—— (I seek refuge with), _ib._ 35.
—— (He was jealous for Almighty), _ib._ 104.
—— (I fear him in respect of = I am governed by Him in my dealings
with), _ib._ 123.
—— (pardon thee, showing that the speaker does not believe in another’s
tale), _ib._ 154.
—— (the Provider), _ib._ 166.
—— (for the love of), _ib._ 170.
—— (Karím = God is bountiful), _ib._ 167.
—— (grant thee grace = pardon thee), _ib._ 283.
—— (yasturak = will veil thee), _ib._ 309.
—— (sole Scient of the hidden things, be extolled), _ib._ 311.
—— (raised the heavens without columns, etc.), _ib._ 324.
—— (will make things easy = will send us aid), x. 2.
—— (give thee quittance of responsibility), _ib._ 11.
—— (will send thee thy daily bread), _ib._ 13.
Allah! Allah! = I conjure thee by God, i. 346.
Alláh Karím = Allah is all beneficent, i. 32.
Allaho a’alam = God is all knowing, i. 2, 50.
Allaho akbar (as a war cry), ii. 89; v. 196; vii. 8; viii. 265.
Allahumma = Yá Allah with emphasis, i. 39.
Allusions (far-fetched, fanciful and obscure), iii. 58, 169, 176, 263.
Almá = brown- (not “damask-”) lipped, v. 66.
Almás = Gr. Adamas, ix. 325.
Almenichiaka, vi. 124.
Almond-apricot, vi. 277.
Alms to reverend men to secure their prayers, ii. 71.
Alnashar (Story of), x. 146.
Aloes, _see_ Sabr.
—— (well appreciated in Eastern medicine), ix. 100.
—— (the finest used for making Nadd), ix. 150.
Alpinism (unknown), iii. 324.
Al-Safar Zafar = voyaging is victory, i. 250.
Alwán (pl. of Laun, colour) = viands, dishes, viii. 23.
Amáim (pl. of Imamah) = turbands, iv. 100.
’Amal = action, operation (applied to drugs etc.), ix. 274.
’Amala hilah for tricking, a Syro-Egyptian vulgarism, vii. 43.
Amalekites, vii. 264, 265.
Amám-ak = before thee, vii. 94.
Amán = quarter, mercy, i. 342.
’Amáriah (Pr. N. of a town), vii. 353.
Amazon (a favourite in folk-lore), ii. 96.
Amazons (of Dahome), viii. 39.
Ambar al-Khám = rude Ambergris, viii. 85.
Ambiguousity, v. 44.
Amend her case = bathe her, etc., vii. 266.
Amid (Amidah) town in Mesopotamia, vi. 106.
Amín (Al-) = the Trusted of Allah, iv. 261.
—— —— son and successor of Hárún al-Rashíd, i. 185; v. 93, 152.
Ámín (Amen) = So be it! ix. 131.
Amír = military commander, i. 259.
’Ámir = one who inhabiteth, haunter, x. 6.
Amír and Samúl = Jones, Brown and Robinson, iv. 106.
Amír al-Muuminín = Prince of the Faithful, i. 112.
Ammá ba’ad = but after (initiatory formula), ii. 37.
’Amm = uncle (polite address to a father-in-law), x. 32.
Ammá laka au ’alayka = either to thee (the gain) or upon thee (the
loss), ix. ii.
Amor discende non ascende, iii. 240.
Amr (Al-) = command, matter, affair, ix. 67.
Amrad = beardless and handsome, effeminate, i. 327.
Amrú (pronounced Amr) or Zayd = Tom, Dick or Harry, iv. 2.
—— bin Ma’adi Karib (poet), v. 147.
—— bin Masa’dah (Pr. N.), v. 145.
Amsá = he passed the evening, etc., iii. 239.
Amsár (pl. of Misr) = cities, i. 11.
—— = settled provinces, vii. 371.
Amshát (combs) perhaps = Kanáfah (vermicelli), i. 83.
Amtár, pl. of Matr, _q.v._, iii. 295.
Amúd al-Sawári = the Pillar of Masts (Diocletian’s column), viii. 323.
Amúríyah = the classical Amorium, v. 141.
