“I think not otherwise” = “I am quite sure,” 119.
I will lay down my life to save thee from sorrow—a common-place
hyperbole of love, 181.
’Iyál-hu = _lit._ his family (_tr._ wives), 8.
Jabal (Al-) al-Mukawwar = the Crescent Mountain (from Kaur = a park),
119.
Jabhat = the lintel, opposed to the threshold (_tr. here_ “‘forehead’
of his shop”), 137.
Jamal fálij = the palsy-camel, 235.
Jamrah = a bit of burning charcoal, 122.
—— = a live coal, 87.
Jazírah = insula, Island, used in the sense of “peninsula,” 220.
Jinns of Northern Europe, 86.
Job (traditions of), 50.
Julnár = Gulnare, 100.
Kamariyah (_der. from_ Kamar = Moon) = coloured glass windows, 39.
Kásid = messenger, 37.
Katl = killed (Irish “Kilt”), 182.
“Kayásirah” (Cæsars) _opp. to_ Akásirah, 263.
Kayrawán = Curlew, 93.
Kazi, ex-officio guardian of the orphans and their property, liable to
punishment in case of fraud, 10.
Khalíj (Al-), The Canal (Grand Canal of Cairo), 286.
Khayr kathír = This is right good (also “abundant kindness”), 275.
Khorasan (including our Afghanistan), in a chronic state of rebellion
in Al-Rashid’s reign, 167.
King consummates his marriage in presence of his virgin sister-in-law,
268.
—— Kulayb (“little dog”) al-Wá’il, 263.
—— Nabhán, 192.
—— of the Kingdoms (_i.e._ of the worlds visible and invisible), 6.
Kissing the hand, the action of a servant or slave, 81.
Kitáb = book, written bond, 27.
Koran quoted—
ii. 148, 215.
ii. 168, 175.
xx. 30, 270.
xxxiii. 35, 271.
xxxiii. 38, 197.
xlvii. 16, 177.
lvi. 87, 88, 106.
cxiii., cxiv., 101.
La’alla = peradventure (used to express expectation of possible
occurrence), 20.
Laban = milk soured (_tr._ “curd”), 54.
Lajlaj = tied (his tongue was), 186.
La-nakhsifanna = I would assuredly, etc., 23.
Lane quoted, 246.
Last march (to the next world), 202.
Laysa fi ’l-diyári dayyár = “nor is there a wight in the site” (a
favourite jingle), 275.
Leather from Al-Táif, 242.
Legal defects, (which justify returning a slave to the slave-dealer),
141.
Lieutenant of the bench, 24.
Lilláhi durrak = Gifted of Allah, 200.
Lithám = the coquettish fold of transparent muslin used by women in
Stambul, 172.
Love (for “sleep”), 164.
Lúlúah = The Pearl or Wild Heifer, 95.
Maamún (Al-) al-Hákim b’Amri’llah = The Secure, the Ruler by
Commandment of Allah, 281.
Mabásim (_pl._ of Mabsim) = a smiling mouth, 162.
Madmen in hot climates enjoy throwing off their clothes, 22.
Majnún = “A madman,” 22.
Making a picture (or statue), which artist cannot quicken, a process
demanded on Doomsday, 194.
Makrúh = blameable, not actually damnable, 46.
Malláh (Al-) = the salting ground, 54.
Malik (King), a title loosely applied in Arabic, 191.
Mamrak, or small dome built over pavilions (also _Pers._ “Bádhanj”),
82.
Mamrak = dome-shaped skylight, 39.
Máriyah (Maria, Mary) a non-Moslem name, 194.
Marj Salí = cleft meadow (here and below) _tr._ “Green Meadow,” 227.
Maròcco, earliest occurrence of name, 252.
Maut ahmar = violent or bloody death (_tr._ “red death,”) 11.
Ma’úzatáni = The Two Preventives (two chapters from the Koran), 101.
Mawálid (_pl._ of Maulid) = _lit._ “nativity festivals,” (_here_
“funeral ceremonies”), 187.
Mawázi (_pl._ of Mauza’) = _lit._ places, shifts (_tr._ “positions”),
112.
May God never requite thee for me with good (_i.e._ Damn your soul for
leading me into this danger), 39.
May I not be bereft of these steps = may thy visits never fail me, 110.
Meccah and Al-Medinah = The two Sanctuaries, 220.
Merchants wear dagger and sword, 38.
Mizwad (or Mizwád) = _lit._ provision bag, 222.
Mohammed Ali Pasha (the “Great”), 9.
More cutting = more bewitching, 143.
Morning and evening = day and night for ever, 195.
