Volume 10 — Appendix I. (continued 2)

343“Gallery” (speaking to the), viii. 128.

Gamin (faire le), iii. 304.

Garden (in the Prophet’s tomb at Al-Medinah), vii. 91.

—— (the Perfumed of the Cheikh Nefzaoui), x. 133.

Gardeners touchy on the point of mated visitors, ii. 22.

Gardens (with rivers flowing underneath, Koranic phrase), v. 356.

Gate (of war opened), ix. 9.

Gates (two to port towns), iii. 281.

—— (of Heaven are open), ix. 221.

—— (shut during Friday devotions from fear of “Sicilian Vespers”), ix. 259.

Gaw-i-Zamín = the Bull of the Earth, v. 324.

Gazelles’ blood red (dark red dye), x. 12.

Gems and their mines, vi. 18.

Genealogy (Arab, begins with Adnán), v. 100.

Generosity (an Arab’s ideal because the reverse of his nature), ii. 36.

—— (peculiar style of), vii. 323.

Geography in its bearings on morality, iii. 241.

Geomantic process, iii. 269.

German translations of The Nights, x. 112, seqq.

Ghábah = thicket, ii. 85; iv. 40.

Ghadir = a place where water sinks, low land, i. 233.

Ghadr = cheating, viii. 217.

Gháliyah (Al-) = older English Algallia, viii. 220.

Ghalyun = galleon, ix. 138.

Ghamz = winking, signing with the eyes, i. 292.

Ghandúr = a gallant, vii. 181.

Gharám (Pr. N.) = eagerness, desire, love-longing, iii. 172.

Gharámah = avanie, viii. 151.

Gharíb = foreigner, i. 95.

Ghashím = “Johnny Raw,” ii. 330.

Gháshiyah = étui, scabbard; sleeved cloak, iv. 131.

Ghatrafán (Pr. N.) = proud, petulant, v. 361.

Ghaut = Sarídah, q.v., v. 223.

Ghawási = singing girls, i. 214.

Ghaylúlah = slumbering in the morning, ii. 178.

Ghayúr = jealous (applies to Time), viii. 67.

Ghazá = Artemisia (a desert shrub), ii. 24; iii. 220; vi. 192; ix. 27.

Ghazálah = gazelle (a slave-girl’s name), ix. 209.

Ghazanfar ibn Kamkhíl = Lion son of (?), v. 363.

Ghayb (Al-) = secret purpose; future, ix. 314.

Ghazbán (N.P.) = an angry, violent man, ii. 125.

Ghází = fighter for the faith, ii. 240; viii. 211.

Ghazl al-banát (girls’ spinning) = vermicelli, i. 83.

Ghazwah = raid, foray, razzia, ii. 217.

Ghilmán = Wuldán, the beautiful youths of Paradise, i. 211.

—— (counterpart of the Houris), v. 64.

Ghimd (Ghamad) = scabbard, v. 158.

Ghoonj (Ghunj) = art of motitation in coition, v. 80.

Ghost (phantom = Tayf), iii. 252.

Ghúl = ogre, cannibal, vi. 36.

Ghúlah = ogress, i. 55.

Ghulámíyah = girl dressed like a boy to act cup-bearer, x. 39.

Ghull = iron collar, ix. 333.

Ghúls (whose bellies none may fill but Allah), ix. 152.

Ghuráb al-Bayn = raven of parting, iv. 52; vii. 226.

Ghuráb = galleon (grab), viii. 323.

Ghurbah (Al-) Kurbah = “Travel is Travail,” ix. 257.

Gurrah = blaze on a horse’s forehead, iii. 118; x. 40.

Ghusl = complete ablution, v. 80.

Ghusl al-Sihhah = washing of health, iii. 266.

Ghussah = calamity which chokes, wrath, ii. 147.

Ghútah = thickly grown lowland, i. 115.

Giants (arriving in Peru, probably the Caribs of the Brazil), x. 243.

“Gift (from me to” etc. = “I leave it to you, sir”), vii. 292.

—— (is for him who is present), ix. 225.

Giraffe, exceedingly timid, vii. 54.

—— unfit for riding, vii. 62.

Girding the Sovereign (found in the hieroglyphs), vii. 328.

344Girl (of nine plus five = in her prime), v. 192.

Give a man luck and throw him into the sea, iii. 341.

Glance compared with a Yamáni sword, ii. 127.

Gloom = black hair of youth, vii. 277.

Glooms gathering and full moons dawning, for hands and eyes, vii. 247.

Gloria (in = the Italian term for the venereal finish), viii. 329.

Glossarium eroticum, x. 221.

Gnostic absurdities, x. 191.

Goad (of the donkey-boy), iii. 116.

Godiva (an Arabic lady—of the wrong sort), ix. 261.

Going straight to the point preferred to filer le parfait amour, i. 268.

Gold (makes bold), i. 340.

—— (different names of, required by Arabic rhetoric), iv. 97.

—— (when he looked at it, his life seemed a light thing to him), vii. 240.

—— (liquid = Vino d’Oro), x. 40.

Gold-pieces (stuck on the cheeks of singing-girls, etc.), viii. 275.

Goody-goody preachments, iv. 187.

Gong (Ar. Mudawwarah), iv. 135.

Good news, Inshallah = is all right with thee?, ix. 224.

Gospel of Infancy, ii. 228.

Gossamer (names for), iii. 217.

Gourd (Ar. Hanzal), ix. 165.

Grammatical double entendres, ix. 272.

Grandfather’s name given familiarly, ii. 15.

Grapes (bunch of, weighing twenty pounds no exaggeration), vii. 358.

Grave (levelling slave and sovereign), iii. 323.

“Greatness belongeth to God alone” (used elliptically), vi. 288.

Green (colour of the Fatimite Caliphs), vi. 86.

Green gown (Anglo-Indicè = white ball-dress with blades of grass behind), viii. 32.

Green garb (distinguishing mark of Al-Khizr), ix. 324.

Greetings before the world, v. 34.

Grelots lascifs, x. 238.

Grim joke (showing elation of spirits), vii. 324.

Grimm’s “Household Tales” quoted, vi. 230.

Groom (falling in love with), viii. 345.

Ground (really kissed), vii. 257.

Ground-floor usually let for shops, i. 319.

Guadalajara = Wady al-Khara (of dung), ix. 10.

“Guebre” introduced by Lord Byron, viii. 8.

Guest-rite, vii. 121.

Gull-fairs, viii. 90.

Gypsies (their first appearance in Europe), x. 89.

Habáb (Habá) = motes, iv. 257.

Habash = Abyssinia and something more, v. 395.

Habb = grain of the heart, i. 250.

Habb al ’ubb (a woman’s ornament), vii. 205.

Habbániyah = grain-seller’s quarter, i. 269.

Habba-zá! = good this!, v. 52.

Habíb, euphemism for lover, i. 223.

Habíbí wa tabíbí = my love and leach, ix. 299.

Habitations (names given to them by the Arabs), viii. 229.

Habl = cord; cause, viii. 100.

Habzalam (Pr. N. = seed of tyranny; “Absalom”?), iv. 66.

Hadas = surmise, vii. 302.

Hadbá (the bulging bier), iv. 63.

Hádí (Al-), Caliph, v. 93.

Hadíd = iron, ii. 310.

Hadís = tradition of the Prophet, iv. 207; v. 201.

Hadís = saying of the Apostle, tradition, v. 201.

Háfiz (f. Háfizah) = 1. traditionist; 2. one who can recite the Koran by rote, vi. 195.

Háfiz quoted, viii. 120.

Hafsah (Caliph Omar’s daughter and wife of Mohammed), ii. 165.

Hafsites (Dynasty in Mauritania), ii. 165.

Hail (within sight of the Equator), vii. 336.

Hair (should be allowed all to grow or be shaven off), i. 308.

Hair-dyes (all vegetable matter), i. 326.

—— (Mohammed on), iv. 194.

Hair-strings (of black silk), iii. 311.

—— (significance of), iii. 313.

345Hájah = a needful thing (for something, somewhat), vii. 349.

Hajar-coinage, vii. 95.

Hajar Jahannam = hell-stone, lava, basalt, v. 378.

Hájib = groom, chamberlain, ii. 304; iii. 233.

Hajín (tall camel), iii. 67.

Hajj = Pilgrimage, v. 202.

Hájj (or Hájí, not Hajji), iv. 215.

Hajj al-Akbar and Hajj al-Asgar, ii. 169.

Hajjáj (Al-), bin Yúsuf, Governor of Al-Hijáz and Al-Irák, iv. 3; vii. 97.

Hajjám = barber-surgeon, cupper, bleeder, iv. 112.

Hákim = ruler, not to be confounded with Hakím, doctor, etc., vii. 29.

Ha’kim (Al-) bi-amri ’llah (Caliph), iv. 296.

—— (not to be confounded with the Fatimite), v. 86.

Hakk (Al-) = the Truth (Allah), v. 284.

Hakk = right (Hakkí = mine), viii. 335.

Halab = Aleppo, i. 292.

Halabí Shalabí = the Aleppine is a fellow fine, v. 64.

Haláwah = sweetmeat, iv. 60; vii. 205.

Haláwat al-Salámah = sweetmeat for the returning of a friend, viii. 325.

Halfah-grass (Poa), ii. 18.

Halíb = fresh milk, vi. 201.

Halímah = the mild, gentle (fem.), ix. 265.

Haling by the hair a reminiscence of “marriage by capture,” viii. 40.

Hallaling, Anglo-Indian term for the Moslem rite of killing animals for food, vii. 9.

Halumma = bring! vii. 117.

Halummú = drew near (plur.), ix. 44.

Halwá = sweetmeats, ii. 47, 212.

Hamadán (town in Persian Mesopotamia), ix. 212.

Hámah (soul of a murdered man in form of a bird sprung from his head), iii. 293.

Hamáil = baldricks, v. 158.

Hamám = wood-pigeon, v. 49.

—— (al-Ayk) = culver of the copse, v. 49.

Hamath = Hightown, ii. 178.

Hamíd (fem. Hamidah) = praiseworthy, satisfactory, ix. 76.

Hammál al-Hatabi = one who carries fuel, vii. 59.

Hammám (going to the = convalescence), i. 288.

—— (ditto, showing that women’s courses are over), i. 286.

—— (hired for private parties), v. 63.

Hammám-bath (a luxury as well as necessity), iii. 19.

Hamzah (uncle of the Prophet), viii. 172.

Hanabát = “hanap” viii. 202.

Hanbal, see Ahmad bin Hanbal, ii. 204.

Hand (left, how used), iv. 129.

—— (white, symbol of generosity; black of niggardness), iv. 185.

—— (his for her), iv. 279.

—— (cut off in penalty for theft), viii. 164.

—— (cut off for striking a father), viii. 287.

Handfuls (the two), v. 207.

Handkerchief of dismissal, x. 47.

Hands (behind the back, posture of submission), iii. 218.

—— (stained in stripes like ring-rows of a chain armour), iii. 176.

—— (how held in reciting the Fátihah), v. 80.

—— (bitten in repentance), v. 191.

—— (their feel guides the physician), v. 220.

Hanien = pleasant to thee! after drinking, ii. 5.

Hanífah, see Abú Hanífah, ii. 207.

Hanút = tavern, booth, etc., v. 142.

Hanzal = gourd, v. 19; ix. 165.

Harámí = one who lives on unlawful gains, ix. 147.

Harbak = javelin, vii. 45.

Hard of heart and soft of sides, ii. 5.

Hardly he (equivalent for), vii. 333.

Harf = letter, syllable, ii. 307.

Harf al-Jarr = a particle governing the oblique case; mode of thrusting and tumbling, ix. 272.

Harím = Harem, used for the inmates, i. 165.

—— double entendre (= Harem and Honour), iv. 9.

—— (= wife), iv. 126.

—— (hot-bed of Sapphism and Tribadism), iv. 334.

Harírí (Al-), = the silk-man (poet), v. 158.

—— (lines quoted from), x. 44.

Harísah, a favourite dish, i. 131.

Harjáh = (a man of), any place, v. 27.

346Hark, you shall see, ix. 14.

Harrák (ship = Carrack?), iv. 130.

Harrákát = carracks (also used for cockboat), vii. 336.

Hárún al-Rashíd (described by Al-Siyúti), viii. 160.

—— (as a poet), ix. 17.

—— (said to have prayed every day a hundred bows), ix. 339.

—— (and Charlemagne), x. 135.

Hárút and Márút (sorcerer angels), iii. 217.

Harwalah = pas gymnastique, iii. 121.

Hasá (Al-) = plain of pebbles, west of Damascus, i. 234.

Hasab = quantity opposed to Nasab = birth, iv. 171.

Hasab wa nasab = inherited degree and acquired dignity, iv. 171; vii. 279.

Hasan al-Basri (theologian), ii. 165.

Hasan bin Sahl (Wazir of Al-Maamún), iv. 124.

Hasanta yá Hasan = bene detto, Benedetto!, i. 251.

Háshimí = descendant of Háshim (Mohammed’s great-grandfather), ix. 24.

—— cubit = 18 inches, v. 371.

—— vein, ii. 19.

Hashísh (intoxicant prepared of hemp), i. 225; iii. 91.

—— (orgie in London), iii. 91.

—— (said to him = his mind, under its influence, suggested to him), viii. 155.

Hashsháshún = assassins, iii. 91.

Hásib Karím al-Dín (Pr. N.), v. 298.

Hásid = an envier, iv. 137.

Hásil, Hásilah = cell, viii. 184, 196.

Hassún (diminutive of Hasan), viii. 81.

Haste ye to salvation, part of the Azán, i. 224.

Hátif = mysterious voice, i. 142.

Hatím = broken wall (at Meccah), vii. 219.

Hátim (Pr. N.) = black crow, vii. 350.

Hátim al-Asamm (the Deaf), ii. 207.

Hátim of Tayy (proverbial for liberality), iv. 94.

Hattín (battle of), ix. 19.

Haudaj (Hind. Howda) = camel-litter for women, viii. 235.

Hauk! Hauk! = hee haw! i. 221.

“Haunted” = inhabited by Jinns, v. 175.

Haurání towns (weird aspect of), vi. 102.

—— —— (their survival accounted for by some protracted drought), iv. 116.

Hawá al-Uzri = platonic love, ii. 304.

Hawar = intensity of black and white in the eyes, iii. 233.

Háwi = juggler playing tricks with snakes, iii. 145; ix. 56.

Háwiyah (name of a Hell), viii. 346.

Hawk, iii. 61, 138.

Hawwá = Eve, v. 139.

Hayát al-Nufús = Life of Souls, iii. 283.

Hayhát, onomatopoetic for lover, i. 76.

Haykal = temple, chapel, v. 192.

Hazár = (the bird of) a thousand (songs), v. 48.

Hazár Afsáneh (tales from the), ix. 32; x. 72, 93.

Házir and Bádí = townsman and nomad, iii. 234.

