of full moons, iii. 95.

Badrat Zahab = a purse of gold (St.) v. 58.

Bágh = Royal tiger, iii. 530.

Baghdad (explained), iii. 25.

Bahár = ox-eye, ii. 13.

—— (Arab.) often used for hot spices (tr. “pimento”), iv. 138.

Bahlúl, a famous type of madman, v. 88.

—— Al- = the “Bahalul” of D’Herbelot, vi. 155.

Bahluwán (Arab. for Pers. Pahluwán) = a brave, a warrior, i. 131.

Bahman, meaning one of the Spirits that presides over beasts of burden, iii. 502.

Bahr al-Azrak = the Blue Sea (Mediterranean) vi. 256.

—— al-Muhít (Arab.) = Circumambient Ocean, iv. 323.

Bahrjaur (in Pers. Bahr-i-Jaur = luck of Jaur-city) i. 57.

Bak’ah (=“a hollow where water collects”) and “Buk’ah” (=“a patch of ground”) compared, vi. 12.

Bakar (Ox) and Taur (Bull) Moslem emblems of stupidity, ii. 178.

Bakar = black cattle, whether bull, cow, or ox, vi. 136.

Bakhshísh (written “Bakshísh” after Fellah-fashion) iv. 243.

Bakht = luck, good fortune, iii. 331.

—— (i) Zamán (Persian) = Luck of the Time, i. 102.

296Bákiyah = may also mean Eternal, as opposed to Fániyah = temporal (tr. “abide”) i. 39.

Bákúlat = pot-herbs (tr. “almond cakes”), probably clerical error for “Bakláwát,” i. 261.

Bákúr = driving-sticks, v. 10.

Bál (Arab.) sing. Bálah = a tale, iv. 210.

Balass ruby = of rare wood, set with rubies, ii. 251.

Balát = the flags (slabs of limestone and sandstone) ii. 21.

Baliyah = bane and bale (to jingle with “Bábiliyah”) ii. 153.

Ballát, limestone, slabs cut in the Torah quarries south of Cairo, v. 80.

Baltah, for Turk. “Báltah” = an axe, a hatchet, v. 336.

Baltah-ji, a pioneer, one of the old divisions of the Osmanli troops, surviving as a family name amongst Levantines, v. 336.

Bámiyah = Gumbo, etc., of Brit. India (tr. “rose-mallows”) iv. 243.

Banát al-hawá = lit. daughters of love (tr. here “a merry girl”) ii. 137.

Bandukah = a little bunduk, nut, bullet, (tr. “degrees”) i. 353.

Banj akrítashí = Cretan Bhang, i. 9.

Banj al-tayyar, i.e., volatile = that which flies fastest to the brain (tr. “flying Bhang”) v. 26.

Bánú = a lady, a dame of high degree, iii. 419.

Banú Adam = Sons of Adam (as opposed to Banú Elohim = Sons of the Gods) iii. 88.

Banú al-Asfar = Sons of the yellow (Esau’s posterity in Edom) iii. 88.

Banú al-Khashkhash = Sons of the (black) poppy (viz. Ethiopians) iii. 88.

Banú Ghálib, v. 43

Banú Hilál, a famous tribe, vi. 225.

Banú Shaybán = the King’s own tribe, ii. 199.

Banú Tay, the tribe of the chieftain and poet Hátim Táí, i. 179.

Banú Thakíf, a noble tribe sprung from Iyád, v. 46.

Barári or deserts, ii. 16.

Barbarians (Matthew Arnold’s) iv. 280.

Barbasa (with dental sibilant “Sín”) = he sought, looked for (with palatial sibilant “Sád”) = he watered the ground abundantly (St.) iv. 291.

Barbastu = besmeared, iv. 291.

Barber, being a surgeon ready to bleed a madman, v. 277.

—— the usual operator in circumcision, ii. 116.

Bardawán, the well-known city in Hindostan whose iron was famous, vi. 71.

Barniyah = Pot (in which manna was collected) i. 265.

“Bartamán” for “Martaban” = a pot, jar, etc. (tr. “a crock”) iv. 204–223.

Báshá (Arab. form of Turk. “Pasha”) derivation, iv. 137.

“Bashákhín,” pl. of “Bashkhánah” = hangings, arras, vi. 44.

Bashárah, can hardly be applied to ill news (faulty text), i. 34.

Bashárah, Al- (Arab.) = a gift of good news, iv. 307.

Basíl, son of “Ashur,” vi. 3.

Bashkhánah (corr. of Pers. “Peshkhánah = state-tents sent forward on march”) tr. here “a hanging,” v. 131.

—— custom of, among Eastern Moslems, v. 106.

Bashkhánah (Al-) = the Curtain, ii. 165.

Bassorah-city = “Balsorah” (Galland), “Bansrá” (H.V.) iii. 3.

Bast, a preparation of Bhang (Cannabis sativa) iv. 19.

Bastinado used to extort confession, i. 148.

Bát (for “Bit”) = Pass the night here (in Fellah speech) iv. 246.

—— = “the night has passed” (St.) iv. 246.

Bathá = lowlands and plains outside Meccan Valley, i. 42.

Bathah = inner court, i. 284.

Bathing after copulation kept up by both sexes in ancient Rome, ii. 142.

Batiyah (Arab.) gen. = a black jack, a leathern flagon (tr. “Keg”) iv. 125.

Bayt al-Mukaddas = Sanctified House, iii. 407.

Bazzistán (Arab.-Pers.) = market-place for Bazz = cloth, iii. 431.

Bawwábah Al = a place where doorkeepers meet, a police-station (tr. “guard-house”) v. 309.

297Baybúnah (prop. “Bábúnaj” in Arab., and “Bábúk” in Pers.) = the white Camomile flower, vi. 27.

Bayn farsi-k wa ’l-damí = lit. between fœces and menses (tr. “thy droppings and drippings”) i. 41.

Baysár or Baysárah, a dish peculiar to Egypt = beans seasoned with milk and honey, iv. 176. Also “Baysár” or “Faysár,” iv. 291.

Bayzah (Arab.) = an egg, a testicle, v. 360.

Bazaka = brought out, i. 209.

“Bean and ’twas split, A,” proverb suggesting “par nobile fratrum,” iii. 179.

Beating the bosom with a sunbaked brick, i. 34.

Bed (on roof) made of carpet or thin mattress strewn upon the stucco flooring of the terrace roof, v. 219.

Beef, causes dysenteric disease, v. 51.

Bell as a fringe to the Ephod of High Priest, vi. 100.

Bel the idol (or Ba’al or Belus, the Phœnician and Canaanite head-god) vi. 26.

Bghb (evidently for “Baght,” or preferably “Baghtatan”) vi. 78.

Bhang-eaters, indecencies of, iv. 196.

“Bi,” the particle proper of swearing, v. 470.

Bí-adabí = being without Adab, (means rudeness, etc.) ii. 68.

Bi al-Salám = in the Peace (of Allah) i. 6.

“Bi Asri-hi” (Arab.) lit. “rope and all;” metaphorically used = altogether entirely (tr. “the World universal”) vi. 108.

Bibars (pron. “Baybars”) ii. 3.

“Bí, Bí, Bí,” compare the French “Brr”, vi. 77.

Bid’ah = lit. an innovation, a new thing (tr. here “accursed custom”) ii. 266.

Bíhkamál (Pers. and Arab.) = “Good Perfection,” i. 107.

Bihkard = “Well he did,” i. 107.

Bihzad (Persian) = Bih (well, good) Zád (born) i. 89.

Biiru-milyánah Moyah (with various forms of “Moyah”) v. 323.

“Bi-izá-humá” lit. vis-à-vis to the twain, v. 69.

Bi jildi ’l-bakar = a cow hide, ii. 96.

Bi-Khátiri-k = Thy will be done (tr. “At thy pleasure”), v. 322.

“Bilád al-Maghrib (al-Aksa” in full) = the Farthest Land of the Setting Sun (tr. “Sundown-Land”) ii. 252.

Bilal = moisture, beneficence, etc., i. 40.

“Bilám” here = the headstall of the bridle (St.) v. 381.

“Billáhi,” i.e., “by Allah,” v. 470.

Bilisht = The long span between thumb-tip and minimus-tip, iii. 353.

“Bi-Má al-fasíkh ’alà Akrás al-Jullah” (tr. “Save with foul water upon the disks of dung”) v. 292.

Bímáristán (Arab. from Pers.) = a “sick house”, hospital, madhouse, iv. 48.

Bir al-Khátim = Well of the signet, i. 165.

Birkah = a fountain basin, lake, pond, reservoir (tr. “hole”) v. 117.

Birkat Far’aun = Pharaoh’s Pool, vi. 98.

Bi-sab’a Sikak = lit. “with seven nails” (meaning here posts whereto chains were attached) v. 380.

Bisáta-hum = their carpets (tr. “warehouses”) vi. 124.

Bishangarh, iii. 422.

Bishr and Hind (two well-known lovers), ii. 211.

“Bismillah” = Enter in the name of Allah, ii. 38.

Bísmillah = grace before meat, iv. 337.

“Bismillah; in the name of the Lord” = “Let us go,” etc., ii. 85.

Bisnagar (corruption of Sanskrit Vijáyanagara = City of Victory) iii. 422.

Bitá’i (Arab.) = my own, iv. 9.

“Bi-Wujúh al-Fániját al-Miláh” (reading “al-Ghániját” in app. with “al-Miláh”), render “the faces of the coquettish, the fair” (St.) v. 80.

Biyarza’ fí Asábí-hi (only instance in MS. where the aorist is preceded by preposition “bi”) (St.) v. 432.

Blackening faces a promise of Hell-fire, ii. 42.

Bloody sweat, v. 149.

Blood-feuds troublesome to travellers, ii. 222.

“Blood hideth not from blood” (equiv. to Scotch “Blood is thicker than water”) iii. 54.

298Blood moved between them (a “pathetic fallacy”) i. 77.

—— red tears, v. 149.

—— revenge religiously laudable, iii. 180.

“—— speaking to blood,” popular superstition, excusing unwarrantable liberties in Royal personages, iii. 531.

Blowing a man up with bellows, i. 351

Book of Bakhtyár (Persian Bakhtyár Námeh) “The ten Wazirs, etc.,” i. 55.

Bostán al-Nuzhah = the Garden of Pleasance, i. 29.

Bráhmani = Hindu, Indian, ii. 111.

Brain-pans (good old classical English) v. 219.

Branchlet = a youth’s bending form, ii. 162.

Breslau Edition quoted, i. 1, 4, 15, 25, 39, 42, 47, 51, 55, 58, 60, 121, 131, 134, 159, 165, 171, 175, 179, 185, 191, 266, 334, 359; ii. 3, 54, 55, 63, 67, 151, 183, 191, 259, 263, 275; iii. 51; v. 117, 118, 419.

Bribing the Kazi’s wife, v. 364.

Bridegroom offers coffee and Halwá to friends after a “happy night,” ii. 142.

Bridge at Baghdah made of the ribs of Og bin ’Unk (=Og of the Neck) iii. 19.

—— of Sanjia in Northern Syria is one of the four Wonders of the Moslem world, iv. 36.

