Volume 7 — INDEX

Abú Amir bin Marwán, 142

Abú al-Hamlát = father of assaults, etc., 149

Abú Alí al-Husayn the Wag, 130

Abú al-Sakhá = father of munificence, 133

Account asked from outgoing Governors, 102

—— of them will be presently given = we leave them for the present, 157

Acids applied as counter-inebriants, 32

Address without vocative particle more emphatic, 125

Addressing by the name not courteous, 114

Adolescent (un, aime toutes les femmes), 299

Affirmative and negative particles, 195

Africa (suggested derivation of the name), 60

Agha (Al-) = chief police officer, 156

Ahassa bi’l-Shurbah = “he smelt a rat”, 144

Ajal = yes verily, 195

’Ajwah = dates pressed into a solid mass and—deified, 14

Akákír = drugs, spices, 147

Akhlát (town in Armenia), 88

Akík (al-) two of the name, 140

Akyál, title of the Himyarite Kings, 60

Alà Kulli hál = in any case, 272

Alà raghm = in spite of, 121

Alas for his chance of escaping = there is none, 183

Ali Zaybak = Mercury Ali, 172

’Álí al-Mulúk = high among the Kings, 354

Alif, Há, Wáw as tests of calligraphy, 112

Alhambra = (Dár) al-hamrá, the Red, 49

Allah confound the far One (hard swearing), 155

—— succour the Caliph against thee, 159

—— is All-knowing, 209

Alláho Akbar, the Arab slogan-cry, 8

’Amala hílah for tricking a Syro-Egyptian vulgarism, 43

Amám-ak = before thee, 94

’Amáriyah (Pr. N. of town), 353

Amend her case = bathe her etc., 266

Amsár (pl. of Misr) = settled provinces, 371

Ansár = Medinite auxiliaries, 92

Ape see Cynocephalus

Apes (remnant of some ancient tribe), 346

Arabian Night converted into an Arabian Note, 314

Ardashir = Artaxerxes, 209

Asaf (Solomon’s Wazir), 318

Asháb (division of), 92

Asháb al-Ziyá’ = Feudatories, 327

’Ashírah = clan, 121

’Ásim = defending, 314

Askar jarrár = drawing (conquering) army, 85

Asma’í (Al-) author of Antar, 110

Atmárí = rags (for travelling clothes), 118

Avaunt = Ikhsa, be chased like a dog, 45

Aywá (’llahi) = yes, by Allah, 195

Aywán (saloon with estrades), 347

375Azarbiján = Kohistan, 104

Azdashír misprint for Ardashír, 209

Azrak = blue-eyed (so is the falcon), 164

Báb = gate (for chapter, etc.), 3

Badr Básím (Pr. N.) = Full moon smiling, 274

Bakkál = greengrocer, etc., 295

Bán = myrobalan, 247

Banner in sign of Investiture, 101

Banú Tamím (tribe), 125

Baríd = Post, 340

Batshat al-Kubrá = the great disaster (battle of Badr), 55

Battásh al-Akrán = he who assaults his peers, 55

Batánah = lining, 330

Battles described, 61

Bead thrown into a cup (signal of delivery), 324

Beast with two backs (Eastern view of), 35

Bir (Al-) al-Mu’utallal = the Ruined Well, 346

Blessings at the head of letters, 133

Blue eyes = blind with cataract, or staring, glittering, hungry, 164

Bow a cowardly weapon, 123

Breslau edition quoted, 168; 172; 173; 177; 202; 316; 321; 324; 326; 327; 329; 341; 342; 343; 350; 353; 354; 363; 367