Hazramaut (Hazarmaveth), iv. 118; v. 136.

Hazrat = our mediæval “presentia vostra,” viii. 254.

Hazza-hu = he made it (the javelin) quiver, vii. 45.

“He” for “she” out of delicacy, ii. 179.

Head (must always be kept covered), iii. 275.

Head in the poke = into the noose, i. 179.

Head-kerchief (déshabillé), ii. 328.

Headsman delaying execution, iii. 42.

“Hearer” not “reader” addressed, viii. 316.

Heart (black drop in the), iv. 256.

—— (from one full of wrath = in spite of himself), v. 68.

Heart-ache (for stomach-ache = mal au cœur), vi. 194.

Heaven (Ar. Na’ím), iv. 143.

Heavens (names of the seven), viii. 111.

Hell (Sa’ír), iv. 143.

—— (cold as well as hot), iv. 253.

Hells (names of the seven and their intended inhabitants), viii. 111.

Hemistichs divided, iii. 166.

Henna-flower (its spermatic odour), vii. 250.

Herb (the insane), vi. 36.

Hermaphrodites (Ar. Khunsá), iii. 306.

Heroes and heroines of love-tales are bonnes fourchettes, vii. 300.

347Heroine of Eastern romance eats well, iii. 168.

Heroism of a doubtful character, viii. 27.

Hesperides (apples of the, probably golden nuggets), viii. 272.

Hetairesis and Sotadism (the heresies of love), x. 215.

Hibá = cords, garters, ii. 236.

Hibál = ropes, iv. 193.

High-bosomed damsel a favourite with Arab tale-tellers, i. 84.

Hijáz (Al-) = Moslem Holy Land, ii. 306.

Hijl = partridge, iii. 138.

“Him” for “her,” iii. 78.

Himà = guarded side, demesne, viii. 102, 225.

Himalayan brothers, ii. 211, 260.

Hind (Al-) al-Aksà = Outer Hind or India, ix. 116.

Hind bint Asmá and the poet Jarír, vii. 96.

Hindí = Indian Moslem opposed to Hindú, v. 1.

Hindibà = endive, v. 226.

Hinges (of ancient doors), iii. 41.

Hippic syphilis, x. 90.

Hippopotamus, vi. 33.

Hips (their volume admired), ii. 285.

—— (leanness of, “anti-pathetic” to Easterns), iii. 226.

Hírah (Christian city in Mesopotamia), v. 124.

Hirakl (monastery of), v. 138.

“His” for “her,” viii. 50.

Hisham bin Abd al-Malik (Caliph), ii. 170; vii. 104.

Hishám ibn Orwah (traditionist), v. 81.

Hisn al-Fákihat = Fortalice of Fruits, vii. 75.

Hiss = (sensual) perception, vii. 302.

Hizám = girdle, viii. 160; x. 36.

Hizb = section of the Koran, v. 217.

Hobbling a camel (how done), vii. 119.

Hog, popular term of abuse, i. 188.

Holiness supposed to act as talisman, ii. 251.

Holy Writ (punned upon), viii. 348.

Homme acheté = de bonne famille, iv. 225.

Honayn (scene of one of Mohammed’s battles), v. 66.

Honey (of bees as distinguished from cane honey), v. 300.

—— (simile for the delights of the world), ix. 64.

“Honeymoon” (lasts a week), v. 62.

Honour amongst thieves, ii. 159.

Hoof (of the wild ass), iii. 235.

Horoscopes, etc., i. 213.

Horripilation = goose flesh, iii. 2.

Horse (names of), iii. 72.

Horse-stealing honourable, iii. 73.

Horseplay frequently ending in bastinado, i. 325.

Horses (not taught to leap), ii. 89.

—— (Arab breeds), v. 246.

Hosh = mean courts at Cairo, v. 170.

Hospitals hated, ii. 70.

Host (enters first as safeguard against guet-apens) iii. 208.

Hour (of Judgment), v. 235.

Houris, iii. 233.

House (haunted = inhabited by Jinns), v. 175.

—— (the Holy of Allah = Ka’abah), ix. 178.

House of Peace = Baghdad, i. 139.

“House of Sadness,” viii. 64.

House-breaking (four modes of), vi. 247.

Houses of Lamentation in Moslem burial-grounds, i. 94.

Housewife (looks to the main chance), viii. 144.

Hubb al-Watan = patriotism, ii. 183.

Hubkah = doubling of a woman’s waistcloth, vii. 180.

Hubúb (Pr. N.) = awaking; blowing hard, viii. 209.

Húd (prophet = Heber?), iv. 118.

Hudhud = hoopoe, iii. 128.

Hudúd al-Haram = bounds of the Holy Places, v. 148.

Hullah = dress, vii. 180.

Hulwán al-miftáh = dénier à Dieu, ix. 212.

Huwayná (Al-) = now drawing near and now moving away, ix. 250.

Humbly (expressed by “standing on their heads”), viii. 279.

Humility of the lovelorn Princess artfully contrasted with her previous furiosity, vii. 261.

Humming not a favourite practice with Moslems, i. 311.

Humours (of Hippocrates), v. 218.

348Hump-back (graphically described), viii. 297.

Hunchback looked upon with fear and aversion, i. 258.

Hunger (burns), ii. 144.

Hungry judges, “hanging judges,” ii. 198.

Húr, pl. = Houris, iii. 233.

Húr al-Ayn = with eyes of lively white and black, i. 90.

Hurák = tinder, iv. 108.

Hurr = gentleman, i. 254.

—— = free, noble, independent, opp. to ’Abd = servile, iii. 44.

Hurry is from Hell, i. 264.

—— (in a newly married couple indecent), iv. 244.

Hurúf al-mutabbakát = the flattened sounds, iv. 223.

Hút = great fish, vi. 69.

Hydropathic treatment of wounds held dangerous, v. 200.

Hymeneal blood resembles that of pigeon-poult, ii. 50.

Hypocrite (Ar. Munáfik), v. 207.

Hysterical Arab temperament, ii. 54, 101, 181.

Ibáziyah sect, vii. 125.

Iblís (diabolus) = Despairer, i. 13; iii. 22; ix. 300.

—— (Cherubim cherished by Allah), v. 319.

—— (cursed and expelled), v. 320.

Ibn Abbás (Companion), v. 212.

Ibn Abdún al-Andalúsí (poet), iii. 319.

Ibn Abí Anfa, ii. 200.

Ibn al-Kirnás = son of the chase (for Persian Kurnas = pimp, cuckold?), viii. 157.

Ibn al-’Ukáb (Pr. N.) = Son of the Eagle, viii. 198.

Ibn Hamdún (transmitter of poetry and history), ix. 229.

Ibn Harám = son of adultery, abuse not necessarily reflecting on the parent, i. 231.

Ibn ’Irs = weasel, ix. 114.

Ibn Muljam (murderer of the Caliph Ali), iii. 319.

Ibn Síná = Avicenna, iii. 34.

Ibráhím bin Adham, ii. 203.

Ibrahím bin al-Mahdí (Pretender to the Caliphate) iv. 103.

Ibrahim al-Mausilí, iv. 108; ix. 304.

Ibrat = needle graver and ’Ibrat = warning, a favourite jingle, i. 104.

Ibrík = ewer, and Tisht = basin, used for washing the hands, i. 241; vii. 146.

Ibrísam = raw silk, floss, vii. 352.

Ichneumon (mongoose), iii. 147.

Ichthyological marvels, vi. 33.

’Íd = festivals (the two of Al-Islám), viii. 142.

Id al-Kabír = the Great Festival, i. 28.

Iddat = months of a woman’s enforced celibacy after divorce, iii. 292.

—— (of widowhood), vi. 256; x. 43.

Ídgáh (place of prayer), ii. 202.

Ifrít, divided into two races like mankind, i. 11.

Ifrítah = she-Ifrit, i. 34.

Ihdak = encompassing, as the white encloses the black of the eye, i. 49.

Ihtiláj-námah = Book of palpitations, viii. 25.

Ihtilám = wet dream as a sign of puberty, vii. 183.

Ihtizáz = shaking with delight, i. 50.

I’itikáf (Al-) = retreat, v. 202.

Ijtilá = displaying of the bride on her wedding night, vii. 198.

Ikálat (Al-) = cancelling, “resiliation,” v. 204.

Ikh! Ikh! (cry to a camel to make it kneel down), ii. 139.

Ikhlás (Al-) = Chapter of Unity, iii. 307.

Ikhtiyán al Khutan = Khaitan (?), x. 9.

Ikhwán al-Safá = Brethren of Purity, iii. 150.

Iklíl = diadem, now obsolete, i. 270.

Iklím = the seven climates of Ptolemy, i. 233.

Iksah = plait, etc., vii. 150.

Iksír (Al-) = dry drug (from ξηρον), v. 315; viii. 9.

Ikyán = living gold, viii. 272, 275.

Iláh = God, v. 196.

Iláh al-Arsh = the God of the Empyrean, iii. 106.

Iliad and Pentaur’s Epic, vii. 362.

Ill is thy abiding place, iii. 137.

Ill-treatment (a plea for a lawful demand to be sold), viii. 55.

349Ilm al-Káf = K-science for Alchemy, v. 307.

Ilm al-Rúhání = Spiritualism, i. 305.

Images of living beings forbidden, v. 3.

—— (= statues), v. 223.

Imám = leader, antistes, ii. 203.

—— (the Seventh = Caliph al-Maamún), iv. 111.

—— (the fugleman at the prayer-niche), iv. 227.

Imámah = turband, iv. 100.

Imlik (great-grandson of Shem), vi. 264.

Improvising still common among the Badawin, i. 39.

Impudence (intended to be that of a captive Princess), viii. 295.

Impurity (ceremonial different from dirtiness), v. 209.

Imsák = retention (prolongatio veneris), v. 76.

Inadvertency of the tale-teller, viii. 141.

In’ásh = raising from the bier (a “pick-me-up”), v. 67.

Incest (lawful amongst ancient peoples), i. 110.

—— (repugnant to Moslem taste), ii. 172.

Inconsequence (of the Author of The Nights), iv. 155.

—— (characteristic of the Eastern Saga), vi. 61.

—— (of writer of The Nights), vi. 205.

Incuriousness of the Eastern story-teller vii. 57.

Index finger (Sháhid), ii. 300.

Indian realm, vii. 336.

Indrajál = white magic, v. 307.

Infidel should not be killed unless refusing to become a Moslem or a tributary, vii. 64.

Infirmity (and infirm letters), iv. 243.

Inheritance, law of, settled by the Koran, i. 174.

Inkcase (descendant of the wooden palette with writing reeds), viii. 178.

’Innín = impotence, viii. 317.

Innovation (Ar. Bida’ah), v. 167.

Insane (treatment of the), iii. 256.

Inscriptions (on trays, plates, etc.), iv. 235.

Inshád = conjuring by Allah, i. 11.

—— = reciting, improvising, ii. 126.

Inshallah (Allah willing) = D.V., iv. 286; viii. 104.

Inshallah bukrah = to-morrow D.V., ii. 324.

Insolence and licence of palace-girls, i. 286.

Insomnia (curious treatment of), iv. 229.

Insula (for peninsula), vi. 57.

Intellect of man stronger than a Jinní’s, i. 43.

Intention (of prayer, Niyat), v. 163, 196.

Intercession-doctrine disputed amongst Moslems, ii. 40; v. 241.

Internally wounded = sick at heart, i. 5.

Inverted speech (forms of), ii. 265; vi. 262; viii. 179.

Inwá = jerking the date-stone, i. 25.

Irádah = Sultan’s order, iv. 61.

Irák = level country beside river banks, ii. 132.

—— (etc., used always with the article), vi. 291.

—— (for Al-Irák in verse), vii. 20.

Iram (the many-columned), iv. 113; x. 29.

Irán = hearse; Moses’ ark, vii. 207.

Irdabb, see Ardabb.

Irishman (the typical, in Arab garb), viii. 191.

—— and his “convarter,” x. 3.

’Irk = root, also sprig, twig, ix. 251.

Iron (conjures away friends), ii. 316.

Iron padlock (instead of the usual wooden bolt), iii. 198.

Irony, iii. 291; iv. 271; viii. 3, 164.

Irreverence (Egyptian), iv. 47.

Isaak (Ishák) of Mosul, iv. 119.

Isbánír = Ctesiphon (?), vi. 279.

Isengrim (wolf), iii. 146.

Isfídáj = ceruse, vi. 126.

Ishá = the first watch of the night, i. 175.

Ishárah = signing, beckoning, vi. 109; viii. 233.

Ishk ’uzrí (in the sense of platonic love), vii. 121; ix. 250.

Ishmael (place of his sacrifice), iv. 75.

Ishtar-Ashtaroth (her worship not obsolete in Syria), x. 230.

Iskandar Zú al-Karnayn (= Alexander Matagrobolised), v. 252; x. 57.

Iskandaríyah = city of Alexander, viii. 289.

Island for land, viii. 317.

Ism al-A’azam = the Most Great Name of Allah, viii. 133.

350Ismid = (Ithmid) stibium (eye-powder), iii. 307.

Israfíl (blows the last trumpet), v. 310.

Istahi = have some shame, ix. 255.

Istikbál = coming forth to greet, ii. 287.

Istikhárah = praying for direction by omens, etc., v. 44.

Istinjá = washing the fundament after stool, iv. 129.

Istinsháh = snuffing water through the nostrils, v. 198.

Istitá’ah (= ableness), ix. 80.

—— (= freewill), ix. 83.

Ithmid (stibium antimone) = Sp. Althimod, ii. 103.

“I told you so” (even more common in East than West), iv. 69.

Italian Translations of The Nights, x. 114.

Izár = sheet worn as veil, i. 163; vi. 50.

J (How it came to take the place of Y in the English Bible), ii. 43.

Ja’afar contrasting strongly with his master, i. 102.

—— (mode of his death), iv. 159.

—— (his suspected heresy), x. 141.

—— (river or rivulet), iv. 292.

Ja’afar bin Musà al-Hádí (Caliph), v. 93.

Jabábirah = tyrants, giants, conquerors, vii. 84; ix. 109, 323.

Jabal = mountain (for mountainous island), ix. 315.

Jabal al-Ramun = Adam’s Peak, vi. 65.

Jabal al-Saklá (Thaklá) = mount of the woman bereft of children, v. 37.

Jabal al-Tárik = Gibraltar, iv. 100.

Jabal Mukattam (sea-cliff upon which Cairo is built), v. 383.

Jabal Núr, v. 215.

Jabarsá, the city of Japhet, vii. 40, 43.

Jabarti = Moslem Abyssinian, ii. 15.

Jábír Atharát al-Kirám = Repairer of the slips of the generous, vii. 100.

Jábir bin Abdallah (disciple of Mohammed), v. 215.

Jackal’s gall (used aphrodisiacally), x. 123.

Jacob’s daughters, iv. 14.

Jadíd = new (coin), copper, x. 12.

Jáh = high station, dignity, ix. 174.

