Note 108 — THE HISTORY OF AL-BUNDUKANI. OR, THE CALIPH HARUN AL-RASHID AND THE DAUGHTER OF KING KISRA.

In text “Akbá’ wa Zarábíl.” I had supposed the first to be the Pers. Kabá = a short coat or tunic, with the Arab. ’Ayn (the second is the common corruption for “Zarábín” = slaves’ shoes, slippers: see vol. x. 1), but M. Houdas translates Ni calottes ni caleçons, and for the former word here and in MS. p. 227 he reads “’Arakiyah” = skull-cap: see vol. i. 215. [“Akbá” is the pl. of “Kub’,” which latter occurs infra, p. 227 of the Ar. MS., and means, in popular language, any part of a garment covering the head, as the hood of a Burnus or the top-piece of a Kalansuwah; also a skull-cap, usually called “’Araqíyah.”—St.]