“Ana” (from Night ccclxxxi. to ccccxxiv.), v. 64.
Ana a’amil = I will do it (Egypto-Syrian vulgarism), v. 367.
Ana fí jíratak = I crave thy intercession (useful phrase), iv. 83.
Anagnorisis, admirably managed, viii. 104.
Analphabetic Amírs, ix. 126.
Ánasa-kum = ye are honoured by knowing him, x. 11.
Anbár (pronounced Ambár), town on the Euphrates, iv. 152.
Anbar (Ambar) = ambergris, vi. 60.
Andalíb = nightingale (masc. in Arab.), viii. 282.
Andalusian = Spanish (_i.e._ of Vandal-land), vi. 101.
Andam = the gum called dragon’s blood; brazil-wood, i. 176; iii. 263;
viii. 225.
Anemone on a tomb, ii. 325.
Angels (taking precedence in the order of created beings), ix. 81.
—— (appearing to Sodomites), iii. 301.
—— (ride piebalds), vi. 146.
—— (shooting down the Jinn), viii. 292.
Anís al-Jalís = the Cheerer of the Companion, ii. 5.
Animals (have no fear of man), ix. 181.
Anista-ná = thy company gladdens us, viii. 231.
Anklet-ring and ear drops (erotic meaning of), ii. 318.
Ansár = Medinite auxiliaries, vii. 92; viii. 183.
Ant (chapter ix. of the Koran), v. 213.
Antar (Romance quoted), iv. 41.
—— (and the Chosroë), vi. 285.
—— (contest with Khosrewan), vii. 289.
Anthropophagy (allowed when it saves life), v. 186.
Antiochus and Stratonice, iv. 10.
Ants (a destructive power in tropic climates), ix. 46.
Anúshírwán = Anúshín-rawán = Sweet of Soul, v. 87.
Anwá, pl. of Nau, _q.v._, viii. 266.
Anwár = lights, flowers, viii. 270; 282.
Anyáb (pl. of Náb) = grinder teeth, ix. 140.
Ape-names (expressing auspiciousness), iii. 159.
Apes (isle of) vi. 23.
—— (and their lustful propensities), vi. 54.
—— (gathering fruits), vi. 56.
—— (remnant of some ancient tribe), vii. 346.
Apodosis omitted, vi. 203, 239.
Apple (wine), iv. 134.
—— (many a goodly one rotten at the core), iv. 187.
Apricots (various kinds), viii. 268.
’Ár (Al-) = shame, v. 138.
Arab al-Arbá = prehistoric tribes of the Arabs, i. 112; v. 101.
—— al-Musta’ajimah = barbarised Arabs, _ib._
—— al-Musta’aribah = naturalised Arabs, _ib._
—— al-Muta’arribah = Arabised Arabs, _ib._
—— (exaggerates generosity), ii. 36.
—— (shouting under his ruler’s palace), _ib._ 39.
—— temperament, _ib._ 54, 101, 181.
—— cap (Turtúr), _ib._ 143.
—— (Derivation of the name), _ib._ 140.
—— (pathos), iii. 55.
—— (the noble merciful), _ib._ 88.
—— (shop), _ib._ 163.
—— (style compared with Persian), vi. 125.
A’ráb = dwellers in the desert, ix. 293.
Arab horses (breeds of), v. 246.
Arab-land and Ajam = all the world over, v. 136.
Arabian Night converted into an Arabian Note, vii. 314.
Arabian Odyssey, viii. 7.
Arabs (for plundering nomades), x. 25.
Arafat (Mount, where the victims are _not_ slaughtered), v. 295.
—— (day of), ii. 169.
Arák (capparis shrub), ii. 54.
—— (tooth-stick of the wild caper-tree; Aráka = I see thee), iii. 275.
Arakíyah = white scull-cap, i. 215.
Ar’ar = Juniper-tree, “heath,” iii. 254; vi. 95.
Ardabb (Irdabb) = five bushels, i. 263.
Ardeshir (Artaxerxes), three Persian Kings of the name, ii. 156; vii.
209.
Ardhanárí = the half-woman, iii. 306.
Arianism and early Christianity, x. 190.
