Volume 10 — Appendix I.

INDEX I. INDEX TO THE TALES AND PROPER NAMES.

N.B.—The Roman numerals denote the volume, the Arabic the page.

Abdullah the Fisherman and Abdullah the Merman, ix. 165.

—— bin Fazl and his brothers, ix. 304.

—— bin Ma’amar with the Man of Bassorah and his slave-girl, v. 69.

Abd al-Rahman the Moor’s story of the Rukh, v. 122.

Abu Hasan al-Ziyadi and the Khorasan Man, iv. 285.

Abu Hasan, how he brake Wind, v. 135.

Abu Isa and Kurrat al-Ayn, The Loves of, v. 145.

Abu Ja’afar the Leper, Abu al-Hasan al-Durraj and, v. 294.

Abu Kir the Dyer and Abu Sir the Barber, ix. 134.

Abu al-Aswad and his squinting slave-girl, v. 80.

Abu al-Husn and his slave-girl Tawaddud, v. 189.

Abu al-Hasan al-Durraj and Abu Ja’afar the Leper, v. 294.

Abu al-Hasan of Khorasan, ix. 229.

Abu Mohammed hight Lazybones, iv. 162.

Abu Nowas, Harun al-Rashid with the damsel and, iv. 261.

Abu Nowas and the Three Boys, v. 64.

Abu Sir the Barber, Abu Kir the Dyer and, ix. 134.

Abu Suwayd and the handsome old woman, v. 163.

Abu Yusuf with Harun al-Rashid and his Wazir Ja’afar, The Imam, iv. 1.

Abu Yusuf with Al-Rashid and Zubaydah, The Imam, iv. 153.

Adam, The Birds and Beasts and the Son of, iii. 114.

Adi bin Zayd and the Princess Hind, v. 124.

Ajib, The History of Gharib and his brother, vi. 257.

Ala al-Din Abu al-Shamat, iv. 29.

Alexandria (The Sharper of) and the Master of Police, iv. 269.

Ali bin Bakkar and Shams al-Nahar, iii. 162.

Ali of Cairo, The Adventures of Mercury, vii. 172.

310Ali Nur al-Din and Miriam the Girdle-Girl, viii. 264.

Ali the Persian and the Kurd Sharper, iv. 149.

Ali Shar and Zumurrud, iv. 187.

Ali bin Tahir and the girl Muunis, v. 164.

Al-Malik al-Nasir (Saladin) and the Three Chiefs of Police, iv. 271.

Almsgiving, The Woman whose hands were cut off for, iv. 281.

Amin (Al-) and his uncle Ibrahim bin al-Mahdi, v. 152.

Anushirwan, Kisra, and the village damsel, v. 87.

Anushirwan, The Righteousness of King, v. 254.

Angel of Death and the King of the Children of Israel, The, v. 250.

—— with the Proud King and the Devout Man, The, v. 246.

—— and the Rich King, The, v. 248.

Anis al-Jalis, Nur al-Din Ali and the damsel, ii. 1.

Ape, The King’s daughter and the, iv. 297.

Apples, The Three, i. 186.

Arab Girl, Harun al-Rashid and the, vii. 108.

Arab Youth, The Caliph Hisham and the, iv. 101.

Ardashir and Hayat al-Nufus, vii. 209.

Asma’i (Al-) and the three girls of Bassorah, vii. 110.

Ass, The Ox and the, i. 16.

Ass, The Wild, The Fox and, ix. 48.

Ayishah, Musab bin al-Zubayr and his wife, v. 79.

Aziz and Azizah, Tale of, ii. 298.

Azizah, Aziz and, ii. 298.

Badawi, Ja’afar the Barmecide and the old, v. 98.

——, Omar bin al-Khattab and the young, v. 99.

—— and his Wife, The, vii. 124.

Badi’a al-Jamal, Sayf al-Muluk and, vii. 314.

Badr Basim of Persia, Julnar the Sea-born, and her Son King, vii. 264.

Badr al-Din Hasan, Nur al-Din Ali of Cairo and his son, i. 195.

Baghdad, The Haunted House in, v. 166.

——, Khalifah the Fisherman of, viii. 145.

——, The Porter and the Three Ladies of, i. 82.

——, (The ruined man of) and his slave-girl, ix. 24.

——, The Sweep and the noble Lady of, iv. 125.

Bakun’s Story of the Hashish-Eater, iii. 91.

Banu Tayy, The Lovers of the, v. 137.

Banu Ozrah, The Lovers of the, v. 70.

Barber’s Tale of himself, The, i. 317.

Barber’s First Brother, Story of the, i. 319.

Barber’s Second Brother, Story of the, i. 324.

Barber’s Third Brother, Story of the, i. 328.

Barber’s Fourth Brother, Story of the, i. 331.

Barber’s Fifth Brother, Story of the, i. 335.

311Barber’s Sixth Brother, Story of the, i. 343.

Barber, Abu Kir the Dyer and Abu Sir the, ix. 134.

Barber-Surgeon, Ibrahim bin al-Mahdi and the, iv. 103.

Barmecide, Ja’afar the, and the old Badawi, v. 98.

Bassorah (the man of) and his slave-girl, Abdullah bin Ma’amar with, v. 69.

——, Al-Asma’i and the three girls of, vii. 110.

——, (Hasan of) and the King’s daughter of the Jinn, viii. 7.

——, The Lovers of, vii. 130.

Bath, Harun al-Rashid and Zubaydah in the, v. 75.

Bathkeeper’s Wife, The Wazir’s Son and the, vi. 150.

Beanseller, Ja’afar the Barmecide and the, iv. 159.

Bear, Wardan the Butcher’s adventure with the Lady and the, iv. 293.

Beasts and the Son of Adam, The Birds and, iii. 16.

Behram, Prince of Persia, and the Princess Al-Datma, vi. 184.

Belvedere, The House with the, vi. 188.

Birds and Beasts and the Carpenter, The, iii. 114.

Birds, The Falcon and the, iii. 154.

Birds (the Speech of), The page who feigned to know, vi. 169.

Black Slave, The pious, v. 261.

Blacksmith who could handle fire without hurt, The, v. 271.

Blind Man and the Cripple, The, ix. 67.

Boys, Abu Nowas and the Three, v. 64.

Boy and Girl at School, The Loves of the, v. 73.

Boy and the Thieves, The, ix. 95.

Boy (The woman who had to lover a) and the other who had to lover a man, v. 165.

Brass, The City of, vi. 83.

Broker’s Story, The Christian, i. 262.

Budur and Jubayr bin Umayr, The Loves of, iv. 228.

Budur, Kamar al-Zaman and, iii. 212.

Bukhayt, Story of the Eunuch, ii. 49.

Bulak Police, Story of the Chief of the, iv. 273.

Bull and the Ass (Story of), i. 16.

Bulukiya, Adventures of, v. 304.

Butcher’s adventure with the Lady and the Bear, Wardan the, iv. 293.

Butter, The Fakir and his pot of, ix. 40.

Cairo (New) Police, Story of the Chief of the, iv. 271.

—— (Old) Police, Story of the Chief of the, iv. 274.

——, The Adventures of Mercury Ali of, vii. 172.

Caliph Al-Ma’amun and the Strange Doctor, iv. 185.

Caliph, The mock, iv. 130.

Cashmere Singing-girl, The Goldsmith and the, vi. 156.

Cat and the Crow, The, iii. 149.

—— and the Mouse, The, ix. 35.

312Champion (The Moslem) and the Christian Lady, v. 277.

Chaste Wife, The Lover’s Trick against the, vi. 135.

Christian Broker’s Story, The, i. 262.

City of Labtayt, The, vi. 83.

Cloud (The saint to whom Allah gave a) to serve him, v. 274.

Cobbler (Ma’aruf the) and his wife Fatimah, x. 1.

Confectioner, his Wife and the Parrot, The, vi. 132.

Crab, The Fishes and the, ix. 34.

Craft and Malice of Women, The, vi. 122.

Cripple, The Blind Man and the, ix. 67.

Crow, the Fox and the, iii. 150.

—— and the Serpent, The, ix. 46.

Crow, The Cat and the, iii. 149.

Crows and the Hawk, The, ix. 53.

Dalilah the Crafty and her daughter Zaynab the Coney-catcher, The Rogueries of, vii. 144.

Datma (The Princess Al-), Prince Behram of Persia and, vi. 184.

Death (The Angel of) and the King of the Children of Israel, v. 250.

—— —— with the Proud King and the Devout Man, v. 246.

—— —— and the Rich King, v. 248.

Debauchee and the Three-year-old Child, The, vi. 208.

Desert (The old woman who dwelt in the) and the pilgrim, v. 186.

Device (The Wife’s) to cheat her husband, vi. 152.

Devil, Ibrahim of Mosul and the, vii. 113.

——, Isaac of Mosul and his mistress and the, vii. 136.

Devout Israelite, The, iv. 283.

—— Tray-maker and his wife, The, v. 264.

—— Prince, The, v. 111.

—— woman and the two wicked elders, The, v. 97.

Dibil al-Khuzai and Muslim bin al-Walid, v. 127.

Dish of Gold, The man who stole the Dog’s, iv. 265.

Doctor (The strange) and the Caliph Al-Maamun, iv. 185.

Dog’s Dish of Gold, The man who stole the, iv. 265.

Dream, The ruined man who became rich through a, iv. 289.

Drop of Honey, The, vi. 142.

Duban, The Physician, i. 45.

Dunya, Taj al-Muluk and the Princess, ii. 283.

Durraj (Abu al-Hasan al-) and Abu Ja’afar the Leper, v. 294.

Dust, The woman who made her husband sift, vi. 143.

Dyer, Abu Sir the Barber and Abu Kir the, ix. 134.

Eagle, The Sparrow and the, iii. 155.

Ebony Horse, The, v. 1.

Egypt (The man of Upper) and his Frank wife, ix. 19.

Elders, The Devout woman and the two wicked, v. 97.

313Eldest Lady’s Story, The, i. 162.

Enchanted Spring, The, vi. 145.

—— Youth, The, i. 69.

Envied, The Envier and the, i. 123.

Envier and the Envied, The, i. 123.

Eunuch Bukhayt, Tale of the, ii. 49.

—— Kafur, Tale of the, ii. 51.

Fakir and his jar of butter, The, ix. 40.

Falcon and the Partridge, The, iii. 138.

Falcon, King Sindibad and his, i. 50.

Fatimah, Ma’aruf the Cobbler and his wife, x. 1.

Fath bin Khakan (Al) and Al-Mutawakkil, v. 153.

Ferryman of the Nile and the Hermit, The, v. 288.

First Old man’s Story, i. 27.

Fisherman, Abdullah the Merman and Abdullah the, ix. 165.

—— of Baghdad, Khalifah the, viii. 145.

——, The Foolish, ix. 93.

—— and the Jinni, The, i. 38.

——, Khusrau and Shirin and the, v. 91.

Fishes and the Crab, The, ix. 43.

Five Suitors, The Lady and her, vi. 172.

Flea and the Mouse, The, iii. 151.

Folk, The Fox and the, vi. 211.

Forger, Yahya bin Khalid and the, iv. 181.

Fox and the Crow, The, iii. 150.

Fox and the Folk, The, vi. 211.

Fox, The Wolf and the, iii. 132.

Francolin and the Tortoises, The, ix. 113.

Frank King’s Daughter, Ali Nur al-Din and the, viii. 264.

Frank wife, The man of Upper Egypt and his, ix. 19.

Fuller and his son, The, vi. 134.

Generous friend, The poor man and his, iv. 288.

Ghanim bin Ayyub the Thrall o’ Love, ii. 45.

Gharib and his brother Ajib, The History of, vi. 257.

Girl, Harun al-Rashid and the Arab, vii. 108.

Girl at School, The Loves of the Boy and, v. 73.

Girls of Bassorah, Al-Asma’i and the three, vii. 110.

Girls, Harun al-Rashid and the three, vi. 81.

—— ——, and the two, v. 81.

Goldsmith and the Cashmere Singing-Girl, The, vi. 156.

Goldsmith’s wife, The water-carrier and the, v. 89.

Hajjaj (Al-) Hind daughter of Al-Nu’uman and, vii. 96.

—— and the pious man, v. 269.

Hakim (The Caliph Al-) and the Merchant, v. 86.

314Hammad the Badawi, Tale of, ii. 104.

Hariri (Al-) Abu Zayd’s lament for his impotency. Final Note to vol. viii.

Harun al-Rashid and the Arab girl, vii. 108.

—— and the Slave-Girl and the Imam Abu Yusuf, iv. 153.

—— with the Damsel and Abu Nowas, iv. 261.

—— and Abu Hasan the Merchant of Oman, ix. 188.

—— and the three girls, v. 81.

—— and the two girls, v. 81.

—— and the three poets, v. 77.

—— and Zubaydah in the Bath, v. 75.

Hashish-Eater, Bakun’s tale of the, ii. 91.

Hasan of Bassorah and the King’s daughter of the Jinn, viii. 7.

Hasan, King Mohammed bin Sabaik and the Merchant, vii. 308.

Hatim al-Tayyi: his generosity after death, iv. 94.

Haunted House in Baghdad, The, v. 166.

Hawk, The Crows and the, ix. 53.

Hayat al-Nufus, Ardashir and, vii. 209.

Hedgehog and the wood Pigeons, The, iii. 156.

Hermit, The Ferryman of the Nile and the, v. 288.

Hermits, The, iii. 125.

Hind, Adi bin Zayd and the Princess, v. 124.

Hind daughter of Al-Nu’uman and Al-Hajjaj, vii. 96.

Hind (King Jali’ad of) and his Wazir Shimas, ix. 32.

Hisham and the Arab Youth, The Caliph, iv. 101.

Honey, The Drop of, vi. 142.

Horse, The Ebony, v. 1.

House with the Belvedere, The, vi. 188.

Hunchback’s Tale, The, i. 255.

Husband and the Parrot, The, i. 52.

Ibn al-Karibi, Masrur and, v. 109.

Ibrahim al-Khawwas and the Christian King’s Daughter, v. 283.

—— bin al-Khasib and Jamilah, ix. 207.

—— of Mosul and the Devil, vii. 113.

—— bin al-Mahdi and Al-Amin, v. 152.

—— bin al-Mahdi and the Barber-Surgeon, iv. 103.

—— —— and the Merchant’s Sister, iv. 278.

Ifrit’s mistress and the King’s Son, The, vi. 199.

Ignorant man who set up for a Schoolmaster, The, v. 119.

