Volume 2 — INDEX.

Aaron's Rod, 242

Abá, Abá'ah=cloak of hair, 133

Abad=eternity without end, 205

Abbasides (descendants of the Prophet's uncle), 61

—— (black banners and dress), 64; 292

Abd al-Azíz(Caliph), 166

Abd al-Malik (Caliph), 77; 167

Abhak=Allah bless him and keep (see Sal'am), 24

Abraham (an Imám to mankind), 203

—— (place of), 272

Abú Bakr (Caliph), 167; 197

Abú Hanífah (founder of the Senior School), 207

—— —— (scourged for refusing to take office), 210

Abú Házim, 205

Abú Ishak (Hárún's cup-companion), 302

Abú Lúlúah (murderer of Caliph Omar), 162

Abú Músá al-Ashári, ib.

Abú Riyáh=father of winds, a toy, 93

Abú Zarr (companion of the Prophet), 200

Acquit me of responsibility=pardon me, 76

Æolipyla, 101

Afridun (Furaydun) absurd name for a Greek king, 82

Agha=sir, gentleman, to a Eunuch, 50

Ahmad=the praised one, Mohammed, 226

Ahmad bin Hanbal (founder of the fourth Moslem School), 204

Ahnaf (Al-) bin Kays, 160

336Ahr (ihr)=fornication, in the sense of irreligion, 258

Akhzar (green, grey, fresh, applied to cheek-down), 292

Ali (Caliph), his deeds of prowess, 108

Alam (not Ilm) al-Dín=flag of the faith, 19

Alexander (of the Koran) not to be confounded with the Macedonian, 199

Alms to reverend men for securing their prayers, 71

Allah (names, by Edwin Arnold), 28

—— Wa'lláhi tayyib (exclamation of the Egyptian Moslem), 34

Allaho akbar (as a war-cry), 89

Amazon (a favourite in folk-lore), 96

Ammá ba'ad=but after, initiatory formula, 37

Anemone on a tomb, 325

Anis al-Jalis=the Cheerer of the Companion, 5

Anklet-ring and ear-drops (erotic meaning of), 318

Arab exaggerates generosity, 36

—— shouting under his ruler's palace, 39

—— Temperament, 54, 101, 181

—— Cap (Turtúr), 143

—— Derivation of the name, 140

Arafat day, 169

Aráki (capparis shrub), 54

Ardeshir (Artaxerxes), three Persian Kings of the name, 156

Arman=Armenia, 273

337Ashhab=grey-white, 116

Aslah=head-kerchief, 59

Ass held ill-omened, 25

Attraction of like to like, 296

Awáh! Awáh=Alas! Alas!, 321

Ayát (Coranic verses), 242

Aylúlah (slumbering after morning prayers), 178

Ayyúb=Job, 45

Azal=eternity without beginning, 205

Azán (call to prayer), 306

Azghán=camel litters, 282

Azíz (f. Azízah)=dear, excellent, highly prized, 298

Azrár (buttons), 318

Badawi not used in the Koran for Desert Arab, 140

—— bonnet, 143

—— a fool as well as a rogue, 146

Bád-i-Sabá=breeze o' the morn, 181

Bakh! Bakh!=bravo! brava!, 151

Bakláwah=almond-pastry, 311

Balah=green date, 314

Banú 'l-Asfar (people of the yellow faces), 220

Beni Udhra (tribe famous for love-passion), 304

Barr al-Manákhah in Al-Medinah, 139

Barsh=matting, 18

Barzakh=bar, partition, Hades, 325

Bathers pay on leaving the Hammam, 332

Bátiní=gnostic, 29

Batrak (Batrik)=patriarcha, 89

Batrík (Bitrík)=patricius, ib.

