Abárík (Al-), _pl._ of Ibrík, an ewer containing water for the
Wuzu-ablution, 170.
Abtál (_pl._ of Batal) = champions, athletes (_tr._ “braves”), 42.
Abú al-Tawáif (_pron._ “Abut-tawáif”), the Father of the (Jinn-)
tribes, 84.
Abú Nowás (appearing in The Nights, a signal for an outburst of
facetiæ), 153.
Adab = accomplishments, 68.
’Adi = an enemy (_tr._ “foe”), 14.
Afras = _lit._ a better horseman (_tr._ “doughtier”), 105.
Ahbábu-ná _pl. for sing._ = my beloved (_tr._ “my friends”), 103.
’Akíl, first cousin of Mahommed, 164.
Akwà min dahni’l-lauz = more strengthening than oil, 75.
’Alà kulli hál = “whatever may betide” or “willy nilly,” 283.
’Alam al-Din = “Flag of the Faith,” 4.
Alaykum = “Peace be on you” (addressed to a single person), 52.
’Alkam = the bitter gourd, colocynth, 218.
Allah, (“An alms, for the love of”), 44.
—— be the judge between me and thee, 52.
—— decreed of old, 90.
—— “Enter in the name of” = Bismillah, 38.
—— Gifted of, 200.
—— I look to, for aid, 202.
—— is All-great, 125.
—— “I seek refuge with” _i.e._, Allah forfend, 9.
—— made easy to me, 53.
—— Men, who resign themselves to = _i.e._, Moslems who practice the
Religion of Resignation, 271.
Allah open to thee the door of subsistence, 44.
—— removed to the mercy of = he died, 78.
—— Take refuge with, from the Evil eye of her charms, 245.
—— This is the deposit of, then thy deposit = “I commit him to thy
charge under God,” 184.
—— whom Allah save and assain, 173.
Allah ya’tík = Allah will give it thee, not I, 44.
“A mighty matter” may also mean “A masterful man” (reading Imraam = man
for Amran = matter), 204.
Amín al-Hukm = “Faithful of Command,” 7.
’Anbar (_tr._ “Ambergris”), 67.
’Anká (Al-) = _lit._ “The long-necked” (bird), 128.
“Après moi le déluge,” 123.
Arab lovers jealous of their mistresses’ nightly phantom, 179.
Arab, of noble tribe, always first to mount his own mare, 248.
Arja’ = _lit._ return (_tr._ “desist”), 105.
Arzi-há = in its earth, its outlying suburbs (_tr._ “environs”), 198.
Ashírah = clan, 225.
At her last breath, when cured by the magic of love, 243.
Atwash (Al-) = one notable for levity of mind, 16.
A’zán-hú = _lit._ “its ears” (_tr._ “its pegs”), 159.
Aznání = emaciated one, 214.
Bahár = ox-eye herb, 13.
Bakar (Ox) and Taur (Bull), Moslem emblems of stupidity, 178.
Balass ruby = of rare wood set with rubies, 251.
Balát = the flags (slabs of limestone and sandstone), 21.
Baliyah = bane and bale (to jingle with “Bábiliyah”), 153.
Banát al-hawá = _lit._ daughters of love (_tr._ “a merry girl”), 137.
Banú Shaybán = the King’s own tribe, 199.
Barári = deserts, 16.
Barber, the usual operator in circumcision, 116.
Bashkhánah (Al-) = the curtain, 165.
Bathing after copulation kept up by both sexes in ancient Rome, 142.
Bí-adabí = being without Adab (= rudeness, etc.), 68.
Bibars (_pron._ “Baybars”), 3.
Bid’ah = _lit._ an innovation, a new thing (_tr._ “accursed custom”),
266.
Bi jildi ’l-bakar = a cow hide, 96.
“Bilád al-Maghrib (al-Aksa” in full) = the Farthest Land of the Setting
Sun (_tr._ “Sundown-Land”), 252.
Bishr and Hind (two well-known lovers), 211.
“Bismillah” = Enter in the name of Allah, 38.
“Bismillah; in the name of the Lord” = “Let us go,” etc., 85.
Blackening faces a promise of Hell-fire, 42.
Blood-feuds troublesome to travellers, 222.
Bráhmani = Hindu, Indian, 111.
Branchlet = a youth’s slender form, 162.
Breslau Ed. quoted, 3, 54, 55, 63, 67, 151, 183, 191, 259, 263, 275.
Bridegroom offers coffee and Halwá to friends after a “happy night,”
142.
Brutality of a Moslem mob, 168.
Bukhti = The Bactrian or double-humped dromedary, 235.
Bunduki (adj. of Bunbuk) = Venetian, 204.
Burka’ = the face veil of Egypt, etc., 172.
Calcutta Edition quoted, 137, 141.
Carrion, animals that died without beingceremonially killed, 175.
