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The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 03 (of 10)

Note 187 — TALE of ALI BIN BAKKAR and of SHAMS AL-NAHAR.

Richard Francis Burton translation

Arab. "Raushan," a window projecting and latticed: the word is orig. Persian: so Raushaná (splendour) = Roxana. It appears to me that this beautiful name gains beauty by being understood.

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