Volume 9 — INDEX

Abá al-Khayr = my good sir, etc., 54

Abú al-Lays (Pr. N.) = Father of the Lion, 211

Abú Dalaf al-Ijilí (a soldier famed for liberality and culture), 189

Abú Kír = Father of the Pitch (Abou Kir), 134

Abú Sír (corruption of Pousiri = Busiris), 134

Abú Sirhán = wolf, 104

Acquittance of all possible claims after business transactions, 285

Ád and Thamúd (pre-historic tribes), 174

Adab = scholarship, 41

Ádamí = an Adamite (opposed to Jinn), 169

Adím al-Zauk = lack-tact, 206

Admiral (fishing for the King’s table), 159

Adultery (son of = base born), 331

Af’à = ὄφις (a snake), 37

Ahd (Al-) wa al-Misák = oath and covenant, 327

Ahmad bin Abí Duwád (High Chancellor to the Abbasides), 244

“Aidance from Allah and victory are near”, 317

Akásirah = Chosroës-Kings, 323

Akl al-Hishmah = eating decorously, 337

Akka = Acre, 19

Alà júdi-k = to thy generosity, 150; 208

Alà mahlak = at thy leisure, 168

All will not be save well = it will be the worse for him, 293

Allah (will make no way for the Infidels over the True Believers), 16

—— (I seek refuge with), 35

—— (he was jealous for Almighty), 104

—— (I fear Him in respect of = I am governed by Him in my dealings with), 123

—— (pardon thee, showing that the speaker does not believe in another’s tale), 154

—— (the Provider), 166

—— (for the love of), 170

—— (Karím = God is bountiful), 167

—— (grant thee grace = pardon thee), 283

—— (yastura-k = will veil thee), 309

—— (sole Scient of the hidden things be extolled), 311

—— (raised the heavens without columns), 324

Almás = Gr. Adamas, 325

Aloes (well appreciated in Eastern medicine), 100

—— (the finest used for making Nadd), 150

’Amal = action, operation (applied to drugs etc.), 274

Ámín (Amen) = So it be!, 131

Ammá laka au ’alayka = either to thee (the gain) or upon thee (the loss), 11

Amr (Al) = command, matter, affair, 67

Analphabetic Amirs, 126

Angels (taking precedence in the order of created beings), 81

Animals (have no fear of man), 181

352Ants (a destructive power in tropic climates), 46

Anyáb (pl. of Náb) = grinder teeth, 140

A’ráb = dwellers in the Desert, 293

’Arísh (Al-) frontier town between Egypt and Palestine, 286

’Aríshah = arbour, etc., 219

Arithmology (cumbrous in Arabic for the lack of the higher numerals), 123

Ásár = traces, 255

A-Sharíf anta = art thou a noble?, 231

’Atsah = sneezing, 220

’Aúj = Persian town Kúch (?), 347

Awák = pl. of Ukíyyah q.v., 216

’Awáshik = hucklebones, cockles, 268

Az’ar = having thin hair; tailless, 185

Azím (in the slang sense of “mighty fine”), 40

Azíz (Al-) al-Mizr = Magnifico of Misraim, 119

Báb = gate, etc. (sometimes for a sepulchral cave), 286

Badlat Kunúzíyah = treasure-suit, 331

Baghdád of Nullity (opposed to the Ubiquity of the World), 13

Bahá al-Dín ibn Shaddád (Judge Advocate General under Saladin), 23

Bahímah = black cattle, 71

Bakhkharaní = he incensed me, 238

Bakhshish (to make a bath-man’s mouth water), 151

Bartaut = Berthold, 8

Basmalah = saying, Bismilláh, 1

Batárikh = roe, spawn, 139

Bath (setting it a-working = turning on the water), 149

Belle fourchette (greatly respected), 219

Bilking (popular form of), 145

Bishr Barefoot (Sufi ascetic), 21

Breslau edition quoted, 33; 42; 59; 63; 156; 159; 169; 185; 187

Brethren (for kinsfolk), 26

—— (of trust and brethren of society = friends and acquaintances), 75

Bunn = kind of cake, 72

Buffalo = bœuf à l’eau (?), 181

Bulak ed. quoted, 185

Burning (a foretaste of Hell-fire), 158

Caliphs:— Mu’tazid (Al-), 229 Mutawakkil (Al-), 232 Mu’tasim (Al-), ib.