Moslems think the more you see of them the more you like them, 208.
Mu’ajjalah = money paid down before consummation, 141.
Mu’ajjalah = coin paid contingent on divorce, 141.
Mubáh = an action not sinful (_harám_) or quasi-sinful (_makrúh_)
(_tr._ “lawfully”), 12.
Muhattakát = usually “with torn veils,” metaphor meaning in disgrace
(_tr._ “unveiled”), 46.
Mu’ín al-Din = “Aider of the Faith,” 5.
Mukaddam = Captain, 7.
Mukhaddarát = maidens concealed behind curtains and veiled in the
Harem, 265.
Munír = “The brilliant,” the enlightened, 100.
Musáfahah = clapping palm (of the hand), 225.
Mustauda = strong box, 9.
Mustaráh (Al-) = Chapel of Ease (a favourite haunting-place of the
Jinn), 85.
Mutahaddisín = novi homines, upstarts (_tr._ “of the number of the
new,”) 82.
Mutawallí = Prefect (of Police), 30.
Muzfir (Al-) = the Twister, 95.
Nadd, a compound perfume, 108.
Nahnu = we (for I), 28.
Náihah = the præfica or myriologist, 171.
“Naked intercessor” (one who cannot be withstood), 83.
Nasrín = moss-rose, 115.
Nawwáb (_pl._ of Náib) = a Nabob (_tr. lit._ “deputies”), 8.
Názilah = descent (of calamity), 176.
Názir al-Mawáris = “Inspector of Inheritances,” 286.
Necklace-pearls = the cup-bearer’s teeth, 253.
Ni’am = Yes (an exception to the Abbé Sicard’s rule), 19.
Night beset his back = darkened behind him, 197.
Niká (_lit._ sand hill) = the swell of the throat, 252.
Nún al-taakid = the N of injunction, 23.
Nuzhat-í = pleasance, 45.
Ocular testimony demanded by Moslem law, 17.
Oil, anointing with, for incipient consumption, 75.
“On my shop” = bit of boarding wherethe master sits, or on a stool in
thestreet, 281.
Orisons = the prayers of the last day andnight, 94.
Palace between two rivers = In Rauzah-island, 281.
Palace not the place for a religious andscrupulous woman, 229.
Part and parts = more or less thoroughly, 152.
Parturition and death easy compared withboth processes in the
temperates of Europe, 23.
Payne quoted, 28, 54, 67, 73, 85, 110, 112, 154, 191, _ib._, 200, 227,
231, 248, 251, 267, 275, 281.
Perjury easily expiated amongst Moslems, 38.
Pilgrimage quoted—
i. 62, 20
i. 87, 71
i. 100, 281
i. 119, 54
i. 127, 152
i. 173, 9
i. 321, 63
i. 338, 220
ii. 57, _ib._
ii. 297, 222
iii. 68, 59
iii. 385, 22
iii. 385, 51
“Plied him with wine,” a favourite habit with mediæval Arabs, 50.
Poetry (Persian,) often alludes to the rose, etc., 99.
Police (Eastern), 6.
Professional singers, becoming freed women and turning “respectable,”
254.
Pummel of the saddle, 85.
Quarters, containing rooms in which girls are sold, 71.
Queen Shu’á’ah = Queen Sunbeam, 107.
“Quench that fire for him” (_i.e._ hush up the matter), 15.
Raas Ghanam = a head of sheep (form of expressing singularity common to
Arabic), 207.
Raba’ = _lit._ spring quarters (_tr._ “a lodging house”), 19.
Rasílah = a (she) partner (_tr._ “accompanyist”), 44.
Rayhánah, _i.e._ the “Basil,” mostly a servile name, 20.
Red Camel (Ahmar), 248.
Rikkí al-Saut = soften the sound (or “lower thy voice”), 89.
Rúhí = _lit._ my breath (_tr._ “my sprite”), 120.
Rustaki, from Rustak, a quarter of Baghdah, 209.
Saff Kamaríyát min al-Zujáj = glazed and coloured lunettes, 39.
Sahbá = red wine, 99.
Sáhils, or shore-lands, 3.
Sákiyah = water-wheel, 47.
Sammár = reciters, 3.
Santír = psalteries, 246.
Sat down (in sign of agitation), 211.
Sawákí = channels, 93.
Severance-spies = stars and planets, 236.
Shahrazad and Shahryar, 259.
Shaking his clothes (in sign of quitting possession), 205.
Sharárah = a spark, 87.
Sharí’at, forbidding divorce by compulsion, 147.
Sharifí = a sequin, 143.