Ikrimah al-Fayyaz, Khuzaymah bin Bishr and, vii. 99.

Imam Abu Yusuf with Al-Rashid and Zubaydah, The, iv. 153.

Introduction. Story of King Shariyar and his brother, i. 1.

Iram, The City of, iv. 113.

Isaac of Mosul’s Story of Khadijah and the Caliph Maamun, iv. 119.

Isaac of Mosul and the Merchant, v. 129.

315Isaac of Mosul and his Mistress and the Devil, vii. 113.

Island, The King of the, v. 290.

Iskandar Zu Al-Karnayn and a certain Tribe of poor folk, v. 252.

Israelite, The Devout, iv. 283.

Jackals and the Wolf, The, ix. 103.

Ja’afar the Barmecide and the Beanseller, iv. 159.

—— —— and the old Badawi, v. 98.

Ja’afar bin al-Hadi, Mohammed al-Amin, and, v. 93.

Jamilah, Ibrahim bin al-Khasib, and, ix. 207.

Janshah, The Story of, v. 329.

Jali’ad of Hind and his Wazir Shimas, King, ix. 32.

Jeweller’s Wife, Kamar al-Zaman and the, ix. 246.

Jewish Kazi and his pious Wife, The, v. 256.

Jewish Doctor’s Tale, The, i. 288.

Jinni, The Fisherman and the, i. 38.

Jinni, The Trader and the, i. 24.

Jubayr bin Umayr and Budur, The Loves of, iv. 228.

Judar and his brethren, vi. 213.

Julnar the Sea-born and her son King Badr Basim of Persia, vii. 264.

Justice of Providence, The, v. 286.

Kafur, Story of the Eunuch, ii. 51.

Kalandar’s Tale, The first, i. 104.

——, The second, i. 113.

——, The third, i. 130.

Kamar al-Zaman and Budur, iii. 211.

—— and the Jeweller’s Wife, ix. 246.

Kazi, the Jewish, and his pious wife, v. 256.

Khadijah and the Caliph Maamun, Isaac of Mosul’s Story of, iv. 119.

Khalif the Fisherman of Baghdad (note from Bresl. Edit.), viii. 184.

Khalifah the Fisherman of Baghdad, viii. 145.

Khawwas (Ibrahim al-) and the Christian King’s daughter, v. 283.

Khorasan, Abu Hasan al-Ziyadi and the man from, iv. 285.

——, Abu al-Hasan of, ix. 229.

Khusrau and Shirin and the Fisherman, v. 91.

Khuzaymah bin Bishr and Ikrimah al-Fayyaz, vii. 99.

King Jali’ad, Shimas his Wazir and his son Wird Khan, ix. 32.

King of the Island, The, v. 290.

—— and the Pilgrim Prince, The Unjust, ix. 50.

—— and the virtuous wife, The, v. 121.

—— and his Wazir’s wife, The, vi. 129.

King’s Daughter and the Ape, The, iv. 297.

—— Son and the Ifrit’s Mistress, The, vi. 199.

—— —— and the Merchant’s Wife, The, vi. 167.

—— —— and the Ghulah, The, vi. 139.

316Kings, The Two, ix. 65.

Kisra Anushirwan and the Village Damsel, v. 87.

Kurd Sharper, Ali the Persian and the, iv. 149.

Kurrat al-Ayn and Abu Isa, v. 145.

Kus Police and the Sharper, Chief of the, iv. 276.

Labtayt, The City of, iv. 99.

Lady of Baghdad, The Sweep and the noble, iv. 125.

Lady’s Story, The Eldest, i. 162.

Lady and her five suitors, The, vi. 172.

—— and her two Lovers, The, vi. 138.

Ladies of Baghdad, The Porter and the Three, i. 82.

Laughed again, The man who never, vi. 160.

Lazybones, Abu Mohammed hight, iv. 162.

Leper, Abu al-Hasan al-Durraj and Abu Ja’afar the, v. 294.

Lover, The mad, v. 138.

Lover who feigned himself a thief (to save his mistress honour), The, iv. 155.

Lover’s trick against the chaste Wife, The, vi. 135.

Lovers of Bassorah, The, vii. 130.

—— of the Banu Tayy, The, v. 137.

—— of the Banu Ozrah, The, v. 70.

——, The Lady and her two, vi. 138.

—— of Al-Medinah, The, vii. 139.

——, The Three unfortunate, v. 133.

Loves of the Boy and Girl at School, The, v. 73.

Loves of Abu Isa and Kurrat al-Ayn, The, v. 145.

Maamun, Isaac of Mosul’s Story of Khadijah and the Caliph, iv. 119.

—— (Al-) and the Pyramids of Egypt, v. 105.

—— and the strange Scholar, The Caliph, iv. 185.

Ma’an bin Zaidah and the Badawi, iv. 97.

Ma’an the son of Zaidah and the Three Girls, iv. 96.

Mad Lover, The, vii. 139.

Madinah (Al-), The Lovers of, vii. 139.

Magic Horse, The, v. 1.

Mahbubah, Al-Mutawakkil and his favourite, iv. 291.

Malik al-Nasir (Al-) and the three Masters of Police, iv. 271.

—— and his Wazir, vii. 142.

Man and his Wife, The, ix. 98.

Man who never laughed during the rest of his days, The, vi. 160.

Man (The Woman who had to lover a) and the other who had to lover a boy, v. 165.

Man of Upper Egypt and his Frankish Wife, ix. 19.

Man of Al-Yaman and his six Slave-girls, iv. 245.

Man who stole the dog’s dish of gold, iv. 268.

Man who saw the Night of Power (Three Wishes), vi. 180.

317Man’s dispute with the learned Woman about boys and girls, v. 154.

Maruf the Cobbler and his wife Fatimah, x. 1.

Mansur, Yahya bin Khalid and, iv. 179.

Masrur and Ibn al-Karibi, v. 109.

Masrur and Zayn al-Mawasif, viii. 205.

Merchant of Oman, The, ix. 188.

—— and the Robbers, The, ix. 100.

—— and the two Sharpers, The, iii. 158.

Merchant’s Sister, Ibrahim bin al-Mahdi and the, iv. 278.

—— Wife, The King’s son and the, vi. 167.

—— Wife and the Parrot, The, i. 52.

Mercury Ali of Cairo, The Adventures of, vii. 172.

Merman, and Abdullah the Fisherman, Abdullah the, ix. 165.

Miller and his wife, The, v. 82.

Miriam, Ali Nur al-Din and, viii. 264.

Miser and Loaves of Bread, The, vi. 137.

Mock Caliph, The, iv. 130.

Mohammed al-Amin and Ja’afar bin al-Hadi, v. 93.

Mohammed bin Sabaik and the Merchant Hasan, King, vii. 308.

Money-changer, The Thief and the, iv. 275.

Monkey, The Thief and his, iii. 159.

Moslem Champion and the Christian Lady, The, v. 277.

Mouse, The, and the Cat, ix. 35.

Mouse and the Flea, The, iii. 151.

Mouse and the Ichneumon, The, iii. 147.

Muunis, Ali bin Tahir and the girl, v. 164.

Musab bin al-Zubayr and Ayishah his wife, v. 79.

Muslem bin al-Walid and Dibil al-Khuzai, v. 127.

Mutawakkil (Al-) and Al-Fath bin Khakan, v. 153.

—— and his favourite Mahbubah, iv. 291.

Mutalammis (Al-) and his wife Umaymah, v. 74.

Naomi, Ni’amah bin al-Rabi’a and his Slave-girl, iv. 1.

Nazarene Broker’s Story, The, i. 262.

Necklace, The Stolen, vi. 182.

Niggard and the Loaves of Bread, The, vi. 137.

Night of Power, The man who saw the, vi. 180.

Nile (The Ferryman of the) and the Hermit, v. 288.

Ni’amah bin al-Raby’a and Naomi his Slave-girl, iv. 1.

Nur al-Din Ali and the damsel Anis al-Jalis, ii. 1.

Nur al-Din of Cairo and his son Badr al-Din Hasan, i. 195.

Ogress, The King’s Son and the, vi. 139.

Old Man’s Story, The First, i. 27.

—— —— The Second, i. 32.

—— —— The Third, i. 36.

318Old Woman, Abu Suwayd and the handsome, v. 163.

Omar bin al-Nu’uman and his Sons Sharrkan and Zau al-Makan, The Tale of King, ii. 77.

Omar bin al-Khattab and the young Badawi, v. 99.

Oman, The Merchant of, ix. 188.

Otbah and Rayya, vii. 91.

Page who feigned to know the speech of birds, The, vi. 169.

Paradise, The Apples of, v. 141.

Parrot, The Merchant’s wife and the, i. 52.

Partridge, The Hawk and the, iii. 138.

Peacock, The Sparrow and the, iii. 161.

Persian and the Kurd Sharper, Ali the, iv. 149.

Physician Duban, The, i. 45.

Physician’s Story, The Jewish, i. 288.

Pilgrim and the old woman who dwelt in the desert, The, v. 186.

Pilgrim Prince, The Unjust King and the, ix. 50.

Pious black slave, The, v. 261.

Pigeons, The Hedgehog and the, iii. 156.

Pigeons, The Two, vi. 183.

Platter-maker and his wife, The devout, v. 264.

Poets, Harun al-Rashid and the three, v. 77.

Police of Bulak, Story of the Chief of the, iv. 273.

—— of Kus and the Sharper, the Chief of the, iv. 276.

—— of New Cairo, Story of the Chief of the, iv. 271.

—— of Old Cairo, Story of the Chief of the, iv. 274.

—— (The Three Masters of), Al-Malik, al-Nasir and, iv. 271.

Poor man and his friend in need, The, iv. 288.

Porter and the Three Ladies of Baghdad, The, i. 82.

Portress, The Tale of the, i. 173.

Prince Behram and the Princess Al-Datma, vi. 184.

——, the Ensorcelled, i. 69.

—— and the Ghulah, The, i. 54.

——, The Devout, v. 111.

—— (the Pilgrim), The Unjust King and, ix. 50.

Prior who became a Moslem, The, v. 141.

Providence, The justice of, v. 286.

Purse, The Stolen, vi. 209.

Pyramids of Egypt, Al-Maamun and the, v. 105.

Queen of the Serpents, The, v. 298.

Rake’s trick against the chaste Wife, The, vi. 135.

Rayya, Otbah and, vii. 91.

Reeve’s Tale, The, i. 278.

Rogueries of Dalilah the Crafty and her daughter Zaynab the Coney-catcher, The, vii. 144.

319Rose-in-Hood, Uns al-Wujud and the Wazir’s Daughter, v. 12.

Ruined Man of Baghdad and his Slave-girl, The, ix. 24.

—— who became rich again through a dream, The, iv. 189.

Rukh, Abd al-Rahman the Moor’s Story of the, v. 122.

Sa’id bin Salim and the Barmecides, v. 94.

Saint to whom Allah gave a cloud to serve him, The, v. 274.

Saker and the Birds, The, iii. 154.

Sandal-wood Merchant and the Sharpers, The, vi. 202.

Sayf al-Muluk and Badi’a al-Jamal, vii. 314.

School, The Loves of the Boy and the Girl at, v. 73.

Schoolmaster who fell in love by report, The, v. 117.

——, The Foolish, v. 118.

——, The ignorant man who set up for a, v. 119.

Serpent, The Crow and the, ix. 46.

Serpent-charmer and his Wife, ix. 56.

Serpents, The Queen of the, v. 298.

Sexes, Relative excellence of the, v. 154.

Shahryar and his brother, King (Introduction), i. 1.

Shahryar (King) and his brother, i. 2.

Shams al-Nahar, Ali bin Bakkar and, iii. 162.

Sharper of Alexandria and the Chief of Police, The, iv. 269.

Sharper, Ali the Persian and the Kurd, iv. 149.

——, The Chief of the Kus Police and the, iv. 276.

——, The Simpleton and the, v. 83.

Sharpers, The Merchant and the Two, iii. 158.

——, The Sandal-wood Merchant and the, vi. 202.

Sharrkan and Zau al-Makan, The History of King Omar bin Al-Nu’uman and his Sons, ii. 277.

Shaykh’s Story (The First), i. 27.

—— (The Second), i. 32.

—— (The Third), i. 36.

Shepherd and the Thief, The, ix. 106.

Shimas, King Jali’ad of Hind and his Wazir, ix. 32.

Shipwrecked Woman and her child, The, v. 259.

Shirin and the Fisherman, Khusrau and, v. 91.

Simpleton and the Sharper, The, v. 83.

Sindibad and his Falcon, King, i. 50.

Sindbad the Seaman and Sindbad the Porter, vi. 1.

——, First Voyage of, vi. 4.

——, Second Voyage of, vi. 14.

——, Third Voyage of, vi. 22.

——, Fourth Voyage of, vi. 34.

——, Fifth Voyage of, vi. 48.

——, Sixth Voyage of, vi. 58.

320——, Seventh Voyage of, vi. 68.

—— (note from Cal. Edit.), vi. 78.

Singing-girl, The Goldsmith and the Cashmere, vi. 156.

Six Slave-girls, The Man of Al-Yaman and his, iv. 245.

Slave, The pious black, v. 261.

Slave-girl, The ruined man of Baghdad and his, ix. 24.

Slave-girls, The Man of Al-Yaman and his six, iv. 245.

Sparrow and the Eagle, The, iii. 155.

—— and the Peacock, The, iii. 161.

Spider and the Wind, The, ix. 59.

Spring, The Enchanted, vi. 145.

Squinting slave-girl, Abu al-Aswad and his, v. 80.

Stolen Necklace, The, vi. 182.

—— Purse, The, vi. 209.

Suitors, The Lady and her five, vi. 172.

Sweep and Noble Lady of Baghdad, The, iv. 125.

Tailor’s Tale, The, i. 300.

Taj al-Muluk and the Princess Dunya, The Tale of, ii. 263.

Tawaddud, Abu al-Hasan and his slave-girl, v. 189.

Thief, The Lover who feigned himself a, iv. 155.

—— and the Shroff, The, iv. 275.

—— and his Monkey, The, iii. 159.

——, The Shepherd and the, ix. 106.

—— turned Merchant and the other Thief, The, v. 107.

Thieves, The Boy and the, ix. 95.

——, The Merchant and the, ix. 100.

——, The Two, v. 107.

Three-year-old-child, The Debauchee and the, vi. 208.

Three Apples, The, i. 186.

Three unfortunate Lovers, v. 133.

Three Wishes, or the Man who longed to see the Night of Power, The, vi. 180.

