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

Note 179 — ISAAC OF MOSUL.

Richard Francis Burton translation

Arab. “A Tufayli?” So the Arab. Prov. (ii. 838) “More intrusive than Tufayl” (prob. the P.N. of a notorious spunger). The Badawin call “Wárish” a man who sits down to meat unbidden and to drink Wághil; but townsfolk apply the latter to the “Wárish.”

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