Volume 10 — Appendix I. (continued 3)

Pomegranate fruit supposed to contain seed from Eden garden, i. 134.

—— (Hadís referring to), viii. 267.

Porcelain (not made in Egypt or Syria), iv. 164.

Postillon (Le), iii. 304.

Postures of coition, iii. 93.

Potter (simile of the), ix. 77.

Pouch (Ar. Surrah), viii. 71.

Poverty (Holy), v. 269.

Powders (coloured in sign of holiday making), x. 51.

Power (whoso has it and spareth, for Allah’s reward he prepareth), ix. 340.

Prayer (for the dead lack the Sijdah), ii. 10.

—— (of Ramazan), ii. 202.

—— (rules for joining in), iii. 174.

—— (two-bow), iii. 213.

—— (-niche = way-side chapel), iii. 324.

—— (without intention, Ar. Niyat, is valueless), v. 163.

—— (offered standing or prostrating), v. 196.

—— (of a sick person as he best can), v. 200.

—— (intonation of the voice in), v. 200.

372—— (call to, Azán), v. 201.

—— (is a collector of all folk), v. 201.

Praying against (polite form for cursing), ix. 293.

Pre-Adamite doctrine, x. 179.

Preachments (to Eastern despots), v. 254.

Precautions (thwarted by Fate and Fortune), vi. 167.

Precedence (claims pre-eminence), viii. 285.

Precedent (merit appertains to), iii. 264.

Predestination (not Providence, a Moslem belief), vi. 202.

Pre-eminence (appertaineth to precedence), viii. 285.

Preliminaries of a wrestling bout, ii. 92.

Premier (Le, embellit), viii. 86.

Preposterous venery, iii. 304.

Presence (I am in thy = thy slave to slay or pardon), ix. 124.

Preserved tablet, ii. 68.

Preventives (the two), iii. 222.

Price (without abatement = without abstracting a large bakhshish), ix. 152.

—— (shall remain), ix. 262.

Pride of beauty intoxicates, iv. 34.

Priest hidden within an image (may date from the days of Memnon), ix. 324.

Prima Venus debet esse cruenta, iii. 289.

Prime Minister carrying fish to the cookmaid, i. 63.

Prince (of a people is their servant), ix. 99.

Prin´cess, English; Prince´ss, French, vii. 245.

Prison (in the King’s Palace), ix. 52.

Prisons (Moslem), vi. 244.

Privy, a slab with slit in front and a round hole behind, i. 221.

—— and bath favourite haunts of the Jinns, vi. 141.

Procès verbal (customary with Moslems), iv. 73.

Prognostication frequently mentioned, ii. 72.

—— (from nervous movements), viii. 25.

Prolixity (heightening the effect of a tale), x. 50.

Prolongatio veneris (Imsák), v. 76.

Prominence of the pugaeic muscles insisted upon, ii. 98.

Property (of the heirless lapses to the treasury), iv. 62.

—— (left by will), vi. 213.

Prophets (have some manual trade), ii. 286.

—— (named in the Koran), v. 210.

—— (and their agnomina), vi. 270.

Proportion of horse and foot in Arab and Turcoman armies, vii. 1.

Prostitution (never wholly abolished in Al-Islam), viii. 115.

Prostration (must be made to Allah only), vi. 136.

Protestants (four great Sommités), vii. 124.

Prothesis without apodosis (a favourite style in Arabic), vi. 203, 239.

Proverbs true to nature, i. 307.

Providence (and Justice), v. 286.

Province (“some” = Sancho Panza’s “insula”), ii. 188.

Puellæ Wakwakienses, viii. 89.

Puns (wretched and otherwise), ii. 64, 179, 182; iv. 258; vii. 53, 288, 307; viii. 35, 228, 329; ix. 278, 289; x. 11, 27.

Punctilios of the Desert, vi. 264.

Purgation (Easterns most careful during), v. 154.

Purifying (after evacuation), ii. 326.

Purity of love attains a prophetic strain, iii. 6.

Pyramidennarren, v. 106.

Pyramids (Ar. Al-Ahrám), v. 105.

—— (containing unopened chambers?), v. 106.

—— (verses on the), x. 150.

Qanoon-e-Islam quoted on the subject of horoscopes, etc. i. 213.

Quarter (son of the = neighbour), vi. 236.

Queen’s mischief = the mischief which may (or will) come from the Queen, viii. 98.

Question (expressing emphatic assertion), ix. 182.

Questions (indiscreet, the rule throughout Arabia), iii. 105.

Quibbling away (a truly diplomatic art), v. 86.

Ra’ad al-Kásif (Pr. N.) = the loud-pealing Thunder, vi. 221.

Ra’ad Sháh A. P. = thunder-king, vii. 55.

Raas al-Mál = capital, viii. 248.

Raat-hu = she saw him, viii. 298.

Ra’áyá (pl. of Ra’íyat) = Ryot, iii. 215.

Rabbatí = my she-Lord, applied to the fire, vii. 36.

373Rabelaisian humour of the richest, iv. 152.

Rabite, classical term for a noble Arab horse, iii. 72.

Racing a favourite pastime, ii. 273.

Raff = shelf running round a room, viii. 122.

Ráfisi = denier, Shí’ah, iv. 44.

Rafw = artistic style of darning, vi. 198.

Rag (burnt, used as styptic), iv. 108.

Rághib = the Desirous, v. 145.

—— (= expecter; Záhid = rejecter), viii. 315.

Ráh = pure old wine, iv. 186.

Rahan = pledge, ix. 311.

Ráhatáni (Al-) = the two rests, viii. 342.

Rahíl (small dromedary), iii. 67.

Rahim, Rihm = womb for uterine relations, vii. 123.

Rahmah (Pr. N.) = the puritanical “Mercy,” vi. 226.

Raiment of devotees (white wool), vii. 214.

Rais = captain, master (not owner) of a ship, i. 127; vi. 12.

Raising the tail, sign of excitement in the Arab blood-horse, iii. 84.

Rajab = worshipping (seventh Arab month), v. 54.

Rajaz = the seventh Bahr of Arabic prosody, i. 251.

Rajul ikhtiyár = a middle-aged man, i. 55.

Rakham = aquiline vulture, viii. 20.

Rákí (distilled from raisins), v. 65.

Rakb = fast-going caravan, iv. 254.

Ramazán (moon of), viii. 33.

Ramlah (half-way house between Jaffa and Jerusalem), vi. 103.

Rank (derived from Pers. rang = colour), ii. 192.

—— (thine is with me such as thou couldst wish = I esteem thee as thou deservest), ix. 41.

—— (conferred by a Sovereign’s addressing a person by a title), ix. 119.

Rape (rendered excusable by wilfulness), vi. 187.

Rás al Killaut = Head of Killaut, a son of the sons of the Jinn, ix. 8.

Rás al-Tín = Headland of Clay (not Figs), v. 112.

Rashaa = fawn beginning to walk, v. 149.

Rashád = garden-cresses or stones; viii. 194.

Rashíd = the heaven-directed, viii. 194.

Rashid (Pasha, etc.), iv. 202.

Rashid = Rosetta, viii. 288.

Rasíf (Al-) river-quay, dyke, viii. 150.

Rasm = usage (justifies a father killing his son), ii. 7.

Rasúl = one sent, “apostle,” not prophet, iv. 284.

Rasy = praising in a funeral sermon, iii. 291.

Ratánah = a jargon, iii. 200.

Raushan = window, iii. 171.

Raushaná (splendour) = Roxana, iii. 171.

Rauzah (Al-) = the gardens, i. 291.

—— (at Cairo), v. 169.

Raven of the waste or the parting, iv. 52; viii. 236.

Ráwí = story-teller (also used for Reciter of Traditions), x. 163.

Ráy = rede (“private judgment”), vi. 146.

Ráyah káímah = pennons flying (not “beast standing”), vii. 118.

Raydaníyah (camping ground near Cairo), i. 245.

Rayhán = scented herb, viii. 187.

Rayhání = a curved character, i. 128; ii. 301.

Ráyí = rationalist, vi. 146.

Rayy (old city of Media), iv. 104.

Ready to fly for delight, iii. 26.

Ream (It. risma, Ar. rizmah), v. 108.

Red dress (sign of wrath), iv. 72; vi. 250.

Red Sea (cleaves in twelve places), v. 236.

Reed = pen (title of the Koranic chapt. lxviii), ii. 68.

Reed-pipe (Nay), v. 50.

Refusal of a gift, greatest affront, i. 336.

—— (of a demand in marriage a sore insult), vi. 262.

Relations between Badawi tribes, vi. 267.

Rending of garments as sign of sorrow or vexation, i. 308.

“Renowning it” (boasting of one’s tribe), iii. 80, 108.

—— (naïve style of), vii. 347.

Repentance (a strong plead for granting aid with a Moslem), iv. 277.

—— (acquits the penitent), vii. 72.

Repetition, vii. 293, 301.

—— (of an address in token of kindness), v. 370.

Resignation (noble instance of), x. 42.

374Respect shown to parts of the body, exuviæ, etc., i. 276.

Rest (in Eastern travel before eating and drinking), viii. 142.

Retorts (of a sharp Fellah), vi. 232.

Return unto Allah, iii. 317.

Return-Salám, viii. 309.

Revenge (a sacred duty), viii. 26.

Ribá = interest, usury, v. 201; viii. 248.

Ridding the sea of its rubbish, ix. 169.

Riddle “surprise” (specimen of), v. 239.

Riders (names of such on various beasts), viii. 239.

Riding on the ass an old Biblical practice, i. 262.

Riding on men as donkeys (facetious exaggeration of African practice), vii. 357.

Ríf (Al-) = lowland, viii. 304.

Rihl = wooden saddle, iii. 117.

Rijál al-Ghayb (invisible controls), ii. 211; x. 14.

Rims cars, i. 131.

Rind (rand) = willow, bay, aloes-wood, iii. 172.

Ring (in memoriam), vi. 199.

—— (lost in the Hárím raises jealous suspicion), vi. 200.

Rings in the East, iv. 24.

Rising up and sitting down sign of agitation, ii. 112.

River (the = Tigris-Euphrates), ix. 313.

Rivers (underground), vi. 63.

Rizam (pl. of rizmah) = bales, reams, v. 108.

Rizwán (approbation) = key-keeper of Paradise, iii. 15, 20; iv. 195; viii. 265.

Robbing (to keep life and body together, an acceptable plea), ix. 137.

Robe (the hidden, story of), vi. 188.

Robing one’s self in rags = becoming a Fakír, ii. 171.

Robinson Crusoe (with a touch of Arabic prayerfulness), v. 291.

Rod (divining or dowsing), iv. 73.

Roman superficiality (notable instance of), x. 116.

Rosary, iii. 123.

Rose (in Arab. masculine), viii. 274.

Rose-water (for “nobility and gentry,” even in tea), v. 357.

Rotl (pl. Artál) = rotolo, pound weight, iv. 124.

Roum = Græco-Roman Empire, iv. 100.

Roumi (in Marocco = European), viii. 268.

Royalty in the guise of merchants, iii. 12.

Rozistán = day-station, i. 29.

Rub’ al-Kharáb (probably for the Great Arabian Desert), vii. 80; x. 42.

Rubb = syrup, “Rob,” ii. 3.

Rubbamá = perhaps, sometimes (more emphatic than rubba), vii. 218.

Rubber (shampooer), iii. 17.

Rubhah (townlet on the frontier of Syria), iii. 52.

Ruby (La’al, Yákút), v. 342.

—— (of exceptional size), vi. 66.

Rudaynah and Rudaynian lances, ii. 1.

Rudaynian lance (like a), vii. 265.

Rúh = spirit, breath of life, ix. 67.

Ruh = be off, ix. 168.

Ruh bilá Fuzúl = Begone and none of your impudence, viii. 163.

Ruhbán = monks, viii. 256.

Ruká’í = correspondence hand, i. 128.

Ruk’atayn = two-bow prayer, i. 142.

Rukb = travellers on camels, return caravan, viii. 238.

Rukh (Roc and “Roc’s” feathers), v. 122.

—— (the world-wide “Wundervogel”), vi. 16.

—— (study of, by Prof. Bianconi), vi. 49.

Rukhám = alabaster, i. 295.

Rumourers (the two) = basin and ewer, vii. 146.

Rustak (Al-), city of Oman, vi. 289.

Rustam (not Rustum or Rustem), iv. 219.

Rutub (applying to pearls = fresh from water), vii. 240.

Ryot = liege, subject; Fellah, peasant, iii. 215.

Sá’a (measure of corn, etc.), vi. 203.

Sa’ad = auspiciousness, prosperity; derivatives, i. 9.

Sa’adah (female Pr. N.), iii. 65.

Sa’ádah = worldly prosperity and future happiness, ix. 327.

Sa’alab = fox, iii. 132.

Sa’alabah (name of a tribe), iii. 107.

Sabá = Biblical Sheba, iv. 113; vii. 316.

Sabab = rope (hence a cause), ii. 14; viii. 100.

Sabaj (not Sabah) a black shell, vii. 131.

375Sabaka = he out-raced, ix. 111.

Sabaka Kúrahá = he pierced her forge, viii. 46.

Sabb = low abuse, iii. 311.

Sabbágh = dyer, ii. 305.

Sabbáh bin Rammáh bin Humám = the Comely, son of the Spearman, son of the Lion, iii. 67.

Sabbahaka ’llah bi-’l-Khayr = Allah give thee good morning, vi. 196.

Sabbath (kept in silence), v. 339.

Sabbation (River), v. 337.

Sabíhat al-’Urs = gift on the wedding morning, x. 18.

Sábik = forerunner, viii. 341.

