The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 1 · Richard Francis Burton translation

Note 375
TALE OF NUR AL-DIN AND HIS SON.

This is the popular pronunciation: Yakút calls it "Bilbís."

ITS PLACE IN THE BOOK

…king with him some provaunt for the way, set out from Cairo and faced the open and uncultivated country lying around it. [FN#374] About noontide he entered Bilbays-city, [FN#375] where he dismounted and stayed awhile to rest himself and his mule and ate some of his victual. He bought at Bilbays all he wanted for himself and forage for his mule and then fared on the way of the waste. Towards night-fall he entered a town called …

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