Volume 8 — INDEX.

Abáah (vulg. ’Abáyah) = cloak, 42

Abír (a fragrant powder sprinkled on face, body and clothes), 240

Abjad (logogriphs derived from it), 93

Ablution obligatory after copulation, 305

Abú al-Ruwaysh = little feather, 77

Abú al-Sa’ádát = Father of Prosperities, 148

Abú Lahab and his wife, 291

Abú Maryam (a term of contempt), 306

Abú Mohammed al-Battál (hero of an older tale), 335

Adan = our Aden, 248

Adím = leather (Bulghár, Marocco), 80

Áhirah = strumpet (see Fájirah), 109

Ahjár al-Kassárín = Fulling-stones, 334

Ahlan = as one of the household, 269

Air (I fear it for her when it bloweth), 53

Akhawán shakíkán = (two) brothers german, 340

Akík = carnelian (“Seal with seals of”), 228

Akíl (son of Abú Tálib), 172

Akmám (see Kumm)

Akr Kayrawán = ball of silver-dross, 267

Akúna fidá-kȧ = may I be thy ransom, 36

Alchemy (its practice has cost many a life), 11

Alexandria (praise of), 289

Allah (I take refuge with Him from gainsaying thee = God forbid that I should oppose thee), 53

Allah (perpetuate his shadow), 170

Allaho akbar (the Moslem war-cry), 265

Alwán (pl. of laun, colour) = viands, dishes; 23

Amazons (of Dahome), 39

Ambar al-Khám = rude ambergris, 85

Amúd al-Sawárí = the Pillar of Masts (Diocletian’s column), 323

Anagnorisis (admirably managed), 104

Andalíb = nightingale (masc. in Arabic), 282

’Andam = Brazil wood, 225

Angels shooting Jinn, 292

Anistaná = thy company gladdens us, 231

Ansár = auxiliaries, 183

Anwá, pl. of Nau q.v., 266

Anwár = lights, flowers, 270; 282

Apricots (various kinds), 268

Arabian Odyssey, 7

Arús (Al-) = the bride (tropical name for wine), 203

Asaf bin Barkhiya (Solomon’s Wazir), 133

Asháb = companions, 183

Astár (pl. of Satr) = chopper, 184

Aswad = black (used for any dark colour), 268

’Atb = blame, reproach (for disgrace), 112

Atheist (Ar. Zindík), 27

Atnáb = tent-ropes, 240

Avanie (Ar. Gharámah), 181

Awák = ounces (pl. of Ukíyah), 12

Azrak = blue, 4

352Báb al-Bahr and Báb al-Barr, 55; 318

Babylonian eyes = bewitching ones, 278

Baghdád (House of Peace), 51

Bahr al-azrak = blue river, not Blue Nile, 4

Bahríyah = crew, 17

Baltiyah = Labrus Niloticus, 290

Banát = daughters, protégées, 39

Bán (species of Moringa), 322

Banní (Bunní) = Cyprinus Bynni, 187

Baras = leprosy, 24

Bastardy (a sore offence amongst Moslems), 115

Batárikah = patriarchs; monks, 256

—— = knights, 319; 324

Bath (may it be a blessing to thee), 200

Batiyah = jar, flagon, 323

Bawwák = trumpeter (a discreditable character), 192

Bayáz = Whiteness, 295

Bayáz = Silurus Bajad (cat-fish), 150

Bayt Sha’ar = house of hair (for a couplet), 279

Báz (vulg. for Tabl) = kettle-drum, 18

Belt (Ar. Kamar), 156

Better largesse than the mace, 163

Bí-Fardayn = “with two singles” (meaning baskets), 162

Bilád al-Rúm (applied to France), 339

Bilkís (Queen of Sheba), 82

Bird-girls, 29

Bisát (Al-) wa’l-masnad = carpet and cushion, 55

Bismillah Námí = Now please, go to sleep, 178

Bismillah = enter in Allah’s name, 202

Books (of the Judgment-day), 294

Box (Ar. ’Ulbah), 71

Boycotting (Oriental forms of), 302

Bread and salt (bond of), 12

Breslau edition quoted, 7; 18; 66; 98; 113; 197; 242; 264; 273.