Sabíkah = bar, lamina, ingot, viii. 10.

Sabíyah = young lady, ix. 226.

Sabr = patience and aloes, source of puns, i. 138; viii. 35; ix. 278.

Sabt = Sabbath, ii. 305.

Sabúr = Sapor II., vi. 274.

Sacrifice (Ar. Kurbán), viii. 16.

Sacy, Silvestre de (on the origin of The Nights), x. 76.

Sád (Letter, simile for the eye), v. 34.

Sadaf = cowrie, i. 19.

Sadakah = voluntary alms, opposed to Zakát, i. 339.

Sadd = wall, dyke, i. 114; ii. 128.

Sádir = returning from the water (see Wárid), iii. 56.

Sadness (House of), viii. 64.

Sady = Hámah, q.v.; iii. 293.

Safà (ground-wave in Meccah), v. 203.

Safe-guard (I am in thy = I appeal to thy honour), vi. 158.

Saffron (aphrodisiac), ii. 234.

Safínah = (Noah’s) Ark, ix. 310.

Safíyu ’llah (Adam) = pure of Allah, ii. 124.

Safwán (Pr. N.) = clear, cold, vii. 314.

Saghr (Thagr), the opening of the lips showing the teeth, i. 156; viii. 289.

Sahákah = tribadism, ii. 234.

Sáhib = companion, used as a Wazirial title, i. 237; iv. 139; v. 71.

Sáhib al-Shartah = chief of the watch (Prefect of Police), i. 259.

Sáhib Nafas = master of breath, a minor saint healing by expiration, i. 107.

Sahífah = page, book, viii. 148.

Sahíkah = Tribade, viii. 130.

Sáhil (Al-) = the coast (Phœnicia), ix. 22.

Sáhil Masr = the river side (at Cairo), i. 291.

Sahím al-Layl (Pr. N.) = he who shooteth an arrow by night, vi. 261.

Sáhirah = place for the gathering of souls on Doom-day, iii. 323.

Sahm-hu = his shaft, vi. 100.

Sahm mush ab = forked (not barbed) arrow, ix. 48.

Sá’í = running between Safá and Marwah, ii. 327.

Sáibah = she-camel freed from labour, iii. 78.

—— = a woman who lets herself go (a-whoring, etc.), viii. 151.

Sa’íd = Upper Egypt, viii. 304.

Sa’íd bin Jubayr, ii. 201.

Sa’íd bin Sálim (Governor of Khorasan), v. 94.

Sa’íd bin Zayd (traditionist), v. 81.

Sa’ídah = the auspicious (fem.), ix. 330.

Sá’ik = the Striker (Pr. N.), vii. 35.

Sá’ikah = thunderbolt, vi. 271.

Sailor (Ar. equivalents for), vi. 242.

Sáim al-dahr = perennial faster, v. 112.

Saint, Santon (Walí), v. 112.

Saint and Sinner, v. 115.

Sa’ír = Hell, iv. 143.

Sáis = groom, horsekeeper (Syce), vi. 9.

Saj’a (= rhymed prose), i. 116.

—— (instance of), v. 160.

—— (bald in translation), vii. 2.

—— (answerable for galimatias), vii. 36.

Sajjádah = prayer-rug, vi. 193.

Sák = calf of the leg, ii. 327.

Sakatí = second hand dealer, iv. 77.

Sakhr al-Jinní alluded to, i. 41; v. 316.

Sákí = cup bearer, ii. 27, 327.

—— (and Sák-í), ix. 253.

Sákin = quiescent (applied to a closing wound), ix. 255.

Sákiyah = the Persian water-wheel, i. 123; ix. 218.

Sakká (Anglo-Indian Bihishti) = water-carrier, iv. 44; v. 89.

Sakr = hawk, ii. 293.

Saksar (Pers. Sag-sar = dog’s head), vi. 37.

Sa’lab = fox, jackal, vi. 211; ix. 48, 103.

Salaf (Al-) = ancestry (referring to Mohammed), v. 90.

376Saláhitah (Al-) island, vi. 30.

Sal’am = S(allà) Al(lah) ’A(layhi wa, salla) M, see Abhak, ii. 24.

Salám (to be answered by a better salutation), ii. 146.

—— (of prayers), ii. 243.

—— (becomes Shalúm with the Jews), viii. 223.

—— (not returned, a Moslem form of Boycotting), viii. 302.

Salámát = Welcome! vi. 232.

Salát (blessing, prayer), iv. 60.

Salát mamlúkíyah = praying without ablution, vii. 148.

Salátah (how composed), vii. 132.

Salb = crucifying, iii. 25.

Sale (forced on by the bystanders), viii. 310.

Sales (formula of), vi. 73.

Sálifah = silken plait, viii. 223.

Sálih = a pious man, vii. 314; viii. 191.

—— prophet sent to Thámúd, i. 169.

—— (grandson of Shem?), v. 210.

—— (his she-camel), v. 235.

—— al-Mazani (theologian), v. 261.

Sálihiyah = the Holy (name of a town), ix. 287.

Salím (Pr. N. = the “Safe and Sound”), iv. 58.

Sallah = basket of wickerwork, ix. 56.

Salli ’alà ’l-Nabí = bless the prophet (imposing silence), v. 65.

Salmá and Laylá = our “Mary and Martha,” i. 265.

Salsabíl (fountain of Paradise), iii. 57; iv. 195.

Salutation (the first), v. 200.

—— (Salám, unwillingly addressed to a Christian), v. 284.

—— (from a rider to a man who stands, and from the latter to one who sits), ix. 1.

Saluting after prayer, ix. 254.

Sama’an wa Tá’atan to be translated variously, i. 96.

Samak = common fish, vi. 69.

Samandal (Al-) = Salamander, vii. 280.

Samar = night-story, vii. 312.

Samáwah (Al-), visitation place in Babylonian Irak, vii. 93.

Samharí = lance of Samhar (place or maker), iv. 258.

Samír = night-talker, vii. 217.

Samn = melted butter, Ghi, i. 144; iv. 53; ix. 39.

—— = clarified butter, ix. 39.

Samsam (sword of the Tobba Amru bin Ma’ad Kurb), ii. 127.

Samúm = poisonous wind (Simoon), vi. 88.

Samúr (applied to cats and dogs, also to Admiral Seymour), iv. 57.

Sana’á (capital of Al-Yaman), v. 16.

—— (famed for leather and other work), vii. 130.

Sanájik = banners, ensigns, etc., ix. 290.

Sand (knowing by the = geomancy), ix. 117.

Sandal (Pr. N.) = Sandal-wood, viii. 169.

—— (scented with), v. 192.

—— (Ar. Na’al), vi. 209.

Sandalí (eunuch deprived of penis and testes), v. 46.

Sandals (kissed and laid on the head in token of submission), vii. 370.

Sandúk al-Nuzur = box of vowed oblations, viii. 330.

Sapphic venery, ii. 234.

Sapphism (practised in wealthy Haríms), iv. 234.

Sappho (the “Mascula”), x. 208.

Sar’ (epilepsy, falling sickness, possession), iv. 89; v. 28.

Sár = vendetta, i. 101, 114.

Saráb = mirage, iii. 319; vi. 93.

Sarandíb = Selan-dvípa (Ceylon), vi. 64.

Saráwíl = bag or petticoat trousers, i. 222.

—— (plural or singular?), ix. 225.

Sardáb = underground room, souterrain, tunnel, i. 340; v. 128; ix. 241, 274.

Sarí al-Sakatí (Sufi ascetic), ix. 21.

Sarídah (Tharídah) = brewis, v. 223.

Sarír = bier (empty), ii. 46.

Sarmújah = leggings, sandals, slippers, vii. 370.

Sarráf = Anglo-Indian “Shroff,” i. 210; iv. 270.

Sásá bin Shays, vi. 274.

Sassanides, i. 75.

Satan (his malice weak in comparison with women’s), vi. 144.

Satl = kettle, bucket (situla?), vii. 182.

Sátúr = chopper, viii. 162.

Saub (Tobe) ’Atábi = tabby silk, viii. 201.

Saudá = black bile, melancholia, iv. 251.

377Saudawí = of a melancholic temperament, vii. 238.

Sauf (particle to express future), ii. 269, 296.

Saulajan = bat in “bat and ball,” ii. 329.

Sawáb = reward in Heaven, i. 96.

Sawád = blackness of the hair, x. 60.

Sawáhílí = shore-men, ix. 22.

Sawálif = tresses, locks, v. 158.

Sawík = parched corn, vii. 303.

Sawwáhún = wanderers, pilgrims, viii. 336.

Sawwán = Syenite, iii. 324.

Sayd wa Kanas = hunting and coursing, i. 9.

Sayf (ξίφος) al-Mulúk = Sword of the Kings, vii. 325.

Sayf Zu al-Yazan (hero of a Persian romance), viii. 21.

Sayhún and Jayhún = Jaxartes and Bactrus, ii. 78; v. 41.

Sáyih = wanderer (not “pilgrim”), ix. 51.

Sayl = torrent, vi. 164.

Sayr = broad girdle, viii. 325.

Sayyib (Thayyib) = woman who leaves her husband after lying once with him, viii. 324.

Sayyib-hu = let him go, viii. 151.

Sayyid (descendant from Mohammed through Al-Hasan), v. 259.

Scabbard (Ar. Ghimd), v. 158.

Scalding a stump in oil a common surgery practice, i. 297.

Schoolmaster (derided in East and West), v. 118.

Schools (attached to mosques), x. 174.

Scorpions of the brow = accroche-cœurs, etc., i. 168; viii. 209.

Scoundrels (described with superior gusto), ix. 135.

Scrotum (curdling in fear), ii. 233.

Sea of Al-Karkar, vi. 101.

Sea (striking out sparks), ix. 314.

Sea-stallion (myth of the), vi. 6.

Seal (and sealing-wax), iii. 189.

—— (affixed to make an act binding), v. 184.

—— (breaking the = taking the maidenhead), v. 154.

Sealing a covered dish (a necessary precaution against poison), i. 244.

Seal-ring of Solomon (oath by), vii. 317.

Seas (the two = the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean), i. 173.

—— (fresh = lakes and rivers), v. 326.

Seclusion (royal, and its consequences), ix. 91.

Secrets (instances and sayings with regard to their keeping), v. 83.

Secrets (of workmanship, withheld from apprentices), ix. 263.

Seditions in Kúfah caused by Caliph Othman’s nepotism, ii. 163.

Seduction (the truth about it), iii. 166.

Seeing sweetness of speech = finding it out in converse, ix. 14.

Separation (spoken of as a defilement), iv. 211.

Seeking refuge with Allah, v. 200.

Septentriones (four oxen and their wain), ii. 3.

Sepulchre, erroneously called a little Wali, i. 105.

Serpent does not sting or bite, but strikes, iii. 160.

—— (breaks the bones of its devoured prey by winding round a tree or rock), vi. 29.

—— (breath of), vi. 29.

—— (preserving from sickness), vi. 66.

—— (in Ar. mostly feminine), vi. 75.

Serving the Lord by sinning against one’s body, ii. 208.

Set-off for abuse of women, vii. 130.

Seven deadly sins, ii. 175.

Seven schools or editions of the Koran, i. 113.

Seven sleepers, iii. 128.

Sévigné of pearls, iv. 249.

Sha’abán (moon of), v. 191.

Shább = youth between puberty and forty, i. 55.

Shabistán = night station, i. 29.

Shadow (may yours never be less), viii. 170.

Shafáif = lower labia, viii. 93.

Sháfi’i (school of theology), ii. 151.

Shahádatayn = the two Testimonies, ii. 10; iii. 346.

Shah-bandar = lord of the port (Consul), iv. 29.

Shah (Al-) mát = the King is dead (checkmate), viii. 217.

Sháhid = index, pointer, ii. 300.

Sháhmiyah (large tent), ii. 194.

378Sháh-púr = Kings son, Σαβὼρ, Sapor, v. 2.

Shahrazád (various explanations of the name), i. 14; ii. 3.

Shahrimán not Shah Zemán, iii. 7, 212.

Shahryár = city friend, i. 2.

Shahyál bin Shárukh (Pr. N.), vii. 331.

Shah Zamán = King of the Age, i. 2.

Sháib al-Ingház = grey beard shaking with disapproval, iii. 307.

Sha’ilah = link (also lamp, wick, etc.), i. 259.

Shakespear and musical glasses, ii. 3.

Shakespearean “topothesia” out-Shakespeared, iii. 212.

Shakhs = a person; a black spot, iii. 26; viii. 159.

Shakhtúr = dinghy, vii. 362.

Shaking and nodding the head, universal items of gesture language, i. 300.

Shakiriyah = Kshatriya caste, vi. 10.

Shákuríyah = chicoré, v. 226.

Shám (Sysia) = land on the left, opposed to al-Yaman = land on the right, i. 83.

Shámah = Khál, mole on the cheek, i. 167.

Shamardal (Al-) = the Tall One, vi. 221.

Shambar = Cassia fistularis, ii. 241.

“Shame” alluded to in cursing parents of an abused person, i. 227.

—— (extends from navel to knees), viii. 193.

Shamlah = gaberdine, viii. 160.

Shammara = he tucked up (sleeve or gown), vii. 133.

Shammir = up and ready! viii. 263.

Shampooer (rubber) = Mukayyis or bagman, iii. 17.

Shampooing the feet, i. 117.

Shams al-Daulah (imaginary king of Egypt), vi. 241.

Shams al-Nahár (Pr. N.) = Sun of the Day, v. 9.

Shams al-Zuhà (Pr. N.) = Sun of Undurn, viii. 107.

