Guadalajara = Wady al-Khar (of dung), 10
Habíbí wa tabíbí = my love and leach, 299
Halímah = the mild, the gentle (fem.), 265
Halummú = draw near (plur.), 44
Hamadán (town in Persian Irák), 212
Hamíd (fem. Hamídah) = praiseworthy, satisfactory, 76
Hanzal = gourd, 165
Harámí = one who lives on unlawful gains, 147
Harf al-Jarr = particle governing the oblique case, mode of thrusting,
tumbling, 272
Hark, you shall see, 14
Harún al-Rashíd (as a poet), 17
—— (said to have prayed every day a hundred bows), 339
Háshimí = descendant of Háshim, 24
Hattín (battle of), 19
Háwí = Serpent-charmer, 56
Hazár Afsáneh (tales from the), 32
Hind (Al-) al-Aksà = Outer Hind or India, 116
Honey (simile for the delights of the World), 64
House (the Holy of Allah = Ka’abah), 178
Hulwán al-miftáh = denier à Dieu, 212
Huwayná (Al-) = now drawing near and now moving away, 250
Iblís = Diabolos, 300
Ibn Hamdún (transmitter of poetry and history), 229
Ibn ’Irs = weasel, 114
Ibrahím of Mosul, 304
’Irk = root, also sprig, twig, 251
Ishk ’uzrí (in the sense of platonic love), 250
Istahi = have some shame, 255
Istitá’ah = ableness, 80
—— (= freewill), 83
Jabábirah (pl. of Jabbár = giants), 109
—— (= conquerors), 323
Jabal = mountain (for mountainous island), 315
Jáh = high station, dignity, 174
Jahábizah (pl. of Jahbiz) = acute, intelligent, 62
Jalálikah = Gallicians, 156
Janázir (for Zanájir) = chains, 309
Jannat al-Khuld = the Eternal Garden, 214
Jawásís (pl. of Jásús) = spies (for secret police), 13
Jilbáb = gown, 290
Junayd al-Baghdádí (Sufi ascetic), 21
Kabasa = he shampoo’d, 213
Kádús (pl. Kawádís) = pot of a water-wheel, 218
Kaff Shurayk = a single “Bunn” _q.v._, 172
Kahramánah = duenna etc., 221
Kahwah (Al-) = coffee-house, 256
Kallim al-Sultán (formula of summoning), 224
Kamar al-Zamán = Moon of the Age, 247
Kanz = enchanted treasure, 320
Kaptán = Captain, 139
Kárah = budget, large bag, 216
Karkh (Al-), quarter of Baghdád, 313
Kasab (Al-) = acquisitiveness, 80
Kasídahs (their conventionalism), 250
Kasr = upper room, 283
Kaukab al-Saláh = Star of the morning, 301
Kaun = being, existence, 63
Khádim = eunuch, 237
Khadiv (not Kedive), Prince, 119
Khafz al-Jináh = lowering the wing (demeaning oneself gently), 33
Kháliyah (pun on), 291
Khara al-Sús = Weevil’s dung, 10
Khatt Sharíf = noble letter, 309
Khayr wa’Áfiyah = well and in good ease, 94
Khinsir = little (or middle) finger, 160
Khitáb = exordium, 126
Khizánah (Al-) = treasury, 22
Kidrah = pot, kettle, lamp-globe, 320
Killing (of an unfaithful wife commended by public opinion), 297
Kimkháb = brocade, 221
Kitáb al-Kazá = book of law-cases, 110
Koran quoted (ix. 33), 15
—— (xxvi. 88, 89; iv. 140), 16
—— (lvii. 88), 33
—— (lxxxi. 40), 59
—— (xii. 28), 119
—— (xl. 36; lxvii. 14; lxxiv. 39; lxxviii. 69; lxxxviii. 17), 166
—— (cviii. 3), 185
—— (xxiv.), 316
—— (cx. 1), 317
—— (xxxvi. 55–58), 322
—— (li. 18–19), 324
Kundur = frankincense, 7
Kurdús = body of horse, 111
Kutr Misr = tract of Egypt, 286
La’alla = haply, belike; forsure, certainly, 49
Lá baas = no harm is (yet) done, 102
Lá rajma ghaybin = without stone-throwing of secrecy, 1
Lá tankati’í = sever not thyself from us, 245
Láit = one acting like the tribe of Lot, sodomite, 253
Lajlaj = rolling in the mouth, stammering, 322
Lane quoted, 32; 33; 146; 168; 170; 171; 182; 221; 222; 224; 226; 229;
246; 291; 304; 307
Láwandiyah (Al-) = Levantines, 275
Laylat al-Kábilah = to-night, 271
Lázuward = Ultramarine, 190
Legs (shall be bared on a certain day), 253
Lie (only degrading if told for fear of telling the truth), 87
—— (simulating truth), 223
Lieu d’aisance (in Eastern crafts), 332
Light (of salvation shining from the face of Prophets), 324
Lijám shadíd = sharp bit, 70
Loathing of prohibition, 279
Lot (this is ours = I have been lucky and will share with you), 328
Lúlúah = Union-pearl; wild cow, 218
Luss = thief, robber, 106
Lymph (alluding to the “Neptunist” doctrine), 77
Má Dáhiyatak = What is thy misfortune?, 137
