Note 15 — NI’AMAH BIN AL-RABI’A AND NAOMI HIS SLAVE-GIRL.
Richard Francis Burton translation
The verses deal in untranslatable word-plays upon women’s names, Naomi (the blessing) Su’adá or Su’ád (the happy, which Mr. Redhouse, in Ka’ab’s Mantle-poem, happily renders Beatrice); and Juml (a sum or total) the two latter, moreover, being here fictitious.