Tortoise, The Water-fowl and the, iii. 129.

Tortoises, The Heathcock and the, ix. 113.

Trader (the) and the Jinni, i. 24.

Trick (The Lover’s) against the chaste wife, vi. 135.

—— (The Wife’s) against her husband, vi. 152.

Two Kings, The, ix. 56.

Two Pigeons, The, vi. 183.

Umaymah, Al-Mutalammis and his wife, v. 74.

Unfortunate Lovers, The Three, v. 133.

Unjust King and the Pilgrim Prince, The, ix. 50.

Uns al-Wujud and the Wazir’s Daughter Rose-in-Hood, v. 32.

Upper Egypt (The man of) and his Frank wife, ix. 19.

Walid bin Sahl, Yunus the Scribe and the Caliph, vii. 104.

321Wardan, the Butcher, Adventure with the Lady and the Bear, iv. 293.

Water-carrier and the Goldsmith’s Wife, The, v. 89.

Water-fowl and the Tortoise, The, iii. 129.

Wazir and the Sage Duban, The, i. 45.

Wazir, Al-Malik al-Nasir and his, vii. 142.

—— of Al-Yaman and his young brother, The, v. 71.

Wazir’s Son and the Hammam-Keeper’s Wife, The, vi. 152.

—— Wife, The King and his, vi. 129.

Weasel, The Mouse and the, iii. 147.

Weaver, The Foolish, iii. 159.

Wife, The Badawi and his, vii. 124.

—— (the Chaste) The Lover’s Trick against, vi. 135.

——, The King and his Wazir’s, vi. 129.

——, The Man and his Wilful, ix. 98.

—— (The Merchant’s) and the Parrot, i. 52.

—— (The Virtuous) and the King, v. 121.

Wife’s device to cheat her husband, The, vi. 152.

—— trick against her husband, The, v. 96.

Wild Ass, The Jackal and the, ix. 48.

Wilful Wife, The Man and his, ix. 98.

Wind, The Spider and the, ix. 59.

Wird Khan (King) and his Women and Wazirs, ix. 90.

Wolf and the Fox, The, iii. 132.

Wolf, The Foxes and the, ix. 103.

Woman (The shipwrecked) and her child, v. 259.

Woman’s trick against her husband, v. 96.

Woman who made her husband sift dust, The, iv. 281.

Woman whose hands were cut off for Almsgiving, The, iv. 281.

Women, The Malice of, vi. 122.

——, The Two, v. 165.

Yahya bin Khalid and the Forger, iv. 181.

—— and Mansur, iv. 179.

—— and the Poor Man, v. 92.

Yaman (The Man of Al-) and his six slave-girls, iv. 245.

—— (The Wazir of Al-) and his young brother, v. 71.

Yunus the Scribe and the Caliph Walid bin Sahl, vii. 104.

Zau al-Makan, The History of King Omar bin al-Nu’uman and his Sons Sharrkan and, ii. 77.

Zayn al-Mawasif, Masrur and, viii. 205.

Zaynab the Coney-Catcher, The Rogueries of Dalilah the Wily, and her Daughter, vii. 144.

Zubaydah in the Bath, Harun al-Rashid and, v. 75.

Zumurrud, Ali Shar and, iv. 187.

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INDEX II. ALPHABETICAL TABLE OF THE NOTES (ANTHROPOLOGICAL, &c.)

Prepared by F. Steingass, Ph.D.

A’amash (Al-), traditionist, v. 81.

A’amash (Al-) = one with watering eyes, vi. 96.

A’aráf (Al-) = partition-wall (chapter of the Koran), v. 217.

A’araj (Al-), traditionist, v. 81.

Aaron’s rod, ii. 242.

—— (becomes with Moslems Moses’ staff), v. 238.

Abá, Abáah = cloak of hair, ii. 133; viii. 42.

Abá al-Khayr = my good sir, etc., ix. 54.

Abad = eternity, without end, ii. 205.

Abbás “hero eponymus” of the Abbasides, i. 188.

—— (= the grim-faced) iv. 138.

Abbasides (descendants of the Prophet’s uncle), ii. 61.

—— (black banners and dress), ii. 64, 292.

’Abd = servile, iii. 44.

Abd al-Ahad = slave of the One (God), vi. 222.

Abd al-Azíz (Caliph), ii. 166.

Abd al-Malik (Caliph), ii. 77, 167.

Abd al-Kádir of Gilán (founder of the Kádiri order), iv. 41.

Abd al-Malik ibn Marwán (Caliph), iii. 319; iv. 7.

Abd al-Rahím = slave of the Compassionate, vi. 221.

Abd al-Salám = slave of salvation, vi. 211.

Abd al-Samad = slave of the Eternal, vi. 221.

Abd al-Samad al-Samúdí (for Samanhúdí?), vi. 87.

Abdallah (a neutral name), v. 141.

Abdallah bin Abbás, companion and traditioner, i. 304.

Abdallah bin Abí Kilábah, iv. 113.

Abdallah bin al-Zubayr, iii. 318.

Abdallah bin Málik al-Khuzá’í, iv. 181.

Abdallah bin Mas’úd (traditionist), v. 81.

Abdallah bin Sálim (traditionist), v. 81.

Abdallah ibn al-Mu’tazz (poet-prince), x. 39.

Abdún (convent of) x. 40.

Abhak = Allah bless him and keep (see Sal’am), ii. 24.

’Abír (a fragrant powder sprinkled on face, body and clothes), viii. 240.

Abjad (Hebrew-Arabic alphabet), v. 229.

—— (logogriphs derived from it), viii. 93.

Ablution (difference of fashion in performing it), v. 112.

—— (obligatory after copulation), viii. 305.

Abraham (an Imám to mankind), ii. 203.

—— (place of) ii. 272; iv. 148.

—— (the Friend = mediæval St. Abraham), v. 205; vi. 270.

Abtan (Al-) = the most profound (see Bátiní), vi. 221.

Abú al-Abbás al-Mubarrad (grammarian), v. 138.

Abú al-Abbás al-Rakáshí (poet), v. 77.

Abú al-Ayná, v. 164.

Abú al-Hamlát = father of assaults, burdens, pregnancies, vii. 149.

323Abú al-Hasan (not Husn), iii. 162.

Abú al-Husn = Father of Beauty (a fancy-name), v. 189.

Abú al-Hosayn (Father of the Fortlet) = fox, iii. 132.

Abú al-Lays (Pr. N.) = Father of the Lion, ix. 211.

Abú al-Muzaffir = Father of the Conqueror, iv. 166.

Abú al-Nowás (Pr. N.) = Father of the Sidelocks, iv. 55, 264.

Abú al-Ruwaysh = Father of the Feather-kin, viii. 77.

Abú al-Sa’ádát = Father of Prosperities, viii. 148; x. 29.

Abú al-Sakhá = Father of Munificence, vii. 133.

Abú Alí, see Di’ibil al-Khuzá’i.

Abú Alí al-Husayn the Wag, vii. 130.

Abú Ámir bin Marwán (Wazir to Saladin), vii. 142.

Abú Bakr (Caliph) ii. 167, 197; v. 235.

Abú Bakr Mohammed al-Anbárí (grammarian), v. 141.

Abú Dalaf al-Ijili (a soldier famed for liberality and culture), ix. 189.

Abú Fáris = Father of Spoils (lion), v. 40.

Abú Hanífah (founder of the Senior School), ii. 207.

—— (scourged for refusing to take office), ii. 210.

Abú Hassán al-Ziyadí, iv. 258.

Abú Házim, ii. 205.

Abú Horayrah (uncle of Mohammed), v. 81.

Abú Hosayn = Father of the Fortlet (fox), vi. 211.

Abú Ishak (Hárún’s cup-companion), ii. 302.

Abú Karn = Father of the Horn (unicorn?), vi. 21.

Abú Kidr = Father of the Cooking-pot, i. 304.

Abú Kír = Father of the Pitch (Abou Kir), ix. 134.

Abú Kurrat = Father of Coolness (Chamæleon), iii. 165.

Abú Lahab and his wife, viii. 291.

Abú Lúlúah (murderer of Caliph Omar), ii. 162.

Abú Maryam (a term of contempt), viii. 306.

Abú Miján (song of), x. 41.

Abú Mohammed al-Battál (hero of an older tale), viii. 335.

Abú Músà al-Ashárí, ii. 162.

Abú Riyáh = Father of Winds (a toy), ii. 93.

Abú Shámah = Father of the Cheek-mole, i. 269.

Abú Shámmah = Father of a Smeller or nose, i. 269.

Abú Shawárib = Father of Mustachios, i. 269.

Abú Shiháb, Father of the Shooting-star = evil spirit, i. 221.

Abú Sír (corruption of Pousiri = Busiris), ix. 134.

Abú Sirhán = Father of (going out to pray by) Morning, iii. 146; ix. 104.

Abú Tabak = Father of Whipping, x. 5.

Abú Tammám (poet), v. 157.

Abú Yakzán = awakener (ass, cock), i. 16, 18.

Abú Yúsuf (the Lawyer), iv. 153.

Abú Zanád (traditionist), v. 81.

Abú Zarr (companion of the Prophet), ii. 200; v. 102.

Abyssinians (hardly to be called blackamoors), vi. 63.

Account asked from outgoing Governors, vii. 102.

Account of them will be presently given = “we leave them for the present,” vii. 157.

Acids applied as counter-inebriants, viii. 32.

Acquit me of responsibility = pardon me, ii. 76.

—— (formula of dismissing a servant), vi. 243.

Acquittance of all possible claims after business transactions (quoted on Judgment-Day), ix. 285.

’Ád (tribe of the prehistoric Arabs) i. 65; iii. 294; ix. 174.

’Ád bin Zayd (poet), v. 124.

Adab = anything between good education and good manners, i. 132; ix. 41.

Adam’s loins, iv. 111.

Adam’s Peak (Ar. Jabal al-Ramun), vi. 65.

Ádamí = an Adamite (opposed to Jinn), ix. 169.

324Adan = our Aden, viii. 248.

Address without vocative particle more emphatic, vii. 125.

Addressing by the name not courteous, vii. 114.

Adí (son of Hátim al-Táyyí), iv. 95.

Ádil (Al-) = the Just (Caliph Omar), v. 103.

’Ádilíyah (Mosque in Cairo), x. 6.

Adím = leather (Bulghár, Morocco), viii. 80.

Adím al-Zauk = lack-tact, ix. 206.

Adites (first and second), vi. 269.

Adl = just (ironically), iv. 271.

Adm (Udm) = any relish, iv. 128.

Admiral (fishing for the King’s table), ix. 159.

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

—— (land of Arabia), vi. 94.

Adolescent (Un, aime toutes les femmes), vii. 299.

Adultery (none without an adulterer), v. 90.

—— (to be proved by four witnesses), v. 97.

—— (son of = base-born), ix. 331.

—— (son of, to one’s own child), iii. 219.

Æolipyla, ii. 101.

Æsop the fable-writer, x. 117.

Af’à = ὄφις (a snake), ix. 37.

Affirmative and negative particles, vii. 195.

Afridun (Furaydun) absurd name for a Greek king, ii. 82.

Africa (suggested derivation of the name), vii. 60.

Aftah (Al-) = Broad-’o-Brow, i. 17.

Aghá = master, sir, gentleman (politely applied to a Eunuch), i. 235; ii. 50.

—— (Al-) for chief police officer, vii. 156.

Ahassa bi ’l-shurbah = “he smelt a rat,” vii. 144.

Ahd (Al-) wa al-Mísák = oath and covenant, ix. 327.

Ahdab = hunchback (opposed to Ak’as), i. 213.

Áhirah = strumpet (see Fájirah), viii. 109.

Ahjár al-Kassárín = falling-stones, viii. 334.

Ahl al-Bayt = the person of the house (euphemistic for wife), vi. 199.

Ahlan = as one of the household, viii. 269.

Ahmad = the praised one, Mohammed, ii. 226.

Ahmad al-Danaf (Pr. N.) = Calamity Ahmad, iv. 75.

—— bin Abí Dawád (High Chancellor to the Abbasides), ix. 244.

—— bin Hanbal (founder of the fourth Moslem School), ii. 204.

Ahnaf (Al-) bin Kays, ii. 160.

Ahr (ihr) = fornication, in the sense of irreligion, ii. 258.

Ahrám (Al-) = the Pyramids, v. 105.

Ahwáz (city and province of Khuzistan), vi. 287.

“Aidance from Allah and victory are near,” ix. 317.

’Áin = Smiter with the evil eye, i. 123.

Air (I fear it for her when it bloweth), viii. 53.

’Ajáib al-Hind = marvels of Ind, x. 153.

Ajal = appointed time of life, i. 74.

—— = yes verily, vii. 195.

’Ajam (Al-) = region not Arab, Persia, i. 2.

’Ajami = foreigner, esp. Persian, i. 120.

Ajíb (Pr. N.) = wonderful, vi. 257.

Ajúz, for old woman, highly insulting, i. 174.

’Ajwah = dates pressed into a solid mass and deified, vii. 14.

Akabah (mountain pass near Meccah), v. 295.

Akákír = drugs, spices, vii. 147.

Akásirah (= Kisra-Kings), i. 75; ix. 323.

—— (= sons of the royal Chosroës), v. 10.

Akh = brother (wide signification of the word), vi. 243.

Akh al-Jahálah = Brother of Ignorance, iii. 162.

Akhawán shakíkán = (two) brothers german, viii. 340.

Ákhir al-Zamán = the latter days, v. 304.

Akhlát (town in Armenia), vii. 88.

Akhzar = green, grey, fresh (applied to cheek-down), ii. 292.

Akík (Al-), two of the name, vii. 140.

’Akík = carnelian (“seal with seals of”), viii. 228.

Akíl (son of Abú Tálib), viii. 172.

’Akká = Acre, ix. 19.

Akkám = Cameleer, Caravan-manager, iv. 40.

325Akl al-hishmah = eating decorously, ix. 337.

Akmám, pl. of Kumm = sleeve, petal, viii. 275.

Akr Kayrawán = ball of silver-dross, viii. 267.

Akún fidá-ka = I may be thy ransom, viii. 36.

Akyál, title of the Himyarite Kings, vii. 60.

Akrás = cakes, i. 83.

Al (the Article with Proper Names), iii. 309.

Alà júdi-k = to thy generosity, ix. 150.

Alá al-Din (Aladdin) = Glory of the Faith, iv. 29, 33.

Alà kulli hál = in any case, any how, viii. 272.