Aríf (Al-) = monitor, i. 231.
Arísh (Al-), frontier town between Egypt and Palestine, ix. 286.
’Aríshah = arbour, etc., ix. 219.
Aristomenes and his fox, vi. 45.
Arithmetic (not mastered by Moslems), v. 236.
Arithmology (cumbrous in Arabic for lack of the higher numerals), ix.
123.
Ark al-Haláwat = vein of sweetness, for penis, iv. 51.
Arman = Armenia, ii. 273.
Armaníyah (Armenia), iv. 182.
Armenians (porters of Constantinople), vi. i.
Arm-pits (taking a dismounting person under the, a sign of respect),
iv. 24.
Arms and armour, x. 86.
Army (divided into six divisions), iii. 290.
Arsh = the ninth Heaven, v. 167.
Artál, _see_ Rotl.
Artists in cosmetics, x. 234.
Arúbah (Al-) = Friday, vi. 190.
Arún (Heb.) = in his shirt, i. 78.
’Arús (Al-) = the bride (tropical name for wine), viii. 203.
As’ad = more (or most) fortunate, iii. 346.
Asaf bin Barkhiya (Solomon’s Wazir), vi. 99; vii. 318; viii. 133.
Asáfírí = sparrow-olives, iii. 295.
’Asákír = corner-terminals of a litter, x. 32.
Asal Kasab = cane-honey, x. 3.
Asal Katr = drip-honey, x. 2.
Asal Nahl = bee’s honey, i. 271.
Ásár = traces, ix. 255.
Ash’ab (proverbial for greed), x. 15.
Asháb = companions, vii. 92; viii. 183.
Asháb al-Ráy (epithet of the Hanafi school), vi. 146.
Asháb al-Suffah, v. 102.
Asháb al-Ziyá = Feudatories, vii. 327.
Ashhab = grey-white, ii. 116.
A-Sharíf anta = art thou a noble, ix. 231.
Ashírah = clan, vii. 121.
Ashjár = door-posts or wooden bolts, vi. 191.
Ashkánián, race of Persian Kings, i. 78.
Asídah (custard, pap), iv. 37.
Ásim = defending, vii. 314.
Askar jarrár = drawing (_i.e._ conquering) army, vii. 85.
Aslah = head-kerchief, ii. 59.
Aslán (Pr. N., probably for Arslan = lion), iv. 78.
Asma’í (Al-), author of Antar, iv. 159; vii. 110.
Asoka’s wife and Kunála, vi. 127.
Ass (held ill-omened), ii. 25.
—— (-goad), iii. 116.
—— (voice “most ungrateful”), iii. 117.
—— (the wild, “handy” with his hoof), iii. 235.
Asr (Al-) = time or prayer of mid-afternoon, i. 240.
Astár (pl. of Satr = chopper?), viii. 184.
Astarte (primarily the planet Venus?), x. 229.
Astrolabe, father of our sextant, i. 304.
Aswad = black (used for any dark colour), viii. 268.
’Atb = blame, reproach (for disgrace), viii. 112.
Atbák = trays, v. 264.
Atheist (Ar. Zindík), viii. 27.
Atmár = rags (for travelling clothes), vii. 114.
Atnáb = tent-ropes, viii. 240.
Atr = any perfume, i. 355.
Atsah (Al-) = sneezing, ix. 220.
’Attár = perfume-seller, druggist, x. 8.
Attraction of like to like, ii. 296.
Auhashtaní = thou hast made me desolate, i. 62.
’Aúj = Persian town, Kúch (?), ix. 347.
Aun (of Jinns, etc.), iv. 88.
Aurat = shame, nakedness (woman, wife), vi. 30.
—— (of man and woman), vi. 118.
Avanie (Ar. Gharámah), viii. 151.
Avaunt = Ikhsa, be chased like a dog, vii. 45.
Awáh! Awáh! = Alas! Alas!, ii. 321.
Awák = ounces (pl. Ukíyah, _q.v._), viii. 12.
’Awálim, pl. of ’Álimah = dancing girls, i. 214.
’Awáshik = hucklebones, cockles, ix. 268.