Carelessness of the story-teller, 4

Carpet (let him come to the King’s = before the King as referee), 110

Carpet-room = Throne-room, 121

Citadel (contains the Palace), 102

“Cloth” (not “board” for playing chess), 209

Clothing and decency, 182

Clout (hung over the door of a bath shows that women are bathing), 153

Coffee (mention of probably due to the scribe), 141

—— (its mention shows a comparatively late date), 255

“Come to my arms, my slight acquaintance”, 177

Conciseness (verging on obscurity), 171

Confusion (universal in the undeveloped mind of man), 78

Contrast (artful, between squalor and gorgeousness), 170

Cousin (has a prior right to marry a cousin), 225

Cowardice of the Fellah (how to be cured), 5

Craft (many names for, connected with Arabic), 138

Creation from nothing, 77

Crescent of the breakfast-fête, 250

Cruelty (the mystery of explained only by a Law without a Law-giver), 37

Curtain (screens a reverend woman from the sight of men-invalids), 347

Dáirah = circle, inclosure, 287

—— (for a basin surrounded by hills), 317

Dandán (monstrous fish), 179

Dárfíl = dolphin, 346

Dawá = medicine (for a depilatory), 155

Dawát = wooden inkcase with reed-pens, 122

Day (when wealth availeth not), 16

—— (ye shall be saved from its misery), 215

Dayyús = pimp, wittol, 297

353Debts (of dead parents sacred to the children), 311

Delicacy of the female skin, 321

Democracy of despotism, 94

Devil (allowed to go about the world and seduce mankind), 82

Diamond (its cutting of very ancient date), 325

Diaphoresis (a sign of the abatement of a disease), 146

Dín al-a’raj = the perverted faith, 11

Dinár = denarius (description of one), 294

Díván (fanciful origin of the word), 108

Don Juan quoted, 190

Drowning (a martyr’s death), 158

Dukhán = smoke (meaning tobacco for the Chibouk), 156

Dúláb = waterwheel; buttery; cupboard, 306

Durbar of idols, 325

Duwámah = whirlpool, 93

Egypt (derivation of the name), 286

Elliptical style of the Eastern story-teller, 160

Emirs (of the wild Arabs = Phylarchs), 322

Emma (hides her lover under her cloak), 8

Epistasis without prostasis, 240

Euphemistic speech, 180; 224

Euphuistic speech, 43

Euthanasia and anæsthetics, 90

“Eye of the needle” (for wicket-door), 320

Eyes (no male has ever filled mine = none has pleased me), 222

Fakír (the, and his jar of butter; congeners of the tale), 40

Farz (mentioned after Sunnah because jingling with Arz), 15

Fasyán Salh al-Subyán (Pr. N.) = Fizzle, Dung of Children, 11

Faswah = susurrus, 291

Fatalism and predestination, 45

Fate and Freewill, 80

Fath (Al-) bin Khakán (boon companion), 245

Fátihah (pronounced to make an agreement binding), 138

Fellah = peasant, husbandman, 40

Fellah chaff, 152

Fingers (names of), 160

Finján = egg-shell cup for coffee, 268

Firdaus = Paradise, 214

Fire = Hell (home of suicides), 25

“Forcible eateth feeble”, 179

Fore-arm (for proficiency), 306

Freedom (granted to a slave for the sake of reward from Allah), 243

Fumigations (to exorcise demons, etc.), 29

Furát = Euphrates (derivation of the name), 17

Futúr = breakfast, 307

Fuzayl bin ’Iyáz (Sufi ascetic), 21

Gate (of war opened), 9

Gates (of Heaven are open), 221

—— (shut during Friday devotion), 259

Ghaliyún = galleon, 138

Ghazálah = gazelle (a slave-girl’s name), 209

Ghayb (Al-) = secret purpose; future, 314

Ghazá-wood, 27

Ghull = iron collar, 333

Ghúls (whose bellies none may fill but Allah), 152

Ghurbah (Al-) Kurbah = “Travel is Travail”, 257

Gift (is for him who is present), 225

Godiva (an Arabic of the wrong sort), 261

Good news, Inshallah = is all right with thee?, 224

Gourd (Ar. Hanzal), 165

Grammatical double entendre, 272

Green garb (distinguishing mark of Al-Khizr), 324

Guadalajara = Wady al-Khar (of dung), 10

Habíbí wa tabíbí = my love and leach, 299

Halímah = the mild, the gentle (fem.), 265

Halummú = draw near (plur.), 44

Hamadán (town in Persian Irák), 212

Hamíd (fem. Hamídah) = praiseworthy, satisfactory, 76

Hanzal = gourd, 165

Harámí = one who lives on unlawful gains, 147

354Harf al-Jarr = particle governing the oblique case, mode of thrusting, tumbling, 272

