Volume 4 — INDEX.

Abbás = the grim-faced, 138

Abd al-Kádir of Gilán (founder of the Kádiri order), 41

Abd al-Malik bin Marwán (Caliph), 7

Abdullah bin Abí Kilábah, 113

Abdullah bin Málik al-Khuzá´i, 181

Abraham (Place or stone of), 148

Abu al-Muzaffir = Father of the Conqueror, 166

Abu Nowas (Pr. N. = father of the side-locks), 55; 264

Abu Hassán al-Ziyádi, 258

Abu Yúsuf (the Lawyer), 153

Adam’s loins, 111

Adi (son of Hátim al-Táyyí), 95

Adl = just (ironically), 271

Adm (Udm) = any relish, 128

Ahmad al-Danaf (Pr. N. = Calamity-Ahmad), 75

Akkám = cameleer, caravan-manager, 40

Alá al-Din (Aladdin) Glory of the Faith, 29; 33

Aláma = alá-má = upon what? wherefore, 201

Alast (day of), 111

Al Dáud (David’s family), 50

Alfi = one who costs a thousand, 225

Ali al-Zabak (Pr. N. = Mercury Ali), 75

Alif-like stature, 249

Ali Shar (Pr. N.), 187

Allah (His name pronounced against the evil eye), 34

302Allah (swearing by, forbidden), 175

—— is all-knowing (= I don’t know), 283

Amáim (pl. of Imámah) = turbands, 100

Amín (Al-) = the Trusted of Allah, 261

Amír and Samúl = Jones, Brown and Robinson, 106

Amrú (pronounced Amr) and Zayd = Tom, Dick or Harry, 2

Ana fí jírat-ak = I crave thy intercession (useful phrase), 83

Anbár (pronounced Ambár), town on the Euphrates, 152

Antar (Romance quoted), 41

Antiochus and Stratonice, 10

Apple(-wine), 134

—— (many a goodly one rotten at the core), 187

Ark al-Haláwat = vein of sweetness, sugar stick, for penis, 51

Armaníyah (Armenia), 182

Arm-pits (taking a dismounting person under the, a sign of respect), 24

Artál (see Rotl)

Asídah (custard, pap), 37

Aslán (Pr. N. probably for Arslán = lion), 78

Asma´i (Al-), author of Antar, 159

Aun (of Jinns, etc.), 88

Awwádah = a lute-player, 142

Ayat (Coranic verset, sign, miracle), ib.

Ayyás (Issus of Cilicia), 76

Báb al Lúk (of Fustát), 259

303Báb al Salám (of the Al-Medínah Mosque), 288

Babes of the eyes, 246

Baboon (Kird), has a natural penchant for women, 297

Badawi (bluntness and plain-speaking of), 102

Badrah = 10,000 dirhams, 281

Baháim (pl. of Bahímah = Behemoth) applied to cattle, 54

Bahramáni = Brahman, 101

Bakh Bakh! = well done!, 121

Bandage eyes (before beheading), 145

Banquets (royal), 212

—— (daintily devised), 226

Banú Isráíl, 283

—— Shaybán (Badawi tribe), 233

Barsh (Bars), commonest form of Bhang, 31

Bath, coming out of, shows that consummation has taken place, 244

Bawd (admirably portrayed), 4

Bean-eating in Egypt, 160

“Ben” of an Arab shop as opposed to the “but”, 93

Bestiality (fatally common amongst Egyptians), 299

Bhang (preparation of), 31

—— (drugging with = tabannuj), 71

Bier the (bulging = Hadbá), 63

Birkah = pool of standing water, 270

Black-mail (paid to the Badawin of Ramlah), 76

Blue-eyed (frequently = fierce-eyed), 192

Boccaccio quoted, 36

Body-guard (consists of two divisions), 62

Bread and Salt (to be taken now “cum grano salis”), 200

Breeze (rude but effective refrigerator), 199

“Brother of the Persians”, 12

Brow (like Nún), 249

Budúr = moons, 249

Buka´at al-Dam = place of blood (where it stagnates), 68

Burckhardt (fable anent his death), 78

Cairo (see Misr).

