Note 338 — TALE OF KAMAR AL-ZAMAN, (continued 3)
Richard Francis Burton translation
"Niktu-hu taklídan" i.e. not the real thing (with a woman). It may also mean "by his incitement of me." All this scene is written in the worst form of Persian-Egyptian blackguardism, and forms a curious anthropological study. The "black joke" of the true and modest wife is inimitable.