50 = about 40 shillings, 300.
5,500 = about £220, shillings, 300.
1,000,000 = about £25,000, shillings, 161.
Died of laughter (now become familiar to English speech), 13.
Dihkán, in Persian = a villager (_tr._ “village headman”), 81.
Dismantled his shop (removing goods from the “but” to the “ben”), 207.
Doghrí = assuredly, 18.
(They) Draw thee near to them = they make much of thee, 2.
Dress (a Moslem should dress for public occasions), 159.
Dyed robe (Abbasides, _black_; Ommiades, _white_; Fatimites, _green_),
160.
Elopements of frequent occurrence, 317.
Eunuchs, 70.
Eyes swollen by swathes, 30.
Fákhir (Al-) = the potter, 360.
Faras = a mare (_tr._ “horses”), 216.
Fáris = a Rider (_tr._ “horseman”), 103.
Fars = Persia, 282.
Fárs (Al-) = Persians (a people famed for cleverness and debauchery),
2.
Fazl (Caliph’s foster-brother), 166.
“Feet towards Mecca,” 34.
Fighting rams, 210.
Fí-hi = “In him” (_i.e._, either Mahommed) or “in it” (his action), 40.
Firásah _lit._ = judging the points of a mare (_tr._ “physiognomy”),
286.
Fire lighted to defend mother and babe from bad spirits, 279.
First day = our Sunday, 286.
Fírúz (Pers. “Píroz”) = Victorious, triumphant, 185.
Forehead (compared with a page of paper upon which Destiny writes her
decrees), 100.
Futúh (Al-) _lit._ = the victories (_tr._ “the honorarium”), 285.
Ghazbán = an angry man, 265.
Ghawwásún = divers (_tr._ “duckers”), 68.
Ghusl or complete ablution after car. cop., 220.
Goat’s droppings (used as fuel, also for practical jokes), 288.
Guide going in front, 201.
Hadas = moved (“event,” a word not easy to translate), 321.
Hádí (Al-) Fourth Abbaside (A.D. 785–786), 165.
Hájib = Chamberlain, 324.
“Hajj” never applied to the Visitation (Ziyárah) at Al-Medinah, 196.
Hajj (Al-) = the company of pilgrims (_tr._ “pilgrimage caravan”), 196.
Hajj al-Shárif = Holy pilgrimage, 194.
Hajjáj (Al-), 47.
Hajjat al-Islam, the Pilgrimage commanded to all Moslems, 194.
Haláwat = _lit._ a sweetmeat, a gratuity, a thank-offering (_tr._ “a
douceur”), 35.
Half of marriage settlement due to wife on divorcement, 311.
Hamadán, a well-known city of Irák ’Ajamí, 203.
Hamhama = muttered, 265.
Hammám _i.e._ the private bagnio, 262.
Hammám bin Ghálib al-Farazdak, a famous Christian Poet, 42.
Hanút = perfumes (leaves of the lotus tree), 290.
Haráis (pl. of Harísah) = meat puddings, 287.
Harám = “forbidden,” sinful (_tr._ “useless”), 72.
Harem, supposed to be in Eastern Wing of Palace, 199.
Harfúsh = Larrikin, popularly a “blackguard,” 4.
Harun al-Rashid (house still standing), 15.
Háshim = breaker, 47.
Hashimites (and Abbasides) fine specimens of the Moslem Pharisee, 159.
Hasír = mat (used for sleeping on during the hot season), 204.
“Haukalah” and “Haulakah,” 265.
Házúr (Al-) = loquacity, frivolous garrulity (_tr._ “jargon”), 283.
“He Pilgrimaged: quoth one, Yes, and for his villainy lives (yujáwir)
at Meccah.”—_Egyptian Proverb_, 196.
“He who keeps his hands crossed upon his breast, shall not see them cut
off.” 114.
Hibernicè, “kilt” for beaten, 247.
Hidden, (for fear of the “Eye”), 75.
“Hie Salvationwards” (the Words of Azán), 42.
Himyán (or Hamyán) = a girdle (_tr._ “purse belt”), 152.
His head forewent his feet = He fell down senseless, 17.
Ho, Tuffáhah! Ho, Ráhat al-Kulúb = O Apple, O Repose o’ Hearts, &c.,
17.
Hour (would his hour had never come), 27.
“How very good he was to me,” 32.
Hudhud (_tr._ “hoopoe”) called from its cry “Hood! Hood!”, 148.
Hundred dirhams = £4 (about), 43.
Hysterics, common amongst the races of the East, 198.