Alà mahlak = at thy leisure, ix. 168.

Alà raghm = in spite of, vii. 121.

A’láj = sturdy miscreants, x. 38.

Alak = clotted blood, iii. 26.

Alam = way-mark etc., v. 191.

—— (not Ilm) al-Din = flag of the faith, ii. 19.

Aláma = alá-má = upon what? wherefore? iv. 201.

Alas for his chance of escaping = there is none, vii. 183.

Alast (day of), iv. 111.

Albatross (supposed never to touch land), vi. 33.

Alchemy (its practice has cost many a life), viii. 11.

Alcinous (of the Arabian Odyssy), vi. 65.

Alcove (corruption of Al-Kubbah), v. 18.

Ál Dáud (David’s family), iv. 50.

Aleppo (noted for debauchery), v. 64.

Alexander (of the Koran) not to be confounded with the Macedonian, ii. 199.

Alexandria (praise of), viii. 289.

Alfí = one who costs a thousand, iv. 225.

Alhambra = (Dár) al-Hamrá, the Red, vii. 49.

Alhamdulillah (pronounced to avert the evil eye), v. 7.

Alí bin Abí Tálib (Caliph), v. 213; 225.

—— (his deeds of prowess), ii. 108.

—— (murder of), iii. 319.

—— bin Mohammed bin Abdallah bin Táhír (Governor), v. 164.

—— al-Mulúk = high of (among the Kings), vii. 354.

—— al-Zaybak (Pr. N. = Mercury Ali), iv. 75; vii. 172.

—— Shár (Pr. N.), iv. 187.

Alif (stature like one), iii. 236; iv. 249.

—— Há, Wáw as tests of calligraphy, vii. 112.

Alish Takish (acting woman and man alternately), v. 65.

All will not be save well = it will be the worse for him, ix. 293.

Allah (will open thee) a formula of refusal, i. 32.

—— (hath said) formula of quoting the Koran, i. 61.

—— (names, by Edwin Arnold), ii. 28.

—— Wa’llahi tayyib (exclamation of the Egyptian Moslem), ib. 34.

—— (His name pronounced against the evil eye), iv. 34.

—— (is all-knowing, swearing by, forbidden), ib. ~gutenberg 53254 .

—— = (I don’t know), ib. ~gutenberg 53254 .

—— (give thee profit), iii. 17.

—— (unto, we are returning), ib. 317.

—— (desire unto), v. 104.

—— (corporality of?), ib. 104.

—— (requite you abundantly = “thank you”), ib. 171.

—— (seeking refuge with), ib. 200.

—— (names of), ib. 214.

—— (be praised whatso be our case), vi. 3.

—— (the “Manifest Truth”), ib. 93.

—— (is omniscient), formula used when telling an improbable tale, ib. 210.

—— (the Opener), ib. 216.

—— (it is He who gives by our means), ib. 233.

—— (sight comprehendeth Him not), ib. 283.

—— (confound the far One, hard swearing), vii. 155.

—— (succour the Caliph against thee), ib. 159.

—— (is All-knowing for our tale is no “Gospel truth”), ib. 209.

—— (I take refuge with—from gainsaying thee = God forbid that I should oppose thee), viii. 53.

—— (perpetuate his shadow), ib. 170.

—— (we seek refuge with him from the error of the intelligent), ib. 327.

—— (will make no way for the Infidels over the True Believers), ix. 16.

—— (I seek refuge with), ib. 35.

326—— (He was jealous for Almighty), ib. 104.

—— (I fear him in respect of = I am governed by Him in my dealings with), ib. 123.

—— (pardon thee, showing that the speaker does not believe in another’s tale), ib. 154.

—— (the Provider), ib. 166.

—— (for the love of), ib. 170.

—— (Karím = God is bountiful), ib. 167.

—— (grant thee grace = pardon thee), ib. 283.

—— (yasturak = will veil thee), ib. 309.

—— (sole Scient of the hidden things, be extolled), ib. 311.

—— (raised the heavens without columns, etc.), ib. 324.

—— (will make things easy = will send us aid), x. 2.

—— (give thee quittance of responsibility), ib. 11.

—— (will send thee thy daily bread), ib. 13.

Allah! Allah! = I conjure thee by God, i. 346.

Alláh Karím = Allah is all beneficent, i. 32.

Allaho a’alam = God is all knowing, i. 2, 50.

Allaho akbar (as a war cry), ii. 89; v. 196; vii. 8; viii. 265.

Allahumma = Yá Allah with emphasis, i. 39.

Allusions (far-fetched, fanciful and obscure), iii. 58, 169, 176, 263.

Almá = brown- (not “damask-”) lipped, v. 66.

Almás = Gr. Adamas, ix. 325.

Almenichiaka, vi. 124.

Almond-apricot, vi. 277.

Alms to reverend men to secure their prayers, ii. 71.

Alnashar (Story of), x. 146.

Aloes, see Sabr.

—— (well appreciated in Eastern medicine), ix. 100.

—— (the finest used for making Nadd), ix. 150.

Alpinism (unknown), iii. 324.

Al-Safar Zafar = voyaging is victory, i. 250.

Alwán (pl. of Laun, colour) = viands, dishes, viii. 23.

Amáim (pl. of Imamah) = turbands, iv. 100.

’Amal = action, operation (applied to drugs etc.), ix. 274.

’Amala hilah for tricking, a Syro-Egyptian vulgarism, vii. 43.

Amalekites, vii. 264, 265.

Amám-ak = before thee, vii. 94.

Amán = quarter, mercy, i. 342.

’Amáriah (Pr. N. of a town), vii. 353.

Amazon (a favourite in folk-lore), ii. 96.

Amazons (of Dahome), viii. 39.

Ambar al-Khám = rude Ambergris, viii. 85.

Ambiguousity, v. 44.

Amend her case = bathe her, etc., vii. 266.

Amid (Amidah) town in Mesopotamia, vi. 106.

Amín (Al-) = the Trusted of Allah, iv. 261.

—— —— son and successor of Hárún al-Rashíd, i. 185; v. 93, 152.

Ámín (Amen) = So be it! ix. 131.

Amír = military commander, i. 259.

’Ámir = one who inhabiteth, haunter, x. 6.

Amír and Samúl = Jones, Brown and Robinson, iv. 106.

Amír al-Muuminín = Prince of the Faithful, i. 112.

Ammá ba’ad = but after (initiatory formula), ii. 37.

’Amm = uncle (polite address to a father-in-law), x. 32.

Ammá laka au ’alayka = either to thee (the gain) or upon thee (the loss), ix. ii.

Amor discende non ascende, iii. 240.

Amr (Al-) = command, matter, affair, ix. 67.

Amrad = beardless and handsome, effeminate, i. 327.

Amrú (pronounced Amr) or Zayd = Tom, Dick or Harry, iv. 2.

—— bin Ma’adi Karib (poet), v. 147.

—— bin Masa’dah (Pr. N.), v. 145.

Amsá = he passed the evening, etc., iii. 239.

Amsár (pl. of Misr) = cities, i. 11.

—— = settled provinces, vii. 371.

Amshát (combs) perhaps = Kanáfah (vermicelli), i. 83.

Amtár, pl. of Matr, q.v., iii. 295.

Amúd al-Sawári = the Pillar of Masts (Diocletian’s column), viii. 323.

Amúríyah = the classical Amorium, v. 141.

“Ana” (from Night ccclxxxi. to ccccxxiv.), v. 64.

327Ana a’amil = I will do it (Egypto-Syrian vulgarism), v. 367.

Ana fí jíratak = I crave thy intercession (useful phrase), iv. 83.

Anagnorisis, admirably managed, viii. 104.

Analphabetic Amírs, ix. 126.

Ánasa-kum = ye are honoured by knowing him, x. 11.

Anbár (pronounced Ambár), town on the Euphrates, iv. 152.

Anbar (Ambar) = ambergris, vi. 60.

Andalíb = nightingale (masc. in Arab.), viii. 282.

Andalusian = Spanish (i.e. of Vandal-land), vi. 101.

Andam = the gum called dragon’s blood; brazil-wood, i. 176; iii. 263; viii. 225.

Anemone on a tomb, ii. 325.

Angels (taking precedence in the order of created beings), ix. 81.

—— (appearing to Sodomites), iii. 301.

—— (ride piebalds), vi. 146.

—— (shooting down the Jinn), viii. 292.

Anís al-Jalís = the Cheerer of the Companion, ii. 5.

Animals (have no fear of man), ix. 181.

Anista-ná = thy company gladdens us, viii. 231.

Anklet-ring and ear drops (erotic meaning of), ii. 318.

Ansár = Medinite auxiliaries, vii. 92; viii. 183.

Ant (chapter ix. of the Koran), v. 213.

Antar (Romance quoted), iv. 41.

—— (and the Chosroë), vi. 285.

—— (contest with Khosrewan), vii. 289.

Anthropophagy (allowed when it saves life), v. 186.

Antiochus and Stratonice, iv. 10.

Ants (a destructive power in tropic climates), ix. 46.

Anúshírwán = Anúshín-rawán = Sweet of Soul, v. 87.

Anwá, pl. of Nau, q.v., viii. 266.

Anwár = lights, flowers, viii. 270; 282.

Anyáb (pl. of Náb) = grinder teeth, ix. 140.

Ape-names (expressing auspiciousness), iii. 159.

Apes (isle of) vi. 23.

—— (and their lustful propensities), vi. 54.

—— (gathering fruits), vi. 56.

—— (remnant of some ancient tribe), vii. 346.

Apodosis omitted, vi. 203, 239.

Apple (wine), iv. 134.

—— (many a goodly one rotten at the core), iv. 187.

Apricots (various kinds), viii. 268.

’Ár (Al-) = shame, v. 138.

Arab al-Arbá = prehistoric tribes of the Arabs, i. 112; v. 101.

—— al-Musta’ajimah = barbarised Arabs, ib.

—— al-Musta’aribah = naturalised Arabs, ib.

—— al-Muta’arribah = Arabised Arabs, ib.

—— (exaggerates generosity), ii. 36.

—— (shouting under his ruler’s palace), ib. 39.

—— temperament, ib. 54, 101, 181.

—— cap (Turtúr), ib. 143.

—— (Derivation of the name), ib. 140.

—— (pathos), iii. 55.

—— (the noble merciful), ib. 88.

—— (shop), ib. 163.

—— (style compared with Persian), vi. 125.

A’ráb = dwellers in the desert, ix. 293.

Arab horses (breeds of), v. 246.

Arab-land and Ajam = all the world over, v. 136.

Arabian Night converted into an Arabian Note, vii. 314.

Arabian Odyssey, viii. 7.

Arabs (for plundering nomades), x. 25.

Arafat (Mount, where the victims are not slaughtered), v. 295.

—— (day of), ii. 169.

Arák (capparis shrub), ii. 54.

—— (tooth-stick of the wild caper-tree; Aráka = I see thee), iii. 275.

Arakíyah = white scull-cap, i. 215.

Ar’ar = Juniper-tree, “heath,” iii. 254; vi. 95.

Ardabb (Irdabb) = five bushels, i. 263.

Ardeshir (Artaxerxes), three Persian Kings of the name, ii. 156; vii. 209.

Ardhanárí = the half-woman, iii. 306.

Arianism and early Christianity, x. 190.

Aríf (Al-) = monitor, i. 231.

Arísh (Al-), frontier town between Egypt and Palestine, ix. 286.

’Aríshah = arbour, etc., ix. 219.

Aristomenes and his fox, vi. 45.

328Arithmetic (not mastered by Moslems), v. 236.

Arithmology (cumbrous in Arabic for lack of the higher numerals), ix. 123.

Ark al-Haláwat = vein of sweetness, for penis, iv. 51.

Arman = Armenia, ii. 273.

Armaníyah (Armenia), iv. 182.

Armenians (porters of Constantinople), vi. i.

Arm-pits (taking a dismounting person under the, a sign of respect), iv. 24.

Arms and armour, x. 86.

Army (divided into six divisions), iii. 290.

Arsh = the ninth Heaven, v. 167.

Artál, see Rotl.

Artists in cosmetics, x. 234.

Arúbah (Al-) = Friday, vi. 190.

Arún (Heb.) = in his shirt, i. 78.

’Arús (Al-) = the bride (tropical name for wine), viii. 203.

As’ad = more (or most) fortunate, iii. 346.

Asaf bin Barkhiya (Solomon’s Wazir), vi. 99; vii. 318; viii. 133.

Asáfírí = sparrow-olives, iii. 295.

’Asákír = corner-terminals of a litter, x. 32.

Asal Kasab = cane-honey, x. 3.

Asal Katr = drip-honey, x. 2.

Asal Nahl = bee’s honey, i. 271.

Ásár = traces, ix. 255.

Ash’ab (proverbial for greed), x. 15.

Asháb = companions, vii. 92; viii. 183.

Asháb al-Ráy (epithet of the Hanafi school), vi. 146.

Asháb al-Suffah, v. 102.

Asháb al-Ziyá = Feudatories, vii. 327.

Ashhab = grey-white, ii. 116.

A-Sharíf anta = art thou a noble, ix. 231.

Ashírah = clan, vii. 121.

Ashjár = door-posts or wooden bolts, vi. 191.

Ashkánián, race of Persian Kings, i. 78.

Asídah (custard, pap), iv. 37.

Ásim = defending, vii. 314.

Askar jarrár = drawing (i.e. conquering) army, vii. 85.

Aslah = head-kerchief, ii. 59.

Aslán (Pr. N., probably for Arslan = lion), iv. 78.

Asma’í (Al-), author of Antar, iv. 159; vii. 110.

Asoka’s wife and Kunála, vi. 127.

Ass (held ill-omened), ii. 25.

—— (-goad), iii. 116.

—— (voice “most ungrateful”), iii. 117.

—— (the wild, “handy” with his hoof), iii. 235.

Asr (Al-) = time or prayer of mid-afternoon, i. 240.

Astár (pl. of Satr = chopper?), viii. 184.

Astarte (primarily the planet Venus?), x. 229.

Astrolabe, father of our sextant, i. 304.

Aswad = black (used for any dark colour), viii. 268.

’Atb = blame, reproach (for disgrace), viii. 112.

Atbák = trays, v. 264.

Atheist (Ar. Zindík), viii. 27.

Atmár = rags (for travelling clothes), vii. 114.

Atnáb = tent-ropes, viii. 240.

Atr = any perfume, i. 355.

Atsah (Al-) = sneezing, ix. 220.

