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The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 08 (of 10)

Note 39 — HASAN OF BASSORAH.[5]

Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2

Arab. Munkati’ here = cut off from the rest of the world. Applied to a man, and a popular term of abuse in Al-Hijáz, it means one cut off from the blessings of Allah and the benefits of mankind; a pauvre sire. Pilgrimage ii. 22.

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