Awwá (name of Satan’s wife), iii. 229.
Awwádah = lute-player, iv. 142.
Áyat = Coranic verses, ii. 242; iii. 307; iv. 142.
Áyát al-Naját = Verses of Safety, vi. 108.
Áyishah bint Talhah (grand-daughter of Abú Bakr), v. 79.
Aylúlah = slumbering after morning prayers, ii. 178.
Ayn = eye (for helper), v. 60.
Ayns (verset of the 140), v. 217.
Aysh (Egypt.) = Ayyu Shayyin for classical “Má” what, i. 79.
’Aysh = that on which man lives (for bread), x. 3.
Ayshat al-durrah murrah = the sister-wife has a bitter life, iii. 308.
Aywá (Ay wa’lláhi) = Ay, by Allah, i. 303; vii. 195.
Aywan = saloon with estrades, vii. 347.
Ayyás (Issus of Cilicia), iv. 76.
Ayyúb = Job, ii. 45.
Azal = eternity without beginning (opposed to Abad = infinity) ii. 205;
v. 390.
Azán (call to prayer), ii. 306; v. 209.
Az’ar = having thin hair; tail-less, ix. 185.
Azarbiján = Kohistán, vii. 104.
Azdashír, misprint for Ardashir, vii. 209.
Azghán = camel litters, ii. 282.
Azím = “deuced” or “mighty fine,” i. 178; ix. 40.
Azíz (fem. Azízah) = dear, excellent, highly prized, ii. 298.
’Azíz (Al-) al-Misr = Magnifico of Misraim, ix. 119.
Azrak = blue-eyed (so is the falcon!), vii. 164; viii. 4.
Azrár (buttons), ii. 318.
Ba’albak = Ba’al’s city, v. 51.
Báb = gate, chapter, i. 136; vii. 3.
—— (sometimes for a sepulchral cave), ix. 286.
Báb (Al-) al-’Ali = Sublime Porte, x. 5.
Báb al-Bahr and Báb al-Barr, viii. 55, 318.
Báb al-Farádís = gate of the gardens at Damascus, i. 240.
Báb al-Lúk (of Fostat), iv. 259.
Báb al-Nasr = Gate of Victory (at Cairo), vi. 234; x. 6.
Báb al-Salám (of the Al-Medínah Mosque), iv. 288.
Babel = Gate of God, i. 85.
Babes of the eye = pupils, i. 100; iv. 246.
Baboon (Kird) has a natural penchant for women, iv. 297.
Bábúnaj = white camomile, iii. 58.
Babylonian eyes = bewitching ones, viii. 278.
Bachelor not admitted in Arab quarters, iii. 191.
Back-parts compared to revolving heavens, iii. 18.
Bactrian camel, v. 371.
Badal = substitute, v. 249.
Badawí (not used in the Koran for Desert Arab), ii. 140.
—— (bonnet), _ib._ 143.
—— (a fool as well as a rogue), _ib._ 146.
—— (cannot swim), iii. 69.
—— (baser sort), _ib._ 70.
—— (shifting camp in spring), _ib._
—— (noble), _ib._ 88.
—— (bluntness and plain-speaking of), iv. 102; v. 98.
Badawi’s dying farewell, i. 75.
Bádhanj = windshaft, ventilator, i. 257.
Bád-i-Sabá = breeze o’ the morn, ii. 181.
Badinján = Solanum pomiferum or S. Melongena, v. 4.
Badlah Kunúzíyah = treasure-suit, ix. 331.
Badmasti = le vin mauvais, i. 88.
Badrah = 10,000 dirhams, iv. 281.
Badr Básim = full moon smiling, vii. 274.
Bághdád = Garden of Justice, iii. 100.
—— (House of Peace), viii. 51.
—— (of Nullity, opposed to the Ubiquity of the World), ix. 13.
Baghlah = she-mule, i. 129.
Bahá al-Dín ibn Shaddád (Judge Advocate-General under Saladin), ix. 23.
Bahádur = the brave, iii. 334.
Baháim (pl. of Bahímah = Behemoth) applied to cattle, iv. 54.
Bahak = white leprosy, v. 294.
