Note 267 — TALE OF KAMAR AL-ZAMAN,
Richard Francis Burton translation
Arab. "Amsa" (lit. he passed the evening) like "asbaha" (he rose in the morning) "Azhá" (he spent the forenoon) and "báta" (he spent the night), are idiomatically used for "to be in any state, to continue" without specification of time or season.