festival. The story is historical. In the "Akd," a miscellany
compiled by Ibn Abd Rabbuh (vulg. Rabbi-hi) of Cordova, who ob. A.H.
328=940 we read:—A spunger found ten criminals and followed them,
imagining they were going to a feast; but lo, they were going to
their deaths. And when they were slain and he remained, he was
brought before the Khalifah (Al-Maamun) and Ibrahim son of Al-Mahdi
related a tale to procure pardon for the man, whereupon the Khalifah
pardoned him. Lane ii, 506.
Footnote 634:
Arab. "Nata' al-Dam"; the former word was noticed in the Tale of the
Bull and the Ass. The leather of blood was not unlike the Sufrah and
could be folded into a bag by a string running through rings round
the edges. Moslem executioners were very expert and seldom failed to
strike off the head with a single blow of the thin narrow blade with
razor-edge, hard as diamond withal, which contrasted so strongly with
the great coarse chopper of the European headsman.
Footnote 635:
The ground floor, which in all hot countries is held, and rightly so,
unwholesome during sleep, is usually let for shops. This is also the
case throughout Southern Europe, and extends to the Canary Islands
and the Brazil.
Footnote 636:
This serious contemplation of street-scenery is one of the pleasures
of the Harems.
Footnote 637:
We should say "smiled at him": the laugh was not intended as an
affront.
Footnote 638:
Arab. "Fals ahmar." Fals is a fish-scale, also the smaller coin and
the plural "Fulús" is the vulgar term for money (=Ital. _quattrini_)
without specifying the coin. It must not be confounded with the
"Fazzah," alias "Nuss," alias "Páráh" (Turk.); the latter being made,
not of "red copper" but of a vile alloy containing like the Greek
"Asper," some silver; and representing, when at par, the fortieth of
a piastre, the latter being=2d. ⅖ths.
Footnote 639:
Arab. "Farajiyah," a long-sleeved robe; Lane's "Farageeyeh," M. E.,
chapt. i.
Footnote 640:
The tailor in the East, as in Southern Europe, is made to cut out the
cloth in presence of its owner to prevent "cabbaging."
Footnote 641:
Expecting a present.
Footnote 642:
Alluding to the saying, "Kiss is the key to Kitty."
Footnote 643:
The "panel-dodge" is fatally common throughout the East, where a man
found in the house of another is helpless.
Footnote 644:
This was the beginning of horseplay which often ends in a bastinado.
Footnote 645:
Hair-dyes, in the East, are all of vegetable matter, henna,
indigo-leaves, galls, etc.: our mineral dyes are, happily for them,
unknown. Herklots will supply a host of recipes. The Egyptian mixture
which I quoted in Pilgrimage (ii., 274) is sulphate of iron and
ammoniure of iron one part and gall nuts two parts, infused in eight
parts of distilled water. It is innocuous but very poor as a dye.
Footnote 646:
Arab. Amrad, etymologically "beardless and handsome," but often used
in a bad sense, to denote an effeminate, a catamite.
Footnote 647:
The Hindus prefer "having the cardinal points as her sole garment."
Vêtu de climat, says Madame de Stael. In Paris nude statues are
"draped in cerulean blue." Rabelais (iv., 29) robes King Shrovetide
in grey and gold of a comical cut, nothing before, nothing behind
with sleeves of the same.
Footnote 648:
This scene used to be enacted a few years ago in Paris for the
benefit of concealed spectators, a young American being the victim.
It was put down when one of the lookers-on lost his eye by a
pen-knife thrust into the "crevice."
Footnote 649:
Meaning that the trick had been played by the Wazir's wife or
daughter. I could mention sundry names at Cairo whose charming owners
have done worse things than this unseemly frolic.
Footnote 650:
Arab. "Shayyun li'lláhi," a beggar's formula=per amor di Dio.
Footnote 651:
Noting how sharp-eared the blind become.
Footnote 652:
The blind in Egypt are notorious for insolence and violence,
fanaticism and rapacity. Not a few foreigners have suffered from them
(Pilgrimage i. 148). In former times many were blinded in infancy by
their mothers, and others blinded themselves to escape conscription
or honest hard work. They could always obtain food, especially as
Mu'ezzins; and were preferred because they could not take advantage
of the minaret by spying into their neighbours' households. The
Egyptian race is chronically weak-eyed, the effect of the damp hot
climate of the valley, where ophthalmia prevailed even during the
pre-Pharaohnic days. The great Sesostris died stone-blind and his
successor lost his sight for ten years (Pilgrimage ii., 176). That
the Fellahs are now congenitally weak-eyed, may by seen by comparing
them with negroes imported from Central Africa. Ophthalmia rages,
especially during the damp season, in the lower Nile-valley; and the
best cure for it is a fortnight's trip to the Desert where, despite
glare, sand and wind, the eye readily recovers tone.