Mahdí (Al-), Caliph, 334
Má kahara-ní = none vexeth (or has overcome) me, 156
Maghrib (al-Aksà) = the land of the setting sun, 50
Mahall al-Zauk = seat of taste, sensorium, 83
Mahr = dowry (mode of its payment), 32
Maintenance (of a divorced woman during ’Iddah), 32
Male children (as much praised as riches), 316
Malik (Al-) al-Násir (Sultan Saladin), 19
Malocchio or Gettatura (evil eye), 247
Man (created after God’s likeness), 79
—— (I am one of them = never mind my name), 238
—— (of the people of Allah = a Religious), 51
—— (his wrong is from the tongue), 309
Mankind (superior to the Jinn), 339
Mansúr (Pr. N.) = triumphant, 310
Ma’rifah = article, 272
Martyrdom of the drowned, 340
Massacre (the _grand moyen_ of Eastern state-craft), 110
Matárik (pl. of Mitrak) = targes, 225
Matta’aka ’lláh = Allah permit thee to enjoy, 125
Maulid = nativity, 289
Mausúl (Al-) = the conjoined (for relative pronoun or particle), 272
Meniver = menu vair (Mus lemmus), 312
Menstruous discharge (made use of as a poison), 101
Mer-folk (refined with the Greeks, grotesques with other nations), 169
Messiah (made a liar by miscreants), 15
Mi’lakah = spoon, 141
Miracles (growing apace in the East), 336
Mishannah = old gunny-bag, 171
Miskál = about three penny weights, 262
Mohammed (sent with the guidance and True Faith), 15
Money (let lying with the folk = not dunned for), 311
Moon (taking in hand the star = girl handing round the cups), 192
Moslem (on a journey, tries to bear with him a new suit of clothes for
the festivals and Friday service), 51
—— (bound to discharge the debts of his dead parents), 311
—— (doctrine ignores the dictum “ex nihilo nihil”), 63
Moslems (deal kindly with religious mendicants), 51
—— (not ashamed of sensual appetite), 84
—— (bound to abate scandals amongst neighbours), 98
—— (husbands among them divided into three classes), 263
Mourning (normal term of forty days), 311
Mubárak = blessed (a favourite slave-name), 58
Mubárakah = the blessed (fem.), 330
Muhárabah = doing battle, 92
Munázarah = dispute, 243
Munázirah = like (fem.), _ib._
Munkar and Nákir, 163
Musáfahah = joining hands, 342
Music (forbidden by Mohammed), 31
Musta’ín bi ’lláh (Caliph), 246
Mu’tasím (Al-) bi ’lláh (Caliph), 232
Mutawakkil (Al-) ’alà ’lláh (Caliph), _ib._
Mu’tazid (Al-) bi ’lláh (Caliph), 229
Mu’tazz (Al-) bi ’lláh (Caliph), 242
Muunah = provender, 104
Nabí = prophet, 178
Nafakah = sum necessary for the expenses of pilgrimage, 178
Naïveté (of the Horatian kind), 215
Najis = ceremonially impure, 337
Nákisátu ’aklin wa dín = failing in wit and faith, 298
Nakkár = Pecker (a fabulous fish), 184
Names (approved by Allah), 165
Napoleonic pose (attitude assumed by a slave), 320
Násik = a devotee, 40
Násir (Pr. N.) = triumphing, 310
Naysábúr (town in Khorasan), 230
Nemo repente fuit turpissimus (not believed in by Easterns), 91
Nílah = indigo, dye-stuff, 144
New moon of the Festival = Crescent of the breakfast, 249; 250
Nimr = leopard, 63
Níyah (Al-) = ceremonial intention of prayer, 254
Nukl = quatre mendiants, dessert, 177; 213
Nusf = half-dirham, 139; 167
Nusk = piety, abstinence from women, 243
“Off-with-his-head” style (not to be taken literally), 308
Omar-i-Khayyám (astronomer-poet), 230
Othello (even he does not kill Emilia), 300
Paradise (of the Moslem not wholly sensual), 322
Parent (ticklish on the Pundonor), 288
Pay-chest (of a Hammám-bath), 152
Payne quoted, 22; 28; 79; 84; 86; 89; 171; 212; 224; 226; 227; 250;
251; 265; 268; 282; 290
Pearls (resting on the sand-bank), 164
People of His affection = those who deserve His love, 82
Persians (delighting in practical jokes), 177
Petrified folk, 318
Pilgrimage quoted
—— (i. 9), 50
—— (i. 235), 51
—— (iii. 66), 81
—— (i. 20), 165
—— (ii. 285–287), 175
—— (iii. 224, 256), 178
—— (i. 99), 262
—— (ii. 48), 307
—— (i. 314), 315
Pilgrims (offcast of the = a broken down pilgrim left to die on the
road), 290
Poisons in the East, 101