—— (Chaff), 215

—— (Slang), 75

Calligraphy, 196

304Camel-slaughtering (Nahr), 95

Capo bianco, Coda verde, 36

Catamites (rising to highest rank in Turkey), 225

—— (in Turkish baths), 226

Chastity (merchandise in trust from Allah), 43

Child of the nurse, etc. = delicately reared, 34

China (kingdom), 175

Chinese Shadows, 193

Cider (Arab. Sharáb al-Tuffáh), 134

City of Brass (Copper), 176

Claimant of blood-revenge, 109

—— and Defendant, 150

Cloth of frieze and cloth of gold, 145

Clothes (tattered, sign of grief), 158

Consul (Shah-bandar), 29

—— (Kunsul), 84

Cowrie (shells, etc., for small change), 77

Crenelles = Sharáríf, 165

Crow-claw and Camel-hoof, 217

Cutting bones before flesh = “sharp as a razor”, 295

Dalak = footrasp, 254

Danaf (Al-) = the Distressing Sickness, 75

Darb al-Asfar = the Street called Yellow, 93

Darr al-Káil = divinely he spoke who said, 20

Darrij = Let them slide, 220

Deity of the East despotic, 118

—— after the fashion of each race, 267

Depilation (Solomon and Bilkís), 256

Dinghy (Kárib), 168

Divining-rod (dowsing-rod), 73

Dogs (clothed in hot-damp countries), 266

Dream (Speaker in a), 239

Dress (Scarlet of a King in anger), 72

Drop (black, of the heart), 251

Drunk (with one’s own beauty), 34

Dukhúl = going in to the bride, 30

Durká’ah = lower part of the floor (opposed to Liwán), 71

Eating (gives rights of guestship), 214

—— (superstitious belief in its power), 218

Efendi (Turkish title = our esquire), 53

305Egyptian vulgarism, 107

—— characteristic, 260

Embracing (like the Lám embraceth the Alif), 243

Emerald (white?), 164

Eunuchs (driving the people out of a lady’s way), 126

—— (who have studied the Harím), 228

Euphemy (announcing death), 61

—— (thou shalt die), 90

—— (all is well), 138

—— (the far one is a Nazarene), 215

Exaggeration characteristic of The Nights, 273

Eye (the Evil) on children, 37

—— (babes of the), 246

Eyes (bandaged before beheading), 145

—— (blue), 192

—— (one-eyed men), 194

Faces (on the day of Judgment), 249

Far off one (the, shall die), 90

Farkh Akrab (vulgarism for Ukayrib) = a young scorpion, 46

Farsakh = parasang, 230

Fat and Thin (dispute between), 254

Fátihah (the opening chapter of the Koran), 36

Firmán = Wazirial order, 61

Fí sabíli ´llahi = on Allah’s path (martyrdom), 247

Flatulence produced by bean-eating, 160

Food (partaken gives rights of protection), 214

—— (superstitious belief in its power), 218

Freewill (and the Korán), 275

Friends weeping when they meet after long parting, 26

—— (“damned ill-natured” ones), 137

Fulán = Fulano, a certain person, 278

Furkán = Koran, 90

Futúh (openings, victories), 51

Ghabah = a copse, 40

Gháshiyah = étui, scabbard; sleeved cloak, 131

Ghuráb al-Bayn = raven of parting, 52

Gold (different names of, required by Arabic rhetoric), 97

306Goody goody preachments, 187

Gong (Mudawwarah), 135

Hábáb (Habá) = motes, 257

Habzalam (Pr. N. = seed of tyranny; “Absalom”?), 66

Hadbá (the bulging bier), 63

Hadís = tradition of the Prophet, 207

Hair-dyes (Mohammed), 194

Hájj (or Háji, not Hajji), 215

Hajjáj (Al-) bin Yúsuf, Governor, of Al-Hijáz and Al-Irák, 3

Hajjám = barber-surgeon, cupper, bleeder, 112

Haláwah = sweetmeat, 60

Hákim (Al-) bi-Amri ´llah, 296

Hand (left, how used), 129

—— (white, symbol of generosity; black of niggardness), 185

—— (his for her), 279

Harím (double entendre = Harem and Honour), 98

—— (= wife), 126

—— (hot-bed of Sapphism and Tribadism), 234

Harrák (ship = Carrack?), 130

Hasan bin Sahl (Wazir of Al-Maamún), 124

Hasab = quantity, opposed to Nasab = birth, 171

Hásid = an envier, 137

Hátim of Tayy (proverbial for Liberality), 94

Hazramaut (Hazarmaveth), 118

Heart (black drop in), 256

Heaven (Na´ím), 143

Hell (Sa´ír), ib.