Sharkíyah (province in Egypt), 16.
Sharr fi al-Haramayn = wickedness in the two Holy Places, 220.
Shawáhid (meaning that heart testifies to heart) _tr._ “hearts have
their witnesses,” 87.
Shaybání (Al-) = “Of the Shaybán tribe,” 191, 199.
Shaykh al-Hujjáj = Shaykh of the Pilgrims, 63.
“Shaykh al-Tawaif” may mean “Shaykh of the Tribes” (of Jinns), 117.
Shayyan li ’lláh = _lit._ (Give me some) Thing for (the love of) Allah
(_tr._ “An alms, for the love of Allah”), 44.
Sházz = Voice (doubtful if girl’s, nightingale’s, or dove’s), 244.
“She heard a blowing behind her” (a phenomena well known to
spiritualists), 101.
“She will double thy store of presents,” 111.
Shuhbá (Al-) = Ash-coloured, verging upon white, 110.
Sídí = “my lord” (here becomes part of a name), 151.
Sijn al-Dam = the Prison of Blood, 161.
Sim’án-son = son of Simeon, _i.e._ a Christian, 175.
Singing and music blameable (Makrúh), though not actually damnable, 46.
Sir fi hálik (_pron._ Sirfhák) = Go about thy business, 44.
Sirr (a secret), afterwards Kitmán (concealment) = keeping a lover
down-hearted, 218.
Sitt al-Miláh = Lady or princess of the Fair (ones), 155.
Slaves fond of talking over their sale, 94.
Sons of Adam = his Moslem neighbours, 30.
Sons of the Path = Travellers, Nomads, Wild Arabs, 213.
“Son of the Road” = a mere passer-by, a stranger, 235.
“Spoiling for a fight,” 199.
“Squeezed my ribs,” a bear-like attack, common amongst lower orders of
Egypt and Syria, 47.
Sunnah and Farz = The practice (of the Prophet) and the Holy Law
(Koranic), 10.
Surah = Koranic chapter; here possibly clerical error for Súrah—sort
(of food), 173.
Súsan = the lily (in Heb.), 116.
Swooper of the Jinn, 202.
Táb = “tip-cat,” 54.
Táf (Al-) a suburb of Baghdah, 71.
Tahzíb = reforming morals, amending conduct, etc., 240.
Talákan báyinan = a triple divorce before witnesses, 148.
Tamkín = gravity, assurance (_tr._ “Self-possession”), 8.
Tarfah = Tamarisk, 252.
Tarjumán = a dragoman (_tr._ “Truchman”), 185.
Thaghr al-Khánakah = The narrows of the (Dervishes’) convent, 74.
Thieves with hands lopped off, 44.
“Thine is ours and on thee shall be whatso is on us” = we will assume
thy debts and responsibilities, 247.
This girl is a fat piece of meat (_i.e._ “There are good pickings to be
had out of this job”), 17.
Thiyáb ’Amúdiyah = striped clothes, 79.
Those noble steps = thine auspicious visits, 82.
Thou comest to bring us victory = “comest thou to our succour,” 201.
Thrust his finger up his fundament (a diabolical way of clapping hands
in applause), 89.
’Tis more acceptable to me than a red camel, 248.
Tobbas = “Successors” or the Himyaritic Kings, 263.
“To-day wine, and to-morrow business,” 177.
Tohfah = a Choice Gift, 79.
Tohfat al-Humaká = Choice Gift of the Fools, 73.
Tohfat al-Kulúb = Choice Gift of the Hearts, 73.
Tohfat al-Sudúr = Choice Gift of the Breasts (_i.e._ of the hearts),
84–133.
True believer imitates sayings and doings of the Apostle, 173.
Turkumániyah = Turcomanish (_tr._ “dragomanish”), 191.
’Úd = primarily “wood”; then a “lute” (_tr._ here “fuel”), 178.
’Udúl (_pl._ of Ádil) = men of good repute (_tr._ “notables”), 25.
’Ummár = the Jinn (_tr._ “Haunters”), 102.
’Urkúb, a Jew of Yathrib, 164.
’Urs (Al-) w’al-Tuhúr = “the wedding (which does not drop out of the
tale) and the circumcision,” 90.
Veil me = protect my honour, 147.
Veil (raiser of) means a fitting purchaser, 73.
Violateth my private apartment, 243.
Voice (mysterious), 51.
Wakálah (Egyptian term for a Khan), 153.
Wakhímah = an unhealthy land, 87.
Where am I, and where is the daughter, etc.? = “What have I to do with,
etc.,” 7.
“Whoso journeyeth not enjoyeth not,” 152.