Shamtá = the grizzled (name for wine), x. 38.

Shanak = hanging, iii. 25.

Shanfarà (poet), iii. 143.

Shár, Sher and Shír, iv. 187.

Sha’r = hair of the body, pile, ix. 157.

Shara (Al-) mountain in Arabia, vii. 23.

Shar’a = holy law, vii. 170.

Sharáb al-Tuffáh = cider, iv. 134.

Sharaf al-Banát (Pr. N.) = Honour of Maidenhood, viii. 107.

Sharáríf = trefoil-shaped crenelles, iv. 165.

Sharít = chopper, sword, vii. 178.

Sharmútah = rags, tatters; a strumpet; shreds of meat = Kadíd, i. 163.

Sharrkán (Sharrun kána) = bane to the foe, ii. 78.

Shart = a single Talbiyah or cry Labbayka, i. 226.

Shásh Abyaz = white turband (distinctive sign of the True Believer), viii. 8.

Shatm = obscene abuse, i. 182.

Shaukat = sting; pride, ii. 106.

Shaving and depilation (process of), ii. 160; ix. 139.

Shaybán (Arab tribe), v. 100.

Shaykh = an old man, elder, chief, i. 26, 55; ii. 144.

—— (attended by a half-witted lunatic), vii. 152.

—— (after the type of Abú Nowás), ix. 251.

—— (for syndic of a guild), ix. 260.

—— (of the thieves one of the worthies of a Moslem capital), vi. 204.

—— al-Bahr = Chief of the Sea (-coast), vi. 51, 53; vii. 357.

Shaykh al-Islám = Chief of the Olema, ix. 289.

—— (his mention sign of modern composition), x. 19.

Shaykh Nasr (Pr. N. = Elder of Victory), v. 343.

Shaykhah Rájihah = the excellent Religious, ix. 347.

Shaykhs (five, doubtful allusion), iii. 30.

Shays = Ab Seth, vi. 283.

Shaytán (Satan) term of abuse, iii. 25.

—— (his wife and nine sons), iii. 229.

Shayyun li ’lláhi = per amor di Dio, i. 329.

Shawáhi (from Shauh) = having fascinating eyes, ii. 269.

Shawáhí Umm al-Dawáhí = the Fascinator, Mother of Calamities, viii. 87.

Shazarwán = Pers. Shadurwán, palace, cornice, etc., vii. 51.

Shedding tears no disgrace for a man, i. 68.

379Shem hamphorash = the hundredth name of God engraved on the seal-ring of Solomon, i. 173.

Sheríf = a descendant of Mohammed, iv. 170.

Shibábah = reed-pipe, viii. 166.

Shiháb = shooting stars, i. 224.

Shikk = split man (a kind of demon), v. 333.

Shinf = gunny-bag, v. 45.

Shíraj = sesame oil, ix. 184.

Shirk (partnership) = Polytheism, Dualism, Trinitarianism, i. 181; ii. 202.

—— (= syntheism), of love, v. 9.

—— of the Mushrik, v. 142.

Shiyár (old name for Saturday), ii. 305.

Shoe (Ar. Markúb, Na’al), vi. 207.

Shop (front shelf of, a seat for visitors), ix. 262.

Shops composed of a “but” and a “ben,” i. 316; iii. 163.

“Short and thick is never quick,” iv. 194.

Shouting under a ruler’s palace to attract attention, ii. 38.

Shovel-iron stirrup, iii. 119.

Shower (how delightful in rainless lands), vii. 141.

Shroud (joined in one = shrouded together?), v. 71.

Shrouds (carried by the pilgrims to Meccah), vi. 61.

Shu’ayb = Jethro, ii. 205; v. 210.

Shúbash = bravo! vii. 195.

Shudder preceding the magnetic trance, i. 44.

Shuhadá = martyrs (extensive category), i. 171.

Shuhúd = accessors of the Kazi’s court, i. 21.

Shujá’ al-Dín (Pr. N.) = the Brave of the Faith, ix. 18.

Shukkah = piece of cloth, ix. 236.

Shúm (a tough wood used for staves), viii. 354.

Shuraih (a Kazi of Kufah in the seventh century), i. 252.

Shúshah = top-knot of hair, i. 308.

Shuumán = pestilent fellow, iv. 75.

Sibawayh (grammarian), vii. 233.

Siddík = true friend, ii. 197.

Siddíkah (Al-) = the veridical (apparently undeserved title of Ayishah), viii. 152.

Side-muscles (her, quiver) = she trembles in every nerve, vii. 219.

Sídí (from Sayyidí) = my lord, v. 283.

Sídí Ibrahím bin al-Khawwás (Pr. N.), v. 283.

Sidillah = seats, furniture, ix. 190.

Sifr = whistling, iv. 206; v. 333.

Sight comprehendeth Him not, etc., vi. 282.

Sign of the cross on the forehead, ii. 224.

Signals of debauchees, x. 219.

Signet-rings, iv. 24.

Signing with the hand not our beckoning, viii. 78.

Signs (of a Shaykh’s tent), iii. 104.

—— (lucky in a horse), iii. 118.

—— (to Pharao), iv. 249.

—— (of Allah = Koranic versets), vi. 144.

—— (by various parts of the body), viii. 233.

—— (language of), ix. 269.

Signum salutis, viii. 293.

Sihr (Al-) = magic, black art, i. 305.

Sijdah = prostration, ii. 10.

Sijn al-Ghazab = Prison of Wrath, x. 45.

Sikankúr = Σκίγκος, see Aphrodisiacs, iv. 32.

Silah = conjunctive sentence, coition, ix. 272.

Siláh-dár = armour-bearer, ii. 215.

Simát = dinner table, i. 178.

Simiyá = white magic, i. 305, 332.

Simoon (Ar. Samúm = poisonous wind), vi. 88.

Símurgh (guardian of the Persian mysteries), x. 130.

Sin (permitted that men might repent), ix. 83.

—— (thy, shall be on thine own neck), ix. 211.

Sín = China, ii. 77.

Sinai (convent famous for Ráki), v. 65.

Sind (matting of), v. 145.

Sindán, Sandán = anvil, viii. 8.

Sindbád (not to be confounded with the eponym of the Sindibád-námah), vi. 4.

Sindibád the Sage, vi. 124.

Sindibád-námah (Persian romance), vi. 122.

—— quoted: vi. 129, 132, 134, 139, 143, 145, 150, 152, 169, 180, 183, 188, 202.

Singing (not harám = sinful, but makrúh = objectionable), ix. 245.

Sinnaur = cat, prince, iii. 149.

380Sinning (for the pleasure of being pardoned), iv. 111.

Sins (seven deadly), ii. 175.

Sírah (small fish, fry, sprat), vi. 216; ix. 166.

Sisters (their abiding together after marriage frequently insisted upon), x. 56.

Sitt al-Masháíkh = Lady of Shaykhs, v. 154.

Skin (free from exudation sounds louder under the clapping of the hand), ix. 150.

—— (extreme delicacy of the female), ix. 321.

Sirát (Al-), the bridge of Hell, iv. 223.

Sister (by adoption), viii. 25.

Sisterhood = companions, suite, viii. 41.

Sitting on shins and knees, a trying posture, i. 130.

Siwák = tooth-stick; Siwá-ka = other than thou, iii. 275.

Sixth Abbaside Caliph, error for Fifth, viii. 56.

Siyágosh, see Tufah.

Slain were those who were slain = many were slain, v. 364.

Slander (poisoned = fatal), ii. 264.

Slapping on the nape of the neck = boxing the ears, iv. 193.

Slate (Ar. Lauh), v. 73.

Slaughter (wholesale, for the delight of the gallery), viii. 255.

Slaughtering (ritual for), v. 391.

—— (by cutting the animal’s throat), viii. 44.

Slave (holds himself superior to a menial freeman), viii. 294.

Slave-girl (Moslemah can compel an infidel master who has attempted her seduction to sell her), vii. 203.

—— (when newly bought frequently pretentious and coquettish), vii. 266.

—— (can only be sold with her consent), viii. 292.

—— (free, not forward in her address), ix. 268.

—— (lewd and treacherous by birth), ix. 280.

—— (to be sent as a spy into the Harims), ix. 292.

Slaves (fancied by debauched women), i. 191.

—— (cannibals), ii. 48.

—— (familiarity), ii. 49.

—— (called “Camphor,” like “Snowball”), ii. 47.

—— (refuse to be set free), ii. 55.

—— (manumission of), ii. 55.

—— (destructiveness), ii. 55.

—— (girls’ names), ii. 57.

—— (returning from a journey), ii. 65.

—— (Christian girls sent to Moslems), ii. 79.

—— (girls examined as to virginity), ii. 147.

—— (Behaving like one), ii. 270.

—— (O Camphor), iii. 40.

—— (set free for the benefit of the dead), iii. 211.

—— (dealer in = Jalláb), iii. 349.

—— (ambitious to have slaves of their own), v. 12.

—— (if ill-treated may demand to be sold), viii. 54.

Sledge (thrashing = tribulum), ii. 23.

Sleeper and Waker (tale of the), iv. 96.

Sleepers (the Seven of Ephesus), iii. 128.

Sleeping (and slumbering), ii. 178.

—— (with covered head and face), iii. 345.

—— (naked), v. 8.

—— (with head and body covered by a sheet), v. 18.

—— (with a sword between them), vii. 352.

Sleeplessness (contrivance against), iv. 228.

Slice of the moon = digit of the moon, i. 91.

Smile (like Mím), iv. 249.

—— (and laughter), v. 193.

Smoking out (a common practice), ii. 255.

Smothering a rival (common in Harims), ii. 58.

Smuggling men into the Harim, i. 282.

Snatching off the turband, a paying industry, i. 259.

Sneezing (etiquette of), ix. 220.

Socrates (“sanctus pæderasta”), x. 213 seqq.

Sodomite (Ar. Lútí), v. 161.

—— (punished if detected), v. 160.

Sodomites (angels appear to), iii. 301, 304.

Sodomy (abnormally developed amongst the savages of the New World), x. 240.

—— with women, iii. 304.

Softness of skin highly prized, ii. 295.

Soft-sided, attribute of beauty, i. 168.

Soko (Maghribi form for Súk = bazar-street), viii. 230.

381Sold to thee for monies received (formula of Moslem sales), vi. 73.

Soldiers of Al-Daylam = warlike as the Daylamites, viii. 82.

Sole of a valley often preferred to encamp in, ii. 85.

Solomon (his carpet), iii. 267.

—— (his food-tray), vi. 80.

—— (his seal-ring), vi. 84.

—— (the Apostle of Allah), vi. 99.

—— (his Wazir Asaf), vi. 99.

—— (his trick upon Bilkis), vi. 113.

—— (oath by his seal-ring), vii. 317.

—— and David (their burial-place), v. 310.

—— and Al-Sakhr, ii. 97.

Solomon’s death fixing the date of a tale, i. 41.

—— prison (the copper cucurbites in which he imprisoned the rebellious Jinns), viii. 157.

“Son” used for “grandson” as more affectionate, i. 243.

—— (the lamp of a dark house), ii. 280.

—— (of a century = hundred years old), i. 126.

—— (of Persian Kings, not Prince but descendant), iii. 163.

—— (of ten years dieth not in the ninth), viii. 70.

Sons of Adam = men, i. 130.

—— of Sásán = Sassanides, i. 2.

—— (brought as servants unto Kings), ix. 43.

—— of the road = wayfarers, ii. 23.

Sophia (Pr. N. and Mosque), ii. 79.

Sortes Virgilianæ, v. 44.

Soul (Thou knowest what is in mine and I know not what is in Thine), v. 216.

—— (you may have his, but leave me his body), viii. 284.

—— (for lover), ix. 25.

Souls (doctrine of the three), v. 218.

Spartivento = mountain whereon the clouds split, viii. 19.

Speaker puts himself first, i. 33.

Speaking en prince, ii. 184.

Speaking to the “gallery,” viii. 128.

Spears and javelines, vi. 263.

Speech (this my = the words I am about to speak), viii. 147.

Speech (inverted), viii. 318.

Speech (for prayers imprecating parting), viii. 347.

Sperm (though it were a drop of marguerite), viii. 210.

Spider-web, frailest of houses (Koranic), ix. 59.

Spindle (thinner than a), iii. 260.

Spiritual Sciences (Moslem form of Cabbala), ii. 151.

Spiritualism (the religion of the nineteenth century), ix. 86.

Spittle dried up from fear, i. 285.

Spoon (Ar. Mi’lakah), ix. 141.

Spurring = kicking with the shovel-stirrup ii. 89.

Squatting against a wall, iv. 119.

Squeeze of the tomb (Fishás), v. 111.

Staff broken in the first bout = failure in the first attempt, i. 64.

Stages (ten, of love-sickness), iii. 36.

Stallion (I am not one to be struck on the nose), vi. 262.

Standards reversed in sign of defeat, ii. 259.

Stations of the Moon (Ar. Manázil), v. 228.

Stature (Alif-like), iv. 249.

Steel (Ar. Bulád), vi. 115.

Steward (pendant to the parable of the unjust), ix. 66.

St. George (posture), iii. 304.

Stirrup (walking by the), vi. 234.

“Stone-bow” not “cross-bow,” iii. 116.

Stoning (of the devil at Mina), v. 203.

Stones (precious), v. 312.

—— (ditto, and their mines), vi. 18.

—— (removed from the path by the pious), vi. 190.

Story-teller (picture of the), x. 164.

Strangers (treated with kindly care), v. 171.

“Strangers yet” (Lord Houghton quoted), v. 284.

Street (the, called Yellow), iv. 93.

—— (-watering), iv. 107.