’Attár = perfume-seller, druggist, x. 8.

Attraction of like to like, ii. 296.

Auhashtaní = thou hast made me desolate, i. 62.

’Aúj = Persian town, Kúch (?), ix. 347.

Aun (of Jinns, etc.), iv. 88.

Aurat = shame, nakedness (woman, wife), vi. 30.

—— (of man and woman), vi. 118.

Avanie (Ar. Gharámah), viii. 151.

Avaunt = Ikhsa, be chased like a dog, vii. 45.

Awáh! Awáh! = Alas! Alas!, ii. 321.

Awák = ounces (pl. Ukíyah, q.v.), viii. 12.

’Awálim, pl. of ’Álimah = dancing girls, i. 214.

’Awáshik = hucklebones, cockles, ix. 268.

Awwá (name of Satan’s wife), iii. 229.

Awwádah = lute-player, iv. 142.

Áyat = Coranic verses, ii. 242; iii. 307; iv. 142.

Áyát al-Naját = Verses of Safety, vi. 108.

Áyishah bint Talhah (grand-daughter of Abú Bakr), v. 79.

Aylúlah = slumbering after morning prayers, ii. 178.

Ayn = eye (for helper), v. 60.

Ayns (verset of the 140), v. 217.

Aysh (Egypt.) = Ayyu Shayyin for classical “Má” what, i. 79.

329’Aysh = that on which man lives (for bread), x. 3.

Ayshat al-durrah murrah = the sister-wife has a bitter life, iii. 308.

Aywá (Ay wa’lláhi) = Ay, by Allah, i. 303; vii. 195.

Aywan = saloon with estrades, vii. 347.

Ayyás (Issus of Cilicia), iv. 76.

Ayyúb = Job, ii. 45.

Azal = eternity without beginning (opposed to Abad = infinity) ii. 205; v. 390.

Azán (call to prayer), ii. 306; v. 209.

Az’ar = having thin hair; tail-less, ix. 185.

Azarbiján = Kohistán, vii. 104.

Azdashír, misprint for Ardashir, vii. 209.

Azghán = camel litters, ii. 282.

Azím = “deuced” or “mighty fine,” i. 178; ix. 40.

Azíz (fem. Azízah) = dear, excellent, highly prized, ii. 298.

’Azíz (Al-) al-Misr = Magnifico of Misraim, ix. 119.

Azrak = blue-eyed (so is the falcon!), vii. 164; viii. 4.

Azrár (buttons), ii. 318.

Ba’albak = Ba’al’s city, v. 51.

Báb = gate, chapter, i. 136; vii. 3.

—— (sometimes for a sepulchral cave), ix. 286.

Báb (Al-) al-’Ali = Sublime Porte, x. 5.

Báb al-Bahr and Báb al-Barr, viii. 55, 318.

Báb al-Farádís = gate of the gardens at Damascus, i. 240.

Báb al-Lúk (of Fostat), iv. 259.

Báb al-Nasr = Gate of Victory (at Cairo), vi. 234; x. 6.

Báb al-Salám (of the Al-Medínah Mosque), iv. 288.

Babel = Gate of God, i. 85.

Babes of the eye = pupils, i. 100; iv. 246.

Baboon (Kird) has a natural penchant for women, iv. 297.

Bábúnaj = white camomile, iii. 58.

Babylonian eyes = bewitching ones, viii. 278.

Bachelor not admitted in Arab quarters, iii. 191.

Back-parts compared to revolving heavens, iii. 18.

Bactrian camel, v. 371.

Badal = substitute, v. 249.

Badawí (not used in the Koran for Desert Arab), ii. 140.

—— (bonnet), ib. 143.

—— (a fool as well as a rogue), ib. 146.

—— (cannot swim), iii. 69.

—— (baser sort), ib. 70.

—— (shifting camp in spring), ib.

—— (noble), ib. 88.

—— (bluntness and plain-speaking of), iv. 102; v. 98.

Badawi’s dying farewell, i. 75.

Bádhanj = windshaft, ventilator, i. 257.

Bád-i-Sabá = breeze o’ the morn, ii. 181.

Badinján = Solanum pomiferum or S. Melongena, v. 4.

Badlah Kunúzíyah = treasure-suit, ix. 331.

Badmasti = le vin mauvais, i. 88.

Badrah = 10,000 dirhams, iv. 281.

Badr Básim = full moon smiling, vii. 274.

Bághdád = Garden of Justice, iii. 100.

—— (House of Peace), viii. 51.

—— (of Nullity, opposed to the Ubiquity of the World), ix. 13.

Baghlah = she-mule, i. 129.

Bahá al-Dín ibn Shaddád (Judge Advocate-General under Saladin), ix. 23.

Bahádur = the brave, iii. 334.

Baháim (pl. of Bahímah = Behemoth) applied to cattle, iv. 54.

Bahak = white leprosy, v. 294.

Bahímah, mostly = black cattle, ix. 71.

Bahr = water cut or trenched in the earth, sea, large river, i. 44.

Bahr (Al-) al-azrak = Blue River, not “Blue Nile,” viii. 4.

Bahr al-Kunúz = Sea of Treasures, v. 37.

Bahr al-Muhít = circumambient ocean, i. 133.

Bahrám (Varanes) = planet Mars, iii. 339.

Bahramání = Brahman, iv. 101.

Bahríyah = crew, viii. 17.

Bahrwán (Pr. N. for Bihrún?), v. 329.

Bakh! Bakh! = bravo! brava!, ii. 151; iv. 121.

Bakhkharaní = he incensed me, ix. 238.

Bakhshish naturalized as Anglo-Egyptian, iii. 45.

—— (such as to make a bath-man’s mouth water), ix. 151.

Bakk = bug, iii. 328.

Bakkát = greengrocer, vii. 295.

Baklámah = almond-pastry, ii. 311.

330Balábil pl. of bulbul (nightingale) and of balbalah (grief) v. 244.

Balah = green date, ii. 314.

Baldricks (Ar. Hamáil) v. 158.

Balíd = simpleton i. 17.

Ballán = body-servant, i. 311.

Ballánah = tire-woman, i. 311.

Ballúr (Billaur) = crystal, etc., iii. 194.

Baltiyah = Labrus Niloticus (fish) viii. 290.

Bán = myrobolan, vii. 247; viii. 322.

Banát = daughters, protégées, viii. 39.

Banát al-Na’ash = the Great Bear, iii. 28, 221.

Bandaged eyes (before beheading) iv. 145.

Bands of bandits, iii. 101.

Bandukáníyah (quarter of Cairo) vi. 254.

Banj = Nibanj = Nepenthe, i. 70.

Banner (bound to a spear sign of investiture) iii. 307; vii. 101.

Banní (Bunní) = Cyprinus Bynni, viii. 189.

Banquets (royal) iv. 212.

—— (daintily deviced) iv. 226.

Banú Abbás (their colours black) vi. 86.

—— al-Asfar (people of the yellow faces) ii. 220.

—— Isráíl, iv. 283.

—— Kahtán, vi. 260.

—— Nabhán, vi. 262.

—— Shaybán (tribe) iv. 233.

—— Tamim (tribe) vii. 125.

—— Umayyah (their colours white) vi. 86.

—— ’Uzzah (tribe famous for love passion) ii. 304; v. 70.

Banyán = Ficus Indica, vi. 81.

Baradiyah = wide-mouthed jug, i. 36.

Baras = white leprosy, v. 294; viii. 24.

Barge (Ar. Bárijah) vi. 24.

Bárid = cold (vain, foolish, insipid) i. 213; iii. 7.

Baríd = Post, vii. 340.

Bárijah (pl. bawárij) = Jarm, barge, vi. 24.

Barley, food for horses, i. 345.

Barmahát (seventh Coptic month) v. 231.

Barmecides (Ar. Barámikah) i. 188.

Barr al- (history of the family) x. 137.

Barmúdah (eighth Coptic month) v. 232.

Barr al-Manákhah in Al-Medinah, ii. 139.

Barsh = matting, ii. 18.

Barsh (Bars) commonest form of Bhang, iv. 31.

Bartaut = Berthold, ix. 8.

Barzakh = bar, partition, Hades, ii. 325.

Basaltic statues in Hauranic ruins give rise to the idea of men transformed into black stones, i. 170.

Bashárah (al-) = gift of good tidings, guerdon, i. 30.

Báshik (small sparrow-hawk) iii. 61.

Basil = the Indian Tulsi, i. 19.

Basil of the bridges = Ocymum basilicum, pennyroyal, i. 91.

Basmalah = pronouncing the formula Bismillah, v. 206; ix. 1.

—— (commonly pronounced Bismillah) v. 213.

Bastardy (a sore offence amongst Moslems) viii. 115.

Bastinado of women, i. 183.

Bat (has seed like a man’s) v. 85.

Batáikh (Batátíkh) = water melons, vi. 208.

Batánah = lining, vii. 330.

Batárikah (half ecclesiastic half military term) viii. 256, 319.

Batárikh = roe, spawn, ix. 139.

Bath (first, after sickness) iii. 266.

—— (coming out of, shows that consummation has taken place) iv. 244.

—— (suggesting freshness from coition) vi. 135.

—— (and privy, favourite haunts of the Jinns) vi. 141.

—— (not to be entered by men without drawers) vi. 150.

—— (may it be a blessing to thee) viii. 200.

—— (setting it a-working, turning on the water, hot and cold) ix. 149.

Bathers pay on leaving the Hammám, ii. 332.

Bathsheba and Uriah (congeners of) vi. 129.

Bátiní = gnostic; a reprobate, ii. 29; vi. 221.

Batíyah = jar, flagon, viii. 323.

Batrak (Batrik) = patriarch, ii. 89.

Batrík (Bitrík) = patricius, ii. 89.

Batshat al-Kubrá = the great disaster (battle of Badr) vii. 55.

Battál (Al-), story of, x. 74, 75.

Battásh al-Akrán = he who assaults his peers, vii. 55.

Battle-pieces, vii. 61.

Bawd (admirably portrayed) iv. 4.

331Bawwáb = door-keeper, vi. 189.

Bawwák = trumpeter (a discreditable character) viii. 192.

Bayáz = Silurus Bajad (cat-fish) viii. 150.

Bayáz = whiteness (lustre, honour) viii. 295.

Bayáz al-Sultáni = the best kind of gypsum, i. 270.

Baydah (Al-) = pawn in chess, v. 243.

Bayt (Al-) = the house (for cage) v. 269.

Bayt al-Mukaddas = Jerusalem, ii. 132.

Bayt Sha’r = house of hair; Bayt Shi’r = a couplet, viii. 279.

Bayzatán = testicles (egg-story) ii. 55.

Báz (vulg. for Tabl) = kettledrum, viii. 18.

Bazar (locked at night) x. 13.

Bazar of Damascus famous in the Middle Ages, i. 2.

Bází (Pers. Báz) = F. peregrinator, hawk, falcon, iii. 138.

Be! and It is (the creative word) v. 240, 286.

Bead thrown into a cup (signal of delivery) vii. 324.

Bean-eating in Egypt, iv. 160.

Beard (long, and short wits) iii. 247.

—— (forked, characteristic of a Persian) iii. 325.

—— (combed by the fingers in the Wuzú) v. 198, 209.

Beast with two backs (Eastern view of) vii. 35.

Beast-stories (oldest matter in The Nights) iii. 114.

Beauties of nature provoke hunger in Orientals, iii. 32.

Beckoning (Eastern fashion the reverse of ours) vi. 109.

Before the face of Allah = for the love of God, i. 135.

Beheading or sacking of a faithless wife unlawful but connived at, i. 181.

Belle fourchette (greatly respected) ix. 219.

Belle passion in the East, ii. 62.

Belt (Ar. Kamar) viii. 156.

“Ben” of an Arab shop as opposed to “but,” iv. 93.

Benches (in olden Europe more usual than chairs) vi. 26.

Berbers from the Upper Nile (the “Paddies” of Egypt) vi. 189.

Bestiality (fatally common amongst Egyptians) iv. 299.

Betrothed (for “intended to be married with regal ceremony”) x. 55.

Better largesse than the mace, viii. 163.

Bhang (its kinds and uses) ii. 123.

—— (properties of the drug) iii. 91.

—— (preparation of) iv. 31.

—— (drugging with = tabannuj) iv. 71.

Bida’ah = innovation, v. 167.

Bier (the bulging = hadbá) iv. 63.

Bi-fardayn = “with two singles” (for with two baskets) viii. 162.

Biká’a (= low-land) ii. 109.

—— (= convents, pilgrimages to) v. 125.

Bilád al-Filfil = home of pepper (Malabar) vi. 38.

Bilád al-Rúm (applied to France) viii. 339.

Bilád al-Súdán = Land of the Blacks (our Soudan) iii. 75.

Bilál (first Muazzin) ii. 306; iii. 106.

“Bilking” (popular form of) ix. 145.

Bilkís and her throne, ii. 79; viii. 82.

Bi ’l-Salámah = in safety (to avert the evil eye) i. 288.

Bint ’arús = daughter of the bridegroom (Ichneumon) iii. 147.

Bint Shumúkh (Pr. N.) = Daughter of Pride v. 382.

Bir (Al-) al-Mu’utallal = the Ruined Well, vii. 346.

Bird (created by Jesus) v. 211.

—— seen by Abú Bakr in the cave, v. 235.

Bird-girls, viii. 29.

Birds (sing only in the pairing season) vi. 15.

—— (huge ones discovered on the African coast) vi. 17.

—— (left to watch over wives) vi. 132.

—— (pretended understanding of their language) vi. 169.

—— (songs and cries of) v. 50.

Birkah = pool of standing wafer, iv. 270; vi. 75.

Birkat al-Habash = Abyssinian pond, i. 391.

Birth-stool (Ar. Kursí al-Wiládah) ii. 80.

Bishr (al-Háfí = Barefoot) ii. 203; ix. 21.

Bisát (Al-) wa ’l-masnad = carpet and cushion, viii. 55.

332Bismillah = in the name of God, i. 40; v. 206.

—— (said before taking action) i. 80.

—— (civil form of dismissal) i. 98.

—— (= fall to) i. 264.

—— (= enter in Allah’s name) viii. 202.

—— (parodied) ii. 223.

Bismillah Námí = Now please go to sleep, viii. 178.

Biting the finger ends (not nails) sign of confusion, etc., ii. 38.

Biunes, bisexuals and women robed with the sun, vi. 168.

Bizá’at = capital, business concern, v. 81.

Black (colour of the Abbaside banner) ii. 292; vi. 86.

