Volume 10 — INDEX.

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

Abdún (convent of), 40

Abú al-Sa’ádát (Pr. N.) = Father of Prosperities, 29

Abú Miján (song of), 41

Abú Tabak = Father of whipping, 5

’Ádilíyah (Mosque in Cairo), 6

Aesop (the fable-writer), 117

’Ajáib al-Hind = Marvels of Ind, 153

A’láj = sturdy miscreants, 38

Allah (will make things easy = will send us aid), 2

—— (give thee quittance of responsibility), 11

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

Alnashar (story of), 146

’Ámir = one who inhabiteth, haunter, 6

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

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

Arabs (for plundering nomades), 25

Arianism and early Christianity, 190

Arms and Armour, 86

Artists in cosmetics, 234

’Asákir = corner-terminals of a litter, 32

Asal Kasab = cane-honey, 3

—— Katr = drip-honey, 2

Ash’ab (proverbial for greed), 15

Astarte (primarily the planet Venus?), 229

’Attár = perfume-seller, druggist, 8

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

Báb (Al-) al-’Ali = Sublime Porte, 5

Báb al-Nasr = Gate of Victory, 6

Barmakís (history of the family), 137

Battál (Al-), story of, 74

Bazar (locked at night), 13

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

Boccaccio and The Nights, 160

Book (black as her), 1

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

Bresl. Edit. quoted, 54. seqq.

—— (mean colloquialism thereof), 169

Brides of the Treasure, 31

Burckhardt quoted, 144

Cairene jargon, 8

—— (savoir faire), 10

—— (bonhomie), 28

—— (knows his fellow-Cairene), 35

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

Cannibalism in the New World, 240

Caravaggio (picture of St. Rosario), 219

Castration (texts justifying or enjoining it), 227

Character-sketch (making amends for abuse of women), 24

Cask (for “home” of the maiden wine), 38

Children (one of its = a native of), 8

Clairvoyance of perfect affection, 26

Coffee (mention of), 90

Coquetries (requiring as much inventiveness as a cotillon), 58

304Cruelty (of the “fair sex” in Egypt), 45

Cry (that needs must be cried), 21

Curs (set them on the cattle = show a miser money, etc.), 18

Darb al-Ahmar = Red Street (in Cairo), 8

Death (simply and pathetically sketched), 47

Drama (in Turkey and Persia), 167

Dramatic scene (told with charming naïveté), 9

Dunyá (Pr. N.) = the World, 27

Elevation (nothing strange in sudden), 53

Ephesus (the Matron of), 220

Ernest (Duke of Bavaria, Romance of), 153

Erotic specialists among the Ancients, 201

Euphemism, 4; 27

Faríd = unique; union-pearl, 54

Fatúrát = light food for early breakfast, 12

Fox and jackal (confounded by the Arabic dialects), 123

Galland, Antoine (memoir of), 96, seqq.

Garden (the Perfumed of the Cheikh Nefzaoui), 133

Gazelle’s blood red (dark red dye), 12

German Translations of The Nights, 112, seqq.

Ghulámíyah = girl dressed as a boy to act cup-bearer, 39

Ghurrah = white blaze on a horse’s brow, 40

Giants (marrying in Peru, probably the Caribs of the Brazil), 243

Glossarium eroticum, 221

Gnostic absurdities, 191

Gold (liquid = Vino d’Oro), 40

Grelots lascifs, 238

Gypsies (their first appearance in Europe), 89

Handkerchief of dismissal, 47

Haríri (lines quoted from), 44

Harím al-Rashid and Charlemagne, 135

Hazár Afsánah, 72, seqq.; 93

Hippic Syphilis, 90

Hetairesis and Sotadism (the heresies of love), 215

Hizám = belt (not Khizám = nose-ring), 36

’Iddah (Al-) = period of widowhood, 43

Ikhtíyán al-Khutan = Khaitán (?), 9

Iram (the many-columned), 29

Irishman (and his “convarter”), 3

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

Iskander = Alexander (according to the Arabs), 57

Italian Translations of The Nights, 114

Ja’afar the Barmecide (his suspected heresy), 141

Jackal’s gall (used aphrodisiacally), 123

Jadíd = new (coin), copper, 12

Jauzá = Gemini, 38

Jazírat ibn Omar (island and town on the Tigris), 40

Jink (Al-) = effeminates, 19

Kafr = village (in Egypt and Syria), 27

Kákilí = Sumatran (eagle-wood), 57

Kalandars (order of), 84

Kammir (Imper) = brown (thé bread), 14

Kathá Sarit Ságara, 160, seqq.