Bayt al-Mukaddas=Jerusalem, 132

Bayzatán=testicles; egg-story, 55

Belle passion in the East, 62

Bhang (its kinds and use), 123

Biká'a=low-land, 109

Bilál (first Muazzin), 306

Bilkís and her throne, 79

Birth-stool (Kursí al-wiládah), 80

Bishr al-Háfi (Barefoot), 203

Biting the finger ends (not nails) sign of confusion, etc., 38

Bismillah parodied, 223

Black (colour of the Abbaside banner), 292

Boccaccio quoted, 112

Brother of Folly=a very fool, 279

338Brotherhood of futurity=lookers out for a better world, 197

Buka'ah=Cœlesyria, 109

Bukhait=little good luck, 48

Bukhti (dromedaries), 177

Bull (followers preceding), 98

Burka'=nose-bag, 52

Bursting of the gall-bladder=our breaking of the heart, 322

Burying a rival, 58

Buttons (azrár), 318

Cabbala=Spiritual Sciences, 151

Caliphs: Abú Bakr, 167, 197 Abd al-Azíz, 166 Abd al-Malik, 77, 167 Ali, 108 Hishám bin Abd al-Malik, 170 Mansúr (Al-), 142, 158, 210 Mu'áwiyah, 160, 161 Omar, 158, 159 Othmán, 163 Walíd bin Marwán, 167

Caitiff=Captivus, 109

Camel-load=lbs. 300, for long journeys lbs. 250, 45

—— men do not accept drafts on futurity, 69

Cannibal tribes in Central Africa, 48

Caravan (each one's place to be kept in), 184

Carob (Cassia fistularis), 241

—— bean, emblem of constancy, 315

Carrier-pigeons, 247

Cesarea, 77

—— "of Armenia", 273

Chaff, 15

Chewing a document that none might see it after, 39

Chess and chessmen, 104

China-ware displayed on shelves, 52

Clapping hands preliminary to a wrestling-bout, 91

Clerical error of Bulak Edition, 114

Climate (water and air), 4

Coffee (see Kahwah), 261

Cohen (Káhin)=diviner, priest, esp. Jewish, 221

Continuation in dignities requested by office-holders from a new ruler, 192

339Coptic convents, 86

—— visitations to, still customary, 110

Copulation, praying before or after, 161

Coral (name of slave-girl), 101

Cousin (term of familiarity=our "coz."), 43

Cursing intelligible, swearing meaningless, although English, 312

Cup and cup-bearer, 327

Cutting (alluding to the scymitar), 231

Dakianús=Decianus, 244

Dalíl=guide; f. Dalílah=misguiding woman, bawd, 329

Dandán (N.P.)=tooth, 83

Dánik=sixth of a drachma, 204

Dáúd=David, 286

David (makes coats of mail), 286

Dawn-breeze, 181

Daylamites, 94

Deeds of prowess not exaggerated, 108

Destructiveness of slaves, 55

Devil (the, was sick, etc.), 264

Dirás=thrashing-sled, 108

Dirham-weight=48 grains avoir, 316

Doomsday, horrors of, come upon a man, 232

Door-hinges, 214

Dove and turtle-dove female, 23

Down (of the cheek), 246

Dozd o Kázi (Persian book), 55

Draught of air (Zug) feared by Orientals, 9

Drawbridges in Coptic convents, 94

Drinking in the dark disliked, 59

"Drugging" not a Badawi sentiment, 122

Dúbarah (Dubárá)=Dubrovnik, Ragusa, 219

Dung (used as fuel, etc.), 149

Ear-drop=penis, 318

Eedgáh see Idgáh, 202

Eggs for testicles, 55

Emancipation, the greater=pardon for sins or holy death, 165

Elephant (derivation of the word), 104

Enemy his offered hand to be kissed or cut off, 142

Eunuchs, if without testes only, highly prized, 50

340Expiration of oaths, 186

Eyes, hot=full of tears, 99

—— becoming white=blind, 283

Fadaises of a blue stocking, 156

Falling on the back a fair fall in wrestling, 92

Familiarity between the great and paupers, 32

—— of girls with black slave-boys, 49

Farj=slit; Zawi'l-Furúj=slit ones, ib.