Bride of the Hoards, 147

Bridle (not to be committed to another), 304

Bulak ed. quoted, 173; 359

Burdah = plaid of striped stuff, 95

Burckhardt quoted, 91; 93; 156

Byron (depreciated where he ought to be honoured most), 268

Caliphs: Hishám, 104

—— Walid bin Sahl, 106

—— Mahdí (Al-), 136

Canton (city of), 334

Capotes mélancoliques, 190

Chaste forbearance towards a woman frequently causes love, 189

Chawáshiyah = Chamberlains, 327

Coffer (Ar. Tábik, Tábút), 350

“Compelleth” in the sense of “burdeneth”, 285

Conjugal affection (striking picture of), 243

Copa d’agua excuse for a splendid banquet, 168

Colocasia (Ar. Kallakás), 151

Combat reminding of that of Rustam and Sohráb, 89

Conjunctive in Africans seldom white, 184

Connection (tribal seven degrees of), 121

Converts theoretically respected and practically despised, 43

Creases in the stomach insisted upon, 130

Cross-bows, 62

Cuirasses against pleasure, cobwebs against infection, 190

Cundums (French letters), 190

Cynocephalus (kills men and rapes women), 344

Dakkah = long wooden bench etc., 111

Damsel of the tribe = daughter of the chief, 95

Daulat = fortune, empire, kingdom (Pr. N.), 347

Deposits are not lost with Him = He disappointeth not etc., 334

Devotees (white woollen raiment of), 214

Dimágh = brain, meninx (for head), 178

Dirhams (50,000 = about £1,250), 105

Diwán al-Baríd = Post Office, 340

Dogs (in Eastern cities), 202

Donánmá (rejoicings for the pregnancy of a Sultana), 324

Donkey-boy like our “post-boy” of any age, 160

Donning woman’s attire in token of defeat, 188

Doors (pulled up = raised from the lower hinge-pins), 352

Drinking before or after dinner or both, 132

Drugs (is this an art of?), 147

Drunk with the excess of his beauty, 162

Drunken habits of Central African races, 357

“Early to bed” etc. (modern version of the same), 217

Elephant-faced Vetála, 34

Elephants frighting horses, 61

Eli-Fenioun = Polyphemus, 361

Euphemism of speech, 134; 142

376Euphuistic speech, 285

Eyes “sunk” into the head for our “starting” from it, 36

—— (plucking or tearing out of, a Persian practice), 359

Fagfúr (Mosl. title for the Emperor of China), 335

Fakíh = divine, 325

Falastín, degraded to “Philister”, 101

Faráis (pl. of farísah) = shoulder-muscles, 219

Faránik (Al-) = letter-carrier, 340

Faráshah, noun of unity of Farásh = butterfly, moth, 305

Fárikí, adjective of Mayyáfárikín, 1

Fáris = rider, knight, 314

Farrásh, a man of general utility, tent-pitcher etc., 4

Father of Bitterness = the Devil, 116

Fátihah quoted, 286

Fátir = creator (chapter of the Koran), 366

Fatís = carrion, corps crévé, 181

Faylasúfiyah = philosopheress, 145

Fayyaz (al-) = the overflowing, 99

Fazl = grace, exceeding goodness, 220

Fearing for the lover first, 256

Fee delicately offered, 162

Fí al-Kamar in the moonshine (perhaps allusion to the Comorin islands), 269

Fig = anus, 151

Fights frequent at funerals or wedding processions, 190

Fillets hung on trees to denote an honoured tomb, 96

Fikh = theology, 325

Fire-arms mentioned, 62

Flirtation impossible in the East, 181

Floor (sitting upon the, sign of deepest dejection), 314

Foot (prehensile powers of the Eastern), 179

Fortalice of fruits (Ar. Hisn al-Fákihah), 75

French letters (all about them), 190

Fumigations to cite Jinnis etc., 363

Fútah = napkin, waistcloth, 345

Galaktophagi prefer sour milk to sweet, 360

Garden (in the Prophet’s tomb at Al-Medinah), 91

Generosity (peculiar style of), 323

Ghandúr = a gallant, 181

Ghuráb al-Bayn = Raven of the Wold, 226

“Gift from me to,” etc. = “I leave it to you, sir”, 292

Giraffe, one of the most timid of the antelope tribe, 54

—— unfit for riding, 62

Girding the sovereign (found in the hieroglyphs), 328

Gloom = black hair of youth, 277

Glooms gathering and full moons dawning for hands and eyes, 247

Gold (when he looked upon it, his life seemed a light thing to him), 240

Grapes (bunch of, weighing twenty pounds, no exaggeration), 358

Grim joke (showing elation of spirits), 324

Ground (really kissed), 257

Guest-rite, 121

—— (must be fed before his errand is asked), 319

Habb al-’Ubb (a woman’s ornament), 205

Hadas = surmise, 302

Hail within sight of the Equator, 336

Hájah = a needful thing (for somewhat), 349

Hajar-coinage (?), 95

Hajjáj (al-) bin Yúsuf al-Thakifí, 97

Hákim = ruler, not to be confounded with Hakím, a doctor, etc., 29

Haláwat = sweets, 205

Halumma = bring!, 117

Hallaling = Anglo-Indian term for the Moslem rite of killing animals for food, 9

Hammál al-Hatabi = one who carries fuel-sticks, 59

Harbak = javelin, 45

Harrakát = carracks (also used for cock-boat), 336

Hasab wa Nasal = inherited degree and acquired dignity, 279

Hatim = broken wall (at Meccah), 219

377Hátim (Pr. N.) = black crow, 350

Hazza-hu = he made it quiver, 45

Henna-flower (its spermatic odour), 250

Heroes and heroines of love-tales are bonnes fourchettes, 300

Hind bint Asmá and the poet Jarír, 96

Hishám (Caliph), 104

Hisn al-Fákihah = Fortalice of fruits, 75

Hiss = (sensual) perception, 302

Hobbling a camel (how done), 119

Hubkah = doubling of a woman’s waistcloth, 180

Hullah = dress, 180

Humility of the love-lorn Princess artfully contrasted with her former furiosity, 261

Ibáziyah sect, 125

Ibrík = ewer, 146

Ibrísam = raw silk, floss, 352

Ihtilám = wet dreams, 183

Ijtilá = displaying of the bride, 198

Iksah = plait, etc., 150

Iliad and Pentaur’s Epic, 362

Incuriousness of the Eastern story-teller, 57

Indian realm, 336

Infidel should not be killed unless refusing to become a Moslem or a tributary, 64

