—— (xxiii. 20; xcv. 1), 276
—— (xxvi.), 294
—— (xi.), 301
—— (xxiii. 38), 302
—— (ii.; li. 9; xxxv. 11), 304
—— (cxii.), 307
—— (xxiv. 39), 319
—— (xxi.), 323
—— (iv. 38), 332
Kubkáb = bath clogs, 92
Kuhailat (breed of Arab horses), 346
Kun = be, the creative word, 317
Kurds (Xenophon's and Strabo's Carduchi), 100
Lájuward, _see_ Lázuward, 33
Lámiyat = poem rhyming in _L_, 143
Layáli = nights, future, fate, 318
Layla (female Pr. N.), 135
—— (wa Majnún, love poem), 183
Lázuward = lapis lazuli, azure, 33
Letters and letter-writing, 24
Libdah (skull-cap of felt) sign of a religious mendicant, 62
Lisám = mouth-veil, 283
Liver (for heart), 240
Lizzat al-Nisá (erotic poem), 93
Love (pure, becomes prophetical), 6
—— (the ear conceiveth it before the eye), 9
—— (ten stages of), 36
—— (martyrs of), 211
—— (platonic, _see_ vol. ii. 104), 232
—— (ousting affection), 240
Lovers in Lazá (hell) as well as Na'ím (heaven), 58
—— (parting of, a stock-topic in poetry), 58
Lukmán (two of the name), 264
Ma'an bin Zá'idah, 236
Mahríyah (Mehari) = blood-dromedary, 277
Majlis = sitting (to a woman), 92
Majnún (Al-) = the mad, 72
Málik (door-keeper of Hell), 20
Malik (king) taken as title, 51
Man (extract of despicable water), 16
—— (is fire, woman tinder), 59
—— (shown to disadvantage in beast-stories), 115
—— (his destiny written on his skull), 123
—— (pre-eminence above women), 332
Maniyat = death; muniyat = desire, 291
Marba' = summer quarters, 79
Marján = Coral-branch (slave-name), 169
Marriage (if consummated demands Ghusl), 286
Married men profit nothing, 2
Martyrs of love, 211
Márwazi = of Marw (Margiana), 222
Marz-bán = Warden of the Marches, Margrave, 256
Má sháa 'llah (as Allah willeth) = well done!, 92
Matr = large vessel of leather or wood, 295
Maurid = desert-well and road to such, 33
Mercy (quality of the noble Arab), 88
Minaret (simile for a fair young girl), 69
Miracles (disclaimed by Mohammed but generally believed in), 346
Mirage = Saráb, 319
Mohammed ("born with Kohl'd eyes"), 232
Moon masc., Sun fem., 28
Moore (Thomas, anticipated), 305
Morality (geographical and chronological), 241
—— (want of, excused by passion), 269
Morning-draught, 20
Mountain, coming from the = being a clod-hopper, 324
—— sit upon the = turn anchorite, _ib._
Mourning, perfumes not used during, 63
Mu'atasim (Al-) bi'llah (Caliph), 81
Mu'áwiyah (his Moses-like "mildness"), 286
Muharramát (the three forbidden things), 340
Mujáhid (Al-) = fighter in Holy War, 51
Mujáhidún = who wage war against infidels, 39
Mukhammas = cinquains, 280
Mulberry-fig (for anus), 302
Murjiy (sect and tenets), 341
Náfilah = supererogatory Koran-recitation, 222
Na'ím (name for Heaven), 19
Naml (ant) simile for a young beard, 58
Názir = eye or steward, 233
Night (and day, not day and night with the Arabs), 121
—— cap, 222
—— "this" = our "last", 249
—— for day, 318
Nizámi (Persian Poet), 183
Nuptial sheet (inspection of the), 289
Núr al-Hudá (Pr. N. = Light of Guidance), 17
O Camphor (antiphrase = O snowball), 40
Oftentimes the ear loveth before the eye, 9
Oldest matter in The Nights the beast-stories, 114
Oubliettes (in old Eastern houses), 327
Out of sight of my friend is better and pleasanter, 315
Paradise of Mohammed not wholly sensual, 19
Parody of the Testification, 215
Partridge = Hijl, 138
Pathos (touch of), 55
