Note 33 — THE SAY OF HAYKAR THE SAGE.[6]

i.e. the Lowland of the Eglantine or Narcissus; Nisrín is also in dictionaries an island where amber abounds. There is a shade of difference between Buk’ah and Bak’ah. The former which is the correcter form = a patch of ground, a plain (hence the Buká’a = Cœlesyria), while Bak’ah = a hollow where water collects. In Chavis we find “the plain of Harrim” and in Gauttier la plaine de Baschrin; and the appointment was “for the first of the month Niram” (Naysán).