Brow white as day and hair black as night (common conceit) iii. 96.

Brutality of a Moslem mob, ii. 168.

Buk’ah (=“a piece of low ground”) and Bak’ah (=“a hollow where water collects”) compared, vi. 12.

Bukhári = a place for steaming, iii. 355.

Bakhtí = The Bactrian or double-humped dromedary, ii. 235.

Buksumah (Arab.) = “hard bread” (tr. “biscuit”) iv. 169.

Bulaybul (Al-) = the little nightingale, Philomelet, iv. 245.

Bulbul-i-hazár-dástán (Arab.), usually shortened to “Hazár” = bird of a thousand tales = the Thousand, in Arab. called ’Andalíb, iii. 506.

“Bull- (Taur for Thaur or Saur)—numbered-and-for-battle-day-lengthened” (tr. The Bull-aye-ready-and-for Battle-aye-steady) v. 160.

Bull used in the East to turn the mill and water-wheel, iv. 294.

Bundukáni (Al-) = the cross-bow or pellet-bow man, vi. 53.

Bunduki (adj. of Bunbuk) = Venetian, ii. 204.

Bunúd (pl. of Pers. “band”) = hypocrisy, deceit (tr. “quiddities”) i. 353.

Burd (pl. of Burdah) = mantle or woollen plaid of striped stuff, v. 42.

Burka’ = the face veil of Egypt, etc., ii. 172.

—— = Nosebag, v. 91.

—— veil or “Nosebag,” iv. 282.

Burúj (pl. of Burj) = lit. towers (tr. “mansions”) i. 353.

Búsah (doubtful meaning), possibly reed used as a case or sheath (St.) v. 108.

But-Khánah = idol house, syn. with But-Kadah = image cuddy (tr. “Pagodas”) iii. 427.

Búyúrdi, Al- (cler. error for “Buyúruldi”) = the written order of a Governor, vi. 180.

“By the life of my youth,” a “swear” peculiarly feminine, and never used by men, v. 85.

Bye Names, vi. 84.

Byron in England, v. 274.

Bystanders excited about some matter in no way concerning them, i. 303.

Cafilah, i.e., caravan, iv. 222.

“——” (Shaykh of) for Cafila, v. 419.

“Cage of Clapham,” iii. 501.

Cairo (magnificent city of Egypt), iii. 58.

Calcutta Edition quoted, ii. 137, 141.

Caliph can do no wrong, i. 167.

—— Omar bin Abd al-Aziz (The Good Caliph) i. 39.

Caliphs under the early Ommiades, v. 39.

“Camaralzaman” (olden versions) = “Complete Time,” for “Moon of the Age,” vi. 233.

Camel (not customary to mount lady upon in India) iii. 294.

—— (“Ushtur” or “Unth”) iii. 294.

299Camels made drunk with Bhang, or Indian hemp, to make extended marches, vi. 244.

Camel’s pasture divided into “Khullah” (Sweet food called bread) and “Hámiz” termed fruit, iv. 7.

Camomile flower (white), vi. 27.

Camphor, use of, iii. 361.

“Can play with the egg and the stone,” i.e., “can play off equally well the soft-brained and the hard-brained,” v. 277.

Cap of the “Sútarí” or jester of the Arnaut (Albanian) regiments, v. 276.

—— worn by professional buffoon, v. 276.

Carpet (the Flying), prototype of, iii. 425.

Carrion (animals that died without being ceremonially killed) ii. 175.

Cat, a sacred animal amongst the Egyptians, vi. 31.

Cedar of Lebanon, vi. 5.

Census of the Exodus (Exposition by Mr. Thayer), vi. 113.

—— should not be made without direct command of Creator (superstitious idea) iv. 308.

“Chafariz” (fountain) of Portugal (der. from Sakáríj) v. 5.

Chamber (a dangerous word in English) ii. 129.

Change from first person into third, looseness of style in the MS. (St.) iv. 282.

Changes, contradictions and confusions inherent in Arab. stories, iii. 93.

“Changul” (with three dotted Chím) = red gold, vi. 251.

Chapter of the Cow (Koran) ii. 175.

Chaugán (Persian) = the crooked bat used in polo, i. 109.

Chavis quoted, vi. 12, ib. 15, 16, 53, 54, 56, 59, 63, 68, 72.

Chavis and Cazotte quoted, i. 55, 60, 65, 73, 81, 89, 94, 95, 97, 102, 103, 107, 112, 121, 131, 147, 151; iv. 49, 64, 66; v. 27.

Cheek, he set his right hand upon, meaning he rested his cheek upon his right hand, v. 9.

Chenery quoted, iv. 7; vi. 7, 54, 73, 84, 89, 94, 97, 124, 159, 183, 225, 241.

Chess rarely played for money in Europe, ii. 205.

Chhuchhundar, Hind. (Sorex cœrulescens) = musk-rat, iii. 500.

“Chifte,” from Pers. “Juft” = a pair, any two things coupled together (St.) vi. 67.

Child-bed customs amongst Moslems, iv. 177.

“Children” used for fighting men, ii. 224.

China = the normal Oriental “despotism, tempered by assassination,” iii. 164.

Chob-dár = rod-bearer, mace-bearer, usher, etc., iii. 125.

Church of Rohah (Edessa), one of the four Wonders of the Moslem world, iv. 36.

Circumcision, ii. 90.

—— (Jewish rite), must always be performed by the Mohel, an official of the Synagogue, v. 217.

—— three operations of, v. 217.

Circumstantial (affecting the), a favourite manœuvre with the Ráwí, v. 233.

—— evidence not lawful amongst Moslems, i. 112.

Circus tricks with elephants, horses, etc., iii. 430.

Cistern or tank in terrace-roof of Syrian houses, v. 246.

Citadel of Lead = Capital of King Al-Shisban, ii. 117.

Cloud (which contains rain) always typical of liberality and generous dealing, v. 179.

—— of Locusts believed by Arabs to be led by a King locust (the Sultan Jarád) i. 305.

Chronique de Tabari quoted, iv. 3–5.

Cob-houses, iv. 214.

Cock and the Fox (Fable of whose moral is that the biter is often bit) vi. 145.

Cock-speak = a natural clock called by West Africans Cokkerapeek, i. 10.

Coffee, iv. 198.

—— and sherbet, mention of, makes the tale synchronous with that of Ma’arúf, or the xvii. century, iv. 55.

—— and smoking, v. 236.

Cohen = a priest either of the true God or of false gods, vi. 109.

Coinage of Baghdad, iii. 294.

300Concealments inevitable in ancient tale or novel, v. 417.

Conclusions of Tales compared, iii. 303.

Condition of forfeits (lit. order and acceptance), i. 175.

Confections, or sweetmeats used by way of restoratives in the Bath, iv. 56.

Conjuration, a specimen of Islamised Mantra (in Sanskrit “Stambhaná”) intended to procure illicit intercourse, vi. 126.

Connexion of Beasts with Humans, and consequences thereof, iv. 331.

Conundrum or riddle, vi. 97.

Cook and Cooking, Egyptian or Syrian compared with English, iv. 174.

Corpse sprinkled with water, etc., iv. 257.

Cossid (Arab. Kásid), an Anglo-Indian term = a running carrier, iv. 123.

Cotheal MS. quoted, vi. 167, 168, 169, 173, 174, 175, 176, 177, 179, 181, 184, 186, 192.

Couch of Circumcision, ii. 111.

Couplets rhyming in “—ání” and “—álí” not lawful, v. 128.

Courser, rubbing his cheeks upon his master’s back and shoulders, v. 405.

Court of Baghdad was, like the Urdú (Horde or Court) of “Grand Mogul,” organised after the ordinance of an army in the field, vi. 81.

“Cousin” more polite than “wife,” vi. 188.

Cramoisy (dressed from head to foot in), a royal sign of wrath denoting torture or death, iv. 63.

Cranes of Ibycus, ii. 59.

Crepitus ventris, iv. 231.

“Cried out from her head” = Sang in tenor tones which are always in falsetto, ii. 238.

Crows, audacious, and dangerous to men lying wounded, iii. 344.

Crucifixion, vi. 261.

—— by nailing to an upright board, ii. 49.

Cuckold, origin of, i. 205.

Cuddy, der. from Pers. “Kadah” = a room, v. 24.

Cup-companions = the professional Ráwís or tale reciters, ii. 266.

“Cut the way” = became a highwayman, i. 90.

Cutting the way (i.e., waylaying travellers) i. 60.

Curiosity (playing upon the bride’s) = a favourite topic in Arab. and all Eastern folk-lore, v. 443.

Crystalline Isles, vi. 234.

Cynocephalus famed for venery, iv. 333.

Dabbah = wooden bolt, v. 265.

Dabbús = a mace, i. 95.

—— bazdaghání (trans. as if from Pers. “Bazdagh” = a file) tr. a “file-wrought mace,” vi. 71.

Dabdihkán, a physician (Cotheal MS.) vi. 174.

Dabshalímat = the Dabshalíms, the dynastic title of the Kings of Somanáth in Western India, vi. 23.

Dád-bín (Persian) = one who looks to justice, i. 94.

Dahab ramli (Arab.) = gold-dust washed out of the sand, placer-gold (tr. “pure sand-gold”) iii. 126.

Dáhiyat al-Dawáhí = a calamity of the Calamities, ii. 119.

Dahmár (King) called by Scott “Rammaud,” v. 105.

Dahn (Arab.) = oil, ointment (tr. “sweetest unguent”), vi. 10.

Dainty food (Egyptian or Syrian Cook compared with English) iv. 174.

Daïs (place of honour) i. 16.

Dajlah River (Tigris), vi. 122.

Dakhlah Al- (Arab.) = the night of going in, iv. 42.

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

Damascus City (der. from Dimishk) called Shám (Cotheal MS.) vi. 167.

Dán (with dual Dánayn) and “Wudn” (with plural “Audán”) are pop. forms for literary “Uzn” (St.) vi. 245.

—— Al- (cler. error for Al-Uzn = ear), vi. 245.

Dáúnk (Pers. “Dáng”) = one-sixth of a dirham, i.e., about a penny halfpenny, i. 245.

301Dann = Amphora (Gr. ἀμφορεύς short for ἀμφιφορεύς = having two handles), tr. “two-handed jar,” v. 198.

Dara’ or Dira’ = armour (tr. “jerkin,”) ii. 209.

Darabukkah-drum (or “tom-tom”) v. 13.

Darajah = an instant; also a degree (of the Zodiac) tr. “one watch.”

—— is also used for any short space of time (St.) v. 90.

Darajatáni (Arab.), lit. = two astronomical degrees (tr. “a couple of hours”) iv. 110.

Dár al-Salám = Abode of Peace, i. 11.

Dár al-Ziyáfah (in Northern Africa) = kind of caravanserai in which travellers are lodged at Government expense, v. 330.

Darb = lit. a road (tr. “street”) ii. 8.

Darbálah (Arab.), corresponding with Egypt. “Darábukkah,” a tabor of wood or earthenware (tr. “little drum”) iv. 43. Also part of the regular Darwaysh’s begging gear, iv. 43.

Darb al-Mandal (Egypt.) = Striking the magic circle in which enchanter sits when he conjures up spirits (a form of second sight) iv. 45.

