383; vi. 27, 29, 77, 116.
Caliphate (defective title to) v. 116.
Caliphs ’Abd al-’Azíz, ii. 166.
—— ’Abd al-Malík, ii. 77, 167; iii. 319; iv. 7.
—— Abú Bakr, ii. 167, 197.
—— Alí, ii. 108.
—— Amin (Al-) i. 185; v. 93, 152.
—— Hakim (Al-) bi-Amri ’lláh, iv. 296.
—— Harún al-Rashíd, viii. 160; ix. 17.
—— Hishám bin ’Abd al-Malik, ii. 170; vii. 104.
—— Maamun (Al-) i. 185; iv. 109.
—— Mahdí (Al-) vii. 136.
—— Mansúr (Al-) ii. 142, 153, 210.
—— Mu’áwiyah, ii. 160, 161.
—— Musta’ín (Al-) bi ’lláh, ix. 246.
—— Mustansir (Al-) bi ’lláh i. 317.
—— Mu’tasim (Al-) bi ’llah, iii. 81; ix. 232.
—— Mutawakhil (Al-) ’alà ’lláh, iv. 291; v. 153; ix. 232.
—— Mu’tazid (Al-) ix. 229.
—— Mu’tazz (Al-) ix. 242.
—— ’Omar, ii. 158, 159, 162, 164; v. 103.
—— ’Othmán, ii. 163; v. 215.
—— Sulaymán bin ’Abd al-Malik, ii. 167; vii. 99.
—— Tá’í (Al-) li ’lláh, iii. 51, 307.
—— Walíd (Al-) ii. 167; iii. 69; iv. 100; vii. 106.
—— Wásik (Al-) iii. 81.
—— Záhir (Al-) bi ’lláh, i. 317.
Calligraphy, iv. 196.
Camel (how slaughtered) i. 347; iv. 95.
Camel-load = 300 lbs., for long journeys 250 lbs., ii. 45.
—— (-men do not accept drafts on futurity) ii. 69.
—— (-colts roasted whole) v. 135.
—— (feeding on and vindictiveness) v. 135.
—— (Bactrian) v. 371.
—— (seen in a dream is an omen of death; why?) vi. 92.
Camels (breeds of) iii. 67, 110.
—— (names) iii. 110.
—— (haltered; nose-ring used for dromedaries) iii. 120.
—— (Mehari, Mehríyah) iii. 277.
—— (red the best kind) viii. 303.
Camphor (simile for a fair face) iii. 174.
—— (primitive way of extracting it) vi. 21.
Camphor-apricot, vi. 277.
Cannibal tribes in Central Africa, ii. 48.
Cannibalism in the New World, x. 243.
Cannibals and cannibalism, vi. 36.
Canton (city of) vii. 334.
Capo bianco, coda verde, iv. 36.
Capotes melancholiques, vii. 190.
Carat (= Kirát) iii. 239.
—— (= 1/24 of a dinar or miskal, something under 5d.) v. 277.
Caravaggio (picture of St. Rosario) x. 219.
Caravan (each one has to keep his place in a) ii. 184.
Carelessness of the story-teller, ix. 4.
Carmel = Karam-El (God’s vineyard) viii. 203.
Carnelion stone bit with pearls = lips bit with teeth in sign of anger,
iii. 179.
Carpet (let him come to the King’s = before the King as referee) ix.
110.
Carpet-room = throne-room, ix. 121.
Carob (Cassia fistularis) ii. 241.
—— bean, emblem of constancy, iii. 315.
Carpet-beds, i. 294.
Carrier-pigeons, ii. 247.
Castration (texts justifying or enjoining it) x. 227.
Cat (puss, etc.) iii. 149.
Cat-fish (Ar. Bayáz) viii. 150, 151.
Catamites (rising to highest rank in Turkey) iv. 225.
—— (in Turkish baths) iv. 226.
Cask (for “home” of the maiden wine) x. 38.
