Katf=pinioning, 106
Kathá-Sarit-Ságara=poetical version of the Vrihat-Kathá, 12
Kaus al-Banduk=pellet-bow, 10
Kausar=a lieu commun of poets, 241
Kawwád=pimp, 316
Káyánián race of Persian Kings, 75
Kaylúlah=siesta, 51
Kaysariyah=superior kind of Bazar, 266
Kazi=judge in religious matters, 21
Kerchief of mercy, 343
Khádim=servant, politely applied to a castrato, 235
Khalí'a=worn out; wag, 311
Khalífah=Vicar of Allah; successor of a Santon, 184
Khan=caravanserai, 92
Khan Al-Masrúr, in Cairo, famous in the 15th century, 265
Khanjar=hanger, 232
Khatmah=reading or reciting the whole Koran, 277
Khinzír=hog, 108
Khubz=scones, 131
Khuff=walking shoes, 82
Khyas, Khyas, onomatopoetic, used in a sea-spell, 228
King's barber a man of rank, 351
"Kiss, key to Kitty", 323
Kissing the eyes a paternal salute, 125
Kohl=powdered antimony for the eyelids, 89
—— proverbially used, 278
Koran quoted (xx.), 2
—— (ii. 34), 13
—— (xxv. 31), _ib._
—— (xix. 69), _ib._
—— (xxvi.), 39
—— (xxvii.), 42
—— (v., xx.), 119
—— (vii., xviii.), 169
—— (i.), 208
—— (lvi. 9), 211
—— (lx.), 220
—— (v.), 240
—— (cviii.), 241
—— (xvii.), 249
—— (xxxvi. 69), 251
—— (cv.), 256
—— (ii., ix.), 257
—— (v.), 274
—— (viii. 17), _ib._
—— (iii.), 298
—— (iii. 128), 307
Kufr=rejecting the True Religion, 169
Kulkasá=colocasia roots, 272
Kullah=gugglet, 36
Kumkum=a gourd-shaped bottle for sprinkling scents, 42
Kári=teacher of the correct pronunciation of the Koran, 113
Kurrat al-Ayn=coolness of the eye, 72
Kurs has taken the place of Iklíl, 270
Kursi (choir, throne)=desk or stool for the Koran, 167
Kush'arírah=horripilation, symptom of great joy or fear, 251
La'abat=a plaything, a puppet, a lay figure, 245
Lá adamnák=Heaven deprive us not of thee, 268
Labbayka=Here am I, called Talbiyah, 226
Laylat al-Wafá=the night of completion of the Nile-flood, 291
Lá Haula, etc.=there is no Majesty etc., 69
Lá tawáhishná=do not make us desolate, 62
Lá tawákhizná=do not chastise us=excuse us, 164
Latter night=hours between the last sleep and dawn, 24
Laughing in one's face not intended as an affront, 320
Laughter rare and sign of a troubled spirit, 248
Life-breath in the nostrils=heart in the mouth, 42
Like mother like daughter, 299
Liver=seat of passion, 27
Loghah=Arabic language, also a vocabulary, dictionary, 251
Loosening the hair an immodesty in women sanctioned only by a great
calamity, 314
Lukmah=mouthful, 261
Madfa'=cannon, showing modern date, 223
Magnet Mountains, fable probably based on the currents, 140
Mail-coat and habergeon simile for a glittering stream, 291
Ma'ín, Ma'ún=smitten with the evil eye, 123
Majnún=madman, 10
Making water, 259
Mahkamah=Kazi's Court, 21
Malik or Malak=Seraph or Sovran, 253
Mamlúk=white slaves trained to arms, 81
Márid=contumacious Jinni, 41
Máristán (from Pers. Bímáristán=place of sickness), 288
Marmar=marble, 295
Marriage not valid without receipt of settlement, 276
Mashá ilí=bearer of a cresset (Mash'al), 259
Masíhi=follower of the Messiah, 258
Maskhút=transformed (mostly into something hideous); a statue, 165
Massage (shampooing), 172
Mausil (Mosul) alluding to the junction of Assyria and Babylonia, 82
Maydán=parade ground, 46
Maymúnah, proverbial name now forgotten, 57
Meat rarely coloured in modern days, 310
Merchants and shopkeepers carrying, swords, 54
Miao or Mau=cat, 220
Mikra'ah=palm-rod, 99
Mihráb and Minaret, symbols of Venus and Priapus?, 166
Milh=salt, 340
Miracles performed by Saints' tombs, 241
Miskál=71-72 grams in gold, used for dinar, 126