Faisakh=three English miles, 114

Faylúlah=slumbering after sunset, 178

Fass (fiss, fuss)=bezel; hillock, 97

Finger in mouth (sign of grief), 302

Fish begins to stink at the head, 168

Fitnah=seduction, charmer, 76

Fits of religious enthusiasm, 132

Flatterers (the worst of foes), 11

Flowers of speech, 88

Folk follow their King's faith, 157

Fountain-bowl, ornamented with mosaic, etc., 310

"Fundamentals (Usúl) remembered"=the business is not forgotten, 15

Funerals (meritorious to accompany), 46

Furaydun (see Afridun), 82

Gardeners touchy on the point of mated visitors, 22

Generosity an Arab's ideal because the reverse of his nature, 36

Ghábah=thicket, 85

Ghashím="Johnny Raw", 330

Ghaylúlah=slumbering in the morning, 178

Ghazá (Artemesia, a desert shrub), 24

Ghazban (N. P.)=an angry, violent man, 125

Gházi=fighter for the faith, 240

Ghazwah=raid, foray, razzia, 217

Ghussah=calamity which chokes, wrath, 147

Glance compared with a Yamáni sword, 127

Grandfather's name given familiarly, 15

Gospel of Infancy, 228

Hadíd=iron, 316

341Hafsah (Caliph Omar's daughter and wife of Mohammed), 165

Hafsites (Dynasty in Mauritania), ib.

Hajj al-Akbar and Hajj al-Asghar, 169

Hájib=groom, chamberlain, 304

Halfah-grass (Poa), 18

Halwá=sweetmeats, 47, 212

Hamah=Hightown, 178

Hanbal (see Ahmad bin Hanbal), 204

Hanien=pleasant to thee! after drinking, 5

Hanífah (see Abu Hanífah), 207

Hard of heart and soft of sides, 5

Harf=letter, syllable, 307

Hasan al-Basrí (theologian), 165

Háshimi vein, 19

Hátim al-Asamm (the Deaf), 207

Hawá al-'Uzrí=platonic love, 304

"He" for "She" out of delicacy, 179

Head-kerchief (deshabille), 328

Hibá=cords, garters, 236

Hijáz (al)=Moslem Holy Land, 306

Himalayan brothers, 211, 260

Hips (their volume admired), 285

Hishám bin Abd al-Malik (Caliph), 170

Holiness supposed to act as talisman, 251

Honour amongst thieves, 159

Horses not taught to leap, 89

Hospitals hated, 70

Hubb al-Watan=patriotism, 183

Hunger (burns), 144

Hungry judges "hanging judges", 198

Hymeneal blood resembles that of pigeon-poult, 50

Hysterical Arab temperament, 54, 101,

Ibn Abi Aufa, 200

Ibráhím bin Adham, 203

Idgáh (place of prayer), 202

Ikh! Ikh! (cry to a camel to make it kneel down), 139

Imám=leader, antistes, 203

Incest repugnant to Moslem taste, 172

Index finger (Sháhid), 300

Inshád=reciting, improvising, 126

Inshallah bukra=to-morrow if, Allah please, 324

Intercession-doctrine disputed amongst Moslems, 40

Inverted speech (forms of), 265

342Irák=level country beside river banks, 132

Iron (conjures away fiends), 316

Istikbál=coming forth to greet, 287

Ithmid (stibium, antimone)=Sp. Althimod, 103

J, how it came to take the place of Y in the English Bible, 43

Jabarti=Moslem Abyssinian, 15

Jamíl ibn Ma'amar (poet), 102

Janázah=bier with corpse, 46

Jars for cooling water, 21

Jásalík (Al-)=Καθολικὸς, Primate, 228

Jawarnah (Júrnah)=Zara, 219

Jáwísh=apparitor, sergeant, royal messenger, 49

Jews adepts in magic, 233

Jokh=broadcloth, 111

Jujube-sherbet, 317

Juráb mi'adat-hu (bag of his belly=scrotum), 233

Káfir=Infidel, Giaour, 292

Kafur=Camphor, 47

Kahwah (Kihwah)=strong old wine, 261

Kalam=leg cut, 107

Kalám wáti=vulgarism, 113

Kámah=fathom, 56

Kanmakan (p. n.) "was that which was", 280

Kantár (quintal)=98·99 lbs. avoir, 233

Karím=generous (cream of men), 35

Kasabah=rod (measurement), 328

Kasabát=canes, bugles, 298

Kasr al-Nuzhat=palace of delights, 22

Kausar (fountain)=nectar-amrita, 186

Kaywán (Persian for Saturn), 75

Kayim (professional wrestler, names of such), 93

Kaylúlah=siesta, 178

Kazi al-Kuzát=Chief Justice, 90

Kazis (the four of the orthodox schools), 39

Kazíb al-Bán=willow-wand, 66

Khalbús=buffoon, 143

Khálid bin al-Walíd, 203

—— bin Safwán, 170

Khalílu 'llah (friend of Allah=Abraham), 132

Khara=dung, lowest insult, 56

343Khara (Holy Merde), 223

Khalanj (a hard kind of wood), 269 (Vol. I. 154)

