Note 237 — THE TALE OF THE WARLOCK AND THE YOUNG COOK OF BAGHDAD.
Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2
[The word which is here translated with: “and one had said that he had laboured hard thereat” (walawá’yh?) seems scarcely to bear out this meaning. I would read it “wa’l-Aw’iyah” (plur. of wi’á), rendering accordingly: “and the vessels (in which the aforesaid meats were set out) shimmered like unto silver for their cleanliness.”—St.]