shall be turned aside by the Divine decree;" alluding, in the text, to
the preposterous venery her lover demands.
Footnote 345:
Arab. "Futúh" meaning openings, and also victories, benefits. The
lover congratulates her on her mortifying self in order to please him.
Footnote 346:
"And the righteous work will be exalt": (Koran xxxv. 11) applied
ironically.
Footnote 347:
A prolepsis of Tommy Moore:—
Your mother says, my little Venus,
There's something not quite right between us,
And you're in fault as much as I,
Now, on my soul, my little Venus,
I swear 'twould not be right between us,
To let your mother tell a lie.
But the Arab is more moral than Mr. Little, as he proposes to repent.
Footnote 348:
Arab. "Khunsa" flexible or flaccid, from Khans = bending inwards,
_i.e._ the mouth of a water-skin before drinking. Like Mukhannas, it
is also used for an effeminate man, a passive sodomite and even for a
eunuch. Easterns still believe in what Westerns know to be an
impossibility, human beings with the parts and proportions of both
sexes equally developed and capable of reproduction; and Al-Islam even
provides special rules for them (Pilgrimage iii. 237). We hold them to
be Buffon's fourth class of (duplicate) monsters, belonging
essentially to one or the other sex, and related to its opposite only
by some few characteristics. The old Greeks dreamed, after their
fashion, a beautiful poetic dream of a human animal uniting the
contradictory beauties of man and woman. The duality of the generative
organs seems an old Egyptian tradition; at least we find it in Genesis
(i. 27), where the image of the Deity is created male and female,
before man was formed out of the dust of the ground (ii. 7). The old
tradition found its way to India (if the Hindus did not borrow the
idea from the Greeks); and one of the forms of Mahadeva, the third
person of their triad, is entitled "Ardhanárí" = the Half-woman, which
has suggested to them some charming pictures. Europeans, seeing the
left breast conspicuously feminine, have indulged in silly surmises
about the "Amazons."
Footnote 349:
This is a mere phrase for our "dying of laughter": the queen _was_ on
her back. And as Easterns sit on carpets, their falling back is very
different from the same movement off a chair.
Footnote 350:
Arab. "Ismid," the eye-powder before noticed.
Footnote 351:
When the Caliph (_e.g._ Al-Tá'i li'llah) bound a banner to a spear and
handed it to an officer, he thereby appointed him Sultan or
Viceregent.
Footnote 352:
Arab. "Sháib al-ingház" = lit. a gray beard who shakes head in
disapproval.
Footnote 353:
Arab. "Ayát" = the Hebr. "Ototh," signs, wonders or Koranic verses.
Footnote 354:
The Chapter "Al-Ikhlás" _i.e._ clearing (oneself from any faith but
that of Unity) is No. cxii. and runs thus:—
Say, He is the One God!
The sempiternal God,
He begetteth not, nor is He begot,
And unto Him the like is not.
It is held to be equal in value to one-third of the Koran, and is
daily used in prayer. Mr. Rodwell makes it the tenth.
Footnote 355:
The Lady Budur shows her noble blood by not objecting to her friend
becoming her Zarrat (sister-wife). This word is popularly derived from
"Zarar" = injury; and is vulgarly pronounced in Egypt "Durrah"
sounding like Durrah = a parrot (see Burckhardt's mistake in Prov.
314). The native proverb says, "Ayshat al-durrah murrah," the
sister-wife hath a bitter life. We have no English equivalent; so I
translate indifferently co-wife, co-consort, sister-wife or sister in
wedlock.
Footnote 356:
Lane preserves the article "El-Amjad" and "El-As'ad;" which is as
necessary as to say "the John" or "the James," because neo-Latins have
"il Giovanni" or "il Giacomo." In this matter of the article, however,
it is impossible to lay down a universal rule: in some cases it must
be preserved and only practise in the language can teach its use. For
instance, it is always present in Al-Bahrayn and al-Yaman; but not
necessarily so with Irak and Najd.
Footnote 357:
It is hard to say why this ugly episode was introduced. It is a mere
false note in a tune pretty enough.
Footnote 358:
The significance of this action will presently appear.
Footnote 359:
An "Hadís."
Footnote 360:
Arab. "Sabb" = using the lowest language of abuse, chiefly concerning
women-relatives and their reproductive parts.
Footnote 361:
The reader will note in the narration concerning the two Queens the
parallelism of the Arab's style which recalls that of the Hebrew
poets. Strings of black silk are plaited into the long locks (an
"idiot-fringe" being worn over the brow) because a woman is cursed
"who joineth her own hair to the hair of another" (especially human
hair). Sending the bands is a sign of affectionate submission; and, in
extremest cases the hair itself is sent.
