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

Note 244 — KHALIFAH THE FISHERMAN OF BAGHDAD.

Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2

Arab. “Nákhúzah Zulayt.” The former, from the Persian Nákhodá or ship-captain which is also used in a playful sense “a godless wight,” one owning no (ná) God (Khudá). Zulayt = a low fellow, blackguard.

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