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

Note 87 — 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]

Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2

Arab “Ya jáhil,” lit. = O ignorant. The popular word is Ahmak which, however, in the West means a maniac, a madman, a Santon; “Bohlí” being = a fool.

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