Khattíyah=writer, f.; spear, from Khatt Hajar, 1

Khatt Sharif=a royal hand letter, 39

Khayzarán=rattan, 66

Khaznah (Khazinah)=1,000 kís of £5 each, 84

Khiláf (Khaláf)=Salix Ægyptiaca, 66

Khusyatán=testicles, 55

Kirámat=prodigy, 237

Kissís=ecclesiast, 228

Knight errant of the East, 77

Knuckle-bone, 314

Kohl-powder keeps the eyes from inflammation, 291

Koran quoted (xxxviii. 19), 37

—— (xciv. 11; cv. 57), 38

—— (iv.), 64, 78

—— (iii. 57), 79

—— (vii., lxxvi. lxxxvi.), 91

—— (iv., xxii.), 95

—— (iii. 89), 132

—— (ix., xxxiii.), 140

—— (iv. 88), 146

—— (v.), 186

—— (ii. etc.), 198

—— (ii. 185), 199

—— (lxxiv. 1, 8; xcvi.), 201

—— (xvi. 74; ii. 118), 203

—— (lvi. 6; xxviii.; vii.; ix), 205

—— (xxviii. 22-27), 207

—— (xiv. 34), 225

—— (lxi.), 226

—— (ii.), 228

—— (iii. 141), ib.

—— (x. 25), 239

—— (ii. 149; xcv.), 242

—— (xlx. 170), 281

—— (xviii.), 293

—— (xcvi. 5), 298

—— (xxiv.), 312

—— (vii. 21), 316

Koss ibn Sa'idat (Bishop of Najrán), 37

Kubád=shaddock, 310

Kuds (Al-) see Bayt al-Mukaddas, 132

Kúfiyah=coif, etc., 230

Kulaib allows no one to approach his camp-fire, 77

Kunfuz=hedgehog, 88

344Kurrah=ball in the Polo game, 329

Kursí al-wiládah=birth-stool, 80

Kutait=little tom cat, 39

Kuthayyir (poet), 102

Kuzia Fakán (P.N.) "it was decreed by destiny; so it came to pass", 175

Labbayka=here I am, 227

Lá iláha illa 'llah=there is no God but the God (tahlíl), 236

Language of signs, 304

Lá rayba fí-hi, 210

Layl (night) frequently=the interval between sunset and sunset, 260

Laza (Hell for Jews), 140

Leg-cut (severs horse's leg), 226

Letter (reading not always understanding), 112

Li-ajal=for the sake of, low Egyptian, 113

Lice bred by perspiration, 69

Lion at home, lamb abroad, 183

Lisám (mouth-band for men), chin-veil(=Yashmak) for women, 31, 230

Locks (Mohammed's), 230

Lost on Allah's way=martyr, 330

Loving folk=something more than benevolence, 2

Lukmán (Æsop of the Arabs), 199

Lullilooing (Tahlíl, Zaghrutah, Kil), 80

Lupin-flour used as soap, 136

Lynx (trained for hunting), 293

Má al-Khiláf, 136

Magic studied by Jews, 234

Mahmil (mahmal)=litter, 131

Ma'ajanah (a place for making bricks), 17

Makhaddah=pillow, 70

Malik, used as in our story-books, 1

—— bin Dinár, 204

Mandíl=kerchief, 301

Manumission of slaves, 55

Man's creation, 91

Mansúr (Al-) Caliph, 142, 153, 210

—— bin Ammár, 204

Maragha=he rubbed his face, 60

Mardán-i-Ghayb (Himalayan brothers), 211

Marhúm (f. Marhúmah)=late lamented, 129, 196

Marjánah=coral branch (P.N.), 100

Marriage-sheet inspected, 50

345Martyrs (still alive), 242

Maskharah=buffoon, 143

Maslamah bin Abd al-Malik, 167

Matmúrah=underground cell, 39

Mayzún (Badawi wife of Caliph Mu'áwiyah), 160

Mitrahinna (Minat-ro-hinnu)=port at mouth of canal, 237

Mohammed (best of the first and last), 11

—— (Mustafá), 40

—— (Periclytus and Paracletus), 226

—— His letter to the Mukaukis, 79

—— abhors the shaveling, 248

—— (Bearer of glad and bad tidings), 257

—— (Congratulator and Commiserator), 260

—— (Best of mankind), 263

Money weighed when old and worn, 145

Monkery abhorred by Mohammed, 248

Moon (blighting effect of its rays), 4

—— masculine in Semitic, 45

Mooring-pole customary in Tigris-Euphrates land, 20

Moses (derivation of the name), 205

—— and Jethro, ib.