Policeman (called in, a severe punishment in the East), 137
Poltroon (contrasted with a female tiger lamb), 224
Potter (simile of the), 77
Power (whoso has it and spareth for Allah’s reward he prepareth), 340
Praying against (polite form of cursing), 293
Presence (I am in thy = thy slave to slay or pardon), 124
Price (without abatement = without abstracting a large bakhshish), 152
—— (shall remain), 262
Priest hidden within an image (may date from the days of Memnon), 324
Prince (of a people is their servant), 99
Prison (in the King’s Palace), 52
Pun, 278; 287
Question (expressing emphatic assertion), 182
Rahan = pledge, 311
Rank (thine is with me such as thou couldst wish = I esteem thee as
thou deservest), 41
—— (conferred by a Sovereign’s addressing a person with a title), 119
Rás al-Killaut = head of Killaut (a son of the sons of the Jinn), 8
Ridding the sea of its rubbish, 169
River (the, = Tigris-Euphrates), 313
Robbing (to keep life and body together an acceptable plea), 137
Rúh = spirit, breath of life, 67
Ruh = be off!, 168
Sa’ádah = worldly prosperity and future happiness, 327
Sabaka = he outraced, 111
Sabíyah = young lady, 226
Sabr = patience; aloes (pun on), 278
Safínah = (Noah’s) Ark, 310
Sáhil (Al-) = the coast (Phœnicia), 22
Sahm mush’ab = forked (not barbed) arrow, 48
Sa’ídah = the auspicious (fem.), 330
Sáki and Sákí, 253
Sákin = quiescent (applied to a closing wound), 255
Sákiyah = water-wheel, 218
Sa’lab = fox, 48; 103
Sálihiyah = the Holy (name of a town), 287
Sallah = basket of wickerwork, 56
Salutation (from a rider to a man on foot and from the latter to one
sitting), 1
Saluting after prayer, 254
Samn = clarified butter, 39
Sanájik = banners, ensigns, &c., 290
Sand (knowing from the = geomancy), 117
Saráwíl = bag-trousers (plural or singular), 225
Sardáb = souterrain, 241
—— (tunnel), 274
Sarí al-Sakatí (Sufi ascetic), 21
Sawáhílí = shore-men, 22
Sáyih = wanderer (not “pilgrim”), 51
Scoundrels (described with superior glee), 135
Sea (striking out sparks), 314
Seclusion (royal, and its consequences), 91
Secrets of workmanship (withheld from Apprentices), 263
Seeing sweetness of speech = finding it out in converse, 14
Sha’r = hair of the body, pile, 157
Shaving (process of), 139
Shaykh (after the type of Abú Nowás), 251
—— (for syndic of a Guild), 260
—— (al-Islam = chief of the Olema), 289
Shaykhah Rájihah = the excellent Religious, 347
Shíraj = sesame oil, 184
Shop (front-shelf of, a seat for visitors), 262
Shujá’ al-Dín (Pr. N.) = the Brave of the Faith, 18
Shukkah = piece of cloth, 236
Sidillah = seats, furniture, 190
Signs (language of), 269
Silah = conjunctive sentence; coition, 272
Sin (permitted that man might repent), 83
—— (thy shall be on thine own neck), 211
Singing (not harám = sinful, but makrúh = objectionable), 245
Sírah = minnow, sprat, 166
Skin (free from exudation sounds louder under the clapping of the
hand), 150
—— (extreme delicacy of the female), 321
Slave-girl (free, not forward in her address), 268
—— (lewd and treacherous by birth), 280
—— (to be sent as a spy into the Harims), 292
Sneezing (etiquette of), 220
Sons (brought as servants unto Kings), 43
“Soul” (for lover), 25
Spider-web frailest of houses (Koranic), 59
Spiritualism (the religion of the nineteenth century), 86
Spoon (Ar. Mi’lakah), 141
Steward (pendent to the parable of the unjust), 66
Style (intended to be worthy of a statesman), 42
Su’bán = dragon, 277
Submission (Ar. Khafz al-Jináh = lowering the wings), 74
Sufrah = cloth or leather upon which food is placed, 141
Sunan (used for Rasm = usage, customs), 74
Sur’itu = I was possessed of a Jinn, 27
Suwán = Syenite, 316
Suways (Suez) = little weevil, or “little Sús”, 10
Swevens (an they but prove true), 284
Taakhír = acting with deliberation, 328
Ta’álík = hanging lamps, 320
Tail (wagging of, a sign of anger with felidæ), 72
Táj Kisrawí = Chosroan crown, 319
Tájir Alfí = a merchant worth a thousand (left indefinite), 313
Takhmísh = tearing the face in grief, 190