Bahímah, mostly = black cattle, ix. 71.
Bahr = water cut or trenched in the earth, sea, large river, i. 44.
Bahr (Al-) al-azrak = Blue River, not “Blue Nile,” viii. 4.
Bahr al-Kunúz = Sea of Treasures, v. 37.
Bahr al-Muhít = circumambient ocean, i. 133.
Bahrám (Varanes) = planet Mars, iii. 339.
Bahramání = Brahman, iv. 101.
Bahríyah = crew, viii. 17.
Bahrwán (Pr. N. for Bihrún?), v. 329.
Bakh! Bakh! = bravo! brava!, ii. 151; iv. 121.
Bakhkharaní = he incensed me, ix. 238.
Bakhshish naturalized as Anglo-Egyptian, iii. 45.
—— (such as to make a bath-man’s mouth water), ix. 151.
Bakk = bug, iii. 328.
Bakkát = greengrocer, vii. 295.
Baklámah = almond-pastry, ii. 311.
Balábil pl. of bulbul (nightingale) and of balbalah (grief) v. 244.
Balah = green date, ii. 314.
Baldricks (Ar. Hamáil) v. 158.
Balíd = simpleton i. 17.
Ballán = body-servant, i. 311.
Ballánah = tire-woman, i. 311.
Ballúr (Billaur) = crystal, etc., iii. 194.
Baltiyah = Labrus Niloticus (fish) viii. 290.
Bán = myrobolan, vii. 247; viii. 322.
Banát = daughters, protégées, viii. 39.
Banát al-Na’ash = the Great Bear, iii. 28, 221.
Bandaged eyes (before beheading) iv. 145.
Bands of bandits, iii. 101.
Bandukáníyah (quarter of Cairo) vi. 254.
Banj = Nibanj = Nepenthe, i. 70.
Banner (bound to a spear sign of investiture) iii. 307; vii. 101.
Banní (Bunní) = Cyprinus Bynni, viii. 189.
Banquets (royal) iv. 212.
—— (daintily deviced) iv. 226.
Banú Abbás (their colours black) vi. 86.
—— al-Asfar (people of the yellow faces) ii. 220.
—— Isráíl, iv. 283.
—— Kahtán, vi. 260.
—— Nabhán, vi. 262.
—— Shaybán (tribe) iv. 233.
—— Tamim (tribe) vii. 125.
—— Umayyah (their colours white) vi. 86.
—— ’Uzzah (tribe famous for love passion) ii. 304; v. 70.
Banyán = Ficus Indica, vi. 81.
Baradiyah = wide-mouthed jug, i. 36.
Baras = white leprosy, v. 294; viii. 24.
Barge (Ar. Bárijah) vi. 24.
Bárid = cold (vain, foolish, insipid) i. 213; iii. 7.
Baríd = Post, vii. 340.
Bárijah (pl. bawárij) = Jarm, barge, vi. 24.
Barley, food for horses, i. 345.
Barmahát (seventh Coptic month) v. 231.
Barmecides (Ar. Barámikah) i. 188.
Barr al- (history of the family) x. 137.
Barmúdah (eighth Coptic month) v. 232.
Barr al-Manákhah in Al-Medinah, ii. 139.
Barsh = matting, ii. 18.
Barsh (Bars) commonest form of Bhang, iv. 31.
Bartaut = Berthold, ix. 8.
Barzakh = bar, partition, Hades, ii. 325.
Basaltic statues in Hauranic ruins give rise to the idea of men
transformed into black stones, i. 170.
Bashárah (al-) = gift of good tidings, guerdon, i. 30.
Báshik (small sparrow-hawk) iii. 61.
Basil = the Indian Tulsi, i. 19.
Basil of the bridges = Ocymum basilicum, pennyroyal, i. 91.
Basmalah = pronouncing the formula Bismillah, v. 206; ix. 1.
—— (commonly pronounced Bismillah) v. 213.
Bastardy (a sore offence amongst Moslems) viii. 115.
Bastinado of women, i. 183.
Bat (has seed like a man’s) v. 85.
Batáikh (Batátíkh) = water melons, vi. 208.
Batánah = lining, vii. 330.
