Marhúm (Al-) = my late brother (_tr._ “my brother who hath found
mercy”) iii. 58.
Máristán = Mad house, i. 18.
—— = The Bedlam, iv. 207.
Máriyah (Maria, Mary) a non-Moslem name, ii. 194.
Marj = the open grassy space on left bank of Baradah (Damascus) River,
vi. 169.
—— Sali = cleft meadow (here and below) to “Green Meadow,” ii. 227.
Marjánah = the “Coralline” (from Marján = red coral), _tr._ “Morgiana,”
iii. 378.
“Marham al-akbar, Al-” (_Arab._) = the greater salve, v. 51.
Markab mausúkah (from ✓ “Wask” = conceiving, being pregnant) v. 474.
—— _tr._ “a vessel in cargo (and about to set sail),” v. 474.
Market (Central) = the great Bazar, the Indian “Chauk,” iii. 422.
Marmar Sumáki (_Arab._) = porphyry of which ancient Egypt supplied
finest specimens (_tr._ “Sumáki marble”) iii. 139.
Marocco earliest occurrence of name, ii. 252.
Marriages (Morganatic) iii. 33.
Marriage portion, v. 28.
“Marrying below one,” i. 94.
“Martabah” = a mattress, placed upon “Mastabah” (bench) or upon its
“Sarír” (framework of jaríd or midribs of the palm) becomes the
“Díwan” = Divan, v. 68.
Martabán, iv. 204. See Bartamán, iv. 204.
Martabat Saltanah (for “Sultániyah”) which may mean a royal Divan, v.
68.
Martha and Mary (Fátimah and Halímah) v. 318.
Marwazí = Marw (derived from Sansk. Maru or Marw) i. 288.
Marzbán = guardian of the Marches, i. 234.
Masalah = a question (_tr._ “catch-question”) i. 138.
Masarat fí-há = and she used hard words to her, i. 31.
Masbúbah, _tr._ “Cakes,” v. 347.
Mas’h, _tr._ “robe” (of hair) vi. 157.
Mashá’ íli (_Arab._) the cresset-bearer, who acted hangman (_tr._
“Linkman”) iv. 23.
“Mashá’ilíyah jaftáwát wa fánúsín” = “(cresset) bearers of double
torches and lanterns” (ST.) vi. 67.
Masháli = three parallel gashes drawn down cheek of child (to prevent
kidnapping) iv. 153.
Mashrút Shadak (_Arab._) = split-mouthed, iv. 91.
Maslakh = stripping room (also Ká’ah) iii. 133.
Massage (Greek synonym μάσσω and Latin “Massare”) iv. 177.
—— needlessly derived from _Arab._ “Mas’h” = rubbing, kneading, iv.
177.
Massa-hu’l Fakr = poverty touched him, vi. 105.
Masser, vulg. for Misr, Egypt Grand Cairo; from Misraim, Son of Cham,
vi. 25.
Mastúrah = veiled (_tr._ “curtained”) i. 309.
Matamor (_Arab._ “Matmúrah”) = Sardábah, a silo for storing grain,
etc., vi. 17.
Matáyá Al- = Wight, vi. 162.
Matmúrah = a silo, matamor, or “underground cell,” i. 84
Maugraby used as an opprobrious term (Fr. _Maugrebleu_) iv. 43.
Maunds (fifty) = about 100 lbs., i. 250.
Maut Ahmar = violent or bloody death (_tr._ “red death”) ii. 11.
Mauza’ (_Arab._) = a place, an apartment, a saloon (_here tr._ “hall”)
iii. 71.
Ma’úzatáni = The two Preventives (two chapters from the Koran) ii. 101.
Mawálid (_pl._ of Maulid) = _lit._ “nativity festivals,” (_here_
“funeral ceremonies”) ii. 187.
Mawázi (_pl._ of Mauz’) = _lit._ places, shifts (_tr._ “positions”) ii.
112.
