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Arab. "Nahs," a word of many meanings; a sinister aspect of the stars (as in Hebr. and Aram.) or, adjectivally, sinister, of ill-omen. Vulgarly it is used as the reverse of nice an…
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Notes to The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 1 — Page 26
698 notes in Richard Francis Burton translation. Follow a thought back to its place in the book.
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"Window-gardening," new in England, is an old practice in the East.
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Her pimping instinct at once revealed the case to her.
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The usual "pander-dodge" to get more money.
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The writer means that the old woman's account was all false, to increase apparent difficulties and pour se faire valoir.
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Arab. "Yá Khálati" =mother's sister; a familiar address to the old, as uncle or nuncle (father's brother) to a man. The Arabs also hold that as a girl resembles her mother so a boy…
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"Ay w' Alláhi," contracted popularly to Aywa, a word in every Moslem mouth and shunned by Christians because against orders Hebrew and Christian. The better educated Turks now esch…
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The "Muzayyin" or barber in the East brings his basin and budget under his arm: he is not content only to shave, he must scrape the forehead, trim the eyebrows, pass the blade ligh…
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Abdullah ibn Abbas was a cousin and a companion of the Apostle, also a well known Commentator on the Koran and conserver of the traditions of Mohammed.
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I have noticed the antiquity of this father of our sextant, a fragment of which was found in the Palace of Sennacherib. More concerning the "Arstable" (as Chaucer calls it) is give…
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Arab. "Simiyá" to rhyme with Kímiyá (alchemy proper). It is a subordinate branch of the Ilm al-Ruháni which I would translate "Spiritualism," and which is divided into two great br…
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Chap. iii., 128. See Sale (in loco) for the noble application of this text by the Imam Hasan, son of the Caliph Ali.
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These proverbs at once remind us of our old friend Sancho Panza and are equally true to nature in the mouth of the Arab and of the Spaniard.
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Our nurses always carry in the arms: Arabs place the children astraddle upon the hip and when older on the shoulder.
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Eastern clothes allow this biblical display of sorrow and vexation, which with our European garb would look absurd: we must satisfy ourselves with maltreating our hats
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Koran xlviii., 8. It may be observed that according to the Ahádis (sayings of the Prophet) and the Sunnat (sayings and doings of Mahommed), all the hair should be allowed to grow o…
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Meats are rarely coloured in modern days; but Persian cooks are great adepts in staining rice for the "Puláo (which we call after its Turkish corruption "pilaff"): it sometimes app…
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As I have noticed, this is a mixture.
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We say:— Tis rare the father in the son we see: He sometimes rises in the third degree.
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Arab. "Ballán" i.e. the body-servant: "Ballánah" is a tire-woman.
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Arab. "Darabukkah" a drum made of wood or earthen-ware (Lane, M. E., xviii.), and used by all in Egypt.
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Arab. "Naihah" more generally "Naddábah" Lat. præfica or carina, a hired mourner, the Irish "Keener" at the conclamatio or coronach, where the Hullabaloo, Hulululu or Ululoo showed…
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These doggerels, which are like our street melodies, are now forgotten and others have taken their place. A few years ago one often heard, "Dus ya lalli" (Tread, O my joy) and "Náz…
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Arab. Khalí'a = worn out, crafty, an outlaw; used like Span. "Perdido."
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