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

Note 383 — TALE OF KAMAR AL-ZAMAN, (continued 3)

Richard Francis Burton translation

Arab. "Bakk"; hence our "bug" whose derivation (like that of "cat" "dog" and "hog") is apparently unknown to the dictionaries, always excepting M. Littré's.

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