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

Note 449
TALE OF NUR AL-DIN AND HIS SON.

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Arab. "Ibn harám," a common term of abuse; and not a factual reflection on the parent. I have heard a mother apply the term to her own son.

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… with us at this game except he tell us the names of his mamma and his papa; for he who knows not the names of his mother and his father is a bastard, a son of adultery, [FN#449] and he shall not play with us.'" When morning dawned the boys came to school, Ajib being one of them, and all flocked around him saying, "We will play a game wherein none can join save he can tell the name of his mamma and his papa." And they all crie…

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Note 449TALE OF NUR AL-DIN AND HIS SON.

Note 449
TALE OF NUR AL-DIN AND HIS SON.