—— Nabhán, 262
—— Umayyah (their colours, white), 86
Banyán = Ficus Indica, 81
Barge (Ar. Bárijah), 24
Bárijah (pl. bawárij) = Jarm, barge, _ib._
Batáikh (batáyikh) = water-melons, 208
Bath (suggesting freshness from coition), 135
—— and privy favourite haunts of the Jinns, 141
—— (not to be entered by men without drawers), 150
Bathsheba and Uriah, and their congeners, 129
Bátini = a gnostic, a reprobate, 221
Bawwáb = door-keeper, 189
Beckoning (Eastern fashion of, the reverse of ours), 109
Benches (in olden Europe more usual than chairs), 26
Berbers from the Upper Nile (the “Paddies” of Egypt), 189
Bilád al-Filfil = home of pepper (Malabar), 38
Birds (sing only in the pairing season), 15
—— (huge ones discovered on the African coast), 17
—— (left to watch over wives), 132
—— (pretended understanding of their language), 169
Birkat = tank, pool, etc., 57
Biunes, bisexuals and women robed with the sun, 168
Black (colour of the Abbasides), 86
Box-trick (and Lord Byron), 168
Brass (Ar. Nuhás asfar), 83
Breath (of crocodiles, serpents, etc.), 29
Brides of the Treasure, 109
Brother (has a wide signification amongst Moslems), 243
Bukjah = bundle, 226
Bulád (Pers. Pulád) = steel, 115
Burka’ = face-veil, 131; 192
Cairene vulgarism, 278
Camel (seen in a dream is an omen of death; why?), 92
Camphor (primitive way of extracting it), 21
Camphor-apricot, 277
Cannibals and cannibalism, 36
Ceruse (Ar. Isfídáj), 126
Ceylon (Ar. Sarandib), 64; 81
City of Brass, 83
Cocoa-nut (Ar. Jauz al-Hindi), 55
Colossochelys = colossal tortoise, 33
Colours (of the Caliphs), 86
—— (names of), 111
Commander of the Faithful (title introduced by Omar), 247
Comorin (derivation of the name), 57
“Consecrated ground” (unknown to Moslems), 161
Cousin (first, affronts an Arab if she marries any save him without his
leave), 145
Created for a mighty matter (_i.e._ for worship and to prepare for
futurity), 91
Crocodiles (breath of), 29
Crow (an ill-omened bird), 170
Dabbús = mace, 249
Dáhish (Al-) = the Amazed, 96
Dajjál (Al-) = Moslem Anti-Christ, 11
Darakah = target, 9
Datura Stramonium (the insane herb), 36
“Daughters of God” (the three), 282
David (hauberks of his make), 113
Death (manners of, symbolised by colours), 250
Death-prayer (usually a two-bow prayer), 70
Delight of the Intelligent, etc. (fancy title of a book), 80
Despotism (tempered by assassination), 206
Dhámí = the Trenchant (sword of Antar), 271
Diamonds (occurring in alluvial lands), 18
Dihlíz = passage, 10
Do not to others what thou wouldest not they do unto thee, 125
Door-keepers (in Egypt mostly Berbers), 189
Drinking bouts (attended in bright dresses), 175
Elliptical expression, 288
Emerald (mace-head of), 67
—— (rods in lattice-windows), 117
“Enfants Terrible” in Eastern guise, 211
Envying another’s wealth wrongs him, 77
Euphemisms, 75; 145
Evil (befalling thee is from thyself), 138
Family (euphemistically for wife), 75
Fás = city of Fez, 222
Fárikín for Mayyafárikín (city in Diyar-bakr), 107
Farz = obligatory prayer, 193