—— al-Záji = the street of the copperas-maker, vi. 60.

Darbár (Hind.), term for Royal Levée = Selám (Pers.) iii. 451.

“Darbisí al-báb” (from the Pers. “Darbastan” = to tie up, to shut), tr. “Do thou bar,” vi. 69.

“Darín” for “Zarín” = what is powdered, collyrium, v. 111.

Darwaysh (Pers.), pron. by Egyptians “Darwísh,” iii. 313.

Darwayshah (Arab.) = a she-Fakir (tr. “religious mendicant”) iv. 217.

Darwayshes suspected of kidnapping, iv. 153.

Daryábár, der. from “Daryá,” the sea, and “bar” = a region, iii. 281.

—— (Pers. = the ocean land), a fancy name for a country, iii. 281.

Dashísh (Arab.), tr. “flour” (Dicts. make “wheat broth to be sipped”) v. 347.

“Dasht-i-lá-siwá-Hú” = a desert wherein is none save He (Allah), a howling wilderness, iii. 284.

Dastí = thou trampledst, i. 146.

Dastúr! = by your leave (Pers.), vi. 58.

Dates and cream (“Proud rider on the desired steed”) i. 59.

Dáúd = David, vi. 229.

“Daughter shall be in his name” = betrothed to her, iii. 110.

“Daughters” secondary figures in geomancy, “mothers” being primary, iii. 156.

Daur al-Ká’ah = the opening made in the ceiling for light (tr. “the opening of the saloon”) ii. 23.

Dawát = ink-case (containing the reed-pens) ii. 211.

Dani = an echo, iv. 273.

Dawn-prayer, i. 13.

“Day in the Country,” an old Eastern custom, iv. 96

Daylakí = Daylakian (garments), v. 143.

Daylam (Al-) prison, ii. 142.

Dayr al-Tin = “The Convent of Clay,” a Coptic Monastery near Cairo, ii. 284.

—— Nashshábah = the Monastery of the Archers (a fancy name) v. 129.

Days in Moslem year 354 (=6 months of 29 days and the rest of 30) i. 245.

Death and Life are states, not things, vi. 103.

Decies repetitæ, forms which go down with an Eastern audience, but intolerable to a Western reader, v. 170.

Defloration, regarded by many ancient peoples as if it were porters’ work, iv. 57.

Delights of Paradise promised by the Prophet, ii. 244.

De Sacy quoted, vi. 65, 160.

Descended = Come down from Heaven, i. 333.

Destiny, ii. 61.

Devil may not open a door shut in Allah’s name, i. 21.

“Dhobí-ká kuttá, na Ghar-ká na Ghátká” (Hindí saying) = a washerman’s tyke, nor of the house nor of the Ghátdyke, iii. 491.

Dhol = drums, iii. 137.

302Diamond does not grow warm whilst held in the hand, i. 215.

Diamonds, iii. 354.

“Diapedesis” of blood-stained tears frequently mentioned in the “Nights,” v. 149.

Died of laughter (now become familiar to English speech), i. 13.

Die thou and be thou an expiation for the shoe-latchet of Kilayb, ii. 263.

Dignity, permissible in royalty, affected by dames in Anglo-Egypt, ii. 110.

Dihkán, in Persian = a villager (tr. “village-headman”) i. 81.

Dijlah Al- = The Tigris (Hid-dekel) iv. 151.

Dilk (Arab.) more commonly “Khirkah” = tattered robe of religious mendicant (tr. “gaberdine”) iv. 43.

Dimity (der. from “Damietta”) ii. 210.

Din (Al-); omission of, in proper names very common, iii. 3.

Dínárzád and Shahrázád (for Dunyázád and Shahrázád), iii. 3.

Dínárzádah (W.M. MS.) = “Ducat-born” (for Dínárzád) iv. 6.

“Díním” (religious considerations) of the famous Andalusian Yúsuf Caro (a most fanatical work) v. 160.

Dirhams— 50 = about 40 shillings 300 5,050 = about £220 300 1,000,000 = about £25,000 161

Dish-cover used for cleanliness, and to prevent Evil-Eye falling upon food, iv. 243.

Dismantled his shop (removing goods from the “but” to the “ben”), i. 207.

Divan-door, dismounting at, the highest of honours, iii. 136.

Divan or Darbár (levée), being also a lit de justice and a Court of Cassation, iii. 107.

“Dive not into the depths unless thou greed for thyself and thy wants,” i.e., “tempt not Providence unless compelled so to do by necessity,” v. 422.

Divorce and marriage to Mahommed of the wife of Zayd (his adopted son), ii. 197.

Díwán (Arab.) = Council-chamber, v. 227.

Díwan = Divan (the “Martabah” when placed on “Mastabah,” etc.) v. 68.

—— —origin of Fr. “Douane” and Ital. “Dogana,” etc., iii. 7.

Diyár Bakr, lit. Homes (or habitations) of Bakr (pron. “Diyár-i-Bekír”) iii. 269.

Dodges, Eastern, to detect physiological differences between man and maid, etc., iv. 121.

Doggerel, fit only for coffee-house, v. 164.

Doghrí = assuredly, i. 18.

“Dog or a hog” = a Jew or a Christian, ii. 147.

Dogs, hatred of, inherited from Jewish ancestors, iii. 330.

Drachms, Ten = 475 to 478 Eng. grains avoir., vi. 163.

“Draw me aside its tail, so that I may inform thee thereanent” (also similar facetia in Mullah Jámí), v. 46.

Draw thee near to them (They) = they make much of thee, i. 2.

“Dream is the inspiration of the True Believer, The,” iii. 8.

Dress (a Moslem should dress for public occasions), i. 159.

—— exchange of, iii. 171.

Dried fruits, to form the favourite “filling” for lamb and other meats prepared in “Puláo” (Pilaff) v. 358.

Drinking customs, vi. 47.

—— in a bright light, loved by Easterns, iv. 193.

—— wine before the meal, still a custom in Syria and Egypt, vi. 192.

Dromedaries the only animals used for sending messages over long distances, ii. 249.

“Drowned in her blood” in the text, for “all bleeding” (hyperbole run mad), v. 139.

Drunkenness (instead of “intoxication”) v. 315.

Drying towels of palm fibre, iv. 55.

Du’á = supplication, prayer as opposed to “Salát” = divine worship, ii. 94.

Dukhán = lit. smoke, ii. 126.

Dukhn (Arab.) = Holcus dochna, a well-known grain (tr. “millet”), vi. 130.

Dukhúla-k = lit. thy entering (tr. “thy courtesy”) ii. 109.

Dúna-k (Arab.) = “Well done,” iv. 239.

303Durà for “Zurà” or for “Zurrah,” pop. pron. “Durrah” = the Holcus sativus, vi. 146.

Durráj (tr. Francolin) ii. 60.

Durrat al-Ghawwás = Pearl of the diver, vi. 225.

Duty of good neighbour, to keep watch and guard from evil, v. 285.

Dyed robe (Abbasides, black; Ommiades, white; Fatimites, green) i. 160.

Ear conceiving love before the eye, iv. 139.

Earthquakes (curious coincidence), iii. 21.

Easterns startled by sudden summons to the presence of a king, ii. 210.

Eastern despots never blame their own culpable folly in misfortune, vi. 22.

“Eat thy pottage,” a formula like our “Cut your mutton,” iv. 84.

Eateth on the spittle, i.e., on an empty stomach, v. 51.

Eating and drinking, iv. 160.

Eaves-dropping (favourite incident of Eastern Storiology) iii. 492.

Efendi (here meaning the under-governor or head clerk) iv. 214.

Eglantine (or Narcissus), The lowland of, vi. 12.

Egypt (magnificent city of) = Cairo, iii. 58.

Elephants usually are vegetarians, iv. 265.

Elias, Elijah, or Khizr, a marvellous legendary figure, vi. 100.

Elopements of frequent occurrence, i. 317.

Emir-Ben-Hilac-Salamis (Heron), vi. 225.

Emir Yúnas (old trans. = Hamir Youmis), vi. 70.

Embárah (pron. ’Mbárah), pop. for Albárihah = the last part of the preceding day or night, yesterday, v. 256.

“Empty gourds” Eastern succedaneum for swimming corks, ii. 286.

Enallage of persons (“third” for “first”—“youth” for “I”) v. 468.

—— of persons is Koranic and therefore classical, iv. 39.

“Enlarge the Turband” = to assume rank of an ’Álim or learned man, vi. 42.

Entertainment of Guest, three days, vi. 26.

Envious Sisters, The (various versions) iii. 491.

Escarlate, a woollen cloth dyed red (probably French of the xii. century), vi. 5.

Eunuchs, i. 70.

“Every one cannot go to Corinth,” ii. 74.

Everything returns to or resembles its origin, iv. 13.

Evil Eye, iv. 60, 257.

—— to keep off the = one of the functions of iron and steel, iii. 146.

Exaggeration necessary to impress an Oriental audience, v. 139.

Exchange of salams, a sign of safety, ii. 86.

Executioner, difficulty in Marocco about finding one who becomes obnoxious to the Thár, ii. 54.

Exodus of the Hebrews, Census of the (Exposition by Mr. Thayer) vi. 113.

Exodus, Story of the, vi. 98.

Eyes swollen by swathes, i. 30.

Fa’álah (Arab.) = the building craft (tr. “industry”) iv. 179.

Fadáwí (Arab.) = a blackguard (tr. “ne’er-do-well”) v. 441.

Faddah (Arab.), lit. = silver; the smallest Egyptian coin, iv. 37; Faddahs, 2,000 = about 1s. 2d., iv. 295.

—— tr. “groats,” v. 226.

Faddán (here miswritten “Faddád”) a plough, a yoke of oxen, v. 347.

—— also the common land measure of Egypt and Syria, v. 347.

“Fa-ghábá thaláthat ayyamin” = and he (or it, the mountain?) disappeared for three days, v. 390.

—— (Dr. Steingass translates), v. 390.

Fahata (for “Fahasa?” or, perhaps, cl. error for “Fataha”) = he opened (the ground), tr. “choosing a place,” v. 353.

—— (prob. vulgarism for “Fahathá”) (fahasa) = to investigate (St.) v. 353.

—— or may be read “Fataha” and tr. “he recited a ’Fátihah’ for them,” (St.), v. 353.

“Fair fate befal thee, etc.,” an address only suited to a king or ruler, iv. 109.

Fair play not a jewel to the Eastern mind, iii. 180.

304Fajj = mountain pass (Spanish, Vega = also a mountain plain) ii. 117.

Fákhir (Al-) = the potter, i, 360.

Fakakat = lit. “she flowed over like a brimful vessel.” (St.) tr. here “she expired,” iv. 333.

Fakír, a title now debased in Nile Valley to an insult = “poor devil,” iii. 313.

—— here the Arab. syn. of the Pers. “Darwaysh,” iii. 313.

—— also come to signify a Koran chaunter, iii. 314.

Falling backwards in laughter rare amongst the Badawin, ii. 202.

“Falling-place of my head” = picturesque term for “birth-place,” iii. 58.

Fál or omen (taking a) v. 424.

Falsafah (Arab.) = philosophy, vi. 29.