Blackamoors preferred by debauched women, i. 6.

Black-mail (paid to the Badawin of Ramlah) iv. 76.

Blast (of the last trumpet) v. 310.

Blaze (Ar. Ghurrah, q.v.) iii. 118.

Blessings at the head of letters, vii. 133.

Blind (The, notorious for insolence) i. 330.

Blinding a common practice in the East, now done, i. 108.

Blue and yellow turbans prescribed to Christians and Jews, i. 77.

Blue-eyed (frequently = fierce-eyed) iv. 192.

Blue-eyes = blind with cataract or staring, glittering, hungry, vii. 164.

Boasting of one’s tribe, iii. 80.

Boccaccio quoted: i. 12, 174, 202, 251, 305; ii. 82, 112; iv. 36, 155; v. 134.

Boccaccio and The Nights, x. 160.

Body-guard (consists of two divisions) iv. 62.

Boils and pimples supposed to be caused by broken hair-roots, i. 275.

Book (black as her) x. 1.

Books (of the Judgment-day) viii. 294.

Bostán (female Pr. N.) = flower-garden, iii. 345.

Bostáni = gardener, family name from original occupation, i. 266.

Boulgrin, Bougre, Bougrerie (derivations of the terms) x. 249.

Bow, a cowardly weapon, vii. 123.

Box (Ar. ’Ulbah) viii. 71.

Box-trick (and Lord Byron) vi. 168.

Boycotting (Oriental forms of) viii. 302.

Brain (fons veneris in man) v. 46.

Brasier (Kánún, Minkal) v. 273.

Brass (Ar. Nuhás asfar) vi. 83.

Braying of the ass, iii. 117.

Bread and salt (to be taken now “cum grano salis”) iv. 200.

Bread and salt (bond of) viii. 12.

Breast broadening with delight, i. 48.

—— straitened, the converse of the previous, i. 119.

Breast-bone (Taráib) v. 132.

Breath (healing by the) v. 29.

—— (of crocodiles, serpents, etc.) vi. 29.

Breeze (rude but efficacious refrigerator) iv. 199.

Breslau Edition quoted, i. 14, 52, 53, 54, 203, 217, 234, 245, 255, 345; ii. 77; iii. 162, 181, 211, 259; iv. 96, 113, 181; v. 9, 17, 24, 27, 32, 42; vi. 27, 30, 37, 44, 46, 56, 57, 84, 100, 129, 138, 148, 168, 180, 196, 207, 211, 213, 242, 247; vii. 145, 150, 168, 172, 173, 177, 202, 262, 315, 316, 320, 321, 324, 326, 327, 329, 331, 341, 342, 343, 350, 353, 354, 362, 363, 367; viii. 7, 18, 66, 98, 113, 197, 242, 264, 273; ix. 33, 42, 59, 63, 156, 159, 169, 185, 187; x. 54, etc.

Breslau Edition (mean colloquialisms thereof) x. 169.

Brethern (for kinsfolk) ix. 26.

—— (of trust and brethren of society = friends and acquaintances) ix. 75.

Bridal couch (attitudinising thereon) v. 75.

Bride of the Hoards, vi. 109; vii. 147; x. 31.

Bride-night, rarely conceived in, i. 227.

Bride’s throne, i. 215.

Bridle (not to be committed to another) vii. 304.

Brother (has a wide signification amongst Moslems) vi. 243.

—— (of Folly = a very fool) ii. 279.

—— (of Purity) iii. 150.

—— (of Ignorance = Ignoramus) iii. 163.

—— (“of the Persians”) iv. 12.

Brotherhood (forms of making) iii. 151.

—— (sworn in Allah Almighty) v. 43.

—— of Futurity = lookers out for a better world, ii. 197.

333Brow (like the letter Nún) iv. 249.

Bruising the testicles a feminine mode of murdering men, iii. 3.

Búdakak (Bútakah) = crucible, viii. 8.

Budúr (Badoura) = full moons, iii. 228; iv. 249.

Buffalo = bœuf á l’eau (?) ix. 181.

Buhayrah = tank, cistern, viii. 29.

Buka’ah = Cœlesyria, ii. 109.

Buka’at al-dam = place of blood (where it stagnates) iv. 68.

Bukhayt = little good luck, ii. 48.

Bukhtí (dromedary) ii. 177; iii. 67.

Bukjah = bundle, vi. 226.

Bulád (Pers. Pulád) = steel, vi. 115.

Bulak Edition quoted, i. 11, 45, 68, 117, 145, 203; ii. 1, 83, 185, 187; iii. 181, 211, 212; vi. 5, 11, 21, 27; vii. 18, 57, 139, 173, 269, 359; ix. 185.

Bulbul (departed with Tommy Moor, Englished by “Nightingale”) v. 48.

Bull (followers preceding) ii. 98.

Bull (of the Earth = Gáw-i-Zamín) v. 324.

Búm = owl (introduced to rhyme with Kayyúm = the Eternal) viii. 286.

Bunn = kind of cake, ix. 172.

Burckhardt quoted, i. 66, 214; ii. 18, 143; iii. 59, 101, 138, 147, 179, 278, 308; iv. 31, 48, 112, 217, 259; v. 77, 80, 119; vii. 91, 93, 136, 147, 156; viii. 23, 91, 93, 156, 285; x. 144.

—— (fable anent his death) iv. 78.

Burdah = mantle or plaid of striped stuff, vii. 95.

—— (poem of the) iv. 115.

Burká = nose-bag, ii. 52; vi. 131, 192.

Burning (a foretaste of Hell-fire) ix. 158.

Bursting of the gall-bladder = our breaking of the heart, ii. 322.

Burying a rival, ii. 58.

Buttons (Ar. Azrár) ii. 318.

Búzah = beer, i. 72.

Byron (depreciated where he ought to be honoured most) vii. 268.

Bystanders forcing on a sale, viii. 310.

Cabbala = Spiritual Sciences, ii. 151.

Cæsarea, ii. 77.

—— “of Armenia,” ii. 273.

Cairene (vulgarism) vi. 278.

—— (chaff) iv. 215.

—— (slang) iv. 75.

—— (jargon) x. 8.

—— (savoir faire) x. 10.

—— (bohomie) x. 28.

—— (knows his fellow Cairene) x. 35.

Cairenes held exceedingly debauched, i. 298.

Cairo, see Misr.

—— (nothing without the Nile) i. 295.

Caitiff = Captivus, ii. 109.

Calamity (i.e., to the enemy) x. 33.

Calcutta Edition quoted, i. 17, 52; iii. 181, 211; iv. 274; v. 80, 325, 383; vi. 27, 29, 77, 116.

Caliphate (defective title to) v. 116.

Caliphs ’Abd al-’Azíz, ii. 166.

—— ’Abd al-Malík, ii. 77, 167; iii. 319; iv. 7.

—— Abú Bakr, ii. 167, 197.

—— Alí, ii. 108.

—— Amin (Al-) i. 185; v. 93, 152.

—— Hakim (Al-) bi-Amri ’lláh, iv. 296.

—— Harún al-Rashíd, viii. 160; ix. 17.

—— Hishám bin ’Abd al-Malik, ii. 170; vii. 104.

—— Maamun (Al-) i. 185; iv. 109.

—— Mahdí (Al-) vii. 136.

—— Mansúr (Al-) ii. 142, 153, 210.

—— Mu’áwiyah, ii. 160, 161.

—— Musta’ín (Al-) bi ’lláh, ix. 246.

—— Mustansir (Al-) bi ’lláh i. 317.

—— Mu’tasim (Al-) bi ’llah, iii. 81; ix. 232.

—— Mutawakhil (Al-) ’alà ’lláh, iv. 291; v. 153; ix. 232.

—— Mu’tazid (Al-) ix. 229.

—— Mu’tazz (Al-) ix. 242.

—— ’Omar, ii. 158, 159, 162, 164; v. 103.

—— ’Othmán, ii. 163; v. 215.

—— Sulaymán bin ’Abd al-Malik, ii. 167; vii. 99.

—— Tá’í (Al-) li ’lláh, iii. 51, 307.

—— Walíd (Al-) ii. 167; iii. 69; iv. 100; vii. 106.

—— Wásik (Al-) iii. 81.

—— Záhir (Al-) bi ’lláh, i. 317.

Calligraphy, iv. 196.

Camel (how slaughtered) i. 347; iv. 95.

334Camel-load = 300 lbs., for long journeys 250 lbs., ii. 45.

—— (-men do not accept drafts on futurity) ii. 69.

—— (-colts roasted whole) v. 135.

—— (feeding on and vindictiveness) v. 135.

—— (Bactrian) v. 371.

—— (seen in a dream is an omen of death; why?) vi. 92.

Camels (breeds of) iii. 67, 110.

—— (names) iii. 110.

—— (haltered; nose-ring used for dromedaries) iii. 120.

—— (Mehari, Mehríyah) iii. 277.

—— (red the best kind) viii. 303.

Camphor (simile for a fair face) iii. 174.

—— (primitive way of extracting it) vi. 21.

Camphor-apricot, vi. 277.

Cannibal tribes in Central Africa, ii. 48.

Cannibalism in the New World, x. 243.

Cannibals and cannibalism, vi. 36.

Canton (city of) vii. 334.

Capo bianco, coda verde, iv. 36.

Capotes melancholiques, vii. 190.

Carat (= Kirát) iii. 239.

—— (= 1/24 of a dinar or miskal, something under 5d.) v. 277.

Caravaggio (picture of St. Rosario) x. 219.

Caravan (each one has to keep his place in a) ii. 184.

Carelessness of the story-teller, ix. 4.

Carmel = Karam-El (God’s vineyard) viii. 203.

Carnelion stone bit with pearls = lips bit with teeth in sign of anger, iii. 179.

Carpet (let him come to the King’s = before the King as referee) ix. 110.

Carpet-room = throne-room, ix. 121.

Carob (Cassia fistularis) ii. 241.

—— bean, emblem of constancy, iii. 315.

Carpet-beds, i. 294.

Carrier-pigeons, ii. 247.

Castration (texts justifying or enjoining it) x. 227.

Cat (puss, etc.) iii. 149.

Cat-fish (Ar. Bayáz) viii. 150, 151.

Catamites (rising to highest rank in Turkey) iv. 225.

—— (in Turkish baths) iv. 226.

Cask (for “home” of the maiden wine) x. 38.

—— in Auerbach’s Keller, viii. 131.

Ceruse (Ar. Isfídáj) vi. 126.

Cervantes and Arab romance, iii. 66.

Ceylon (Ar. Sarandib) vi. 64, 81.

Chaff, ii. 15; iii. 23; viii. 147, 152, 157, 189.

—— or banter allowed even to modest women, i. 267.

Chameleon (Father of Coolness) iii. 165.

Champing, sign of good breeding, i. 345.

Change (sudden, of disposition) viii. 213.

Character-sketch (making amends for abuse of women) x. 24.

Chaste forbearance towards a woman frequently causes love, vii. 189.

Chastity (merchandise in trust from Allah) iv. 43.

Chawáshiyah = Chamberlains, vii. 327.

Cheating (not only venial but laudable under circumstances) viii. 217.

Checkmate (Pers. Ar.) = the King is dead, viii. 217.

Cheese a styptic, iii. 3.

Chess and chessmen, ii. 104; v. 243.

Chess anecdote, i. 132.

Chewing a document that none may see it after, ii. 39.

Child of the nurse, etc. = delicately reared, iv. 34.

Children (carried astraddle upon hip or shoulder) i. 308.

—— (one of its = a native of) x. 8.

China (kingdom) iv. 175.

China-ware displayed on shelves, ii. 52.

Chinese shadows, iv. 193.

Chin-veil donned (showing intention to act like a man) viii. 99.

Cider (Ar. Sharáb al-tuffáh) iv. 134.

Circumcision (how practised) v. 209.

—— (female) v. 279.

Citadel (contains the Palace) ix. 102.

Cities (two-mosqued, for large and consequently vicious ones) v. 66.

City of Brass (Copper) iv. 176; vi. 83.

Claimant of blood-revenge, iv. 109.

—— and Defendant, iv. 150.

Claims of maidenhead, i. 190.

Clairvoyance of perfect affection, x. 26.

Clapping hands preliminary to a wrestling-bout, ii. 91.

Clapping of hands to summon servants, i. 177; iii. 173.

335Clerical error of Bulak Edition, ii. 114.

Clever young ladies dangerous in the East, i. 15.

Climate (water and air) ii. 4.

Clitoris (Ar. Zambúr) and its excision, v. 279.

Cloak (Ar. Abáah) viii. 42.

Clogs = Kubkáb, iii. 92.

Closet (the forbidden and the bird-girls) viii. 29.

Cloth of frieze and cloth of gold, iv. 145.

“Cloth” (not “board” for playing chess) ix. 209.

Clothes (tattered, sign of grief) iv. 158.

Clothing and decency, ix. 182.

Clout (hung over the door of a bath shows that women are bathing) ix. 153.

Cocoa-nut (Ar. Jauz al-Hindí) vi. 55.

Coffee (see Kahwah) ii. 261.

—— (first mention of) v. 169; x. 90.

—— (anachronism) viii. 274.

—— (mention of probably due to the scribe) ix. 141.

—— (its mention shows a comparatively late date) ix. 255.

Cohen (Káhin) = diviner priest, esp. Jewish, ii. 221.

Coition (postures of) iii. 93.

—— (the seal of love) viii. 304.

—— (local excellences of) viii. 304.

—— (ablution obligatory after it) viii. 305.

Cold-of-countenance = a fool, iii. 7.

Cold speech = a silly or abusive tirade, iii. 7.

Colocasia (Ar. Kallakás) viii. 151.

Coloquintida (Ar. Hanzal) v. 19.

Colossochelys = colossal tortoise, vi. 33.

Colours (of the Caliphs) vi. 86.

—— (names of) vi. 111.

Combat reminding of that of Rustam and Sohráb, vii. 89.

“Come to my arms my slight acquaintance,” ix. 177.

Commander of the Faithful (title introduced by Omar) vi. 247.

Commune (Ar. Jamá’ah) v. 205.

Comorin (derivation of the name) vi. 57.

“Compelleth” in the sense of “burdeneth,” vii. 285.

Compliment (model of a courtly one) viii. 165.

Composed of seed by all men shed = superfetation of iniquity, viii. 15.

Comrades of the Cave, iii. 128.

Conception on the bride-night rare, i. 227.

Conciseness (verging on obscurity) ix. 171.