“Whoso keeneth for himself is not like whoso is hired to keen.”
_Proverb_ = “If you want a thing done, etc.,” 171.
Wine and Wassail, loose talk, etc., a favourite subject with lewd
Moslems, 34.
Wine, carrion and pork lawful to Moslem if used to save life, 176.
“With love and gladness,” 137.
Women, drowsy charms of, 252.
Yad (Al-) al-bayzá = _lit._ The white hand (_tr._ “largesse”), 123.
Yáfis bin Nuh = Japhet, son of Noah, 111.
Yaftah’ Allah = Allah open (to thee the door of subsistence), 44.
Yá Khawand = “O lord and master,” 12.
Yá Mu’arras = O fool and disreputable (_tr._ “O pimp”), 21.
Ya’tamidúna hudà-hum = purpose the right direction (_tr._ “those who
seek their salvation”), 32.
Yá Zínat al-Nisá = O adornment of womankind, 207.
“Ye are quit of,” etc. = You are welcome to it and so it becomes lawful
(_halál_) to you, 161.
Yúnus = Ibn Habíb, a friend of Isaac of Musul, 71.
Za’amú = they opine, they declare (_tr._ “They set forth”), 55.
Zabídún (here probably a clerical error for Zabíd, Capital of Tahámah),
193.
Zafáir al-Jinn = Adiantum capillus Veneris, 95.
Zalamah (Al-) = the policeman (_tr._ “men of violence”), 52.
Zirtah = fart, 56.
Zur ghibban, tazid hibban = visits rare keep friendship fair, 209.
Zuwaylah Gate, 8.
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Footnote 1:
Bresl. Edit., vol. xi. pp. 321–99, Nights dccccxxx-xl.
Footnote 2:
Arab. “Iklím” from the Gr. κλίμα, often used as amongst us (_e.g._
“other climes”) for land.
Footnote 3:
Bibars whose name is still famous and mostly pronounced “Baybars,” the
fourth of the Baharite Mamelukes whom I would call the “Soldans.”
Originally a slave of Al-Sálih, seventh of the Ayyubites, he rose to
power by the normal process, murdering his predecessor, in A.D. 1260;
and he pushed his conquests from Syria to Armenia. In his day “Saint”
Louis died before Tunis (A.D. 1270.)
Footnote 4:
There are sundry Sáhils or shore-lands. “Sahil Misr” is the River-side
of Cairo often extended to the whole of Lower Egypt (vol. i. 290):
here it means the lowlands of Palestine once the abode of the noble
Philistines; and lastly the term extends to the sea-board of Zanzibar,
where, however, it is mostly used in the plur. “Sawáhil” = the Shores.
Footnote 5:
Arab. “Sammár” (from Samar, = conversatio nocturna), = the
story-teller who in camp or house whiles away the evening hours.
Footnote 6:
“Flag of the Faith:” Sanjar in old Persian = a Prince, a King.
Footnote 7:
“Aider of the Faith.”
Footnote 8:
These policemen’s tales present a curious contrast with the detective
stories of M. Gaboriau and his host of imitators. In the East the
police, like the old Bow Street runners, were and are still recruited
principally amongst the criminal classes on the principle of “Set a
thief,” &c. We have seen that the Barmecide Wazirs of Baghdad
“anticipated Fourier’s doctrine of the _passionel_ treatment of
lawless inclinations,” and employed as subordinate officers, under the
Wali or Prefect of Police, accomplished villains like Ahmad al-Danaf
(vol. iv. 75), Hasan Shuuman and Mercury Ali (ibid.) and even women
(Dalilah the Crafty) to coerce and checkmate their former comrades.
Moreover a gird at the police is always acceptable, not only to a
coffee-house audience, but even to a more educated crowd; witness the
treatment of the “Charley” and the “Bobby” in our truly English
pantomimes.
Footnote 9:
_i.e._ the Chief of Police, as the sequel shows.
Footnote 10:
About £4.
Footnote 11:
_i.e._ of the worlds visible and invisible.
Footnote 12:
Arab. “Mukaddam:” see vol. iv, 42.
Footnote 13:
“Faithful of Command;” it may be a title as well as a P.N. For
“Al-Amín,” see vol. iv. 261.
Footnote 14:
_i.e._ “What have I to do with, etc.?” or “How great is the difference
between me and her.” The phrase is still popular in Egypt and Syria;
and the interrogative form only intensifies it. The student of
Egyptian should always try to answer a question by a question. His
labours have been greatly facilitated by the conscientious work of my
late friend Spitta Bey. I tried hard to persuade the late Rogers Bey,
whose knowledge of Egyptian and Syrian (as opposed to Arabic) was
considerable, that a simple grammar of Egyptian was much wanted; he
promised to undertake it, but death cut short the design.