Búdikah (Bútakah) = crucible, 8

Buhayrah = tank, cistern, 19

Búm = owl (introduced to rhyme with Kayyúm = the Eternal), 286

Burckhardt quoted, 23; 285

Bystanders (forcing on a sale), 310

Camels (red the best kind), 303

Carmel = Karam El (God’s vineyard), 203

Cask in Auerbach’s Keller, 131

Cat-fish (Ar. Bayáz), 150

Chaff, 147; 152; 175; 189

Change (sudden, of disposition), 213

Cheating (not only venial but laudable under circumstances), 217

Checkmate (Pers. Ar. Sháh mát) = the King is dead, ib.

Chin-veil donned (showing intention to act like a man), 99

Cloak (Ar. ’Abáah), 42

Closet (the forbidden and bird-girls), 29

Coffee (anachronism), 274

Coition (the seal of love), 304

—— (local excellencies of), ib.

—— (ablution obligatory after it), 305

Compliment (model of a courtly one), 165

Composed of seed by all men shed = superfetation of iniquity, 15

Confusion of religious mythologies (by way of chaff), 152

Contrition for romancing, 66

Cowardice (proverb anent), 333

Crescent-like (for emaciated), 300

Crew (Ar. Bahríyah, Nawátíyah), 17

Dáa al-Kabír (Great Evil) = Dáa al-Fíl (Elephantine Evil, i.e., Elephantiasis), 24

Dádat = nurse (Pers.), 209

Dajlah (Dijlah) = Tigris (Heb. Hid-dekel), 150

Dakkah = settle, 84

Dár al-Na’ím = Dwelling of Delight, 183

Daylam (Al-), soldiers of = warlike as the Daylamites, 82

Demesne (Ar. Himà), 225

Dijlah (Tigris) River and Valley of Peace, 51

Dirhams (thousand = £375), 10

Disposition (sudden change of), 213

Dist (Dist) = large copper chauldron, 177

Diversion of an Eastern Potentate, 171

Doggrel, 225; 228

Double entendre, 153; 251

Dreams (play an important part in the Romances of Chivalry), 113

Drunken son (excused by mother, rebuked by father), 287

Dues demanded lead to imprisonment for arrears, 170

353Eating and Drinking (before thinking of the lover), 260

East and West (confounded by a beauty-dazed monk), 279

Eginhardt (belongs to the clerical profession), 326

Entertainments (names of), 231

Euphemistic speech, 173

Eye (Thou shalt be in mine = I will keep thee as though thou wert the apple of my eye), 90

Eyes (Babylonian) = bewitching, 278

Fa-immá ’alayhá wa-immá bihá = whether (luck go) against it or (luck go) with it, 157

Faintings and trances (common in Romances of Chivalry), 118

Fájirah = harlot (often mere abuse without special meaning), 109

Fard Kalmah = a single word (vulgarism), 188

Farkh Samak = fish-chick (for young fish), 149

Farsalah = parcel, 162

Fate (written in the sutures of the skull), 237

Fath = opening (e.g. of a maidenhead), 348

Fátimah (daughter of Mohammed), 252

Favours (not lawful until sanctified by love), 226

Fawn (for a graceful youth), 329

Feet (lack the European development of sebaceous glands), 43

—— (coldness of, a symptom of impotence), 317

Female (Amazon) Island, 60

Feminine (persistency of purpose, confirmed by “Consolations of religion”), 99

—— (mind prone to exaggeration), 25

—— (friend does not hesitate to prescribe fibs), 37

Festival (Ar. ’Íd), 142

Fidá = ransom, self-sacrifice, 36

Fidá’an = instead of, ib.

Fig and Sycamore (unclean allusion in), 269

Fillet = the Greek “Stephane”, 209

Fine feathers make fine birds, 201

Fingán (for Finján) = (coffee-) cup, 200

Finger (run round the inside of a vessel), ib.