Taksím = distribution, analysis, 77
Tanwín al-Izáfah = the nunnation in construction, 272
Taríkah = musical mode, modulation, 27
Taubah (Bi al-) = by means or on account of penitence, 83
Thongs (of the waterskins cut, preparatory to departure), 302
Three hundred and three score rooms = one for each day of the Moslem
year, 61
Three things (not to be praised before death), 39
Threshold (marble one in sign of honour), 238
Tibn = bruised straw, 106
Timbák (Tumbák) = stronger variety of Tobacco, 136
Time (distribution of), 71
Title (used by a Sovereign in addressing a person confers the rank),
119
Tobacco (its mention inserted by some scribe), 136
Too much for him (to come by lawfully), 174
Torrens quoted, 278
Toutes putes, 298
Trafalgar = Taraf al-Gharb (edge of the West), 50
Translators (should be “bould”), 224
Treasure (resembling one from which the talismans have been loosed),
287
Trébutien quoted, 33, 63
Tribe (the misfortune of one fortuneth another), 342
Truth (told so as to be more deceptive than a lie), 223
Tuning (peculiar fashion of Arab musicians with regard to it), 27
Turbands (inclining from the head-tops), 221
Turkey (Future of), 94
Turks (forming the body-guard of the Abbasides), 245
Tuwuffiya = he was received (into the grace of God), 54
Ubullah (canal leading from Bassorah to Ubullah-town), 31
Udm = “kitchen”, 213
Ukáb al-Kásir = the breaker eagle, 69
Úkiyyah (pl. Awák) = ounce, 216
Umm al-banát wa’l-banín = mother of daughters and sons, 175
Umm al-Su’úd (Pr. N.) = Mother of Prosperities, 173
’Ummál (pl. of ’Ámil = governor), 26
“Unbernfen”, 180
’Unnábí = between dark yellow and red (jujube-colour), 143
’Urb = Arabs of pure race, 293
Usúl = forbears, ancestors, 246
Veiling her honour = saving her from being ravished, 330
“Vigilance Committees” (for abating scandals), 98
Visit (confers a blessing in polite parlance), 185
Visits (should not be over-frequent), 273
Wa = and (introducing a parenthetic speech), 282
Walhán (Al-), no Pr. N., 6
Walí ’ahd = heir presumptive, 87
Wartah = precipice, quagmire, etc., 81
Wásit = middle (town of Irák ’Arabí), 26
Weal (I see naught but), 180
Weeping (over dead friends), 187
Wicket (small doorway at the side of a gate), 320
Wife (contrast between vicious servile and virtuous of noble birth),
302
Wird (Pers.) = pupil, disciple, 61
Wittol (pictured with driest Arab humour), 269
Women (to be respected by the King), 73
—— (“great is their malice”), 119
—— (a case of hard lines for them), 134
—— (their marrying a second time reckoned disgraceful), 246
—— (the sin lieth with them), 297
—— (fail in wit and faith), 298
—— (practically only two ways of treating them), 303
—— (delicacy of their skin), 321
Womankind (seven ages of), 175
Word (the creative “Kun”), 78
Yá abati = O dear father mine!, 88
—— ahmak = O fool!, 271
—— bunayyí = O dear my son!, 79
—— fulán = O certain person!, 324
—— fulánah = O certain person! (fem.), 270
—— jáhil = O ignorant!, 52
—— mauláya = O my lord!, 228
Yastaghíbúní = they take advantage of my absence, 224
Yathrib (old name of Al-Medinah), 177
Yes, Yes and No, No trifles, 250
Zaffú = they conducted her (in the sense of “they displayed her”), 245
Zaurá (Al-) = the bow (name of Baghdád), 13
Zaynab and Zayd (generic names for women and men), 250
Zí’ah = village, hamlet, farm, 27
Zirt = crepitus ventris, 291
Ziyárah = visiting the Prophet (’s tomb), 178
Zukhruf = glitter, tinsel, 86
Zur ghibban tazid hubban = call rarely that friendship last fairly, 273
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2. Added missing footnote number on p. 318.
3. Silently corrected simple spelling, grammar, and typographical
errors.
4. Retained anachronistic and non-standard spellings as printed.
5. Enclosed italics font in _underscores_.
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A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments,
Now Entituled the Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night