Jahábiz pl. of Jahbaz = acute, intelligent, ix. 62.

Jahannam = Hell, v. 306, 318.

Jahárkas = Pers. Chehárkas, four persons, i. 266.

Jalájil = small bells for falcons, viii. 271.

Jalálah = saying “Jalla Jalálu-hu” = magnified be His Majesty, v. 217.

Jalálikah = Gallicians, ix. 156.

Jaland, not Julned, vii. 16.

Jalláb = slave dealer, iii. 340.

Jallábiyah = gaberdine, v. 265.

Jamá’at = community, v. 205.

Jamal (Gamal) = camel, iii. 110.

Jámi’ = cathedral mosque, v. 261.

Jámi’án = two cathedrals, v. 66.

Jamíl ibn Ma’amar (poet), ii. 102; vii. 117.

Jamíz (Jummayz) = sycamore fig, iii. 302.

Jamm = ocean, v. 93.

Janázah = bier with corpse, ii. 46.

Janázir for Zanájír = chains, ix. 309.

Jannat al-Khuld = the Eternal Garden, ix. 214.

Jannat al-Na’ím = The Garden of Delights, i.e. Heaven, i. 98; iii. 19.

Jánsháh (Pr. N.) = King of Life, v. 329; vii. 82.

Japhet (Ar. Yáfis or Yáfat), vii. 40.

—— his sword, vii. 41.

Jar (ridden by witches), viii. 131.

Jarír (poet), v. 148.

Jarm (Ar. Bárijah), vi. 24.

Jarrah = jar, viii. 177.

Jars for cooling water, ii. 21.

Jásalik (Al-) = Καθολικὸς, Primate, ii. 228.

Jauharah (Pr. N. = Jewel), vii. 307.

Jauz al-Hindi = cocoa-nut, vi. 55.

Jauzá = Gemini, x. 38.

Jauzar = Bubalus (Ariel), v. 130.

Javelines, vi. 263.

Jawáb-club, vi. 262.

Jawámard for Jawanmard = un giovane, a brave, vii. 17.

Jawán (Pr. N.) Pers. = a youth, juvenis, iv. 208.

Jawárí = slave-girls rhyming with dam’a jári = flowing tears, v. 160.

Jawarnah (Júrnah) = Zara, ii. 219.

Jawáshiyah = guards, viii. 330.

Jawásís, pl. of Jásús, = spies (for secret police), ix. 13.

Jáwish = apparitor, sergeant, royal messenger, ii. 49.

Jazírah = Peninsula, Arabia, i. 2; vii. 333.

351Jazírah (Al-) = Mesopotamia, vii. 100.

Jazírát al-Khalidát = Eternal Isles = Canaries, i. 141.

Jazirat ibn Omar (island and town on the Tigris), x. 40.

Jesus (bird of), v. 211.

—— (crucified in effigy), v. 238.

—— (compared with Adam), v. 238.

Jew (prefers dying on the floor, not in bed), v. 248.

—— (never your equal, either above or below you), viii. 153.

—— (marrying a Moslemah deserves no pity), viii. 262.

Jeweller (in Eastern tales generally a rascal), iii. 186.

Jews (adepts in magic), ii. 233.

Jihád = fighting for the Faith, iii. 39.

Jilá = displaying the bride before the bridegroom, i. 174.

Jíbbáb = habergeon, buff-jacket, gown, vii. 156; ix. 290.

Jink (Al-) = effeminates, x. 19.

Jinn = the French génie, the Hindu Rakshasa or Yaksha, i. 10.

Jinnís (names of), iii. 225.

Job (a Syrian), iv. 221.

Joining prayers, iii. 174.

Jokh = broadcloth, ii. 111.

Jokh al-Saklát = rich brocade on broadcloth, viii. 202.

Joseph of the Koran very different from him of Genesis, i. 13.

—— (and Potiphar’s wife), vi. 127.

“Joyance is three things,” etc., iv. 254.

Judad (for Judud) pl. of Jadíd = new coin, viii. 121.

Júdar (classical Arab name), vi. 213.

—— (and his brethren, version of a Gotha MS.), vi. 257.

Júdariyah (quarter of Cairo), vi. 254.

Judgment (hour of), v. 235.

Judri = small-pox, i. 256.

Jufún = eyebrows or eyelashes, iv. 260.

Juggling with heaven, viii. 168.

Jugular vein (from — to —), iv. 92.

Jujube-sherbet, ii. 317.

Julnár = Pers. Gul-i-anár (pomegranate flower), vii. 268.

Jum’ah = assembly (Friday), vi. 120, 190.

Jumblat (for Ján-pulád, Life o’ Steel, Pr. N.), vi. 115.

Jummár = palm-pith and cabbage, viii. 270.

Junayd al-Baghdádí (Sufi ascetic), ix. 21.

Junún = madness, i. 10.

Juráb mi’adat-hu (bag of his belly = scrotum), ii. 233.

Justice (poetical, not done), iv. 28.

—— (poetical in The Nights), vi. 255.

Juzám = (black) leprosy, iv. 51; v. 294; viii. 24.

Ka’ab al-Ahbár (of the Scribes, two of the name), iv. 115.

Ka’abah (Pilgrims clinging to its curtain), iv. 125.

Ká’ah = ground-floor hall, i. 85.

—— = fine house, mansion, i. 292.

—— (= messroom, barracks), vii. 167.

Ka’ak al ’Íd = buns (cake?), vii. 196.

Kaannahu huwa = as he (was), he, vii. 233.

Ka’b = heel, ankle, metaph. for fortune, vii. 177.

Kabáb (mutton or lamb grilled in small squares), vi. 225.

Kabasa = he shampoo’d, ix. 213.

Kabbát = saucers, viii. 12.

Kabbázah = a “holding woman,” iv. 127.

Kábul men noted for Sodomy, i. 299.

Kadisíyah (Al-) city in Irák, v. 294.

Kádús pl. Kawádís = pot of a waterwheel, ix. 218.

Káf, popularly = Caucasus, i. 72, 133.

Kaff Shurayk = a single “Bunn,” q.v., ix. 172.

Káfir = Infidel, Giaur, ii. 292.

Kafr = village (in Egypt and Syria), x. 27.

Káfs (verset of the three-and-twenty), v. 217.

Kafúr (Pr. N.) = Camphor, ii. 47.

Kafrà = desert place, viii. 337.

Kahánah (Al-) = the craft of a Káhin or soothsayer, i. 28.

Kahbah = whore, i. 70.

Kahíl = whose eyes are kohl’d by nature, iii. 346.

Kahílat al-Taraf = having the eyelids lined with kohl, i. 63.

Káhirah = City of Mars (Cairo), iv. 271.

Kahkahah = horse-laughter, i. 350.

Kahlá (fem.) = nature-kohl’d, iii. 232.

Kahramán (Pers.) = braves, heroes, iv. 115; vi. 257.

352Kahramánat = nursery governess, i. 231; ix. 221.

Kahtán (sons of), vi. 260.

Kahwah (Kihwah) = strong old wine, ii. 261.

—— (Al-), used for coffee-house, ix. 256.

Kahwajíyah = coffee-makers, v. 169.

Káid = leader, i. 330.

Ka’ka’at = jangling noise, vii. 21.

Kákilí = Sumatran (eagle-wood), x. 57.

Kala (island), vi. 47.

Kalak = raft, vii. 342.

Kalam = reed-pen, i. 128.

—— = leg-cut, ii. 107.

Kalám al-Mubáh = the permitted say, i. 29.

Kalám wáti = vulgarism, ii. 113.

Kalam-dán = reed-box (ink-case), iv. 167; v. 239.

Kalandar = mendicant monk, i. 94.

Kalandars (order of), x. 84.

Kallá = prorsus non, iv. 257.

Kalla-má = it is seldom, v. 150.

Kallim al-Sultán (formula of summoning), ix. 224.

Kámah = fathom, ii. 56.

Kamán = Kamá (as)-anna (that, since, because), viii. 197.

Kamar = belt, viii. 156.

Kamar al-Zamán (Pr. N.) = Moon of the Age, iii. 213; ix. 247.

Kamaráni (Al-) = the two moons for sun and moon, iii. 300.

Káma-Shástra (Ars Amoris Indica), iii. 93.

Kámat Alfiyyah = straight figure, i. 85; iii. 236.

Kámil wa Basít wa Wáfir = the names of three popular metres, viii. 91.

Kamín al-Bahrayn = lurking-place of the two seas, vii. 353.

Kamís = shift, etc., i. 293.

Kammir (Imp.) = brown (the bread), x. 14.

Kanát = subterranean water-course, iii. 141.

Kanjifah = pack of cards, v. 243.

Kánmákán (Pr. N.) = “was that which was,” ii. 280.

Kantar (quintal) = 98·99 lbs. avoir. ii. 233.

Kánún (dulcimer, “zither”), iii. 211.

Kánún = brasier, v. 272; vi. 5.

Kanz = enchanted treasure, ix. 320.

Kapoteshwara and Kapoteshí, iii. 126.

Kaptán = Capitano, iv. 85; ix. 139.

Kara Gyuz, see Khiyál.

Kárah = budget, large bag, ix. 216.

Karaj (town in Persian Irak), vii. 77.

Karawán = Charadrius œdicnemus, vi. 1.

Karbús = saddle-bow, viii. 77.

Kári = Koran-reader, v. 216.

Kárib (pl. Kawárib) = dinghy, iv. 168.

Karím = generous (cream of men), ii. 35.

Kárizán (Al-) = the two mimosa-gatherers, vii. 93.

Karkadán, etc. = rhinoceros, vi. 21.

Karkar (Carcer?), Sea of Al-, vi. 101.

Karkh (Al-), quarter of Baghdad, v. 127; ix. 313.

Karmút = Silurus Carmoth Niloticus, viii. 185.

Karr’aynan = keep thine eye cool, vii. 229.

Karrat azlá ’hu = his ribs felt cold (from hearty eating), viii. 189.

Kárún = Korah of the Bible, v. 225.

—— (lake), vi. 217.

Karúrah = bottle for urine, iv. 11.

Kasa’ah = wooden bowl, porringer, iv. 283.

Kasab (Al-) = acquisitiveness, ix. 80.

Kasabah = rod (measurement), ii. 328.

Kasabát = canes; bugles, ii. 298.

Kásid = Anglo-Indian Cossid, vii. 340.

Kasídah = ode, elegy, iii. 262.

Kasídahs (their conventionalism), ix. 250.

Kasr (= palace, one’s house), vi. 240.

—— (= upper room), ix. 283.

Kasr al-Nuzhat = palace of delights, ii. 22.

Kasr (Al-) al-Mashíd = the high-built castle, vii. 346.

Kasrí (Al-) Governor of the two Iráks; iv. 155.

Kat’a = bit of leather, i. 20.

Katá = sand-grouse, i. 131; iv. 111.

Kataba (for tattooing), vii. 250.

Kátala-k Allah = Allah strike thee dead (facetiously), iv. 264, 265.

Katf = pinioning, i. 106.

Kathá-Sarit-Ságara, poetical version of the Vrihat-Kathá, i. 12; x. 160, etc.

Kathír = much, “no end,” x. 10.

Katíl = the Irish “kilt,” iv. 139.

Katúl (Al-) = the slayer, iii. 72.

Kashmír people (have a bad name in Eastern tales), vi. 156.

Kassara ’llah Khayrak = Allah increase thy weal, vi. 233.

Kaukab al-durrí = cluster of pearls, viii. 291.

353Kaukab al-Saláh = Star of the Morning, ix. 301.

Kaum = razzia; tribe, vi. 266.

Kaun = being, existence, ix. 63.

Kaus al-Banduk = pellet-bow, i. 10.

Kausaj = man with a thin, short beard, cunning, tricksy, iii. 246.

Kausar, lieu commun of poets, i. 241; ii. 186; iv. 196.

Kawáid (pl. of Káid = governor), v. 145.

Kawárib, see Kárib.

Kawwád = pimp, i. 316; vii. 98.

Kawwás = archer, janissary, vi. 241.

Káyánián, race of Persian kings, i. 75.

Kayf hálak = how de doo? vii. 336.

Kayim (professional wrestler, names of such), ii. 93.

Kaylúlah = siesta, i. 51; ii. 178; viii. 191.

Kayrawán = the Greek Cyrene, viii. 317.

Kaysaríyah = superior kind of Bazar, i. 266.

Kaysúm = yellow camomile, iii. 58.

Kaywán (Persian for Saturn), ii. 75.

Kayy (Al-) = cautery, the end of medicine-cure, iii. 59.

Kayyimah = guardian (fem.), viii. 330.

Káz (Al-) = shears, viii. 9.

Kazá, Kismat and “Providence,” vii. 135.

Kazdír = Skr. Kastíra (tin), iv. 274; vi. 39.

Kází = judge in religious matters, i. 21.

Kázi al Kuzát = Chief Justice, ii. 90; viii. 245.

Kází of the army (the great legal authority of a country), vi. 131.

Kazíb al-Bán = willow-wand, ii. 66.

Kazis (the four of the orthodox schools), ii. 39.

Kerchief (of mercy), i. 343.

—— (of dismissal), iii. 295.

—— (shaking and throwing the), iv. 62.

“Key” = fee paid on the keys being handed to a lodger, vii. 212.

Khabál = pus flowing from the damned, v. 162.

Khadd = cheek, vii. 277.

Khádim = servant, politely applied to a castrato, i. 235; ix. 237.

Khadiv (not Kédivé), ix. 119.

Kháfiyah = concealed; Kháinah = perfidy, vii. 320.

Khafz al-Jináh = lowering the wing (demeaning oneself gently), ix. 33.

Khák-bák = “hocus pocus,” etc., viii. 328.

Khal’a al-’izár = stripping of jaws or side-beard, vii. 248.

Khalanj = a hard kind of wood, i. 154; ii. 269; viii. 271.

Khalbús = buffoon, ii. 143; vii. 195.

Khalí’a = worn out; wit, i. 311; iv. 229; vii. 130.

Khálid bin al-Walíd, ii. 203.

—— bin Safwán, ii. 107.

Khálidán (for Khálidát) = the Canaries, iii. 212.

Khalífah = Vicar of Allah; successor of a Santon, i. 184.

Khalílu ’llah (friend of Allah = Abraham), ii. 132; v. 205.

Khalíyah = bee-hive; empty (pun on), vi. 246; ix. 291.

Khalkínah = copper cauldron, viii. 177.

Khammárah = wine-shop, tavern, “hotel,” iv. 79.

Khán = caravanserai, i. 92; iii. 14.

Khán al-Masrúr, in Cairo, famous in the 15th century, i. 265.

Khánakah = Dervishes’ convent, vii. 177.

Khanjar = hanger, i. 232; iii. 90.

Khara = dung (lowest insult), ii. 56.

—— (holy merde), ii. 223.

Khara al-Sús = weevil’s dung, ix. 10.