Finger-tips (making marks in the ground), 72

Firásah = physiognomy, 326

Fish changed into apes (true Fellah-“chaff”), 147

—— (of Paradise, promising acceptance of prayer), 163

Flattery (more telling if proceeding from the heart), 104

Formality (a sign of good breeding), 308

“Forty days” = our honey-moon, 47

Fourteen (poetically expressed), 70

Frail (Ar. Farsalah), 162

Frame (crescent-like by reason of leanness), 300

Friend (feminine, does not hesitate to prescribe a fib), 37

Front-teeth wide apart (a beauty amongst the Egyptians, not the Arabs), 147

Funduk = Fondaco, 184

Funeral oration on an Arabian Achilles (after Hariri), 348

Full (Fill) = Arabian jessamine, 273

“Gallery” (Speaking to the), 128

Ghadr = cheating, 217

Gháliyah (Al-) = older English “Algallia”, 220

Gharámah = avanie, 151

Ghayúr = jealous (applied to Time), 67

Ghází = one who fights for the faith (Zealot), 211

Ghuráb = galleon (grab), 323

Gloria (in, Italian term for the venereal finish), 329

Gold-pieces (stuck on the cheeks of singing-girls, etc.), 275

Green gown (Anglo-India = white ball-dress with blades of grass behind), 32

Groom (falling in love with), 345

“Guebre” (introduced by Lord Byron), 8

Gull-fairs, 90

Habitations (names given to them by the Arabs), 229

354Habl = cord; cause, 100

Háfiz quoted, 120

Hakk = right (Hakkí = mine), 335

Haláwat al-Salámah = sweetmeat for the returning of a friend, 325

Haling by the hair (reminiscence of “marriage by capture”), 40

Hamzah (uncle of the Prophet), 172

Hanabát = “hanap”, 202

Hand (cut off in penalty for theft), 164

—— (cut off for striking a father), 287

Hárún al-Rashíd (described by Al-Siyúti), 160

Hashísh (said to him = his mind, under its influence, suggested to him), 155

Hásil, Hásilah = cell in a Khan for storing goods, 184; 196

Hassún (diminutive of Hasan), 81

Haudaj (Hind. Howda) = camel-litter for women, 235

Háwiyah (name of a Hell), 346

Hazrat = our mediæval “præsentia vostra”, 254

“Hearer” not “Reader” addressed, 316

Heavens (names of the seven), 111

Hells (names of the seven and intended inhabitants), ib.

Heroism of a doubtful character, 27

Hesperides (apples of, probably golden nuggets), 272

Himà = guarded side, demesne, 102; 225

“His” for “her”, 50

Hizám = girdle, 160

“Holy Writ” punned upon, 348

“House of Sadness”, 64

Housewife (looks to the main chance), 144

Hubúb (Pr. N.) = awaking, blowing hard, 209

Humbly (expressed by standing on their heads), 279

Hump-back (graphically described), 297

Ibn al-Kirnás (Pr. N.) = son of the chase (for Pers. Kurnas = pimp, cuckold?), 157