Fals (or Fils) = a fish scale, a spangle of metal, iii. 294.

“Fa-min tumma,” for “thumma” (“Anon.”) vi. 91.

Fanárát (Arab. pl. of the Pers. Fanár = a light house) here equiv. to mod. Gr. φαυάρ a lantern (Egypt. Fánús) tr. “flambeaux,” iv. 44.

Fár (Arab.) pl. “Fírán” = mouse rather than rat, iv. 324.

Faráfísh (Arab.) a word not found in dictionary—tr. “lumps,” iv. 12; nearest approach to would be Faráfík (pl. of Furfák) = fine, thin or soft bread, iv. 12.

Faraj (Al-) ba’d al-Shiddah = (Joy after Annoy), compared to Khudadad and his brothers, iii. 269.

Farajiyah = gaberdine, iii. 30.

Farárijí, tr. “Poulterer” (in text, as if the pl. of “Farrúy” = chicken were “Farárij” instead of Faráríj) (St.) v. 291.

Faras = a mare (tr. “horses”) i. 216.

Farásah = lit. Knowing a horse (tr. “Visnomy”) ii. 96.

Fáris = a rider (tr. “horseman”) i. 103.

Farkalah (φραγέλλιο) = cattle whip, ii. 47.

Farkh Warak = a slip of paper, ii. 114.

Farrásh = tent pitcher, body servant, iv. 157.

Fárs = Persia, i. 282.

Fárs (Al-) = Persians (a people famed for cleverness and debauchery) i. 2.

Farsh = bed or straw-spread store-room where apples are preserved, ii. 113.

Farts, savour his own (curious phenomenon) iv. 231.

“Farz,” devotions, iii. 328.

Fa-sáha (for “Maksah”) = and cried out, vi. 158.

Faswah (Arab.) = “a silent break wind,” as opposed to “Zirt,” a loud fart, iv. 231.

Fatáirí = a maker of “Fatírah” pancake (tr. “Pieman”) v. 298.

“Fa-tarak-hu Muu’sí am’à dáir yaltash fí ’l-Tarík” = “hereupon Musa left his companion darkly tramping about,” v. 323.

—— (Dr. Steingass explains and translates) v. 323.

Fátihah (fem. of “fátih” = an opener, a conqueror), v. 460.

Fátimah = a weaner, iii. 181.

—— and Halímah = Martha and Mary, v. 318.

Fatimé (Ja’afar’s wife, according to Heron) vi. 169.

Fatír (for “Fatírah”) = pancake (tr. “scone”), v. 321.

“Fa-yatrahúna,” masc. for fem. (tr. “miscarry”) vi. 31.

Fawwák (chair of) ii. 72.

Faysár, a dish peculiar to Egypt (see Baysár) iv. 176.

Fazl (Al-) the elder brother of Ja’afar, ii. 71.

—— (Caliph’s foster-brother) i. 166.

Feeding captives and prisoners (exception being usually made in cases of brigands, assassins and criminals condemned for felony) v. 430.

“Feeling conception” unknown except in tales, v. 124.

“Feet towards Mecca,” i. 34.

Fellah, natural fear of—being seen in fine gear, which would have been supposed to be stolen, iii. 171.

—— women stain their veils, etc., with indigo (for sorrow) iv. 248.

Feminine venereal paroxysm, iv. 144.

Fidá’i (Pers.) = a robber, a murderer, iv. 281.

Fidáwi (also “Fidá’i” and “Fidawíyah”) = pirate-men, v. 25.

305Fidawiyah (Arab.) sing. “Fidáwi” = lit. one who gives his life to a noble cause, iv. 281.

Fighting rams, i. 210.

—— (the Fellah will use anything in preference to his fists in) v. 350.

Fí ghuzúni zálika (Arab.), a peculiar phrase (tr. “meanwhile”) iii. 142.

Fí Hayyi-kum Taflatun háma, etc. (“A maiden in your tribe avails my heart with love to fire,” etc.) (Steingass also translates) v. 149.

Fí-hi = “In him” (i.e., either Mohammed) or “in it” (his action) i. 40.

“Fí ’irzak” (vulg. “’arzak”), formula for “I place myself under thy protection” (St.) v. 220.

Fí Jífán ka’l-Jawábí (Arab.) meaning small things (or men) and great (tr. “In the wells like the tanks”) iv. 106.

Fí Kíb = “in a mat” (Scott) v. 214.

Fikî (the pop. form of present day for “Fakíh,” prop. “learned in the law”), tr. “tutor” (St.) v. 420.

Fils (or Fals) = a fish scale, a spangle of metal, iii. 294.

Finján (pl. “Fanájíl,” pron. “Fanágil”), and “Filgál” used promiscuously (St.) v. 236.

Finjál (Arab.), systematically repeated for “Finján” (pron. in Egypt “Fingán”) v. 236.

—— (vulg. for “Finján”) = coffee cup, iv. 198.

Firásah (Arab.) = penetration, iv. 10.

—— lit. = judging the points of a mare (tr. “physiognomy”) i. 286.

Fir’aun (Arab.), the dynastic name of Egyptian Kings = Pharaoh (Holy Writ) vi. 12.

Fire lighted to defend mother and babe from bad spirits, i. 279.

Firozábádí (author of “Kámús”), Tale of, iii. 84.

First day = our Sunday, i. 286.

“First Footsteps” quoted, vi. 65.

First night (wedding night) v. 223.

Fírúz (Pers. “Píroz”) = Victorious, triumphant, i. 185.

Firúzah (Arab.) = turquoise, (Pers. form) Pírozah, iii. 270.

Fityán (pl. of Fatà) = my fine fellows, ii. 42.

Flfl’a (a scribal error?), may be Filfil = pepper or palm fibre, v. 351.

Flogging as punishment, vi. 9.

Flower = the breast, ii. 252.

Flying Carpet (prototype of) iii. 42.

Food, calls for, at critical times not yet wholly obsolete amongst the civilised of the nineteenth century, iii. 113.

—— respect due to (Tale of “Daftardar”) v. 86.

“Folk are equal, but in different degrees” (compared with “All men are created equal”) v. 425.

Force of fancy, iii. 182.

Forehead (compared with a page of paper upon which Destiny writes her decrees) i. 100.

Formula of the cup and lute, v. 196.

Forwardness on the part of women held to be insulting by modest Moslem, iv. 68.

Fowl (domestic) unknown to Europe till about the time of Pericles (ob. B.C. 429) iv. 32.

Freemasonry, iv. 288.

“Full dressed and ornamented” (a girl lying beneath a slab), a sign of foul play, v. 317.

Fumigating gugglets (with musk) ii. 275.

Funeral, Customs at, iii. 380.

Furát River (Euphrates) vi. 122.

Futúh (Al-) lit. = the victories (tr. “the honorarium”) i. 285.

Gáikwár, iii. 134.

Galland quoted, iii. 3, 12, 18, 19, 20, 22, 51, 58, 71, 77, 82, 87, 91, 108, 110, 116, 140, 158, 160, 167, 171, 297, 303, 321, 327, 331, 334, 335, 341, 348, 351, 353, 355, 363, 369, 377, 380, 385, 416, 422, 429, 446, 472, 500, 506; iv. 41, 244, 348.

Gandharba-lagana (fairy wedding) of the Hindus, iii. 448.

Gandharbas = heavenly choristers, iii. 448.

Gardener, Egyptian names for (St.) v. 293.

Gardens of the Hesperides and of King Isope, (Chaucer) iii. 74.

“Gásha” = he produced a sound, iv. 20.

306Gauttier quoted, iv. 3, 19, 49, 74, 90, 95, 97, 176, 189, 228, 244, 254, 334.

—— quoted, v. 3, 17, 21, 63, 123, 125, 231, 263.

—— quoted, vi. 3, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, ib., 15, ib., 33, 34, 41, 59, 68, 89, 167, 225, ib., 226, 234.

Gave her the hire of her going forth (i.e. Engaged her for a revel and paid her in advance) 44.

Ghába = departed (may here mean “passed away”) v. 390.

“Ghabasah” (Arab.) from Ghabas = obscure, dust-colored (tr. “clouded of color”) iv. 22.

Ghalílí = my yearning (tr. “my thirst”) ii. 102.

“Ghánim bin Ayyúb = The Thrall o’ Love”—position of in Arab. texts compared with Galland, iii. 303.

Gharbíyah (province in Egypt) ii. 16.

Gharím = debtor or creditor, vi. 77.

Ghashamsham Al- = the Stubborn, the Obstinate, vi. 256.

Ghashím (Arab.), from the root “Ghashm” (iniquity) = a “Johnny Raw”—a “raw laddie,” iii. 91.

—— (Arab.) = a favourite word of insult in Egypt, v. 29.

Ghát (pop. “Ghaut”) = the steps (or path) which lead to a watering place, iii. 491.

Ghattí = “Cover it up,” ii. 158.

Ghaur (or lowland) = the fall of the waist, ii. 252.

Ghuráb al-bayn = Raven of the wold or of parting, ii. 126.

Ghaush = a tree of hard wood whereof musical instruments are made, iv. 20.

“——” for “Ghaushah” = noise, row, vi. 69.

Ghaushah = tumult, quarrel, iv. 20; (tr. “clamour”) a Persianism for which “Ghaughá” is a more common form, iv. 20.

Ghawwasha = he produced a sound, iv. 20.

Ghawwásún = divers (tr. “duckers”) i. 68.

Ghaylah Al- = Siesta-time (Badawi speech), v. 151.

Ghayr an (Arab.) = otherwise that, except that (tr. “Still”) iii. 82.

Ghayr Wá’d or “Min ghayr Wa’d” = lit. without previous agreement (tr. “undesignedly”) iv. 149.

Ghayth al-hátil = incessant rain of small drops, vi. 241.

Ghazbán = an angry man, i. 265.

Gháziyah (Arab.) = a gypsy (pl. Ghawázi) iv. 29.

Ghazn = a crease—a wrinkle, iii. 142.

Gheir (Syriac) = for (der. from Greek γὰρ) iii. 82.

Ghetto, the Jewish quarter (Hárah) which Israelites call “Hazer” = a court yard, an inclosure, v. 217.

“Ghibtu ’an al-Dunyá” a pop. phrase, tr. “I was estranged from the world,” meaning simply “I fainted,” v. 97.

Ghilmán (in text “Wuldán”), the boys of Paradise, vi. 128.

Ghiovendé (Turk.), a race of singers and dancers, professional Nautch-girls, iv. 72.

Ghirárah (Arab.) (pl. “Gharáír”) = a sack, v. 228.

Ghiyár (Arab.) = any piece of dress or uniform which distinguishes a class, vi. 52.

—— in Pers. = a strip of yellow cloth worn by Jews subject to the Shah, vi. 52.

“Ghul-who-eateth-man-we-pray-Allah-for safety” (compound name), v. 161.

Ghubár = dust (joined to ’Afár = “sanddevils”) iv. 262.

Ghúlah = an ogress (fem. of Ghúl), iii. 327.

“Ghurrát” (Arab.) may be bright looks, charms in general, or “fore-locks” (St.) v. 88.

Ghusl, or complete ablution, v. 93.