Kathír = much, “no end”, 10

Kitáb al-Fihrist (and its author), 71

Kohl’d with Ghunj = languor-kohl’d, 40

Koran quoted (lxxxix), 29

Koran (first English Translation owing to France), 100

Kunáfah = Vermicelli-cake, 1

Kutub al-Báh = Books of Lust, 201

Lá Kabbata hámiyah = (no burning plague), 14

Lane quoted, 1; 11, 12; 19; 34, 36; 50; 52; 53; 70, 115

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

Lentils (cheapest and poorest food in Egypt), 31

Lesbianism, 209

Libraries (much appreciated by the Arabs), 175

305Lion (as Sultan of the beasts jealous of a man’s power), 34

Lokman (three of the name), 118

Love (cruelty of), 26

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

Ma’arúf = kindness, favour, 1

Macnaghten’s Edition, 81

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

“Making men” (and women), 199

Marocco (tenanted by three Moslem races), 222

Mashallah = the English “cock’s ’ill” with a difference, 52

Mashhad = head-and-foot stone of a grave, 53

Merchant (worth a thousand), 8

Metrical portion of The Nights (threefold distribution of), 67

Mohammed (before and after the Hijrah), 196

Morbi venerei, 88

Moslem resignation (noble instance of), 42

Mudarris = professor, 8

Mummery = “Mahommerie”, 178

Munkar and Nakír, 47

Mustahakk = deserving, 52

Náhí-ka = let it suffice thee, 22

Naká = sand-hill, 27

Narcissus and Hippolytus (assumed as types of morosa voluptas), 215

Olema (time-serving ones), 44

Onanisms (discouraged by circumcision), 233

Pain (resembling the drawing of a tooth), 21

Palaces in ruins (for want of repair), 61

Palgrave and Al-Islam, 189

Parisian MS. of The Nights, 104

Payne quoted 40; 50; 52; 74; 104; 140; 142; 167.

Péché philosophique (The, in France), 249

Pederasts (list of famous), 252

Pehlevi version of the Panchatantra, 120

Penis (and its succedanea), 239

Plato (his theory of love), 209

Play “near and far” = “fast and loose”, 22

Powders (coloured in sign of holiday-making), 56

Pre-Adamite doctrine, 179

Poets (four whose works contraried their character), 253

Prolixity (heightening the effect of the tale), 50

Pun (on a name), 11, 27

Pyramids (verses on the), 150

Ráwí = story-teller (also used for reciter of Traditions), 163

Resignation (noble instance of), 42

Rijál = Hallows, 14

Roman superficiality (notable instance of), 116

Rub’ al-Kharáb (probably for the great Arabian Desert), 42

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

Sacy, Sylvestre de (on the origin of The Nights), 76

Sappho (the “Masculine”), 208

Sawád = blackness of the hair, 60

Schools (attached to Mosques), 174

Shamtá = the grizzled (name for wine), 38

Shaykh al-Islám (his mention sign of modern composition), 19

Signals of Debauchees, 219

Sijn al-Ghazab = Prison of Wrath, 45

Símurgh (guardian of the Persian mysteries), 130

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

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

Sotadic zone, 206, seqq.

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

Story-teller (picture of the), 164

Sufyism (rise of), 128

306Sun (likened to a bride displaying her charms to man), 38

Syphilis (origin of), 89

—— (hippic), 90

Tasawwuf (rise of), 128

Taysh = vertigo, giddiness, 9

Time-measurers (of very ancient date), 85

Tobacco (mention of), 91

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

Trébutien quoted, 9; 54; 69; 80; 98

Umm al-Raas = crown of the head, 44

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

’Urrah = dung, 1

Visvakarma = the Anti-creator, 131

Whoso praiseth and then blameth lieth twice, 15

Woman, women (treated leniently in a Kazi’s court), 4

Womankind (their status in Al-Islam), 195

Yá Abú al-Lithámayn = “O sire of the chin-veils twain”, 20

Yellow-girl (for light-coloured wine), 39

Zarábín = slaves’ shoes, 1

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