Note 409 — KAMAR AL-ZAMAN AND THE JEWELLER’S WIFE.[375]
Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2
Arab. “Adím al-Zauk,” = without savour, applied to an insipid mannerless man as “bárid” (cold) is to a fool. “Ahl Zauk” is a man of pleasure, a voluptuary, a hedonist.