Kharajú = they (masc.) went forth (vulgarism for Kharajna) (fem.), viii. 144.

Khassat-hu = she gelded him, iii. 47.

Khatmah = reading or reciting of the whole Koran, i. 277.

Khatt Sharíf = royal hand letter, ii. 39; ix. 309.

Khattíyah = writer, &c., spear, from Khatt Hajar, ii. 1.

Khátún (Turk. lady), iv. 66; vii. 146.

—— (follows the name), vii. 323, 347.

Khauf (Al-) maksúm = fear (cowardice) is equally apportioned, iii. 173.

Khaukhah = tunnel, viii. 330.

Khayál (Al-) = phantom ghost, v. 348.

Khayr = good news by euphemy, iv. 138.

Khayr wa ’Áfiyah = well and in good ease, ix. 94.

Khaysamah (traditionist), v. 81.

Khayt hamayán = threads of vanity (gossamer), iii. 217.

354Khayzáran = rattan, ii. 66; iv. 255.

Kháwí (skin of), vi. 66.

Khawwás (Al-) = basket-maker, v. 283.

Khaznah (Khazinah) = 1,000 kís of £5 each, ii. 84; iii. 278.

Khazrá (al-) = the Green, palace of Mu’áwiyah, vii. 124.

Khiláf (Khaláf) = Salix Ægyptiaca, ii. 66.

Khilál = toothpick (emblem of attenuation), v. 44; viii. 258.

Khinsir = little (or middle) finger, ix. 160.

Khinzír = hog, i. 108.

Khirad Shah = King of Intelligence, vii. 73.

Khishkhánah = cupboard, vii. 199.

Khitáb = exordium of a letter, ix. 126.

Khizáb (dye used by women), iii. 105.

Khizánah (Al-) = treasury, ix. 22.

Khizr (the Green Prophet), iv. 175; v. 384.

Khiyál (Chinese shadows), iv. 193.

Khubz = scones, i. 131.

Khuff = walking shoes, i. 82; iv. 107.

Khuffásh = bat (animal), v. 226.

Khuld = fourth heaven (of yellow coral), viii. 47.

Khumásíyah = five feet high, iv. 191.

Khunsa = flexible, flaccid (hermaphrodite, also catamite), iii. 306; v. 91.

Khurj (Al-) = saddle-bag (las Alforjas), vi. 224.

Khusrau Parwiz and Shírín, v. 91.

—— (his wealth), v. 91.

Khusyatán = testicles, ii. 55.

Khutnah = circumcision, v. 209.

Khutúb (Pr. N.) = affairs, misfortunes, viii. 209.

Khwájah (Howajee) = schoolmaster, man of letters, &c., vi. 46.

Khwárazm = land of the Chorasmioi, vi. 113.

Khyas! Khyas! onomatopoetic, used in a sea-spell, i. 228.

Kiblah (turning towards it in mortal danger), v. 39.

—— (anything opposite) applied to the Ka’abah, v. 196.

Kiblatayn = the two Kiblahs (Meccah and Jerusalem), v. 196.

Kidrah = pot, kettle, lamp-globe, ix. 320.

Kíl wa Kál = it was said and he said (chitchat), iv. 207.

Killed = Hibernicè “kilt,” v. 5; vi. 171.

Killing (of an unfaithful wife commended by public opinion), ix. 297.

Kímiyá = Alchemy (from χυμεία = wet drug), viii. 9.

Kimkhab = (velvet of) “Kimcob,” viii. 201; ix. 221.

Kiná’ = veil, vi. 192.

Kinchin lay (Arab form of), iii. 102.

King (dressing in scarlet when wroth), iv. 72.

—— (the, and the Virtuous Wife), v. 122.

Kingfisher (Lucian’s), vi. 49.

King’s barber a man of rank, i. 351.

Kintár = a hundredweight (quintal), vi. 94.

Kír = bellows, viii. 9.

Kiráb = wooden sword-case, viii. 267.

Kirám = nobles; Kurám = vines, viii. 203.

Kirámat = prodigy, ii. 237; iv. 45.

Kirát (bean of Abrus precatorius), vii. 289.

—— (weight = 2–3 grains; length = one finger-breadth), iii. 239.

Kird = baboon, iv. 297.

Kirsh al-Nukhál = Guts of bran, viii. 169.

Kisás (Al-) = lex talionis, vii. 170.

Kishk (Kashk) = porridge, iv. 214.

Kisrà = the Chosroë, (applied to Anushirwan) v. 87.

Kiss (without mustachio = bread without salt), v. 165.

“Kiss key to Kitty,” i. 323.

“Kiss ground” not to be taken literally vii. 210.

Kissing (the eyes, a paternal salute), i. 125.

—— (like a pigeon feeding its young), iii. 275.

—— (names for), iv. 259.

—— (en tout bien et en tout honneur), viii. 25.

—— the ground of obedience (Persian metaphorical phrase), vii. 354.

Kissis = ecclesiast, ii. 228.

Kit (of the traveller in the East), v. 174.

Kitáb al-Kazá = book of law-cases, ix. 110.

Kitáb al-Fihrist (and its author), x. 71.

Kitf al-Jamal = camel shoulder-blade, vii. 167.

Kitfír (Itfír), = Potiphar, vi. 172.

Kiyakh (fourth Coptic month), v. 231.

355Kízán fukká’a = jars for fukká’a (a kind of beer), vi. 88.

Kneeling in prayer (exclusively Christian), v. 196.

Knife, “bravest of arms,” vii. 123.

Knight-errant of the East, ii. 77.

Knuckle-bone, ii. 314.

Kohl = powdered antimony for the eyelids, i. 89.

—— proverbially used, i. 278.

—— (-powder keeps the eyes from inflammation), ii. 291.

—— (applying of = takhíl), iii.57.

—— (-eyed = Kahlá), f. iii. 232.

—— (he would steal it off the eye-ball = he is a very expert thief), iv. 68.

Kohl’d with Ghunj = languour-kohl’d, x. 40.

Kohl-needle in the Kohl-case = res in re, v. 97.

Kohls (many kinds of), viii. 10.

Koka Pandit (Hindú Ars Amandi), iii. 93.

Korah (Kárún), v. 225.

Koran quoted: (xx.), i. 2.

—— (ii. 34; xxv. 31; xix. 69), i. 13.

—— (xxvi.), i. 39.

—— (xxvii.), i. 42.

—— (v.; xx.), i. 119.

—— (vii.; xviii.), i. 169.

—— (i.), i. 208.

—— (lvi. 9), i. 211.

—— (lx.), i. 220.

—— (v.), i. 240.

—— (cviii.), i. 241.

—— (xvii.), i. 249.

—— (xxxvi. 69), i. 251.

—— (cv.), i. 256.

—— (ii.; ix.), i. 257.

—— (v.; viii. 17), i. 274.

—— (iii.), i. 298.

—— (iii. 128), i. 307.

—— (xxxviii. 19), ii. 37.

—— (xciv. 11; cv. 59), ii. 38.

—— (iv.), ii. 64, 78.

—— (iii. 57), ii. 79.

—— (vii.; lxxvi.; lxxxvi.), ii. 91.

—— (iv.; xxii.), ii. 95.

—— (iii. 89), ii. 132.

—— (ix.; xxxiii.), ii. 140.

—— (iv. 88), ii. 146.

—— (v.), ii. 186.

—— (ii. etc.), ii. 198.

—— (ii. 185), ii. 199.

—— (lxxiv. 1, 8; xcvi.), ii. 201.

—— (xvi. 74; ii. 118), ii. 203.

—— (lvi. 6; xxviii.; vii.; ix.), ii. 205.

—— (xxviii. 22–27), ii. 207.

—— (xiv. 34), ii. 225.

—— (lxi.), ii. 226.

—— (ii.; iii. 141), ii. 228.

—— (x. 25), ii. 239.

—— (ii. 149; xcv.), ii. 242.

—— (xix. 170), ii. 281.

—— (xviii.), ii. 293.

—— (xcvi. 5), ii. 298.

—— (xxiv.), ii. 312.

—— (vii. 21.), ii. 316.

—— (x. 10, 12; lvi. 24, 26; lxxxviii. 17, 20), iii. 19.

—— (xii. 31), iii. 21.

—— (cxiii. 1), iii. 22.

—— (ii. 186; lx. 1), iii. 39.

—— (lxxvi.), iii. 57.

—— (ii. 23), iii. 65.

—— (xxxi. 18; lxvii. 7), iii. 117.

—— (ii. 191), iii. 123.

—— (xviii.; xxii. 20; lxxxvii.), iii. 128.

—— (ii. 96, 256), iii. 217.

—— (ii.; iii.; xxxvi.; lv.; lxvii.; cxiii.; cxiv.), iii. 222.

—— (ii. 32; xviii. 48), iii. 223.

—— (xxiii. 20; xcv. 1), iii. 276.

—— (xxvi.), iii. 294.

—— (xi.), iii. 301.

—— (xxiii. 38), iii. 302.

—— (ii.; li. 9; xxxv. 11), iii. 304.

—— (cxii.), iii. 307.

—— (xxiv. 39), iii. 319.

—— (xxi.), iii. 323.

—— (iv. 38), iii. 332.

—— (xxv. 70), iv. 5.

—— (xii. 84, 93, 96; xvi.), iv. 14.

—— (opening chapter), iv. 36.

—— (xiii. 14), iv. 43.

—— (chapter Yá Sín), iv. 50.

—— (xvii. 85), iv. 80.

—— (xlix. Inner Apartments), iv. 102.

—— (xvi. 112), iv. 102.

—— (xii. 92), iv. 111.

—— (lxxxix. 6, 7), iv. 115.

—— (iii. 178), iv. 156.

—— (xvi.), iv. 174.

—— (ii. 224), iv. 175.

—— (xxi. 38), iv. 244.

356—— (iii. 103; vii. 105; xxvii. 12), iv. 249.

—— (cxiv. 1), iv. 251.

—— (ii. 26), iv. 254.

—— (ii. 64; xxvii.), iv. 256.

—— (xvii. 62; xxxvi. 16), iv. 259.

—— (xli. 46), iv. 275.

—— (xxvi. 5, 6), v. 78.

—— (xxxiii. 48), v. 101.

—— (xxxviii. 2), v. 102.

—— (vii. 195), v. 143.

—— (x. 36), v. 145.

—— (xxvi. 165), v. 161.

—— (xxi. 36), v. 166.

—— (vii. 148), v. 191.

—— (iv. 38, 175; ii. 282), v. 155.

—— (xii. 51), v. 159.

—— (iv. 160), vi. 194.

—— (viii. 66), v. 203.

—— (xxxix. 67; lxxviii. 19), v. 207.

—— (vii. 63, 71, 83), v. 210.

—— (chapt. of The Cow), v. 211.

—— (xvi. 92; xxxix. 54; lxx. 38), v. 211.

—— (ii. 28, 137; xii. 18; xvi. 100; li. 57), v. 212.

—— (ix.; xxvi. 30; xcvi. 1, 2), v. 213.

—— (ii. 158; xvii. 110), v. 214.

—— (v. 4; xxx.; lxxiv; cx. 1), v. 215.

—— (iv. 124; v. 89, 116), v. 216.

—— (vii. 154; xi. 50), v. 217.

—— (xvii. 39), v. 221.

—— (ii. 216; v. 92), v. 223.

—— (x. 5; xxii. 60; xxxvi. 40; lxx. 40), v. 228.

—— (xxxi. 34), v. 231.

—— (xxxvii. 5), v. 233.

—— (xxxvi. 37, 38), v. 234.

—— (xx. 57; xxii. 7), v. 235.

—— (lxxxi. 18), v. 236.

—— (iii.; vii. 110), v. 238.

—— (xii. 10), v. 239.

—— (xxxvi. 82), v. 240.

—— (vi. 44), v. 250.

—— (vii. 52), v. 269.

—— (xxxvi. 82), v. 286.

—— (v. 108), v. 287.

—— (xiii. 41), v. 290.

—— (xxxviii. 34), v. 310.

—— (vii.), v. 320.

—— (xxvii.), v. 337.

—— (xxvii. 16), v. 355.

—— (liii. 14), v. 393.

—— (xxiv. 39), vi. 93.

—— (lii. 21), vi. 95.

—— (ix. 51; xiv. 15), vi. 108.

—— (xxxviii. 11), vi. 115.

—— (iv. 81), vi. 138.

—— (iv. 78; xli. 28), vi. 144.

—— (ix. 51), vi. 191.

—— (iii. 17), vi. 270.

—— (xiii. 3), vi. 277.

—— (vi. 103), vi. 282.

—— (iii. 11; i. 42; viii. 9), vii. 55.

—— (cxi.), vii. 59.

—— (xxxiii.), vii. 92.

—— (xx. 102), vii. 164.

—— (ii. 286), vii. 285.

—— (ii. 61; xxii. 44), vii. 346.

—— (xxxv.), vii. 366.

—— (iii. 90), viii. 51.

—— (xxxix. 54), viii. 182.

—— (vi. 99), viii. 267.

—— (xvi. 69; ii. 216; v. 92), viii. 277.

—— (cxiii. 1, 3), viii. 285.

—— (cxi. 184), viii. 291.

—— (xvii.; xviii.; lxix; lxxxiv.), viii. 294.

—— (ix. 33), ix. 15.

—— (xxvi. 88, 89; iv. 140), ix. 16.

—— (lvii. 88), ix. 33.

—— (lxxxi. 40), ix. 59.

—— (xii. 28), ix. 119.

—— (xl. 36; lxvii. 14; lxxiv. 39; lxxviii. 69; lxxxviii. 17), ix. 166.

—— (cviii. 3), ix. 185.

—— (xxiv.), ix. 316.

—— (cx. 1), ix. 317.

—— (xxxvi. 55, 58), ix. 322.

—— (li. 18, 19), ix. 324.

—— (lxxxix.), x. 29.

Koran (abrogating and abrogated passages), v. 194.

—— (most excellent chapter of), v. 211.

—— (eminent and curious verses of), v. 211.

—— (first English translation owing to France), x. 100.

Koss ibn Sa’idah (Bishop of Najrán), ii. 37.

Kubád = shaddock, ii. 310; viii. 272.

Kubbah (Al-) = alcove, v. 18.

Kubkáb = bath-clogs, iii. 92.

Kuds (Al-), see Bayt al-Mukaddas, ii. 132.

Kúfah (Al-) founded by Omar, iv. i.

—— (revolutionary spirit of), iv. 3.

Kúfiyah = coif, etc., ii. 230.

Kufr = rejecting the True Religion, i. 169.

357Kuhaylat (breed of Arab horses), iii. 346.

Kulayb allows no one to approach his camp-fire, ii. 77; vi. 261.

Kulkasá = colocasia roots, i. 272.

Kullah = gugglet, i. 36.

Kulzum (Al-), old name of Suez-town, vii. 348.

Kumasrá (Kummasrá), = pear, vii. 357.

Kumayt (Al-) = bay horse with black points, vii. 128.

