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

Note 3 — NI’AMAH BIN AL-RABI’A AND NAOMI HIS SLAVE-GIRL.

Richard Francis Burton translation

i.e. “causing to be prosperous”; the name, corrupted by the Turks to “Tevfik,” is given to either sex, e.g. Taufik Pasha of Egypt, to whose unprosperous rule and miserable career the signification certainly does not apply.

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