Batárikah (half ecclesiastic half military term) viii. 256, 319.
Batárikh = roe, spawn, ix. 139.
Bath (first, after sickness) iii. 266.
—— (coming out of, shows that consummation has taken place) iv. 244.
—— (suggesting freshness from coition) vi. 135.
—— (and privy, favourite haunts of the Jinns) vi. 141.
—— (not to be entered by men without drawers) vi. 150.
—— (may it be a blessing to thee) viii. 200.
—— (setting it a-working, turning on the water, hot and cold) ix. 149.
Bathers pay on leaving the Hammám, ii. 332.
Bathsheba and Uriah (congeners of) vi. 129.
Bátiní = gnostic; a reprobate, ii. 29; vi. 221.
Batíyah = jar, flagon, viii. 323.
Batrak (Batrik) = patriarch, ii. 89.
Batrík (Bitrík) = patricius, ii. 89.
Batshat al-Kubrá = the great disaster (battle of Badr) vii. 55.
Battál (Al-), story of, x. 74, 75.
Battásh al-Akrán = he who assaults his peers, vii. 55.
Battle-pieces, vii. 61.
Bawd (admirably portrayed) iv. 4.
Bawwáb = door-keeper, vi. 189.
Bawwák = trumpeter (a discreditable character) viii. 192.
Bayáz = Silurus Bajad (cat-fish) viii. 150.
Bayáz = whiteness (lustre, honour) viii. 295.
Bayáz al-Sultáni = the best kind of gypsum, i. 270.
Baydah (Al-) = pawn in chess, v. 243.
Bayt (Al-) = the house (for cage) v. 269.
Bayt al-Mukaddas = Jerusalem, ii. 132.
Bayt Sha’r = house of hair; Bayt Shi’r = a couplet, viii. 279.
Bayzatán = testicles (egg-story) ii. 55.
Báz (vulg. for Tabl) = kettledrum, viii. 18.
Bazar (locked at night) x. 13.
Bazar of Damascus famous in the Middle Ages, i. 2.
Bází (Pers. Báz) = F. peregrinator, hawk, falcon, iii. 138.
BE! and IT IS (the creative word) v. 240, 286.
Bead thrown into a cup (signal of delivery) vii. 324.
Bean-eating in Egypt, iv. 160.
Beard (long, and short wits) iii. 247.
—— (forked, characteristic of a Persian) iii. 325.
—— (combed by the fingers in the Wuzú) v. 198, 209.
Beast with two backs (Eastern view of) vii. 35.
Beast-stories (oldest matter in The Nights) iii. 114.
Beauties of nature provoke hunger in Orientals, iii. 32.
Beckoning (Eastern fashion the reverse of ours) vi. 109.
Before the face of Allah = for the love of God, i. 135.
Beheading or sacking of a faithless wife unlawful but connived at, i.
181.
Belle fourchette (greatly respected) ix. 219.
Belle passion in the East, ii. 62.
Belt (Ar. Kamar) viii. 156.
“Ben” of an Arab shop as opposed to “but,” iv. 93.
Benches (in olden Europe more usual than chairs) vi. 26.
Berbers from the Upper Nile (the “Paddies” of Egypt) vi. 189.
Bestiality (fatally common amongst Egyptians) iv. 299.
Betrothed (for “intended to be married with regal ceremony”) x. 55.
Better largesse than the mace, viii. 163.
Bhang (its kinds and uses) ii. 123.
—— (properties of the drug) iii. 91.
—— (preparation of) iv. 31.
—— (drugging with = tabannuj) iv. 71.
Bida’ah = innovation, v. 167.
Bier (the bulging = hadbá) iv. 63.
Bi-fardayn = “with two singles” (for with two baskets) viii. 162.
Biká’a (= low-land) ii. 109.
—— (= convents, pilgrimages to) v. 125.
Bilád al-Filfil = home of pepper (Malabar) vi. 38.
Bilád al-Rúm (applied to France) viii. 339.
Bilád al-Súdán = Land of the Blacks (our Soudan) iii. 75.
Bilál (first Muazzin) ii. 306; iii. 106.
“Bilking” (popular form of) ix. 145.
