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.”