Footnote 653:
_i.e._ With kicks and cuffs, and blows, as is the custom. (Pilgrimage
i., 174.)
Footnote 654:
Arab. Káid (whence "Alcayde") a word still much used in North Western
Africa.
Footnote 655:
Arab. "Sullam"=lit. a ladder; a frame-work of sticks, used by way of
our triangles or whipping-posts.
Footnote 656:
This is one of the feats of Al-Simiyá=white magic; fascinating the
eyes. In Europe it has lately taken the name of "Electro-biology."
Footnote 657:
Again by means of the "Simiyá" or power of fascination possessed by
the old scoundrel.
Footnote 658:
A formula for averting "Al-Ayn," the evil eye. It is always unlucky
to meet a one-eyed man, especially the first thing in the morning and
when setting out on any errand. The idea is that the fascinated one
will suffer from some action of the physical eye. Monoculars also are
held to be rogues: so the Sanskrit saying "Few one-eyed men be honest
men."
Footnote 659:
Al-Nashshár from Nashr=sawing: so the fiddler in Italian is called
the "village-saw" (_Sega del villaggio_). He is the Alnaschar of the
Englished Galland and Richardson. The tale is very old. It appears as
the Brahman and the Pot of Rice in the Panchatantra; and Professor
Benfey believes (as usual with him) that this, with many others,
derives from a Buddhist source. But I would distinctly derive it from
Æsop's market-woman who kicked over her eggs; whence the Lat. prov.
Ante victoriam canere triumphum=to sell the skin before you have
caught the bear. In the "Kalilah and Dimnah" and its numerous
offspring it is the "Ascetic with his Jar of oil and honey;" in
Rabelais (i, 33) Echephron's shoemaker spills his milk, and so La
Perette in La Fontaine. See M. Max Muller's "Chips," vol. iii.,
appendix. The curious reader will compare my version with that which
appears at the end of Richardson's Arabic Grammar (Edit. of 1811): he
had a better, or rather a fuller MS. (p. 199) than any yet printed.
Footnote 660:
Arab. "Atr"=any perfume especially oil of roses; whence our word
"Ottar," through the Turkish corruption.
Footnote 661:
The texts give "dirhams" (100,000=5,000 dinars) for "dinars," a
clerical error as the sequel shows.
Footnote 662:
"Young slaves," says Richardson, losing "colour."
Footnote 663:
Nothing more calculated to give affront than such a refusal.
Richardson (p. 204) who, however, doubts his own version (p. 208)
here translates, "and I will not give liberty to my soul (spouse) but
in her apartments." The Arabic or rather Cairene, is, "wa lá akhalli
rúhi"=I will not let myself go _i.e._ be my every-day self, etc.
Footnote 664:
"Whilst she is in astonishment and terror." (Richardson).
Footnote 665:
"Chamber of robes," Richardson whose text has "Nám" for "Manám."
Footnote 666:
"Till I compleat her distress," Richardson, whose text is corrupt.
Footnote 667:
"Sleep by her side," R. the word "Náma" bearing both senses.
Footnote 668:
"Will take my hand," R. "takabbal" being also ambiguous.
Footnote 669:
Arab. "Mu'arras" one who brings about "'Ars," marriages, etc. So the
Germ. "Kupplerinn," a Coupleress. It is one of the many synonyms for
a pimp, and a word in general use (Pilgrimage i., 276). The most
insulting term, like Dayyús, insinuates that the man panders for his
own wife.
Footnote 670:
Of hands and face, etc. See Night cccclxiv.
Footnote 671:
Arab. "Sadakah" (sincerity), voluntary or superogatory alms, opposed
to "Zakát" (purification), legal alms which are indispensable.
"Prayer carries us half way to Allah; fasting brings us to the door
of His palace and alms-deeds (Sadakah) causes us to enter." For
"Zakát" no especial rate is fixed; but it should not be less than
one-fortieth of property or two and a half per cent. Thus Al-Islam
is, as far as I know, the only faith which makes a poor-rate (Zakát)
obligatory and which has invented a property-tax, as opposed to the
unjust and unfair income-tax upon which England prides herself.