Street-cries of Cairo, vii. 172.

Street-melodies changing with fashion, i. 311.

Striking the right hand upon the left in sign of vexation, i. 298.

Striking with the shoe, the pipe-stick, etc. highly insulting, i. 110.

Stuff his mouth with jewels (reward for poetry), iv. 103.

382Stuff a dead man’s mouth with cotton, iv. 193.

Style (of a Cairene public scribe) vii. 134.

—— (intended to be worthy of a statesman) ix. 42.

Su’adá = Beatrice, iv. 267.

Subán = dragon, ix. 277.

Subhán a’llah pronounced to keep off the evil eye, iii. 224.

Subhat-hu = in company with him, vii. 262.

Subh-i-kázib = false dawn, i. 78.

Subh-i-sádik = true dawn, i. 78.

Submission (Ar. Khafz al-Jináh = lowering the wings) ix. 74.

Sucking the tongue = “kissing with th’ inner lip” i. 270.

Sucking the dead mother’s breast, touch of Arab pathos, ii. 128.

Súdán = our Soudan, iii. 75.

Súdán-men = Negroes, viii. 266.

Suez (Ar. Al-Suways) vi. 80.

Súf (wool); Súfí (Gnostic) iii. 140.

Sufiism (rise of) x. 128.

Súfís (stages of their journey) v. 264.

—— (address Allah as a lover would his beloved) iv. 263, 298.

Suffah = “sofa” (shelf) iv. 275.

Sufrah (provision-bag and table-cloth) i. 178; v. 8; viii. 269; ix. 141.

Sufyán al-Thaurí, ii. 202; v. 81.

Sugar-stick = German Zuckerpüppchen, i. 167.

Sughr (Thughr) see Saghr.

Suha, star in the Great Bear, i. 167; iii. 28.

Sujúd = prostration, iv. 248.

Sukát (pl. of Sákí = cup-bearer) v. 66.

Sukita fí aydíhim = it repented them, v. 191.

Sukúb (Pr. N.) = flowing, pouring, viii. 209.

Suláf al-Khandarísí (a contradiction) viii. 203.

Suláfah = ptisane of wine, must, iv. 258; v. 158.

Sulamí = belonging to the Banu Sulaym tribe, vii. 93.

Sulaymá, dim. of Salma = any beautiful woman, iii. 263.

Sulaymán and Sakhr al-Jinní, i. 42.

Sulaymán bin Abd al-Malik (Caliph) ii. 167; vii. 99.

Sulaymáníyah = Afgháns, vii. 171.

Sullam = ladder; whipping-post, i. 331.

Sultán (anachronistic use of the title) v. 88, 179.

—— (fit for the service of = for the service of a temporal monarch) viii. 325.

Sulus = engrossing hand, i. 128.

Sumbul al-’Anbari = spikenard, viii. 273.

Sumr = brown, black, iv. 251.

Sums of large amount weighed, i. 281.

Sun (greeting Mohammed) i. 45.

—— (likened to a bride displaying her charms to man) x. 38.

Sun and Moon (luminaries for day and night) v. 228.

—— (do not outstrip each other) v. 228.

Sunan (used for Rasm) = usage, customs, ix. 74.

Sundus = brocade, v. 57.

Sunnah = practice of the Prophet, etc., v. 36, 167.

Sunni (versus Shí’ah) iv. 82.

Suns (for fair-faced boys and women) viii. 242.

Superiority of man above woman, iii. 332.

Supernaturalismus (has a material basis) viii. 31.

Superstitious practices not confined to the lower orders, i. 40.

Suráhíyah (vulg. Suláhíyah) = glass-bottle, vii. 370.

Surayyá = Stars of Wealth (lit. moderately rich) viii. 303.

Suritu = I was possessed of a Jinn, ix. 27.

Surrah = purse, pouch, viii. 71.

Surriyah = concubine, i. 27.

Susannah and the Elders in Moslem garb, v. 97.

Sutures of the skull, iii. 123.

Su’ubán = dragon, cockatrice = Tammím, i. 172; vii. 322.

Su’ud used as a counter-odour, i. 279.

Suwán = syenite, i. 238; ix. 316.

Suways (Al-) = Suez, vi. 80; ix. 10.

Swan-maidens, v. 346; viii. 30.

Swearing (on Blade and Book) ii. 332.

—— (by Allah, forbidden) iv. 175.

Sweet (the, slang for fire) ii. 163.

Sweetmeat of Safety, iv. 60; viii. 105.

383Swevens (an they but prove true) ix. 284.

Swimming (studied in Baghdad) vi. 134.

Sword (making invisible) iv. 176; vi. 230.

—— (between sleepers represents only the man’s honour) vii. 353.

Sycamore fig (for anus) iii. 302.

Syene (town on the Nile) iv. 152.

Syphilis (origin of) x. 89.

—— (hippic) x. 90.

Syria (Shám) = left-hand land, ii. 224.

Taakhír = acting with deliberation, ix. 328.

Ta’álík = hanging lamps, ix. 320.

Ta’ám = meat; millet, ii. 67.

Táb (game) = tip-cat, ii. 314.

Tabannuj = drugging with Bhang, iv. 71.

Tabban lahu = perdition on him! iv. 142.

Tábik = coffer, vii. 350.

Tabl = kettledrum, viii. 18.

Tablet (Ar. Lauh) v. 37.

—— (the Preserved), v. 322.

Tábút = bier, ark, etc., ii. 46; vii. 207, 350.

Tabzír = female circumcision, ii. 234.

Tadmúrah (founds Tadmur or Palmyra) vi. 116.

Tafazzal = favorisca (have the kindness) ii. 103.

Taggáa, ii. 88.

Taghaddá = he dined, vii. 180.

Taghúm, a kind of onomatopoetic grunt, i. 228.

Tághút (idol) iii. 217.

Tahlíl = Refrain of Unity, ii. 236.

Táif (Al-), town famous for scented leather, viii. 273.

Táifí leather, viii. 303.

Tail (wagging of, a sign of anger with felidæ) ix. 72.

Tái’li ’llah (Caliph) iii. 51, 307.

Tailor made to cut out the cloth in owner’s presence, i. 321.

Táír al-bayn = parting-bird, vii. 226.

Táj al-Mulúk Khárán = crown of the kings of amorous blandishment, ii. 291.

Táj Kisrawí = Chosroan crown, ix. 319.

Tájír Alfí = a merchant worth a thousand (left indefinite) ix. 313.

Takaddum and Takádum (difference between) iv. 171.

Tákah = arched hollow in the wall, niche, vii. 361.

Takhíl = adorning with Kohl, iii. 57.

Takhmísh = tearing the face in grief, ix. 10.

Takht (sitting accommodation from a throne to a saddle, capital), v. 322; vii. 55.

—— (more emphatical than Sarír), vii. 328.

Takht-rawán = moving throne (mule-litter), ii. 180; v. 175.

Tákiyah = calotte worn under the Fez, skull-cap, i. 224; viii. 120.

Taklíd = baldricking, not girding, a sword, vii. 3.

Takliyah = onion-sauce, vii. 322.

Takrúrí = Moslem from Central and Western North Africa, ii. 15.

Taksím = distribution, analysis, ix. 77.

Takwím = Tacuíno (for Almanac), vii. 296.

Talák bi ’l-Salásah = triple divorce, iii. 292.

Talbiyah = the cry Labbayka, i. 226; ii. 227.

Talking birds (watching over wives), vi. 132.

Tamar al-Hindí (Tamarind) = the Indian date, iii. 297.

Tamar Hanná = flower of privet, i. 83; viii. 176.

Tam Múz = July, i. 53.

Ta’mím = crowning with turband or tiara; covering, wetting, v. 199.

Tamsír (derived from Misr) = founding a military cantonment, vii. 371.

Tanjah = Tanjiers, vi. 106.

Tanwín al-Izáfah = the nunnation in construction, ix. 272.

Tár = tambourine, i. 215.

Taráib = breast-bone, v. 132.

Tarbúsh = Pers. Sar-púsh, head cover, i. 215.

Target (Ar. Darakah), vi. 9.

Tárhah = head-veil, ii. 52.

Tárík = clear the way, i. 66.

Tárik (Jabal al-) = Gibraltar, iv. 100.

Taríkah = musical mode, modulation, ix. 27.

Taríkat = (mystic) path to knowledge, v. 111.

384Ta’rís-ak = thy going between (pimping), vi. 196.

Tarjumán = truchman, i. 100.

Tarn-Kappe (Siegfried’s), iv. 176; viii. 120.

Tars Daylamí = Median Targe, viii. 291.

Tás (from Pers. Tásah), = tasse, viii. 224.

Tasawwuf (rise of), x. 128.

Tasbíh = saying Subhán Allah; Rosary, i. 258; iii. 125.

Tasmeh-pá = strap-legs, vi. 51.

Tasním (from sanam) = a fountain in Paradise, ii. 100; v. 264.

Tásúmah = sandal, slipper, ii. 197.

Taswíf = saying “Sauf,” q.v., ii. 296.

Taub (Saub, Tobe) = loose garment, ii. 206.

Taubah (Bi’l-) = by means or on account of penitence, ix. 83.

Taufík (Pr. N. = causing to be prosperous), iv. 1.

Taur (Thaur, Saur), a venerable remnant of an un-split speech, i. 16.

Taverns, vii. 324.

Tawáf = circumambulation of the Ka’abah, ii. 327; vi. 242.

Tawáshí, obnoxious name for a Eunuch, i. 235.

Tawashshuh = shoulder-cut, ii. 107.

Tawáf = Ka’abah-circuit, v. 203.

Tawakkul ’alà ’llah = trust in Allah, v. 208.

Tawíl (and Abt Vogler), viii. 96.

Tawílan jiddan, now a Cairenism, vii. 13.

Tayammum = washing with sand, v. 197.

Tayf = ghost, phantom, iii. 252.

Taylasán (turband worn by a preacher), iv. 286.

Tayr = any flying thing, bird, vii. 227.

Tayrab (Al-) a city, iii. 259.

Taysh = vertigo, giddiness, x. 9.

Tayy (noble Arab tribe), iv. 94.

Tazríb = quilting, vii. 330.

Tears shed over past separation, i. 283.

—— (pouring blood like red wine), iii. 169.

Teeth (their cleansing enjoined by Mohammed), v. 44.

“Tell the truth!” way of taking an Eastern liar, vii. 183.

Ten stages of love-sickness, iii. 36.

Tent (signs of a Shaykh’s), iii. 104.

—— (how constructed), vii. 109.

Testicles (names for), ii. 55.

—— (curdling in fear), ii. 233.

—— (beating and bruising of, female mode of killing a man), iii. 3.

Testimonies (the two = Shahádatayn), ii. 10.

Thakílata-k Ummak = be thy mother bereaved of thee, iv. 156.

Thamúd (prehistoric Arab tribe), iii. 294.

Thank you (Eastern equivalent for), iv. 6; v. 171.

Theft (penalty of), viii. 164.

“Them” for “her,” viii. 35.

“There is no Majesty,” etc. as ejaculation of impatience, vii. 73.

“They” for “she,” v. 41, 140; viii. 281.

Thigh-bite allowed in wrestling, ii. 93.

Third = Tuesday, vii. 349.

Thirst (affecting plea; why?), iv. 199.

Thongs (of the water skins cut, preparatory to departure), ix. 302.

Thorn of lance = eyelash, iii. 331.

Thou fillest mine eyes = I find thy beauty all-sufficient, viii. 57.

Thousand dinárs and five thousand dirhams = £500 and £125 respectively, i. 281.

Thousand thousand = a million, vi. 98.

Three days, term of hospitality, i. 3.

Three hundred and three score rooms = one for each day of the Moslem year, ix. 61.

Three things (are better than other three), vi. 5.

—— (not to be praised before death), ix. 39.

Threshold (of marble in sign of honour), ix. 238.

Throne-verse, v. 211.

Throwing one = bastinado on the back, i. 243.

“Throwing the handkerchief,” vi. 285.

Thrusting (applied to spear and lance), ii. 231.

Thursday night (in Moslem parlance = Friday night), v. 324.

Tibn = crushed straw, i. 16; ix. 106.

Tigris (Ar. Dajlah, Dijlah), viii. 150.

Timbák (Tumbák) = stronger variety of Tobacco, ix. 136.

Time (distribution of), ix. 71.

Time-measurers (of very ancient date), x. 85.

385Timsah = crocodile, vii. 343.

Tin (Kazdír) iv. 274; vi. 39.

Tín = fig, simile for a woman’s parts, iii. 302.

—— = clay puddled with chaff, v. 112.

Tinder (a styptic), iv. 108.

Tingis = Tanjah (Tangiers), vi. 106.

Tip-cat stick, ii. 314.

Tíryák = theriack, treacle (antidote), iii. 65.

Title (used by a Sovereign in addressing a person confers the rank), ix. 119.

Tob = Span. Adobe (unbaked brick), ii. 17.

Tobacco (its mention inserted by some scribe), ix. 136.

—— (first mention of), x. 91.

Tobba (Himyaritic) = the Great or Chief, i. 216.

Tohfah = rarity, present, viii. 55.

Tongue (of the case = words suggested by circumstances), i. 121.

—— (made to utter (?) what is in the heart of man), v. 218.

—— (my, is under thy feet), vii. 239.

Too much for him (to come by lawfully), ix. 174.

Tooth-pick (Ar. Khilál), v. 44.

Topothesia (designedly made absurd), viii. 338.

Tor (Mount Sinai), ii. 242.

—— (its shaking), ii. 281.