Footnote 362:
_i.e._, suffer similar pain at the spectacle, a phrase often
occurring.
Footnote 363:
_i.e._, when the eye sees not, the heart grieves not.
Footnote 364:
_i.e._, unto Him we shall return, a sentence recurring in almost every
longer chapter of the Koran.
Footnote 365:
Arab. "Kun," the creative Word (which, by the by, proves the Koran to
be an uncreated Logos); the full sentence being "Kun fa kána" = Be!
and it became. The origin is evidently, "And God said, Let there be
light: and there was light." (Gen. i. 3); a line grand in its
simplicity and evidently borrowed from the Egyptians; even as Yahveh
(Jehovah) from "Ankh" = He who lives (Brugsch Hist. ii. 34).
Footnote 366:
_i.e._ but also for the life and the so-called "soul."
Footnote 367:
Arab. "Layáli" = lit. nights which, I have said, is often applied to
the whole twenty-four hours. Here it is used in the sense of "fortune"
or "fate;" like "days" and "days and nights."
Footnote 368:
Abdullah ibn al-Zubayr a nephew of Ayishah, who had rebuilt the
Ka'abah in A.H. 64 (A.D. 683), revolted (A.D. 680) against Yezid and
was proclaimed Caliph at Meccah. He was afterwards killed (A.D. 692)
by the famous or infamous Hajjáj general of Abd al-Malik bin Marwan,
the fifth Ommiade, surnamed "Sweat of a stone" (skin-flint) and
"Father of Flies," from his foul breath. See my Pilgrimage, etc. iii.,
192-194, where are explained the allusions to the Ka'abah and the holy
Black Stone.
Footnote 369:
These lines are part of an elegy on the downfall of one of the Moslem
dynasties in Spain, composed in the twelfth century by Ibn Abdun
al-Andalúsi. The allusion is to the famous conspiracy of the
Khárijites (the first sectarians in Mohammedanism) to kill Ali,
Mu'awiyah and Amru (so written but pronounced "Amr") al-As, in order
to abate intestine feuds in Al-Islam. Ali was slain with a sword-cut
by Ibn Muljam a name ever damnable amongst the Persians; Mu'awiyah
escaped with a wound and Kharijah, the Chief of Police at Fustat or
old Cairo was murdered by mistake for Amru. After this the sectarian
wars began.
Footnote 370:
Arab. "Saráb" = (Koran, chapt. xxiv.) the reek of the Desert, before
explained. It is called "Lama," the shine, the loom, in Al-Hariri. The
world is compared with the mirage, the painted eye and the sword that
breaks in the sworder's hand.
Footnote 371:
Arab. "Dunyá," with the common alliteration "dániyah" (= Pers. "dún"),
in prose as well as poetry means the things or fortune of this life
opp. to "Akhirah" = future life.
Footnote 372:
Arab. "Walgh," a strong expression primarily denoting the lapping of
dogs; here and elsewhere "to swill, _saufen_."
Footnote 373:
The lines are repeated from Night ccxxi. I give Lane's version (ii.
162) by way of contrast and—warning.
Footnote 374:
"Sáhirah" is the place where human souls will be gathered on Doom-day:
some understand by it the Hell Sa'ír (No. iv.) intended for the
Sabians or the Devils generally.
Footnote 375:
His eyes are faded like Jacob's which, after weeping for Joseph,
"became white with mourning" (Koran, chapt. xxi.). It is a stock
comparison.
Footnote 376:
The grave.
Footnote 377:
Arab. "Sawwán" (popularly pronounced Suwán) = "Syenite" from Syrene;
generally applied to silex, granite or any hard stone.
Footnote 378:
A proceeding fit only for thieves and paupers: "Alpinism" was then
unknown. "You come from the mountain" (al-Jabal) means, "You are a
clod-hopper"; and "I will sit upon the mountain" = turn anchorite or
magician. (Pilgrimage i. 106).
Footnote 379:
Corresponding with wayside chapels in Catholic countries. The Moslem
form would be either a wall with a prayer-niche (Mihráb) fronting
Meccah-wards or a small domed room. These little oratories are often
found near fountains, streams or tree-clumps where travellers would be
likely to alight. I have described one in Sind ("Scinde or the Unhappy
Valley" i. 79); and have noted that scrawling on the walls is even
more common in the East than in the West; witness the monuments of old
Egypt bescribbled by the Greeks and Romans. Even the paws of the
Sphinx are covered with such _graffiti_; and those of Ipsambul or Abu
Simbal have proved treasures to epigraphists.