—— in Auerbach’s Keller, viii. 131.
Ceruse (Ar. Isfídáj) vi. 126.
Cervantes and Arab romance, iii. 66.
Ceylon (Ar. Sarandib) vi. 64, 81.
Chaff, ii. 15; iii. 23; viii. 147, 152, 157, 189.
—— or banter allowed even to modest women, i. 267.
Chameleon (Father of Coolness) iii. 165.
Champing, sign of good breeding, i. 345.
Change (sudden, of disposition) viii. 213.
Character-sketch (making amends for abuse of women) x. 24.
Chaste forbearance towards a woman frequently causes love, vii. 189.
Chastity (merchandise in trust from Allah) iv. 43.
Chawáshiyah = Chamberlains, vii. 327.
Cheating (not only venial but laudable under circumstances) viii. 217.
Checkmate (Pers. Ar.) = the King is dead, viii. 217.
Cheese a styptic, iii. 3.
Chess and chessmen, ii. 104; v. 243.
Chess anecdote, i. 132.
Chewing a document that none may see it after, ii. 39.
Child of the nurse, etc. = delicately reared, iv. 34.
Children (carried astraddle upon hip or shoulder) i. 308.
—— (one of its = a native of) x. 8.
China (kingdom) iv. 175.
China-ware displayed on shelves, ii. 52.
Chinese shadows, iv. 193.
Chin-veil donned (showing intention to act like a man) viii. 99.
Cider (Ar. Sharáb al-tuffáh) iv. 134.
Circumcision (how practised) v. 209.
—— (female) v. 279.
Citadel (contains the Palace) ix. 102.
Cities (two-mosqued, for large and consequently vicious ones) v. 66.
City of Brass (Copper) iv. 176; vi. 83.
Claimant of blood-revenge, iv. 109.
—— and Defendant, iv. 150.
Claims of maidenhead, i. 190.
Clairvoyance of perfect affection, x. 26.
Clapping hands preliminary to a wrestling-bout, ii. 91.
Clapping of hands to summon servants, i. 177; iii. 173.
Clerical error of Bulak Edition, ii. 114.
Clever young ladies dangerous in the East, i. 15.
Climate (water and air) ii. 4.
Clitoris (Ar. Zambúr) and its excision, v. 279.
Cloak (Ar. Abáah) viii. 42.
Clogs = Kubkáb, iii. 92.
Closet (the forbidden and the bird-girls) viii. 29.
Cloth of frieze and cloth of gold, iv. 145.
“Cloth” (_not_ “board” for playing chess) ix. 209.
Clothes (tattered, sign of grief) iv. 158.
Clothing and decency, ix. 182.
Clout (hung over the door of a bath shows that women are bathing) ix.
153.
Cocoa-nut (Ar. Jauz al-Hindí) vi. 55.
Coffee (see Kahwah) ii. 261.
—— (first mention of) v. 169; x. 90.
—— (anachronism) viii. 274.
—— (mention of probably due to the scribe) ix. 141.
—— (its mention shows a comparatively late date) ix. 255.
Cohen (Káhin) = diviner priest, esp. Jewish, ii. 221.
Coition (postures of) iii. 93.
—— (the seal of love) viii. 304.
—— (local excellences of) viii. 304.
—— (ablution obligatory after it) viii. 305.
Cold-of-countenance = a fool, iii. 7.
Cold speech = a silly or abusive tirade, iii. 7.
Colocasia (Ar. Kallakás) viii. 151.
Coloquintida (Ar. Hanzal) v. 19.
Colossochelys = colossal tortoise, vi. 33.
Colours (of the Caliphs) vi. 86.
—— (names of) vi. 111.
Combat reminding of that of Rustam and Sohráb, vii. 89.
“Come to my arms my slight acquaintance,” ix. 177.
Commander of the Faithful (title introduced by Omar) vi. 247.
Commune (Ar. Jamá’ah) v. 205.