Irak for Al-Irak in verse, 20

Irán = hearse, Moses’ ark, 207

Ishk ’Uzrí = platonic love, 121

Jabábirah = tyrants, giants, 84

Jábarsá, the city of Japhet, 40; 43

Jábir Atharát al-Kirám = Repairer of the Slips of the Generous, 100

Jaland, not Julned, 16

Jamil bin Ma’amar al-Uzrí (poet), 117

Ján-Sháh = Life King, 82

Japhet (Ar. Yáfis or Yáfat), 40

—— his sword, 41

Jauharah (Pr. N. = jewel), 307

Jawámard for Jawán-mard, un giovane, a brave, 17

Jazírah (al-) = Mesopotamia, 100

—— Insula for Peninsula, 333

Jilbáb = habergeon, buff jacket, 56

Julnár = Pers. Gul-i-anár (pomegranate flower), 268

Ka’ah = mess-room, barracks, 167

Kaannahu huwa = as he (was) he, 233

Ka’ak al’-I’d = buns (cake?), 196

Ka’b = heel, ankle; fortune, 177

Ka’ka’at = jangling noise, 21

Kalak = raft, 342

Kamaríyah = moon-like, 202

Kamin al-Bahrayn = Ambuscade of the two seas, 353

Karaj (town in Persian Irak), 77

Kárizán (al-) = the two mimosa gatherers, 93

Karr aynan = keep thine eye cool, 229

Kásid = Anglo-Indian Cossid, 77

Kasr al-Mashíd = high-built Castle, 346

Kataba (for tattooing), 250

Kawwad = leader (for pimp), 98

Kayf hálak = how de doo?, 336

Kazá, Kismet and “Providence”, 135

“Key” = fee paid on the keys being handed to a lodger, 212

Khadd = cheek, 277

Kháfiyah = concealed; Kháinah = perfidy, 320

Khal’a al-’izár = stripping of jaws or side-beard, 248

Khalbús = buffoon, 195

Khalí’a (Al-) = the Wag, 130

Khánakah = Dervishes’ convert, 177

Khátún = lady; Pr. N., 146

Khazrá (al-) = the Green, palace of Mu’áwiyah, 124

Khirad Shah = King Intelligence; Pr. N., 73

Khiskhánah = cupboard, 199

Kirát (bean of Abrus precatorius), 289

Kisás (Al-) = lex talionis, 170

“Kiss ground” not to be taken literally, 210

Kitf al-Jamal = Camel shoulder-blade, 167

Knife, “bravest of arms”, 123

Koran quoted (iii. 11; i. 42; viii. 9), 55

—— (cxi.), 59

—— (xxxiii.), 92

—— (xx. 102), 164

—— (xii. 31), 213

—— (ii. 286), 285

378—— (ii. 61; xxii. 44), 346

—— (xxxv.), 366

Kudrat = Omnipotence, 135

Kulzum (Al-), old name of Suez-town, 348

Kumayt (Al-) = bay horse with black points, 128

Kumasrá (Kummasrá) = pear, 357

Kursí = stool, 311

La’ab = sword-play, 44

Láb (old Pers. for Sun), 296

Laban = sweet milk, 360

Lakít = fœtus, foundling, contemptible fellow, 145

Lane quoted, 95; 96; 111; 113; 118; 119; 123; 124; 135; 136; 139; 144; 172; 182; 195; 196; 209; 269; 275; 280; 282; 303; 309; 314; 328; 361