—— (cold as well as hot), 253

Hibál = ropes, 193

Homme acheté = de bonne famille, 225

Húd (prophet = Heber?), 118

Hurák = tinder, 108

Hurry (in a newly married couple indecent), 244

Hurúf al-Mutabbakát = the flattened sounds, 223

“I told you so” (even more common in East than West), 69

Ibrahím bin al-Mahdi (Pretender to the Caliphate), 103

307Ibrahím al-Mosili, 108

Imám (The Seventh = Caliph Al-Maamún), 111

—— (the fugleman at the prayer-niche), 227

Imámah = turband, 100

Inconsequence (of the Author of The Nights), 155

Infirmity (and infirm letters), 243

Inscriptions (on trays, plates, etc.), 235

Inshallah = D.V., 286

Insomnia (curious treatment of), 229

Irádah = Sultan’s order, 61

Iram (the Many-columned), 113

Irony, 271

Irreverence (Egyptian), 47

Isaac (Ishák) of Mosul, 119

Ishmael (place of his sacrifice), 75

Istinjá = washing the fundament after stool, 129

Ja’afar the Barmecide (mode of his death), 159

—— (river or rivulet), 292

Jabal al-Tárik = Gibraltar, 100

Jacob’s daughters, 14

Jawán (Pr. N.; Pers. = youth, juvenis), 208

Job (a Syrian), 221

“Joyance is three things,” etc., 254

Jufún = eyebrows or eyelashes, 260

Jugular vein (from —— to ——), 92

Justice (poetical, not done), 28

Juzám = leprosy, 51

Ka’ab al-Ahbár (of the Scribes, two of the name), 115

Ka’abah (Pilgrim clinging to its curtain), 125

Kabbázah = a “holding woman”, 227

Kahirah = City of Mars (Cairo), 271

Kahramán (Pers.) = braves, heroes, 115

Kallá = prorsus non, 257

Kaptán = Capitano, 85

Kara Gyuz (see Khiyál).

Kárib (pl. Kawárib) = dinghy, 168

Karúrah = bottle for urine, 11

Kasa’ah = wooden bowl, porringer, 283

Kasri (Al-) Governor of the two Iraks, 155

Katá = sand-grouse, 111

308Kátala-k Allah = Allah strike thee dead (facetiously), 264; 265

Katíl = the Irish “kilt”, 139

Kausar (river of Paradise), 196

Kawárib (see Kárib).

Kazdír = Skr. Kastíra (Tin), 274

Kerchief (shaking and throwing the), 62

Khalí’a = a wag, a wicked wit, 229

Khammárah = wine-shop, tavern, “hotel”, 79

Khátún (Turk. Lady), 66

Khayr = good news by euphemy, 138

Khayzarán = rattan-palm, 255

Khizr (the Green Prophet), 175

Khiyál (Chinese shadows), 193

Khuff = walking-boot, 107

Khumásiyah = five feet high, 191

Kíl wa Kál = it was said and he said (chit-chat), 207

King (dressing in scarlet when wroth), 72

Kirámát = Saints’ miracles, 45

Kird = baboon, 297

Kishk (Kashk) = porridge, 214

Kissing (names for), 259

Kohl (he would steal it off the eye-ball = a very expert thief), 68

Koran quoted (xxv. 70), 5

—— (xii. 84, 93, 96; xvi.), 14

—— (opening chapter), 36

—— (xiii. 14), 43

—— (chapter Yá Sín), 50

—— (xvii. 84), 80

—— (xlix., Inner Apartments), 102

—— (xvi. 112), ib.