Chamber, a dangerous word in English, 129.
Chapter of the Cow (Koran), 175.
Chess rarely played for money in Europe, 205.
“Children” used for fighting men, 224.
Circumcision, 90.
Citadel of Lead = Capital of King Al-Shisban, 117.
Couch of Circumcision, 111.
Cranes of Ibycus, 59.
“Cried out from her head” = Sang in tenor tones which are always in
falsetto, 238.
Crucifixion by nailing to an upright board, 49.
Cup-companions = the professional Ráwis or tale reciters, 266.
Dáhiyat al-Dawáhí = a calamity of the Calamities, 119.
Dara’ or Dira’ = armour (_tr._ “jerkin”), 209.
Darb = lit. a road (_tr._ “street”), 8.
Daur al-Ká’ah = the opening made in the ceiling for light (_tr._ “the
opening of the saloon”), 23.
Dawát = ink-case (containing the reed-pens, etc.), 211.
Daylam (Al-) prison, 142.
Dayr al-Tin = “The Convent of Clay,” a Coptic monastery near Cairo,
284.
Delights of Paradise promised by the Prophet, 244.
Destiny, 61.
Die thou and be thou an expiation for the shoe-latchet of Kulayb, 263.
Dignity, permissible in royalty, affected by dames in Anglo-Egypt, 110.
Dimity (_der._ from “Damietta”), 210.
Divorce and marriage to Mahommed of the wife of Zayd (his adopted son),
197.
“Dog or hog” = a Jew or a Christian, 147.
Dromedaries the only animals used for sending messages over long
distances, 249.
Du’á = supplication, prayer as opposed to “Salát” = divine worship, 94.
Dukhán = _lit._ smoke, 126.
Dukhúlak = _lit._ thy entering (_tr._ “thy courtesy”), 109.
Durráj (_tr._ Francolin), 60.
Easterns startled by sudden summons to the presence of a king, 210.
“Empty gourds,” Eastern succedaneum for swimming corks, 286.
“Every one cannot go to Corinth,” 74.
Exchange of salams a sign of safety, 86.
Executioner, difficulty in Marocco about finding one who becomes
obnoxious to the Thár or blood-feud, 54.
Fajj = mountain pass (Spanish, Vega = also a mountain plain), 117.
Falling backwards in laughter rare amongst the Badawin, 202.
Farásah = _lit._ Knowing a horse (_tr._ “Visnomy”), 96.
Farkalah (φραγέλλιον) = cattle whip, 47.
Farkh Warak = a slip of paper, 114.
Farsh = bed or straw-spread store room where apples are preserved, 113.
Fawwák (chair of), 72.
Fazl (Al-) the elder brother of Ja’afar, 71.
Fityán (_pl._ of Fatà) = my fine fellows, 42.
Flower = the breast, 252.
Fumigating gugglets (with musk), 275.
Gave her the hire of her going forth (_i.e._ Engaged her for a revel
and paid her in advance), 44.
Ghalílí = my yearning (_tr._ “my thirst”), 102.
Gharbíyah (province in Egypt), 16.
Ghattí = “Cover it up,” 158.
Ghaur (or lowland) = the fall of the waist, 252.
Ghuráb al-bayn = Raven of the wold or of parting, 126.
Ghusl-ablution, 20.
Giant Face (a parallel to the “Bodiless Head”), 102.
Guest-fires, 249.
Hæmorrhage stopped by plunging the stump into burning oil, 168.
Hájib = eyebrow or chamberlain, 252.
Haláwah = Sweetmeat, 127.
Haláwat al-Miftáh = Sweetmeat of the Key-money (_tr._ “_douceur_ of the
Key”), 20.
Halfah grass, 46.
Hamd (Al-) = Allah-lauds, 221.
Hamzah, uncle of Mahommed, 164.
Hárát (or quarters) closed at night with strong wooden doors, 9.
Harísah = meat pudding, 277.
Hatif = an ally, 234.
Hauráni = (native of Hauran), Job’s country, 50.
Haykal (Ar. and Heb.) = a large space, a temple (_tr._ “hallowed
fane”), 175.
He is of the lords of houses = folk of good family, 169.
“Hell-flame but not shame,” _proverb_, 148.
Hibá = dust.
Hijáz (Al-) = The Moslem’s Holy Land, (Cap. Meccah), 193.
Himà = the tribal domain (_tr._ “tribe-land”), 215.
Hirfah = a trade, a guild, a corporation (_here_ the officers of
police), 54.
“His eyes turned in his head” (to show the whites, as happens to the
mesmerised), 242.
Horse-thief chained to four pickets of iron, 224.
House of the Elephant (at chess) = the Castle’s square, 205.
Hujjat = a legal deed (may also mean “an excuse”), 27.
Husn tadbir = _lit._ “beauty of his contrivance” (_tr._ “Seemliness of
his stratagem”), 29.