Comorin (derivation of the name) vi. 57.
“Compelleth” in the sense of “burdeneth,” vii. 285.
Compliment (model of a courtly one) viii. 165.
Composed of seed by all men shed = superfetation of iniquity, viii. 15.
Comrades of the Cave, iii. 128.
Conception on the bride-night rare, i. 227.
Conciseness (verging on obscurity) ix. 171.
Confession after concealment, a characteristic of the servile class, i.
53.
—— on the criminal’s part required by Moslem law, i. 274.
Confusion (of metaphors characteristic of The Nights) i. 86.
—— (of religious mythologies by way of “chaff”) viii. 152.
—— (universal in the undeveloped mind of men) ix. 78.
Conjugal affection (striking picture of) vii. 243.
Conjunctiva in Africans seldom white, vii. 184.
Connection (tribal, seven degrees of) vii. 121.
Consecrated ground (unknown to Moslems) vi. 161.
Constipation (La) rend rigoureux, iii. 242.
Consul (Sháh-bandar) iv. 29.
—— (Kunsul) iv. 84.
Contemplation of street-scenery, one of the pleasures of the Harem, i.
319.
Continuation in dignities requested by office-holders from a new ruler,
ii. 192.
Contract (artful between squalor and gorgeousness) ix. 170.
Contrition for romancing, viii. 66.
Converts, theoretically respected and practically despised, vii. 43.
Copa d’agua, apology for a splendid banquet, vii. 168.
Coptic convents, ii. 86.
—— visitations to, still customary, ii. 110.
Copulation (praying before or after) ii. 161.
—— (postures of) iii. 93.
Coquetries (requiring as much inventiveness as a cotillon) x. 58.
Coral (name of a slave-girl) ii. 101.
Corpse pollutes the toucher, i. 295.
Cousin (term of familiarity = our “coz”) ii. 43.
—— (first, affronts an Arab if she marries any save him without his
leave) vi. 145.
—— (has a prior right to marry a cousin) ix. 225.
Covered (The, chapter of the Koran) v. 215.
Cow (chapter ii. of the Koran) v. 211.
Cowardice equally divided, iii. 173.
—— (proverb anent) viii. 333.
—— (of the Fellah, how to be mended) ix. 5.
Cowrie (shells, etc., for small change) iv. 77.
Craft (many names for, connected with Arabic) ix. 138.
Creases in the stomach insisted upon, 130.
Created for a mighty matter (_i.e._ for worship and to prepare for
futurity) vi. 91.
Creation (is it and its Empire not His?) v. 269.
—— (from nothing) ix. 77.
Crenelles = Sharáríf, iv. 165.
Crepitus ventris and ethnology, v. 137.
Crescent of the breakfast-fête, ix. 250.
Crescent-like = emaciated, viii. 300.
Crew (Ar. Bahríyah, Nawátíyah) viii. 17.
Criss-cross row, iii. 236.
Crocodiles (breath of) vi. 29.
Cross-bows, vii. 62.
Crow (an ill-omened bird) vi. 170.
Crow-claw and camel-hoof, iv. 217.
Cruelty (the mystery of) explained only by a law without law-giver, ix.
37.
—— (of the “fair sex” in Egypt) x. 45.
Cry (that needs must be cried) x. 21.
Cubit (the Háshimí = 18 inches) v. 371.
Cuirasses against pleasure, cobwebs against infection, vii. 190.
Cundums (French letters) vii. 190.
Cup and cup-bearer, ii. 327.
Curs (set them on the cattle = show a miser money, etc.) x. 18.
Cursing intelligible, swearing meaningless, although English, ii. 312.
Curtain (screening a reverend woman from the sight of men-invalids) ix.
347.
Cutting (alluding to the scymitar) ii. 231.
—— (bones before flesh = “sharp as a razor”) iv. 295.
—— (off the right hand, Koranic punishment for theft) i. 274.
—— (of the navel string preliminary to naming the babe) i. 231.
