Note 395 — HISTORY OF PRINCE HABIB AND WHAT BEFEL HIM WITH THE LADY DURRAT AL-GHAWWAS.
Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2
An intensive word, “on the weight,” as the Arabs say of ’Abbás (stern-faced) and meaning “Very stern-faced, austere, grim.” In the older translations it becomes “Il Haboul”—utterly meaningless.