—— and the next world, 206

—— and Al-Khizr, 263

Moslems, model Conservatives, 13

—— external, 29

—— peasants kind-hearted, 69

—— familiarity between high and low, 32

Mosques serving as lodgings for poor travellers, 69

Mother's milk=nature, 44

Mu'áwiyah (Caliph), 160; 161

Muazzin (who calls to prayer), 306

Mu'ujizah=miracle of a prophet, 237

Músá=Moses, 205

Musakhkham (Al-)=the defiled Cross, 220

Musk (scent of heaven), 300

Muzaní (Al-), 208

Mu'ayyad (Sultan and calligrapher), 32

Mustafá (the chosen)=Mohammed, 40

Nahás ahmar=copper, 327

Na'íman=may it benefit thee! after bathing, etc., 5

Nájiyah=Salvadora, 145

346Najrán (in Syria), 232

Nakfúr=Nicephorus, 77

Nakh=make a camel kneel down by the cry Ikh! Ikh!, 139

Nakl-i-safar (move preliminary to a journey), 84

Naming of a child, 174

Nár (fire), 163

Narcissus (with negro eyes=yellowish white), 24

Nawá=date-stone; Nawáyah=severance, 315

Nat'a=leather of blood, 41

Názir=Overseer, 304

Neighbour before the house, companion before the journey, 207

Negroes (see Slaves) familiarity of boys with white girls

—— skin assumes dust-colour in cold, etc., 127

Nimrod of the desert, 291

Nimsá=Germans, 219

Nímshah (Namshah?)=dagger of state, 193

Nufs (nifs, nuss)=half (a dirham), 37

Nu'uman's flower=anemone, 325

Nuzhat al Zamán=delight of the age, 81

Oath (inconsiderate), 136

Obscene abuse meant as familiarity, not insult, 88

Offering for naught=closing with the offer, 4

Ohod (battle of), 165

Omar bin al-Khattáb (Caliph), 158; 159; 162; 164

Othmán (Caliph), 163

Palm-stick (a salutary rod), 22

Payne quoted, 19; 185; 304

Pen and Preserved Tablet, 68

Periphrase containing a negative adds emphasis, 83

"Philippi" and "Alexanders" in Sidon, 82

Physical prognostication familiar to Mesmerists, 72

Pièces d'occasion mostly sad doggrels, 261

Pillow (wisádah, makhaddah), taking to=taking to one's bed, 70

347Pilgrimage quoted (i. 11; iii. 285), 5

—— (i. 261; iii. 7), 15

—— (i. 210, 346), 31

—— (ii. 77), 40

—— (iii. 330), 113

—— (ii. 113), 114

—— (iii. 333), 124

—— (iii. 12), 131

—— (iii. 254), 132

—— (i. 222; ii. 91), 139

—— (ii. 118), 140

—— (i. 121), 163

—— (ii. 227), 165

—— (iii. 226, 342, 344), 169

—— (ii. 49), 178

—— (i. 305), 180

—— (iii. 322), 203

—— (ii. 89), 220

—— (iii. 115), 224

—— (iii. 232), 227

—— (i. 346), 230

—— (iii. 78), 236

—— (ii. 110), 242

—— (iii. 171-175, 203), 272

—— (iii. 113), 286

—— (iii. 71), 293

—— (ii. 105, 205), 317

—— (ii. 58; iii. 343), 327

—— (i. 110), 330

Pitching tents within dog-bark from Royalty disrespectful, 294