Ibn al-’Ukáb (Pr. N.) = Son of the Eagle, 198

’Íd = festivals (the two of al-Islám), 142

Ihtílajnámeh = book of palpitations, 25

Iksír (Al-) = dry drug (from ξηρόν), 9; 12

Ikyán = living gold, 272; 275

Ill-treatment (a slave’s plea for a lawful demand to be sold), 54

Impudence (intended to be that of a captive Princess), 295

Inadvertency of the tale-teller, 141

Ink-case (origin of), 178

Innín = impotence, 317

Inshallah = D.V., 104

Inverted speech, 179

Irishman (the typical in Arab garb), 191

Ironical speech, 3

—— (a favourite with the Fellah), 164

Ishárah = beckoning, 233

Iskandariyah = city of Alexander, 289

Island for Land, 317

Ism al-A’azam = the most Great name of Allah, 133

Jalájal = small bells for falcons etc., 271

Jar (ridden by witches), 131

Jarrah = jar, 177

Jawáshíyah = guard, 330

Jew (never your equal, either above or below you), 153

—— (marrying a Moslemah deserves no pity), 262

Jokh al-Saklat = rich brocade on broadcloth, 202

Judad (for Judad) pl. of Jadíd = “new” (i.e. old) coin, 121

Juggling with heaven, 168

Jamár = palm-pith and cabbage, 270

Juzám = Elephantiasis, 24

Kabbát = saucers, 12

Kafrà = desert place, 337

Kamán = Kamá (as) + anna (that, since), 197

Kamar = belt, 156

Kámil, Basít, Wáfir (names of three popular metres), 91

Karbús = saddle-bow, 77

Karmút = Silurus Carmoth Niloticus, 185

Karrat azlá’hu = his ribs felt cold (after hearty eating), 189

Kaukab al-Durrí = cluster of pearls, 291

Kaylúlah = noon-tide nap, 191

Kayrawán = the Greek Cyrene, 317

Kayyimah = guardian (fem.), 330

Káz (Al-) = shears, 9

355Kází of Kázís = Chief Kazi, 245

Khák-bák = “hocus pocus” etc., 328

Khalanj (vessels made of it), 271

Khalkínah = copper chauldron, 177

Kharajú = they (masc.) went forth (vulg. for kharajna fem.), 144

Khaukhah = tunnel, 330

Koran quoted (iii. 90), 51

—— (xxxix. 54), 182

—— (vi. 99), 267

—— xvi. 69; ii. 216; v. 92, 277

—— (cxiii. 13), 285

—— (cxi. 184), 291

—— (xvii.; xviii.; lxix; lxxxiv.), 294

Khuld = fourth (yellow coral) heaven, 47

Khutúb (Pr. N.) = affairs, misfortunes, 209

Khilál (emblem of attenuation), 258

Kímiyá = Alchemy (from χυμεία = wet drug), 9

Kimkhá = (velvet of) “Kimcob”, 201

Kír = bellows, 9

Kiráb = wooden sword-case, 267

Kirám = nobles; Kurúm = vines, 203

Kirsh al-Nukhál = guts of bran, 169

Kissing (en tout bien et en tout honneur), 25

Kohls (many kinds of), 10

Kubbád = Shaddock, 272

Kúr = furnace, 9

—— (= forge where children are hammered out), 46

Kumm = sleeve; petal, 267; 275

Kurbáj = cravache, 17

Kurbán = sacrifice, 16

Kursán = “Corsaro,” a runner, 323

Kus(s) = Vulva, 93

Kusúf = eclipse of the moon, 291

Kút al-Kulúb (Pr. N.) = nourishment of the hearts, 158

La Baas = (in Marocco) “I am well”, 274

Labbis al-Búsah tabkí ’Arúsah = clothe the reed and it becomes a bride, 201

Láhik = the Overtaker, 341

Lane quoted, 7; 14; 18; 21; 27; 35; 53; 62; 67; 77; 80; 84; 94; 97; 102; 122; 124; 128; 131; 147; 148; 155; 156; 166; 177; 179; 180; 187; 205; 264; 285; 298; 337

Largesse (better than the mace), 163

Lazá (name of a Hell), 346

Liberality (after Poverty), 182

Libraries (large ones appreciated by the Arabs), 79

Lisán al-Hamal = Lamb’s tongue (plantain), 273

Liyyah = fat sheep (calves like tails of), 291

Logogriphs, 93

Love (called upon to torment the lover still more), 75

Love-children (exceedingly rare among Moslems), 115

Love-liesse (never lacked between folk, i.e. people of different conditions), 212