Footnote 672:
A Greek girl.
Footnote 673:
This was making himself very easy; and the idea is that the gold in
pouch caused him to be so bold. Lane's explanation (in loco) is all
wrong. The pride engendered by sudden possession of money is a _lieu
commun_ amongst Eastern story-tellers; even in the beast-fables the
mouse which has stolen a few gold pieces becomes confident and
stouthearted.
Footnote 674:
Arab. "Al-Málihah" also means the beautiful (fem.), from "Milh"=salt,
splendour, etc. The Mac. Edit. has "Mumallihah"=a salt-vessel.
Footnote 675:
_i.e._ to see if he felt the smart.
Footnote 676:
Arab. "Sardábeh" (Persian)=an underground room used for coolness in
the hot season. It is unknown in Cairo but every house in Baghdad, in
fact throughout the Mesopotamian cities, has one. It is on the
principle of the underground cellar without which wine will not keep:
Lane (i., 406) calls it a "vault."
Footnote 677:
In the orig. "O old woman!" which is insulting.
Footnote 678:
So the Italians say "a quail to skin."
Footnote 679:
"Amán" is the word used for quarter on the battle-field; and there
are Joe Millers about our soldiers in India mistaking it for "a man"
or (_Scotticè_) "a mon."
Footnote 680:
Illustrating the Persian saying "Allah himself cannot help a fool."
Footnote 681:
Any article taken from the person and given to a criminal is a
promise of pardon, of course on the implied condition of plenary
confession and of becoming "King's evidence."
Footnote 682:
A naive proposal to share the plunder.
Footnote 683:
In popular literature "Schacabac." And from this tale comes our
saying "a Barmecide's Feast," _i.e._ an illusion.
Footnote 684:
The Castrato at the door is still (I have said,) the fashion of Cairo
and he acts "Suisse" with a witness.
Footnote 685:
As usual in the East, the mansion was a hollow square surrounding
what in Spain is called _Patio_: the outer entrance was far from the
inner, showing the extent of the grounds.
Footnote 686:
"Nahnu málihín"=we are on terms of salt, said and say the Arabs. But
the traveller must not trust in these days to the once sacred tie;
there are tribes which will give bread with one hand and stab with
the other. The Eastern use of salt is a curious contrast with that of
Westerns, who made it an invidious and inhospitable distinction,
_e.g._ to sit above the salt-cellar and below the salt. Amongst the
ancients, however, "he took bread and salt" means he swore, the food
being eaten when an oath was taken. Hence the "Bride cake" of salt,
water and flour.
Footnote 687:
Arab. "Harísah," the meat-pudding before explained.
Footnote 688:
Arab. "Sikbáj," before explained; it is held to be a lordly dish,
invented by Khusraw Parwiz. "Fatted duck" says the Bresl. Edit. ii.
308, with more reason.
Footnote 689:
I was reproved in Southern Abyssinia for eating without this
champing, "Thou feedest like a beggar who muncheth silently in his
corner;" and presently found that it was a sign of good breeding to
eat as noisily as possible.
Footnote 690:
Barley in Arabia is, like our oats, food for horses: it fattens at
the same time that it cools them. Had this been known to our cavalry
when we first occupied Egypt in 1883-4 our losses in horse-flesh
would have been far less; but official ignorance persisted in feeding
the cattle upon heated oats and the riders upon beef, which is
indigestible, instead of mutton, which is wholesome.
Footnote 691:
_i.e._ "I conjure thee by God."
Footnote 692:
_i.e._ "This is the very thing for thee."
Footnote 693:
_i.e._, at random.
Footnote 694:
This is the way of slaughtering the camel, whose throat is never cut
on account of the thickness of the muscles. "Égorger un chameau" is a
mistake often made in French books.
Footnote 695:
_i.e._ I will break bounds.
Footnote 696:
The Arabs have a saying corresponding with the dictum of the
Salernitan school:—
Noscitur a labiis quantum sit virginis antrum:
Noscitur a naso quanta sit hasta viro;
(A maiden's mouth shows what's the make of her _chose_;
And man's mentule one knows by the length of his nose.)
Whereto I would add:—
And the eyebrows disclose how the lower wig grows.
The observations are purely empirical but, as far as my experience
extends, correct.
Footnote 697:
Arab. "Kahkahah," a very low proceeding.