May God never requite thee for me with good (_i.e._, Damn your soul for
leading me into this danger) ii. 39.
—— I not be bereft of these steps = may thy visits never fail me, ii.
110.
“—— it be fortunate to thee,” a little precatory formula to keep off
the Evil Eye, iv. 119.
Maydán = plain, iii. 145.
Mayzah (_Arab._) = the large hall with a central fountain for ablution
attached to every great mosque (_tr._ “lavatory”) v. 458.
Mayzar (_Pers._) = a turband; in _Arab._ “Miizar” = a girdle, a
waistcloth, vi. 53.
Mazarát (_Arab._) from ✓ “Mazr” = (an egg) being addled (_tr._ qualms)
iv. 177.
Mazbúh = slaughtered for good, v. 159.
Mazlúm (Al-) = the wronged, vi. 59.
Mazrab Al- = the care of the place, vi. 251.
Meccah and Al-Medinah = The two Sanctuaries, ii. 220.
Medicine-man (Israelite) always a favourite amongst Moslems and
Christians, v. 160.
Medinah (Al-), whose title is “Al-Munawwarah” = the Illumined, iii. 58.
Merchants wear dagger and sword, ii. 38.
Mesmerism (“impose her hand upon his head”) iii. 189.
Mesopotamia (_Heb._ Naharaym, _Arab._ Al-Jazírah) iii. 269.
Met (_Sindi_) = a kind of clay, iii. 348.
Mezzízah = applying styptics to the wound (third operation of
circumcision), v. 217.
Miat Mamlúk Kitáb (_Arab._) latter word meaning “one of the Book, a
Jew” or Christian, iv. 85.
Miat wa arba’at ’ashar Súrat = the 114 chapters of the Alcoran, i. 147.
Mídí, clerical error for “Mayyidí,” an abbreviation of Muayyadí =
quarter farthing, iv. 127.
Miftáh (prop. “Miftah”) = key used throughout the Moslem East, v. 265.
Mihaffah bi-takhtrawán (_Arab._) = a covered litter, iii. 33.
Mihrján (Al-) = the Autumnal Equinox, i. 129.
—— Al- (a P.N. not to be confounded with Maháráj = Great Rajah) v. 123.
Mihtár, also may mean superintendent, head equerry, chief of military
band (ST.) (_here tr._ “Shaykh of the Pipers”) v. 298.
—— (in text) = a prince, a sweeper, a scavenger, v. 298.
Miizar (_Arab._) = a girdle, a waistcloth, vi. 53.
“Mík! Mík!” an onomatopy like “Couïc, Couïc,” vi. 158.
Mikshat (_Arab._) whose ✓ would be “Kasht” = skinning a camel (_tr._
“Whittle”) iv. 100.
Miláh (pleasant) for Mubáh (permitted), iii. 38.
Milah = the cut (first operation of circumcision) v. 217.
Miláyah = a sheet of cotton used as apparel, iv. 220.
“Mi’lakat (pop. cor. for Mil’akat al-Hilál”) may be the spoon or hollow
part of an ear-picker (ST.) v. 108.
Milk, specific gravity of, iv. 238.
—— and dates, a favourite food, i. 59.
—— time (father has no connection with the mother during) iv. 350.
—— time was passed (two years) usual time amongst savages and
barbarians, iv. 350.
Mín (who) for “Man,” a Syro-Egyptian form common throughout the MS.,
iii. 14.
’Min al-’Án wa sá’idan” _lit._ = from this moment upwards, vi. 189.
—— al-Malábis (_Arab._) pl. of “Malbas” = anything pleasant or
enjoyable, iv. 149.
—— al-Malábis (_Arab._) pl. of “Milbas” = dress, garment, iv. 149.
—— ba’ada-hu (making Jesus of later date than Imr al Kays) v. 199.
“—— ba’di an” for “Min ba’di má” = after that, iii. 34.
—— ghayr Wa’ad = without appointment (_tr._ “casually”) v. 373.