—— ablution, i. 20.

—— or complete ablution after car. cop., i. 220.

Giallo antico, verd’ antico = serpentine limestone, iii. 139.

Giant Face (a parallel to the “Bodiless Head”) ii. 102.

Gil-i-sar-shúí (Pers.) = head washing clay (tr. “fuller’s earth”) iii. 348.

Girbahs = water-skins, v. 28.

Glass tokens (for coins) iii. 351.

Goat’s droppings (used as fuel, also for practical jokes) i. 288.

307Golden Calf of Al-Sámiri, vi. 160.

Goodwife of Cairo and her four gallants (analogous) v. 253.

Gouged out the right eye, v. 322.

Guernsey and Sark folk-lore, v. 328.

Guest-fires, ii. 249.

Guest rite = three days, vi. 26.

Guide going in front, i. 201.

—— (in Africa), following, instead of leading the party, v. 388.

“H” (the final aspirate), use of, v. 419.

Há! Há! so Háka (fem. Háki), Arab. = Here for thee (tr. “There! there!”) iii. 89.

Habashí = an Abyssinian, iii. 276.

Habbah (Arab.) = a grain (of barley), an obolus, a mite, vi. 53.

—— Al- = grain (for al-Jinnah) (St.) v. 108.

Habib, Note on History of, vi. 262.

“——, Prince, and Dorathil-goase” (Eng. trans.) vi. 225.

Habíb = the Beloved, vi. 226.

“Hábíl” and “Kábíl” (Arab.) equiv. of Abel and Cain, v. 56.

Habshí (chief) of Jinjírah (=Al-Jazirah, the Island), admiral of the Grand Moghul’s fleets, iii. 276.

Hadas = moved (“event,” a word not easy to translate) i. 321.

“Hadda ’lláho bayní wa baynakum,” tr. “Allah draw the line between me and you,” v. 406.

Hádi (Al-) Fourth Abbaside (A.D. 785–786) i. 165.

Hæmorrhage stopped by plunging the stump into burning oil, ii. 168.

Háfiz = traditionist and Koran reader, iii. 341.

Hajárata ’l-Bahramán (Arab.) carbuncles, v. 133.

Hájib = Chamberlain, i. 324.

—— = eyebrow or chamberlain, ii. 252.

Hajj (Al-) = the company of pilgrims (tr. “pilgrimage caravan”) i. 196.

“——” never applied to the Visitation (Ziyárah) at Al-Medinah, i. 196.

Hajj al-Shárif = Holy pilgrimage, i. 194.

Hajjáj (Al-), i. 47.

—— son of Yúsuf the Thakafí, v.

Hajjat al-Islam, the Pilgrimage commanded to all Moslems, i. 194.

“Há Káhi Ptáh” (O. Egypt.) = “the Land of the great God, Ptah,” vi. 12.

Hálah mutawassitah (Arab.) = middle-class folk, iii. 94.

Haláwat = lit. a sweetmeat (ii. 127), a gratuity, a thank-offering (tr. “a douceur”) i. 35.

—— al-Miftáh = Sweetmeat of the Key-money (tr. “douceur of the Key”) ii. 20.

Halbún, The Boobies of (tale concerning them), v. 273.

Halfah grass, ii. 46.

Half-man, an old Plinian fable (Pers. Ním-Chihreh, and Arab. Shikk) iv. 76.

Half of marriage-settlement due to wife on divorcement, i. 311.

Hálik (Arab.) = intensely black, iv. 24.

Halkah = throat, throttle, iv. 190.

“Halwá” = sweetmeat, iv. 7.

Hamadán, a well-known city of Irák ’Ajamí, i. 203.

Hamákah = fury, v. 446.

Hamám = ruffed pigeon, culver, v. 151.

Hamd (Al-) = Allah-lauds, ii. 221.

Hamhama = muttered, i. 265.

Hamídah = the Praiseworthy (according to Totárám Shayyán, instead of Fátimah = a weaner) iii. 181.

Hammám, i.e., the private bagnio, i. 262.

——, necessary to enter after car. cop., vi. 171.

—— bin Ghálib al-Farazdak, a famous Christian Poet, i. 42.

Hammama-hu (Arab.) = bathed, i.e., scraping, kneading, soaping, etc., iii. 133.

Hámiz = pop. term for pickles (i.e., “Sour meat” as opposed to “sweetmeats”) iv. 7.

Hamlat al-jamal = according to Scott, a “Camel’s load of Treasure,” iv. 59.

Hamzah, uncle of Mahommed, ii. 164.

Hand (She raised her) heavenwards (not “her hands” after Christian fashion), v. 174.

“Handicraft an it enrich not, still it veileth,” i.e., enables a man to conceal the pressure of impecuniosity, v. 223.

308“Hanná-kumú’llah” = Almighty Allah make it pleasant to you, v. 69.

Hanút (Arab.) = aromatic herbs, iv. 257.

—— = perfumes (leaves of the lotus tree) i. 290.

—— means either “Vintner” or “Vintner’s shop,” vi. 124.

“Haply there will befal thee somewhat contrary to this”—a euphuism meaning some disaster, v. 237.

Haráis (pl. of Harísah) = meat puddings, i. 287.

Haráj (in Egypt. “Harág”) = the cry with which the Dallál (broker) announces each sum bidden at an auction, iv. 37.

Harám = “forbidden,” sinful (tr. “useless”) i. 72.

Harárah = heat (here der. from “Hurr,” freeborn) noble, and tr. “nobility,” v. 289.

Hárát (or quarters) closed at night with strong wooden doors, ii. 9.

Harem, v. 283.

—— supposed to be in Eastern Wing of Palace, i. 199.

Harfúsh = Larrikin, popularly a “blackguard,” i. 4.

Harím (women) = the broken pl. of “Hurmah,” from “Haram,” the honour of the house (also an infinitive whose pl. is Harímát = the women of a family) v. 283.

Harísah = meat puddings, ii. 277.

—— = meat pudding, vi. 159.

Harj, gen. joined with Marj (Harj wa Marj) = utter confusion, chaos (St.) iv. 342.

Harj wa Laght (Arab.) = turmoil and trouble (St.) iv. 342.

Harrán, King of, iii. 269.

—— (the Hebrew Charran) iii. 269.

Harun al-Rashid (house still standing) i. 15.

—— and his famous pilgrimage from Baghdad to Mecca, iii. 177.

Hasá Al = the Plain of Pebbles, vi. 169.

Hasab wa nasab = degree and descent, v. 43.

Hasal (for which read Khasal) tr. “gain,” v. 425.

Hasan, the Handsome (in the old trans. “The Hazen”) (Kházin = treasurer?) vi. 68.

Háshim = breaker, i. 47.

“Háshimí,” i.e., a descendant of Al-Háshim, great grandfather of the Prophet, vi. 191.

Hashimites (and Abbasides) fine specimens of the Moslem Pharisee, i. 159.

Hashísh = Bhang in general, iv. 19; confection of, iv. 195.

Hasír = mat (used for sleeping on during the hot season), i. 204.

Hásil (Al-) (Arab.) = government stores, also the taxes, the revenue, vi. 60.

Hátíf = an ally, ii. 234.

Hátif, or invisible speaker, iii. 519.

Hatím (wall) = The “broken” (wall) to the north of Ka’abah, v. 180.

Hátim of the Tayy-tribe, proverbial for liberality, vi. 167.

Haudaj (Arab.) = a camel-litter, tr. “Howdah,” v. 193.

—— = camel-litter, vi. 181.

“Haukalah” and “Haulakah,” i. 265.

Hauráni = (native of Hauran), Job’s country, ii. 50.

Hawálín, cler. error for either “hawálà” = all around, or “Hawálí” = surroundings (St.), v. 301.

“Hawánít” pl. of “Hanút” = the shop or vault of a Vintner (tr. “taverns”) vi. 124.

Hawar, many meanings of, vi. 73.

Hawwúlín (Arab.), tr. “over his ears,” (a corrupt passage in text) v. 301.

Hayfá Al-, i.e., “The Slim-waisted,” v. 125.

Háyishah from ✓ “Haysh” = spoiling, iv. 190.

Haykal (Ar. and Heb.) = a large space, a temple (tr. “hallowed fane”) ii. 175.

Haysumah (Arab.) = smooth stones (tr. “pebbles”) iv. 347.

Hayy = either serpent, or living, alive (tr. “living branch”) vi. 99.

Hazár = the nightingale, or bird of a thousand songs, v. 151.

Hazer = a courtyard, an inclosure, v. 217.

Házir (Arab.) corresponds with English “Yes, sir!” (tr. “Present”), iv. 254.

309Házúr (Al-) = loquacity, frivolous garrulity (tr. “jargon”) i. 283.

“He who keeps his hands crossed upon his breast, shall not see them cut off,” i. 114.

He is of the lords of houses = folk of good family, ii. 169.

“He Pilgrimaged: quoth one, Yes, and for his villainy lives (yujáwir) at Meccah.”—Egyptian Proverb, i. 196.

He for she, iv. 29.

“He found the beasts and their loads and the learned men,” etc., a new form of “bos atque sacerdos,” iv. 311.

“He found her a treasure wherefrom the talisman had been loosed,” v. 14.

“He ... who administereth between a man and his heart,” a Koranic phrase (St.) v. 42.

“He readeth it off (readily) as one drinketh water,” vi. 5.

He sat upon ashes (may be figurative or literal) vi. 19.

“He mounted his father and clothed himself with his mother” = he sold his father for a horse and his mother for a fine dress, vi. 105.

Head cut off and set upon the middle of the corpse (in case of a Jew), or under the armpit (in case of a Moslem), iv. 64.

Head placed at a distance from the body (by way of insult) vi. 15.

Headsman paces round convict three times preparatory to execution; a custom at the Courts of Caliphs generally, vi. 52.

“Health to you and healing,” usual formulæ when a respectable person is seen drinking, vi. 47.

Heaven, the fifth = the planet Mars, v. 119.

Hebrews and their Exodus (Exposition by Mr. Thayer) vi. 113.

Helios (Apollo), Worship of, not extinct in mod. Greece, vi. 100.

“Hell-flame but not shame,” proverb, ii. 148.

“Help ye a Moslemah” (in text “Help ye the Moslems”) v. 368.

Hemp, Indian, iv. 195.

Her desire was quenched, iv. 144.

Herklots quoted, v. 28.

Heron quoted, v. 27; vi. 41, 50, 52, 68, 72, 167, 168, 169, 170, 173, 178, 225, 234, 242, 245, 247.

Hibá = dust, ii. 244.

Hibernicè, “kilt” for beaten, i. 247.

“Hicar was a native of the country of Haram (Harrán), and had brought from thence the knowledge of the true God,” vi. 4.

Hidden (for fear of the “Eye”) i. 75.

Hidyah (Arab.) in Egypt = a falcon (tr. “a Kite”) iv. 101.

“Hie Salvationwards” (the Words of Azán) i. 42.

Hifán (pl. of “Hafnah”) = handful, mouthful (St.) v. 11.

Hijáz (Al-) = The Moslem’s Holy Land, (Cap. Meccah) ii. 193.

Hikáyah (=literal production of a discourse, etc.) iv. 39.