Footnote 698:
Or "for every death there is a cause;" but the older Arabs had a
saying corresponding with "Deus non fecit mortem."
Footnote 699:
The King's barber is usually a man of rank for the best of reasons
that he holds his Sovereign's life between his fingers. One of these
noble Figaros in India married an English lady who was, they say,
unpleasantly surprised to find out what were her husband's official
duties.
END OF VOL. I.
وآلسلام
INDEX.
Abbas "hero eponymus" of the Abbaside dynasty, 188
Abdullah ibn Abbas, companion and traditioner, 304
Abú Kidr=father of the cooking-pot, _ib._
Abú Shámah=father of a cheek-mole, 269
Abú Shámmah=father of a smeller or nose, _ib._
Abú Shawárib=father of mustachios, _ib._
Abu Shiháb, father of the shooting star=evil spirit, 221
Abú Yakzán=the wakener=ass, 16
=cock, 18
Ad=tribe of prehistoric Arabs, 65
Adab=anything between good education and good manners, 132
Aghá=master, politely applied to an Eunuch, 235
Ahdab, hunchback=classical Ak'as, 213
A'in=Smiter with the evil eye, 123
Ajal=appointed period of life, 74
'Ajami=foreigner, esp. Persian, 120
Ajuz, for old woman, highly insulting; use Shaybah, 174
Akásirah=Kisra-Kings, 75
Akrás=cakes, 83
Al-Aftah=Broad-o'-Brow, 17
Al-Ajam=region not Arab, Persia, 2
Al-Amin, son and successor of Hárún al-Rashíd, 185
Al-Aríf=monitor, 231
Al-Asr=time or prayer of mid-afternoon, 240
Al-Bashárah=gift of good tidings, guerdon, 30
Al-Bostáni=gardener, family name from original occupation, 266
Al-Faranj=European, 296
Al-Hasá=plain of pebbles, west of Damascus, 234
Al-Kahánah=the craft of a Káhin or soothsayer, 28
Al-Maamún, son and successor of Hárún al-Rashíd, 185
Al-Málihah=salt-girl; beautiful, 340
Al-Mustansir bi'llah=one seeking help in Allah, 317
Al-Nashshár=sawing, 335
Al-Níl=flood season corresponding to mid-summer, 290
Al-Rauzah=the gardens, 291
Al-Safar Zafar=voyaging is victory, 250
Al-Sahr=magic, black art, 305
Al-Záhir bi'llah=one pre-eminent by the decree of Allah, 317
Al-Zalamah (tyrants, oppressors)=police and employés, 273
Allah! Allah!=I conjure thee by God, _Passim_
Allah hath said, formula of quoting the Koran, 61
Allah Karím=Allah is all beneficent, 32
Allah will open thee, a formula of refusing, _ib._
Ailaho a'alam=God is all knowing, 2; 50
Allahumma=Yá Allah with emphasis, 39
Amán=quarter, mercy, 342
Amír=Military Commandant, 259
Amír al-Muuminín=Prince of the Faithful, 112
Amrad=beardless and handsome, effeminate, 327
Amsár=cities, 11
Amshát (combs) perhaps=Kunáfah (vermicelli), 83
Andam=the gum called dragon's blood; brazilwood, 176
Arab al-Arabá=prehistoric tribes of the Arabs, 112
Arab al-Musta'ajimah=barbarised Arabs, _ib._
Arab al-Musta'aribah=naturalised Arabs, _ib._
Arab al-Muta'arribah=Arabised Arabs, _ib._
Arakiyah=white scull-cap, 215
Ardabb (Irdabb)=about five bushels, 263
Arún (Heb.)=in his shirt, 78
Asal-nahl=bee's honey, 271
Ashkánián=race of Persian Kings, 78
Astrolabe, father of our sextant, 304
Atr=any perfume, 335
Auhashtani=thou hast made me desolate, 62
Awálim pl. of Alimah=dancing girls, 214
Aysh (Egypt.)=Ayyu shayyin for classical "Má"=what, 79
Aywa (for Ay w' Alláhi)=Ay, by Allah, 303
Azim="deuced" or "mighty fine", 178
Báb=gate; chapter, 136
Báb al-Farádís=gate of the gardens at Damascus, 240
Babel=Gate of God, 85
Babes of the eyes=pupils, 100
Badawi's dying farewell, 75
Bádhanj=wind-shaft, ventilator, 257
Badmasti=le vin mauvais, 88
Baghlah=she-mule, 129
Bahr=water cut or trenched in the earth, sea, large river, 44
Bahr al-muhít=circumambient ocean, 133
Balid=simpleton, 17
Ballán=body servant, 311
Ballánah=tire-woman, _ib._