Bilkís and her throne, ii. 79; viii. 82.
Bi ’l-Salámah = in safety (to avert the evil eye) i. 288.
Bint ’arús = daughter of the bridegroom (Ichneumon) iii. 147.
Bint Shumúkh (Pr. N.) = Daughter of Pride v. 382.
Bir (Al-) al-Mu’utallal = the Ruined Well, vii. 346.
Bird (created by Jesus) v. 211.
—— seen by Abú Bakr in the cave, v. 235.
Bird-girls, viii. 29.
Birds (sing only in the pairing season) vi. 15.
—— (huge ones discovered on the African coast) vi. 17.
—— (left to watch over wives) vi. 132.
—— (pretended understanding of their language) vi. 169.
—— (songs and cries of) v. 50.
Birkah = pool of standing wafer, iv. 270; vi. 75.
Birkat al-Habash = Abyssinian pond, i. 391.
Birth-stool (Ar. Kursí al-Wiládah) ii. 80.
Bishr (al-Háfí = Barefoot) ii. 203; ix. 21.
Bisát (Al-) wa ’l-masnad = carpet and cushion, viii. 55.
Bismillah = in the name of God, i. 40; v. 206.
—— (said before taking action) i. 80.
—— (civil form of dismissal) i. 98.
—— (= fall to) i. 264.
—— (= enter in Allah’s name) viii. 202.
—— (parodied) ii. 223.
Bismillah Námí = Now please go to sleep, viii. 178.
Biting the finger ends (not nails) sign of confusion, etc., ii. 38.
Biunes, bisexuals and women robed with the sun, vi. 168.
Bizá’at = capital, business concern, v. 81.
Black (colour of the Abbaside banner) ii. 292; vi. 86.
Blackamoors preferred by debauched women, i. 6.
Black-mail (paid to the Badawin of Ramlah) iv. 76.
Blast (of the last trumpet) v. 310.
Blaze (Ar. Ghurrah, _q.v._) iii. 118.
Blessings at the head of letters, vii. 133.
Blind (The, notorious for insolence) i. 330.
Blinding a common practice in the East, now done, i. 108.
Blue and yellow turbans prescribed to Christians and Jews, i. 77.
Blue-eyed (frequently = fierce-eyed) iv. 192.
Blue-eyes = blind with cataract or staring, glittering, hungry, vii.
164.
Boasting of one’s tribe, iii. 80.
Boccaccio quoted: i. 12, 174, 202, 251, 305; ii. 82, 112; iv. 36, 155;
v. 134.
Boccaccio and The Nights, x. 160.
Body-guard (consists of two divisions) iv. 62.
Boils and pimples supposed to be caused by broken hair-roots, i. 275.
Book (black as her) x. 1.
Books (of the Judgment-day) viii. 294.
Bostán (female Pr. N.) = flower-garden, iii. 345.
Bostáni = gardener, family name from original occupation, i. 266.
Boulgrin, Bougre, Bougrerie (derivations of the terms) x. 249.
Bow, a cowardly weapon, vii. 123.
Box (Ar. ’Ulbah) viii. 71.
Box-trick (and Lord Byron) vi. 168.
Boycotting (Oriental forms of) viii. 302.
Brain (fons veneris in man) v. 46.
Brasier (Kánún, Minkal) v. 273.
Brass (Ar. Nuhás asfar) vi. 83.
Braying of the ass, iii. 117.
Bread and salt (to be taken now “cum grano salis”) iv. 200.
Bread and salt (bond of) viii. 12.
Breast broadening with delight, i. 48.
—— straitened, the converse of the previous, i. 119.
Breast-bone (Taráib) v. 132.
Breath (healing by the) v. 29.
—— (of crocodiles, serpents, etc.) vi. 29.
Breeze (rude but efficacious refrigerator) iv. 199.