Hilál = the crescent (waxing or waning) for the first and last two or three nights, v. 72.

Hilm (vision), “au ’Ilm” (knowledge) Arab. (tr. dreaming or awake) a phrase peculiar to this MSS., iv. 39.

Himà = the tribal domain (tr. “tribe-land”) ii. 215.

—— = the private and guarded lands of a Badawi tribe (tr. “demesne”) v. 142.

Himyán (or Hamyán) = a girdle (tr. “purse belt”) i. 152.

Himyarite (in text “Akyál,” pl. of “Kayl” = “Kings of the Himyarite peoples”) here = the heroes, vi. 232.

Hindostani Version quoted, iii. 3, 4, 6, 8, 11, 12, 19, 26, 27, 33, 51, 57, 61, 75, 79, 82, 85, 87, 95, 96, 97, 105, 113, 114, 116, 125, 129, 133, 137, 140, 144, 147, 148, 150, 158, 159, 160, 161, 166, 167, 170, 171, 174, 175, 180, 185, 188, 189, 294, 297, 355, 377, 380, 422, 446.

Hirfah = a trade, a guild, a corporation (here the officers of police) ii. 54.

His head forewent his feet = He fell down senseless, i. 17.

“His eyes turned in his head” (to show the whites, as happens to the mesmerised) ii. 242.

“His bones were crushed upon his flesh” for “His flesh ... bones,” iv. 347.

310Hisában tawíl = a long punishment, vi. 157.

“History of Chec Chahabeddin” (Shaykh Shiháb al-Dín) in “Turkish Tales” of Petis de la Croix = here, “The Tale of the Warlock and the Young Cook of Baghdad,” vi. 121.

“Hizà (حظى, in MS. حفى) bi-Zaijati-há” = le bonheur de ses aventures, vi. 260.

Hizám = girdle, sash, waist-belt, tr. “waist-shawl,” iii. 20.

Hms = Vetchling, vi. 74.

“Ho! Aloes good for use. Ho! Pepper,” etc., cries of an itinerant pedlar hawking about women’s wares, v. 351.

Ho, Tuffáhah! Ho, Ráhat al-Kulúb = O Apple, O Repose o’ Hearts, &c., i. 17.

Holy House (youth being of, can deny that he belongs to any place or race), v. 39.

Hobal, the biggest idol in the Meccan Pantheon, vi. 26.

Horseman of the horsemen, i.e., not a well-known or distinguished horseman, but a chance rider, vi. 92.

Horse-thief chained to four pickets of iron, ii. 224.

Horses used in India, iii. 297.

Hospitality (House of) v. 330.

Houdas (Professor) quoted, v. 47, 48; vi. 7, 36, 48, 57, 62, 66, 67, 72, 84, 104, 125, 126, 147, 178, 187, 188, 189, 191, 243, 247, 251, 257.

Hour (would his hour had never come) i. 27.

Houri, vi. 73.

House of the Elephant = the Castle’s squares at chess, ii. 205.

—— of Háshim, great grandfather to the prophet, v. 46.

—— masters (also Kings) in the East are the last to be told a truth familiar to all but themselves and their wives, iv. 351.

—— made of cob or unbaked brick, which readily melts in rain, iv. 214.

Housewife, Egyptian or Syrian, will make twenty dishes out of roast lamb, iv. 174.

“How very good he was to me,” i. 32.

“How was it thou honouredst us, and what was the cause of thy coming, etc.” the address of well-bred man to a stranger, vi. 170.

Hubban li-raasi-k (Arab.) lit. = out of love for thy head, i.e., from affection for thee, iv. 50.

Hudá Sirru-hu, i.e., his secret sin was guided (by Allah) to the safety of concealment, tr. “his secret was safe directed,” v. 339.

—— (Dr. Steingass reads “Wahadá Sirru-hu” = “and his mind was at rest”), v. 339.

Hudhud (tr. “hoopoe”) called from its cry (“Hood! Hood!”) i. 148.

Hujjat = a legal deed (may also mean “an excuse”) ii. 27.

Hummus (or Himmis) = vetches, iv. 7.

Hundred dirhams = £4 (about), i. 43.

Húr (Al-Ayn) feminine counterparts of the “Boys of Paradise” (Ghilmán) vi. 128.

—— al-Ayn = our vulgar “Houri,” vi. 73.

Húrí (Arab.) for Húr = pool, marsh or quagmire (vulg. “bogshop”) iv. 206.

Husn tadbir = lit. “beauty of his contrivance” (tr. “Seemliness of his stratagem”) ii. 29.

“Huwa inná lam na’rifu-h” (Arab.) lit. = He, verily we wot him not (suggesting “I am he”) iv. 133.

Hysterics, common amongst the races of the East, i. 198.

Hydrophobia in Egypt, iii. 330.

Hypocrites = those who feign to be Moslems when they are miscreants, iii. 83.

“I am an Irání but Walláhi indeed I am not lying” (Persian saying for “I will shun leasing”), v. 303.

“—— as one who hath fallen from the heavens to the earth,” i.e., an orphan and had seen better days, iv. 75.

—— between his hands = at his service, i. 280.

“I bade her be the owner of herself,” one of the formulas of divorce, vi. 178.

311I cannot fill my eye with the twain = I cannot look at them long, ii. 88.

“I change the pasture” = I pass from grave to gay, etc., iv. 7.

“I commit him to thy charge under God,” ii. 184.

“I have accepted,” the normal idiom “I accept,” vi. 81.

“I have not any eye that can look at him” = “I cannot bear to see him,” ii. 110.

I have not found thy heel propitious to me, i. 21.

“I must present myself before him (the King) with face unveiled,” a Persian custom for women, iii. 533.

I smell the scent of the Jinn, ii. 125.

“I think not otherwise” = “I am quite sure,” ii. 119.

“I will hire thee a shop in the Chauk” = Carfax or market street, iii. 61.

I will lay down my life to save thee from sorrow—a commonplace hyperbole of love, ii. 181.

Ibl, specific name for camels (tr. “certain camels”) i. 315.

Ibn al Sammák = Son of the fisherman or fishmonger, i. 171.

—— mín, a vulgarism for “man,” iii. 53.

Ibráa = deliverance from captivity, v. 203.

Ibrahim al-Harráni (Arab. title for Abraham) iii. 270.

—— of Mosul, the far famed musician, v. 193.

“’Iddah” = days during which a widow cannot marry (tr. “widowhood”) iii. 379.

“If Almighty Allah have appointed unto thee aught thou shalt obtain it without toil and travail”—a favourable sentiment, iii. 10.

“If his friend the Devil be overstrong for thee, flee him rather than be slain,” ii. 202.

If my hand were changed = if my hand had lost its cunning, ii. 78.

“’Ifr” (fem. ’Ifrah) = a wicked and dangerous man, iii. 80.

Ifrít, mostly derived from “’afar” = dust, iii. 80.

Ihtidá = divine direction, i. 313.

Ihtimám wa Ghullah (former should be written with major aspirate meaning “fever”) tr. “there befel him much concern,” v. 421.

Ihtirák = burning (used in the metaphorical sense of consuming, torturing) i. 35.

Ihramat li al-Salát = she pronounced the formula of Intention (Niyat) (tr. “the Prohibition”), ii. 94.

“Ij’alní fí Kll,” (the latter word a cler. error for “Kal-a” or “Kiláa” = safety, protection) = Set me in a place of safety, vi. 84.

“Ikhbár” (=mere account of the discourse, oratio indirecta, etc.) iv. 39.

Iklím = climes, ii. 3.

“Ilà an káta-ka ’l-’amal al-rabíh” (In MS. giving no sense. Translations by Author and Dr. Steingass) v. 58.

’Iláj (Al-) = insertion (tr. “horizontal refreshment”) ii. 185.

Illicit intercourse, (method intended to procure) vi. 126.

’Ilm al-Ghayb (Arab.) = the Science of Hidden Things, iii. 452.

—— al-Híah, gen. tr. “Astrology”—here meaning Scientific Physiognomy, iii. 32.

—— al-Hurúf (Arab.) tr. “Notaricon,” iv. 80.

Imr al-Kays (in text “Imryu ’l-Kays”) a pre-Islamitic poet (“The man of al-Kays”) v. 181.

’Ilm al-Mukáshafah = the Science by which Eastern adepts discover man’s secret thoughts (tr. “Thought reading”) iii. 539.

Ilm al-Raml = (Science of the Sand), our geomancy, iii. 156.

Imam = Antistes or fugleman at prayer who leads off the orisons, ii. 101.

Imám = a leader of prayer, iii. 380.

—— = an antistes—a leader in prayer (a word with a host of meanings) iii. 27.

—— (the spiritual title of the Caliph) i. 43.

Imán = prayer, iii. 380.

’Imárah = a building, tr. here souterrain (probably clerical error for Maghárah = a cave, a souterrain) iii. 15.

Impotence, causes and cure of, iv. 257.

312Improbable details on which stories depend, iii. 160.

In a modest way (lit. In the way of moderation) i. 248.

Inbasata ’l-Layl al-Asá = “when the night of offence was dispread,” vi. 243.

Indecencies of Bhang-eaters, iv. 196.

Indian hemp, iv. 195.

“’Ind ’uzzáti ’s-siníni” (Arab.) = lit. the thorny shrubs of ground bare of pasture, v. 59.

Infanticide (in accordance with the manners of the age) iii. 497.

“In lam tazidd Kayní” = lit. unless thou oppose my forming or composing (tr. “unless thou avert my shame”) iv. 11.

“Inna házih Hurmah; lam ’alay-há Shatárah” = “Truly this one is a woman; I must not act vilely or rashly towards her” (St.) v. 220.

Inscriptions on metal trays sold to Europeans—(also on tablecloths) ii. 87.

“Insistance overcometh hindrance” (equiv. of “’Tis dogged as does it” of Charles Darwin) v. 171.

Intersexual powers, vaunting, v. 91.

“Intihába ’l furas” lit. = the snatching of opportunities (tr. “divest himself in a pleasurable case”) v. 222.

Intoxication (properly meaning “poisoning”) a term to be left for “teetotallers” to use, v. 315.

Inverted speech, form of, v. 60.

Irak Al-, the head-quarters of the Khárijite heresy, v. 213.

Iraks (two) = Irák Arabí (Chaldæe) and ’Ajami (Western Persia) ii. 191.

Irán (father of the Furs) = Persians, etc son of “Ashur,” vi. 3.

Irham turham = Pity and shalt be pitied (one of the few passive verbs still used in pop. par.) v. 169.

’Irk = vein (of our eye) equiv. to “the apple of the eye,” ii. 144.

—— al-Háshimí = the Háshimí vein, i. 29.

“—— al-Usná” (Arab.) = chordæ testiculorum (tr. “testicle-veins”) v. 52.

Irregular use of inn, perpetuated in some monster hotels throughout Europe, ii. 20.

Irtiyád = a place where the urine spray may not defile the dress (tr. “a place to make water”) ii. 13.

“’Irz” (=protection), “Hurmah” and “Shatárah” (words explaining each other mutually) (St.) v. 220.

Isá, according to Moslems, was not begotten in the normal way, vi. 100.