Torrens quoted, i. 56, 147, 203, 206, 225, 228, 251, 271; ii. 4, 19, 38, 93; iii. 218, 235, 249, 289; iv. 187, 189, 236; v. 80, 96, 188; viii. 280, 305, 309, 319, 321, 327; ix. 278.

Torrents (Ar. Sayl), a dangerous feature in Arabia, vi. 164.

Tortoise (the colossal), vi. 33.

Torture easier than giving up cash, viii. 189.

Tossing upon coals of fire, iii. 61.

Touch of nature (making all the world kin), x. 24.

Toujours perdrix, vi. 130.

Toutes putes, ix. 298.

Traditionists: Al-Zuhrí, ii. 198. Ibn Abí Aufá, ib. 200. Sa’id bin Jubayr, ib. 201. Sufyán al-Thaurí, ib. 202. Bishr al-Háfí, ib. 203. Mansúr bin Ammár, ib. 204.

Trafalgar = Taraf al-Gharb (edge of the West), ix. 50.

Trailing the skirts = humbly, ii. 165; viii. 301.

Trances and faintings (common in romances of chivalry), viii. 118.

Transformation (sudden of character frequent in Eastern stories), viii. 178.

Translators (should be “bould”), ix. 244.

Traveller (a model one tells the truth when an untruth would not serve him), vi. 7.

Travelling at night, ii. 286.

Treasure (resembling one from which the talismans had been loosed), ix. 287.

Treasures (enchanted in some one’s name and nature), iv. 296.

Trébutien quoted, iv. 268; vii. 91, 98, 139, 314, 318, 324, 331, 346, 353, 361; ix. 33, 63; x. 9, 54, 69, 80, 98.

Tree of Paradise (Ar. Túbà), v. 237.

Tribade (Ar. Sahíkah, Musáhikah), viii. 130.

Tribadism, iv. 234.

Tribe (one fortuneth another), ix. 342.

Tribes (relations between), vi. 267.

Tribulum (thrashing sledge), ii. 108.

Tricks (two = before and behind), v. 161.

Triregno (denoted by the Papal Tiara), ii. 236.

Trouser-string, ii. 60.

Truth (most worthy to be followed), v. 145.

—— (is becoming manifest), v. 159.

—— (told so as to be more deceptive than a lie), ix. 223.

—— prevailing, falsehood failing, iv. 80.

Túbà (tree of Paradise), v. 237.

Tubah (fifth Coptic month), v. 231.

Tufah = felis caracal, lynx, vi. 260.

Túfán (Typhoon, etc.), iv. 156.

Túfán = Deluge of Noah, viii. 346.

Tufayl (proverbial intruder), iv. 123.

Tufaylí = parasite, v. 130.

Tulf = Sordes unguinum (fie!), viii. 195.

Tughrà = imperial cypher, v. 184.

Tughrái (Al-), poet, iii. 143.

Tughyán = Kufr, rejection of the True Religion, i. 169.

Túmár = uncial letters, i. 129.

Tuning (peculiar fashions of Arab musicians with regard to it), ix. 27.

386Turband (not put upon the ground out of respect), i. 223.

—— (white, distinctive of Moslems), iv. 214.

—— (substitute for a purse), viii. 190.

—— (worn large by the learned), v. 120.

—— (inclining from the head-tops), ix. 221.

“Turk” probably a late addition, i. 52.

Turk (= Turkoman, nomade), ii. 218.

—— (= plunderer, robber), ii. 304.

—— (provoked to hunger by beauties of nature), iii. 32.

—— (appears under the Abbasides), iii. 81.

Turkey (Future of), ix. 94.

Turks (fair boy-slaves abounding in Baghdád), v. 66.

—— (forming the body-guard of the Abbasides), ix. 245.

Turning round in despair against an oppressor, i. 246.

Turtúr (an Arab’s bonnet), ii. 143.

Tusks (of elephants, not teeth), vi. 82.

Tuwuffiya = he was received (into the grace of God), ix. 54.

Two sayings (double entendre), viii. 153.

Tyrant (from, to tyrant = from official to official), vi. 214.

’Ubb = breast-pocket (poche au sein), viii. 205.

Ubi aves ibi angeli, iii. 280.

Ubullah (canal leading from Bassorah to Ubullah-town), ix. 31.

’Úd Jalakí = Damascus lute, ii. 100.

Udah, properly Uta = private room of a concubine, i. 286.

Udm = “kitchen” (see Adm), ix. 213.

Uff ’alayka = fie upon thee (Uff = sordes aurium), viii. 195.

Uhnúkh = Enoch (Idris?), v. 210.

Ujb = arrogance (in the Spanish sense of gaiety, etc.), vi. 164.

Ukáb = eagle, vulture, iv. 177.

Ukáb al-kásir = the breaker eagle, ix. 69.

Ukayl (Akíl?), iv. 22.

Ukhuwán = camomile, iii. 58.

Ukiyyah (pl. Awák) = ounce, ix. 216.

’Ulbah = box, viii. 71.

Ultra-Shakespearean geography “Fars of Roum,” i. 45.

Ulysses (the Arabian), vi. 40.

Umámah and ’Ásikah, tale of two women now forgotten, i. 61.

Umm al-banát wa ’l-banín = mother of daughters and sons, ix. 175.

Umm al-raas = crown of the head, x. 44.

Umm al Su’úd (Pr. N.) = Mother of Prosperities, ix. 173.

Umm ’Ámir = mother of Amir, nickname for the hyena, i. 43.

Umm Amru (mother of ’Amr) and the ass, v. 118.

Umm Kulsum (one of the Amsál of the Arabs for debauchery), x. 194.

’Ummál (pl. of ’Ámil = governor), ix. 26.

’Umrah = lesser Pilgrimage, ii. 169; v. 205.

“Unberufen,” ix. 180.

Underground rivers, vi. 63.

Unguinum fulgor, iv. 252.

Unhappy thou! vi. 285.

’Unnábí = between dark yellow and red (jujube-colour), ix. 143.

Union opposed to “Severance,” vii. 120.

Uns al-Wujúd (Pr. N.) = Delight of existing things, v. 33.

Unveiling the face a sign of being a Christian, ii. 119.

Upakoshá (Vararuchi’s wife), vi. 172.

’Urb = Arabs of pure race, ix. 293.

’Urbán = wild Arabs, i. 112.

Urine (pollutes), iii. 229.

Urining, ii. 326.

—— (wiping after), iii. 229.

Urkúb = tendon Achilles, hough, viii. 185.

’Urrah = dung, x. 1.

Urwah = handle, button-hole, v. 227.

“Use this” (i.e. for thy daily expenses), vii. 298.

Usfúr = safflower, i. 219.

Ushári = camel travelling ten days, iii. 67.

Usirát (Al-), island, vi. 57.

Usúl (= fundamentals), ii. 15.

—— (= forbears, ancestors), ix. 246.

Usury (Ar. Ribá), v. 201.

—— (verset of), v. 215.

Usus = os sacrum, v. 219.

’Utbí (Al-), poet, v. 133.

Uzayr = Esdras, i. 257.

387Uzn al-Kuffah = ear (handle) of the basket, viii. 161.

Uzrah = Azariyah, vii. 158.

Varieties of handwriting, i. 129.

Veil, see Lisám, ii. 31.

Veiling her honour = saving her from being ravished, ix. 330.

Vellication, iv. 256.

Vengeance (of a disappointed suitor apprehended), vi. 286.

Verses (purposely harsh), viii. 337.

—— (aforementioned, distinguishing formula of “Hasan of Bassorah”), viii. 126.

Versets (number of the Koranic), v. 110.

View (gorgeous description of), viii. 30.

“Vigilance Committees” (for abating scandals), ix. 98.

Vile water (Koranic term for semen), vii. 213.

Violent temper (frequent amongst Eastern princesses), vii. 254.

Virgil (a magician), v. 44.

Virginity of slave-girls (respected by the older slave-trader, rarely by the young), vii. 267.

Visit (confers a blessing in polite parlance), ix. 185.

Visits (in dreamland), v. 47.

—— (to the tombs), vii. 124.

—— (should not be overfrequent), ix. 273.

Visvakarma = anti-creator, v. 320; x. 131.

Vivisepulture, vi. 41.

Voice (thickened by leprosy), iv. 50.

Wa = and (introducing a parenthetic speech), ix. 282.

Wa’ar = rough (ground unfit for riding), vi. 140.

Wa ba’ad (see Ammá ba’ad, vol. ii. 34) = and afterwards, iii. 181.

Wada’a, see Cowrie, iv. 77.

Wadd, Suwá’a and Yagús (idols), vi. 282.

Waddle of “Arab ladies,” iii. 37.

Wády = valley; slayer, i. 51; ii. 85; iii. 234.

Wády al-Naml = Valley of the Emmets, v. 337.

Wady al-Ward = Vale of Roses, vi. 276.

Wády Zahrán = Valley Flowery, v. 360.

Waggid (Hebr. speaker in a dream), iv. 289.

Wahk, Wahak = Lasso, vii. 61.

Wahsh = wild beast and synonyms, i. 242.

Wahtah (Al-) = quasi-epileptic fit, vii. 127.

Wailing over the past, iv. 239.

Waist (slender, hips large), iii. 278.

Wakálah, described in Pilgrimage (i. 60), i. 266.

Wakíl = agent (see Pashas), iv. 182.

Wakites (number their islands), viii. 88.

Wakkád = stoker, i. 312; ii. 134.

Wák Wák (Islands of), viii. 60.

Walad = son (more ceremonious than “ibn”), v. 386.

Walgh = lapping of a dog, iii. 319.

Walhán (Al-) = the distracted, iii. 226; viii. 33; ix. 6.

Wáli = (civil) Governor, i. 259.

Walí = Saint, Santon, v. 112.

—— ’ahd = heir-presumptive, ix. 87.

Walíd (Al-) bin Abd al-Malik, Caliph, iv. 100.

—— bin Marwán (Caliph), ii. 167; iii. 69.

—— bin Sahl (Caliph), vii. 106.

Wálidati = my mother, speaking to one not of the family, iii. 208.

Walímah = marriage-feast, vi. 74; viii. 231.

Walking afoot (not dignified), vi. 227.

Wa ’lláhi = I swear by Allah, viii. 310.

—— tayyib = by Allah, good! ii. 34.

Wa ’l-Salám = and here ends the matter, i. 102.

—— (used in a variety of senses), viii. 74.

Wanderer in the mountains = a recluse avoiding society, vi. 158.

Wárahmatáh = Alas, the pity of it, v. 42.

Ward = rose; Wardah = a single rose, viii. 274.

—— (Al-) fí ’l-Akmám (Pr. N.) = Rose in Hood, v. 32.

—— Shah = Rose King, vii. 70.

Wardán (a Fellah name, also of a village), iv. 293.

Wárid = resorting to the water, iii. 56.

Waríd (jugular vein), iv. 92.

Warm one’s self at a man’s fire, ii. 76.

Wars (caused by trifles, frequent in Arab history), vi. 142.

—— (Al-) = carthamus tinctorius, vii. 92.

388Wartah = precipice, quagmire, etc., x. 81.

Washing the dead without doors only in case of poverty, ii. 10.

Washings after evacuation, i. 220.

Wasíf = servant; fem. Wasífah = concubine, iii. 171.

Wásik (Al-) Caliph, iii. 81.

Wásit = Middle (town of Irák Arabi), ix. 26.

Wasm = tribal sign, vi. 163.

Watad = tent-peg (also a prosodical term), viii. 279.

Water (sight of running, makes a Persian long for strong drink), iv. 75.

—— (had no taste in his mouth), v. 39.

—— (-carrier = Sakká), v. 89.

Watering the streets, iv. 107.

Water-melons (eaten with rice and meat), vi. 208.

Waters flowing in Heaven, iii. 65.

Watwát = bat, v. 226.

Way of Allah = common property, i. 91.

Waybah = six to seven English gallons, iv. 86.

Wayha = Alas! v. 258.

Wayha-k, equivalent to Wayla-k, vii. 127.

Wayla-k = Woe to thee! iii. 82.

Wazír = Minister, i. 2.

—— (the sharp-witted in the tales), ii. 246.

Weal (I see naught but), ix. 180.

Weapons (carried under the thigh), vii. 56.

—— magic, vii. 59.

—— new forms of, vii. 62.

Web and pin (eye-disease of horses), viii. 341.

Week-days (only two names for), iii. 249.

—— (old names for), vi. 190.

Weeping (not for form and face alone), iii. 318.

—— (over dead friends), ix. 187.

Whale (still common off the East African coast), vi. 11.

What calamity is upon thee = what a bother thou art, viii. 177.

What happened, happened = fortune so willed it, iii. 68.

“What is it compared with,” popular way of expressing great difference, i. 37.

What manner of thing is Al-Rashíd? = What has he to do here? viii. 176.

“Whatso thou wouldest do, that do,” = Do what thou wilt, vii. 324.

Where is—and where? = What a difference is there between, etc., v. 65.

“Where lies China-land?” = it is a far cry to Loch Awe, vii. 344.

Whistling (Sifr), iv. 206.

—— (held to be the devil’s speech), v. 333.

—— (to call animals to water), viii. 278.

White as milk (opposed to black as mud, etc.), iv. 140.

—— (hand, symbol of generosity, etc.), iv. 185.

—— (turband, distinctive of Moslems), iv. 214.

—— hand of Moses (sign to Pharao), iv. 249.

—— and black faces on the Day of Judgment, iv. 249.

—— (colour of the Ommiades), vi. 86.

—— robes (denote grace and mercy), vi. 250.

—— (mourning colour under the Abbasides), viii. 200.

Whiteness (for lustre, honour), viii. 295.

Whitening and blackening of the faces on Judgment-Day, ii. 312.

