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The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 07 (of 10)

Note 346 — JULNAR THE SEA-BORN AND HER SON KING BADR BASIM OF PERSIA. (continued 2)

Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2

Here, for the first time we find the name of the mother who has often been mentioned in the story. Faráshah is the fem. or singular form of “Farásh,” a butterfly, a moth. Lane notes that his Shaykh gives it the very unusual sense of “a locust.”

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