Hark, you shall see, 14

Harún al-Rashíd (as a poet), 17

—— (said to have prayed every day a hundred bows), 339

Háshimí = descendant of Háshim, 24

Hattín (battle of), 19

Háwí = Serpent-charmer, 56

Hazár Afsáneh (tales from the), 32

Hind (Al-) al-Aksà = Outer Hind or India, 116

Honey (simile for the delights of the World), 64

House (the Holy of Allah = Ka’abah), 178

Hulwán al-miftáh = denier à Dieu, 212

Huwayná (Al-) = now drawing near and now moving away, 250

Iblís = Diabolos, 300

Ibn Hamdún (transmitter of poetry and history), 229

Ibn ’Irs = weasel, 114

Ibrahím of Mosul, 304

’Irk = root, also sprig, twig, 251

Ishk ’uzrí (in the sense of platonic love), 250

Istahi = have some shame, 255

Istitá’ah = ableness, 80

—— (= freewill), 83

Jabábirah (pl. of Jabbár = giants), 109

—— (= conquerors), 323

Jabal = mountain (for mountainous island), 315

Jáh = high station, dignity, 174

Jahábizah (pl. of Jahbiz) = acute, intelligent, 62

Jalálikah = Gallicians, 156

Janázir (for Zanájir) = chains, 309

Jannat al-Khuld = the Eternal Garden, 214

Jawásís (pl. of Jásús) = spies (for secret police), 13

Jilbáb = gown, 290

Junayd al-Baghdádí (Sufi ascetic), 21

Kabasa = he shampoo’d, 213

Kádús (pl. Kawádís) = pot of a water-wheel, 218

Kaff Shurayk = a single “Bunn” q.v., 172

Kahramánah = duenna etc., 221

Kahwah (Al-) = coffee-house, 256

Kallim al-Sultán (formula of summoning), 224

Kamar al-Zamán = Moon of the Age, 247

Kanz = enchanted treasure, 320

Kaptán = Captain, 139

Kárah = budget, large bag, 216

Karkh (Al-), quarter of Baghdád, 313

Kasab (Al-) = acquisitiveness, 80

Kasídahs (their conventionalism), 250

Kasr = upper room, 283

Kaukab al-Saláh = Star of the morning, 301

Kaun = being, existence, 63

Khádim = eunuch, 237

Khadiv (not Kedive), Prince, 119

Khafz al-Jináh = lowering the wing (demeaning oneself gently), 33

Kháliyah (pun on), 291

Khara al-Sús = Weevil’s dung, 10

Khatt Sharíf = noble letter, 309

Khayr wa’Áfiyah = well and in good ease, 94

Khinsir = little (or middle) finger, 160

Khitáb = exordium, 126

Khizánah (Al-) = treasury, 22

Kidrah = pot, kettle, lamp-globe, 320

Killing (of an unfaithful wife commended by public opinion), 297

Kimkháb = brocade, 221

Kitáb al-Kazá = book of law-cases, 110

Koran quoted (ix. 33), 15

—— (xxvi. 88, 89; iv. 140), 16

—— (lvii. 88), 33

—— (lxxxi. 40), 59

—— (xii. 28), 119

—— (xl. 36; lxvii. 14; lxxiv. 39; lxxviii. 69; lxxxviii. 17), 166

—— (cviii. 3), 185

—— (xxiv.), 316

—— (cx. 1), 317

—— (xxxvi. 55–58), 322

—— (li. 18–19), 324

Kundur = frankincense, 7

Kurdús = body of horse, 111