“Who art thou?” etc. (meaning “you are nobodies”), vii. 286.

“Whoso beguileth folk, him shall Allah beguile,” viii. 143.

“Whoso loveth me, let him bestow largesse upon this man,” vii. 323.

“Whoso praiseth and then blameth lieth twice,” x. 15.

“Why don’t (can’t) you buy me?” viii. 300.

Wicket (small doorway at the side of a gate), ix. 320.

Wife (euphemistically spoken of in the masculine), i. 67.

—— (Aurat), vi. 30.

—— (called “Family”), vi. 75.

—— (contrast between vicious servile and virtuous of noble birth), ix. 302.

Will he not care? = he shall answer for this! vi. 245.

Window-gardening, old practice in the East, i. 301.

Windows (looking out of, a favourite occupation in the East and South), vi. 167.

Wine (why strained), i. 27.

389—— (boiled) = vinum coctum, i. 132.

—— (flying to the head, effect of the cold after a heated room), i. 224.

—— (kahwah), ii. 261.

—— (table and service), ii. 122.

—— (a sun, with cupbearer for East and the drinker’s mouth for West), iii. 263.

—— (its prohibition not held absolute), v. 224.

—— (breeds gladness, etc.), viii. 202.

—— (in cup, or cup in wine?), viii. 276.

—— (Mohammed makes up his mind about it by slow degrees), viii. 277.

Wird = the last twenty-five chapters of the Koran, v. 185.

—— (Pers.) = pupil, disciple, ix. 61.

Wisádah = pillow, ii. 70.

Wisháh = belt, scarf, viii. 209.

Wishes (tale of the three), vi. 180.

Wiswás = diabolical temptation or suggestion, i. 106.

Witches (and their vehicles), vi. 158.

Witness (bear, against me, i.e. in case of my denial), vi. 286; viii. 22.

Witnesses (one man = two women), v. 155.

Wittol (pictured with driest Arab humour), ix. 269.

Wives have their night in turns, ii. 78.

—— (why four, see Women), iii. 212.

—— (a man’s tillage), iii. 304.

—— (and their suitors), vi. 172.

Wolf (wicked man); fox (cunning one), iii. 132.

Woman, Women (debauched prefer Blackamoors), i. 6.

—— (their depravity goes hand in hand with perversity of taste), i. 73.

—— (old must not be called Ajúz but Shaybah), i. 174.

—— (bastinadoed), i. 183.

—— (chaff and banter allowed to), i. 267.

—— (of Damascus famed for sanguinary jealousy), i. 295.

—— (Cairene held exceedingly debauched), i. 298.

—— mourning, i. 311.

—— (high-born and their frolics), i. 328.

—— (cries of), ii. 6.

—— weeping and wailing before cenotaphs, ii. 68.

—— maltreated under the Caliphate, ii. 69.

—— Women captives, ii. 94.

—— of the blue-stocking type, ii. 156.

—— created of a crooked rib, ii. 161.

—— (consult them and do the contrary), ii. 184.

—— (peculiar waddle of), iii. 37.

—— (proposing extreme measures), iii. 39.

—— (are tinder, men fire), iii. 59.

—— (monkish horror of), iii. 126.

—— (Laylah, name of), iii. 135.

—— (true seducers), iii. 166.

—— (Wálidatí = my mother), iii. 208.

—— (four wives, and why), iii. 212.

—— (compared to an inn), iii. 216.

—— (large hips and thighs), iii. 226.

—— (small fine foot), iii. 227.

—— (names of), iii. 239; 263.

—— (more passionate than men), iii. 241.

—— (head must always be kept covered), iii. 275.

—— (slender-waisted but full of hips, etc.), iii. 278.

—— (Sodomy with), iii. 304.

—— (all charges laid upon them), iii. 335.

—— (old bawd), iv. 4.

—— (names of), iv. 12.

—— (less handsome than man), iv. 15.

—— (walk and gait), iv. 16.

—— (bride night), iv. 30.

—— (oath of a), iv. 49.

—— (insolence of princesses), iv. 145.

—— (inner, her meanings), iv. 146.

—— (answering question by counterquestion), iv. 148.

—— (Abyssinian famous as “holders”), iv. 227.

—— (slave-names), iv. 232.

—— (intercourse between), iv. 234.

—— (white-skinned supposed to be heating and unwholesome), iv. 253.

—— (sleep naked in hot weather), v. 8.

—— (making the first advances), v. 34.

—— (and secrets), v. 35, 83.

—— (wives of eunuchs), v. 46.

—— (visiting their lovers in a dream), v. 47.

—— (thought to be Jinn or Ghúl), v. 51.

—— (called Zaurà, the crooked), v. 66.

—— (allowed to absent themselves from the house of father or husband), v. 96.

—— (instructed in “motitations”), v. 80.

—— (apt for two tricks), v. 161.

—— (old, polite equivalents for), v. 163.

390—— (in their prime at fourteen to fifteen), v. 192.

—— (inferior to man), v. 155.

—— (unveiling to a man, if not slaves, insult him), v. 194.

—— (in Hindostaní jargon = Aurat), vi. 30.

—— (her shame extends from head to toes), vi. 118.

—— (their cunning and malice), vi. 144.

—— (corrupts woman more than men do), vi. 152.

—— (knowing enough without learning to read and write), vi. 168.

—— (of Kashmír), vi. 156.

—— (her female visitors unknown to the husband except by hearsay), vi. 199.

—— (words used only by them, not by men), vi. 233.

—— (blue-eyed of good omen), vii. 164.

—— (stealing of their clothes), viii. 30.

—— (her heart the only bond known by her), viii. 54.

—— (reasons for their ageing in the East), viii. 86.

—— (always to be addressed Ummí = my mother), viii. 87.

—— (often hide their names from the husband), viii. 100.

—— (semi-maniacal rancour of a good one against an erring sister), viii. 118.

—— (when old, the most vindictive of her kind), viii. 137.

—— (who are neither thine nor another’s), viii. 208.

—— (their bodies impregnated with scents), viii. 279.

—— (to be respected by the King), ix. 73.

—— (“great is their malice”), ix. 119.

—— (a case of “hard lines” for them), ix. 134.

—— (their marrying a second time reckoned disgraceful), ix. 246.

—— (the sin lieth with them), ix. 297.

—— (fail in wit and faith), ix. 298.

—— (practically only two ways of treating them), ix. 303.

—— (delicacy of their skin), ix. 321.

—— (treated leniently in a Kázi’s court), x. 4.

Womankind (seven ages of), ix. 175.

—— (their status in Al-Islam), x. 195.

Wonder (= cause) in every death, i. 351.

Word (the creative “Kun”), ix. 78.

Words (divided in a couplet), iii. 166.

Worlds (the three = Triloka), ii. 236.

Wreckers, ii. 111.

Wrestling and Wrestlers, ii. 93.

—— (amongst the Egyptian Fellah), viii. 199.

Writer of The Nights careless, iv. 155.

Writing (styles of), iv. 196.

Writing without fingers = (being unable to answer for what is written), iii. 181.

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

Wuzu-ablution = lesser ablution, i. 142.

—— (necessary before joining in prayers), ii. 46.

—— (Koranic order for), v. 198.

—— (angels and devils at the side of a man who prepares for it), v. 198.

Xisisthrus = Noah, ii. 20, 25.

Yá A’awaz = O, one eye (obscene meaning of the phrase), viii. 185.

Yá Abati = O dear father mine, ix. 88.

Yá Abú al-Lithámayn = O sire of the chin-veils twain, x. 20.

Yá Abú Libdah = O father of a felt-calotte, iii. 62.

Yá Abú Sumrah = O father of brownness, iii. 40.

Yá Ahmak = O fool, ix. 271.

Yá ’Ajúz = O old woman (now insulting), v. 163.

Yá Bunayya = O dear (lit. little) my son, ix. 79.

Yá Ba’íd = thou distant one, euphemism for gross abuse, i. 41.

Yá Bárid = O fool, i. 313.

Yá Dádatí = O my nurse, “ma mie,” vii. 372.

Yá Fulán = O certain person, iii. 191; ix. 334.

Yá Fulánah = O certain person (fem.), ix. 270.

Yá Hájj = O Pilgrim, ii. 15.

Yá házá = O this one, somewhat slightingly, i. 240.

Yá hú = O he! Swift’s Yahoo? i. 240.

Yá Jáhil = O ignorant, ix. 52.

Yá Kawwád = O pimp, v. 129.

391Yá Khálatí = O mother’s sister, in addressing the old, i. 303.

Yá Khawand = O Master, vii. 315.

Yá Khwájah = O Master, viii. 18.

Yá Kisrawi = O subject of the Kisrà, v. 26.

Yá layta = would to heaven, viii. 48.

Yá Ma’ashar al-Muslimín = Ho Moslems! iv. 149.

Yá Mashúm = O unlucky one, i. 221.

Yá Mauláya = O, my lord, ix. 228.

Yá Miskín = O poor devil, vi. 219.

Yá Mumátil = O Slow o’ Pay, viii. 169.

Yá Nasrání = O Nazarene, iv. 199.

Yá Sáki ’al-Dakan = O frosty-beard, v. 99.

Yá Sáki ’al-Wajh = O false face, vii. 353.

Yá Salám = O safety (a vulgar ejaculation), viii. 98.

Yá Sátir = O veiler (of sins), iii. 41.

Yá Sattár = O Thou who veilest the discreditable secrets of Thy creatures, i. 258.

Yá Shátir = O clever one! (in a bad sense), iv. 209.

Yá Shukayr = O little Tulip, viii. 168.

Yá Taljí = O snowy one, iii. 40.

Yá Tayyib al-Khál = O thou nephew of a good uncle, i. 303.

Yá Ustá (for Ustáz) = O my master, vii. 192.

Yá Wadúd = O loving one, iv. 54.

Yá Sín (heart of the Koran, chapt. xxxvi.), iv. 50.

Ya’arub (eponymus of an Oman tribe), vi. 260; vii. 25.

Yáfis, Yáfat = Japhet, vii. 40.

Yaftah Alláh = Allah will open, an offer being insufficient, ii. 149.

Yahúdí for Jew, less polite than Banú Isráil, i. 210.

Yají miat khwánjah = near a hundred chargers, vii. 345.

Yájúj and Májúj, v. 318.

Yakhní = stew, broth, vii. 186.

Yákút = ruby, garnet, etc., v. 342.

Yaman (Al-) = right-hand region, ii. 179.

—— (lightning on the hills of), ii. 179.

Yásamín = Jessamine (name of a slave-girl), viii. 176.

Yashmak (chin-veil for women), ii. 31.

Yasrib (ancient name of Al-Medínah), iv. 114.

Yastaghíbúní = they take advantage of my absence, ix. 224.

Yauh (conversationally Yehh) expression of astonishment, ii. 321.

Yauh! Yauh! = Alas! vi. 235.

Yathrib (old name of Al-Medinah), ix. 177, see Yasrib.

Yaum al-Íd = the great festival, i. 317.

Yaum al-Tanádí = Resurrection Day, iii. 74.

Yaum-i-Alast = Day of “am-I-not” (your Lord)? ii. 91.

Yaum mubárak = a blessed day, vi. 215.

Yellow girl (for light-coloured wine), x. 39.

Yes, Yes! and No, No! trifles common amongst the Arabs, ii. 60; ix. 250.

Youth described in terms applying to women, i. 144.

Yohanná = John, iv. 87.

Yuhanná (Greek Physician), v. 154.

Yúnán Yúnáníyah = Greece, ii. 82; iv. 100.

Yúsuf bin Omar, ii. 170.

Yúsuf (Grand Vizier, and his pelisse), vii. 323.

Za’ar = a man with fair skin, red hair and blue eyes (Marocco), viii. 297.

Zabbah = lizard; bolt, vi. 247; vii. 182.

Zabbál = dung-drawer, etc., i. 312; iii. 51.

Zábít = Prefect of Police, i. 259.

Zabiyah (Pr. N.) = roe, doe, v. 147.

Zaffú (in the sense of “they displayed her”), ix. 245.

Zaghab = the chick’s down, v. 165.

Zaghzaghán (Abú Massáh = Father of the Sweeper), = magpie, vi. 182.

Záhir bi ’llah (Al-) = one prominent by the decree of Allah, i. 317.

Záhirí = plain honest Moslem, ii. 29.

Zahra = the flowery, vi. 145.

Zahr Sháh (Pr. N.), ii. 284.

Zahrawíyah = lovely as the Venus-star, viii. 251.

Zahwah = mid-time between sunrise and noon, vi. 35.

Záka = he tasted, iv. 188.

Zakar (penis) = that which betokens masculinity, iii. 3.

Zakariyá and Zakar, iv. 51.

Zakát = legal alms, i. 339.

392Zakhmah (Zukhmah) = strap, stirrup-leather, viii. 18.

Zakkúm (Al-) tree of Hell, iv. 259.

Zakzúk = young of the Shál, viii. 185.

Zalábiyah bi- ’Asal = honey-fritters, vii. 164.

Zalamah (Al-) = tyrants, oppressors (police and employés), i. 273; vi. 214.

Zalzál, son of Muzalzil = Earthquake, son of Ennosigaius, vii. 79.

Zambúr = clitoris, i. 90; v. 279.

Zamiyád = guardian angel of Bihisht, see Rizwán, iii. 20, 233.

Zanab Sirhán (wolf’s tail) = early dawn, iii. 146.

Zand and Zandah = fire-sticks, v. 52.

Zanj = negroes of Zanzibar, ii. 5; vi. 104.

Zanzibar (cannibals etc.), iv. 168.

Zarábín = slaves’ shoes, x. 1.