—— (xii. 92), 111

—— (lxxxix. 6-7), 115

—— (iii. 178), 156

—— (xvi.), 174

—— (ii. 224), 175

—— (xxi. 38), 244

—— (iii. 103; vii. 105; xxvii. 12), 249

—— (cxiv. 1), 251

—— (ii. 26), 254

—— (ii. 64; xxvii.), 256

—— (xvii. 62; xxxvii. 16), 259

—— (xli. 46), 275

Kúfah (Al-) founded by Omar, 1

—— (revolutionary spirit of), 3

Kumkum (cucurbite, gourd-shaped vessel), 68; 178

Kumm = sleeve, used as a bag, 107

309Kunyat = patro- or matro-nymic, 287

Kunsul = Consul, 84

Kús (town in Upper Egypt), 276

Kussá’a = curling cucumber, 98

Lá baas bi-zálik = there is no harm in that, 164

Labtayt (Pr. N. = Toledo), 99

Lane quoted, 2; 55; 63; 66; 84; 95; 96; 107; 110; 124; 136; 160; 164; 171; 181; 187; 189; 191; 196; 199; 200; 202; 204; 205; 209; 212; 214; 219; 222; 228; 231; 233; 244; 254; 268; 271; 273; 279; 287; 297.

Lasm (Lathm) = kissing the lower face, 259

Leprosy (thickens voice), 50

—— (shows first at the wrist), 51

Letter (model specimen), 57

Liberality (men proverbial for their), 96

Life (by the, of thy youth) oath of women, 49

—— (cheap in hot countries), 275

Light-worshipers (are liars), 252

Li’lláhi darru-ka = the Lord has been copious to thee, 20

Liwán = Al-Aywán, 71

Love (martyrs of), 205

—— (clairvoyance), 238

—— (excess of), ib.

Lúk-Gate (proverb referring to), 259

Lumà = dark hue of the inner lips, 251

Lutf (servile name = elegance, delicacy), 232

Maamun (Al-), Caliph, 109

Ma’an bin Záidah (Pr. N. of a generous Arab), 96

Ma’áni-há (her meanings = her inner woman), 146

Madinát al-Nabi (Al-Medinah) = City of the Prophet, 114

Madness (there is a pleasure in), 204

Maka’ad = sitting-room, 78

Malik (Al-) al-Násir = the conquering King, 271

Man (handsomer than woman), 15

Mansúr al-Nimri (poet), 179

Martyrs (of love), 205

Martyrdom, 247

Mashá’ilí = cresset-bearer, for public crier, hangman, 61

310Maukab (Al-) = Procession-day, 287

Mauz = Musa (Banana), 201

“May thy life be prolonged”, 62

Melancholy (chronic under the brightest skies), 239

Men (is there a famine of) = are men so few?, 295

Mikashshah = broom, 208

Mikbas (pot of lighted charcoal), 246

Military and Police sneered at, 270

Milk, white as, opposed to black as mud, 140

Mím-like mouth, 249

Mind (one by vinegar, another by wine = each goes its own way), 72

Minínah = biscuit, 86

Misr (vulg. Masr) = Egypt, 29

Mohammed (his uncles), 22

—— (traditional saying of), 35

—— (cleanses the Ka’abah of idols), 80

—— (on dying the hair, etc.), 194

—— (on lovers), 205

—— (on his being seen in sleep), 287

—— (places the “black stone”), 261

Mole on cheek (black as Bilál), 142

Monoculars (rascals), 194

Moon-faced (not absurd), 192

Moon (masculine), 261

Mountain (the, at Cairo), 294

Mountains (the pegs of the earth), 174

Mudawwarah (a gong?), 135

Muhallil (see Mustahall).