Kumkum (cucurbite, gourd-shaped vessel), i. 42; iv. 68, 178.

Kumm = sleeve (used as a bag), iv. 107; viii. 267.

Kun = Be (the creative word), iii. 317.

Kunáfah = vermicelli cake, x. 1.

Kundur = frankincense, ix. 7.

Kunfuz = hedgehog, ii. 88.

Kunsul = Consul, iv. 84.

Kunyat = patro- or matro-nymic, iv. 287.

Kúr = furnace, viii. 9.

—— = forge where children are hammered out (?), viii. 46.

Kurbáj = cravache, viii. 17.

Kurbán = sacrifice, viii. 16.

Kurds (Xenophon’s and Strabo’s Carduchi), iii. 100.

Kurdús = body of horse, ix. 111.

Kurrá = teachers of the correct pronunciation of the Koran, i. 113.

Kurrah = ball in the Polo game, ii. 329.

Kurrat al-Ayn = coolness of the eye, i. 72; v. 145.

Kurs (has taken the place of Iklíl), i. 270.

Kursán (Al-) = “Corsaro,” a runner, viii. 323.

Kursí (choir, throne) = desk or stool for the Koran, i. 167; vii. 311.

Kursí al-wiládah = birth-stool, ii. 80.

Kús (town in Upper Egypt), iv. 276.

Kus(s) = vulva, viii. 93.

Kush’arírah = horripilation, symptom of great joy, i. 251.

Kussá’a = curling cucumber, iv. 98.

Kusúf = eclipse of the moon, viii. 291.

Kút al-Kulúb, viii. 158.

Kutá’ah = a bit cut off, etc., vi. 272.

Kutayt = little tom-cat, ii. 39.

Kutb = axle, pole; hence prince, doyen in sainthood, v. 384.

Kuthayyir (poet), ii. 102.

Kutr Misr = tract of Egypt, ix. 286.

Kutub al-Báh = Books of Lust, x. 201.

Kuzía Fakán (Pr. N.) = “it was decreed by destiny, so it came to pass,” ii. 175.

Lá adamnak = Heaven deprive us not of thee, i. 268.

Lá Bás (bi-zálik = there is no harm in that), iv. 164.

—— (in Marocco) = “I am pretty well,” viii. 274.

—— (= no harm is [yet] done), ix. 102.

Lá haula, etc. = there is no Majesty, etc., i. 65.

La iláha illá ’lláh = there is no God but the God (tahlíl), ii. 336.

Lá kabbata hámíyah = no burning plague, x. 14.

Lá rajma ghaybin = without stone-throwing of secrecy, ix. 1.

Lá rayba fí-hi, ii. 210.

Lá tankati’í = sever not thyself from us, ix. 245.

Lá tuwáhishná = do not make me desolate, i. 62.

Lá tuwákhizná = do not chastise us = excuse us, i. 164.

La’alla = haply, belike; forsure, certainly, ix. 49.

La’ab = (sword-) play, vii. 44.

La’abah = a plaything, a puppet, a lay figure, i. 245.

La’al = ruby, v. 342.

La’an = curse, v. 250; vi. 178.

Láb (Old Pers. for Sun), vii. 296.

Laban (= milk artificially soured), vi. 201.

—— (= sweet milk), vii. 360.

—— halíb = fresh milk, vi. 201.

Labbayka (= Here am I, called Talbiyah), i. 226; ii. 227.

—— (pronounced on sighting Meccah), v. 203.

Labbis al-Búsah tabkí ’Arúsah = clothe the reed and it will become a bride, viii. 201.

Labtayt (Pr. N. = Toledo), iv. 99.

Lactation (term of), v. 299.

—— (no cohabitation during), v. 299.

Ladies of the family (waiting upon the guests), vi. 237.

Láhik = the Overtaker, viii. 341.

Láit = one acting like the tribe of Lot, sodomite, ix. 253.

358Lajlaj = rolling anything in the mouth; stammering, ix. 322.

Lájuward, see Lázuward, iii. 33.

Lake Kárún, vi. 217.

Lakít = fœtus, foundling, contemptible fellow, vii. 145.

Lámí (Al-) = the l-shaped, forked (os hyoïdes), v. 219.

Lámíyat = poem rhyming in L, iii. 143.

Lane quoted: i. 1, 36, 42, 74, 77, 83, 93, 100, 104, 131, 147, 163, 201, 210, 213, 215, 217, 223, 245, 259, 269, 270, 291, 311, 314, 317, 340;ii. 5, 38, 41, 46, 56, 77, 80, 89, 93, 131, 167, 206, 215, 243, 292, 304, 314, 315, 328, 332; iii. 20, 30, 44, 112, 114, 116, 117, 141, 162, 176, 181, 191, 211, 212, 222, 259, 322, 331, 341; iv. 2, 12, 46, 55, 63, 66, 82, 95, 96, 107, 110, 124, 136, 144, 152, 160, 164, 171, 181, 187, 189, 191, 196, 199, 200, 202, 204, 205, 209, 212, 214, 219, 222, 228, 231, 233, 244, 254, 268, 271, 273, 279, 287, 297; v. 2, 32, 33, 37, 44, 45, 64, 104, 112, 120, 121, 144, 145, 189, 201, 231, 259, 273, 286, 298; vi. 1, 8, 11, 17, 33, 49, 57, 61, 66, 80, 180, 191, 196, 214, 216, 247, 257, 282; vii. 95, 96, 111, 113, 118, 119, 123, 124, 135, 136, 139, 144, 172, 182, 195, 196, 209, 250, 269, 275, 280, 282, 303, 306, 309, 314, 322, 328, 346, 354, 357; viii. 14, 18, 21, 27, 35, 53, 62, 68, 77, 80, 84, 94, 97, 102, 122, 124, 128, 131, 147, 148, 155, 156, 166, 177, 179, 180, 187, 205, 264, 285, 298, 337;ix. 32, 33, 146, 168, 170, 182, 221, 222, 224, 226, 229, 246, 291, 304, 307; x. 1, 11, 12, 19, 34, 36, 50, 52, 70, 115.

Language of signs, ii. 304.

Languages (study of, should be assisted by ear and tongue), x. 96.

Largesse (better than the mace), viii. 163.

Lasm (Lathm) = kissing the lower face, iv. 259.

Lasting calamity = furious knight, vi. 290.

Latter night = hours between the last sleep and dawn, i. 24.

Laughing in one’s face not meant for an affront, i. 320.

Laughter rare and sign of a troubled mind, i. 248.

Lauh = tablet used as slate, v. 73.

Lauh al-Mahfúz = the Preserved Tablet (of Allah’s decrees), v. 322.

Lauláka = but for thee, for thy sake, v. 306.

Laun = colour, hue (for dish), vii. 185.

Láwandiyah (Al-) = Levantines, ix. 275.

Layálí = nights, future, fate, iii. 318.

Layl (night) frequently = the interval between sunset and sunset, ii. 260.

Laylá (female Pr. N.), iii. 135.

—— wa Majnún (love poem), iii. 183.

Laylat al-Kábilah = to-night, ix. 271.

Laylat al-Kadr = Night of Power, vi. 180.

Laylat al-Wafá = the night of completion of the Nile-flood, i. 291.

Laylat ams = yesternight, vii. 186.

Lazá (Hell for Jews), ii. 140; viii. 346.

Lázuward = lapis lazuli, azure, iii. 33; ix. 190.

Leaving one standing (pour se faire valoir), vi. 252.

Leg-cut (severs horse’s leg), ii. 220.

Legs (making mute the anklets), vii. 131.

—— (shall be bared on a certain day), ix. 253.

Lentils (cheapest and poorest food in Egypt), x. 31.

Leprosy (white = bahak or baras, black = juzám), v. 294.

—— (thickens voice), iv. 50.

—— (shows first at the wrist), iv. 51.

Lesbianism, x. 209.

Letter (reading not always understanding), ii. 112.

—— (model specimen), iv. 57.

—— (toren tears a kingdom), vii. 2.

Letters and letter-writing, iii. 24.

—— (French), vii. 190.

Li-ajal = for the sake of, low Egyptian, ii. 113.

Libdah (skull-cap of felt) sign of a religious mendicant, iii. 62.

Liberality (men proverbial for their), iv. 96.

—— (after poverty), viii. 182.

Libraries (large ones known by the Arabs), viii. 79.

—— (much appreciated by the Arabs), x. 175.

Lice bred by perspiration, ii. 69.

Lie (only degrading if told for fear of telling the truth), ix. 87.

—— (simulating truth), ix. 223.

359Lieu d’aisance (in Eastern crafts), ix. 332.

Líf = fibre of palm-fronds, v. 45; vi. 50.

Life (by the, of thy youth) oath of women, iv. 49.

—— (cheap in hot countries), iv. 275.

Life-breath in the nostrils = heart in the mouth, i. 42.

Light (of salvation shining from the face of Prophets), ix. 324.

Light-worshippers (are liars), iv. 252.

Lijám shadíd = sharp bit, ix. 70.

Like mother, like daughter, i. 299.

Li ’lláhi darru-ka = the Lord has been copious to thee, iv. 20.

Lion (beguiled by flattery), v. 40.

—— (as Sultan of the beasts jealous of a man’s power), x. 34.

—— at home, lamb abroad, ii. 183.

Lisám (mouth-band for men, chin-veil) = Tasmak for women, ii. 31, 230; iii. 283.

Lisán al-Hamal = lamb’s tongue (plantain), viii. 273.

Listening not held dishonourable, vii. 279.

Litholatry of the old Arabs, vi. 269.

Liver = seat of passion, i. 27.

—— (for heart), iii. 240.

—— (and spleen held to be congealed blood), v. 220.

Living (the, who dieth not), vi. 67.

Liwá = Arab Tempe, vii. 115.

Liwán = Al-Aywán, iv. 71; vii. 347.

Liyyah = fat sheep (calves like tails of), viii. 291.

Lizzat al-Nisá (erotic poem), iii. 93.

Loathing of prohibition, ix. 279.

Locks (Mohammed’s), ii. 230.

Logah = Arabic language, also a vocabulary, dictionary, i. 251.

Logogriphs, viii. 93.

Lokman (three of the name), x. 118.

Loosening the hair an immodesty in women sanctioned only by a great calamity, i. 314.

Lord for Lady = she, v. 60.

—— (of the East and West), v. 228.

Lost on Allah’s way = martyr, ii. 330.

Lot (this is ours = I have been lucky and will share with you), ix. 328.

Lot, see Lútí.

Lote-tree (beyond which there is no passing), v. 393.

Lots = games of chance, v. 223.

Love (pure, becomes prophetical), iii. 6.

—— (the ear conceiveth it before the eye), iii. 9.

—— (ten stages of), iii. 36.

—— (martyrs of), iii. 211.

—— (platonic, see vol. ii. 104), iii. 232.

—— (ousting affection), iii. 240.

—— (martyrs of), iv. 205.

—— (clairvoyance), iv. 238.

—— (excess of), iv. 238.

—— (strange chances of), v. 71.

—— (deaths from), v. 134.

—— (made public disgraces), v. 151.

—— (man and woman with regard to), vii. 299.

—— (called upon to torment the lover still more), viii. 75.

—— (cruelty of), x. 26.

Love-children (exceedingly rare amongst Moslems), viii. 115.

Love-liesse (never lacked between folk, i.e. people of different conditions), viii. 212.

Lovers in Lazá (hell) as well as in Na’ím (heaven), iii. 58.

—— (parting of, a stock-topic in poetry), iii. 58.

—— (buried together), v. 71.

—— (model ones, becoming an ordinary married couple), v. 92.

—— (becoming Moslems secure the good will of the audience), viii. 224.

Loving folk = something more than benevolence, ii. 2.

Lúk-Gate (proverb referring to), iv. 259.

Lukmah = mouthful, i. 261; vii. 367.

Lukmán (Æsop of the Arabs), ii. 199.

Lukmán (three of the name), iii. 264; x. 118.

Lullilooing (Tahlíl Zagrútah, Kil), ii. 80.

Lúlúah = union pearl; wild cow, ix. 218.

Lumá = dark hue of the inner lips, iv. 251.

Lupin-flour used as soap, ii. 136.

Luss = thief, robber, ix. 106.

Lute (personification of), viii. 281.

Lutf (servile name = elegance, delicacy), iv. 232.

Lútí (of the people of Lot = Sodomite), v. 161.

Lying (until one’s self believes the lie to be truth), x. 14.

360Lynch-law (the modern form of Jus talionis), v. 103.

Lymph (alluding to the “Neptunist” doctrine), ix. 77.

Lynx (trained for hunting), ii. 293.

Má al-Khalaf, see Khiláf, ii. 136.

Má al-Maláhah = water (brilliancy) of beauty, viii. 47.

Má Dáhiyatak = what is thy misfortune? (for “what ill business is this?”), ix. 137.

Má kaharaní ahadun = none vexeth (or has overcome) me, ix. 156.

Ma’abíd (singer and composer), v. 147.

Maamún (Al), son and successor of Hárún al-Rashíd, i. 185; iv. 109.

Ma’an bin Záidah, iii. 236; iv. 96.

Ma’áni-há (her meanings = her inner woman), iv. 146.

Ma’arúf = kindness, favour, x. 1.

Mace (Ar. Dabbús), vi. 249.

—— (a dangerous weapon), vii. 24.

Macnaghten’s Edition, x. 81.

Madfá = cannon, showing modern date, i. 223.

Madinat al-Nabí (Al-Medínah) = City of the Prophet, iv. 114.

Madness (there is a pleasure in), iv. 204.

Mafárik (Al-) = partings of the hair, vii. 222.

Mafa’úl = patient, passive (Catamite), v. 156.

Magazine (as one wherein wheat is heaped up = unmarried), vii. 372.

Magháribah (pl. of Maghribí = Western man, Moor, “Maurus”), vi. 220.

Maghdád (for Baghdád, as Makkah and Bakkah), viii. 51.

Maghrib (al-Aksà) = the land of the setting sun, ix. 50.

Magic studied by Jews, ii. 234.

Magic Horse (history of the fable), v. 2.

Magnet Mountains, fable probably based on the currents, i. 140.

Mahá = wild cattle, vii. 280.

Mahall = (a man’s) quarters, viii. 229.

Mahall al-Zauk = seat of taste, sensorium, ix. 83.

Maháráj = great Rajah, vi. 8, 67.

Mahayá = Má al-Hayát = aqua vitæ, vii. 132.

Mahdí (Al-) Caliph, vii. 136; ix. 334.

Mahmil (mahmal) = litter, ii. 131.

Mahmúdah = praiseworthy; confection of aloes, viii. 35.

Mahr = marriage dowry, settlement, vii. 126; ix. 32.

Mahríyah (Mehari) = blood-dromedary, iii. 277.

Maid and Magpie, vi. 182.

Mail-coat and habergeon, simile for a glittering stream, i. 291.

Ma’ín, Ma’ún = smitten with the evil eye, i. 123.