Lovers (becoming Moslems secure the good-will of the audience), 224

Lute (personification of), 281

Má al-Mala = water (brilliancy) of beauty, 47

Maghdád (for Baghdád, as Makkah and Bakkah), 51

Mahall = (a man’s) quarters, 229

Mahmudah = praiseworthy; confection of Aloes, 35

Malak = level ground, 285

Malakút (Al-) = The world of spirits (Sufi term), 145

Mamarr al-Tujjár = passing-place of the traders, 155

Mamrak = sky-window, etc., 156

Man (one worthier in Allah’s sight than a thousand Jinn), 5; 44

Manár al-Saná (Pr. N.) = Place of Light, 104

Manáshif (pl. of Minshafah q.v.), 92

Mansúr wa Munazzam = oratio soluta et ligata, 226

Manzil, Makám = (a lady’s) lodgings, 229

Marhúb = terrible, 180

Marriage (“by capture”), 40

—— (one of the institutions of the Apostles), 137

Married never once (emphasizes poverty), 145

Marseille (probably alluded to), 315

Maryam (a Christian name), 306

Masúkah = stick used for driving cattle, 147

356Maryam al-Husn = place of the white doe (Rím) of beauty, 321

Mawwál (for Mawálíyah) = short poem, 94; 151

Menses (coition during and leprosy), 24

Mikhaddah = cheek-pillow, 273

Mine (idioms for expressing it), 335

Minshafah (pl. Manáshif) = drying towel, 92

Moharram = first month of the Moslem year, 71

Mohtasib = Inspector of weights and measures, 293

Money (carried round the waist), 288

—— (weighed = paid down), 290

Monkery (none in Al-Islám), 137

Monoculars (famed for mischief), 318

Moons (for cup-bearers), 227

Mortal (one better in Allah’s sight than a thousand Jinn), 5; 44

Moslem (dignity contrasting with Christian abasement), 5; 44

—— (can circumcise, marry and bury himself), 22

Moslems (their number preordained), 154

Mother (in Arab. tales = ma mère), 27

Muákhát = entering in a formal agreement of partnership, 232

Mu’allim = teacher, master (addressing a Jew or Christian), 150

Muhabbat (Al-) al-gharizíyah = natural affection, 110

Munkati’ = cut off, 24

Musáhikah = Tribade, 130

Mushayyad = lofty, high-built, 23

Mystification explained by extraordinary likeness, 40

Nabbút = quarterstaff, 186

Nafs Ammárah = the Flesh, 31

—— al-Nátikah = intellectual soul, ib.

—— al-Ghazabiyah = animal function, ib.

—— al-Shahwaniyah = vegetative property, ib.

Najm al-Sabáh (Pr. N.) = Star o’ Morn, 107

Nákhúzah Zulayt = Skipper Rapscallion, 175

Nár = fire (fem. like the names of the other elements), 16

Narjis = Narcissus (name of a slave girl), 176

Nasím = Zephyr (emendation for Nadím = cup-bearer), 62

Navel (largeness of much appreciated), 33

Nawátíyah = crew (nauta, navita), 17

Nafísah (Pr. N.) = The Precious one, 328

Najm al-Munkazzi = shooting star, 329

Nakat = to spot; to handsel, 266

Nákús = wooden gong, 328

Nau (pl. Anwá) setting of one star simultaneous with another’s rising, 266

Námúsíyah = mosquito curtain, 330

News (what is behind thee of, O Asám?), 222

Night (consists of three watches), 330

Numbering the streets etc., a classical custom, 88

Núr al-Hudá (Pr. N.) = Light of Salvation, 97

Oath (retrieved by expiation), 263

—— (of divorce), 187; 311

Object first seen in the morning determines the fortunes of the day, 147

Orange (a growth of India), 272

O whose thrall am I = To her (I drink), 224

Palmerin of England, 64

Particles of swearing, 310

Partner in very deed, 181

Payne quoted, 21; 32; 64; 70; 72; 80; 117; 125; 130; 131; 148; 158; 168; 179; 216; 223; 224; 262; 264; 271; 275; 278; 279; 282; 293, 294; 314; 326; 327.