Banj=Nibanj=Nepenthe, hemp, 70
Baradiyah=wide-mouthed jug, 36
Bárid=vain, foolish, insipid, 213
Barley, food for horses, 345
Barmecides, 188
Basaltic statues in Hauranic ruins give rise to the idea of men
metamorphosed into black stones, 170
Basil=the Indian Tulsi, Ocymum basilicum, 19
Basil of the bridges=pennyroyal, 91
Bastinado of women, 183
Bayáz al-Sultáni=the best kind of gypsum, 270
Bazar of Damascus famous in the Middle Ages, 2
Beheading or sacking a faithless wife unlawful but leniently looked
upon, 181
Before the face of Allah=for the love of God, 135
Bi'l-Salámah=in safety (to avert the evil eye), 288
Birkat al-Habash=Abyssinian pond, 291
Bismillah=in the name of God, 40
—— said before taking action, 80
—— a civil form of dismissal, 98
——="fall to!", 264
Blackamoors preferred by debauched women, 6
Blind notorious for insolence, etc., 330
Blinding a common practice in the East, how done, 108
Blue and yellow turbans prescribed to Christians and Jews, 77
Boils and pimples supposed to be caused by broken hair-roots, 275
Breast broadening with delight, 48
Breast straitened, the converse of breast broadening (48), 119
Bride's throne, 215
Búzah=beer, 72
Cairenes held exceedingly debauched, 298
Cairo nothing without the Nile, 295
Camel, how slaughtered, 347
Carpet-beds, 294
Chaff or banter allowed even to modest women, 267
Champing sign of good breeding, 345
Chess-anecdote, 132
Children carried astraddle upon hip or shoulder, 308
Claims of maidenhead, 190
Clapping of hands to summon servants, 177
Clever young ladies dangerous in the East, 15
Conception on the bride-night rare, 227
Confession after concealment a characteristic of the servile class, 53
Confession on the criminal's part required by Moslem Law, 274
Confusion of metaphors characteristic of The Nights, 86
Contemplation of street-scenery one of the pleasures of the Harem, 319
Corpse pollutes him who touches it, 295
Cutting off the right hand Koranic punishment for theft, 274
Cutting of the navel string preliminary to naming the babe, 231
Cutting the rope=breaking bounds, 349
Dajlah=Tigris, Heb. Hid-dekel, 180
Dakhíl-ak=under thy protection, 61
Damascus women famed for sanguinary jealousy, 295
Darabukkah=tom-tom, 311
Darbar=public audience, 29
Dastúr=leave, permission, 66
Daughter of my uncle=my wife, 69
Daurak=narrow-mouthed jug, 36
Despite his nose=against his will, 26
Destiny blindeth human sight, 67
Dinár=gold piece, Daric, Miskál, 32
Dirham=silver piece, 33
"Dog" and "hog" popular terms of abuse, 188
Drinking first to show that the draught is not poisoned, 88; 295
"Drop" unknown to the Eastern gallows, 260
Dunyázád=world-free, 14
Dust-storm in tropical lands, 111
Elephant's roll (to Hindu)=swaying and graceful gait, 217
Erotic inferences drawn from parts of body, 350
Eternal truth of The Nights, 7
Eunuch best go-between, 282
Eunuch employed as porter, 343
Eunuch-in-Chief a most important Jack in office, 283
Eunuchs, different kinds of, 132
Euphemistic formulas to avoid mentioning unpleasant matters, 31
Exaggeration part of humour, 12
Eyebrows joined a great beauty in Arabia, 227
Eyes of me=my dears, 163
Face-veil="nose-bag", 82
Fakír=religious mendicant generally, 95
Falcon=blinding the quarry, 51
Fals ahmar=a red cent, 321
Faráiz=orders expressly given in the Koran, 169
Farajíyah=a long sleeved robe, 210, 321
Fass=bezel of a ring, gem cut en cabochon, contenant for contenu, 165
Fata=a youth; generous man, etc., 67
Favours foreshadowing downfall, 48
Female depravity going hand in hand with perversity of taste, 73
Fiat _in_justitia ruat cœlum, 253
First personal pronoun placed first for respect, 237