Maintenance (of a divorced woman during Iddah), ix. 32.

Majájah = saliva, vii. 280.

Ma’janah (a place for making bricks), ii. 17.

Majlis = sitting (to a woman), iii. 92.

Majnún = madman, i. 10; iii. 72.

Majzúb = drawn, attracted (Sufí term for ecstatic), v. 57.

Maka’ad = sitting-room, iv. 78.

Makhaddah = pillow, ii. 70.

Makkamah = Kazí’s Court, i. 21.

Making water, i. 259.

Mál = Badawi money, flocks, “fee,” vi. 267.

Malak = level ground, viii. 285.

Malak or Malik = Seraph or Sovran, i. 253.

Malákay bayti ’l-ráhah = slabs of the jakes, x. 51.

“Making men” (and women), x. 199.

Malakút (Al-) = the world of spirits (Sufi term), viii. 145.

Male children (as much prized as riches), ix. 316.

Malíhah (al-) = salt-girl; beautiful, i. 340.

Malik (used as “king” in our story-books), ii. 1.

—— bin Dínár (theologian) ii. 204; vii. 261.

—— (taken as title), iii. 51.

—— (traditionist), v. 81.

—— al-Khuzá’i (intendant of the palace), v. 95.

—— (Al-) al-Násir = the conquering King, iv. 271; vii. 142; ix. 19.

Málik (door-keeper of Hell), iii. 20.

Malik Kawí = very handsome (Cairene vulgarism), vii. 150.

Malikhulíyà (Al-) = melancholy, v. 221.

Malocchio or Gettatura (evil), ix. 247.

Mamlúk (white slave trained to arms), i. 81.

361Mamarr al-Tujjár = passing place of the traders, viii. 155.

Mamrak = sky-window, etc. viii. 156.

Man (extract of despicable water), iii. 16.

—— (is fire, woman tinder), iii. 59.

—— (shown to disadvantage in beast-stories), iii. 115.

—— (his destiny written on his skull), iii. 123.

—— (pre-eminence above women), iii. 332.

—— (handsomer than woman), iv. 15.

—— (his advantages above woman), v. 155.

—— (one’s evidence = two women’s), v. 155.

—— (one’s portion = two women’s), v. 155.

—— (created of congealed blood), v. 213.

—— (one worthier in Allah’s sight than a thousand Jinn), viii. 5, 44.

—— (created after God’s likeness, rather a Jewish-Christian than a Moslem doctrine), ix. 79.

—— (I am a man of them = never mind my name), ix. 238.

—— (of the people of Allah = a Religious), ix. 51.

—— (his wrong is from the tongue), ix. 309.

Manáf (idol), v. 129.

Manár al-Saná = Place of Light, viii. 104.

Manáshif (pl. of Minshafah, q.v.), viii. 92.

Manázil (stations of the Moon), v. 228.

Mandíl = kerchief, ii. 301.

Maniyat = death; muniyat = desire, iii. 291.

Manjanikát (Al-) = Mangonels, vii. 335.

Mankind (creates its analogues in all the elements), iv. 121.

—— (superior to Jinn), ix. 339.

Mann = from two to six pounds, vi. 80.

Man’s creation, ii. 91.

Mansúr (Pr. N.) = triumphant, ix. 310.

Mansúr (Al-) Caliph, ii. 142, 153, 210.

—— bin Ammár, ii. 204.

—— al-Nimrí (poet), iv. 179.

Mansúr wa Munazzam = oratio soluta et ligata, viii. 226.

Manumission of slaves, ii. 55.

Manzil (Makám) = (a lady’s) lodgings, viii. 229.

Maragha = he rubbed his face, ii. 60.

Marba’ = summer quarters, iii. 79.

Mardán-i-Ghayb (Himalayan brothers), ii. 211.

Mares (impregnated by the wind), vi. 9.

Marhúb = terrible, viii. 180.

Marhúm (f. Marhúmah) = late lamented, ii. 129, 196.

Márid = contumacious, i. 41.

Máridúna = rebels (against Allah), vii. 39.

Ma’rifah = article, ix. 272.

Máristán (from Pers. Bímáristán = place of sickness), i. 288.

Marján = Coral-branch (slave name), iii. 169.

Marjánah (Pr. N.) = Coral-branch, ii. 100.

—— (Morgante, Urganda, Morgain), vii. 373.

Markúb = shoe, vi. 207.

Marmar = marble, i. 295; vi. 95.

Marocco (tenanted by three Moslem races), x. 222.

Marriage (not valid without receipt of settlement), i. 276.

—— (if consummated demands Ghusl), iii. 286.

—— (by capture), viii. 40.

—— (one of the institutions of the Apostles), viii. 137.

Marriage-sheet inspected, ii. 50.

Married men profit nothing, iii. 2.

—— never once (emphasises poverty), viii. 145.

Marseille (probably alluded to), viii. 315.

Marsín = myrtle, vii. 290.

Martyrdom, iv. 247.

—— (of the drowned), ix. 340.

Martyrs (still alive), ii. 242.

—— (of love), iii. 211; iv. 205.

Marwah (ground-wave in Meccah), v. 203.

Marwazí = of Marw (Margiana), iii. 222.

Marwán bin al-Hakam (Governor of al-Medinah), vii. 125.

Maryam (a Christian name), viii. 306.

Maryam al-Husn = place of the White doe (Rím) of beauty, viii. 321.

Marz-bán = Warden of the Marches, Margrave, iii. 256.

Masculine for feminine, vii. 140.

Má sháa ’llah (as Allah willeth) = well done, iii. 92.

Mashallah = the English “Cock’s ’ill” with a difference, x. 52.

Mashhad = head and foot stone of a grave, x. 53.

362Mashá’ilí = cresset-bearer, for public crier, hangman, i. 259; iv. 61.

Masíhí = follower of the Messiah, i. 258.

Maskharah = buffoon, ii. 143; vii. 195.

Maskhút = transformed (mostly in something hideous), a statue, i. 165.

Maslamah bin Abd al-Malik. ii. 167.

Massacre (the grand moyen of Eastern state-craft), ix. 110.

Massage, i. 172.

Mastabah = bench of masonry, vi. 26.

Masúkah = stick used for driving cattle, viii. 147.

Matáf = place of Tawáf, q.v.

Matárik (pl. of mitrak) = targes, ix. 225.

Matmúrah = underground cell, ii. 39.

Matr (pl. amtár) = large vessel of leather or wood, iii. 295.

Matta’aka ’llah = Allah permit thee to enjoy, ix. 125.

Matting (of Sind, famous), v. 146.

Maukab (Al-) = Procession-day, iv. 287.

Maulid = nativity, ix. 289.

Maund, see Mann, vi. 80.

Maurid = desert well and road to such, iii. 33.

Mausil (Mosul) alluding to the junction of Assyria and Babylonia, i. 82.

Mausúl (Al-) = the conjoined (for relative pronoun or particle), ix. 272.

Maut = death, vii. 147.

Mauz = Musa (Banana), iv. 201.

Mawwál (for Mawálíyah) = short poem, viii. 94; 151.

“May thy life be prolonged,” iv. 62.

Mayázib (pl. of mízáb) = gargoyles, vii. 136.

Maydán = parade-ground, i. 46.

Maydán al-Fíl = race-course of the Elephant, vii. 326.

Maymúnah (proverbial noun now forgotten), i. 57.

Maysir = game of arrows, v. 223.

Maysúm (Badawi wife of Caliph Mu’áwiyah), ii. 160.

Maysum’s song, vii. 97.

Mayyáfárikín, ancient capital of Diyár Bakr, vii. 1.

Meat rarely coloured in modern days, i. 310.

Medicine (rules and verses bearing on domestic), v. 222.

Melancholy (chronic under the brightest skies), iv. 239.

Men (is there a famine of?) = are men so few? iv. 295.

Meniver = menu vair (Mus lemmus), ix. 321.

Menses (coition during, and leprosy), viii. 34.

Menstruous discharge (made use of as a poison), ix. 101.

Merchant (worth a thousand), x. 8.

Merchants and shopkeepers carrying swords, i. 54.

Mercury Ali (his story sequel to that of Dalílah), vii. 172.

Mercy (quality of the noble Arab), iii. 88.

Mer-folk (refined with the Greeks, grotesques with other nations), ix. 169.

Messiah (made a liar by the Miscreants), ix. 15.

Metamorphosis (terms of), vii. 294.

Metempsychosis and sharpers’ tricks, v. 84.

Metrical portion of the Nights (threefold distribution of), x. 67.

Miao or Mau = cat, i. 220.

Mihráb and Minaret (symbols of Venus and Priapus?), i. 166.

Mihráj = Maháráj, q.v.; vi. 67.

Mikashshah = broom, iv. 208.

Mihrgán = Sun-fête, degraded into Michaelmas, v. 1.

Mikbas (pot of lighted charcoal), iv. 246.

Mikhaddah = cheek-pillow, viii. 273.

Mikmarah = cover for a brasier, extinguisher, v. 120.

Miknás = town Mequinez, vi. 223.

Miknasah = broom, vi. 158.

Mi’lakah = spoon, ix. 141.

Milh = salt, i. 340.

Military and Police sneered at, iv. 270.

Milk (white as, opposed to black as mud), iv. 140.

—— (soured), v. 225.

—— (Ar. Laban, Halíb), vi. 201.

—— (by nomades always used in the soured form), vi. 201.

Milk-drinking races prefer the soured milk to the sweet, vii. 360.

Million (no Arabic word for, expressed by a thousand thousand), vi. 98.

Mím-like mouth, iv. 249.

Míms (verset of the sixteen), v. 217.

363Mina (and the stoning of the Devil), v. 203.

Minaret (simile for a fair young girl), iii. 69.

Mind (one by vinegar, another by wine = each goes its own way), iv. 72.

“Mine” (various idioms for expressing it), iii. 335.

Minínah = biscuit, iv. 86.

Minshafah (pl. Manáshif) = drying towel, viii. 92.

Mikra’ah = palm-rod, i. 99.

Miracle (minor, known to Spiritualism), v. 144.

Miracles (performed by Saints’ tombs), i. 241.

—— (disclaimed by Mohammed but generally believed in), iii. 346.

—— (growing apace in the East), ix. 336.

Mirage = Saráb, iii. 319.

Mirbad (Al-) market-place at Bassorah, vii. 130.

Mirzà ’Abdullah-i-Híchmakání = Master Abdullah of Nowhere, v. 27.

“Mis”-conformation (prized by women), vi. 156.

Mishammah = an old gunny-bag, ix. 171.

Miskál = 71–72 grams in gold, used for dinar, i. 126; ix. 262.

Misr, Masr = Capital (applied to Memphis, Fostat and Cairo), vii. 172.

—— (for Egypt), vii. 370.

Misra (twelfth Coptic month), v. 232.

Misrayn (Al-) = Basrah and Kúfah, vii. 371.

Mitrahinna (Minat-ro-hinnu) = port at mouth of canal, ii. 237.

Mizr, Mizar = beer, i. 72.

Modesty (behind a curtain), v. 162.

Mohammed (best of the first and last), ii. 11.

—— (Mustafa), ii. 40.

—— (his letter to the Mukaukis), ii. 79.

—— (Periclytus and Paracletus), ii. 226.

—— (abhors the shaveling), ii. 248.

—— (bearer of glad and bad tidings), ii. 257.

—— (Congratulator and Commiserator), ii. 260.

—— (Best of Mankind), ii. 263.

—— (“born with Kohl’d eyes”), iii. 232.

—— (his uncles), iv. 22.

—— (traditional saying of), iv. 35.

—— (cleanses the Ka’abah of idols), iv. 80.

—— (on dyeing the hair, etc.), iv. 194.

—— (on lovers), iv. 205.

—— (on his being seen in sleep), iv. 287.

—— (places the “black stone”), iv. 261.

—— (mentioned in the Koran), v. 210.

—— (Allah’s right hand), vii. 366.

—— (sent with the guidance and True Faith), ix. 15.

—— (before and after the Hijrah), x. 196.

Mohammed al-Amín (Caliph), v. 93.

Mohammed bin Sulaymán al-Rabi’í (Governor of Bassorah), vii. 130.

Moharram = first month of the Moslem year, viii. 71.

Mohr = signet, vii. 329.

Mohtasib = inspector of weights and measures, etc., viii. 293.

Mole on cheek (black as Bilál), iv. 142.

Moles compared with pearls, i. 177.

Monasteries (best wine made in), v. 65.

—— (Ar. Biká’a), v. 125.

—— (places of confinement for madmen), v. 139.

Monday = second day reckoning from Sabbath, i. 266.

Money (carried in the corner of a handkerchief), i. 271.

—— (large sums weighed), i. 281; ii. 145.

—— (carried round the waist), viii. 288.

—— (let lie with the folk = not dunned for), ix. 311.

Monkery (abhorred by Mohammed), ii. 248.

—— (none in Al-Islam), viii. 137.

Monoculars (unlucky to meet), i. 333.

—— (famed for mischief), iv. 194; viii. 318.

Monsters (abounding in Persian literature), vii. 399.

Months (of peace), v. 54.

—— (Coptic names of), v. 221, 232.

—— (Arabic names explained), v. 233.

Moon (blighting effect of its rays), ii. 4.

—— masculine in Semitic, ii. 45.

—— (masc., Sun fem.), iii. 28; iv. 261.

—— (simile for female beauty), v. 8.

—— (shall be cloven in twain), v. 217.

—— (its stations), v. 228.

—— (taking in hand the star = girl handing round the cup), ix. 192.

Moon-faced (not absurd), iv. 192.

Moons (for cup-bearers), viii. 227.

364Moore (Thomas, anticipated), iii. 305.

Morality (geographical and chronological), iii. 241.

—— (want of, excused by passion), iii. 269.

Morbi venerei, x. 88.

Morning draught, iii. 20.

“Morosa voluptas,” vii. 132.

Mortal (one better in Allah’s sight than a thousand Jinn), viii. 5, 44.

Moses (derivation of the name), ii. 205.

—— and Jethro, ii. 205.

—— and the next world, ii. 206.

—— and Al-Khizr, ii. 263.

—— (describes his own death and burial), vi. 116.

Moslem (model Conservative), ii. 13.

—— (external), ii. 29.

—— (familiarity between high and low), ii. 32.

—— (peasants kind-hearted), ii. 69.

—— (kind feeling shown to a namesake), vi. 13.

—— (corpses should be burnt under certain circumstances), vi. 26.

—— (commonplaces of condolence), vi. 41.

—— (sales, formula of), vi. 73.

—— (consecrated ground unknown to them), vi. 161.

—— (a free-born’s sale is felony), vi. 240.

—— (dignity contrasting with Christian abasement), viii. 5, 44.

—— (can circumcise, marry and bury himself), viii. 22.

—— (on a journey tries to bear with him a new suit of clothes for the festivals and Friday service), ix. 51.

—— (bound to discharge the debts of his dead parents), ix. 311.