Plunder sanctioned by custom, 68

Prayer for the dead lack the Sijdah, 10

—— of Ramazán, 202

Preserved Tablet, 68

Prognostication frequently mentioned, 72

Preliminaries of a wrestling bout, 92

Prominence of the pugaic muscles insisted upon, 98

Prophets (have some manual trade), 286

Province ("some"=Sancho Panza's "insula"), 188

Puns (wretched and otherwise), 64, 179, 182

Purifying (after evacuation), 326

Racing a favourite pastime, 273

Rank (derived from Pers. rang=colour), 192

Rasm=usage (justifies a father killing his son), 7

Rayháni (handwriting), 301

348Reed=pen (title of the Koranic chapt. lxviii.), 68

Rijál al-Ghayb (invisible controls), 211

Rising up and sitting down sign of agitation, 112

Robing one's self in rags=becoming a Fakir, 171

Rubb=syrup "Rob", 3

Rudaynah and Rudaynian lances, 1

Sabab=rope (hence "a cause"), 14

Sabbágh=dyer, 305

Sabt=Sabbath, ib.

Sadd=wall, dyke, 128

Saffron (Aphrodisiac), 234

Safíyu 'llah (Adam)=pure of Allah, 124

Sahákah=tribadism, 234

Sa'í=running between Safá and Marwah, 327

Sa'íd bin Jubayr, 201

Sayhún and Jayhún=Jaxartes and Bactrus, 78

Sák=calf of the leg, 327

Sáki=cup-bearer 27, 327

Saker=hawk, 293

Sal'am=S (alla) A (llah) a (layhi) wa S (allam) see Abhak, 24

Salám (to be answered by a better salutation), 146

—— (of prayers), 243

Samsam (sword of the Tobba Amru bin Ma'ad Kurb), 127

Sapphic venery, 234

Sarír=bier (empty), 46

Saulaján=bat in "bat and ball", 329

Scrotum curdling in fear, 233

Seditions in Kufah caused by Caliph Othman's nepotism, 163

Septentriones (four oxen and their wain), 3

Serving the Lord by sinning against one's body, 208

Seven deadly sins, 175

Sháfi'i (school of Theology), 151

Sháhid=index, pointer, 300

Sháhmiyánah (large tent), 194

Shahrazad (various explanations of the name), 1

Shakespeare and musical glasses, 3

Shambar=Cassia fistularis, 241

349Sharrkan (Sharrun kána)=bane to the foe, 78

Shaukat=sting, pride, 106

Shaving and depilation, 160

Shaykh=elder, chief, 144

Shawáhi (from Shauh)=having a fascinating eye, 269

Shirk=giving a partner to Allah, 202

Shiyár (old name for Saturday), 305

Shouting under a ruler's palace to attract attention, 38

Shu'aib=Jethro, 205

Siddík=true friend, 197

Sign of the cross on the forehead, 224

Sin=China, 77

Sins (seven deadly), 175

Sijdah=prostration, 10

Siláh-dár=armour-bearer, 215

Slander (poisoned=fatal), 264

Slaves, Cannibals, 48

—— Familiarity, 49

—— called "Camphor," like "Snowball", 47

—— refuse to be set free, 55

—— Manumission of, ib.

—— Destructiveness, ib.