Footnote 380:
In tales this characterises a Persian; and Hero Rustam is always so
pictured.
Footnote 381:
The Parsis, who are the representatives of the old Guebres, turn
towards the sun and the fire as their Kiblah or point of prayer; all
deny that they worship it. But, as in the case of saints' images,
while the educated would pray before them for edification (Latria),
the ignorant would adore them (Dulia); and would make scanty
difference between the "reverence of a servant" and the "reverence of
a slave." The human sacrifice was quite contrary to Guebre, although
not to Hindu, custom; although hate and vengeance might prompt an
occasional murder.
Footnote 382:
These _oubliettes_ are common in old eastern houses as in the medieval
Castles of Europe, and many a stranger has met his death in them. They
are often so well concealed that even the modern inmates are not aware
of their existence.
Footnote 383:
Arab. "Bakk"; hence our "bug" whose derivation (like that of "cat"
"dog" and "hog") is apparently unknown to the dictionaries, always
excepting M. Littré's.
Footnote 384:
_i.e._ thy beauty is ever increasing.
Footnote 385:
Alluding, as usual, to the eyelashes, _e.g._
An eyelash arrow from an eyebrow bow.
Footnote 386:
Lane (ii. 168) reads:—"The niggardly female is protected by her
niggardness;" a change of "Nahílah" (bee-hive) into "Bakhílah" (she
skin-flint).
Footnote 387:
Koran iv. 38. The advantages are bodily strength, understanding and
the high privilege of Holy War. Thus far, and thus far only, woman
amongst Moslems is "lesser man."
Footnote 388:
Arab. "Amír Yákhúr," a corruption of "Akhor" = stable (Persian).
Footnote 389:
A servile name in Persian, meaning "the brave," and a title of honour
at the Court of Delhi when following the name. Many English officers
have made themselves ridiculous (myself amongst the number) by having
it engraved on their seal-rings, _e.g._ Brown Sáhib Bahádur. To write
the word "Behadir" or "Bahádir" is to adopt the wretched Turkish
corruption.
Footnote 390:
"Jerry Sneak" would be the English reader's comment; but in the East
all charges are laid upon women.
Footnote 391:
Here the formula means "I am sorry for it, but I couldn't help it."
Footnote 392:
A noble name of the Persian Kings (meaning the planet Mars) corrupted
in Europe to Varanes.
Footnote 393:
Arab. "Jalláb," one of the three muharramát or forbiddens; the Hárik
al-hajar (burner of stone), the Káti' al-shajar (cutter of trees,
without reference to Hawarden N. B.) and the Báyi' al-bashar (seller
of men, vulg. Jalláb). The two former worked, like the Italian
Carbonari, in desert places where they had especial opportunities for
crime. (Pilgrimage iii. 140). None of these things must be practised
during Pilgrimage on the holy soil of Al-Hijaz—not including Jeddah.
Footnote 394:
The verses contain the tenets of the Murjiy sect which attaches
infinite importance to faith and little or none to works. Sale (sect.
viii.) derives his "Morgians" from the "Jabrians" (Jabari), who are
the direct opponents of the "Kadarians" (Kadari), denying free will
and free agency to man and ascribing his actions wholly to Allah. Lane
(ii. 243) gives the orthodox answer to the heretical question:—
Water could wet him not if God please guard His own; ✿ Nor need man
care though bound of hands in sea he's thrown:
But if His Lord decree that he in sea be drowned; ✿ He'll drown albeit
in the wild and wold he wone.
It is the old quarrel between Predestination and Freewill which cannot
be solved except by assuming a Law without a Lawgiver.
Footnote 395:
Our proverb says: Give a man luck and throw him into the sea.
Footnote 396:
As a rule Easterns, I repeat, cover head and face when sleeping
especially in the open air and moonlight. Europeans find the practice
difficult, and can learn it only by long habit.
Footnote 397:
Pers. = a flower-garden. In Galland Bahram has two daughters, Bostama
and Cavama. In the Bres. Edit. the daughter is "Bostan" and the
slave-girl "Kawám."
Footnote 398:
Arab. "Kahíl" = eyes which look as if darkened with antimony: hence
the name of the noble Arab breed of horses "Kuhaylat" (Al-Ajuz, etc.).
Footnote 399:
"As'ad" = more (or most) fortunate.