Breslau Edition quoted, i. 14, 52, 53, 54, 203, 217, 234, 245, 255,
345; ii. 77; iii. 162, 181, 211, 259; iv. 96, 113, 181; v. 9, 17,
24, 27, 32, 42; vi. 27, 30, 37, 44, 46, 56, 57, 84, 100, 129, 138,
148, 168, 180, 196, 207, 211, 213, 242, 247; vii. 145, 150, 168,
172, 173, 177, 202, 262, 315, 316, 320, 321, 324, 326, 327, 329,
331, 341, 342, 343, 350, 353, 354, 362, 363, 367; viii. 7, 18, 66,
98, 113, 197, 242, 264, 273; ix. 33, 42, 59, 63, 156, 159, 169, 185,
187; x. 54, etc.
Breslau Edition (mean colloquialisms thereof) x. 169.
Brethern (for kinsfolk) ix. 26.
—— (of trust and brethren of society = friends and acquaintances) ix.
75.
Bridal couch (attitudinising thereon) v. 75.
Bride of the Hoards, vi. 109; vii. 147; x. 31.
Bride-night, rarely conceived in, i. 227.
Bride’s throne, i. 215.
Bridle (not to be committed to another) vii. 304.
Brother (has a wide signification amongst Moslems) vi. 243.
—— (of Folly = a very fool) ii. 279.
—— (of Purity) iii. 150.
—— (of Ignorance = Ignoramus) iii. 163.
—— (“of the Persians”) iv. 12.
Brotherhood (forms of making) iii. 151.
—— (sworn in Allah Almighty) v. 43.
—— of Futurity = lookers out for a better world, ii. 197.
Brow (like the letter Nún) iv. 249.
Bruising the testicles a feminine mode of murdering men, iii. 3.
Búdakak (Bútakah) = crucible, viii. 8.
Budúr (Badoura) = full moons, iii. 228; iv. 249.
Buffalo = bœuf á l’eau (?) ix. 181.
Buhayrah = tank, cistern, viii. 29.
Buka’ah = Cœlesyria, ii. 109.
Buka’at al-dam = place of blood (where it stagnates) iv. 68.
Bukhayt = little good luck, ii. 48.
Bukhtí (dromedary) ii. 177; iii. 67.
Bukjah = bundle, vi. 226.
Bulád (Pers. Pulád) = steel, vi. 115.
Bulak Edition quoted, i. 11, 45, 68, 117, 145, 203; ii. 1, 83, 185,
187; iii. 181, 211, 212; vi. 5, 11, 21, 27; vii. 18, 57, 139, 173,
269, 359; ix. 185.
Bulbul (departed with Tommy Moor, Englished by “Nightingale”) v. 48.
Bull (followers preceding) ii. 98.
Bull (of the Earth = Gáw-i-Zamín) v. 324.
Búm = owl (introduced to rhyme with Kayyúm = the Eternal) viii. 286.
Bunn = kind of cake, ix. 172.
Burckhardt quoted, i. 66, 214; ii. 18, 143; iii. 59, 101, 138, 147,
179, 278, 308; iv. 31, 48, 112, 217, 259; v. 77, 80, 119; vii. 91,
93, 136, 147, 156; viii. 23, 91, 93, 156, 285; x. 144.
—— (fable anent his death) iv. 78.
Burdah = mantle or plaid of striped stuff, vii. 95.
—— (poem of the) iv. 115.
Burká = nose-bag, ii. 52; vi. 131, 192.
Burning (a foretaste of Hell-fire) ix. 158.
Bursting of the gall-bladder = our breaking of the heart, ii. 322.
Burying a rival, ii. 58.
Buttons (Ar. Azrár) ii. 318.
Búzah = beer, i. 72.
Byron (depreciated where he ought to be honoured most) vii. 268.
Bystanders forcing on a sale, viii. 310.
Cabbala = Spiritual Sciences, ii. 151.
Cæsarea, ii. 77.
—— “of Armenia,” ii. 273.
Cairene (vulgarism) vi. 278.
—— (chaff) iv. 215.
—— (slang) iv. 75.
—— (jargon) x. 8.
—— (savoir faire) x. 10.
—— (bohomie) x. 28.
—— (knows his fellow Cairene) x. 35.
Cairenes held exceedingly debauched, i. 298.
Cairo, _see_ Misr.
—— (nothing without the Nile) i. 295.
Caitiff = Captivus, ii. 109.
Calamity (i.e., to the enemy) x. 33.