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The smiter with the evil eye is called “A’in” and the person smitten “Ma’ín” or “Ma’ún.”
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Notes to The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 1 — Page 10
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Arab. "Sákiyah," the well-known Persian wheel with pots and buckets attached to the tire. It is of many kinds, the boxed, etc., etc., and it is possibly alluded to in the "pitcher …
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Arab. "Zikr" lit. remembering, mentioning (i. c. the names of Allah), here refers to the meetings of religious for devotional exercises; the "Zikkirs," as they are called, mostly s…
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As they thought he had been there for prayer or penance.
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Arab. "Ziyárat," a visit to a pious person or place.
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This is a paternal salute in the East where they are particular about the part kissed. A witty and not unusually gross Persian book, called the "Al-Námah" because all questions beg…
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A weight of 71-72 English grains in gold; here equivalent to the diner.
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Compare the tale of The Three Crows in Gammer Grethel, Evening ix.
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The comparison is peculiarly apposite; the earth seen from above appears hollow with a raised rim.
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A hundred years old.
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"Bahr" in Arab. means sea, river, piece of water; hence the adjective is needed.
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The Captain or Master of the ship (not the owner). In Al-Yaman the word also means a "barber," in virtue of the root, Raas, a head.
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The text has "in the character Ruká'í,"," or Riká'í,, the correspondence-hand.
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A curved character supposed to be like the basil-leaf (rayhán). Richardson calls it "Rohani."
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I need hardly say that Easterns use a reed, a Calamus (Kalam applied only to the cut reed) for our quills and steel pens.
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Famous for being inscribed on the Kiswah (cover) of Mohammed's tomb; a large and more formal hand still used for engrossing and for mural inscriptions. Only seventy two varieties o…
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The copying and transcribing hand which is either Arabi or Ajami. A great discovery has been lately made which upsets all our old ideas of Cufic, etc. Mr. Löytved of Bayrut has fou…
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Capital and uncial letters; the hand in which the Ka'abah veil is inscribed (Pilgrimage iii. 299, 300).
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A "Court hand" says Mr. Payne (i. 112): I know nothing of it. Other hands are: the Ta'alík; hanging or oblique, used for finer MSS. and having, according to Richardson, "the same a…
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Arab. "Baghlah"; the male (Baghl) is used only for loads. This is everywhere the rule: nothing is more unmanageable than a restive "Macho", and he knows that he can always get you …
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In Heb. ""Ben-Adam" is any man opp. to "Beni ish" (Psalm iv. 3) =filii viri, not homines.
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This posture is terribly trying to European legs; and few white men (unless brought up to it) can squat for any time on their heels. The “tailor-fashion,” with crossed legs, is hel…
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Arab. "Katá"=Pterocles Alchata, the well-known sand-grouse of the desert. It is very poor white flesh.
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Arab. “Khubz” which I do not translate “cake” or “bread,” as that would suggest the idea of our loaf. The staff of life in the East is a thin flat circle of dough baked in the oven…
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