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

Note 623
Tale of the Tailor.

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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 the survivors' sorrow.

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'O Keener,[FN#623] O sweetheart, thou fallest not short'

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Note 623Tale of the Tailor.

Note 623
Tale of the Tailor.