—— Girls' names, 57

—— Returning from a journey, 65

—— Christian girls sent to Moslems, 79

—— Girls examined as to virginity, 147

—— Behaving like one, 270

Sledge (thrashing=tribulum), 23

Sleeping and slumbering, 178

Smoking out (a common practice), 255

Smothering a rival common in Harems, 58

Softness of skin highly prized, 295

Sole of a valley often preferred to encamp in, 85

Solomon and al-Sakhr, 97

Sons of the Road=wayfarers, 23

Son (the lamp of a dark house), 280

Sophia (P.N. and Mosque), 79

Speaking en prince, 184

Spiritual Sciences (Moslem form of Cabbala), 151

Spurring=kicking with the shovel-stirrup, 89

Standards reversed in sign of defeat, 259

350Sucking the dead mother's breast, touch of Arab pathos, 128

Sufyán al-Thaurí, 202

Sulaymán bin Marwán (Caliph), 167

Sweet, the (slang for fire), 163

Swearing on Blade and Book, 332

Syria (Shám)=left-hand land, 224

Táb (game)=tip-cat, 314

Tábút=bier (empty), 46

Ta ám=meat; millet, 67

Tabzír=female circumcision, 234

Tafazzal=favorisca (have the kindness), 103

Taggáa, 88

Tahlíl=Refrain of Unity, 236

Taj al-Mulúk Khárán=crown of the kings of amorous blandishment, 291

Takht-rawan=travelling litter, 180

Talbiyat (formula labbayka), 227

Takrúrí=Moslem from Central and Western North Africa, 15

Tarhah=head-veil, 52

Tasnim (from sanam)=a fountain in Paradise, 100

Taswif=saying "Sauf" a particle to express near future, 296

Tawashshuh=shoulder-cut, 107

Taub (Saub, Tobe)=loose garment, 206

Tawáf (circumambulation of the Ka'abah), 327

Testimonies (the two Shahádatain), 10

Testicles (names for), 55

—— (curdling in fear), 233

Thigh-bite allowed in wrestling, 93

Thrusting (applied to spear and lance), 231

Tip-cat stick, 314

Tob=Span. Adobe (unbaked brick), 17

Tor (Mount Sinai), 242

—— (its shaking), 281

Torrens quoted, 5, 19, 80

Traditionists— Al-Zuhri, 198 Ibn Abí Ausfá, 200 Sa'íd bin Jubayr, 201 Sufyán al-Thaurí, 202 Bishr al-Háfi, 203 Mansúr bin Ammár, 204

Trailing the skirts (humbly), 165

351Travelling at night, 286

Tribulum (threshing-sledge), 108

Triregno (denoted by the Papal Tiara), 236

Trouser-string, 60

Turk=Turkoman, nomade, 218

——=plunderer, robber, 304

Turtúr (an Arab's bonnet), 143

'Ud Jalaki=Damascus lute, 100

Umrah=lesser Pilgrimage, 169

Unveiling the face a sign of being a Christian, 119

Urining, 326

Usúl (fundamentals), 15

Veil, see Lisám, 31

Wady=valley, 85

Wakkád (Al-)=stoker, fireman of a Hammam-bath, 134

Walíd bin Marwán (Caliph), 167

Wa 'lláhi tayyib=By Allah, good!, 34

Warm one's self at a man's fire, 76

Washing the dead without doors only in case of poverty, 10

Wazir (the sharp-witted in the tales), 246

Whitening and blackening of the faces on Judgment-day, 312

Wine (kahwah), 261

—— (table and service), 122

Wisádah=pillow, 70

Wives have their night in turns, 78

Women, cries of, 6

—— weeping and wailing before cenotaphs, 68

—— maltreated under the Caliphate, 69

—— captives, 94

—— of the blue-stocking type, 156

—— Consult them and do the contrary, 184

—— created of a crooked rib, 161

Worlds (the three=Triloka), 236

352Wreckers, 111

Wrestling and Wrestlers, 93

Wuzu-ablution necessary before joining in prayers, 46

Xisisthrus=Noah, 20, 25

Yaftah Allah=Allah will open, an offer being insufficient, 149

Yá Hájj=O Pilgrim, 15

Yaman (Al-)=right hand region, 179

—— Lightning on the hills of ... ib.

Yashmak (chin-veil for women), 31

Yauh (conversationally Yehh) expression of astonishment, 321

Yaum-i-Alast=Day of am-I-not (your Lord)?, 91

Yes, Yes! and No, No! trifles common amongst the Arabs, 60

Yunán, Yunáníya=Greece, 82

Yúsuf bin Omar, 170

Záhirí=plain honest Moslems, 29

Zahr Sháh (P. N.), 284

Zanj=negroes of Zanzibar, 5

Zardah=rice with saffron, etc., 313

Zarká (Cassandra of Yamámah), 104

Zát al-Dawáhí=Lady of Calamities, 87

Zau al-Makan (Light of the Place), 81

Zawi 'l-furúj=habentes rimam, 49

Zayn al-Abidín (grandson of Ali), 202

Zemzem (well), 272

Zikr (and Edwin Arnold's Pearls of Faith), 28

Zirt=broken wind; derivatives, 88

Ziyád bin Abí Sufyán, 163

"Zug" (draught) feared by Orientals, 9

Zuhal=Saturn, 75

Zuhrí (Al-), 198

Zukák al-Nakíb=Syndic street, 325

Zunnár=ζώνη, confounded with the "Janeo", 215