—— the rope = breaking bounds, i. 349.
Cynocephalus (kills men and rapes women) vii. 344.
Dáa al-Kabír (Great Evil) = Dáa al-Fíl (Elephantine Evil, _i.e._
Elephantiasis) viii. 24.
Dabbús = mace, vi. 249.
Dádat = nurse (Pers.) viii. 209.
Dáhish (Al-) = the Amazed, vi. 96.
Dáirah = circle, inclosure, ix. 287.
—— (for a basin surrounded by hills) ix. 317.
Dajláh (Dijlah) = Tigris (Heb. Hid-dekel) i. 180; viii. 150.
Dajjál (Al-) = Moslem Anti-Christ, vi. 11.
Dakhíl-ak = under thy protection, i. 61.
Dakiánús = Decianus, ii. 244.
Dakkah = settle, vii. 111; viii. 84.
Dalak = foot-rasp, iv. 254.
Dalhamah (Romance of) iii. 112.
Dalíl = guide; f. Dalílah = _mis_guiding woman, bawd, ii. 329.
Damascus women famed for sanguinary jealousy, i. 295.
Damon and Pythias, v. 104.
Damsel of the tribe = daughter of the chief, vii. 95.
Danaf (Al-) = distressing sickness, iv. 75.
Dandán (N.P.) = tooth, ii. 83.
Dandán (a monstrous fish), ix. 179.
Dání wa Gharíb = friend and foe, v. 42.
Dánik = sixth of drachma or dirham, ii. 204; v. 112.
Dár al-Na’ím = Dwelling of Delight, viii. 183.
Dara’ (dira’) = habergeon, coat of ringmail, etc. iii. 109.
Darabukka = tom-tom, i. 311.
Darakah = target, vi. 9.
Darb al-Ahmar = Red Street (in Cairo) x. 8.
Darb al-Asfar = the Street called Yellow, iv. 93.
Darbar = public audience, i. 29.
Dárfíl = dolphin, ix. 346.
Darr al-Káil = divinely he spoke who said, iv. 20.
Darrij = Let them slide, iv. 220.
Dastúr = leave, permission, i. 66.
Datura Stramonium (the insane herb) vi. 36.
Dáúd = David, ii. 286.
Daughter of my uncle = my wife, i. 69.
“Daughters of God” (the three) vi. 282.
—— (of Sa’adah = zebras) iii. 65.
—— (of the bier = Ursa major) iii. 28, 221.
Daulat (Pr. N.) = fortune, empire, kingdom, vii. 347.
Daurak = narrow-mouthed jug, i. 36.
David (makes coats of mail) ii. 286; vi. 113.
Dawá’ = medicine (for a depilatory) ix. 155.
Dawát = wooden inkcase with reed-pens, ix. 122.
Dawn-breeze, ii. 181.
Day of Doom (mutual retaliation) iii. 128.
—— (length of) iii. 299.
—— (when wealth availeth not, etc.) ix. 16.
—— (ye shall be saved from its misery) ix. 315.
Daylam (Al-), soldiers of = warlike as the Daylamites, viii. 82.
Daylamites, ii. 94.
Dayyús = pimp, wittol, ix. 297.
Dead (buried at once) v. 190.
Death (from love) v. 134.
—— (every soul shall taste of it) v. 166.
—— (of a good Moslem) v. 167.
—— (manners of, symbolised by colours) vi. 250.
—— (simply and pathetically sketched) x. 47.
“Death in a crowd as good as a feast” (Persian proverb) iii. 141.
Death-prayer (usually a two-bow prayer) vi. 70.
Debts (of dead parents sacred to the children) ix. 311.
Deeds of prowess not exaggerated, ii. 108.
Deity of the East despotic, iv. 118.
—— after the fashion of each race, iv. 267.
Delicacy of the female skin, ix. 321.
“Delight of the Intelligent” (fancy title of a book) vi. 80.
