Note 185 — TALE of ALI BIN BAKKAR and of SHAMS AL-NAHAR.
Richard Francis Burton translation
The masculine of Marjánah (Morgiana) "the she coral-branch;" and like this a name generally given to negroes. We have seen white applied to a blackamoor by way of metonomy and red is also connected with black skins by way of fun. A Persian verse says:
"If a black wear red, e'en an ass would grin."