Peaches (“Sultání,” Andam), 270

Pears (various kinds), 269

Persians always suspected, 8

Person (Ar. Shakhs), 159

Physiognomy (Ar. Firásah, Kiyáfah), 326

Pièces de circonstance (mostly mere doggrel), 59

Pilgrimage quoted (iii. 70), 137

—— (iii. 365), 157

—— (ii. 248), 172

—— (ii. 130, etc.), 183

—— (ii. 207), 273

—— (i. 176), 287

—— (ii. 82), 291

—— (i. 88), 300

Pilgrimage (not perfected save by copulation with the camel), 157

357Pleiads (the stars whereby men sail), 304

Pomegranate (alluded to in Hadís and Korán), 267

Pouch (Ar Surrah), 71

Precedence (claims preeminence), 285

Premier (Le, embellit), 86

Prognostication from nervous movements, 25

Prostitution (never wholly abolished in Islam), 115

Puellæ Wakwakienses, 89

Pun (on Sabr), 35

—— (on a name), 228

—— (complicated), 329

Queen’s mischief = the mischief which may (or will) come from the Queen, 98

Raas al-Mál = capital, 248

Raat-hu = she saw him, 298

Rághib = expecter; Záhid = rejecter, 315

Raff = shelf running round a room, 122

Ráhatáni (Al-) = the two rests, 342

Rakham = aquiline vulture, 20

Ramazán (moon of), 33

Rashad = garden-cresses; stones; Rashíd = the heaven-directed, 194

Rashid = Rosetta, 288

Rasíf = river-quay, dyke, 150

Raven of the Wold, 236

Rayhán = scented herb, 187

Rest (in Eastern travel before eating and drinking), 142

Return-Salám, 309

Revenge (a sacred duty), 26

Ribá, Ribh = interest, 248

Riders (names of on various beasts), 238

Ríf = low land, 304

Rizwán (door-keeper of Paradise), 265

Rose (in Arab. masc.), 274

Roumí (in Marocco = European), 268

Ruh bilà Fuzúl = Begone and none of your impudence, 163

Ruhbán = monks, 256

Rukb = travellers on camels, return caravan, 238

Sabab = robe; cause, 100

Sakaba Kúrahá = he pierced her forge, 46

Sábik = Forerunner, 341

Sabíkah = bar, lamina, ingot, 10

Sabr = patience; Aloës (pun on), 35

Sacrifice (Ar. Kurbán), 16

Sadness (House of), 64

Sahífah = page, book, 148

Sahíkah = Tribade, 130

Sa’íd = Upper Egypt, 304

Sáibah = woman who lets herself go (a-whoring, etc.), 151

Salám (becomes Shalúm with the Jews), 223

—— (not returned, a Moslem form of Boycotting), 302

Sale (forced on by the Bystanders), 310

Sálifah = silken plait, 223

Sálih = a pious man, 191

Sandal (Pr. N.) = Sandal-wood, 169

Sandúk al-Nuzur = box of vowed oblations, 330

Sátúr = chopper, 162

Saub (Tobe) ’Atábi = tabby silk, 201

Sawwáhún = Wanderers, Pilgrims, 326

Sayf Zú al Yazan (hero of a Persian Romance), 21

Sayr = broad girdle, 325

Sayyib-hu = let him go, 151

Sayyib (Thayyib) = woman who leaves her husband after consummation, 324

Scorpions (for brow-curls), 209

Shadow (may yours never be less), 170

Shafáif = lower labia, 93

Sháh (Al-) mát = the King is dead (checkmate), 217

Shakhs = person, 159

“Shame” (extends from navel to knees), 193

Shamlah = gaberdine, 160

Shammirí = up and ready!, 263

Shams al-Zuhá (Pr. N.) = Sun of Undurn, 107

Sharaf al-Banát (Pr. N.) = Honour of Maidenhood, ib.