Fátihah (repeated to confirm an agreement), 217
Fátimah (Pr. N. = the weaner), 145
Fatimite (Caliphs, their colours green), 86
Fausta and Crispus, 127
Fire (there is no blower of = utter desolation), 15
—— (forbidden as punishment), 26
—— (none might warm himself at their), 261
Fish (-islands), 6
—— (the ass-headed), 33
—— (great = Hút, common = Samak), 69
Flea (still an Egyptian plague), 205
Food-tray of Sulayman, 80
Fox (Ar. Abú Hosayn, Sa’lab), 211
Fruit of two kinds, 277
Fulk = boat, 62
Fustát = Old Cairo, 87
Galactophagi (use milk always in the soured form), 201
Gems and their mines, 18
Ghazá-wood = yellow-flowered Artemisia, 192
Ghúl = ogre, cannibal, 36
“Greatness belongeth to God alone” (used elliptically), 288
Green (colour of the Fatimite Caliphs), 86
Grimm’s “Household Tales” quoted, 230
Háfiz (f. Háfizah) = 1, traditionist; 2, one who can recite the Koran
by rote, 195
Halíb = fresh milk, 201
Hauráni towns (weird aspect of), 102
—— —— (their survival accounted for by some protracted drought), 116
Heart-ache (for stomach-ache), 194
Herb (the insane), 36
Hippopotamus, 33
House-breaking (four modes of), 247
Hút = great fish, 69
Ichthyological marvels, 33
‘Iddah (of widowhood), 256
Imlik (great-grandson of Shem), 264
Inconsequence (characteristic of the Eastern Saga), 61
—— (of writer of The Nights), 205
Insula (for Peninsula), 57
Inverted speech, 262
Irak, etc., used always with the article, 291
Isbánír = Ctesiphon (?), 279
Isfídáj = ceruse, 126
Ishárah = signing, beckoning, 109
Izár = waist cloth, 50
Jabal al-Ramun = Adam’s Peak, 65
Jarm (Ar. Bárijah), 24
Jauz al-Hindi = cocoa-nut, 55
Javelins, 263
Jawáb-club, 262
Joseph and Potiphar’s wife, 127
Júdar (Classical Arab name), 213
—— (and his brethren, version of a Gotha MS.), 257
Júdariyah (quarter of Cairo), 254
Jum’ah = assembly (Friday), 120; 190
Jumblat (for Ján-pulád, Life o’ Steel, Pr. N.), 115
Justice (poetical in the Nights), 255
Kabáb (mutton or lamb grilled in small squares), 225
Kahramán (Persian hero), 257
Kahtan (sons of), 260
Kala (island), 47
Kalamdán = reed-box (ink-case), 167
Kánún = furnace, brazier, 5
Kaum = razzia; tribe, 266
Karawán = Charadrius œdicnemus, 1
Karkadán, etc. = rhinoceros, 21
Karkar (Carcer?), Sea of Al-, 101
Karún (lake), 217
Kashmír people (have a bad name in Eastern tales), 156
Kassar’ Allah Khayr-ak = Allah increase thy weal, 233
Kazdír = tin, 39
Kasr = palace, one’s house, 240
Kawwás = archer, Janissary, 241
Kázi of the army (the great legal authority of a country), 131
Khalíyah = bee-hive; empty, 246
Kháwí (skin of), 66
Khurj (Al-) = saddle-bag (las Alforjas), 224
Khwájah (Howajee) = schoolmaster, man of letters, etc., 46
Khwárazm = land of the Chorasmioi, 113
Killed (once more = Hibernicè kilt), 171
Kiná’ = veil, 192
Kingfisher (Lucian’s), 49
Kintar = a hundred weight (quintal), 94
Kitfír (Itfír) = Potiphar, 172
Kízan fukká’a = jars for fukká’a (a kind of beer), 88
Koran quoted (xxiv. 39), 93
—— (lii. 21), 95
—— (ix. 51; xiv. 15), 108