Kutr Misr = tract of Egypt, 286

La’alla = haply, belike; forsure, certainly, 49

355Lá baas = no harm is (yet) done, 102

Lá rajma ghaybin = without stone-throwing of secrecy, 1

Lá tankati’í = sever not thyself from us, 245

Láit = one acting like the tribe of Lot, sodomite, 253

Lajlaj = rolling in the mouth, stammering, 322

Lane quoted, 32; 33; 146; 168; 170; 171; 182; 221; 222; 224; 226; 229; 246; 291; 304; 307

Láwandiyah (Al-) = Levantines, 275

Laylat al-Kábilah = to-night, 271

Lázuward = Ultramarine, 190

Legs (shall be bared on a certain day), 253

Lie (only degrading if told for fear of telling the truth), 87

—— (simulating truth), 223

Lieu d’aisance (in Eastern crafts), 332

Light (of salvation shining from the face of Prophets), 324

Lijám shadíd = sharp bit, 70

Loathing of prohibition, 279

Lot (this is ours = I have been lucky and will share with you), 328

Lúlúah = Union-pearl; wild cow, 218

Luss = thief, robber, 106

Lymph (alluding to the “Neptunist” doctrine), 77

Má Dáhiyatak = What is thy misfortune?, 137

Mahdí (Al-), Caliph, 334

Má kahara-ní = none vexeth (or has overcome) me, 156

Maghrib (al-Aksà) = the land of the setting sun, 50

Mahall al-Zauk = seat of taste, sensorium, 83

Mahr = dowry (mode of its payment), 32

Maintenance (of a divorced woman during ’Iddah), 32

Male children (as much praised as riches), 316

Malik (Al-) al-Násir (Sultan Saladin), 19

Malocchio or Gettatura (evil eye), 247

Man (created after God’s likeness), 79

—— (I am one of them = never mind my name), 238

—— (of the people of Allah = a Religious), 51

—— (his wrong is from the tongue), 309

Mankind (superior to the Jinn), 339

Mansúr (Pr. N.) = triumphant, 310

Ma’rifah = article, 272

Martyrdom of the drowned, 340

Massacre (the grand moyen of Eastern state-craft), 110

Matárik (pl. of Mitrak) = targes, 225

Matta’aka ’lláh = Allah permit thee to enjoy, 125

Maulid = nativity, 289

Mausúl (Al-) = the conjoined (for relative pronoun or particle), 272

Meniver = menu vair (Mus lemmus), 312

Menstruous discharge (made use of as a poison), 101

Mer-folk (refined with the Greeks, grotesques with other nations), 169

Messiah (made a liar by miscreants), 15

Mi’lakah = spoon, 141

Miracles (growing apace in the East), 336

Mishannah = old gunny-bag, 171

Miskál = about three penny weights, 262

Mohammed (sent with the guidance and True Faith), 15

Money (let lying with the folk = not dunned for), 311

Moon (taking in hand the star = girl handing round the cups), 192

Moslem (on a journey, tries to bear with him a new suit of clothes for the festivals and Friday service), 51