—— (doctrine ignores the dictum, “ex nihilo nihil fit”), ix. 63.

—— (resignation, noble instance of), x. 42.

Moslems (their number preordained), viii. 154.

—— (deal kindly with religious mendicants), ix. 51.

—— (not ashamed of sensual appetite), ix. 84.

—— (bound to abate scandals amongst neighbours), ix. 98.

—— (husbands among them divided into three classes), ix. 263.

Mosque al-Ahzáb = mosque of the troops, vii. 92.

Mosques serving as lodgings for poor travellers, ii. 69.

Mosul (exempted from idolatrous worship), v. 64.

—— stuff = muslin, i. 229.

Mother (waiting upon the adult sons) vi. 237.

—— (in Arab tales = ma mère), viii. 27.

Mother’s milk = nature, ii. 44.

Mounds = rubbish heaps outlying Eastern cities, i. 71.

Mountain (coming from the = being a clodhopper), iii. 324.

—— (sit upon the = turn anchorite), iii. 324.

—— (the, at Cairo), iv. 294.

Mountains (the pegs of the earth), iv. 174.

Mourning (perfumes not used during), iii. 63.

—— (normal term of forty days), ix. 311.

Moustachio (salt to a kiss), v. 165.

Mouth compared to the ring of Sulayman, i. 84.

Mrigatrishná = the thirst of the deer (mirage), vi. 93.

MS. copy of The Nights (price of one in Egypt), vii. 312.

Muákhát = entering in a formal agreement for partnership, viii. 232.

Mu’allim = teacher, master (address to a Jew or Christian), viii. 150.

Mu’arras = pimp, i. 338.

Mu’attik al-Rikáb = Liberator of Necks, vii. 331.

Mu’áwiyah (Caliph), ii. 160, 161.

—— (his Moses-like “mildness”), iii. 286.

Muayyad (Sultan and calligrapher), ii. 32.

Muazzin (who calls to prayer), ii. 306.

Mubárak (f. mubárakah) = blessed (a favourite slave-name), ix. 58.

Mubárakah = the blessed (fem.), ix. 330.

Mudarris = professor, x. 8.

Mudawwarah (a gong?), iv. 135.

Muftí (Doctor of Law), vi. 254.

Muhabbat (Al-) al-gharizíyah = natural affection, viii. 110.

Muháfiz = district-governor, i. 259.

Muhájirún = companions in Mohammed’s flight, vii. 92.

365Muhakkah = “Court-hand,” i. 129.

Muhallil, see Mustahall.

Muhammad, Ahmad and Mahmúd, vi. 273.

Muhammarah = fricandoed, i. 286.

Muhárabah = doing battle, ix. 92.

Muharramát (the three forbidden things), iii. 340; v. 148.

Mu’ín al-Din = Aider of the Faith, vii. 354.

Mujáhid (Al-) = fighter in Holy War, iii. 51.

Mujáhidún, plur. of the previous, iii. 39.

Mujauhar = damascened, vii. 84.

Mujáwirún = lower servants, sweepers, etc. v. 119.

Mujtabá = the Accepted, i. 77.

Mukaddam (Anglo-Indicè Muccudum) = overseer, iv. 42.

Mukarrabún = those near Allah, v. 319.

Mukhammas = cinquains, iii. 280.

Mukri = Koranist, v. 216.

Mulabbas = dragées, vii. 205.

Mulákát = going to meet an approaching guest, v. 330.

Mulberry-fig (for anus), iii. 302.

Mummery = “Mahommerie” x. 178.

Munádamah = table-talk, “conversation over the cup,” vii. 309.

Munáfik = hypocrite, v. 207.

Munakkishah = woman who applies the dye to a face, i. 270.

Munawwarah (Al-) = the Illumined (title of Al-Medinah), vii. 95.

Munázarah = dispute, ix. 243.

Munázirah = like (fem.), ix. 243.

Munkar and Nakír (the questioning angels), v. 111; ix. 163; x. 47.

Munkasir (broken) = languid, iv. 195.

Munkati’ = cut off, viii. 24.

Muráhanah = game at forfeits, vi. 204.

Murder (to be punished by the family), v. 103.

—— (to save one’s life approved of), vi. 44.

Murjiyy (sect and tenets), iii. 341.

Murtazà = the Elect, i. 77.

Músà = Moses, ii. 205.

Músá bin Nusayr (conqueror of Spain), vi. 86.

Mus’ab bin al-Zubayr, v. 79.

Musáfahah = joining palms for “shaking hand,” vi. 287; vii. 52; ix. 342.

Musáhakah = tribadism, vii. 132.

Musáhikah = tribade, viii. 130.

Musakhkham (Al-) = the defiled Cross, ii. 220.

Musallà = place of prayer, oratory, v. 261.

Musámarah = chatting at night, iv. 237; vii. 217.

Music (forbidden by Mohammed), ix. 31.

Musk (scent of heaven), ii. 300.

—— (sherbet flavoured with), v. 66.

Mushayyad = lofty, high-builded, viii. 23.

Muslim bin al-Walíd (poet), v. 128.

Musquito caught between the toes, vii. 179.

Musrán (Al-) guts, vii. 190.

Mustafà (the chosen) = Mohammed, i. 77; ii. 40.

Mustahakk = deserving, x. 52.

Mustahall (Mustahill) = one who marries a thrice divorced woman and divorces her to make her lawful for her first husband, iv. 48.

Musta’ín (Al-) bi ’lláh (Caliph), ix. 246.

Mutalammis (Al-), the poet and his fatal letter, v. 74.

Mustansir bi ’llah (Al-) = one seeking help in Allah, i. 317.

Mutanakkir = disguised, proud, reserved, vii. 101.

Mu’tasim (Al-) bi ’llah (Caliph), iii. 81; ix. 232.

Mutawakkil (Al-) Caliph, iv. 291; v. 153; ix. 232.

Mutawallí = Prefect of Police, i. 259.

Mutawwif = leader in the Tawáf, q.v. v. 203.

Mu’tazid (Al-) bi ’lláh (Caliph), ix. 229.

Mu’tazz (Al-) bi ’lláh (Caliph), ix. 242.

Mu’ujizah = miracle of a prophet, ii. 237.

Muunah = provisions, vii. 232; ix. 104.

Muunis (Pr. N. = Companion), v. 164.

Muwaffak = well-notched, v. 33.

Muwallad = a slave born in a Moslem land, iv. 291.

Muwashshah (stanza), iv. 54.

Muzaní (Al-), ii. 208.

Muzayyin (Figaro of the East), i. 304.

Myrtle-bush = young beard, iv. 143.

Mystification explained by extraordinary likeness, viii. 40.

Na’al = sandal, shoe, horse-shoe, vi. 207.

Náb (pl. Anyáb) = canine tooth, tusk, vii. 339.

366Nabbút = quarter-staff, i. 234; viii. 186.

Nabhán (sons of), vi. 262.

Nabí = prophet, ix. 178.

Nábighah al-Zubyání (pre-Islamitic poet), vi. 85.

Nadd (a compound perfume), i. 310.

Naddábah = mourning woman, i. 311.

Nadím = cup-companion, i. 46.

Nafahát = breathings, benefits, v. 29.

Nafakah = sum necessary for the expenses of the pilgrimage, ix. 178.

Nafas = breath, i. 107.

Nafs = soul, life, i. 107.

Náfi’ (traditionist), v. 204.

Náfilah = supererogatory Koran recitation, iii. 222.

Nafísah (great-grand-daughter of the Imám Hasan), iv. 46.

Nafísah (Pr. N.) = the Precious one, viii. 328.

Nafs-í = my soul for “the flesh,” vii. 118.

Nafs Ammárah = “the Flesh,” viii. 31.

—— al-Nátikah = intellectual soul, viii. 31.

—— al-Ghazabíyah = animal function, viii. 31.

—— al-Shahwáníyah = vegetative property, viii. 31.

Nága-kings (of Hinduism), v. 302.

Nahás (vulg. for Nuhás, q.v.), ii. 327; iv. 178.

Náhí-ka = let it suffice thee, x. 22.

Nahnu málihín = we are on term of salt, i. 344.

Nahr = slaughtering a camel by stabbing, iv. 95.

Nahr = river, vi. 163.

Nahs = nasty, i. 301.

Ná’i al-maut = messenger of death, vii. 226.

Náihah = keener, hired mourner, i. 311.

Na’ím = delight (name for Heaven), iii. 19; iv. 143.

Na’íman = may it benefit thee! after bathing, etc., ii. 5.

Naïveté (of the Horatian kind), ix. 215.

Najásah = nastiness (anything unclean), vi. 178.

Najíb (al-taraf = son of a common Moslemah by a Sayyid, q.v.), v. 259.

Najíb (al-tarafayn = whose parents are both of Apostolic blood), v. 259.

Najis = ceremonially impure, ix. 337.

Nájiyah = Salvadora, ii. 145.

Najm al-Munkazzi = shooting star, viii. 329.

Najm al-Sabáh (Pr. N.) = Star o’ Morn, viii. 107.

Najrán (in Syria), ii. 232.

Naká = sand-hill, x. 27.

Nakat = to spot; to handsel, viii. 266.

Naked = without veil or upper clothing, vii. 151.

Nakedness (Ar. Aurat), vi. 30.

—— (paraphrased), i. 327.

Nakfúr = Nicephorus, ii. 77.

Nakh = make a camel kneel down by the cry Ikh! Ikh! ii. 139.

Nákhúzah Zulayt = skipper rapscallion, viii. 175.

Nakíb, a caravan-leader, chief, syndic, i. 269.

Nákisátu ’aklin wa dín = failing in wit and faith, ix. 298.

Nakkár = Pecker (a fabulous fish), ix. 184.

Nakl-i-safar (move preliminary to a journey), ii. 84.

Nákús = wooden gong (used as bell), vi. 47; viii. 328.

Name of Allah introduced into an indecent tale essentially Egyptian, i. 12.

Names (of God), v. 214.

—— (= magical formula), v. 369.

—— (frequently do not appear till near the end of a tale), vii. 43, 75, 274.

—— (approved by Allah), ix. 165.

Naming of a child, ii. 174.

Naming a girl by name offensive, vii. 286.

Naml (ant) simile for a young beard, iii. 58.

Námúsiyah = mosquito curtains, viii. 330.

Napoleonic pose (attitude assumed by a slave), ix. 320.

Nár (fire), ii. 163.

—— (fem., like the names of other elements), viii. 16.

Narcissus (with negro eyes = yellowish white), ii. 24.

Narcissus and Hippolytus (assumed as types of morosa voluptas, etc.), x. 215.

Narjis = Narcissus, i. 294.

—— (name of a slave-girl), viii. 176.

Nashshár (Al-) = the sawer, i. 335.

Násik = a devotee, ix. 40.

Naskh = copying hand, i. 128.

367Nasím = Zephyr (emendation for Nadím = cup-companion), viii. 62.

Násir (Pr. N.) = triumphing, ix. 310.

Nasrání = follower of Him of Nazareth, i. 258.

Nat’a = leather used by way of table-cloth, i. 20.

Nat’a al-dam = the leather of blood, i. 318; ii. 41.

Nation (its power consists in its numbers of fighting men), v. 255.

Nau (pl. Anwá) = setting of one star simultaneous with another’s rising, viii. 266.

Naurúz = new (year’s) day, iv. 244.

Navel, as to beauty and health, i. 84.

—— (largeness of, much appreciated), viii. 33.

Nawá = date-stone; Nawáyah = severance, ii. 315.

Nawátíyah = crew (navigata, nauta), viii. 17.

Nay = reed-pipe, v. 50.

Naysábúr (town in Khorasan), ix. 230.

Názih = travelled far and wide, v. 52.

Názir = overseer, ii. 304; iii. 233.

Nearness of seat a mark of honour, i. 250.

Negro (Legend of his origin), iv. 250.

Negroes preferred by debauched women, i. 6.

—— (familiarity of boys with white girls), ii. 49.

—— (their skin assumes dust-colour in cold, etc.), ii. 127.

Negrofied races like “walking tun-butts,” iv. 255.

Neighbour before the house, companion before the journey, ii. 207.

Neighbours (frequently on the worst of terms), vi. 236.

Nemo repente fuit turpissimus (not believed in by Easterns), ix. 91.

“New Arabian Nights,” vi. 257.

New-moon of Ramazán watched for, i. 84.

New moon of the Festival = Crescent of the breakfast, ix. 249, 250.

News (what is behind thee of, O Asám), viii. 222.

Ni’am = yes in answer to a negative, vii. 195.

Ni’amat = a blessing, iv. 1.

Night (and day, not day and night, with the Arabs), iii. 121.

—— (-cap), iii. 222.

—— (“this” = our “last”), iii. 249.

—— (for day), iii. 318.

—— (its promise spread with butter that melteth with day-rise), v. 77.

—— (its last the bitter parting), vii. 243.

—— (consists of three watches), i. 175; viii. 330.

Níl (Al-) = flood season corresponding to summer, i. 290.

Nílah = indigo, dye-stuff, ix. 144.

Nile-water sweet and light, i. 290.

Nímchahrah = half-face (Pers., a kind of demon), v. 333.

Nimr = leopard, ix. 63.

Nimrod of the desert, ii. 291.

Nimsá = Cermans, ii. 219.

Nimshah (Namshah?) = dagger of state, ii. 193.

Nineteen the age of an oldish old maid in Egypt, i. 212.

Nisáb (Al-), smallest sum for stealing which the hand is mutilated, iv. 157.

Niták, a woman’s waistcloth, vii. 180.

Níyah (Al-) = ceremonial intention of prayer, v. 163; x. 254.

Nizámí (Persian poet), iii. 183.

Noachian dispensation (revived Al-Islam as revealed to Adam), v. 372.

Noisy merriment scandalous to Moslem “respectability,” i. 95.

Nostrils (his life-breath was in his, = his heart was in his mouth), vii. 258.

Nostrums for divining the sex of the unborn child, vii. 268.

Nothing for nothing a sexual point d’honneur, i. 87.

Nuhás (vulg. Nahás) = copper, brass, i. 40; ii. 327; iv. 178, 230; vi. 83.

Nukl = quatre mendiants, ix. 177, 213.

Numbering the streets, etc. a classical custom, viii. 88.

Nún (simile for the eyebrow), v. 34.

Nún-like brow, iv. 249.

Nuptial sheet (inspection of), iii. 289.

Nur al-Huda (Pr. N.) = Light of Salvation, iii. 17; viii. 97.

Núrayn = two lights (town in Turkestan), vii. 88.

Nusf = half-dirham, ii. 37; vi. 214; ix. 139, 167.

368Nusk = piety, abstinence from women, ix. 243.

Nu’umán (Al-) bin Munzir (tyrant of Hírah), v. 74.

Nu’umán’s flower = anemone, ii. 325.

Nuzhat al-Zamán = delight of the age, ii. 81.

Nymphomania (ascribed to worms in the vagina), iv. 298.