—— (xxxviii. 11), 115
—— (iv. 81), 138
—— (iv. 78; xli 28), 144
—— (ix. 51), 191
—— (iii. 17), 270
—— (xiii. 3), 277
—— (vi. 103), 282
Kulayb (and his domain), 261
Kuta’ah = a bit cut off, etc., 272
La’an = curse, 178
Laban = milk artificially soured, 201
Laban-halíb = fresh milk, _ib._
Ladies of the family (waiting upon the guests), 237
Lake Kárún, 217
Lane quoted, 1; 8; 11; 33; 61; 66; 80; 191; 196; 214; 216; 247; 257;
282
Lasting Calamity = a furious knight, 290
Laylat al-Kadr = Night of power, 180
Leaving one standing (pour se faire valoir), 252
Líf = fibre of palm-fronds, 50
Litholatry of the old Arabs, 269
Living (the, who dieth not), 67
Mace (Ar. Dabbús), 249
Magháribah (pl. of Maghribi) = Western man, Moor, “Maurus”, 220
Maháráj = great Rajah, 8; 67
Maid and Magpie, 182
Mál = Badawi money, flocks, “fee”, 267
Mankind (creates its analogues in all the elements), 121
Mann = from two to six pounds, 80
Mares (impregnated by the wind), 9
Markúb = shoe, 207
Marmar = marble, alabaster, 95
Mastabah = bench of masonry, 26
Maund, _see_ Mann, 80
Mihráj = Maháráj _q.v._, 67
Miknás = town Mequinez, 223
Miknasah = broom, 158
Milk (Ar. Laban, Halíb), 201
—— (by nomades always used in the soured form), _ib._
Million (no Arabic word for, expressed by a thousand thousand), 98
“Mis”-conformation (prized by women), 156
Moses (describes his own death and burial), 116
Moslem (kind feeling shown to a namesake), 13
—— (corpses should be burnt under certain circumstances), 26
—— (commonplace of condolence), 41
—— (sales, formula of), 73
—— (consecrated ground unknown to them), 161
—— (a free-born’s sale is felony), 240
Mother (waiting upon the adult sons), 237
Mrigatrishná = the thirst of the deer (mirage), 93
Mufti (Doctor of Law), 254
Muhammad, Ahmad and Mahmúd, 273
Muráhanah = game of forfeits, 204
Murders (to save one’s life approved of), 44
Músá bin Nusayr (conqueror of Spain), 86
Musáfahat = joining palms for shaking hands, 287
Na’al = sandal, shoe, horse-shoe, 207
Nabhán (sons of), 262
Nábigah al-Zubyáni (pre-Islamitic poet), 85
Nahr = river, 163
Najásah = nastiness (anything unclean), 178
Nakedness (Ar. Aurat), 30
Nákús = wooden gong (used as bell), 47
Neighbours (frequently on the worst of terms), 236
“New Arabian Nights”, 257
Nuhás (vulg. Nihás, Nahás) asfar = brass, 83
Nusf = half-dirham, 214
Opener (of the door of daily bread), 216
Ophidia (of monstrous size), 29
Palace (of the Caliphs of Baghdad), 189
Palaces (avoided by the pious), 182
Partridges (story of the two), 183
Pausing as long as Allah pleased = musing a long time, 109
Pearl-fisheries, 60
Pepper (and the discovery of the Cape route), 38
—— (-plantations shaded by bananas), 57
Phædra and Hippolytus, 127
Philosophic (used in a bad sense), 257
Pidar sokhtah = (son of a) burnt father (Persian insult), 26
Pilgrimage quoted (i. 297), 57
—— (i. 180), 61
—— (i. 349; iii. 73), 263
—— (ii. 116; iii. 190), 264
—— (i. 370), 276
—— (i. 298), 277
—— (ii. 332), 287