—— (bound to discharge the debts of his dead parents), 311

—— (doctrine ignores the dictum “ex nihilo nihil”), 63

Moslems (deal kindly with religious mendicants), 51

—— (not ashamed of sensual appetite), 84

—— (bound to abate scandals amongst neighbours), 98

—— (husbands among them divided into three classes), 263

Mourning (normal term of forty days), 311

Mubárak = blessed (a favourite slave-name), 58

Mubárakah = the blessed (fem.), 330

Muhárabah = doing battle, 92

Munázarah = dispute, 243

Munázirah = like (fem.), ib.

Munkar and Nákir, 163

356Musáfahah = joining hands, 342

Music (forbidden by Mohammed), 31

Musta’ín bi ’lláh (Caliph), 246

Mu’tasím (Al-) bi ’lláh (Caliph), 232

Mutawakkil (Al-) ’alà ’lláh (Caliph), ib.

Mu’tazid (Al-) bi ’lláh (Caliph), 229

Mu’tazz (Al-) bi ’lláh (Caliph), 242

Muunah = provender, 104

Nabí = prophet, 178

Nafakah = sum necessary for the expenses of pilgrimage, 178

Naïveté (of the Horatian kind), 215

Najis = ceremonially impure, 337

Nákisátu ’aklin wa dín = failing in wit and faith, 298

Nakkár = Pecker (a fabulous fish), 184

Names (approved by Allah), 165

Napoleonic pose (attitude assumed by a slave), 320

Násik = a devotee, 40

Násir (Pr. N.) = triumphing, 310

Naysábúr (town in Khorasan), 230

Nemo repente fuit turpissimus (not believed in by Easterns), 91

Nílah = indigo, dye-stuff, 144

New moon of the Festival = Crescent of the breakfast, 249; 250

Nimr = leopard, 63

Níyah (Al-) = ceremonial intention of prayer, 254

Nukl = quatre mendiants, dessert, 177; 213

Nusf = half-dirham, 139; 167

Nusk = piety, abstinence from women, 243

“Off-with-his-head” style (not to be taken literally), 308

Omar-i-Khayyám (astronomer-poet), 230

Othello (even he does not kill Emilia), 300

Paradise (of the Moslem not wholly sensual), 322

Parent (ticklish on the Pundonor), 288

Pay-chest (of a Hammám-bath), 152

Payne quoted, 22; 28; 79; 84; 86; 89; 171; 212; 224; 226; 227; 250; 251; 265; 268; 282; 290

Pearls (resting on the sand-bank), 164

People of His affection = those who deserve His love, 82

Persians (delighting in practical jokes), 177

Petrified folk, 318

Pilgrimage quoted

—— (i. 9), 50

—— (i. 235), 51

—— (iii. 66), 81

—— (i. 20), 165

—— (ii. 285–287), 175

—— (iii. 224, 256), 178

—— (i. 99), 262

—— (ii. 48), 307

—— (i. 314), 315

Pilgrims (offcast of the = a broken down pilgrim left to die on the road), 290

Poisons in the East, 101

Policeman (called in, a severe punishment in the East), 137

Poltroon (contrasted with a female tiger lamb), 224

Potter (simile of the), 77

Power (whoso has it and spareth for Allah’s reward he prepareth), 340

Praying against (polite form of cursing), 293

Presence (I am in thy = thy slave to slay or pardon), 124

Price (without abatement = without abstracting a large bakhshish), 152

—— (shall remain), 262

Priest hidden within an image (may date from the days of Memnon), 324

Prince (of a people is their servant), 99

Prison (in the King’s Palace), 52

Pun, 278; 287

Question (expressing emphatic assertion), 182

Rahan = pledge, 311

Rank (thine is with me such as thou couldst wish = I esteem thee as thou deservest), 41