“—— Min Hakk la-hu Asl an ’and-ná huná Rájil,” a thoroughly popular
phrase = “Of a truth hath any right or reason to say that here in
this house is a man?” v. 247.
—— (Dr. Steingass explains and translates) v. 247.
“—— kuddám-ak” (meaning doubtful), v. 113.
—— perhaps it means “from before thee,” _i.e._, in thy presence (ST.)
v. 113.
Míná = a port, both in old Egypt. and mod. Pers., vi. 258.
Mi’ráj = ascent to heaven made by Apostle and return therefrom,
etc.—History of, vi. 121.
Mirror, a compromising magical article of many kinds, iii. 23.
Mirrors, made to open and shut in the East, iii. 24.
Mirwad = iron axle of pulley, etc.—hence a bar of metal (_tr._ “ingot”)
iv. 142.
Mirza Mohammed Husayn Khan, originally a Bakkál (greengrocer) made
premier of Fath Ali Shah’s Court, vi. 194.
Misallah (_pl._ “Misáll”) = a large needle for sewing canvas, iv. 288.
Miskah = Bit o’ Musk, i. 16.
Miskál is the weight of a dinar = 1½ dirham = 71–72 grains avoir., vi.
244.
“Misla’l-Kalám” (? a cler. error for “misla ’l-Kiláb”) = as the dogs do
(ST.) v. 282.
—— -Khárúf (for “Kharúf”) a common phrase for an innocent, a half
idiot, v. 283.
Misr = used in a threefold sense for Egypt, old Cairo and new Cairo,
iii. 34.
Misraim (the dual Misrs) vi. 12.
“Misri” here = local name (in India applied exclusively to sugar candy)
v. 352.
“Mithkála Zarratin” (translations by Author, Rodwell, Houdas and
Steingass) v. 48.
“Mizr” in Assyrian = “Musur,” in Heb. = “Misraim,” in Arab. “Misr,”
corrupted to Masser, vi. 12.
Mizwad (or Mizwád) = _lit._ provision bag, ii. 222.
Modesty in story of Alaeddin, iii. 148.
Mohammed Ali Pasha (“the Great”) ii. 9.
Mohsin = _i.e._, one who does good, a benefactor, v. 321.
“Moormen,” famed as Magicians, iii. 54.
More cutting = more bewitching, ii. 143.
Morier and the literal translation of the “Arabian Nights,” iii. 191.
Morning and evening = day and night for ever, ii. 195.
Moses (by name Osarsiph = Osiris-Sapi), history of by (Manetho) vi.
112.
Moslem school described, iv. 98.
Moslems all know how to pray, i. 13.
—— bound to see True Believers buried, i. 289.
—— make Wuzú-ablution and pray dawn-prayers before doing anything
worldly, iii. 141.
—— shun a formal oath, i. 304.
—— think the more you see of them the more you like them, ii. 208.
Mother (all women resembled her); an absurd statement to the West but
true in the East, iii. 97.
—— the head of the household (Kabírah) vi. 83.
“—— of Hospitality” is the Sikbáj (_Pers._ Sikbá) = principal dish set
before guests, vi. 159.
—— of our Harím = my wife, v. 283.
“—— of Strengthening” (meat pudding) vi. 159.
—— takes rank before the wife, according to Moslem fashion, iii. 301.
“Mothers” the prime figures of geomancy, daughters being secondary,
iii. 156.
Mourning-dress, iv. 248.
Mouse, passing over food, makes it impure for a religious Moslem to
eat, v. 239.
Moyah (in text), or as Fellah of Egypt says “Mayyeh,” or the Cairenne
“Mayya” and other forms, v. 323.
“Muábalát min shaani-ká” = (From early dawn) I have wearied myself, vi.
178.
Muaddib al-Atfál (_Arab._) = one who teacheth children, iv. 95.
Muajjalah = money paid down before consummation (=£25) ii. 141.
Mu’ajjalah = coin paid contingent on divorce (=about £75) ii. 141.