Footnote 400:
This is the vulgar belief, although Mohammed expressly disclaimed the
power in the Koran (chapt. xiii. 8), "Thou art commissioned to be a
preacher only and not a worker of miracles." "Signs" (Arab. Ayát) may
here also mean verses of the Koran, which the Apostle of Allah held to
be his standing miracles. He despised the common miracula which in the
East are of everyday occurrence and are held to be easy for any holy
man. Hume does not believe in miracles because he never saw one. Had
he travelled in the East he would have seen (and heard of) so many
that his scepticism (more likely that testimony should be false than
miracles be true) would have been based on a firmer foundation. It is
one of the marvels of our age that whilst two-thirds of Christendom
(the Catholics and the "Orthodox" Greeks) believe in "miracles"
occurring not only in ancient but even in our present days, the
influential and intelligent third (Protestant) absolutely "denies the
fact."
Footnote 401:
Arab. "Al-Shahádatáni"; testifying the Unity and the Apostleship.
END OF VOL. III.
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INDEX.
'Abd = servile, 44
Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan (Caliph), 319
Abdullah ibn al-Zubayr, 318
Abú Kurrat = father of coolness (Chameleon), 165
Abu 'l-Hasan (not Husn), 162
Abu 'l-Hosayn (father of the Fortlet) = fox, 132
Abú Sirhán = father of (going out to pray by) morning, 146
'Ad (pre-historic Arab tribe), 294
Adultery (son of, to one's own child), 219
Akh al-Jahálah = brother of ignorance, 162
Al (the article with Proper Names), 309
Alak = clotted blood, 26
Ali (murder of), 319
Alif (stature like), 236
Allah (give thee profit), 17
—— (unto, we are returning), 317
Allusions (far-fetched, fanciful and obscure), 58, 169, 176, 263
Alpinism (unknown), 324
Amor discende non ascende, 240
Amsa = he passed the evening, etc., 239
Amtár, pl. of Matr, _q.v._, 295
Andam = Brazil-wood, dragon's blood, 263
Angels (appearing to Sodomites), 301
Ape-names (expressing auspiciousness), 159
Arab (pathos), 55
—— (the noble merciful), 88
—— (shop), 163
Arák = (tooth-stick of the) wild caper-tree; Ará-ka = I see thee, 275
Ar'ar = Juniper-tree, "heath," 254
Ardhanárí = the half-woman, 306
Army (divided into six divisions), 290
As'ad = more (or most) fortunate, 346
Asáfírí = sparrow-olives, 295
Ass (goad), 116
—— (voice "most ungrateful"), 117
—— (the wild, "handy" with his hoof), 235
Ayát = signs, Koranic verses, 307
Ayshat al-durrah murrah = the sister-wife has a bitter life, 308
Awwá (name of Satan's wife), 229
Bábúnaj = white camomile, 58
Bachelor not admitted in Arab quarters, 191
Back-parts compared to revolving heavens, 18
Badawi (cannot swim), 69
—— (baser sort), 70
—— (shifting camp in spring), _ib._
—— (noble), 88
Baghdad = Garden of Justice, 100
Bahadur = the brave, 334
Bahram (varanes) = planet Mars, 339
Bakhshish naturalized as Anglo-Egyptian, 45
Bakk = bug, 328
Bulúr (Billaur) = crystal, etc., 194
Banát al-Na'ash = the Great Bear, 28, 221
Bands of bandits, 101
Banner (bound to a spear, sign of investiture), 307
Bárid (cold = silly, contemptible, foolish), 7
Báshik (small sparrow-hawk), 61
Bath (first after sickness), 266
Bází (Pers. Báz) = _F. peregrinator_, hawk, falcon, 138
Beard (long, and short wits), 247
—— (forked, characteristic of a Persian), 325
Beast-stories (oldest matter in The Nights), 114
Beauties of nature provoke hunger in Orientals, 32
Bhang (properties of the drug), 91
Bilád al-Súdán = Land of the blacks (our Soudan), 75
Bilál (benefits), name of Mohammed's Mu'ezzin, 106
Bint 'arús = daughter of the bridegroom (Ichneumon), 147