Demesne (Ar. Himà) viii. 225.
Democracy of despotism, ix. 94.
Depilation (Solomon and Bilkis) iv. 256.
Deposits are not lost with Him = He disappointeth not, etc., vii. 334.
Despite his nose = against his will, i. 26.
Despotism (tempered by assassination) vi. 206.
Destiny blindeth human sight, i. 67.
Destructiveness of slaves, ii. 55.
Devil (was sick, etc.) ii. 264.
—— (stoned at Mina) v. 203, 212.
—— (allowed to go about the world and seduce mankind) ix. 82.
Devotees (address Allah as a lover would his beloved) v. 263.
—— (white woollen raiment of) vii. 214.
Dhámí = the Trenchant (sword of Antar) vi. 271.
Diamond (its cutting of very ancient date) ix. 325.
Diamonds (occurring in alluvial lands) vi. 18.
Diaphoresis (a sign of the abatement of a disease) ix. 146.
Dihlíz = passage, vi. 10.
Di’ibil al-Khuzá’í (poet) v. 127.
Dijlah (Tigris), River and Valley of Peace, viii. 51.
Dimágh = brain, meningx (for head) vii. 178.
Dimyat (vulg. Dumíyat) = Damietta, v. 171.
Dín (Al-) al-a’raj = the perverted Faith, ix. 11.
Dínár = gold-piece, Daric, Miskál, i. 32.
—— (description of one) ix. 294.
Dinghy (Kárib) iv. 168.
Dirás = thrashing sled, ii. 108.
Dirham = silver-piece, i. 33.
Dirham-weight = 48 grains avoir., ii. 316.
Dirhams (50,000 = about £1,250) vii. 105.
—— (thousand = £375) viii. 10.
Disposition (sudden change of) viii. 213.
Dissection (practised on simiads) v. 220.
Dist (Dast) = large copper cauldron, viii. 177.
Diversion of an Eastern Potentate, viii. 171.
Divining rod (dowsing rod) iv. 73.
Divorce (triple) iii. 292.
Díwán (fanciful origin of the word) ix. 108.
Díwán al-Baríd = Post-office, vii. 340.
Diyár-i-Bakr = maid-land, v. 66.
Do not to others what thou wouldest not they do unto thee, vi. 125.
“Dog” and “hog” popular terms of abuse, i. 188.
Doggrel (royal) v. 55.
—— (phenomenal) v. 288.
—— (sad) v. 297.
—— (not worse than usual) viii. 225, 228.
Dogs (clothed in hot-damp countries) iv. 266.
—— (in Eastern cities) vii. 202.
Don Juan quoted, ix. 190.
Donánmá (rejoicings for the pregnancy of a Sultana) vii. 324.
Donkey-boy, like our “post-boy,” of any age, vii. 160.
Donning woman’s attire in token of defeat, vii. 188.
Doomsday (horrors of, come upon a man) ii. 232.
Door (behind it the door-keeper’s seat) v. 173.
Door-hinges, ii. 214.
Door-keepers (in Egypt mostly Berbers) vi. 189.
Doors (usually shut with a wooden bolt) iii. 198.
—— (pulled up = raised from the lower hinge-pins) vii. 352.
Double entendre, iii. 234; viii. 153, 251.
Dove and turtle-dove female, ii. 23.
Down (of the cheek) ii. 246.
Dozd o Kázi (Persian book) ii. 55.
Drama (in Turkey and Persia) x. 167.
Dramatic scene (told with charming naïveté) x. 9.
Draught of air (Zug) feared by Orientals, ii. 9.
Drawbridges in Coptic convents, ii. 94.
Dream (Speaker in a) iv. 239.
Dreams (true at later night) iii. 258.
—— (lovers meet in) v. 47.
—— (play an important part in the romances of chivalry) viii. 113.
Dress (scarlet, of a King in anger) iv. 72.
Drinking at dawn, iii. 20.
—— their death-agony = suffering similar pain, iii. 315.