Confession after concealment, a characteristic of the servile class, i. 53.

—— on the criminal’s part required by Moslem law, i. 274.

Confusion (of metaphors characteristic of The Nights) i. 86.

—— (of religious mythologies by way of “chaff”) viii. 152.

—— (universal in the undeveloped mind of men) ix. 78.

Conjugal affection (striking picture of) vii. 243.

Conjunctiva in Africans seldom white, vii. 184.

Connection (tribal, seven degrees of) vii. 121.

Consecrated ground (unknown to Moslems) vi. 161.

Constipation (La) rend rigoureux, iii. 242.

Consul (Sháh-bandar) iv. 29.

—— (Kunsul) iv. 84.

Contemplation of street-scenery, one of the pleasures of the Harem, i. 319.

Continuation in dignities requested by office-holders from a new ruler, ii. 192.

Contract (artful between squalor and gorgeousness) ix. 170.

Contrition for romancing, viii. 66.

Converts, theoretically respected and practically despised, vii. 43.

Copa d’agua, apology for a splendid banquet, vii. 168.

Coptic convents, ii. 86.

—— visitations to, still customary, ii. 110.

Copulation (praying before or after) ii. 161.

—— (postures of) iii. 93.

Coquetries (requiring as much inventiveness as a cotillon) x. 58.

Coral (name of a slave-girl) ii. 101.

Corpse pollutes the toucher, i. 295.

Cousin (term of familiarity = our “coz”) ii. 43.

—— (first, affronts an Arab if she marries any save him without his leave) vi. 145.

—— (has a prior right to marry a cousin) ix. 225.

Covered (The, chapter of the Koran) v. 215.

Cow (chapter ii. of the Koran) v. 211.

Cowardice equally divided, iii. 173.

336—— (proverb anent) viii. 333.

—— (of the Fellah, how to be mended) ix. 5.

Cowrie (shells, etc., for small change) iv. 77.

Craft (many names for, connected with Arabic) ix. 138.

Creases in the stomach insisted upon, 130.

Created for a mighty matter (i.e. for worship and to prepare for futurity) vi. 91.

Creation (is it and its Empire not His?) v. 269.

—— (from nothing) ix. 77.

Crenelles = Sharáríf, iv. 165.

Crepitus ventris and ethnology, v. 137.

Crescent of the breakfast-fête, ix. 250.

Crescent-like = emaciated, viii. 300.

Crew (Ar. Bahríyah, Nawátíyah) viii. 17.

Criss-cross row, iii. 236.

Crocodiles (breath of) vi. 29.

Cross-bows, vii. 62.

Crow (an ill-omened bird) vi. 170.

Crow-claw and camel-hoof, iv. 217.

Cruelty (the mystery of) explained only by a law without law-giver, ix. 37.

—— (of the “fair sex” in Egypt) x. 45.

Cry (that needs must be cried) x. 21.

Cubit (the Háshimí = 18 inches) v. 371.

Cuirasses against pleasure, cobwebs against infection, vii. 190.

Cundums (French letters) vii. 190.

Cup and cup-bearer, ii. 327.

Curs (set them on the cattle = show a miser money, etc.) x. 18.

Cursing intelligible, swearing meaningless, although English, ii. 312.

Curtain (screening a reverend woman from the sight of men-invalids) ix. 347.

Cutting (alluding to the scymitar) ii. 231.

—— (bones before flesh = “sharp as a razor”) iv. 295.

—— (off the right hand, Koranic punishment for theft) i. 274.

—— (of the navel string preliminary to naming the babe) i. 231.

—— the rope = breaking bounds, i. 349.

Cynocephalus (kills men and rapes women) vii. 344.

Dáa al-Kabír (Great Evil) = Dáa al-Fíl (Elephantine Evil, i.e. Elephantiasis) viii. 24.

Dabbús = mace, vi. 249.

Dádat = nurse (Pers.) viii. 209.

Dáhish (Al-) = the Amazed, vi. 96.

Dáirah = circle, inclosure, ix. 287.

—— (for a basin surrounded by hills) ix. 317.

Dajláh (Dijlah) = Tigris (Heb. Hid-dekel) i. 180; viii. 150.

Dajjál (Al-) = Moslem Anti-Christ, vi. 11.

Dakhíl-ak = under thy protection, i. 61.

Dakiánús = Decianus, ii. 244.

Dakkah = settle, vii. 111; viii. 84.

Dalak = foot-rasp, iv. 254.

Dalhamah (Romance of) iii. 112.

Dalíl = guide; f. Dalílah = misguiding woman, bawd, ii. 329.

Damascus women famed for sanguinary jealousy, i. 295.

Damon and Pythias, v. 104.

Damsel of the tribe = daughter of the chief, vii. 95.

Danaf (Al-) = distressing sickness, iv. 75.

Dandán (N.P.) = tooth, ii. 83.

Dandán (a monstrous fish), ix. 179.

Dání wa Gharíb = friend and foe, v. 42.

Dánik = sixth of drachma or dirham, ii. 204; v. 112.

Dár al-Na’ím = Dwelling of Delight, viii. 183.

Dara’ (dira’) = habergeon, coat of ringmail, etc. iii. 109.

Darabukka = tom-tom, i. 311.

Darakah = target, vi. 9.

Darb al-Ahmar = Red Street (in Cairo) x. 8.

Darb al-Asfar = the Street called Yellow, iv. 93.

Darbar = public audience, i. 29.

Dárfíl = dolphin, ix. 346.

Darr al-Káil = divinely he spoke who said, iv. 20.

Darrij = Let them slide, iv. 220.

Dastúr = leave, permission, i. 66.

Datura Stramonium (the insane herb) vi. 36.

Dáúd = David, ii. 286.

Daughter of my uncle = my wife, i. 69.

“Daughters of God” (the three) vi. 282.

—— (of Sa’adah = zebras) iii. 65.

—— (of the bier = Ursa major) iii. 28, 221.

Daulat (Pr. N.) = fortune, empire, kingdom, vii. 347.

337Daurak = narrow-mouthed jug, i. 36.

David (makes coats of mail) ii. 286; vi. 113.

Dawá’ = medicine (for a depilatory) ix. 155.

Dawát = wooden inkcase with reed-pens, ix. 122.

Dawn-breeze, ii. 181.

Day of Doom (mutual retaliation) iii. 128.

—— (length of) iii. 299.

—— (when wealth availeth not, etc.) ix. 16.

—— (ye shall be saved from its misery) ix. 315.

Daylam (Al-), soldiers of = warlike as the Daylamites, viii. 82.

Daylamites, ii. 94.

Dayyús = pimp, wittol, ix. 297.

Dead (buried at once) v. 190.

Death (from love) v. 134.

—— (every soul shall taste of it) v. 166.

—— (of a good Moslem) v. 167.

—— (manners of, symbolised by colours) vi. 250.

—— (simply and pathetically sketched) x. 47.

“Death in a crowd as good as a feast” (Persian proverb) iii. 141.

Death-prayer (usually a two-bow prayer) vi. 70.

Debts (of dead parents sacred to the children) ix. 311.

Deeds of prowess not exaggerated, ii. 108.

Deity of the East despotic, iv. 118.

—— after the fashion of each race, iv. 267.

Delicacy of the female skin, ix. 321.

“Delight of the Intelligent” (fancy title of a book) vi. 80.

Demesne (Ar. Himà) viii. 225.

Democracy of despotism, ix. 94.

Depilation (Solomon and Bilkis) iv. 256.

Deposits are not lost with Him = He disappointeth not, etc., vii. 334.

Despite his nose = against his will, i. 26.

Despotism (tempered by assassination) vi. 206.

Destiny blindeth human sight, i. 67.

Destructiveness of slaves, ii. 55.

Devil (was sick, etc.) ii. 264.

—— (stoned at Mina) v. 203, 212.

—— (allowed to go about the world and seduce mankind) ix. 82.

Devotees (address Allah as a lover would his beloved) v. 263.

—— (white woollen raiment of) vii. 214.

Dhámí = the Trenchant (sword of Antar) vi. 271.

Diamond (its cutting of very ancient date) ix. 325.

Diamonds (occurring in alluvial lands) vi. 18.

Diaphoresis (a sign of the abatement of a disease) ix. 146.

Dihlíz = passage, vi. 10.

Di’ibil al-Khuzá’í (poet) v. 127.

Dijlah (Tigris), River and Valley of Peace, viii. 51.

Dimágh = brain, meningx (for head) vii. 178.

Dimyat (vulg. Dumíyat) = Damietta, v. 171.

Dín (Al-) al-a’raj = the perverted Faith, ix. 11.

Dínár = gold-piece, Daric, Miskál, i. 32.

—— (description of one) ix. 294.

Dinghy (Kárib) iv. 168.

Dirás = thrashing sled, ii. 108.

Dirham = silver-piece, i. 33.

Dirham-weight = 48 grains avoir., ii. 316.

Dirhams (50,000 = about £1,250) vii. 105.

—— (thousand = £375) viii. 10.

Disposition (sudden change of) viii. 213.

Dissection (practised on simiads) v. 220.

Dist (Dast) = large copper cauldron, viii. 177.

Diversion of an Eastern Potentate, viii. 171.

Divining rod (dowsing rod) iv. 73.

Divorce (triple) iii. 292.

Díwán (fanciful origin of the word) ix. 108.

Díwán al-Baríd = Post-office, vii. 340.

Diyár-i-Bakr = maid-land, v. 66.

Do not to others what thou wouldest not they do unto thee, vi. 125.

“Dog” and “hog” popular terms of abuse, i. 188.

Doggrel (royal) v. 55.

—— (phenomenal) v. 288.

—— (sad) v. 297.

—— (not worse than usual) viii. 225, 228.

Dogs (clothed in hot-damp countries) iv. 266.

—— (in Eastern cities) vii. 202.

Don Juan quoted, ix. 190.

338Donánmá (rejoicings for the pregnancy of a Sultana) vii. 324.

Donkey-boy, like our “post-boy,” of any age, vii. 160.

Donning woman’s attire in token of defeat, vii. 188.

Doomsday (horrors of, come upon a man) ii. 232.

Door (behind it the door-keeper’s seat) v. 173.

Door-hinges, ii. 214.

Door-keepers (in Egypt mostly Berbers) vi. 189.

Doors (usually shut with a wooden bolt) iii. 198.

—— (pulled up = raised from the lower hinge-pins) vii. 352.

Double entendre, iii. 234; viii. 153, 251.

Dove and turtle-dove female, ii. 23.

Down (of the cheek) ii. 246.

Dozd o Kázi (Persian book) ii. 55.

Drama (in Turkey and Persia) x. 167.

Dramatic scene (told with charming naïveté) x. 9.

Draught of air (Zug) feared by Orientals, ii. 9.

Drawbridges in Coptic convents, ii. 94.

Dream (Speaker in a) iv. 239.

Dreams (true at later night) iii. 258.

—— (lovers meet in) v. 47.

—— (play an important part in the romances of chivalry) viii. 113.

Dress (scarlet, of a King in anger) iv. 72.

Drinking at dawn, iii. 20.

—— their death-agony = suffering similar pain, iii. 315.

—— (before or after dinner) vii. 132.

—— (in the dark disliked) ii. 59.

—— first to show the absence of poison, i. 88, 295.

—— bouts (attended in bright dresses) vi. 175.

Dromedary (see Camel).

—— (guided by a nose-ring) iii. 120.

“Drop” unknown to the Eastern gallows, i. 260.

Drop (black, of the heart) iv. 251.

Drowning (a martyr’s death) ix. 158.

“Drugging” not a Badawi sentiment, ii. 122.

Drugs (is this an art of ——?) vii. 147.

Drunk with the excess of his beauty, iv. 34; vii. 162.

Drunken habits of Central African races, vii. 357.

Drunken son (excused by mother, rebuked by father) viii. 287.

Dúbarah (Dubárá) = Dubrornik, Ragusa, ii. 219.

Due demanded leads to imprisonment for arrears, viii. 170.

Dukhán = smoke (meaning tobacco for the Chibouk) ix. 156.

Dukhúl = going in to the bride, iv. 30.

Dúláb = waterwheel; buttery; cupboard, ix. 306.

Dung (used as fuel, etc.) ii. 149.

Dunyá (Pr. N.) = world, iii. 7, 319; x. 27.

Dunyázad = world free (?) i. 14.

Durbar of idols, ix. 325.

Durká’ah = lower part of the floor (opposed to Liwán) iv. 71.

Durrah (vulg. for Zarrah, q.v.)

Dust-storm in tropical lands, i. 111.

Duwámah = whirlpool, ix. 93.

Ear-drop = penis, ii. 318.

“Early to bed,” etc. (modern version of the same) vii. 217.

East and West (confounded by a beauty-dazed monk) viii. 279.

Easterns sleep with covered heads, iii. 345.

Eatables (their exchange must be equal) v. 204.

Eating (together makes friends) iii. 71.

—— (gives rights of guest-ship) iv. 214.

—— (superstitious belief in its power) iv. 218.

—— (how it should be done) v. 206.

Eating and drinking (before thinking of the lover) viii. 260.

Eedgáh (see Idgáh) ii. 202.

Effendi (Turkish title = our esquire) iv. 53.

Eggs for testicles, ii. 55.

Eginhardt (belonged to the clerical profession) viii. 326.

Egypt (derivation of the name) ix. 286.

Egyptian (= archi-) polisonnerie, iii. 243.

Egyptian vulgarism, iv. 107.

—— characteristic, iv. 260.

Elephant (derivation of the word) ii. 104.

Elephant-faced, Vetála, vii. 34.

339Elephant’s roll = swaying and graceful gait, i. 217.

Elephants frightening horses, vii. 61.

Elevation (nothing strange in sudden), x. 53.

Eli-Fenioun = Polyphemus, vii. 361.

Elliptical expression, vi. 288.

Elliptical style of the Eastern storys-teller, ix. 160.

Emancipation (the greater = pardon for sins or holy death), ii. 105.

Embracing (like the Lám embraceth the Alif), iv. 243.

Emerald (white?), iv. 164.

—— (mace-head of), vi. 67.

—— (-rods in lattice windows), vi. 117.

Emirs (of the wild Arabs) = “Phylarchs” ix. 323.

Emma (hides her lover under her cloak), ix. 8.

Empire (endureth with infidelity but not with tyranny), v. 187.

Enemy (his offered hand to be kissed or cut off), ii. 142.

“Enfants terribles” in Eastern guise, vi. 211.

Entertainments (names of), viii. 231.