Mu’ammarjiyah (master masons) vulg. Egypt. for “Mu’ammarín” (_tr._
“architects”), iv. 228.
Mu’arris = pander, i. 206.
Mu’awizzatáni (Al-) “Two Refuge-takings,” iv. 252.
Mubáh = an action not sinful (_harám_) or quasi-sinful (_makrúh_)
(_tr._ “lawfully”) ii. 12.
Mubárak = The blessed or well omened, iii. 13.
Mubarbasah (_Arab._) in the fem. because referring to noun Tíz = anus
(ST.) iv. 291.
Mubattat (_Arab._) from batt = a duck (_tr._ “duck-shaped”) iv. 27.
Mudáwi Al- = the man of the people who deals in simples, etc. (as
opposed to scientific practitioner) v. 326.
Mubdi’ = the beginner, the originator, v. 196.
Mubtalí Al = sore (leprous), v. 301.
Muhandisín = geometricians, architects, for “Muhandisín,” iv. 228.
Muhat takáat = usually “with torn veils,” metaphor meaning in disgrace
(_tr._ “unveiled”) ii. 46.
Muhibbattu (Al-), _fem._ or “Muhibb” lover (in Tasawwuf particularly =
“lover of God”) (ST.) v. 393.
Muhjat al-kulúb = “Core” or “Life-blood of hearts,” v. 201.
“Muhkaman,” a word never found in the Koran, v. 47.
Mu’ín al-Din = “Aider of the Faith,” ii. 5.
Mu’izz bi-Díni ’llah, Al- (first Fatimite Caliph raised to the throne
of Egypt), tale of, v. 43.
Mukábalah, the third form of “Kabil” = requital, retaliation (ST.) vi.
55.
Mukabbab (_Arab._) = vaulted, arched, &c. (_tr. here_ “heaped”) iv. 9.
Mukaddam = Captain, ii. 7.
—— (_Anglo-Indicè_ “Muccuddum”) = overseer, v. 310.
Mukattaf al-Yadayn = arms crossed behind his back (a servile posture)
iii. 16.
“Mukawwamína (Al-) wa Arbábu ’l Aklám,” the latter usually meaning
“scribes skilled in the arts of caligraphy,” v. 374.
Mukh, _lit._ = brain, marrow (_tr._ “dimple”) v. 86.
Mukhaddarát = maidens concealed behind curtains and veiled in the
Harem, ii. 265.
Mukrif = _lit._ born of a slave father and free mother (_tr._ “blamed
lad,”) vi. 137.
Mulberry-tree in Italy bears leaves till the end of October, and the
foliage is as bright as spring verdure, vi. 7.
Mulúkhíyá (_der._ from Gr. μαλάχη from μαλάσσω = to soften) a favorite
vegetable, iv. 176.
Mulúkhiyah náshiyah (_Arab._) _lit._ = flowing (_tr._ “gravied
mallows”) iv. 176.
Munáfik (_Arab._) = “an infidel who pretendeth to believe in Al-Islam”
(_tr._ “hypocrite”) iii. 83.
Munajjim = Astrologer (authority in Egyptian townlets) i. 66.
Munawwarah (Al-) = the Illumined (title given to Al-Medinah) iii. 58.
—— (Al-) = the enlightened, v. 43.
Munír = “The brilliant,” the enlightened, ii. 100.
Munkati’ah = _lit._ “cut off” (from the weal of the world) _tr._
“defenceless,” i. 337.
Munkar and Nakír, the Interrogating Angels, i. 294.
Munnaskif (for manáshif) al fillfillee; according to Scott “compound of
peppers” “red, white and black;” according to Lane and _tr._ here
drying towels of Líf or palm-fibre, iv. 56.
Murafraf (passive) from Rafraf = anything overhanging something else
(ST.) iv. 338.
Murakhkhim = a marble cutter = simply a stone-mason, vi. 60.
Muruwwah _lit._ = manliness, i. 303.
