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The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 04 (of 10)

Note 71 — ALA AL-DIN ABU AL-SHAMAT.”[24]

Richard Francis Burton translation

Arab. “Baháim” (plur. of Bahímah = Heb. Behemoth), applied in Egypt especially to cattle. A friend of the “Oppenheim” house, a name the Arabs cannot pronounce, was known throughout Cairo as “Jack al-baháim” (of the cows.)

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