Mizr, Mizar=beer, 72
Moles compared with pearls, 177
Monday=second day, reckoning from Sabbath (Saturday), 266
Money carried in the corner of a handkerchief, 271
Monoculars unlucky to meet, 333
Mosul stuff=muslin, 229
Mounds=rubbish heaps outlying Eastern cities, 71
Mouth compared to the ring of Sulayman, 84
Mu'arras=pimp, 338
Muháfiz=district-governor, 259
Muhakkak="Court-hand", 129
Muhammarah=fricandoed, 286
Mujtabá=the Accepted, 77
Munakkishah=woman who applies the dye to a face, 270
Murtazá=the Elect, 77
Mustapha=the Chosen, _ib._
Mutawalli=Prefect of Police, 259
Muzayyin=Figaro of the East, 304
Nabút=quarter-staff, 234
Nadd, a compound perfume, 310
Naddábah=mourning woman, 311
Nadím=cup-companion, 46
Nafas=breath, 107
Nafs=soul, life, _ib._
Nahás asfar=brass, 40
Nahás (ahmar)=copper, _ib._
Nahnu málihín=we are on term of salt, 344
Nahs=nasty, 301
Naihah=keener, hired mourner, 311
Nakedness paraphrased, 327
Nakíb a caravan-leader, chief, syndic, 269
Name of Allah introduced into an indecent tale essentially Egyptian, 12
Narjis=Narcissus, 294
Naskh=copying hand, 128
Nasráni=follower of Him of Nazareth, 258
Nat'a=leather used by way of table-cloth, 20
Nata' al-dam=the leather of blood, 318
Navel as to beauty and health, 84
Nearness of seat a mark of honour, 250
Negroes preferred by debauched women, 6
New-moon beginning Ramazán carefully looked for, 84
Nile-water sweet and light, 290
Nineteen the age of an oldish old maid in Egypt, 212
Noisy merriment scandalous to Moslem "respectability", 95
Nothing for nothing a sexual _point d'honneur_, 87
Oath a serious thing amongst Moslems, 179
Oman=Eastern Arabia, 83
Oriental orgie different from European, 93
Pander-dodge to get more money, 302
Panel-dodge fatally common, 323
Paris Jockey-club scene anticipated, 327
Parody on the testification of Allah's Unity, 177
Parrot-story a world-wide folk-lore, 52
Passengers in difficulties take command, 140
Pearl, supposed to lose one per cent. per ann. of its splendour, 165
Peshdadians, race of Persian Kings, 75
Plain (ground), synonyms for, 46
Plural masc. used by way of modesty when a girl addresses her lover, 98
Poetry of the Arabs requires knowledge of the Desert to be understood,
230
Pomegranate fruit supposed to contain seed from Eden garden, 134
Prime Minister carrying fish to the cookmaid, 63
Privy, a slab with slit in front and a round hole behind, 221
Proverbs true to nature, 307
Qanoon-e-Islam quoted on the subject of horoscopes, etc., 213
Raydaniyah, a camping ground near Cairo, 245
Rayháni=a curved character, 128
Rais=captain of a ship, 127
Rajaz=the seventh Bahr of Arabic prosody, 251
Rajul ikhtiyár=middle-aged man, 55
Refusal of a gift greatest affront, 336
Rending of garments as sign of sorrow or vexation, 308
Respect shown to parts of the body, exuviæ, etc., 276
Riding on the ass an old Biblical practice, 262
Rims cars, 131
Rozistan=day station, 29
Ruká'í=correspondence hand, 128
Rukhám=alabaster, 295
Ruka'tayn=two-bow prayer, 142
Sa'ad=auspiciousness, prosperity; derivatives, 9
Sabr=patience and aloes, source of puns, 138
Sadaf=cowrie, 19
Sadakah=voluntary alms, opposed to Zakát, 339
Sadd=wall, dyke, 114
Sáhib=companion, used as a Wazirial title, 237
Sáhib al-Shartah=chief of the watch (Prefect of Police), 259
Sáhib Nafas=master of breath, a minor saint healing by expiration, 107
Sáhil Masr=the river side (at Cairo), 291
Saj'a=rhymed prose, 116
Sakhr al-Jinni alluded to, 41
Sákiyah=the Persian water wheel, 123
Sálih, prophet sent to Thámúd, 169
