Note 452 — KAMAR AL-ZAMAN AND THE JEWELLER’S WIFE.[375] (continued 2)
Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2
Note the difference between “Zirt,” the loud crepitus and “Faswah” the susurrus which Captain Grose in his quaint “Lexicum Balatronicum,” calls a “fice” or a “foyse” (from the Arabic Fas, faswah?)