Birds denote the neighbourhood of a village, 280
Bismillah (Bi 'Smi 'lláh = in the name of God, etc.), 182
Blaze (_see_ Ghurrah), 118
Boasting of one's tribe (_see_ Renowning it), 80
Bostán (female Pr. N.) = flower-garden, 345
Braying of the ass, 117
Brothers of Purity, 150
—— of ignorance = Ignoramus, 163
Brotherhood (forms of making), 151
Bruising the testicles a feminine mode of murdering men, 3
Budúr (Badoura) = full moons, 228
Bukhti (two-humped camel), 67
Caliphs Tái li'llah, 51, 307
—— Walíd (Al-), 69
—— Mu'atasim bi 'llah, 81
—— Wásik (Al-), _ib._
—— Abd al-Malik bin Marwan, 319
—— Ali, _ib._
—— Mu'áwiyah, _ib._
Camels (breeds of), 67, 110
—— (names), 110
—— (haltered, nose-ring used for dromedaries), 120
—— (Mehari, Mahríyah), 277
Camphor (simile for a fair face), 174
Carat = Kirát, 239
Carnelion stone bitten with pearls = lips with teeth in sign of anger,
179
Cat (puss, etc.), 149
Cervantes and Arab Romance, 66
Chaff, 23
Chameleon (father of coolness), 165
Cheese a styptic, 3
Clapping hands to call servants, 173
Clogs = Kubkáb, 92
Coition (postures of), 93
Cold-of-countenance = a fool, 7
Cold speech = a silly or abusive tirade, _ib._
Comrades of the Cave, 128
Constipation (La) rend rigoureux, 242
Copulation (postures of), 93
Cowardice equally divided, 173
Criss 'cross Row, 236
Dalhamah (Romance of), 112
Dara' (dira) = habergeon, coat of ring-mail, etc., 109
Daughters of Sa'adah = zebras, 65
—— of the bier = Ursa major, 28, 221
Day of Doom (mutual retaliation), 128
—— (length of), 299
"Death in a crowd as good as a feast" (Persian proverb), 141
Divorce (triple), 292
Doors (usually shut with a wooden bolt), 198
Double entendre, 234
Dreams (true at later night), 258
Drinking at dawn, 20
—— their death agony = suffering similar pain, 315
Dromedary (_see_ Camel).
—— (guided by a nose-ring), 120
Dunyá (P. N.) = world, 7, 319
Durrah (vulg. for Zarrat _q.v._).
Easterns sleep with covered heads, 345
Eating together makes friends, 71
Egyptian (= archi-) polissonnerie, 243
Euphemy, 68, 102, 209, 267, 338
Evacuation (and Constipation), 242
Eve (the true seducer), 166
Eye (darkening from wine or passion), 224
—— (orbits slit up and down the face of a hideous Jinn), 235
Eye (man of the = pupil), 286
—— (white = blind), 323
Fables proper (oldest part of The Nights), 114
Fairer to-day than fair of yesterday = ever increasing in beauty, 331
Falak (clearing) = breaking forth of light from darkness, 22
Falcon (_see_ Hawk, Bází), 154
Falling on the back with laughter, 306
Farting for fear, 118
Fátin = tempter, seducer, 82
Firdausi, the Persian Homer, quoted, 83
Fire and sickness cannot cohabit (_see_ Kayy), 59
—— worshippers slandered, 326
First at the feast and last at the fray, 81
Fist (putting into fist = putting oneself at another's mercy), 155
Flying for delight, 26
Foot, smallness of, sign of "blood", 227
Formula of praise pronounced to avert the evil eye, 224
Fortune makes kneel her camel by some other one = encamps with a
favourite, 141
Foster-brother (dearer than kith and kin), 256
Fox, cunning man (_see_ Wolf), 132
Freeing slaves for the benefit of the souls of the departed, 211
Fulán (fulano in Span. and Port.) = a certain person, 191
Futúh = openings, victories, benefit, 304
Gamin (faire le), _ib._
Gates (two to port towns), 281
Geography in its bearings on Morality, 241
Geomantic process, 269
Gharám (Pr. N.) = eagerness, desire, love-longing, 172
Ghazá (Artemisia-shrub), 220
Ghost (phantom = Tayf), 252
Ghurrah = blaze on a horse's forehead, 118
Ghusl al-Sihhah = washing of health, 266
Give a man luck and throw him into the sea, 341
Goad (of the donkey-boy), 116
Gossamer (names for), 217
Grave (levelling slave and sovereign), 323