—— (before or after dinner) vii. 132.
—— (in the dark disliked) ii. 59.
—— first to show the absence of poison, i. 88, 295.
—— bouts (attended in bright dresses) vi. 175.
Dromedary (_see_ Camel).
—— (guided by a nose-ring) iii. 120.
“Drop” unknown to the Eastern gallows, i. 260.
Drop (black, of the heart) iv. 251.
Drowning (a martyr’s death) ix. 158.
“Drugging” not a Badawi sentiment, ii. 122.
Drugs (is this an art of ——?) vii. 147.
Drunk with the excess of his beauty, iv. 34; vii. 162.
Drunken habits of Central African races, vii. 357.
Drunken son (excused by mother, rebuked by father) viii. 287.
Dúbarah (Dubárá) = Dubrornik, Ragusa, ii. 219.
Due demanded leads to imprisonment for arrears, viii. 170.
Dukhán = smoke (meaning tobacco for the Chibouk) ix. 156.
Dukhúl = going in to the bride, iv. 30.
Dúláb = waterwheel; buttery; cupboard, ix. 306.
Dung (used as fuel, etc.) ii. 149.
Dunyá (Pr. N.) = world, iii. 7, 319; x. 27.
Dunyázad = world free (?) i. 14.
Durbar of idols, ix. 325.
Durká’ah = lower part of the floor (opposed to Liwán) iv. 71.
Durrah (vulg. for Zarrah, _q.v._)
Dust-storm in tropical lands, i. 111.
Duwámah = whirlpool, ix. 93.
Ear-drop = penis, ii. 318.
“Early to bed,” etc. (modern version of the same) vii. 217.
East and West (confounded by a beauty-dazed monk) viii. 279.
Easterns sleep with covered heads, iii. 345.
Eatables (their exchange must be equal) v. 204.
Eating (together makes friends) iii. 71.
—— (gives rights of guest-ship) iv. 214.
—— (superstitious belief in its power) iv. 218.
—— (how it should be done) v. 206.
Eating and drinking (before thinking of the lover) viii. 260.
Eedgáh (_see_ Idgáh) ii. 202.
Effendi (Turkish title = our esquire) iv. 53.
Eggs for testicles, ii. 55.
Eginhardt (belonged to the clerical profession) viii. 326.
Egypt (derivation of the name) ix. 286.
Egyptian (= archi-) polisonnerie, iii. 243.
Egyptian vulgarism, iv. 107.
—— characteristic, iv. 260.
Elephant (derivation of the word) ii. 104.
Elephant-faced, Vetála, vii. 34.
Elephant’s roll = swaying and graceful gait, i. 217.
Elephants frightening horses, vii. 61.
Elevation (nothing strange in sudden), x. 53.
Eli-Fenioun = Polyphemus, vii. 361.
Elliptical expression, vi. 288.
Elliptical style of the Eastern storys-teller, ix. 160.
Emancipation (the greater = pardon for sins or holy death), ii. 105.
Embracing (like the Lám embraceth the Alif), iv. 243.
Emerald (white?), iv. 164.
—— (mace-head of), vi. 67.
—— (-rods in lattice windows), vi. 117.
Emirs (of the wild Arabs) = “Phylarchs” ix. 323.
Emma (hides her lover under her cloak), ix. 8.
Empire (endureth with infidelity but not with tyranny), v. 187.
Enemy (his offered hand to be kissed or cut off), ii. 142.
“Enfants terribles” in Eastern guise, vi. 211.
Entertainments (names of), viii. 231.
Envying another’s wealth wrongs him, vi. 77.
Ephesus (The Matron of), x. 220.
—— (The Seven Sleepers of), iii. 128.
Epistasis without prostasis, ix. 240.
Ernest (Duke of Bavaria, Romance of), x. 153.
Erotic inferences drawn from parts of the body, i. 350.
—— specialists amongst the Ancients, x. 201.