Mukaddam (Anglo-Indicè Mucuddum) = overseer, 42

Munkasir (broken) = languid, 195

Musámarah = chatting at night, 237

Mustahall (Mustahill) = one who marries a thrice divorced woman and divorces her to make her lawful for her first husband, 48

Mutawakkil (Al-), Caliph, 291

Muwallad = a slave born in a Moslem land, 291

Muwashshah (stanza), 54

Myrtle-bush = young beard, 143

Nafísah (great-grand-daughter of the Imám Hasan), 46

311Nahás = brass, 178

—— (asfar = brass; ahmar = copper), 230

Nahr = slaughtering a camel by stabbing, 95

Na’ím = Heaven, 143

Nauroz = new (year’s) day, 244

Negro (Legend of his origin), 250

Negrofied races like “walking tun-butts”, 255

Ni’amat = a blessing, 1

Nisáb (Al-), smallest sum for stealing which the hand is mutilated, 157

Nún-like brow, 249

Nymphomania (ascribed to worms in the vagina), 298

Oath (kept to the letter), 70

Obayd ibn Táhir (Under-Prefect of Baghdad), 291

One-eyed men considered rascals, 194

Pashas’ (agents for bribery in Constantinople), 183

Payne quoted, 50; 66; 197; 221; 222

Peccadillo in good old days (murder), 275

Penis = Ark al-Haláwat, 51

—— (correspondence of size), 52

Person (Arabic Shakhs), 97

Pharaoh (signs to), 249

Pilgrimage quoted (i. 75-77), 6

—— (i. 285; ii. 78), 36

—— (iii. 306), 75

—— (i. 123), 78

—— (iii. 295), 80

—— (iii. 303), 95

—— (ii. 119), 114

—— (i. 213), 115

—— (iii. 156, 162, 216, 220), 125

—— (iii. 168, 174, 175), 148

—— (ii. 329), 254

—— (iii. 192), 261

—— (i. 43), 293

Pistachio-nut (tight-fitting shell of), 216

Plain-speaking of the Badawi, 102

Plural of Majesty, 156

Polissonnerie (Egyptian), 226

Porcelain (not made in Egypt or Syria), 164

Pride of beauty intoxicates, 34

Procès verbal (customary with Moslems), 73

312Property (of the heirless lapses to the Treasury), 62

Pun, 258

Rabelaisian humour of the richest, 152

Ráfizi = denier, Shí’ah, 44

Rag (burnt, used as styptic), 108

Ráh = pure old wine, 186

Rakb = fast-going caravan, 254

Ráshid (Pasha, etc.), 202

Rasúl = one sent, “apostle,” not prophet, 284

Raven of the waste or the parting, 52

Rayy (old capital of Media), 104

Red dress (sign of wrath), 72

Repentance (a strong plea for granting aid with a Moslem), 277

Rings in the East, 24

Rizwán = Moslem St. Peter, 195

Rod (divining or “dowsing”), 73

Rotl (pl. Artál) = rotolo, pound-weight, 124

Roum = Græco-Roman Empire, 100

Rustam (not Rustum or Rustem), 219

Sabá = Biblical Sheba, 113

Sáhib (Wazirial title), 139

Sa’ír = Hell, 143

Sakatí = second-hand dealer, 77

Sakká (Anglo-Indian Bihishti) = water-carrier, 44

Salát (blessing, prayer), 60

Salím (Pr. N. = the “Safe and Sound”), 58

Salsabíl (fountain in Paradise), 195

Samharí = lance of Samhar (place or maker), 258

Samn = melted butter, Ghi, 53

Samúr (applied to cats and dogs, also to Admiral Seymour), 57

Sapphism (practised in wealthy Haríms), 234

Sara’ (epilepsy, falling sickness, possession), 89

Sarráf = money-changer (Shroff), 270

Saudá = black bile, melancholia, 251

Separation (spoken of as a defilement), 211

Sévigné of pearls, 249

Shah-bandar = lord of the port (Consul), 29

313Shár, Sher and Shír, 187

Sharáb al-Tuffáh = cider, 134

Sharáríf = trefoil-shaped crenelles, 165

Sharíf = a descendant of Mohammed, 170

“Short and thick is never quick”, 194

Shuumán = a pestilent fellow, 75

Sifr = whistling, 206

Signet-rings, 24

Signs (to Pharaoh), 249