Oath (a serious thing amongst Moslems), i. 179.

—— (inconsiderately taken), ii. 136.

—— (kept to the letter), iv. 70.

—— (retrieved by expiation), viii. 263.

—— (of divorce), viii. 287, 311.

Obayd Allah (Pr. N.), v. 164.

Obayd ibn Táhir (Under-Prefect of Baghdad), iv. 291.

Object first seen in the morning determines the fortunes of the day, viii. 147.

Obscene abuse meant as familiarity, not insult, ii. 88.

O Camphor (antiphrase = O snowball), iii. 40.

Ocean (Jamm), v. 93.

—— (of darkness), v. 309.

“Off-with-his-head” style (not to be taken literally), ix. 308.

Offering for naught = closing with the offer, ii. 4.

Offerings (pious = ex votos, etc.), vii. 150.

Oftentimes the ear loveth before the eye, iii. 9.

Ohod (battle of), ii. 165.

Old age (graphically described), v. 3.

“Old maids” ignored in the East, vii. 286.

“Old Man of the Sea” (a Márid or evil Jinn), vii. 338.

Old woman (polite equivalents for), v. 163.

Oldest matter in The Nights the beast-stories, iii. 114.

Olemá (pl. of ’Álim) = the learned in the law, v. 183.

—— (Time-serving), x. 44.

Omán = Eastern Arabia, i. 83.

—— (with capital Maskat = Omana Moscha), vii. 24.

Omar bin al-Khattáb (Caliph), ii. 158, 159, 162, 164; v. 103.

Omar-i-Khayyám (astronomer-poet), ix. 230.

Omen (Fál), v. 136.

Onanism (discouraged by circumcision), x. 233.

One-eyed men considered rascals, iv. 194.

Opener (of the door of daily bread), vi. 216.

Opening doors without a key is the knavish trick of a petty thief, vii. 182.

Ophidia (of monstrous size), vi. 29.

Orange (a growth of India), viii. 272.

Oriental orgie different from European, i. 93.

Othello (even he does not kill Emilia), ix. 300.

Othmán (Caliph), ii. 163.

—— (Kátib al-Kuran), v. 215.

Oubliettes (in old Eastern houses), iii. 327.

Out of the sight of my friend is better and pleasanter, iii. 315.

O whose thrall am I, etc. = To her (I drink), viii. 224.

Pain (resembling the drawing of a tooth), x. 21.

Palace (of the Caliph at Baghdad), vi. 189.

Palaces (avoided by the pious), vi. 182.

—— (in ruins for want of repair), x. 61.

Palgrave and Al-Islam, x. 189.

Palmerin of England, viii. 64.

Palm-stick (a salutary rod), ii. 22.

Palsy (creeps over him), v. 251.

Pander-dodge to get more money, i. 302.

Panel-dodge fatally common, i. 323.

Paper (his = the whiteness of his skin), v. 161.

Paradise (of the Moslem not wholly sensual), iii. 19; ix. 322.

Parapets (on terrace-roofs made obligatory by Moses), v. 72.

Parasite (Ar. Tufaylí), v. 130.

Parent (ticklish on the Pundonor), ix. 288.

Paris Jockey-club scene anticipated, i. 327.

Parisian MSS. of The Nights, x. 104.

Parody on the testification of Allah’s Unity, i. 177; iii. 215.

Parrot-story a world-wide folk-lore, i. 52.

Particles of swearing, viii. 310.

Partner in very deed, viii. 181.

Partridge (Ar. Hijl), iii. 138.

369Partridges (story of the two), vi. 183.

Pashas’ agents for bribery in Constantinople, iv. 183.

Passengers in difficulties take command, i. 140.

Pathos (touch of), iii. 55.

Patience (cutting the cords of), iii. 178.

Pausing as long as Allah pleased = musing a long time, vi. 109.

Pay-chest (of a Hammám bath), ix. 152.

Payne quoted, i. 129, 150, 167, 209, 217; ii. 19, 185, 304; iii. 58, 130, 162, 172, 193, 252, 275, 291; iv. 50, 54, 66, 197, 221, 222; v. 44, 49, 65, 86, 112, 161, 192, 204, 346; vii. 16, 18, 57, 123, 178, 277, 337; viii. 21, 32, 64, 70, 72, 80, 117, 125, 130, 131, 148, 158, 168, 179, 216, 223, 224, 262, 264, 271, 275, 278, 279, 282, 293, 294, 298, 314, 326, 327; ix. 22, 28, 79, 84, 86, 89, 171, 212, 224, 226, 227, 250, 251, 265, 268, 290; x. 50, 52, 74, 104, 140, 142, 167.

Peaches (Sultani and Andam), viii. 270.

Pearl supposed to lose 1 per cent. per ann. of its lustre, i. 165.

Pearl-fisheries, vi. 60.

Pearls (shaded by hair = teeth under mustachio), v. 157.

—— (fresh from water), vii. 240.

—— (resting on the sand-bank), ix. 164.

Pears (various kinds of), viii. 269.

Peccadillo in good olden days (murder), iv. 275.

“Péché philosophique” (the, in France), x. 249.

Pederasts (list of famous), x. 252.

Pehlevi version of the Panchatantra, x. 120.

Pen and Preserved Tablet, ii. 68.

Pencilling the eyes with Kohl, vii. 250.

Penis (as to anus and cunnus), iii. 303.

—— (Ark al-Halawat), iv. 51.

—— (correspondence of size), iv. 52.

—— (and its succedanea), x. 239.

Pens (gilded = reeds washed with gold), vii. 112.

People of His affection = those who deserve His love, ix. 92.

Pepper (and the discovery of the Cape route), vi. 38.

—— (-plantations shaded by bananas), vi. 57.

Perfumes (not used during mourning), iii. 63.

—— (natural), iii. 231.

Periphrase containing a negative adds emphasis, ii. 83.

Persian (“I am a, but not lying now”), v. 26.

—— (poets mostly addressing youths), v. 156.

Persians always suspected, viii. 8.

Persians (delighting in practical jokes), ix. 177.

Person (Ar. Shakhs), iv. 97; viii. 159.

Peshadians (race of Persian Kings), i. 75.

Petrified folk, ix. 318.

Phaedra and Hippolytus, vi. 127.

Pharao (signs to), iv. 249.

“Philippi” and “Alexanders” in Sidon, ii. 82.

Philosophic (used in a bad sense), vi. 257.

Physical prognostication familiar to Mesmerists, ii. 72.

Physiognomy (Ar. Firásah, Kiyáfah), viii. 326.

Physiologists (practise on the simiads), v. 220.

Physis and Anti-physis, v. 320.

Picnics (on the Rauzah island), v. 169.

Pidar-sokhtah = (son of a) burnt father (Persian insult), vi. 26.

Pièces de circonstance (mostly mere doggrel), ii. 261; viii. 59.

Pigeon (language, etc.), iii. 126.

—— (blood of the young), ib. 289.

Pilgrimage quoted, i. 28.

—— (iii. 11), ib. 46.

—— (i. 5; ii. 196), ib. 51.

—— (ii. 71), ib. 74.

—— (ii. 309), ib. 77.

—— (iii. 126), ib. 97.

—— (i. 86), ib. 107.

—— (iii. 31, etc.), ib. 112.

—— (i. 327), ib. 120.

—— (ii. 198), ib. 123.

—— (iii. 104), ib. 134.

—— (iii. 350), ib. 138.

—— (i. chapt. xi.), ib. 140.

—— (iii. 137), ib. 170.

—— (iii. 200), ib. 174.

—— (iii. 60, 62) ib. 208.

—— (i. 202), ib. 214.

—— (ii. 275), ib. 215.

—— (i. 118), ib. 219.

370—— (ii. 215), ib. 220.

—— (iii. 125, 232), ib. 226.

—— (i. 313), ib. 228.

—— (iii. 63), ib. 230.

—— (i. 84; iii. 43), ib. 245.

—— (i. 127), ib. 250.

—— (ii. 175), ib. 256.

—— (i. 160), ib. 258.

—— (i. 255; i. 60), ib. 266.

—— (iii. 263), ib. 269.

—— (iii. 201, 202), ib. 284.

—— (i. 53), ib. 294.

—— (i. 240; iii. 35, 36), ib. 308.

—— (i. 11; iii. 285), ii. 5.

—— (i. 261; iii. 7), ib. 15.

—— (i. 210; 346), ib. 31.

—— (ii. 77), ib. 40.

—— (iii. 330), ib. 113.

—— (ii. 113), ib. 114.

—— (i. 99), ib. 316.

—— (ii. 274), ib. 326.

—— (ii. 176; i. 174), ib. 330.

—— (i. 276), ib. 338.

—— (iii. 333), ib. 124.

—— (iii. 12), ib. 131.

—— (iii. 254), ib. 132.

—— (i. 222; ii. 91), ib. 139.

—— (ii. 118), ib. 140.

—— (i. 121), ib. 163.

—— (ii. 227), ib. 165.

—— (iii. 226, 342, 344), ib. 169.

—— (ii. 49), ib. 178.

—— (i. 305), ib. 180.

—— (iii. 322), ib. 203.

—— (ii. 89), ib. 220.

—— (iii. 115), ib. 224.

—— (iii. 232), ib. 227.

—— (i. 346), ib. 230.

—— (iii. 78), ib. 236.

—— (ii. 110), ib. 242.

—— (iii. 171–175; 203), ib. 272.

—— (iii. 113), ib. 286.

—— (iii. 71), ib. 293.

—— (ii. 105, 205), ib. 317.

—— (ii. 58; iii. 343), ib. 327.

—— (i. 110), ib. 330.

—— (ii. 22), iii. 7.

—— (iii. 77), ib. 65.

—— (iii. 14), ib. 67.

—— (i. 216), ib. 81.

—— (i. 64), ib. 91.

—— (iii. 185), ib. 107.

—— (iii. 270), ib. 118.

—— (iii. 208), ib. 121.

—— (iii. 218), ib. 126.

—— (i. 52), ib. 151.

—— (iii. 307), ib. 159.

—— (i. 99), ib. 163.

—— (iii. 239), ib. 174.

—— (iii. 22), ib. 226.

—— (ii. 282), ib. 241.

—— (iii. 144), ib. 252.

—— (ii. 213, 321), ib. 304.

—— (iii. 192–194), ib. 319.

—— (i. 106), ib. 324.

—— (i. 75–77), iv. 6.

—— (i. 285; ii. 78), ib. 36.

—— (iii. 306), ib. 75.

—— (i. 123), ib. 78.

—— (iii. 295), ib. 80.

—— (iii. 303), ib. 95.

—— (ii. 119), ib. 114.

—— (i. 213), ib. 115.

—— (iii. 156, 162, 216, 220), ib. 125.

—— (iii. 168, 174, 175), ib. 148.

—— (ii. 329), ib. 254.

—— (iii. 192), ib. 261.

—— (i. 43), ib. 293.

—— (i. 22), v. 39.

—— (ii. 287), ib. 44.

—— (iii. 218), ib. 49.

—— (i. 16), ib. 97.

—— (ii. 344), ib. 100.

—— (i. 10), ib. 112.

—— (ii. 161), ib. 119.

—— (i. 352), ib. 158.

—— (ii. 320), ib. 196.

—— (i. 110), ib. 201.

—— (iii. 193, 205, 226, 282), ib. 203.

—— (iii. 248), ib. 212.

—— (iii. 92), ib. 220.

—— (ii. 322), ib. 224.

—— (i. 362), ib. 225.

—— (ii. 288), ib. 236.

—— (i. 297), vi. 57.

—— (i. 180), ib. 61.

—— (i. 349; iii. 73), ib. 263.

—— (ii. 116; iii. 190), ib. 264.

—— (i. 370), ib. 276.

—— (i. 298), ib. 277.

—— (ii. 332), ib. 287.

—— (iii. 90), vii. 3, 4.

—— (i. 377), ib. 9.

—— (iii. 191), ib. 21.

371—— (i. 14), ib. 80.

—— (ii. 62–69), ib. 91.

—— (ii. 130, 138, 325), ib. 92.

—— (ii. 3), ib. 95.

—— (iii. 336), ib. 104.

—— (i. 59), ib. 171.

—— (i. 120), ib. 172.

—— (ii. 300), ib. 124.

—— (ii. 24), ib. 140.

—— (i. 124), ib. 177.

—— (iii. 66), ib. 181.

—— (ii. 52–54), ib. 202.

—— (i. 62), ib. 212.

—— (iii. 165), ib. 219.

—— (iii. 70), viii. 137.

—— (iii. 365), ib. 157.

—— (ii. 248), ib. 172.

—— (ii. 130, etc.), ib. 183.

—— (ii. 207), ib. 273.

—— (i. 176), ib. 287.

—— (ii. 82), ib. 291.

—— (i. 88), ib. 300.

—— (i. 9), ix. 50.

—— (i. 235), ib. 51.

—— (iii. 66), ib. 81.

—— (i. 20), ib. 165.

—— (ii. 285–287), ib. 175.

—— (iii. 224, 256), ib. 178.

—— (i. 99), ib. 262.

—— (ii. 48), ib. 307.

—— (i. 314), ib. 315.

Pilgrimage not perfected save by copulation with the camel, viii. 157.

Pilgrims (offcast of the = a broken down pilgrim left to die on the road), ix. 290.

Pillow (wisádah, makhaddah), taking to = taking to one’s bed, ii. 70.

Pistachio-nut (tight-fitting shell of), iv. 216.

Pitching tents within dog-bark from Royalty disrespectful, ii. 294.

Plain (ground), synonyms for, i. 46.

Plain-speaking (of the Badawí), iv. 102.

Plaisirs de la petite oie (practised by Eunuchs), v. 46.

Plates as armature, iii. 216.

Plato (his theory of love), x. 209.

Play “near and far” = “fast and loose,” x. 22.

Pleasure prolonged (en pensant à sa pauvre mère, etc.), v. 76.

Pleiads (the stars whereby men sail), viii. 304.

Plunder sanctioned by custom, ii. 68.

Plur. masc. used by way of modesty by a girl addressing her lover, i. 98.

Plural of Majesty, iii. 16; iv. 156.

Poetical justice (administered with vigour in The Nights), vi. 25.

Poetry of the Arabs requires knowledge of the Desert to be understood, i. 230.

Poets (four, whose works contraried their character), x. 253.

Poison (deadly only in contact with abraded skin), vi. 202.

Poisons in the East, ix. 101.

Poke (counterfeit), iii. 302.

Policeman (called in, a severe punishment in the East; why?), ix. 137.

Police-master legally answerable for losses, vii. 161.

Polissonnerie (Egyptian), iii. 243; iv. 226.

Polo (“Goff”), v. 32.

Poltroon (contrasted with a female tiger-lamb), ix. 224.

Polygamy and Polyandry in relation to climate, iii. 241.

Polyphemus (in Arab garb), vi. 24.

—— (no Mrs. P. accepted), vi. 27.