—— (conferred by a Sovereign’s addressing a person with a title), 119

Rás al-Killaut = head of Killaut (a son of the sons of the Jinn), 8

Ridding the sea of its rubbish, 169

River (the, = Tigris-Euphrates), 313

357Robbing (to keep life and body together an acceptable plea), 137

Rúh = spirit, breath of life, 67

Ruh = be off!, 168

Sa’ádah = worldly prosperity and future happiness, 327

Sabaka = he outraced, 111

Sabíyah = young lady, 226

Sabr = patience; aloes (pun on), 278

Safínah = (Noah’s) Ark, 310

Sáhil (Al-) = the coast (Phœnicia), 22

Sahm mush’ab = forked (not barbed) arrow, 48

Sa’ídah = the auspicious (fem.), 330

Sáki and Sákí, 253

Sákin = quiescent (applied to a closing wound), 255

Sákiyah = water-wheel, 218

Sa’lab = fox, 48; 103

Sálihiyah = the Holy (name of a town), 287

Sallah = basket of wickerwork, 56

Salutation (from a rider to a man on foot and from the latter to one sitting), 1

Saluting after prayer, 254

Samn = clarified butter, 39

Sanájik = banners, ensigns, &c., 290

Sand (knowing from the = geomancy), 117

Saráwíl = bag-trousers (plural or singular), 225

Sardáb = souterrain, 241

—— (tunnel), 274

Sarí al-Sakatí (Sufi ascetic), 21

Sawáhílí = shore-men, 22

Sáyih = wanderer (not “pilgrim”), 51

Scoundrels (described with superior glee), 135

Sea (striking out sparks), 314

Seclusion (royal, and its consequences), 91

Secrets of workmanship (withheld from Apprentices), 263

Seeing sweetness of speech = finding it out in converse, 14

Sha’r = hair of the body, pile, 157

Shaving (process of), 139

Shaykh (after the type of Abú Nowás), 251

—— (for syndic of a Guild), 260

—— (al-Islam = chief of the Olema), 289

Shaykhah Rájihah = the excellent Religious, 347

Shíraj = sesame oil, 184

Shop (front-shelf of, a seat for visitors), 262

Shujá’ al-Dín (Pr. N.) = the Brave of the Faith, 18

Shukkah = piece of cloth, 236

Sidillah = seats, furniture, 190

Signs (language of), 269

Silah = conjunctive sentence; coition, 272

Sin (permitted that man might repent), 83

—— (thy shall be on thine own neck), 211

Singing (not harám = sinful, but makrúh = objectionable), 245

Sírah = minnow, sprat, 166

Skin (free from exudation sounds louder under the clapping of the hand), 150

—— (extreme delicacy of the female), 321

Slave-girl (free, not forward in her address), 268

—— (lewd and treacherous by birth), 280

—— (to be sent as a spy into the Harims), 292

Sneezing (etiquette of), 220

Sons (brought as servants unto Kings), 43

“Soul” (for lover), 25

Spider-web frailest of houses (Koranic), 59

Spiritualism (the religion of the nineteenth century), 86

Spoon (Ar. Mi’lakah), 141

Steward (pendent to the parable of the unjust), 66

Style (intended to be worthy of a statesman), 42

Su’bán = dragon, 277

Submission (Ar. Khafz al-Jináh = lowering the wings), 74

Sufrah = cloth or leather upon which food is placed, 141

Sunan (used for Rasm = usage, customs), 74

Sur’itu = I was possessed of a Jinn, 27

Suwán = Syenite, 316

Suways (Suez) = little weevil, or “little Sús”, 10

Swevens (an they but prove true), 284

Taakhír = acting with deliberation, 328

Ta’álík = hanging lamps, 320

Tail (wagging of, a sign of anger with felidæ), 72

358Táj Kisrawí = Chosroan crown, 319

Tájir Alfí = a merchant worth a thousand (left indefinite), 313

Takhmísh = tearing the face in grief, 190

Taksím = distribution, analysis, 77

Tanwín al-Izáfah = the nunnation in construction, 272