Hair-strings (of black silk), 311
—— (significance of), 313
Hájib = groom, chamberlain, 233
Hajín (tall camel), 67
Hámah (soul of a murdered man in form of a bird sprung from his head),
293
Hammam-bath a luxury as well as a necessity, 19
Hands behind the back (posture of submission), 218
—— stained in stripes like ring-rows of a chain-armour, 176
Hárút and Marút (sorcerer-angels), 217
Harwalah = pas gymnastique, 121
Hashsháshín = assassins, 91
Hashish, _see_ Bhang, _ib._
—— orgie in London, _ib._
Hawar = intensity of black and white in the eyes, 233
Háwí = juggler playing tricks with snakes, 145
Hawk, _see_ Báshik, Bazi, 61, 138
Hayát al-Nufús = Life of Souls, 283
Házir and Bádi = townsman and nomad, 234
Head (must always be kept covered), 275
Headsman delaying execution, 42
Hemistichs divided, 166
Hermaphrodites (Khunsa), 306
Heroine of Eastern Romance eats well, 168
Hijl = partridge, 138
"Him" for "her", 78
Hinges (of ancient doors), 41
Hips, leanness of, "anti-pathetic" to Easterns, 226
Hoof (of the wild ass), 235
Horripilation = gooseflesh, 2
Horse (names of the), 72
—— stealing honourable, 73
Host (enters first as safe-guard against guet-apens), 208
Houris, 233
Hudhud = hoopoe, 128
Húr, _see_ Houris, 233
Hurr = free, noble, independent opp. to 'Abd = servile, 44
Iblis = the Despairer, 223
Ibn Abdun al-Andalúsi (poet), 319
Ibn Muljam (murderer of the Caliph Ali), 319
Ibn Síná = Avicenna, 34
Ichneumon (mongoose), 147
Iddat = months of a woman's enforced celibacy after divorce, 292
Ikhlás (Al-) = chapter of unity, 307
Ikhwán al-Safá = Brethren of Purity, 150
Ilàh al-Arsh = the God of the Empyrean, 106
Ill is thy abiding place, 137
Insane (treatment of the), 256
Iron padlock (instead of the usual wooden bolt), 198
Irony, 291
Isengrin (wolf), 146
Ismid = stibium (eye-powder), 307
Jalláb = slave-dealer, 340
Jamal (Gamal) = camel, _q.v._, 110
Jamíz (Jammayz) = sycamore-fig, 302
Jannat al-Na'ím = Garden of Delight, 19
Jeweller (in Eastern tales generally a rascal), 186
Jihád = fighting for the faith, 39
Jinnis (names of), 225
Joining prayers, 174
Kahlil = whose eyes are kohl'd by nature, 346
Kahlá = nature-kohl'd, 232
Káma-Shástra (Ars Amoris Indica), 93
Kamar al-Zamán (Camaralzaman = Moon of the Age), 213
Kamaráni = the two moons for sun and moon, 300
Kámat Alfiyyah = a shape like the letter Alif, 236
Kanát = subterranean water-course, 141
Kánún (dulcimer, "zither"), 211
Kapoteshwara and Kapoteshí, 126
Kasídah = Ode, elegy, 262
Katúl (Al-) = the slayer, 72
Kausaj = man with a thin, short beard, cunning, tricksy, 246
Kaysún = yellow camomile, 58
Kayy (Al-) = cautery, the end of medicine-cure, 59
Kerchief of Dismissal, 295
Khálidán (for Khálidát) = the Canaries, 212
Khán (caravanserai) and its magazines, 14
Khanjar = dagger, hanger (poisoned), 90
Khassat-hu = she gelded him, 47
Khauf (Al-) maksúm = fear (cowardice) is equally apportioned, 173
Khayt hamayán = threads of vanity (gossamer), 217
Khaznah = treasury of money (£5,000), 278
Khizáb (dye used by women), 105
Khunsa = flexible, flaccid (hermaphrodite), 306
Kiblah = fronting-place of prayer
Kissing (like a pigeon feeding its young), 275
Kinchin lay (Arab form of), 102
Kirát (weight = 2-3 grains; length = one finger-breadth), 239
Kohl (applying of = takhíl), 57
—— -eyed = Kahlá, f., 232
Koka Pandit (Hindu ars Amandi), 93
Koran quoted (x. 10-12; lvi. 24-26; lxxxviii. 17-20), 19
—— (xii. 31), 21
—— (cxiii. 1), 22
—— (ii. 186; lx. 1), 39
—— (lxxvi.), 57
—— (ii. 23), 65
—— (xxxi. 18; lxvii. 7), 117
—— (ii. 191), 123
—— (xviii.; xxii. 20; lxxxvii.), 128
—— (ii. 96, 256), 217
—— (ii.; iii.; xxxvi.; lv.; lxvii.; cxiii.; cxiv.), 222