Músà (Moses), vi. 112.
Músà wa Múzi = Músà the Malignant (Múzí = vexatious, troublesome) v.
321.
—— (Dr. Steingass reads Muusí, the malignant, the malefactor) v. 321.
Musáfahah = palm (of the hand) ii. 225.
Musajja’ (_Arab._) = rhymed prose or Saj’a, iv. 133.
Musallà = Prayer-place, i. 313.
Musawwadatayn (_Arab._) = _lit._ two black things, rough copies, etc.
(_tr._ “affright”) iii. 87.
Mushayyadát, _tr._ “high-builded,” iii. 66.
Musician, also a pederast, i. 209.
Músiká (_Arab._) _classically_ “Musikí,” = Μουσικὴ, _Pers._ Músikár =
Music, iii. 137.
Muslimína, the inflect. plur. of “Muslim” = a True Believer, v. 367.
Mustafà = the chosen Prophet, Mohammed, v. 203.
—— bin Ism’aíl (began life as apprentice to a barber and rose to high
dignity) v. 110.
Mustanda = strong box, ii. 9.
Mustapha, iii. 53.
Mustaráh (Al-) = Chapel of Ease (a favourite haunting-place of the
Jinn), ii. 85.
Musulmán (our “Mussalman,” too often made _pl._ by “Mussalmen”) is
corrupted Arab. used in Persia, Turkey, etc., v. 367.
Mutahattil (Al-) usually = one who forsakes the world (_tr._ “oyster”)
i. 215.
Mutahaddisín = novi homines, upstarts (_tr._ “of the number of the
new”) ii. 82.
Mutalammis (“Jarír bin ’Abd al-Masíh”) a poet of “The Ignorance,” vi.
94.
“Mutalaththimín” = races in North Africa whose males wear the
face-swathe (“Lithám”) of cloth, v. 139.
“Mutasa’lik” for “Moutasa’lik = like a Sa’lúk” = lean of limb, vi. 122.
Mutátí bi zahri-h (_Arab._) = “hanging an arse,” v. 459.
Mutawallí = Prefect (of Police) ii. 30.
Mutawassí ... al-Wisáyat al-támmah (Wisáyat is corr. noun) = he charged
himself with her complete charge, _i.e._, maintenance (ST.) v. 474.
Mu’tazid bi ’llah Al-, Caliph, vi. 124.
Mut’ah = temporary and extempore marriage, the Pers. Sí’ghah, iii. 33.
Muwaswas (Al-) = Melancholist, i. 264.
Muzawwaj = married, vi. 170.
Muzfir (Al-) = the Twister, ii. 95.
Mysteries of Marriage-night but lightly touched on, because the bride
had lost her virginity, v. 417.
Naakhaz bi-lissati-him (in text), _tr._ “until I catch them in their
robbery” (see under “Luss”) v. 337.
—— (Dr. Steingass reads “Balsatahum” = until I have received their
“ransom”) v. 337.
Na’sh = a box like our coffin, but open at the top, iv. 289.
Nabbút (Egyptian and Syrian weapon), iii. 482.
—— = a quarter-staff, opp. to the “Dabbús” or club-stick of the
Badawin, etc., v. 250.
Nabít, son of “Ashur,” vi. 3.
Nabíz = date-wine (or grape-wine) i. 160.
Nabk = lote tree or _Zizyphus lotus_, for sprinkling corpses, iv. 257.
Náblús = Samaria, iii. 271.
Nádán (_Arab._) = the “unknowing” (as opp. to Naudán, the equiv. of
Pers. “New of knowledge”) vi. 11.
Nadan (in Assyrian story) = Nathan Kin of the people of Pukudu, vi. 3.
——, The Fool, vi. 3.
Nádán (_Pers._) = fool, vi. 3.
Nadb = brandishing or throwing the javelin, iii. 154.
Nadd, a compound perfume, ii. 108.
Naddábah = public wailing-woman, vi. 17.