Laun = colour, hue (for dish), 185

Laylat ams = yesternight, 186

Legs making mute the anklets, 131

Letter torn tears a kingdom, 2

Letters (French), 190

Listening not held dishonourable, 279

Liwá = Arab Tempe, 115

Líwán = Aywán (saloon with estrades), 347

Lukmah = bouchée, mouthful, 367

Magazine (as one wherein wheat is heaped up = unmarried), 372

Mujájat = saliva, 280

Mahá = wild cattle, 280

Malíh Kawí = very handsome (Cairene vulgarism), 150

Mafárik (Al-) = partings of the hair, 222

Mace, a dangerous weapon, 24

Mahayá = Má al-Hayát = aqua vitæ, 132

Mahdí (Al-), Caliph, 136

Mahr = marriage dowry, settlement, 126

Malík al-Násír (Saladin), 142

Manjaníkát = mangonels, 335

Mariduna = Rebels against Allah, 39

Marsín = myrtle, 290

Marwán bin al-Hakam (Governor of Al-Medinah), 125

Masculine for feminine, 140

Maskharah = masker (buffoon), 195

Maut = death, 147

Mayazib (pl. of mízáb) = gargoyles, 136

Maydán al-Fíl, 326

Maysum’s song, 97

Mayyáfárikín capital of Diyár Bakr, 1

Mercury Ali (his story sequel to that of Dalílah), 172

Metamorphosis (terms of), 294

Milk-drinking races prefer the soured milk to the sweet, 360

Mirbad (al-), market place at Bassorah, 130

Misr, Masr = Capital (applied to Memphis, Fostat and Cairo), 172

—— (for Egypt), 370

Mohammed (Allah’s right hand), 366

Mohammed bin Sulaymán al-Rabí’í (Governor of Bassorah), 130

Mohr = signet, 329

Monsters (abounding in Persian literature), 339

Morosa voluptas, 132

Mosque Al-Ahzáb = Mosque of the troops, 92

MS. copy of The Nights (price of one in Egypt), 312

Mu’attik al-Rikáb = Liberator of Necks, 331

Muhájirin = companions in Mohammed’s flight, 92

Mu’in al-Dín = Aider of the Faith, 354

Mujauhar = damascened, 84

Mulabbas = dragées, 205

Munádamah = table-talk, 309

Munawwarah (al-) = The Illumined (Title of Al-Medinah), 95

Musáfahah = putting palm to palm, 52

Musáhikah = tribadism, 132

Musámarah = night-talk by moonlight, 217

Mosquito caught between the toes, 179

Musrán (Al-) = guts, 190

Mutanakkir = disguised, proud, reserved, 101

Muunah = provisions, 232

Náb (pl. Anyáb) = canine tooth, tusk, 339

Nafs-í = my soul for “the flesh”, 118

Ná’í al-maut = messenger of death, 226

Naked = without veil or upper clothing, 151

379Names frequently do not appear till near the end of a tale, 43; 274

Naming a girl by name offensive, 286

Ni’am = yes in answer to a negative, 195

Night (its last the bitter parting), 243

Nitáh = a woman’s waist cloth, 180

Nostrils (his life-breath was in his = his heart was in his mouth), 258

Nostrums for divining the sex of the unborn child, 268

Núrayn = two lights (town in Turkestan), 88

Offerings (pious) = ex votos etc., 150

“Old maids” ignored in the East, 286

“Old Man of the Sea” (a Márid or evil Jinn), 338

Oman with its capital Maskat = Omana Moscha, 24