Taríkah = musical mode, modulation, 27

Taubah (Bi al-) = by means or on account of penitence, 83

Thongs (of the waterskins cut, preparatory to departure), 302

Three hundred and three score rooms = one for each day of the Moslem year, 61

Three things (not to be praised before death), 39

Threshold (marble one in sign of honour), 238

Tibn = bruised straw, 106

Timbák (Tumbák) = stronger variety of Tobacco, 136

Time (distribution of), 71

Title (used by a Sovereign in addressing a person confers the rank), 119

Tobacco (its mention inserted by some scribe), 136

Too much for him (to come by lawfully), 174

Torrens quoted, 278

Toutes putes, 298

Trafalgar = Taraf al-Gharb (edge of the West), 50

Translators (should be “bould”), 224

Treasure (resembling one from which the talismans have been loosed), 287

Trébutien quoted, 33, 63

Tribe (the misfortune of one fortuneth another), 342

Truth (told so as to be more deceptive than a lie), 223

Tuning (peculiar fashion of Arab musicians with regard to it), 27

Turbands (inclining from the head-tops), 221

Turkey (Future of), 94

Turks (forming the body-guard of the Abbasides), 245

Tuwuffiya = he was received (into the grace of God), 54

Ubullah (canal leading from Bassorah to Ubullah-town), 31

Udm = “kitchen”, 213

Ukáb al-Kásir = the breaker eagle, 69

Úkiyyah (pl. Awák) = ounce, 216

Umm al-banát wa’l-banín = mother of daughters and sons, 175

Umm al-Su’úd (Pr. N.) = Mother of Prosperities, 173

’Ummál (pl. of ’Ámil = governor), 26

“Unbernfen”, 180

’Unnábí = between dark yellow and red (jujube-colour), 143

’Urb = Arabs of pure race, 293

Usúl = forbears, ancestors, 246

Veiling her honour = saving her from being ravished, 330

“Vigilance Committees” (for abating scandals), 98

Visit (confers a blessing in polite parlance), 185

Visits (should not be over-frequent), 273

Wa = and (introducing a parenthetic speech), 282

Walhán (Al-), no Pr. N., 6

Walí ’ahd = heir presumptive, 87

Wartah = precipice, quagmire, etc., 81

Wásit = middle (town of Irák ’Arabí), 26

Weal (I see naught but), 180

Weeping (over dead friends), 187

Wicket (small doorway at the side of a gate), 320

Wife (contrast between vicious servile and virtuous of noble birth), 302

Wird (Pers.) = pupil, disciple, 61

Wittol (pictured with driest Arab humour), 269

Women (to be respected by the King), 73

—— (“great is their malice”), 119

—— (a case of hard lines for them), 134

—— (their marrying a second time reckoned disgraceful), 246

—— (the sin lieth with them), 297

—— (fail in wit and faith), 298

—— (practically only two ways of treating them), 303

—— (delicacy of their skin), 321

359Womankind (seven ages of), 175

Word (the creative “Kun”), 78

Yá abati = O dear father mine!, 88

—— ahmak = O fool!, 271

—— bunayyí = O dear my son!, 79

—— fulán = O certain person!, 324

—— fulánah = O certain person! (fem.), 270

—— jáhil = O ignorant!, 52

—— mauláya = O my lord!, 228

Yastaghíbúní = they take advantage of my absence, 224

Yathrib (old name of Al-Medinah), 177

Yes, Yes and No, No trifles, 250

Zaffú = they conducted her (in the sense of “they displayed her”), 245

Zaurá (Al-) = the bow (name of Baghdád), 13

Zaynab and Zayd (generic names for women and men), 250

Zí’ah = village, hamlet, farm, 27

Zirt = crepitus ventris, 291

Ziyárah = visiting the Prophet (’s tomb), 178

Zukhruf = glitter, tinsel, 86

Zur ghibban tazid hubban = call rarely that friendship last fairly, 273