Patience (cutting the cords of), 178
Payne quoted, 130, 172, 193, 252, 275
Penis (as to anus and cunnus), 303
Perfumes not used during mourning, 63
—— (natural), 231
Pigeon (language, etc.), 126
—— (blood of the young), 289
Pilgrimage quoted (ii. 22), 7
—— (iii. 77), 65
—— (iii. 14), 67
—— (i. 216), 81
—— (i. 64), 91
—— (iii. 185), 107
—— (iii. 270), 118
—— (iii. 208), 121
—— (iii. 218), 126
—— (i. 52), 151
—— (iii. 307), 159
—— (i. 99), 163
—— (iii. 239), 174
—— (iii. 22), 220
—— (ii. 282), 241
—— (iii. 144), 252
—— (ii. 213, 321), 304
—— (iii. 192-194), 319
—— (i. 106), 324
Plates as armature, 216
Plural of Majesty, 16
Poke (counterfeit), 302
Polissonnerie (characteristic), 243
Polygamy and Polyandry in relation to climate, 241
Postillon (Le), 304
Postures of coition, 93
Prayer (rules for joining in), 174
—— (two-bow), 213
—— niche = wayside chapel, 324
Precedent (merit appertains to), 264
Preposterous venery, 304
Preventives (the two), 222
Prima Venus debet esse cruenta, 289
Purity of love attains a prophetic strain, 6
Questions (indiscreet, the rule throughout Arabia), 105
Ra'áyá (pl. of Ra'íyat) = Ryot, 215
Rabite classical term for a noble Arab horse, 72
Rahíl (small dromedary), 67
Raising the tail sign of excitement in the Arab blood-horse, 84
Rasy = praising in a funeral sermon, 291
Ritánah = a jargon, 200
Raushan = window, 171
Raushaná (splendour) = Roxana, _ib._
Ready to fly for delight, 26
"Renowning it" (boasting of one's tribe), 80, 108
Return unto Allah, 317
Rihl = wooden saddle, 117
Rind (rand) = willow, bay, aloes, wood, 172
Rizwán (approbation) = key-keeper of Paradise, 15, 20
Rosary, 123
Royalty in the guise of merchants, 12
Rubber, _see_ Shampooer, 17
Ruhbah (townlet on the frontier of Syria), 52
Ryot = liege, subject; Fellah, peasant, 215
Sa'adah (female Pr. N.), 65
Sa'alabah (name of a tribe), 107
Sa'alab = fox, 132
Sabb = low abuse, 311
Sabbáh bin Rammáh bin Humám = the Comely, son of the Spearman, son of
the Lion, 67
Sadr = returning from the water (see Wárid), 56
Sady = Hámah, _q.v._, 293
Sáhirah = place for the gathering of souls on Doom-day, 323
Sáibah = she-camel freed from labour, 78
Salb = crucifying, 25
Salsabíl (fountains of Paradise), 57
Saráb = mirage, 319
Sawwán = Syenite, 324
Seal and Sealing-wax, 189
Seduction (the truth about it), 166
Serpent does not sting or bite, but strike, 160
Seven Sleepers, 128
Shahádatáni (Al-) = the two Testimonies, 346
Shahriman not Shah Zemán, 7, 212
Sháib al-Ingház = gray beard, shaking with disapproval, 307
Shakespearean "topothesia" out-Shakespeared, 212
Shakhs = a person, a black spot, 26
Shampooer (rubber) = Mukayyis or bagman, 17
Shanak = hanging, 25
Shanfara (poet), 143
Shaykhs (five, doubtful allusion), 30
Shaytán (Satan) term of abuse, 25
—— (his wife and nine sons), 229
Shop (Arab, a "but" and a "ben"), 163
Shovel-iron stirrup = spur, 119
Signs (of a Shaykh's tent), 104
—— (lucky in a horse), 118
Sinnaur = cat; prince, 149
Siwák = tooth-stick; Siwá-ka = other than thou, 275
Slaves (O Camphor), 40
—— (set free for the benefit of the dead), 211
—— (dealer in = Jalláb), 349
Sleeping (with covered head and face), 345
Sleepers (the Seven of Ephesus), 128
Solomon (his carpet), 267
Sodomites (angels appear to), 301, 304
Sodomy with women, _ib._
Son of Persian Kings (not Prince but descendant), 163
Spindle (thinner than a), 260