Opening doors without a key is the knavish trick of a petty thief, 182

Payne quoted, 16; 18; 57; 123; 277; 337

Pearls (fresh from water), 240

Pencilling the eyes with kohl, 250

Pens (gilded) = reeds washed with gold, 112

Pilgrimage quoted (iii. 90), 34

—— (i. 377), 9

—— (iii. 191), 21

—— (i. 14), 80

—— (ii. 62; 69), 91

—— (ii. 130; 138; 325), 92

—— (ii. 3), 95

—— (iii. 336), 104

—— (ii. 300), 124

—— (iii. 164), 136

—— (ii. 24), 140

—— (i. 59), 171

—— (i. 120), 172

—— (i. 124), 177

—— (iii. 66), 181

—— (ii. 52–54), 202

—— (i. 62), 212

—— (iii. 165), 219

Police-master legally answerable for losses, 161

Pomegranate = female parts, 151

Prin´cess English, Princess French, 245

Proportion of horse and foot in Arab and Turcoman armies, 1

Protestants (four great Sommités), 124

Pun, 53; 288; 307

Ra’ad Sháh, Pr. N. = thunder-king, 55

Rabbat-í = my she-Lord, applied to the fire, 36

Rahim, Rihm = womb for uterine relations, 123

Raiment of devotees (white wool), 214

Ramlah (half-way house between Jaffa and Jerusalem), 103

Ráyah Káimah = pennon flying (not “beast standing”), 118

“Renowning it” (naïve style of), 347

Repentance acquits the penitent, 72

Repetition, 293; 301

Riding on men as donkeys (facetious exaggeration of African practice), 357

Rock (falling upon a ship), 295

Ruba’al-Kharáb = the waste quarter, 80

Rubbamá = perhaps, sometimes, 218

Rudaynian lance (like a), 265

Rumourers (the two) = basin and ewer, 146

Rutub (applying to pearls) = fresh from water, 240

Sabá = the Biblical Sheba, 316

Sabaj (a black shell), 131

Safwán = clear, cold, 314

Sá’ik = the Striker, 35

Saja’-assonance bald in translation, 2

—— answerable for galimatias, 36

Salát mamlúkíyah = praying without ablution, 148

Salátah (how composed), 132

Sálih (Pr. N.) = righteous, pious, just, 314

Samandal (Al-) = Salamander, 280

Samar = night-story, 312

Samáwah (Al-) visitation place in Babylonian Irak, 93

Samír = night-talker, 217

Sana’á (famed for leather and other work), 130

Sandals (kissed and laid on the head in token of submission), 370

Sarmújah = sandals, leggings, slippers, 370

380Satl = kettle, bucket (situla?), 182

Saudawí = of a melancholic temperament, 238

Sawík = parched corn, 303

Sayf ξίφος al-Mulúk = Sword of the Kings, 325

Seal-ring of Solomon (oath by), 317

Set-off for abuse of women, 130

Shahyál bin Shárukh (Pr. N.), 331

Shakhtúr = dinghy, 362

Shammara = he tucked up (sleeve or gown), 133

Shara (Al-), mountain in Arabia, 23

Shara’ = holy law, 170

Sharít = chopper, sword, 178

Shaykh attended by a half-witted lunatic, 152

Shaykh of the Sea (-board), 357

Shazarwán = Pers. Shadurwán, palace, cornice, etc., 51

Sibawayh (Grammarian), 233

Side-muscles (her quiver = she trembles in every nerve), 219

Slave (Moslemah can compel an infidel master who has attempted her seduction to sell her), 203