Eternal truths of The Nights, i. 7.
Eunuch best go-between, i. 282.
—— employed as porter, i. 343.
—— different kinds of, i. 132.
—— (if without testes only, highly prized), ii. 90.
—— (driving the people out of a lady’s way), iv. 126.
—— (who have studied the Harím), iv. 228.
—— (and their wives), v. 46.
—— (avoid allusion to their misfortune), v. 47.
Eunuch-in-Chief a most important Jack-in-Office, i. 283.
Euphemisms, i. 31; iii. 68, 102, 209, 267, 338; vi. 75, 145; vii. 134,
142; viii. 173; ix. 180, 224; x. 4, 27.
Euphemy (announcing death), iv. 61.
—— (thou shalt die), iv. 90.
—— (all is well), iv. 138.
—— (the far one is a Nazarene), iv. 215.
Euphuistic speech, vii. 285; ix. 43.
Euthanasia and anæsthetics, ix. 90.
Evacuation (and constipation), iii. 242.
Eve (Ar. Hawwá), v. 139.
—— (the true seducer), iii. 166.
Evil (befalling thee is from thyself), vi. 138.
Exaggeration part of humour, i. 12.
—— characteristic of The Nights, iv. 273; v. 306.
Expiation of oaths, ii. 186.
Eye (darkening from vine or passion), iii. 224.
—— (orbits slit up and down the face of a hideous Jinn), iii. 235.
—— (man of the = pupil), iii. 286.
—— (white = blind), iii. 323.
—— (the evil), on children, iv. 37.
—— (babes of the), iv. 246.
—— (likened to the letter Sád, the brow to Nún), v. 34.
—— (for helper), v. 60.
—— (Thou shalt be in mine = I will keep thee as though thou wert the
apple of my eye), viii. 90.
“Eye of the needle” (for wicket), ix. 320.
Eyebrows joined a great beauty in Arabia, i. 227.
Eyes (of me = my dears), i. 163.
—— (hot = full of tears), ii. 99.
—— (becoming white = blind), ii. 283.
—— (bandaged before beheading), iv. 145.
—— (blue ones), iv. 129.
—— (one-eyed men), iv. 194.
—— (plucking or tearing out of, a Persian practice), vii. 359.
—— (“sunk” into the head for our “starting” from it), vii. 36.
—— (Babylonian = bewitching), viii. 278.
—— (no male has ever filled mine = none hath pleased me), ix. 222.
Fables proper (oldest part of The Nights), iii. 114.
Face-veil = “nose-bag” i. 82.
Faces (on the Day of Judgment), iv. 249.
Fadaises of a blue stocking, ii. 156.
Faghfúr (Mosl. title for the Emperor of China), vii. 335.
Fá’il = agent, active (Sodomite), v. 156.
Fa-immá ’alayhá wa-immá bihá = whether (luck go) against it or (luck
go) with it, viii. 157.
Faintings and trances (common in romances of chivalry), viii. 118.
Fairer to-day than fair of yesterday = ever increasing in beauty, iii.
331.
Fájirah = harlot (often mere abuse without special meaning), viii. 109.
Fakíh = divine, vii. 325.
Fakír = religious mendicant generally, i. 95; v. 39.
—— (the, and his jar of butter; congeners of the tale), ix. 40.
Fakru (Al-) fakhrí = poverty is my pride (saying of Mohammed), v. 268.
Fál = omen, v. 136.
Falak (clearing) = breaking forth of light from darkness, iii. 22.
Falastín, degraded to “Philister,” vii. 101.
Falcon (_see_ Hawk, Bází).
Falcon (blinding the quarry), i. 51.
Falling on the back (a fair fall in wrestling), ii. 92.
—— (with laughter), iii. 306.
Fals ahmar = a red cent, i. 321.
Familiarity between the great and paupers, ii. 32.
—— of girls with black slave-boys, ii. 49.
Family (euphemistically for wife), vi. 75.