St. George (posture), 304
Stages (ten, of love-sickness), 36
"Stone-bow" not "Cross-bow", 116
Subhán a'llah pronounced to keep off the evil eye, 224
Súdán = our Soudan, 75
Súf (wool), Súfi (Gnostic), 140
Suhá (Sohá) star in the Ursa Major, 28
Sulaymá, dim. of Salmá = any beautiful woman, 263
Superiority of man above woman, 332
Sutures of the skull, 123
Sycomore fig (for anus), 302
Tághút (idol), 217
Tá'í (Al-) li 'llah (Caliph), 51, 307
Takhíl = adorning with Kohl, 57
Talák bi'l-Salásah = triple divorce, 292
Tamar al-Hindi (Tamarind) = the Indian date, 297
Tasbíh = saying Subhán Allah; Rosary, 125
Tayf = ghost, phantom, 252
Tayrab (Al-) a city, 259
Tears (pouring blood like red wine), 169
Ten stages of love-sickness, 36
Tent (signs of a Shaykh's), 104
Testicles (beating and bruising of, female mode of killing a man), 3
Thamúd (pre-historic Arab tribe), 294
Thorn of lance = eyelash, 331
Tín = fig, simile for a woman's parts, 302
Tiryák = theriack, treacle (antidote), 65
Torrens quoted, 218, 235, 249, 289
Tossing upon coals of fire, 61
Tughrái (Al-), poet, 143
Turk (provoked to hunger by beauties of nature), 32
—— (appears under the Abbasides), 81
Ubi aves ibi angeli, 280
Ukhuwán = camomile, 58
Urine (pollutes), 229
Urining (wiping after), _ib._
Ushári = camel travelling ten days, 67
Wa ba'ad (see Ammá ba'ad, vol. ii. 37) = and afterwards, 181
Waddle of "Arab ladies", 37
Wády = valley; slayer, 234
Waist (slender, hips large), 278
Walahán (Lakab of a poet = The distracted), 226
Walgh = lapping of a dog, 319
Walíd (Al-) Caliph, 69
Wálidati = my mother, speaking to one not of the family, 208
Wárid = resorting to the water, 56
Wasíf = servant; fem. wasífah = concubine, 171
Wásik (Al-), Caliph, 81
Waters flowing in Heaven, 65
Wayl-ak = Woe to thee, 82
Week-days (only two names for), 249
Weeping (not for form and face alone), 318
Wives (why four, _see_ Women), 212
—— (a man's tillage), 304
What happened, happened = fortune so willed it, 68
Wine (a sun with cup-bearer for East and the drinker's mouth for West),
263
Wolf (wicked man); fox (cunning man), 132
Women (peculiar waddle), 37
—— (proposing extreme measures), 39
—— (are tinder, men fire), 59
—— (monkish horror of), 126
—— (Layla, name of), 135
—— (true seducers), 166
—— (Wálidati = my mother), 208
—— (four wives, and why), 212
—— (compared to an inn), 216
—— (large hips and thighs), 226
—— (small fine foot), 227
—— (names of), 239, 263
—— (more passionate than men), 241
—— (head must always be kept covered), 275
—— (slender-waisted but full of hips, etc.), 278
—— (Sodomy with), 304
—— (all charges laid upon them), 335
Words (divided in a couplet), 166
Writing without fingers = being unable to answer for what is written,
181
Yá Abú Libdah = O father of a felt calotte, 62
Yá Abú Sumrah = O father of brownness, 40
Yá fulán = O certain person, 191
Yá Sátir, Yá Sattár = O veiler (of sins), 41
Yá Taljí = O snowy one, 40
Yaum al-tanádí = Resurrection Day, 74
Zabbál = dung-drawer, etc., 51
Zakar (penis) = that which betokens masculinity, 3
Zamiyád = guardian angel of Bihisht, _see_ Rizwán, 20, 233
Zanab Sirhán (wolf's tail) = early dawn, 146
Zarrat (vulg. Durrah) = co-wife, sister-wife, 308
Zebra (daughter of Sa'adah), 65
Zibl = dung, 51
Zibl Khán = Le Roi Crotte, 99
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