Envying another’s wealth wrongs him, vi. 77.

Ephesus (The Matron of), x. 220.

—— (The Seven Sleepers of), iii. 128.

Epistasis without prostasis, ix. 240.

Ernest (Duke of Bavaria, Romance of), x. 153.

Erotic inferences drawn from parts of the body, i. 350.

—— specialists amongst the Ancients, x. 201.

Eternal truths of The Nights, i. 7.

Eunuch best go-between, i. 282.

—— employed as porter, i. 343.

—— different kinds of, i. 132.

—— (if without testes only, highly prized), ii. 90.

—— (driving the people out of a lady’s way), iv. 126.

—— (who have studied the Harím), iv. 228.

—— (and their wives), v. 46.

—— (avoid allusion to their misfortune), v. 47.

Eunuch-in-Chief a most important Jack-in-Office, i. 283.

Euphemisms, i. 31; iii. 68, 102, 209, 267, 338; vi. 75, 145; vii. 134, 142; viii. 173; ix. 180, 224; x. 4, 27.

Euphemy (announcing death), iv. 61.

—— (thou shalt die), iv. 90.

—— (all is well), iv. 138.

—— (the far one is a Nazarene), iv. 215.

Euphuistic speech, vii. 285; ix. 43.

Euthanasia and anæsthetics, ix. 90.

Evacuation (and constipation), iii. 242.

Eve (Ar. Hawwá), v. 139.

—— (the true seducer), iii. 166.

Evil (befalling thee is from thyself), vi. 138.

Exaggeration part of humour, i. 12.

—— characteristic of The Nights, iv. 273; v. 306.

Expiation of oaths, ii. 186.

Eye (darkening from vine or passion), iii. 224.

—— (orbits slit up and down the face of a hideous Jinn), iii. 235.

—— (man of the = pupil), iii. 286.

—— (white = blind), iii. 323.

—— (the evil), on children, iv. 37.

—— (babes of the), iv. 246.

—— (likened to the letter Sád, the brow to Nún), v. 34.

—— (for helper), v. 60.

—— (Thou shalt be in mine = I will keep thee as though thou wert the apple of my eye), viii. 90.

“Eye of the needle” (for wicket), ix. 320.

Eyebrows joined a great beauty in Arabia, i. 227.

Eyes (of me = my dears), i. 163.

—— (hot = full of tears), ii. 99.

—— (becoming white = blind), ii. 283.

—— (bandaged before beheading), iv. 145.

—— (blue ones), iv. 129.

—— (one-eyed men), iv. 194.

—— (plucking or tearing out of, a Persian practice), vii. 359.

—— (“sunk” into the head for our “starting” from it), vii. 36.

—— (Babylonian = bewitching), viii. 278.

—— (no male has ever filled mine = none hath pleased me), ix. 222.

Fables proper (oldest part of The Nights), iii. 114.

Face-veil = “nose-bag” i. 82.

340Faces (on the Day of Judgment), iv. 249.

Fadaises of a blue stocking, ii. 156.

Faghfúr (Mosl. title for the Emperor of China), vii. 335.

Fá’il = agent, active (Sodomite), v. 156.

Fa-immá ’alayhá wa-immá bihá = whether (luck go) against it or (luck go) with it, viii. 157.

Faintings and trances (common in romances of chivalry), viii. 118.

Fairer to-day than fair of yesterday = ever increasing in beauty, iii. 331.

Fájirah = harlot (often mere abuse without special meaning), viii. 109.

Fakíh = divine, vii. 325.

Fakír = religious mendicant generally, i. 95; v. 39.

—— (the, and his jar of butter; congeners of the tale), ix. 40.

Fakru (Al-) fakhrí = poverty is my pride (saying of Mohammed), v. 268.

Fál = omen, v. 136.

Falak (clearing) = breaking forth of light from darkness, iii. 22.

Falastín, degraded to “Philister,” vii. 101.

Falcon (see Hawk, Bází).

Falcon (blinding the quarry), i. 51.

Falling on the back (a fair fall in wrestling), ii. 92.

—— (with laughter), iii. 306.

Fals ahmar = a red cent, i. 321.

Familiarity between the great and paupers, ii. 32.

—— of girls with black slave-boys, ii. 49.

Family (euphemistically for wife), vi. 75.

Far off one (the, shall die), iv. 90.

Faráis (pl. of farísah) = shoulder-muscles, vii. 219.

Faráiz = orders expressly given in the Koran, i. 169.

Farajíyah = a long-sleeved robe, i. 210, 321.

Faránik (Al-) = letter-carrier, vii. 340.

Faranj (Al-) = European, i. 296.

Faráshah, noun of unity of Farásh = butterfly-moth, vii. 305.

Fard Kalmah = a single word (vulgarism), viii. 188.

Faríd = unique; union-pearl, x. 54.

Fárikí, adjective of Mayyáfárikín, vii. 1.

Fárikín for Mayyáfárikín (city in Diyar-bakr), vi. 107.

Fáris = rider, knight, vii. 314.

Farj = slit; Zawí ’l-Furúj = slit ones, ii. 49.

Farkh Akrab (vulgarism for Ukayrib) = a young scorpion, iv. 46.

Farkh Samak = fish-chick (for young fish), viii. 149.

Farrásh, a man of general utility, tent-pitcher, etc., vii. 4.

Fars = Persia, v. 26.

Farsakh = parasang, iv. 230.

—— = three English miles, ii. 114.

Farsalah = parcel, viii. 162.

Fart (in return for chaff), v. 99.

—— (and Badawí “pundonor”), v. 137.

Farting for fear, iii. 118.

Farz = obligatory prayer, vi. 193.

—— (mentioned after Sunnat because jingling with Arz), ix. 15.

Fás = city of Fez, vi. 222.

Fass = bezel of a ring, gem cut en cabochon, contenant for contenu, i. 165; ii. 97.

Fast (and its break), v. 201.

—— (when forbidden), v. 265.

Faswah = susurrus, ix. 291.

Faswán Salh al-Subyán (Pr. N.) = Fizzler, Dung of children, ix. 11.

Fat and Thin (dispute between), iv. 254.

Fatà = a youth; generous man, etc., i. 67.

Fatalism and Predestination, ix. 45.

Fate (written in the sutures of the skull), viii. 237.

—— (and Freewill), ix. 60.

Fath = opening (e.g. of a maidenhead), viii. 348.

—— (Al-) bin Khákán (boon companion of Al-Mutawakkil), ix. 245.

Father of Bitterness = the Devil, vii. 116.

Fátihah (the opening chapter of the Koran), iv. 36.

—— (position of the hands in reciting it), v. 80.

—— (recited seven times for greater solemnity), v. 184.

—— (repeated to confirm an agreement), vi. 217.

—— (quoted), vii. 286.

—— (pronounced to make an agreement binding), ix. 138.

Fátimah (Pr. N.), = the Weaner, vi. 145.

—— (daughter of Mohammed), viii. 252.

341Fatimite (Caliphs, their colours green), vi. 86.

Fátin = tempter, seducer, iii. 82.

Fátir = Creator (chapter of the Koran), vii. 366.

Fatís = carrion, corps crévé, vii. 181.

Fatúrát = light food for early breakfast, x. 12.

Fausta and Crispus, vi. 127.

Favours foreshadowing downfall, i. 48.

—— (not lawful until sanctified by love), viii. 226.

Fawn (for a graceful youth), viii. 329.

Faylasúf = philosopher, v. 234.

Flaylasúfíyah = philosopheress, vii. 145.

Faylúlah = slumbering after sunset, ii. 178.

Fayyáz (Al-) = the overflowing (with benefits), vii. 99.

Fazl = grace, exceeding goodness, vii. 220.

Fealty of the Steep, v. 295.

Fearing for the lover first, vii. 256.

Fee delicately offered, vii. 162.

Feet (lack the European development of sebaceous glands), viii. 43.

—— (coldness of, a symptom of impotence), viii. 317.

Fellah = peasant, husbandman, ix. 40.

Fellah chaff, ix. 152.

Female depravity going hand in hand with perversity of taste, i. 73.

Female (Amazon) Island, viii. 60.

Feminine mind prone to exaggeration, viii. 25.

—— friend does not hesitate to prescribe fibs, viii. 37.

—— persistency of purpose (confirmed by “consolations of religion”), viii. 99.

Festival (Ar. ’Íd), viii. 142.

Fí al-Khawáfik = among the flags, etc., v. 61.

Fí al-Kamar = in the moonshine (perhaps allusion to the Comorin Islands), vii. 269.

Fiat injustitia ruat Cœlum, i. 253.

Fidá = ransom, self-sacrifice, viii. 36.

Fidáan = instead of, viii. 36.

Fig and sycamore (unclean allusion in), viii. 269.

Fig = anus, vii. 151.

Fights easily provoked at funerals or wedding processions, vii. 190.

Fikh = theology, vii. 325.

Fillet = the Greek “Stephane,” viii. 209.

Fillets hung on trees to denote an honoured tomb, vii. 96.

Fine feathers make fine birds, viii. 201.

Fingán (for Finján) = (coffee-) cup, viii. 200.

Finger in mouth (sign of grief), ii. 302.

—— (run round the inside of a vessel), viii. 200.

Finger-tips (making marks in the ground), viii. 72.

Fingers (names of), ix. 160.

Fingers and toes (separated to wash between them), v. 198.

Finján = egg-shell cup for coffee, ix. 268.

Firásah = physiognomy, viii. 326.

Firdaus = Paradise, ix. 214.

Firdausi, the Persian Homer, quoted, iii. 83.

Fire (and sickness cannot cohabit), iii. 59.

—— (worshippers slandered), iii. 326.

—— (of Hell, but not shame), v. 138.

—— (handled without injury, a common conjuring trick), v. 271.

—— (there is no blower of = utter desolation), vi. 15.

—— (forbidden as punishment), vi. 26.

—— (none might warm himself at their), vi. 261.

—— = Hell (home of suicides), ix. 25.

Fire-arms mentioned, vii. 62.

Fire-sticks (Zand, Zandah), v. 52.

Firmán = Wazirial order, iv. 61.

First at the feast and last at the fray, iii. 81.

First personal pronoun placed first for respect, i. 237.

Fí sabíli ’llahi = on Allah’s path (martyrdom), iv. 247.

Fish (begins to stink at the head), ii. 168.

—— (-island), vi. 6.

—— (the ass-headed), vi. 33.

—— (great = Hút, common = Samák), vi. 69.

—— (changed into apes, true Fellah “chaff”), viii. 147.

—— (of Paradise, promising acceptance of prayer), viii. 163.

Fishár = squeeze of the tomb, v. 111.

Fisherman (Arab contrasted with English), v. 51.

Fist (putting into fist = putting one’s self at another’s mercy), iii. 155.

342Fitnah = revolt, seduction, mischief, beautiful girl, aphrodisiac perfume, i. 219; ii. 76.

Fits of religious enthusiasm, ii. 132.

Flatterers (the worst of foes), ii. 11.

Flattery (more telling because proceeding from the heart), viii. 104.

Flatulence produced by bean-eating, iv. 160.

Flea (still an Egyptian plague), vi. 205.

Flirtation impossible in the East, vii. 181.

Floor (sitting upon the, sign of deepest dejection), vii. 314.

Flowers of speech, ii. 88.

Flying for delight, iii. 26.

Food-tray of Sulayman, vi. 80.

Folk follow their King’s faith, ii. 157.

Following one’s face = at random, i. 347.

Food (partaken gives rights of protection), iv. 214.

—— (superstitious belief in its power), iv. 218.

Foot (smallness of, sign of blood), iii. 227.

—— (prehensile powers of the Eastern), vii. 179.

“Forbid not yourselves the good things which Allah hath allowed you,” v. 216.

“Forcible eateth feeble,” ix. 179.

Fore-arm (for proficiency), ix. 306.

Formality (a sign of good breeding), viii. 308.

Formication (accompanying a paralytic stroke), v. 251.

Formula of praise pronounced to avert the evil eye, iii. 224.

Fortune makes kneel her camel by some other one = encamps with a favourite, iii. 141.

“Forty days” = our “honeymoon,” viii. 47.

Foster-brother (dearer than kith and kin), iii. 256.

Fountain-bowl (ornamented with mosaic, etc.), ii. 310.

Fourteen (expressed by seven and seven, or five and five plus four), viii. 70.

Fox (Ar. Abú Hosayn, Salab), vi. 211.

—— (cunning man), iii. 132.

—— and jackal (confounded by the Arabic dialects), x. 123.

Frail (Ar. Farsalah), viii. 162.

Frame (crescent-like by reason of its leanness), viii. 300.

Freedom (granted to a slave for the sake of reward from Allah), ix. 243.

Freeing slaves for the benefit of the souls of the departed, iii. 211.

Freewill (and the Korán), iv. 275.

French letters (all about them), vii. 190.

Friday night = our Thursday night, i. 269.

Friday service described, i. 313.

Friend (feminine, does not hesitate to prescribe a fib), viii. 37.

Friends (weeping when they meet after long parting), iv. 26.

—— (“damned ill-natured ones”), iv. 137.

Frolics of high-born ladies, i. 328.

Front-teeth wide apart (a beauty amongst the Egyptians, not the Arabs), viii. 147.

Fruit of two kinds, vi. 277.

Fruits (fresh and dry), v. 314.

Fulán (fulano in Span. and Port.) = a certain person, iii. 191; iv. 278.

Fulk = boat, vi. 62.

Full, Fill = Arabian jessamine, viii. 273.

Fumigations to cite Jinnís, etc., vii. 363; ix. 29.

“Fun” = practical jokes of the largest, i. 220.

“Fundamentals (Usúl), remembered” = the business is not forgotten, ii. 15.

Funduk = Fondaco, viii. 184.

Funeral oration on an Arabian Achilles (after Haríri), viii. 348.

Funerals (meritorious to accompany), ii. 46.

Furát = Euphrates (derivation of the name), ix. 17.

Furaydun, see Afridun, ii. 82.

Furkán = Korán, iv. 90.

Fustát = Old Cairo, vi. 87.

Fútah = napkin, waistcloth, vii. 345.

Futúh = openings, victories, benefits, iii. 304.

—— (openings, victories), iv. 51.

Futúr = breakfast, i. 300; ix. 307.

Fuzayl bin ’Iyáz (Sufí ascetic), ix. 21.

Galactophagi (use milk always in the soured form), vi. 201; vii. 360.

Gall-bladder and liver allusions, i. 219.

Galland, Antoine (memoir of), x. 96 seqq.