Salmá and Layla=our "Mary and Martha", 265
Sama'an wa ta atan to be translated variously, 96
Samn=clarified butter, 144
Sár=vendetta, 101, 114
Saráwil=bag or petticoat trousers, 222
Sardábeh=underground room, 340
Sarráf=Anglo-Indian "Shroff", 210
Sassanides, 75
Sawáb=reward in Heaven, 96
Sayd wa Kanas=hunting and coursing, 9
Scalding a stump in oil common surgery practice, 297
Scorpions of the brow=accroche-cœurs, etc., 168
Sealing a covered dish a necessary precaution against poison, 244
Seas, the two=the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean, 173
Sepulchre, erroneously called "a little Wali", 105
Seven schools or editions of the Koran, 113
Shább=youth between puberty and forty, 55
Shabistan=night station, 29
Shakáik al-Nu'umán=anemone, 175
Shahrázád=city-freer, 14
Shahryár=city friend, 2
Shah Zamán=King of the Age, _ib._
Shaykh=an old man, elder, chief, 26
Shaykh, Shaybah=grey-beard, oldster, 55
Sha'ílah=link (also lamp, wick, etc.), 259
Shaking and nodding the head, universal items of gesture language, 300
Shám (Syria)=land on the left, opposed to Al-Yaman=land on the right,
83
"Shame" alluded to in cursing parents of an abused person, 227
Shampooing the feet, 117
Sharmutah=rags, tatters; strumpets; shreds of meat=Kadíd, 163
Shámah=Khál, mole on the cheek, 167
Shart=a single Talbiyah or cry Labbayka, 226
Shatm=obscene abuse, 182
Shayyun li'lláhi=per amor di Dio, 329
Shedding tears no disgrace for a man, 68
Sham hamphorash=the hundredth name of God, engraved on the seal-ring of
Solomon, 173
Shiháb=shooting stars, 224
Shirk (partnership)=Syntheism, Dualism, Trinitarianism, 181
Shops composed of a "but" and a "ben", 316
Shudder preceding the magnetic trance, 44
Shuhadá, martyrs, extensive category, 171
Shuhúd=assessors of the Kazi's Court, 21
Shurayh, foxier than the fox, 252
Shúshah=topknot of hair, 308
Simát=dinner table, 178
Simiyá=white magic, 305, 332
Sitting on shins and knees a trying posture, 130
Slaves fancied by debauched women, 191
Slice of the moon=digit of the moon, 91
Smuggling men into the Harem, 282
Snatching off the turband a paying industry, 259
Soft-sided, attribute of beauty, 168
Solomon's death fixing the date of a tale, 41
"Son" used for "grandson" more affectionate, 243
Son of a century=hundred years old, 126
Sons of Adam=men, 130
Sons of Sásán=Sassanides, 2
Speaker puts himself first, 33
Spittle dried up from fear, 285
Staff broken in the first bout=failure in the first attempt, 64
Street melodies changing with fashion, 311
Striking the right hand upon the left sign of vexation, 298
Striking with the shoe, the pipe-stick, etc., highly insulting, 110
Subh-i-kázib=false dawn, 78
Subh-i-sádik=true dawn, _ib._
Sucking the tongue="kissing with th' inner lip", 270
Sufrah=dinner table, 178
Sugar-stick=German Zuckerpüppchen, 167
Suhá, star in the Great Bear, _ib._
Sulayman and Sakhr al-Jinni, 42
Sullam=ladder; whipping-post, 331
Sulus=engrossing hand, 128
Sums of large amount weighed, 281
Sun greeting Mohammed, 45
Superstitious practices not confined to the lower orders, 40
Surriyat=concubine, 27
Su 'ubán=dragon, cockatrice=Tannín, 172
Su'úd used as a counter odour, 279
Suwán=syenite, 238
Taghúm a kind of onomatopoetic grunt, 228
Tailor made to cut out the cloth in owner's presence, 321
Tákiyah, calotte worn under the Fez, scull-cap, 224
Talbiyah=the cry Labbayka, 226
Tammúz=July, 53
Tamar Hanná=flower of privet, 83
Tár=tambourine, 215
Tarbúsh=Pers. Sar-púsh, head cover, _ib._
Tarík=clear the way, 66