Nafas _lit._ = breath (_tr._ “air”) i. 124.
Náfishah = _Pers._ “Náfah” der. from the ✓ “naf” = belly or navel (the
part in the musk-deer supposed to store the perfume) v. 207.
Nagus = a pear, vi. 160.
Naharaym (_Heb._) = Mesopotamia, iii. 269.
Nahawand, “Nahávand” the site in Al-Irak where the Persians sustained
their final defeat at the hands of the Arabs (A.H. 21) v. 209.
—— also one of many musical measures (like the Ispaháni, the Rásti,
etc.) v. 209.
Nahnu = we (for I) ii. 28.
“Nahs” = something more than ill-omened, something nasty, foul,
uncanny, vi. 71.
Náhú (from ✓ “Nauh”) = making ceremonious “Keening” for the dead, vi.
17.
Náihah = the præfica or myriologist, ii. 171.
Na’ím = “the Delight” (also a P. N. of one of the Heavens) v. 199.
Náim (Al-) wa al-Yakzán = The Sleeper and the Waker, i. 1.
Na’íman = may it be pleasurable to thee (said by barber after
operation) v. 106.
Najmat al-Sabáh = constellation of Morn, vi. 173.
Nákah = She-dromedary, i. 315.
Nakáír al- (_pl._ of Nakír = a dinghy, a dug-out) _tr._ “canoes,” vi.
258.
“Naked intercessor” (one who cannot be withstood) ii. 83.
Nakdí = the actual dowry as opposed to the contingent dowry, vi. 43.
Nakhing = making the camels kneel, iii. 314.
Nakkál, or coffee-house tale-teller, iv. 235.
Nakl (_Arab._) = copying, describing, transcribing, iv. 193.
“Nakshat” and “Sifrat,” _tr._ Coin and Gold, iii. 29.
Nákús, or the Gong = Bell, vi. 100.
Name, not appearing in unedited tales, till much after the proper time
for specifying it, iv. 299.
Names for clouds, rain, etc., in _Arab._ well nigh innumerable, vi.
241.
“Na’mil ma’allazí, etc., makídah,” idiom “I will do him brown,” iv.
282.
Nard = table, iii. 180.
Nardashír (Nard Ardashír?) iii. 180.
Nás malmúmín = assembled men, a crowd of people (ST.) v. 253.
Nasím = the Zephyr, or the cool north breeze of Upper Arabia, v. 197.
Nasrín = moss-rose, ii. 115.
Nassafa = libavit, delibavit, etc. (ST.) v. 11.
Natar (watching) for “Nataf” (indigestion, disgust) v. 63.
Natawású sawíyah = Solace ourselves with converse, v. 395.
Natawású sawíyah (cler. error for “Natawánású Shuwayyah” = “let us
divert ourselves a little”) (ST.) v. 395.
Na’tázu (_Arab._) viii. form of ’áza = it escaped, lacked, &c.; hence
this form “we need” _tr._ “we require” (ST.) iv. 290.
Nátúr (_Arab._) pro. a watchman (_tr._ “old man”) iv. 204.
—— Al- = the Keeper, esp. of a vineyard, vi. 57.
Naubah, _lit._ = a period, keeping guard (here a band of pipes and
drums playing at certain periods) v. 299.
Naudán (_Arab._) equiv. to the _Pers._ “New of knowledge” as opp. to
“Nádán” the “unknowing,” vi. 11.
Navel string, treatment of, v. 411.
Náwús = Tower of Silence, i. 264.
Nawwáb (_pl._ of Náib) = a Nabob (_tr. lit._ “deputies”) ii. 8.
Nayízáti (_Arab._ afterwards “Nuwayzátí” and lastly “Rayhání”) = a man
who vends sweet and savoury herbs (_tr._ “Herbalist”), v. 298.
Naynawah, _i.e._, “Fish-town” or “town of Nin” = Ninus the founder, vi.
3.