Zarbu ’l-Nawákísí = striking of gongs (pun on the word), viii. 329.

Zardah = rice dressed with honey and saffron, ii. 313; vii. 185.

Zardakhánah = Zarad (Ar. for hauberk), Khanáh (Pers. for house), vii. 363.

Zarká = the blue-eyed (Cassandre of Yamámah), ii. 103.

Zarr wa ’urwah = button and button-hole, v. 227.

Zarráf = giraffe, vii. 51.

Zarrat (vulg. Durrah) = co-wife, sister-wife, iii. 308.

Zát al-Dawáhí = Lady of Calamities, ii. 87.

Zau al-Makán = Light of the Place, ii. 81.

Zaurà = the crooked, for woman, v. 66.

Zaurá (Al-) = the bow (name of Baghdad), ix. 13.

Zawí al-furúj = habentes rimam, ii. 49.

Záwiyah = oratory, vi. 259; vii. 328.

Zaybak (Al-) = the quicksilver, iv. 75.

Zayn al-Abidín (grandson of Ali), ii. 202.

Zayn al-Mawásif (Pr. N.) = Adornment of (good) qualities, viii. 205.

Zaynab and Zayd (generic names for women and men), ix. 250.

Zebra (daughter of Sa’adah), iii. 65.

Zemzem (its water saltish), i. 284; ii. 272.

Zí’ah = village, hamlet, farm, ix. 27.

Zibl = dung, iii. 51.

Zibl Khán = Le Roi Crotte, iii. 99.

Zidd = opposite, contrary, v. 206.

Zikr = litanies, i. 124.

—— (and Edwin Arnold’s Pearls of Faith), ii. 28.

Zimbíl (Zambíl) = limp basket of palm-leaves, iv. 119.

Zimmí = a (Christian, Jewish or Majúsí) tributary, iv. 199.

Zinád = fire-sticks, viii. 80.

Zindík = Agnostic, atheist, v. 230; viii. 27.

Zirbájah = meat dressed with cumin-seed, etc., i. 278.

Zirt = broken wind; derivatives, ii. 88; ix. 291.

Ziyád bin Abí Sufyán, ii. 163.

Ziyárat = visit to a pious person or place, i. 125.

—— = visiting the Prophet’s tomb, ix. 178.

Zobabah (Zauba’ah?) = sand-storm in the desert, i. 114.

Zú al-Autád = the contriver of the stakes (Pharaoh), vi. 118.

Zú al-Kurá’a (Pr. N.) = Lord of cattle feet, iv. 95.

Zubaydah (Pr. N.) = creamkin, iv. 48; viii. 56, 158.

Zubb = penis, i. 92.

“Zug” (draught) feared by Orientals, ii. 9.

Zuhal = Saturn, ii. 75.

Zuhrí (Al-), traditionist, ii. 198; v. 81.

Zujáj bikr = unworked glass, viii. 342.

Zukák al-Nakíb = Syndic street, ii. 325.

Zukhruf = glitter, tinsel, ix. 86.

Zulf = side-lock, i. 308.

Zulm, injustice, tyranny; worst of a monarch’s crimes, i. 190.

Zunnár = ζωνάριον confounded with the “Janeo,” ii. 215.

Zur ghibban tazid hubban = call rarely that friendship last fairly, ix. 273.

Zurayk (dim. of Azrak = blue-eyed), viii. 195.

Zurk = blue-eyed, dim-sighted, purblind, vii. 164.

Zuwaylah gate, more correctly Báb Zawilah i. 269.

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INDEX III.—A. ALPHABETICAL TABLE OF FIRST LINES (METRICAL PORTION) IN ENGLISH.

Prepared by Dr. STEINGASS.

A beloved familiar o’erreigns my heart, viii. 70.

A boy of twice ten is fit for a king!, iii. 303.

A breeze of love on my soul did blow, viii. 222.

A damsel ’twas the tirer’s art had decked with snares and sleight, i. 219; x. 59.

A dancer whose figure is like a willow-branch, ix. 222.

A dancer whose form is like branch of Bán!, ix. 221.

A dog, dog-fathered, by dog-grandsire bred, viii. 15.

A fan whose breath is fraught with fragrant scent, viii. 273.

A fair one, to idolaters if she her face should show, ix. 197.

A friend in need is he who, ever true, iii. 149.

A guest hath stolen on my head and honour may he lack, viii. 295.

A hag to whom th’ unlawful lawfullest, i. 174.

A heart bore thee off in chase of the fair, ix. 282.

A heart by Allah! never soft to loverwight, vii. 222.

A Houri, by whose charms my heart is moved to sore distress, vii. 105.

A house where flowers from stones of granite grow, iii. 19.

A Jinniyah this, with her Jinn, to show, v. 149.

A King who when hosts of the foe invade, ii. 1.

A lutanist to us inclined, viii. 283.

A maiden ’twas, the dresser’s art had decked with cunning sleight, viii. 32.

A merchant I spied whose lovers, viii. 264.

A messenger from thee came bringing union-hope, iii. 188.

A moon she rises, willow-wand she waves, iii. 237; viii. 303.

A moon, when he bends him those eyes lay bare, viii. 284.

A moon which blights you if you dare behold, ii. 4.

A night whose stars refused to run their course, iii. 299.

A palace whereon be blessings and praise, iv. 134.

A place secure from every thought of fear, i. 114.

A sage, I feel a fool before thy charms, iii. 272.

A slave of slaves there standeth at thy door, i. 89.

A sun on wand in knoll of sand she showed, i. 217; x. 58.

A thin-waist maid who shames the willow-wand, ii. 285.

A term decreed my lot I ’spy, viii. 83.

A trifle this an his eyes be sore, v. 127.

A tree whilere was I the Bulbul’s home, viii. 281.

A wand uprising from a sandy knoll, ix. 250.

A warrior showing such open hand, iv. 97.

A wasted body, heart empierced to core, ii. 314.

394A youth slim waisted from whose locks and brow, i. 68.

A zephyr bloweth from the lover’s site, viii. 90.

Above the rose of cheek is thorn of lance, iii. 331.

Act on sure grounds, nor hurry fast, iv. 189.

Add other wit to thy wit, counsel craving, iv. 189.

Affright me funerals at every time, v. 111.

After thy faring never chanced I ’spy, viii. 142.

Ah, fare thee not; for I’ve no force thy faring to endure, viii. 63.

Ah! for lowe of love and longing suffer ye as suffer we?, viii. 68.

Ah Khalid! this one is a slave of love distraught, iv. 158.

Ah, often have I sought the fair! how often lief and fain, vii. 138.

Alack and alas! Patience taketh flight, viii. 263.

Alas, alack and wellaway for blamer’s calumny!, viii. 285.

Albe by me I had through day and night, iii. 267.

Albe to lover adverse be his love, iii. 266.

Albeit my vitals quiver ’neath this ban, iii. 62.

Alexandria’s a frontier, viii. 289.

All crafts are like necklaces strung on a string, i. 308.

All drinks wherein is blood the Law unclean Doth hold, i. 89.

All sons of woman albe long preserved, iv. 63.

“Allah assain those eyne! What streams of blood they shed!,” ii. 100.

Allah be good to him that gives glad tidings of thy steps, i. 239.

Allah holds Kingship! Whoso seeks without Him victory, iii. 86.

Allah, my patience fails: I have no word, iii. 344.

Allah save the rose which yellows amorn, viii. 276.

Allah, where’er thou be, His aid impart, ii. 148.

Allah’s peace on thee, House of Vacancy!, viii. 237.

Although the Merciful be doubtless with me, ix. 278.

Al-Yaman’s leven-gleam I see, ii. 179.

An but the house could know who cometh ’twould rejoice, i. 176.

An, by thy life, pass thee my funeral train, v. 70.

An fail I of my thanks to thee, i. 56.

An Fate afflict thee, with grief manifest, viii. 146.

An Fate some person ’stablish o’er thy head, iii. 89.

An faulty of one fault the beauty prove, ii. 96.

An I be healed of disease in frame, viii. 70.

An I quit Cairo and her pleasaunces, i. 290.

An we behold a lover love-foredone, v. 73.

An my palm be full of wealth and my wealth I ne’er bestow, ii. 11.

An say I:—Patient I can bear his faring, iii. 187.

An tears of blood for me, friend, thou hast shed, i. 89.

An there be one who shares with me her love, i. 180.

An thou but deign consent, A wish to heart affied, iv. 247.

An thou of pious works a store neglect, ii. 202.

An thou wouldst know my name, whose day is done, vi. 94.

An through the whole of life, iv. 190.

An Time my lover restore me I’ll blame him fain, ix. 192.

An were it asked me when by hell-fire burnt, iii. 279.

An what thou claimest were the real truth, v. 151.

An wouldst be life-long safe, vaunt not delight, viii. 94.

And Almond apricot suggesting swain, viii. 268.

And dweller in the tomb whose food is at his head, v. 238.

And eater lacking mouth and even maw, v. 240.

And fairest Fawn, we said to him Portray, viii. 272.

And haply whenas strait descends on lot of generous youth, iii. 131.

And in brunettes is mystery, couldst thou but read it right, iv. 258.

395And in my liver higher flames the fire, vii. 366.

And loveling weareth on his cheek a mole, v. 65.

And pity one who erst in honour throve, ii. 149.

And shaddock mid the garden paths, on bough, viii. 272.

And Solomon, when Allah to him said, vi. 86.

And the lips of girls, that are perfume sweet, v. 79.

And the old man crept o’er the worldly ways, iv. 41.

And trees of orange fruiting ferly fair, viii. 271.

And wand-like Houri who can passion heal, v. 149.

And ’ware her scorpions when pressing them, viii. 209.

And when birdies o’er-warble its lakelet, it gars, ix. 6.

And, when she announceth the will to sing, viii. 166.

Albeit this thy case lack all resource, v. 69.

Allah watered a land, and upsprang a tree, v. 244.

Answer, by Allah! Sepulchre, are all his beauties gone?, i. 239.

Appeared not my excuse till hair had clothed his cheek, iii. 57.

Apple which joins hues twain and brings to mind, viii. 268.

Apple whose hue combines in union mellow, i. 158.

As a crescent-moon in the garth her form, viii. 207.

As for me, of him I feel naught affright, vi. 98.

As long as palms shall shift the flower, v. 136.

As love waxt longer less met we tway, v. 78.

As one of you who mounted mule, viii. 297.

As she willed she was made, and in such a way that when, iv. 191.

As the Sage watched the stars, the semblance clear, i. 206.

As though ptisane of wine on her lips honey dew, iii. 57.

Ask (if needs thou ask) the compassionate, ix. 29.

Ask of my writ, what wrote my pen in dole, iii. 274.

Ass and Umm Amr’ went their way, v. 118.

Bare hills and camp-ground desolate, v. 130.

Baulks me my Fate as tho’ she were my foe, viii. 130.

Be as thou wilt, for Allah is bountiful, viii. 277.

Be as thou wilt, for Allah still is bounteous Lord, ii. 202.

Be mild to brother mingling, iv. 110.

Be mild what time thou’rt ta’en with anger and despite, iv. 221.

Be mild when rage shall come to afflict thy soul, iv. 54.

Be praises mine to all-praiseworthy Thee, ii. 261.

Be proud; I’ll crouch! Bully; I’ll bear! Despise; I’ll pray!, iii. 188.

Be sure all are villains and so bide safe, iii. 142.

Bear our salams, O Dove, from this our stead, viii. 236.

Beareth for love a burden sore this soul of me, viii. 66.

Beauty they brought with him to make compare, i. 144.

Beguiled as Fortune who her guile displays, iv. 22.

Behind the veil a damsel sits with gracious beauty dight, viii. 210.

Behold a house that’s like the Dwelling of Delight, viii. 183.

Behold this lovely garden! ’tis as though, ii. 240.

Belike my Fortune may her bridle turn, i. 152.

Belike Who Yúsuf to his kin restored, iv. 103.

Beloved, why this strangeness, why this hate?, iv. 234.

Bethink thee not of worldly state, iii. 328.

Bid thou thy phantom distance keep, vii. 108.

Better ye ’bide and I take my leave, i. 154.

396Beware her glance I rede thee ’tis like wizard wight, ii. 295.

Beware of losing hearts of men by thine injurious deed, x. 50.

Beware that eye-glance which hath magic might, iii. 252.

Black girls in acts are white, and ’tis as though, iv. 251.

Black girls not white are they, iv. 251.

Blame not! said I to all who blamèd me, viii. 95.

Blest be his beauty; blest the Lord’s decree, i. 177.

Blighted by her yet am I not to blame, viii. 255.

Blows from my lover’s land a zephyr cooly sweet, ii. 311.

Boon fortune sought him in humblest way, viii. 301.

Boy-like of back side, in the deed of kind, v. 157,

Breeze of East who bringest me gentle air, vii. 122.

Brighter than moon at full with kohl’d eyes she came, viii. 279.

Bring gold and gear an a lover thou, viii. 214.

By Allah, by th’ Almighty, by his right, vii. 366.

By Allah, couldst thou but feel my pain, v. 77.

By Allah, glance of mine, thou hast opprest, vii. 140.

By Allah, heal, O my lords, the unwhole, viii. 144.

By Allah, O thou house, if my beloved amorn go by, v. 38.

By Allah, O tomb, have her beauties ceased, viii. 168.

By Allah, set thy foot upon my soul, i. 222.

By Allah this is th’ only alchemy, x. 40.

By Allah! while the days endure ne’er shall forget her I, iv. 146.

By Allah, wine shall not disturb me, while this soul of mine, iv. 190.

By craft and sleight I snared him when he came, ii. 44.