Tarjumán=truchman, dragoman, 100
Tasbíh=saluting in the Subh, 258
Taur (Thaur, Saur), a venerable remnant of un-split speech, 16
Tawáshi, obnoxious name for a Eunuch, 235
Tears shed over past separation, 283
Thousand dirhams and thousand dinars=£125 and £500 respectively, 281
Three days term of hospitality, 3
Throwing one=bastinado on the back, 243
Tibn=crushed straw, 16
Tobba (Himyaritic)=the Great or Chief, 216
Tongue of the case=words suggested by the circumstances, 121
Tughyán=Kufr, rejection of the True Religion, 169
Túmár=uncial letters, 129
Turband not put upon the ground out of respect, 223
"Turk" probably a late addition, 52
Turning round in despair against an oppressor, 246
Odah, properly Uta=private room of a concubine, 286
Ultra-Shakspearean geography, "Fars of Roum", 45
Umamah and Atikah, tale of two women now forgotten, 61
Umm Amir=Mother of Amir, nickname for the hyena, 43
'Urban=wild Arabs, 112
Usfur=safflower, 219
Uzayr=Esdras, 257
Varieties of handwriting, 129
Wady, Anglicè "valley", 51
Wahsh=wild-beast and synonyms, 242
Wakálah; described in Pilgrimage i. 60, 266
Wakkád=stoker, 312
Wali=(civil) Governor, 259
Wa'l-Salám=and here ends the matter, 102
Washings after evacuation, 220
Way of Allah=common property, 91
Wazir=Minister, 2
"What is it compared with," popular way of expressing great difference,
37
Wife euphemistically spoken of in the masculine, 67
Window-gardening, old practice in the East, 301
Wine boiled=vinum coctum, 132
Wine-drinking vitiates the Pilgrimage-rite, 97
Wine flying to the head, effect of the cold after a heated room, 224
Wine why strained? 27
Wiswás=diabolical temptation or suggestion, 106
Women bastinadoed, 183
Wonder (=cause) in every death, 351
Wuldán=Ghilmán, the beautiful youths of Paradise, 211
Wuzu-ablution=lesser ablutions, 142
Yá Ba'íd=O distant one, euphemism for gross abuse, 41
Yá bárid=O fool, 313
Yá hú=O he! Swift's Yahoo? 240
Yahúdí for Jew, less polite than Banu Isráíl, 210
Yá Khálati=mother's sister, in addressing the old, 303
Yá Mash'úm=O unlucky one, 221
Yá házá=O this (one), somewhat slightingly, 240
Yá Sattár=Thou who veilest the discreditable secrets of Thy creatures,
258
Yá Tayyib al-Khál=O thou nephew of a good uncle, 303
Yaum al-Id=the great festival, 317
Youth described in terms applying to women, 144
Zábit=Prefect of Police, 259
Zakát=legal alms, 339
Zambúr=clitoris, 90
Zemzem=water saltish, 284
Zikr=litanies, 124
Zírbájah=meat dressed with cumin-seed, etc., 278
Ziyárat=visit to a pious person or place, 125
Zauba'ah=sandstorm the desert, 114
Zubb=penis, 92
Zabbál=scavenger, 312
Zulf=side-lock, 308
Zulm, injustice, tyranny; worst of a monarch's crimes, 190
Zuwaylah gate, more correctly Báb Zawilah, 269
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TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES
1. Added missing anchors for footnotes on p. 44, p. 87, p. 181, p.
208, and p. 218.
2. Corrected footnote numbering on p. 181 and p. 182.
3. Corrected footnote anchor numbering on p. 263 and p. 272.
4. Added footnote number on p. 297.
5. Added missing page number 253 to Index entry "Malik or Malak=Seraph
or Sovran" on p. 358.
6. The dates ("A.H. 86-96=105-115") on p. 208 are probably incorrect
as the Caliph lived from 691-743 CE per Wikipedia.
7. Silently corrected simple spelling, grammar, and typographical
errors.
8. Retained anachronistic and non-standard spellings as printed.
9. Enclosed italics font in _underscores_.
10. Enclosed bold font in =equals=.