—— in mod. days the name of a port on east bank of Tigris, vi. 3.
—— or “town of Nin” = Ninus, the founder, vi. 3.
Naysán, the Syro-solar month = April, vi. 27.
Nazaránah _prop._ = the gift (or gifts offered by Moslem noble to his
feudal superior) iii. 486.
Názilah = descent (of calamity), ii. 176.
Názir al-Mawáris = “Inspector of Inheritances,” ii. 286.
Náz o andáz (_Pers._) = coquetry in a half-honest sense (_tr._ “amorous
liveliness”), iii. 285.
Názúk, prob. a corr. of _Pers._ “Názuk” = adj. = delicate, nice, vi.
67.
Nazúr = one who looks intently, for Názir, a looker, vi. 18.
Necklace-pearls are the cup-bearer’s teeth, ii. 253.
“Necks” per synecdochen for heads, i. 47.
Negative emphatic in Arabic, i. 206.
Negemet-il-Souper (Heron) = Najmat al-Sabah = constellation of morn,
vi. 173.
Negroids dreaded by Hindús, iii. 276.
Never may neighbour defy thee, etc. (May thy dwelling-place never fall
into ruin), i. 15.
“New lamps for old” as in “Alaeddin,” iv. 322.
Ni’am = Yes (an exception to the Abbé Sicard’s rule), ii. 19.
Night beset his back = darkened behind him, ii. 197.
Niká (or sand hill) = the swell of the throat, ii. 252.
Níl (=the high Nile), iv. 215.
Ním = Persian Lilac (Melia Azadirachta) used as preventative to poison,
i. 64.
Nimak-harám, _tr._ “a traitor to the salt,” iii. 286.
Ním-chihreh (_Pers._) = Half-man (_Arab._ “Shikk”), iv. 76.
Nímshah = half sword or dagger, i. 14.
Nisf ra’as sukkar Misri, _tr._ “half a loaf of Egyptian sugar,” v. 352.
Níshábúr (Arab form of Nayshápúr = reeds of (King) Shápur), i. 270.
Nisrín, an island, prob. fabulous, where amber abounds, vi. 12.
“Niyat” (or intention) not pure, cause of King’s failure, v. 111.
Niyyah (_Arab._) = intent (normal pun upon the name), iv. 339.
Nizál = dismounting to fight on foot, vi. 231.
“None misses a slice from a cut loaf,” v. 393.
Nose (large in a woman indicating a masculine nature), i. 345.
“No thing poketh and stroketh more strenuously than the Gird,” or
hideous Abyssinian Cynocephalus,—popular Eastern belief, iv. 333.
Nukl-i-Pishkil = goat-dung bonbons, i. 288.
Nún al-taakid = the N. of injunction, ii. 23.
Nur al-Nihár = Light of the Day, iii. 419.
Nur Jehán (_Pers._) = “Light of the World,” iii. 473.
Nusf = half a dirham, drachma or franc, iv. 19–37.
Nusfs = Halves (_i.e._, of dirhams), i. 300.
—— (180 in these days = about 10d.), iv. 98.
Nu’umán (Al-), King of the Arab kingdom of Hirah, i. 170.
Nuwab (broken plur. of “Naubah,”) the Anglo-Indian Nowbut (_tr._
“Drums”), i. 324.
Nuwájiru ’l-wukúfát = Settlement of bequeathal, v. 467.
—— (Steingass reads “nuwájiru”) (for “nuájiru”) ’l-wakúfát and
translates “letting for hire such parts of my property as were
inalienable” (ST.), v. 467.
Nuzhat al-Fuád = “Delight of the Vitals” (or heart), i. 25.
—— al-Zaman = “Delight of the age,” v. 180.
Nuzhat-í = pleasance, ii. 45.
“O man, O miserablest of men, O thou disappointed,” etc.,
characteristic words of abuse, v. 359.
O my son! O my Child! (repetition a sign of kindness and friendliness)
iv. 269.