Poetical justice (administered with vigour in The Nights), 25
Poison (deadly only in contact with abraded skin), 202
Polyphemus (in Arab garb), 24
—— (no Mistress P. accepted), 27
Precautions (thwarted by Fate and Fortune), 167
Predestination (not Providence, a Moslem belief), 202
Prisons (Moslem), 244
Privy and bath favourite haunts of the Jinns, 141
Property (left by will), 213
Prophets (and their agnomina), 270
Prostration (must be made to Allah only), 136
Prothesis without apodosis (a favourite style in Arabic), 203; 239
Punctilios of the Desert, 264
Quarter (son of the = neighbour), 236
Ra’ad al-Kásif (Pr. N. = the loud-pealing Thunder), 221
Rafw = artistic style of darning, 198
Rahmah (Pr. N. = the puritanical “Mercy”), 226
Rais = captain, master (not owner) of a ship, 12
Rape (rendered excusable by wilfulness), 187
Ráy = rede (“private judgment”), 146
Ráyí = rationalist, _ib._
Red habit (sign of wrath), 250
Refusal of a demand in marriage a sore insult, 262
Relations between Badawi tribes, 267
Retorts (of a sharp Fellah), 232
Ring (in memoriam), 199
—— (lost in the Harím raises jealous suspicion), 200
Rivers (underground), 63
Robe (the hidden, story of), 188
Ruby (of exceptional size), 66
Rustak (Al-), city of Oman, 289
Rukh (the world-wide Wundervogel), 16
—— (study of, by Prof. Bianconi), 49
Sá’a (measure of corn, etc.), 203
Sabbah-ak’ Allah bi’l khayr = Allah give thee good morning, 196
Sabúr = Sapor II, 274
Safe-guard (I am in thy = I appeal to thy honour), 158
Sahmhu = his shaft, 100
Sahím al-Layl (Pr. N. = he who shooteth an arrow by night), 261
Sail = torrent, 164
Sá’ikah = thunderbolt, 271
Sailor (Ar. equivalents for), 242
Sáis = groom, horsekeeper (Syce), 9
Sajjádah = prayer-rug, 193
Saksar (Pers. Sag-sar = dogs’ heads), 37
Sa’lab = fox, 211
Saláhitah (Al-), island, 30
Salámát = Welcome!, 232
Sales (formula of), 73
Samak = common fish, 69
Samúm = poisonous wind (Simoon), 88
Sandal (Ar. Na’al), 207
Saráb = mirage, 93
Sarandib = Selan-dwípa (Ceylon), 64
Sásá bin Shays, 274
Satan (his malice weak in comparison with that of women), 144
Sea of Al-Karkar, 101
Sea-stallion (myth of the), 9
Serpent (breaks the bones of its devoured prey by winding round a tree
or rock), 29
—— (preserving from sickness), 66
—— (in Ar. mostly feminine), 75
Shakiriyah = Kshatriya caste, 10
Shamardal (Al-) = the Tall One, 221
Shams al-Daulah (imaginary king of Egypt), 241
Shaykh al-Bahr = the Chief of the Sea (-coast), 51, 53
Shaykh of the thieves (one of the worthies of a Moslem capital), 204
Shays = Ab Seth, 283
Shoe (Ar. Markúb, Na’al), 207
Shrouds (carried by the pilgrims to Meccah), 61
Sight comprehendeth Him not, etc., 282
Signs of Allah = Koranic versets, 144
Simoon (Ar. Samúm = poisonous wind), 88
Sindbád (not to be confounded with the eponym of the Sindibád-námah), 4
Sindibád the Sage, 124
Sindibád-námah (Persian romance), 122
Sindibad-námah (quoted), 129; 132; 134; 139; 143; 145; 150; 152; 169;
180; 183; 188; 202
Sírah (small fish, fry, sprat), 216
Siyághosh, _see_ Tufah.