Sleeping with a sword between them, 352

Shower (how delightful in rainless lands), 141

Shúm (a tough wood used for staves), 354

Shubash = Bravo!, 195

Slave-girls (newly bought pretentious and coquettish), 266

Solomon (oath by his seal-ring), 317

Street cries of Cairo, 172

Style of a Cairene public scribe, 134

Suhbat-hu = in company with him, 262

Sulamí (not Sulaymi) = of the tribe Banú Sulaym, 93

Sulaymán bin Abd al-Malik (Caliph), 99

Sulaymáníyah = Afghans, 171

Saráhíyah (vulg. Saláhíyah = glass-bottle), 370

Su’ubán = “basilisk,” large serpent, 322

Sword (between two sleepers represents only the man’s honour), 353

Tábik = coffer, 350

Tábút = bier, ark, etc., 207

—— (coffer), 350

Taghaddá = he dined, 180

Táir al-bayn = parting bird, 226

Tákah = arched hollow in the wall, niche, 361

Takht, a “seat” from a throne to a saddle, 55

—— (more emphatical than Sarír), 328

Taklíd = baldricking, not girding a sword, 3

Taklíyah = onion-sauce, 322

Takwím = Tacuino (for Almanac), 296

Tamsír (derived from Misr) = founding a military cantonment, 371

Tásúmah = sandal, slipper, 197

Taverns, 324

Tayr = any flying thing, bird, 227

Tawílan jiddan, now a Cairenism, 13

Tazríb = quilting, 330

“Tell the truth!” way of taking an Eastern liar, 183

Tent (how constructed), 109

“There is no Majesty,” etc., as ejaculation of impatience, 73

Third = Tuesday, 349

Timsah = crocodile, 343

Tongue (my, is under thy feet), 239

’Ubb = breast-pocket, 205

Union opposed to “Severance”, 120

“Use this” (i.e. for thy daily expenses), 298

Uzrah = Azariah, 158

Vile water (Koranic term for semen), 213

Violent temper (frequent amongst Eastern princesses), 254

Virginity of slave-girls (respected by the older slave-trader, rarely by the young), 267

Visits to the tombs, 124

Wahk, Wahak = Lasso, 61

Wahtah = quasi-epileptic fit, 127

Walíd bin Sahl (Caliph), 106

Ward Shah = Rose King, 70

Wars (al-) = carthamus tinctorius, 93

Wayha-k equivalent to Wayla-k, 127

Weapons carried under the thigh, 56

—— magic, 59

—— new forms of, 62

381“Whatso thou wouldest do that do” = Do what thou wilt, 324

“Where lies China-land?” = it is a far cry to Lock Awe, 344

“Who art thou?” etc. (meaning “you are nobodies”), 286

“Whoso loveth me, let him bestow largesse upon this man”, 323

Women (blue-eyed of good omen), 164

Ya’arub bin Kahtán, 25

Yá Dâdatí = “ma mie”, 372

Yáfis, Yáfat = Japhet, 40

Yají miat khwánjah = near an hundred chargers, 345

Yá Khawand = O Master, 315

Yakhní = stew, broth, 186

Yá Sákí’ al-Wajh = O false face!, 353

Yá Ustá (for Ustáz) = O my Master, 192

Yúsuf (Grand Vizier, and his pelisse), 323

Zabbah = wooden bolt, 182

Zalábiyah bi-’Asal = honey fritters, 164

Zalzál son of Muzalzil = Earthquake son of Ennosigaius, 79

Zardah = rice dressed with honey and saffron, 189

Zardakhánat = Zarad (Ar. for hauberk) – Khánah (Pers. for house), 363

Zarráf = giraffe, 54

Záwiyah = corner (for cell, oratory), 328

Zurk = blue-eyed, dim-sighted, purblind, 164

Transcriber's Note:

The cover image was created by the transcriber and is placed in the public domain.