Isaac of Mosul, the Greatest of Arab Musicians, ii. 70.

“Ishá” prayer, iv. 296.

Is’hák = Isaac (Abraham and Isaac) vi. 104.

Is’háku kána ’l-Zabíh = Isaac was the victim, vi. 104.

Ishári, a word which may have many meanings (tr. “a white cock in his tenth month”) iv. 341.

Ishmael (not Isaac) made the hero by mod. Moslems of the story “Abraham and Isaac,” vi. 104.

Ishtalaka = he surmised, discovered (a secret), v. 33.

Islam Al- is based upon the fundamental idea of a Republic, vi. 194.

—— (Shaykh of), v. 317.

Israel, history of the name, vi. 100.

Israelite, now polite synonym for Jew, vi. 100.

Isráfíl = Raphael, v. 302.

Istanáda ’ala Shakkati-h, tr. “(he might) lean against his quarter,” v. 401.

—— “he lay down on his rug” (St.) v. 401.

“Istanatú lá-ha” (presupposing “istanattú” 10th form of “natt” = he jumped) tr. “they threw themselves on her neck” (Dr. Steingass takes it for 8th form of “sanat” and translates “listened attentively”) v. 34.

Istífá = choice, selection, v. 203.

Istikhráj Al- = making “elegant extracts,” v. 126.

Istiláh (Arab.) = Specific dialect, idiom (tr. “right direction”) iv. 104.

Istinshák (Arab.) one of the items of the Wuzú or lesser ablution (tr. “water”) iv. 58.

“Itawwaha,” tr. “throwing his right leg over his back,” v. 382.

—— (Dr. Steingass also explains and translates) v. 382.

313Ittikà (viiith of ✓ wakà); the form Takwà gen. used = fearing God, vi. 96.

Iyálah = government-general, iv. 245.

’Iyál-hu = lit. his family (tr. wives) ii. 8.

Iyás al-Muzani, al Kazi (of Bassorah) the Model Physiognomist, iv. 107.

“Iz lam naakhaz, wa-illá,” etc., a fair specimen of Arab. ellipsis, iv. 300.

Ja’ad = a curl, a liberal man, iv. 14.

Ja’ad al-yad = miserly, iv. 14.

Ja’afar, the model Moslem minister, v. 72.

Jabábirah—fabled Giant rulers of Syria, iii. 86.

Jabal (Al-) al-Mukawwar = the Crescent Mountain (from Kaur = a park) ii. 119.

Jabal al-Saháb = “The mount of clouds,” v. 376.

Jabal Ka’ka’án, the highest parts of Meccah, inhabited by the Jurham tribe (so called from their clashing armour and arms) vi. 131.

Jabhat = the lintel, opposed to the threshold (tr. here “forehead” of his shop) ii. 137.

Jabr (Al-) = the tyranny (equiv. of “Civil law”) i. 212.

Jady (Arab.) = the zodiacal sign Capricorn (tr. “kid”) v. 46.

Jafr, supposed to mean a skin (camel’s or dog’s) prepared as parchment for writing, vi. 168.

Jafr Al-, a cabalistic book, prognosticating all that will ever happen to Moslems, vi. 168.

—— Al-, confused with “Ja’afar bin Tayyár” the Jinni, vi. 168.

Jaftáwát (Arab.) pl. of Turk. “Chifút” = a Jew, or mean fellow, vi. 67.

Jahím-hell, v. 55, 201.

Jahl = ignorance (also wickedness) i. 271.

Jahrbaur (a fancy name intended to be Persian) i. 93.

Ja’ídiyah (Arab.) a favourite word in this MSS. = “Sharpers,” iv. 14, 280.

Jáizah (viaticum) = a day and night, vi. 26.

“Jalabí” (in text) afterwards written “Shalabí,” v. 335.

Jalak, the older name of Damascus, the “Smile of the Prophet,” vi. 167.

Jálínús = “Galen” (considered by Moslems a pre-Islamitic saint) i. 284.

Jám = either mirror or cup (meaning doubtful) iii. 440.

Jama’a atráfa-h, lit. = he drew in his extremities (tr. “covered his hands and feet with his dress”) i. 114.

Jamal fálij = the palsy-camel, ii. 235.

“Jamarát of the Arabs” = Banú Numayr, Banú Háris, and Banú Dabbah, vi. 7.

Jámi’ = cathedral mosque, i. 250.

Jámí al-Amawí (Arab.) Cathedral Mosque of the Ommiades, one of the Wonders of the Moslem World, vi. 172.

Jám-i-Jamshíd, a well-worn commonplace in Moslem folk-lore, iii. 440.

Jamíl bin Ma’mar al-Uzri. (“Jamíl the Poet,” and lover of Buthaynah), i. 41.

Jamrah = a bit of burning charcoal, ii. 122.

—— = a live coal, ii. 87.

“——” (Arab.) a word of doubtful origin, applied to a self dependent tribe (tr. “live coal”) vi. 7.

Jámúsah (Arab.) = buffalo-cow, iv. 26.

Janákilah = gypsies, iv. 72.

Janánan may also read “Jinánan” (St.) vi. 138.

—— (? vulg. form of “Jannatan” = the garden (of Paradise)) tr. “the garths of Paradise,” vi. 138.

Janázah, bier with a corpse thereon, iv. 289.

Jarazat Kuzbán (pl. of Kazíb) = long and slender sticks, vi. 76.

Janínáti Al- = the market gardener, v. 293.

Jánn, Al- (MS. preserves rare form of, for the singular) iv. 88.

Jannat al-Khuld (Arab.) = the Eternal Garden, v. 172.

Janzír (vulgarism for “Zanjír”) = a chain, i. 20.

Jaríd = The Cane-play, iii. 327.

—— or reed used as a javelin, iv. 173.

—— pop. Jeríd = the palm-frond used as javelin, iii. 145.

Jarídah (Arab.), = Palm-frond stripped of its leaves, i. 264; iv. 173.

Jarír al-Khatafah, i. 39.

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

314Járiyah = damsel, slave-girl, used instead of “Sabiyah” = young lady, i. 134.

Járiyah rádih, Al-, tr. “the good graces of her mistress,” v. 161.

Jarmúk, son of “Ashur,” vi. 3.

Jarrah (Arab.) = flask, v. 321.

Jashísh = coarsely ground wheat (St.) v. 347.

Jatháni = the wife of an elder brother (tr. “sister-in-law”) iii. 373.

Jauhar = the jewel, the essential nature of a substance (tr. “quintessence”) i. 212.

Jauhar-jí (Arab.) a Turkish form for Jauharí, iv. 21.

Jauharjíyyah, tr. jewellers (an Arab. pl. of an Arabised Turkish sing.—ji for—chí = (crafts) man) iii. 95.

Jawádit Al- = animals freshly slain, vi. 257.

Jawákín (Arab.) pl. of Arab. Jaukán for Pers. “Chaugán,” a crooked stick (used in Polo), vi. 125.

Jáwar = he became a Mujáwir (one who lives near a collegiate mosque) i. 196.

Jáwúsh (Arab.) for Cháwush (Turk.) = an army sergeant, etc., iv. 45.

Jay’a Al- = the onyx (a well-omened stone) v. 130.

“Jayb” = the breast of a gown, also used in sense of a pocket, vi. 42.

Jayyid, der. from root “Jaud” = to excel. (St.) vi. 5.

Jazdán = a pen-case (Pers.) more prop. called Kalamdán = a reed box, iv. 322.

Jazirah = insula, island, used in the sense of “peninsula,” ii. 220.

Jazírah (Al-) (Arab.) = Mesopotamia, iii. 269. “Jews hold lawful to them the good of Moslems.” (Comparison of Jew and Christian in matters relating to dealing) iii. 93.

Jazr = cutting, strengthening, flow (of tide) v. 203.

Jehovah, the tribal deity of the Jews, vi. 4.

Jerusalem, Temple of, a fac simile of the orig. built by Jehovah in the lowest heaven, i.e., that of the moon, vi. 105.

Jewel inserted in the shoulder, i. 228.

Jewels (luminous) iii. 354.

Jeweller, held to be one of the dishonest classes, iv. 21.

Jiddan (Egypto-Syrian) = muchly, i. 115.

Jiház (Arab. Egypt. “Gaház”) = marriage portion, v. 28.

“Jílan ba’da Jíl” the latter word = revolutions, change of days, tribe, people,

v. 476.

Jím (j) with 3 dots, a Persian letter still preserved in Arabic alphabets of Marocco, etc., vi. 182.

Jink of Egypt (called by Turkish soldiers Ghiovendé) iv. 72.

Jinn (Arab.) = spirit or energy of a man, vi. 183.

—— “Curiosity,” vi. 62.

—— -mad (or in Persian “Parí-stricken,”—smitten by the fairies) v. 249.

Jinns of Northern Europe, ii. 86.

Jinníyah = the Jinn feminine, iii. 470.

Joanna Papissa (Pope John VIII. called “Pope Joan”) i. 340.

Job (traditions of) ii. 50.

Jugular veins (esp. the external pair) carry blood to the face, and are subject abnormally to the will, v. 340.

Julnár = Gulnare, ii. 100.

Jumlatun min al-mál = Worth a mint of money, iv. 59.

Jummayz (Arab.) = a tall sycamore tree, v. 117.

Jund (Arab.) pl. “Junúd” = “guards,” a term mostly applied to regular troops under Government, vi. 16.

Juráb al-’uddah (Arab.) i.e., The manacles, fetters, etc., vi. 78.

“Júrah Syán” for “Jurah sayyál” = a stinking fosse a-flowing, vi. 35.

Ká’ah (Arab.) = the apodyterium or undressing room upon which the vestibule of the Hammam opens (tr. “great hall”) iii. 133.

—— = a saloon, vi. 61.

Ka’b = heel, glory, prosperity, i. 21.

Kabá (Pers.) = a short coat or tunic, vi. 48.

Kababjí (for “Kabábji”), seller of Kabábs (tr. “cook”) v. 225.

Kabad = liver, sky vault, the handle or grip of a bow (tr. here “belly” of the bow), vi. 257.

Kabbaltu = I have accepted, i.e., I accept emphatically, iii. 37.

315Kabdán (usual form “Kaptán” from Ital. “Capitano”) = Captain (ship’s) (Turk. form, as in “Kapúdán-pashá” Lord High Admiral of ancient Osmanli land), v. 402.

Kábil-ki (? cler. error for Kátil-ki = Allah strike thee dead) tr. “Allah requite thee,” vi. 55.

Kabírah = head of the household (i.e., the mother), vi. 83.

Kabr al-Sitt, wherein Sitt Zaynab is supposed to lie buried (tr. “Lady’s Tomb”), vi. 171.

Kabsh (Arab.) = ram, v. 299.

Kabút (pl. Kabábít) = “Capotes,” v. 274.

Kad = verily (affirmative particle preceding a verb gives it a present and at times a future signification) i. 245.

Kadíd Al- (Arab.) = jerked meat flesh smoked, or sun-dried (tr. “boucan’d meat”) v. 51.

Kadr = rank, i. 48.

Kádúm for “Kudúm” (Syrian form) to “adze,” iv. 101.

Káfi’ah Al- = parapet, vi. 72.

