Note 438 — KAMAR AL-ZAMAN AND THE JEWELLER’S WIFE.[375]
Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2
Arab. “Báb” which may also = “Chapter” or category. See vol. i., 136 and elsewhere (index). In Egypt “Báb” sometimes means a sepulchral cave hewn in a rock (plur. Bíbán) from the Coptic “Bíb.”