Far off one (the, shall die), iv. 90.
Faráis (pl. of farísah) = shoulder-muscles, vii. 219.
Faráiz = orders expressly given in the Koran, i. 169.
Farajíyah = a long-sleeved robe, i. 210, 321.
Faránik (Al-) = letter-carrier, vii. 340.
Faranj (Al-) = European, i. 296.
Faráshah, noun of unity of Farásh = butterfly-moth, vii. 305.
Fard Kalmah = a single word (vulgarism), viii. 188.
Faríd = unique; union-pearl, x. 54.
Fárikí, adjective of Mayyáfárikín, vii. 1.
Fárikín for Mayyáfárikín (city in Diyar-bakr), vi. 107.
Fáris = rider, knight, vii. 314.
Farj = slit; Zawí ’l-Furúj = slit ones, ii. 49.
Farkh Akrab (vulgarism for Ukayrib) = a young scorpion, iv. 46.
Farkh Samak = fish-chick (for young fish), viii. 149.
Farrásh, a man of general utility, tent-pitcher, etc., vii. 4.
Fars = Persia, v. 26.
Farsakh = parasang, iv. 230.
—— = three English miles, ii. 114.
Farsalah = parcel, viii. 162.
Fart (in return for chaff), v. 99.
—— (and Badawí “pundonor”), v. 137.
Farting for fear, iii. 118.
Farz = obligatory prayer, vi. 193.
—— (mentioned after Sunnat because jingling with Arz), ix. 15.
Fás = city of Fez, vi. 222.
Fass = bezel of a ring, gem cut en cabochon, contenant for contenu, i.
165; ii. 97.
Fast (and its break), v. 201.
—— (when forbidden), v. 265.
Faswah = susurrus, ix. 291.
Faswán Salh al-Subyán (Pr. N.) = Fizzler, Dung of children, ix. 11.
Fat and Thin (dispute between), iv. 254.
Fatà = a youth; generous man, etc., i. 67.
Fatalism and Predestination, ix. 45.
Fate (written in the sutures of the skull), viii. 237.
—— (and Freewill), ix. 60.
Fath = opening (_e.g._ of a maidenhead), viii. 348.
—— (Al-) bin Khákán (boon companion of Al-Mutawakkil), ix. 245.
Father of Bitterness = the Devil, vii. 116.
Fátihah (the opening chapter of the Koran), iv. 36.
—— (position of the hands in reciting it), v. 80.
—— (recited seven times for greater solemnity), v. 184.
—— (repeated to confirm an agreement), vi. 217.
—— (quoted), vii. 286.
—— (pronounced to make an agreement binding), ix. 138.
Fátimah (Pr. N.), = the Weaner, vi. 145.
—— (daughter of Mohammed), viii. 252.
Fatimite (Caliphs, their colours green), vi. 86.
Fátin = tempter, seducer, iii. 82.
Fátir = Creator (chapter of the Koran), vii. 366.
Fatís = carrion, corps crévé, vii. 181.
Fatúrát = light food for early breakfast, x. 12.
Fausta and Crispus, vi. 127.
Favours foreshadowing downfall, i. 48.
—— (not lawful until sanctified by love), viii. 226.
Fawn (for a graceful youth), viii. 329.
Faylasúf = philosopher, v. 234.
Flaylasúfíyah = philosopheress, vii. 145.
Faylúlah = slumbering after sunset, ii. 178.
Fayyáz (Al-) = the overflowing (with benefits), vii. 99.
Fazl = grace, exceeding goodness, vii. 220.
Fealty of the Steep, v. 295.
Fearing for the lover first, vii. 256.
Fee delicately offered, vii. 162.
Feet (lack the European development of sebaceous glands), viii. 43.
—— (coldness of, a symptom of impotence), viii. 317.
Fellah = peasant, husbandman, ix. 40.
Fellah chaff, ix. 152.
Female depravity going hand in hand with perversity of taste, i. 73.