O my uncle (to elder man): O my cousin! (to youth) iv. 119.
O rider of the jar, _i.e._, a witch, vi. 76.
O thousand-horned (thousandfold cuckold) i. 247.
O vile of birth (Asl) a man’s origin being held to influence his
conduct throughout life, i. 62.
“O Woman,” popular form of address, iii. 108.
“O worshipper of Allah,” _i.e._, “O Moslem, opposed to enemy of Allah”
= a non-Moslem, v. 460.
Oarsman stands to his work in the East, iii. 25.
Oath of triple divorce irrevocable, i. 246.
Obedience to children common in Eastern folk-lore, vi. 90.
Ober-Ammergau “Miracle play,” i. 250.
Objects (better kept hidden) seen with naked eye by telescope (vulgar
belief) iii. 438.
Ocular testimony demanded by Moslem law, ii. 17.
“Of which a description will follow in its place,” a regular formula of
the Ráwí, or professional reciter, v. 131.
Og bin ’Unk (=Og of the Neck), the fabled King of Bashan, iii. 19.
Oil, anointing with for incipient consumption, ii. 75.
“Old lamps for new lamps—who will exchange?” iii. 159.
’Omán, name of the capital of Eastern Arabia, vi. 139.
Omar ’Adi bin Artah, i. 39.
—— bin Abd al-Aziz = the good Caliph, i. 39.
—— ibn Abi Rabí’ah, the Korashí (_i.e._ of the Koraysh tribe) i. 41.
Ommiades, Cathedral Mosque of, one of the wonders of the Moslem world,
vi. 172.
Onager, the Gúr-i-Khár of Persia, iii. 282.
—— (wild ass) confounded with Zebra, iii. 282.
“One day of the days,” a phrase emphasising the assertion that it was a
chance day, iv. 75.
Only son has a voice in the disposal of his sister, vi. 83.
“On my shop” = bit of boarding where the master sits, or on a stool in
the street, ii. 281.
“Open the spittle” = to break the fast, v. 51.
Original sin, vi. 247.
Orisons = the prayers of the last day and night, ii. 94.
Osarsiph = Osiris-Sapi (Moses) vi. 112.
“Otbah hath a colic,” vi. 77.
“Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings, &c.,” an idea not less Moslem
than Christian, iv. 271.
Pá-andáz = carpets and costly cloths, (spread between Baghdad and
Meccah for Harun al-Rashid) iii. 177.
—— = cloth to tread upon, vi. 259.
—— (_Pers._) = a carpet made of costly stuffs—a perquisite of royal
attendants, iii. 141.
Padding introduced to fill up the “night,” v. 460.
Paggí = Tracker, iv. 8.
Palace between two rivers = the Nílotic Rauzah-island, ii. 281.
—— not the place for a religious and scrupulous woman, ii. 229.
Papal bulls and Kings’ letters (in Mediæval Europe) were placed for
respect on the head, iii. 89.
Parasang (_Gr._ παράσάγγης), iii. 456.
Parks on the Coasts of Tropical Seas, i. 320.
Part and parts = more or less thoroughly, ii. 152.
Parturition and death compared with both processes in the temperates of
Europe, ii. 23.
Parwez, older pronunciation of the mod. (Khusrau) “Parvíz,” iii. 502.
Pashkhánah = a mosquito-curtain, iii. 121.
Pay-day for boys in Egypt (Thursday) iv. 98.
Payne quoted, i. 1, 8, 11, 34, 56, 134, 165, 209, 222, 238, 278, 286,
288, 289, 306, 311, 312, 322, 327, 338, 344; ii. 28, 54, 67, 73, 85,
110, 112, 154, 191, _ib._, 200, 227, 231, 238, 251, 263, 267, 275,
281; iv. 332; v. 55, 69.
Paysá (pice) = two farthings and in weight = ½ an oz., iii. 352.
Pear-tree, not found in Badawi land, v. 117.
Penalty inflicted to ensure obedience, iii. 336.