By his cheeks’ unfading damask and his smiling teeth I swear, viii. 282.

By his eyelash tendril curled, by his slender waist I swear, iii. 217.

By his eyelids shedding perfume and his fine slim waist I swear, i. 168.

By His life who holds my guiding rein, I swear, iv. 2.

By Love’s right! naught of farness thy slave can estrange, viii. 76.

By means of toil man shall scale the height, vi. 5.

By rights of you, this heart of mine could ne’er aby, viii. 110.

By stress of parting, O beloved one, iii. 166.

By th’ Abyssinian Pond, O day divine!, i. 291.

By the Compassionate, I’m dazed about my case, for lo!, vii. 337.

By the Five Shayks, O Lord, I pray deliver me, iii. 30.

By the life o’ thy face, O thou life o’ my sprite!, viii. 284.

By what thine eyelids show of kohl and coquetry!, ii. 296.

Came a merchant to pay us a visit, viii. 265.

Came Rayya’s phantom to grieve thy sight, vii. 91.

Came the writ whose contents a new joy revealed, viii. 222.

Came to match him in beauty and loveliness rare, viii. 298.

Came to me care when came the love of thee, vii. 366.

Came your writ to me in the dead of the night, ix. 2.

Captured me six all bright with youthful blee, iv. 260.

Carry the trust of him whom death awaits, v. 114.

Cease then to blame me, for thy blame doth anger bring, x. 39.

Cease ye this farness; ’bate this pride of you, iv. 136.

Chide not the mourner for bemourning woe, iii. 291.

Choice rose that gladdens heart to see her sight, viii. 275.

Clear’s the wine, the cup’s fine, i. 349.

Cleave fast to her thou lovest and let the envious rail amain, iv. 198.

Close prest appear to him who views th’ inside, viii. 267.

Clove through the shades and came to me in night so dark and sore, vii. 138.

397Come back and so will I! i. 63.

Come with us, friend, and enter thou, viii. 267.

Confide thy case to Him, the Lord who made mankind, i. 68.

Consider but thy Lord, His work shall bring, viii. 20.

Consider thou, O man, what these places to thee showed, vi. 112.

Console thy lover, fear no consequence, v. 74.

Consort not with the Cyclops e’en a day, iv. 194.

Containeth time a twain of days, i. 25.

Converse with men hath scanty weal except, iv. 188.

Count not that I your promises forgot, iii. 238.

Cut short this strangeness, leave unruth of you, v. 245.

Culvers of Liwa! to your nests return, vii. 115.

Dark falls the night: my tears unaided rail, iii. 11.

Dark falls the night and passion comes sore pains to gar me dree, ii. 140.

Daughter of nobles, who thine aim shalt gain, v. 54.

Dawn heralds daylight: so wine pass round, viii. 276.

Dear friend! ah leave thy loud reproach and blame, iii. 110.

Dear friend, ask not what burneth in my breast, i. 265.

Dear friend, my tears aye flow these cheeks adown, iii. 14.

Deep in mine eyeballs ever dwells the phantom form of thee, viii. 61.

Deign grant thy favours; since ’tis time I were engraced, v. 148.

Describe me! a fair one said, viii. 265.

Did Azzah deal behest to sun o’ noon, ii. 102.

Did not in love-plight joys and sorrows meet, iii. 182.

Dip thou with spoons in saucers four and gladden heart and eye, viii. 223.

Displaying that fair face, iv. 195.

Divinely were inspired his words who brought me news of you, iv. 207.

Do you threaten me wi’ death for my loving you so well?, vii. 221.

Drain not the bowl, save from dear hand like thine, i. 88.

Drain not the bowl but with lovely wight, viii. 209.

Drain not the bowl save with a trusty friend, i. 88.

Drawn in thy shoulders are and spine thrust out, viii. 297.

Drink not pure wine except from hand of slender youth, ix. 198.

Drink not strong wine save at the slender dearling’s hand, v. 66.

Drink not upon thy food in haste but wait awhile, v. 222.

Drink the clear draught, drink free and fain, i. 88.

Drive off the ghost that ever shows, vii. 109.

Dumb is my tongue and scant my speech for thee, viii. 258.

Each portion of her charms we see, vii. 131.

Each thing of things hath his appointed tide, v. 294.

Easy, O Fate! how long this wrong, this injury, iii. 329.

Eight glories meet, all, all conjoined in thee, iii. 271.

Enough for lovers in this world their ban and bane, iv. 205.

Enough of tears hath shed the loverwight, iii. 206.

Enrobes with honour sands of camp her foot-step wandering lone, iv. 204.

Escape with thy life if oppression betide thee, i. 209.

Even not beardless one with girl, nor heed, iii. 303.

Ever thy pomp and pride, O House! display, viii. 207.

Face that with Sol in Heaven lamping vies, iii. 167.

Fain had I hid thy handwork, but it showed, iii. 280.

Fain leaving life that fleets thou hast th’ eternal won, ii. 281.

398Fair youth shall die by stumbling of the tongue, iii. 221.

Familiar with my heart are woes and with them I, vii. 340.

Far is the fane and patience faileth me, v. 41.

Fare safely, Masrúr! an her sanctuary, viii. 237.

Farewell thy love, for see, the Cafilah’s on the move, iv. 254.

Farewelling thee indeed is like to bidding life farewell, viii. 62.

Fate the wolf’s soul snatched up from worldly stead, iii. 146.

Fate frights us when the thing is past and gone, iii. 318.

Fate hath commanded I become thy fere, iii. 312.

Fie on this wretched world an so it be, i. 40.

Fight for my mother (an I live) I’ll take, ii. 239.

Fire is cooler than fires in my breast, iv. 245.

Fly, fly with life whenas evils threat, vi. 62.

Fly, fly with thy life if by ill overtaken, ii. 19.

Folk have made moan of passion before me, of past years, viii. 65.

For cup friends cup succeeding cup assign, v. 66.

For eaters a table they brought and set, viii. 208.

For her sins is a pleader that brow, ii. 97.

For joys that are no more I want to weep, iii. 185.

For Layla’s favour dost thou greed?, iii. 135.

For loss of lover mine and stress of love I dree, viii. 75.

For not a deed the hand can try, v. 188.

For others these hardships and labours I bear, i. 17.

For your love my patience fails, i. 74.

Forbear, O troubles of the world, i. 39.

Forgive me, thee-ward sinned I, but the wise, ii. 9.

Forgive the sin ’neath which my limbs are trembling, iii. 249.

Fortune had mercy on the soul of me, iii. 135.

Fortune had ruth upon my plight, viii. 50.

Four things that meet not, save they here unite, i. 116.

Four things which ne’er conjoin, unless it be, iii. 237.

Freest am I of all mankind fro’ meddling wight, ii. 200.

Fro’ them inhale I scent of Attar of Bán, viii. 242.

From her hair is night, from her forehead noon, viii. 303.

From Love-stupor awake, O Masrur, ’twere best, viii. 214.

From that liberal hand on his foes he rains, iv. 97.

From the plain of his face springs a minaret, viii. 296.

From wine I turn and whoso wine-cups swill, i. 208.

Full many a reverend Shaykh feels sting of flesh, v. 64.

Full many laugh at tears they see me shed, iii. 193.

Full moon if unfreckled would favour thee, iv. 19.

Full moon with sun in single mansion, i. 264.

Gainsay women; he obeyeth Allah best, who saith them nay, ix. 282.

Garb of Fakir, renouncement, lowliness, v. 297.

Garth Heaven-watered wherein clusters waved, viii. 266.

Get thee provaunt in this world ere thou wend upon thy way, ii. 139.

Give back mine eyes their sleep long ravished, i. 99.

Give me brunettes, so limber, lissom, lithe of sway, iv. 258.

Give me brunettes; the Syrian spears so limber and so straight, viii. 158.

Give me the Fig sweet-flavoured, beauty clad, viii. 269.

Give thou my message twice, iii. 166.

Gladsome and gay forget thine every grief, i. 57.

Glory to Him who guides the skies, vii. 78.

Gnostic’s heart-homèd in the heavenly Garth, v. 264.

Go, gossip! re-wed thee, for Prime draweth near, v. 135.

399Go, visit her thou lovest, and regard not, iii. 235; viii. 305.

God make thy glory last in joy of life, viii. 99.

Gone is my strength, told is my tale of days, iii. 55.

Goodly of gifts is she, and charm those perfect eyes, iii. 57.

Granados of finest skin, like the breasts, viii. 267.

Grant me the kiss of that left hand ten times, iv. 129.

Grape-bunches likest as they sway, viii. 266.

Grapes tasting with the taste of wine, viii. 266.

Grief, cark and care in my heart reside, iv. 19.

Grow thy weal and thy welfare day by day, i. 204.

Had I known of love in what fashion he, vii. 330.

Had I wept before she did in my passion for Su’ada, vii. 275.

Had she shown her shape to idolator’s sight, viii. 279.

Hadst thou been leal in love’s loyalty, iii. 77.

Had we known of thy coming we fain had dispread, i. 117.

Had we wist of thy coming, thy way had been strown, i. 271.

Haply and happily may Fortune bend her rein, viii. 67.

Haply shall Allah deign us twain unite, viii. 141.

Haply shall Fortune draw her rein, iii. 251.

Happy is Eloquence when thou art named, i. 47.

Hast quit the love of Moons or dost persist?, iv. 240.

Hast seen a Citron-copse so weighed adown, viii. 272.

Haste to do kindness thou dost intend, iv. 181.

Haste to do kindness while thou hast the power, iii. 136.

Have the doves that moan in the lotus-tree, vii. 91.

He blames me for casting on him my sight, viii. 283.

He came and cried they, Now be Allah blest!, iii. 215.

He came in sable hued sacque, iv. 263.

He came to see me, hiding ’neath the shirt of night, iv. 252.

He comes; and fawn and branch and moon delight these eyne, iv. 142.

He cometh robed and bending gracefully, ii. 287.

He heads his arrows with piles of gold, iv. 97.

He is Caliph of Beauty in Yusuf’s lieu, ii. 292.

He is gone who when to this gate thou go’st, ii. 14.

He is to thee that daily bread thou canst nor loose nor bind, i. 39.

He’ll offer sweetmeats with his edgèd tongue, iii. 115.

He made me drain his wine of honeyed lips, v. 72.

He missed not who dubbed thee, “World’s delight,” v. 33.

He pluckt fruits of her necklace in rivalry, ii. 103.

He prayeth and he fasteth for an end he doth espy, ii. 264.

He seized my heart and freed my tears to flow, viii. 259.

He showed in garb anemone-red, iv. 263.

He thou trustedst most is thy worst unfriend, iii. 143.

He whom the randy motts entrap, iii. 216.

Hearkening, obeying, with my dying mouth, ii. 321.

Heavy and swollen like an urine-bladder blown, iv. 236.

Her fair shape ravisheth, if face to face she did appear, v. 192.

Her fore-arms, dight with their bangles, show, v. 89.

Her golden yellow is the sheeny sun’s, iv. 257.

Her lip-dews rival honey-sweets, that sweet virginity, viii. 33.

Her smiles twin rows of pearls display, i. 86.

Here! Here! by Allah, here! Cups of the sweet, the dear!, i. 89.

400Here the heart reads a chapter of devotion pure, iii. 18.

Hind is an Arab filly purest bred, vii. 97.

His cheek-down writeth (O fair fall the goodly scribe!), ii. 301.

His cheek-down writeth on his cheek with ambergris on pearl, ii. 301.

His eyelids sore and bleared, viii. 297.

His face as the face of the young moon shines, i. 177.

His honey-dew of lips is wine; his breath, iv. 195.

His looks have made me drunken, not his wine, iii. 166.

His lovers said, Unless he deign to give us all a drink, viii. 285.

His lovers’ souls have drawn upon his cheek, iii. 58.

His mole upon plain of cheek is like, viii. 265.

His scent was musk and his cheek was rose, i. 203.

Ho, lovers all! by Allah say me fair and sooth, ii. 309.

Ho, lovers all! by Allah say me sooth, ii. 320.

Ho say to men of wisdom, wit and lere, v. 239.

Ho thou, Abrizah, mercy! leave me not for I, ii. 127.

Ho, those heedless of Time and his sore despight!, vii. 221.

Ho thou hound who art rotten with foulness in grain, iii. 108.

Ho thou lion who broughtest thyself to woe, vii. 123.

Ho thou my letter! when my friend shall see thee, iv. 57.

Ho thou o’ the tabret, my heart takes flight, viii. 166.

Ho thou the House! Grief never home in thee, viii. 206.

Ho thou, the house, whose birds were singing gay, v. 57.

Ho thou who grovellest low before the great, ii. 235.

Ho thou, who past and bygone risks regardest with uncare!, iii. 28.

Ho thou whose heart is melted down by force of Amor’s fire, v. 132.

Ho ye mine eyes let prodigal tears go free, iv. 248.

Ho ye my friends draw near, for I forthright, viii. 258.

Hola, thou mansion! woe ne’er enter thee, iv. 140.

Hold fast thy secret and to none unfold, i. 87.

Hold to nobles, sons of nobles, ii. 2.

Honour and glory wait on thee each morn, iv. 60.

Hope not of our favours to make thy prey, viii. 208.

Houris and high-born Dames who feel no fear of men, v. 148.

How bitter to friends is a parting, iv. 222.

How comes it that I fulfilled my vow the while that vow brake you?, iv. 241.

How dear is our day and how lucky our lot, i. 293.

How fair is ruth the strong man deigns not smother, i. 103.

How good is Almond green I view, viii. 270.

How is this? Why should the blamer abuse thee in his pride, iii. 232.