Fitnah=revolt, seduction, mischief; beautiful girl; aphrodisiac
perfume, 219
Following one's face=at random, 347
Friday night=our Thursday night, 269
Friday Service described, 313
Frolics of highborn ladies, 328
"Fun"=practical jokes of the largest, 20
Futur=breakfast, 300
Gall-bladder and liver allusions, 219
Ghadir=a place where water sinks, lowland, 233
Ghamz=winking, signing with the eye, 292
Gharíb=foreigner, 95
Ghawází=singing girls, 214
Ghazl al-banát (spinning of girls)=vermicelli, 83
Ghilmán=Wuldán, the beautiful youths of Paradise, 211
Ghútah=thickly grown lowland, 115
Ghúlah=ogress, 55
Going straight to the point preferred to filer le parfait amour, 268
Gold makes bold, 340
Ground-floor usually let for shops, 319
Habb=grain of the heart, 250
Habbániyah=grain-seller's quarter, 269
Habíb, euphemism for lover, 223
Hayhát, onomatopoetic=heigh-ho!, 76
Hair should be allowed all to grow or be shaven off, 308
Hair-dyes all vegetable matter, 326
Halab=Aleppo, 292
Hammam, going to the=convalescence, 288
——, showing that a woman's monthly ailment is over, 286
Harím=Harem, used for the inmates, wife, etc., 165
Harísah, a favourite dish, 131
Hasanta ya Hasan=bene detto, Benedetto!, 251
Hashísh, intoxicant prepared of hemp, 225
Haste ye to salvation, part of the Azán, 224
Hátif=mysterious voice, 142
Hauk! Hauk!=heehaw!, 221
Head in the poke=into the noose, 179
High-bosomed damsel a favourite with Arab tale-tellers, 84
Hog, popular term of abuse, 188
Horoscopes, etc., 213
Horseplay frequently ending in bastinado, 325
House of Peace=Baghdad, 139
Houses of Lamentation in Moslem burial-grounds, 94
Humming not a favourite practice with Moslems, 311
Hunchback looked upon with fear and aversion, 258
Húr al-Ayn=with eyes of lively white and black, 90
Hurr=gentleman, 254
Hurry is from Hell, 264
Iblis=Despairer, 13
Ibn Harám=son of adultery, abuse not necessarily reflecting on the
parent, 231
Ibrat=needle-graver and Ibrat=warning, a favourite jingle, 104
Ibrík=ewer, and Tisht=basin, used for washing the hands, 241
Id al-Kabír=the Great Festival, 28
Ifrít, divided into two races like mankind, 11
Ifritah=she-Ifrit, 34
Ihdák=encompassing, as the white encloses the black of the eye, 49
Ihtizáz=shaking with delight, 50
Iklíl=diadem, now obsolete, 270
Iklím=the seven climates of Ptolemy, 233
Ilm al-Ruháni=Spiritualism, 305
Improvising still common amongst the Badawin, 39
Incest lawful amongst ancient peoples, 110
Inheritance, law of, settled by the Koran, 174
Inshád=conjuring by Allah, 11
Insolence and licence of palace girls, 286
Intellect of man stronger than a Jinni's, 43
Internally wounded=sick at heart, 5
Inwá=jerking the date-stone, 25
Ishá=the first watch of the night, 175
Izár=sheet worn as veil, 163
Ja'afar=contrasting strongly with his master, 102
Jahárkas=Pers. Chehár-kas, four persons, 266
Jannat al-Na'ím=The Garden of Delights _i.e._ Heaven, 98
Jazírah=Peninsula, Arabia, 2
Jazírát al-Khálidát=Eternal Isles=Canaries, 141
Jilá=displaying the bride before the bridegroom, 174
Jinn=the French génie, the Hindu Rakshasa or Yaksha, 10
Joseph of the Koran very different from him of Genesis, 13
Judri=small-pox, 256
Junún=madness, 10
Ká'ah=ground-floor hall, 85
Ká'ah (saloon)=fine house, mansion, 292
Kábul-men noted for Sodomy, 299
Káf, popularly=Caucasus, 72, 133
Kahbah=whore, 70
Kahílat al-taraf=having the eyelids lined with Kohl, 63
Kahkahah=horse-laughter, 350
Kahramánát=nursery governess, 231
Káid=leader, 330
Kalam=reed-pen, 128
Kalám al-Mubáh=the permitted say, 29
Kalandar=mendicant monk, 94
Kámat Alfiyyah=straight stature, 85
Kamís=shift, etc., 293
Kat'a=bit of leather, 20