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The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 09 (of 10)

Note 179 — KING JALI’AD OF HIND AND HIS WAZIR SHIMAS; FOLLOWED BY THE HISTORY OF KING WIRD KHAN, SON OF KING JALI’AD, WITH HIS WOMEN AND WAZIRS.[55] (continued 3)

Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2

Arab. “Matta’aka ’llah” = Allah permit thee to enjoy, from the root mata’, whence cometh the Maroccan Matá’i = my, mine, which answers to Bitá’i in Egypt.

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