Sikankúr = Σκίγκος (see Aphrodisiacs), 32

Sinning (for the pleasure of being pardoned), 111

Sirát (Al-), the bridge of Hell, 223

Slapping on the nape of neck = “boxing the ears”, 193

Sleeper and Waker (Tale of the), 96

Sleeplessness (contrivance against), 228

Smile (like Mím), 249

Squatting against a wall, 119

Stature (Alif-like), 249

Street (the, called Yellow), 93

—— (watering), 107

Stuff his mouth with jewels (reward for poetry), 103

—— a dead man’s mouth with cotton, 193

Su’adá = Beatrice, 267

Suffah = “sofa” (shelf), 275

Sujúd = prostration, 248

Suláfah = ptisane of wine, 258

Sumr = brown, black, 251

Sunní (versus Shí’ah, see Ráfizí), 82

Swearing (by Allah forbidden), 175

Sweetmeat of Safety, 60

Sword (making invisible), 176

Syene (town on the Nile), 152

Tabannuj = drugging with Bhang, 71

Tabban lahu = perdition to him, 142

Takaddum and Takádum (difference between), 171

Tárik (Jabal al-) = Gibraltar, 100

Taufík (P.N.) = causing to be prosperous, 1

Taylasán (turband worn by a preacher), 286

Tayy (noble Arab tribe), 94

Thakilata-k Ummak = be thy mother bereaved of thee, 156

Thank you (Eastern equivalent), 6

Thirst (affecting plea; why?), 199

314Tin (Kazdír), 274

Tinder (a styptic), 108

Torrens quoted, 187; 189; 235; 236

Treasures (enchanted in some one’s name and nature), 296

Trébutien quoted, 268

Tribadism, 234

Truth prevailing, falsehood failing, 80

Túfán (Typhoon, etc.), 156

Tufayl (proverbial intruder), 123

Turband (white, distinctive of Moslems), 214

Udm (see Adm)

Ukáb = eagle, vulture, 177

Ukayl (Akíl?), 22

Unguium fulgor, 252

Vellication, 256

Voice (thickened by leprosy), 50

Wada’a (see Cowrie), 77

Waggid (Hebr. speaker in a dream), 289

Wailing over the past, 239

Wakíl = agent (see Pashas), 182

Walid (Al-) bin Abd al-Malik, Caliph, 100

Wardán (a Fellah name, also of a village), 293

Waríd (jugular vein), 92

Water (sight of running, makes a Persian long for strong drink), 75

Watering the streets, 107

Waybah = 6 to 7 English gallons, 86

Whistling (Sifr), 206

White as milk (opposed to black as mud, etc.), 140

—— hand (symbol of generosity, etc.), 185

—— turband (distinctive of Moslems), 214

—— hand of Moses (sign to Pharaoh), 249

—— and black faces on the day of Judgment, ib.

Woman (old bawd), 4

—— (names), 12

—— (less handsome than man), 15

—— (walk and gait), 16

—— (bride night), 30

—— (oath of a), 49

—— (insolence of princesses), 145

—— (inner, her meanings), 146

315Woman (answering question by counter-question), 148

—— (Abyssinian famous as “holders”), 227

—— (slave name), 232

—— (intercourse between), 234

—— (white-skinned supposed to be heating and unwholesome), 253

Writer of The Nights careless, 155

Writing (styles of), 196

Yá Ma’ashar al-Muslimín = Ho! Moslems, 149

Yá Nasráni = O Nazarene, 199

Yá Shátir = O clever one (in a bad sense), 209

Yá Sín (heart of the Koran, chapt. xxxvi.), 50

316Yasrib (ancient name of Al-Medínah), 114

Yá Wadúd = O loving one, 54

Yohanná = John, 87

Yunán = Ionia, ancient Greece, 100

Záka = he tasted, 188

Zakariyá and Zakar, 51

Zakkúm (Al-) tree of Hell, 259

Zanzibar (cannibals, etc.), 168

Zaybak (Al-) = the quicksilver, 75

Zimbíl (Zambíl) = limp basket of palm-leaves, 119

Zimmí = a (Christian, Jewish or Majúsí) tributary, 199

Zubaydah (Pr. N.) = creamkin, 48

Zu ‘l-Kurá’a (Pr. N.) = Lord of cattle-feet, 95