Káfir (i.e., a non-Moslem) Everything fair in dealing with, iv. 316.

Kahana (Heb.) = he ministered (priests’ offices or other business) vi. 109.

Kahbah = whore, i. 12.

—— = our whore (i.e. hired woman), vi. 46.

Káhin, usual plurals of, are Kahanah and Kuhhán (St.) iv. 320.

—— = a Cohen, a Jewish Priest, a soothsayer, vi. 109.

Káhinah = Divineress (fem. of Káhin), i. 279.

Káhirah = City of Mars, Cairo, iv. 35.

Kahramán (alias Samarbán) (W. M. MS.) iv. 6.

Kahramánah = housekeeper (also nurse, duenna, &c. &c.) i. 199.

—— (Arab.) = a nurse, a duenna, an Amazon guarding the Harem, iv. 78.

—— a word of many senses, vi. 89.

Ká’id; lit. = one who sits with a colleague (tr. “Captain”) i. 59.

“Káík” and “Káík-jí” the well-known Caïque of the Bosphorous, v. 236.

Káim-makám = a deputy (governor, etc.) v. 281.

Ka’ka’ = “jingle and jangle” (of horses’ tramp) vi. 131.

“Káká Siyáh” (Pers.), i.e., “black brother” (a domestic negro), see his Názi-núzí, iii. 285.

Kála al-Ráwí, etc., parenthetical formula = “The Story-teller sayeth, etc.,” i. 347.

Kalak (Arab.), lit. = agitation, disquietude (used as syn. with Kúlanj = a true colic), iv. 177.

Kála’l-Ráwi = the reciter saith, v. 64.

—— ’l-Ráwí = quoth the reciter, vi. 227.

Kál (al-Ráwí) = “the Reciter saith” (a formula omitted here), vi. 15.

Kalamdán = reed box. iv. 322.

Kalamátu ’llah = the Koran, iv. 252.

“Kalansuwah”-cap—a distinguishing mark of the Coptic regular clergy, iv. 34.

Kalb = stomach (sometimes “heart”) i. 26.

—— (for “Kulbat”) = a cave, a cavern (tr. “conduit”) iv. 214.

Kalí = potash (our “alcali”) i. 8.

Kalím = one who speaks with another, a familiar, v. 203.

Kalímu’llah = Title of Moses, on account of the Oral Law and conversations at Mount Sinai, v. 203.

Kám Khudáí = master of his passions, iii. 269.

Káma (Arab.) = he rose; equiv. to “he began” in vulg. speech, iii. 389.

—— -Shástra = the Cupid gospel, iii. 429.

Kamar al-Ashráf = Moon of the Nobles, vi. 226.

—— al-Zamán (“Moon of the Time”), vi. 233.

Kamariyah (der. from Kamar = Moon) = coloured glass windows, ii. 39

“Kamá zukira fí Dayli-h” = “Let it be, as is said, in the tail,” vi. 126.

Kamburisíyah = clotted curd, vi. 159.

Kamal (Arab.) = Louse, vi. 99.

Kamís (χιτών, chemise, etc.) = shirt, i. 346.

Kamrah = the chief cabin (from Gr. καμάρα = vault), tr. “cuddy,” v. 24

Kanání (plur. of Kinnínah) = glass bottle, iii. 92.

Kanát (Arab.) tr. water-leat, iv. 350.

316Kandíl (Al-) al-’ajíb = the Wonderful Lamp, iii. 135.

Kanísah = a Pagan temple, a Jewish synagogue, a Christian Church, i. 198.

Kapú = a door, a house, or a Government office, vi. 179.

—— Katkhúdási = the agent which every Governor is obliged to keep at Constantinople, vi. 180.

Kapúdán-pashá = Lord High Admiral of ancient Osmanli land, v. 402.

Kapújí = a porter. Kapújí-báshí = head porter, vi. 179.

Kár’ah, now usually called “Maslakh” = stripping room, iii. 133.

Karawán = crane or curlew (Charadrius œdicnemus) v. 151.

Karb, one of whose meanings is “to inflate the stomach,” iv. 182.

Kárdán (Persian) = Business-knower, i. 94.

Kárishín = chasing, being in hot pursuit of (St.) v. 405.

Karít (✓ Kart) = complete, speaking of a year, etc. (St.) iv. 337.

Kariyah = a village (derivation) i. 83.

Karkabah (Arab.), Clerical error for Karkarah = driving; rumbling of wind in bowels, iv. 182.

Karm (✓), originally means cutting a slip of skin from the camel’s nose by way of mark, v. 266.

Karmán = Karmania, vulg. and fancifully derived from Kirmán. Pers. = worms, i. 59.

Kart = complement, or here, “remainder,” (St.) iv. 337.

Karúr = a crore, iii. 129.

Karz (Arab.) = moneys lent in interest without fixed term of payment, as opp. to “Dayn,” vi. 29.

Kasalah = a shock of corn, assemblage of sheaves, v. 53.

—— may be cler. error for “Kasabah” = stalk, haulm, straw, v. 53.

Kas’at (=a wooden platter or bowl) Mafrúkah, tr. “hand-robbed flour,” v. 349.

Kasf = houghed, i. 155.

Kashákish (Arab.), from the quadril. ✓ Kashkasha = he gathered fuel (here tr. “fuel sticks”) iii. 67.

Kash’am, a term having various sigs., iv. 183.

Káshán (Well of), proverbial for its depth, vi. 127.

“Kashmar,” a word not to be found in dictionary, iv. 25.

Kasht = skinning (a camel) ✓ of Mikshat (Arab.), iv. 100.

Kashshara = grinned a ghastly smile (also laughing so as to shew the teeth), v. 461.

Kásid = messenger, ii. 37.

Kasím (an unusual word), tr. “tax tribute,” vi. 18.

Kasír (the Little one) iii. 390.

Kásituna (Al-) = The Swervers, i. 52.

Kasr = abbreviation, i. 295.

Katá = sand-grouse, v. 151.

“Kata’ al-arba’,” or cutting off the four members, equiv. to our “quartering,” v. 96.

Kata’a Judúr-há (for “hú”) tr. “backbone,” v. 353.

—— (Dr. Steingass refers pronoun in “Judúr-há” tr. “Rabakah,” taking the “roots of the neck,” tr. = spine) v. 353.

Katá grouse, vi. 65.

(Kataba) Zayjata-há = marriage-writ, vi. 259.

Katáif (pl.) = Katífah-cakes, a kind of pancake, vi. 45.

Kátil-ki = Allah strike thee dead, vi. 55.

Katalú-ní = they killed me, vi. 185.

Kattán = linen, flax (tr. “linen web”) iv. 104.

Kattu from “Katta” = he cut (in breadth, as opposed to Kadda = he cut lengthwise) iii. 52.

Kauk (Káka, yakúku) to chuck, iv. 203.

Kauk = an aquatic bird with a long neck, iv. 203.

Kaunayn (Arab.) = the two entities, this world and other world (tr. here “Two Beings”) vi. 249.

Kauri (or “Cowrie,” Cypræa moneta), iii. 348.

Kaus al-Bunduk (or Bundúk) (Arab.) = a pellet-bow (Ital. arcobugio, Eng. arquebuse), vi. 53.

Kawá’ib Al- = High-breasted (also P. N. of the river) v. 176.

317Kawá’ib Al- (A P.N. of word unknown to author); lit. meaning “of high-breasted virgins,” v. 129.

Kawání al- (pl. of Kanát) = the spears (tr. here “punishment”), also read “al-Ghawání” (St.) vi. 147.

Kawárijí (Arab.) = one who uses the paddle, a rower (tr. “boatman”) iii. 18.

Kawík (Arab.) = magpie, iv. 203.

Kawwárah, tr. “Sherd” (not found in dictionary) iv. 179.

“Kayasirah” (Cæsars) opp. to Akásirah, (kisras) ii. 263.

Kayf, favourite word in Egypt and Syria, i. 58.

—— a tranquil enjoyment, iv. 196.

—— = joy, the pleasure of living, vi. 174.

Kaylúlah = Siesta, iv. 324.

Kayrawán = Curlew, ii. 93.

Kazafa (Arab.) = threw up, vomited, vi. 135.

Kazánát (pl. of “Kázán”) = crucibles (opp. to Kawálib = moulds) v. 108.

Kázánát Al- (pl. of Kázán) = chauldrons (Turk. “Kazghán”) (St.) v. 25.

Kazázah = vulg. a (flask of) glass, iv. 179.

Kazdír, may here allude to the canisters used by small shopkeepers (tr. “tin”) iv. 338.

Kázi, ex-officio guardian of the orphans and their property liable to punishment in case of Fraud, ii. 10.

Kází al-Askar = the great legal authority of a country (tr. “Kazi of the Army”) v. 310.

Kázi bade ancient dame precede him (on reaching door), lest he happen to meet an unveiled woman upon the upper stairs, vi. 58.

Kazzák = Cossacks, bandits, etc. (here tr. “pirates”) iii. 288.

Kbb (possibly “Kubb” for “Kubbah”) = a vault, a cupola, v. 376.

Kerchief, throwing the, iv. 264.

Keyhole (Eastern) cannot be spied through, the holes being in the bolt, vi. 54.

Khabata = “He (the camel) pawed the ground” (tr. “beateth the bough”) vi. 28.

Khálata-há al-Khajal wa ’l-Hayá = shame and abasement mixed with her, i.e., “suffused or overwhelmed her” (St.) v. 399.

Khálat-kí insánun (Arab.) tr. “(some man) has mixed with thee”; meaning also “to lie with,” v. 398.

—— (Dr.Steingass also explains and translates), v. 376.

Khalbas (suggests Khalbús) = a buffoon i. 266.

Khalífah (Caliph) = a deputy, a successor, (derivation) i. 4.

—— (never written “Khalíf”) = a viceregent or vicar, v. 64.

Khalíj (Al-) The Canal (Grand Canal of Cairo) ii. 286.

Khalíyáh = beehive and empty, iv. 222.

Khallí-ná nak’ud (Arab.) = let us sit together (a thoroughly modern expression) (St.) v. 475.

“Khamr al-’ukár” (=choice wine) v. 137.

Khams Ghaffár = “five pardoners” (Steingass reads Khamr. (=wine) ’ukár another name for wine, as in “Al-Khamr al-’ukár” = choice wine) v. 137.

Khanádik = ditches or trenches (for Fanádik, “khans”) i. 288.

Kharrat (in text) = tripping and stumbling (in her haste), v. 253.

—— (also may be meant for “Kharajat” = “she went out”) (St.) v. 253.

Khátá = Cathay = China, v. 27.

Khatíb = a preacher (not Kátíb = a writer), vi. 240.

Khatíbah (more usually “Khutbah”) = the Friday sermon preached by the Khatíb, iii. 492.

Khatt Hajar, a province, vi. 230.

Khaufu (Al-) maksúm = cowardice is equally divided, iv. 245.

Khawábi (Arab.) (pl. of Khábiyah) = large jars usually of pottery, iii. 11.

Khawátín (pl. of Khátún) = a matron, a lady, i. 122.

“Khayr” (Arab.) = “’Tis well,” a word of good omen, vi. 58.