Sold to thee for monies received (formula of Moslem sales), 73
Solomon (his food-tray), 80
—— (his seal-ring), 84
—— (the Apostle of Allah), 99
—— (his Wazír Asaf), _ib._
—— (his trick upon Bilkís), 113
Spears and javelins, 263
Stallion (I am not one to be struck on the nose), 262
Steel (Ar. Bulád), 115
Stirrup (walking by the), 234
Stones (precious, and their mines), 18
—— (removed from the path by the pious), 190
Suez (Ar. Al-Suways), 80
Suways (Al-) = Suez, _ib._
Swimming (studied in Baghdad), 134
Sword (the enchanted), 230
Tadmurah (founds Tadmur or Palmyra), 116
Talking birds (watching over wives), 132
Tanjah = Tangiers, 106
Target (Ar. darakah), 9
Ta’rísak = thy going between (pimping), 196
Tasmeh-pá = strap-legs, 51
Tawáf (circuit of the Ka’abah), 242
Thousand thousand = a million, 98
Three things are better than other three, 5
“Throwing the handkerchief”, 285
Tin (Ar. Kazdír), 39
Tingis = Tanjah (Tangiers), 106
Torrents (Ar. Sail) a dangerous feature in Arabia, 164
Tortoise (the colossal), 33
Toujours perdrix, 130
Traveller (a model one tells the truth when an untruth would not serve
him), 7
Tribes (relations between), 267
Tufah = felis caracal, lynx, 260
Tusks (not teeth), 82
Tyrant (from —, to tyrant = from official to official), 214
Ujb = arrogance (in the Spanish sense of gaiety, etc.), 164
Ulysses (the Arabian), 40
Unhappy thou!, 285
Underground rivers, 63
Upakoshá (Vararuchi’s wife), 172
Usirát (Al-), island, 57
Vengeance (of a disappointed suitor apprehended), 286
Vivisepulture, 41
Wa’ar = rough ground unfit for riding, 140
Wadd, Suwá’a and Yaghús, 282
Wady al-Ward (the Vale of Roses), 276
Walímah = marriage-feast, 74
Walking afoot (not dignified), 227
Wanderer in the mountains = a recluse avoiding society, 158
Wars (caused by trifles frequent in Arab history), 142
Wasm = tribal sign, 163
Water-melons (eaten with rice and meat), 208
Week-days (old names for), 190
Whale (still common off the East African coast), 11
White (colour of the Ommiades), 86
—— robes denote grace and mercy, 250
Wife (Aurat), 30
—— (called “Family”), 75
Will he not care? = he shall answer for this, 245
Windows (looking out of, a favourite occupation in the East and South),
167
Wishes (tale of the three), 180
Witches (and their vehicles), 158
Witness (bear —, against me, _i.e._ in case of my denial), 286
Wives (and their suitors), 172
Woman (in Hindostani jargon = aurat), 30
—— (her shame extends from head to toes), 118
—— (their cunning and malice), 144
—— (corrupts woman more than men do), 152
—— (knowing enough without learning to read and write), 168
—— (of Kashmír), 156
—— (her female visitors unknown to the husband, except by hearsay), 199
—— (words used only by them, not by men), 233
Ya’arub (eponymus of an Oman tribe), 260
Yá miskín = O poor devil, 219
Yauh! Yauh! = Alas, 235
Yaum mubárak = a blessed day, 215
Zabbat = lizard; bolt, 247
Zughzaghán (Abú Massáh = Father of the Sweeper) = magpie, 182
Zahra = the flowery, 145
Zahwah = mid-time between sunrise and noon, 35
Zalamah (Al-) = “tyranny”, 214
Zanj = Zang-bar (Black-land, Zanzibar), 104
Záwiyah = oratory, 259
Zu al-Autád = the contriver of the stakes (Pharaoh), 118
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TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES
1. Changed ‘city use’ to ‘city used’ on p. 53.
2. Changed ‘nre’ to ‘fire’ on p. 222.
3. Changed ‘mattrasses’ to ‘mattresses’ on p. 227.
4. Changed ‘centuries late’ to ‘centuries later’ on p. 240.
5. Changed ‘into goal’ to ‘into gaol’ on p. 244.
6. Silently corrected simple spelling, grammar, and typographical
errors.
7. Retained anachronistic and non-standard spellings as printed.
8. Enclosed italics font in _underscores_.
9. Superscripts are denoted by a carat before a single superscript
character or a series of superscripted characters enclosed in curly
braces, e.g. M^r. or M^{ister}.