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

Note 321 — MASRUR AND ZAYN AL-MAWASIF.[307]

Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2

Arab. “Al-Sháh mát” = the King is dead, Pers. and Arab. grotesquely mixed: Europeans explain “Checkmate” in sundry ways, all more or less wrong.

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