Shásh Abyaz = white turband (distinctive sign of the True Believer), 8

Shawáhí Umm al-Dawáhí = the Fascinator, mother of Calamities, 87

Shibábah = reed-pipe, 166

Siddíkah (Al-) = the veridical (apparently undeserved) title of Ayishah, 152

358Signing with the hand not our beckoning, 78

Signs (by various parts of the body), 233

Signum salutis, 293

Sindan, Sandan = anvil, 8

Sister (by adoption), 25

Sisterhood = companions, suite, 41

Sixth Abbaside Caliph error for fifth, 56

Slave (holds himself superior to a menial freeman), 294

Slave-girl (can be sold only with her consent), 292

Slaughter (wholesale for the delight of the gallery), 255

Slaughtering (by cutting the animal’s throat), 44

Slaves (if ill-treated may claim to be sold), 54

Soko (Maghribi form for Súk) = Bazar-street, 230

Soldiers of Al-Daylam = warlike as the Daylamites, 82

Solomon’s prison (copper cucurbites), 157

Son of ten years dieth not in the ninth, 70

Soul (you may have his, but leave me the body), 284

Spartivento = mountain whereon the clouds split, 19

Speaking to the “gallery”, 128

Speech (this my = the words I am about to speak), 147

—— (inverted form of), 318

Spells (for prayers deprecating parting), 347

Sperm (though it were a drop of marguerite), 210

Súdán-men = Negroes, 266

Sukúb (Pr. N.) = flowing, pouring, 209

Sufrah = table-cloth, 269

Suláf al-Khandarísí (a contradiction), 203

Sumbul al ’Anbari = spikenard, 273

Suns (for fair-faced boys and women), 242

Sultán (fit for the service of = for the service of a temporal monarch), 325

Supernaturalism (has a material basis), 30

Surayyá = Stars of wealth, 303

Surrah = purse, pouch, 71

Swan-maidens, 30

Sweetmeat for salvation (provided for the returning traveller), 105

Tabl = kettle-drum, 18

Táif (Al-), town famous for scented leather, 273

Táifí leather, 303

Takiyah = skull-cap, 120

Tamar Hanna = Henna flowers, 176

Tarn-Kappe (making invisible), 120

Tars Daylamí = Median targe, 291

Tás (from Pers. Tásah) = tasse, 224

Tawíl (and Abt. Vogler), 94

Theft (penalty for), 164

“Them” for her, 35

“They” for she, 281

Thou fillest mine eyes = I find thy beauty all-sufficient, 57

Tigris (Ar-Dijlah, Dajlah), 150

Tohfah = rarity, present, 55

Topothesia (designedly made absurd), 338

Torture easier to bear than giving up cash, 189

Torrens quoted 280; 305; 309; 314; 321; 327.

Trailing the skirt (for assuming humble manners), 301

Trances and faintings (common in Romances of Chivalry), 118

Transformation (sudden) of character frequent in Eastern stories, 178

Tribade (Ar. Sahíkah, Musáhikah), 130

Túfán = Deluge of Noah, 346

Tuff = Sordes unguinum (fie! see Uff), 195

Turban (substitute for a purse), 190

Two Sayings (double entendre), 153

Uff ’alayka = fie upon thee! (Uff = sordes aurium), 195

Ulbah = box, 71

Urkúb = tendon Achilles, bough, 185

Uzn al-Kuffah = ear (handle) of the basket, 161

Verses afore-mentioned (distinguishing formula of “Hasan of Bassorah”), 126

—— (purposely harsh), 337

View (gorgeous description of), 30

Wa al-Salam (used in a variety of senses), 74

Wákites (number their islands), 88

Wák Wák (Islands of), 60

359Walahán (Al-) = the love-distraught (abjective, not lakab), 33

Wa’lláhi = I swear by Allah, 310

Walímah = a wedding feast, 231

Ward = rose; Wardah = a single rose, 274

Watad = tent-peg (also a prosodical term), 279

Web and pin (eye disease of horses), 341

What calamity is upon thee = what a bother thou art, 177

What manner of thing is Al-Rashíd? = What has he to do here?, 176

Whistling (to call animals to water), 278

White (not black) mourning colour under the Abbasides, 200

Whiteness (for lustre, honour), 295

Whoso beguileth folk, him shall Allah beguile, 143

“Why don’t (can’t) you buy me?”, 300

Wisháh = belt, scarf, 209

Wine (breeds gladness, etc.), 202

—— (Mohammed’s teaching anent it), 277

—— (in cup or cup in wine?), ib.

Witness (bear it against me, meaning of the phrase), 22

Woman, Women (stealing of their clothes), 30

—— (her heart the only bond known by her), 54

—— (reasons for their aging early in the East), 86

—— (always to be addressed “Ummí” = my mother), 87

—— (often hide their names from the husband and his family), 100

—— (semi-maniacal rancour of a good one against an erring sister), 118

Woman, (when old, the most vindictive of her kind), 137

—— (who are neither thine nor another’s), 208

—— (their bodies impregnated with scent), 279

Wrestling amongst the Egyptian Fellah, 199

Yá A’awar = O one-eye (obscene meaning of the phrase), 185

—— Khwájah = O Master, 18

—— layta = would to heaven, 48

—— Mumátil = O Slow o’ pay, 169

—— Salám = O Safety (a vulgar ejaculation), 98

—— Shukayr = O little tulip, 168

Yásamín = Jessamine (name of a slave-girl), 176

Za’ar = a man with fair skin, red hair, and blue eyes, 297

Zahrawíyah = lovely as the Venus-star, 251

Zakhmah (Zukhmah) = strap, stirrup-leather, 18

Zakzúk = young of the Shál, 185

Zarbu’l Nawákísi = striking of gongs (pun on the word), 329

Zayn al-Mawásif (Pr.N.) = Adornment of (good) Qualities, 205

Zinád = fire-sticks, 80

Zindik = Atheist, 27

Zubaydah (wife of Harun al-Rashid), 56; 158

Zujáj bikr = unworked glass, 342

Zunnár = ζωνάριον, 305

Zurayk (diminutive of Azrak = blue-eyed), 195

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