Footnote 15:
Arab. “Nawwáb,” plur. of Náib (lit. deputies, lieutenants) = a Nabob.
Till the unhappy English occupation of Egypt, the grand old Kil’ah
(Citadel) contained the palace of the Pasha and the lodgings and
offices of the various officials. Foreign rulers, if they are wise,
should convert it into a fort with batteries commanding the town, like
that of Hyderabad, in Sind.
Footnote 16:
For this famous and time-honoured building, see vol. i. 269.
Footnote 17:
Arab. “Tamkín,” gravity, assurance.
Footnote 18:
Arab. “’Iyál-hu,” lit. his family, a decorous circumlocution for his
wives and concubines.
Footnote 19:
Arab. “Darb,” lit. a road; here a large thoroughfare.
Footnote 20:
When Mohammed Ali Pasha (the “Great”) began to rule, he found Cairo
“stifled” with filth, and gave orders that each householder, under
pain of confiscation, should keep the street before his house
perfectly clean. This was done after some examples had been made and
the result was that since that time Cairo never knew the plague. I am
writing at Tangier where a Mahommed Ali is much wanted.
Footnote 21:
_i.e._ Allah forfend!
Footnote 22:
Arab. “Mustauda’” = a strong place where goods are deposited and left
in charge.
Footnote 23:
Because, if she came to grief, the people of the street, and
especially those of the adjoining houses would get into trouble. Hence
in Moslem cities, like Damascus and Fez, the Hárát or quarters are
closed at night with strong wooden doors, and the guards will not open
them except by means of a silver key. Mohammed Ali abolished this
inconvenience, but fined and imprisoned all night-walkers who carried
no lanterns. See Pilgrimage, vol. i. 173.
Footnote 24:
As Kazi of the quarter he was ex-officio guardian of the orphans and
their property, and liable to severe punishment (unless he could pay
for the luxury) in case of fraud or neglect.
Footnote 25:
Altogether six thousand dinars = £3000. This sentence is borrowed from
the sequel and necessary to make the sense clear.
Footnote 26:
_i.e._ “I am going at once to complain of thee before the king unless
thou give me due satisfaction by restoring the money and finding the
thief.”
Footnote 27:
The Practice (of the Prophet) and the Holy Law (Koranic): see vols. v.
36, 167, and i. 169.
Footnote 28:
In the corrupt text “Who knew me not;” thus spoiling the point.
Footnote 29:
Arab. “Maut Ahmar” = violent or bloody death. For the various coloured
deaths, see vol. vi. 250.
Footnote 30:
_i.e._ for lack of sleep.
Footnote 31:
_i.e._ of the Kazi.
Footnote 32:
Arab. “Mubáh,” in the theologic sense, an action which is not sinful
(_harám_) or quasi-sinful (_makrúh_); vulgarly “permitted, allowed”;
so Shahrazad “ceased to say her say permitted” (by Shahryar).
Footnote 33:
Arab. “Yá Khawand”; see vol. vii. 315.
Footnote 34:
_i.e._ we both make different statements equally credible, but without
proof, and the case will go against me, because thou art the greater
man.
Footnote 35:
Arab. “Irtiyád” = seeking a place where to stale, soft and sloping, so
that the urine spray may not defile the dress. All this in one word!
Footnote 36:
Arab. “Bahár,” the red _buphthalmus sylvester_ often used for such
comparisons. In Algeria it is called ’Aráwah: see the Jardin Parfumé,
p. 245, note 144.
Footnote 37:
_i.e._ parties.
Footnote 38:
_i.e._ amongst men.
Footnote 39:
Almost as neat as “où sont les neiges d’autan?”
Footnote 40:
Arab. “Ádi,” one transgressing, an enemy, a scoundrel.
Footnote 41:
It was probably stuck in the ground like an amphora.
Footnote 42:
_i.e._ hush up the matter.
Footnote 43:
In Egypt; the former being the Eastern of the Seven Provinces
extending to the Pelusium branch, and the latter to the Canobic. The
“Barári” or deserts, _i.e._ grounds not watered by the Nile, lie
scattered between the two and both are bounded South by the Kalúbíyah
Province and Middle Egypt.
Footnote 44:
_i.e._ a man ready of wit and immediate of action, as opposed to his
name Al-Atwash = one notable for levity of mind.
Footnote 45:
The negative is emphatic, “I certainly saw a Jew,” etc.
Footnote 46: