Feminine mind prone to exaggeration, viii. 25.
—— friend does not hesitate to prescribe fibs, viii. 37.
—— persistency of purpose (confirmed by “consolations of religion”),
viii. 99.
Festival (Ar. ’Íd), viii. 142.
Fí al-Khawáfik = among the flags, etc., v. 61.
Fí al-Kamar = in the moonshine (perhaps allusion to the Comorin
Islands), vii. 269.
Fiat _in_justitia ruat Cœlum, i. 253.
Fidá = ransom, self-sacrifice, viii. 36.
Fidáan = instead of, viii. 36.
Fig and sycamore (unclean allusion in), viii. 269.
Fig = anus, vii. 151.
Fights easily provoked at funerals or wedding processions, vii. 190.
Fikh = theology, vii. 325.
Fillet = the Greek “Stephane,” viii. 209.
Fillets hung on trees to denote an honoured tomb, vii. 96.
Fine feathers make fine birds, viii. 201.
Fingán (for Finján) = (coffee-) cup, viii. 200.
Finger in mouth (sign of grief), ii. 302.
—— (run round the inside of a vessel), viii. 200.
Finger-tips (making marks in the ground), viii. 72.
Fingers (names of), ix. 160.
Fingers and toes (separated to wash between them), v. 198.
Finján = egg-shell cup for coffee, ix. 268.
Firásah = physiognomy, viii. 326.
Firdaus = Paradise, ix. 214.
Firdausi, the Persian Homer, quoted, iii. 83.
Fire (and sickness cannot cohabit), iii. 59.
—— (worshippers slandered), iii. 326.
—— (of Hell, but not shame), v. 138.
—— (handled without injury, a common conjuring trick), v. 271.
—— (there is no blower of = utter desolation), vi. 15.
—— (forbidden as punishment), vi. 26.
—— (none might warm himself at their), vi. 261.
—— = Hell (home of suicides), ix. 25.
Fire-arms mentioned, vii. 62.
Fire-sticks (Zand, Zandah), v. 52.
Firmán = Wazirial order, iv. 61.
First at the feast and last at the fray, iii. 81.
First personal pronoun placed first for respect, i. 237.
Fí sabíli ’llahi = on Allah’s path (martyrdom), iv. 247.
Fish (begins to stink at the head), ii. 168.
—— (-island), vi. 6.
—— (the ass-headed), vi. 33.
—— (great = Hút, common = Samák), vi. 69.
—— (changed into apes, true Fellah “chaff”), viii. 147.
—— (of Paradise, promising acceptance of prayer), viii. 163.
Fishár = squeeze of the tomb, v. 111.
Fisherman (Arab contrasted with English), v. 51.
Fist (putting into fist = putting one’s self at another’s mercy), iii.
155.
Fitnah = revolt, seduction, mischief, beautiful girl, aphrodisiac
perfume, i. 219; ii. 76.
Fits of religious enthusiasm, ii. 132.
Flatterers (the worst of foes), ii. 11.
Flattery (more telling because proceeding from the heart), viii. 104.
Flatulence produced by bean-eating, iv. 160.
Flea (still an Egyptian plague), vi. 205.
Flirtation impossible in the East, vii. 181.
Floor (sitting upon the, sign of deepest dejection), vii. 314.
Flowers of speech, ii. 88.
Flying for delight, iii. 26.
Food-tray of Sulayman, vi. 80.
Folk follow their King’s faith, ii. 157.
Following one’s face = at random, i. 347.
Food (partaken gives rights of protection), iv. 214.
—— (superstitious belief in its power), iv. 218.
Foot (smallness of, sign of blood), iii. 227.
—— (prehensile powers of the Eastern), vii. 179.
“Forbid not yourselves the good things which Allah hath allowed you,”
v. 216.
“Forcible eateth feeble,” ix. 179.
Fore-arm (for proficiency), ix. 306.
Formality (a sign of good breeding), viii. 308.
Formication (accompanying a paralytic stroke), v. 251.
Formula of praise pronounced to avert the evil eye, iii. 224.
Fortune makes kneel her camel by some other one = encamps with a
favourite, iii. 141.
“Forty days” = our “honeymoon,” viii. 47.
Foster-brother (dearer than kith and kin), iii. 256.
Fountain-bowl (ornamented with mosaic, etc.), ii. 310.
Fourteen (expressed by seven and seven, or five and five plus four),
viii. 70.
Fox (Ar. Abú Hosayn, Salab), vi. 211.
—— (cunning man), iii. 132.
—— and jackal (confounded by the Arabic dialects), x. 123.
Frail (Ar. Farsalah), viii. 162.
Frame (crescent-like by reason of its leanness), viii. 300.
Freedom (granted to a slave for the sake of reward from Allah), ix.
243.
Freeing slaves for the benefit of the souls of the departed, iii. 211.
Freewill (and the Korán), iv. 275.
French letters (all about them), vii. 190.
Friday night = our Thursday night, i. 269.
Friday service described, i. 313.
Friend (feminine, does not hesitate to prescribe a fib), viii. 37.
Friends (weeping when they meet after long parting), iv. 26.
—— (“damned ill-natured ones”), iv. 137.
Frolics of high-born ladies, i. 328.
Front-teeth wide apart (a beauty amongst the Egyptians, not the Arabs),
viii. 147.
Fruit of two kinds, vi. 277.
Fruits (fresh and dry), v. 314.
Fulán (fulano in Span. and Port.) = a certain person, iii. 191; iv.
278.
Fulk = boat, vi. 62.
Full, Fill = Arabian jessamine, viii. 273.
Fumigations to cite Jinnís, etc., vii. 363; ix. 29.
“Fun” = practical jokes of the largest, i. 220.
“Fundamentals (Usúl), remembered” = the business is not forgotten, ii.
15.
Funduk = Fondaco, viii. 184.
Funeral oration on an Arabian Achilles (after Haríri), viii. 348.
Funerals (meritorious to accompany), ii. 46.
Furát = Euphrates (derivation of the name), ix. 17.
Furaydun, _see_ Afridun, ii. 82.
Furkán = Korán, iv. 90.
Fustát = Old Cairo, vi. 87.
Fútah = napkin, waistcloth, vii. 345.
Futúh = openings, victories, benefits, iii. 304.
—— (openings, victories), iv. 51.
Futúr = breakfast, i. 300; ix. 307.
Fuzayl bin ’Iyáz (Sufí ascetic), ix. 21.
Galactophagi (use milk always in the soured form), vi. 201; vii. 360.
Gall-bladder and liver allusions, i. 219.
Galland, Antoine (memoir of), x. 96 _seqq._
“Gallery” (speaking to the), viii. 128.
Gamin (faire le), iii. 304.
Garden (in the Prophet’s tomb at Al-Medinah), vii. 91.
—— (the Perfumed of the Cheikh Nefzaoui), x. 133.
Gardeners touchy on the point of mated visitors, ii. 22.
Gardens (with rivers flowing underneath, Koranic phrase), v. 356.
Gate (of war opened), ix. 9.
Gates (two to port towns), iii. 281.
—— (of Heaven are open), ix. 221.
—— (shut during Friday devotions from fear of “Sicilian Vespers”), ix.
259.
Gaw-i-Zamín = the Bull of the Earth, v. 324.
Gazelles’ blood red (dark red dye), x. 12.
Gems and their mines, vi. 18.
Genealogy (Arab, begins with Adnán), v. 100.
Generosity (an Arab’s ideal because the reverse of his nature), ii. 36.
—— (peculiar style of), vii. 323.
Geography in its bearings on morality, iii. 241.
Geomantic process, iii. 269.
German translations of The Nights, x. 112, _seqq._
Ghábah = thicket, ii. 85; iv. 40.
Ghadir = a place where water sinks, low land, i. 233.
Ghadr = cheating, viii. 217.
Gháliyah (Al-) = older English Algallia, viii. 220.
Ghalyun = galleon, ix. 138.
Ghamz = winking, signing with the eyes, i. 292.
Ghandúr = a gallant, vii. 181.
Gharám (Pr. N.) = eagerness, desire, love-longing, iii. 172.
Gharámah = avanie, viii. 151.
Gharíb = foreigner, i. 95.
Ghashím = “Johnny Raw,” ii. 330.
Gháshiyah = étui, scabbard; sleeved cloak, iv. 131.
Ghatrafán (Pr. N.) = proud, petulant, v. 361.
Ghaut = Sarídah, _q.v._, v. 223.
Ghawási = singing girls, i. 214.
Ghaylúlah = slumbering in the morning, ii. 178.
Ghayúr = jealous (applies to Time), viii. 67.
Ghazá = Artemisia (a desert shrub), ii. 24; iii. 220; vi. 192; ix. 27.
Ghazálah = gazelle (a slave-girl’s name), ix. 209.
Ghazanfar ibn Kamkhíl = Lion son of (?), v. 363.
Ghayb (Al-) = secret purpose; future, ix. 314.
Ghazbán (N.P.) = an angry, violent man, ii. 125.
Ghází = fighter for the faith, ii. 240; viii. 211.
Ghazl al-banát (girls’ spinning) = vermicelli, i. 83.
Ghazwah = raid, foray, razzia, ii. 217.
Ghilmán = Wuldán, the beautiful youths of Paradise, i. 211.
—— (counterpart of the Houris), v. 64.
Ghimd (Ghamad) = scabbard, v. 158.
Ghoonj (Ghunj) = art of motitation in coition, v. 80.
Ghost (phantom = Tayf), iii. 252.
Ghúl = ogre, cannibal, vi. 36.
Ghúlah = ogress, i. 55.
Ghulámíyah = girl dressed like a boy to act cup-bearer, x. 39.
Ghull = iron collar, ix. 333.
Ghúls (whose bellies none may fill but Allah), ix. 152.
Ghuráb al-Bayn = raven of parting, iv. 52; vii. 226.
Ghuráb = galleon (grab), viii. 323.
Ghurbah (Al-) Kurbah = “Travel is Travail,” ix. 257.
Gurrah = blaze on a horse’s forehead, iii. 118; x. 40.
Ghusl = complete ablution, v. 80.
Ghusl al-Sihhah = washing of health, iii. 266.
Ghussah = calamity which chokes, wrath, ii. 147.
Ghútah = thickly grown lowland, i. 115.
Giants (arriving in Peru, probably the Caribs of the Brazil), x. 243.
“Gift (from me to” etc. = “I leave it to you, sir”), vii. 292.
—— (is for him who is present), ix. 225.
Giraffe, exceedingly timid, vii. 54.
—— unfit for riding, vii. 62.
Girding the Sovereign (found in the hieroglyphs), vii. 328.
Girl (of nine plus five = in her prime), v. 192.
Give a man luck and throw him into the sea, iii. 341.
Glance compared with a Yamáni sword, ii. 127.
Gloom = black hair of youth, vii. 277.
Glooms gathering and full moons dawning, for hands and eyes, vii. 247.
Gloria (in = the Italian term for the venereal finish), viii. 329.
Glossarium eroticum, x. 221.
Gnostic absurdities, x. 191.
Goad (of the donkey-boy), iii. 116.
Godiva (an Arabic lady—of the wrong sort), ix. 261.
Going straight to the point preferred to filer le parfait amour, i.
268.
Gold (makes bold), i. 340.
—— (different names of, required by Arabic rhetoric), iv. 97.
—— (when he looked at it, his life seemed a light thing to him), vii.
240.
—— (liquid = Vino d’Oro), x. 40.
Gold-pieces (stuck on the cheeks of singing-girls, etc.), viii. 275.
Goody-goody preachments, iv. 187.
Gong (Ar. Mudawwarah), iv. 135.
Good news, Inshallah = is all right with thee?, ix. 224.
Gospel of Infancy, ii. 228.
Gossamer (names for), iii. 217.
Gourd (Ar. Hanzal), ix. 165.
Grammatical double entendres, ix. 272.
Grandfather’s name given familiarly, ii. 15.
Grapes (bunch of, weighing twenty pounds no exaggeration), vii. 358.
Grave (levelling slave and sovereign), iii. 323.
“Greatness belongeth to God alone” (used elliptically), vi. 288.
Green (colour of the Fatimite Caliphs), vi. 86.
Green gown (Anglo-Indicè = white ball-dress with blades of grass
behind), viii. 32.
Green garb (distinguishing mark of Al-Khizr), ix. 324.
Greetings before the world, v. 34.
Grelots lascifs, x. 238.
Grim joke (showing elation of spirits), vii. 324.
Grimm’s “Household Tales” quoted, vi. 230.
Groom (falling in love with), viii. 345.
Ground (really kissed), vii. 257.
Ground-floor usually let for shops, i. 319.
Guadalajara = Wady al-Khara (of dung), ix. 10.
“Guebre” introduced by Lord Byron, viii. 8.
Guest-rite, vii. 121.
Gull-fairs, viii. 90.
Gypsies (their first appearance in Europe), x. 89.
Habáb (Habá) = motes, iv. 257.
Habash = Abyssinia and something more, v. 395.
Habb = grain of the heart, i. 250.
Habb al ’ubb (a woman’s ornament), vii. 205.
Habbániyah = grain-seller’s quarter, i. 269.
Habba-zá! = good this!, v. 52.
Habíb, euphemism for lover, i. 223.
Habíbí wa tabíbí = my love and leach, ix. 299.
Habitations (names given to them by the Arabs), viii. 229.
Habl = cord; cause, viii. 100.
Habzalam (Pr. N. = seed of tyranny; “Absalom”?), iv. 66.
Hadas = surmise, vii. 302.
Hadbá (the bulging bier), iv. 63.
Hádí (Al-), Caliph, v. 93.
Hadíd = iron, ii. 310.
Hadís = tradition of the Prophet, iv. 207; v. 201.
Hadís = saying of the Apostle, tradition, v. 201.
Háfiz (f. Háfizah) = 1. traditionist; 2. one who can recite the Koran
by rote, vi. 195.
Háfiz quoted, viii. 120.
Hafsah (Caliph Omar’s daughter and wife of Mohammed), ii. 165.
Hafsites (Dynasty in Mauritania), ii. 165.
Hail (within sight of the Equator), vii. 336.
Hair (should be allowed all to grow or be shaven off), i. 308.
Hair-dyes (all vegetable matter), i. 326.
—— (Mohammed on), iv. 194.
Hair-strings (of black silk), iii. 311.
—— (significance of), iii. 313.
Hájah = a needful thing (for something, somewhat), vii. 349.
Hajar-coinage, vii. 95.
Hajar Jahannam = hell-stone, lava, basalt, v. 378.
Hájib = groom, chamberlain, ii. 304; iii. 233.
Hajín (tall camel), iii. 67.
Hajj = Pilgrimage, v. 202.
Hájj (or Hájí, not Hajji), iv. 215.
Hajj al-Akbar and Hajj al-Asgar, ii. 169.
Hajjáj (Al-), bin Yúsuf, Governor of Al-Hijáz and Al-Irák, iv. 3; vii.
97.
Hajjám = barber-surgeon, cupper, bleeder, iv. 112.
Hákim = ruler, not to be confounded with Hakím, doctor, etc., vii. 29.
Ha’kim (Al-) bi-amri ’llah (Caliph), iv. 296.
—— (not to be confounded with the Fatimite), v. 86.
Hakk (Al-) = the Truth (Allah), v. 284.
Hakk = right (Hakkí = mine), viii. 335.
Halab = Aleppo, i. 292.
Halabí Shalabí = the Aleppine is a fellow fine, v. 64.
Haláwah = sweetmeat, iv. 60; vii. 205.
Haláwat al-Salámah = sweetmeat for the returning of a friend, viii.
325.
Halfah-grass (Poa), ii. 18.
Halíb = fresh milk, vi. 201.
Halímah = the mild, gentle (fem.), ix. 265.
Haling by the hair a reminiscence of “marriage by capture,” viii. 40.
Hallaling, Anglo-Indian term for the Moslem rite of killing animals for
food, vii. 9.
Halumma = bring! vii. 117.
Halummú = drew near (plur.), ix. 44.
Halwá = sweetmeats, ii. 47, 212.
Hamadán (town in Persian Mesopotamia), ix. 212.
Hámah (soul of a murdered man in form of a bird sprung from his head),
iii. 293.
Hamáil = baldricks, v. 158.
Hamám = wood-pigeon, v. 49.
—— (al-Ayk) = culver of the copse, v. 49.
Hamath = Hightown, ii. 178.
Hamíd (fem. Hamidah) = praiseworthy, satisfactory, ix. 76.
Hammál al-Hatabi = one who carries fuel, vii. 59.
Hammám (going to the = convalescence), i. 288.
—— (ditto, showing that women’s courses are over), i. 286.
—— (hired for private parties), v. 63.
Hammám-bath (a luxury as well as necessity), iii. 19.
Hamzah (uncle of the Prophet), viii. 172.
Hanabát = “hanap” viii. 202.
Hanbal, _see_ Ahmad bin Hanbal, ii. 204.
Hand (left, how used), iv. 129.
—— (white, symbol of generosity; black of niggardness), iv. 185.
—— (his for her), iv. 279.
—— (cut off in penalty for theft), viii. 164.
—— (cut off for striking a father), viii. 287.
Handfuls (the two), v. 207.
Handkerchief of dismissal, x. 47.
Hands (behind the back, posture of submission), iii. 218.
—— (stained in stripes like ring-rows of a chain armour), iii. 176.
—— (how held in reciting the Fátihah), v. 80.
—— (bitten in repentance), v. 191.
—— (their feel guides the physician), v. 220.
Hanien = pleasant to thee! after drinking, ii. 5.
Hanífah, _see_ Abú Hanífah, ii. 207.
Hanút = tavern, booth, etc., v. 142.
Hanzal = gourd, v. 19; ix. 165.
Harámí = one who lives on unlawful gains, ix. 147.
Harbak = javelin, vii. 45.
Hard of heart and soft of sides, ii. 5.
Hardly he (equivalent for), vii. 333.
Harf = letter, syllable, ii. 307.
Harf al-Jarr = a particle governing the oblique case; mode of thrusting
and tumbling, ix. 272.
Harím = Harem, used for the inmates, i. 165.
—— double entendre (= Harem and Honour), iv. 9.
—— (= wife), iv. 126.
—— (hot-bed of Sapphism and Tribadism), iv. 334.
Harírí (Al-), = the silk-man (poet), v. 158.
—— (lines quoted from), x. 44.
Harísah, a favourite dish, i. 131.
Harjáh = (a man of), any place, v. 27.
Hark, you shall see, ix. 14.
Harrák (ship = Carrack?), iv. 130.
Harrákát = carracks (also used for cockboat), vii. 336.
Hárún al-Rashíd (described by Al-Siyúti), viii. 160.
—— (as a poet), ix. 17.
—— (said to have prayed every day a hundred bows), ix. 339.
—— (and Charlemagne), x. 135.
Hárút and Márút (sorcerer angels), iii. 217.
Harwalah = pas gymnastique, iii. 121.
Hasá (Al-) = plain of pebbles, west of Damascus, i. 234.
Hasab = quantity opposed to Nasab = birth, iv. 171.
Hasab wa nasab = inherited degree and acquired dignity, iv. 171; vii.
279.
Hasan al-Basri (theologian), ii. 165.
Hasan bin Sahl (Wazir of Al-Maamún), iv. 124.
Hasanta yá Hasan = bene detto, Benedetto!, i. 251.
Háshimí = descendant of Háshim (Mohammed’s great-grandfather), ix. 24.
—— cubit = 18 inches, v. 371.
—— vein, ii. 19.
Hashísh (intoxicant prepared of hemp), i. 225; iii. 91.
—— (orgie in London), iii. 91.
—— (said to him = his mind, under its influence, suggested to him),
viii. 155.
Hashsháshún = assassins, iii. 91.
Hásib Karím al-Dín (Pr. N.), v. 298.
Hásid = an envier, iv. 137.
Hásil, Hásilah = cell, viii. 184, 196.
Hassún (diminutive of Hasan), viii. 81.
Haste ye to salvation, part of the Azán, i. 224.
Hátif = mysterious voice, i. 142.
Hatím = broken wall (at Meccah), vii. 219.
Hátim (Pr. N.) = black crow, vii. 350.
Hátim al-Asamm (the Deaf), ii. 207.
Hátim of Tayy (proverbial for liberality), iv. 94.
Hattín (battle of), ix. 19.
Haudaj (Hind. Howda) = camel-litter for women, viii. 235.
Hauk! Hauk! = hee haw! i. 221.
“Haunted” = inhabited by Jinns, v. 175.
Haurání towns (weird aspect of), vi. 102.
—— —— (their survival accounted for by some protracted drought), iv.
116.
Hawá al-Uzri = platonic love, ii. 304.
Hawar = intensity of black and white in the eyes, iii. 233.
Háwi = juggler playing tricks with snakes, iii. 145; ix. 56.
Háwiyah (name of a Hell), viii. 346.
Hawk, iii. 61, 138.
Hawwá = Eve, v. 139.
Hayát al-Nufús = Life of Souls, iii. 283.
Hayhát, onomatopoetic for lover, i. 76.
Haykal = temple, chapel, v. 192.
Hazár = (the bird of) a thousand (songs), v. 48.
Hazár Afsáneh (tales from the), ix. 32; x. 72, 93.
Házir and Bádí = townsman and nomad, iii. 234.
Hazramaut (Hazarmaveth), iv. 118; v. 136.
Hazrat = our mediæval “presentia vostra,” viii. 254.
Hazza-hu = he made it (the javelin) quiver, vii. 45.
“He” for “she” out of delicacy, ii. 179.
Head (must always be kept covered), iii. 275.
Head in the poke = into the noose, i. 179.
Head-kerchief (déshabillé), ii. 328.
Headsman delaying execution, iii. 42.
“Hearer” not “reader” addressed, viii. 316.
Heart (black drop in the), iv. 256.
—— (from one full of wrath = in spite of himself), v. 68.
Heart-ache (for stomach-ache = mal au cœur), vi. 194.
Heaven (Ar. Na’ím), iv. 143.
Heavens (names of the seven), viii. 111.
Hell (Sa’ír), iv. 143.
—— (cold as well as hot), iv. 253.
Hells (names of the seven and their intended inhabitants), viii. 111.
Hemistichs divided, iii. 166.
Henna-flower (its spermatic odour), vii. 250.
Herb (the insane), vi. 36.
Hermaphrodites (Ar. Khunsá), iii. 306.
Heroes and heroines of love-tales are bonnes fourchettes, vii. 300.
Heroine of Eastern romance eats well, iii. 168.
Heroism of a doubtful character, viii. 27.
Hesperides (apples of the, probably golden nuggets), viii. 272.
Hetairesis and Sotadism (the heresies of love), x. 215.
Hibá = cords, garters, ii. 236.
Hibál = ropes, iv. 193.
High-bosomed damsel a favourite with Arab tale-tellers, i. 84.
Hijáz (Al-) = Moslem Holy Land, ii. 306.
Hijl = partridge, iii. 138.
“Him” for “her,” iii. 78.
Himà = guarded side, demesne, viii. 102, 225.
Himalayan brothers, ii. 211, 260.
Hind (Al-) al-Aksà = Outer Hind or India, ix. 116.
Hind bint Asmá and the poet Jarír, vii. 96.
Hindí = Indian Moslem opposed to Hindú, v. 1.
Hindibà = endive, v. 226.
Hinges (of ancient doors), iii. 41.
Hippic syphilis, x. 90.
Hippopotamus, vi. 33.
Hips (their volume admired), ii. 285.
—— (leanness of, “anti-pathetic” to Easterns), iii. 226.
Hírah (Christian city in Mesopotamia), v. 124.
Hirakl (monastery of), v. 138.
“His” for “her,” viii. 50.
Hisham bin Abd al-Malik (Caliph), ii. 170; vii. 104.
Hishám ibn Orwah (traditionist), v. 81.
Hisn al-Fákihat = Fortalice of Fruits, vii. 75.
Hiss = (sensual) perception, vii. 302.
Hizám = girdle, viii. 160; x. 36.
Hizb = section of the Koran, v. 217.
Hobbling a camel (how done), vii. 119.
Hog, popular term of abuse, i. 188.
Holiness supposed to act as talisman, ii. 251.
Holy Writ (punned upon), viii. 348.
Homme acheté = de bonne famille, iv. 225.
Honayn (scene of one of Mohammed’s battles), v. 66.
Honey (of bees as distinguished from cane honey), v. 300.
—— (simile for the delights of the world), ix. 64.
“Honeymoon” (lasts a week), v. 62.
Honour amongst thieves, ii. 159.
Hoof (of the wild ass), iii. 235.
Horoscopes, etc., i. 213.
Horripilation = goose flesh, iii. 2.
Horse (names of), iii. 72.
Horse-stealing honourable, iii. 73.
Horseplay frequently ending in bastinado, i. 325.
Horses (not taught to leap), ii. 89.
—— (Arab breeds), v. 246.
Hosh = mean courts at Cairo, v. 170.
Hospitals hated, ii. 70.
Host (enters first as safeguard against guet-apens) iii. 208.
Hour (of Judgment), v. 235.
Houris, iii. 233.
House (haunted = inhabited by Jinns), v. 175.
—— (the Holy of Allah = Ka’abah), ix. 178.
House of Peace = Baghdad, i. 139.
“House of Sadness,” viii. 64.
House-breaking (four modes of), vi. 247.
Houses of Lamentation in Moslem burial-grounds, i. 94.
Housewife (looks to the main chance), viii. 144.
Hubb al-Watan = patriotism, ii. 183.
Hubkah = doubling of a woman’s waistcloth, vii. 180.
Hubúb (Pr. N.) = awaking; blowing hard, viii. 209.
Húd (prophet = Heber?), iv. 118.
Hudhud = hoopoe, iii. 128.
Hudúd al-Haram = bounds of the Holy Places, v. 148.
Hullah = dress, vii. 180.
Hulwán al-miftáh = dénier à Dieu, ix. 212.
Huwayná (Al-) = now drawing near and now moving away, ix. 250.
Humbly (expressed by “standing on their heads”), viii. 279.
Humility of the lovelorn Princess artfully contrasted with her previous
furiosity, vii. 261.
Humming not a favourite practice with Moslems, i. 311.
Humours (of Hippocrates), v. 218.
Hump-back (graphically described), viii. 297.
Hunchback looked upon with fear and aversion, i. 258.
Hunger (burns), ii. 144.
Hungry judges, “hanging judges,” ii. 198.
Húr, pl. = Houris, iii. 233.
Húr al-Ayn = with eyes of lively white and black, i. 90.
Hurák = tinder, iv. 108.
Hurr = gentleman, i. 254.
—— = free, noble, independent, opp. to ’Abd = servile, iii. 44.
Hurry is from Hell, i. 264.
—— (in a newly married couple indecent), iv. 244.
Hurúf al-mutabbakát = the flattened sounds, iv. 223.
Hút = great fish, vi. 69.
Hydropathic treatment of wounds held dangerous, v. 200.
Hymeneal blood resembles that of pigeon-poult, ii. 50.
Hypocrite (Ar. Munáfik), v. 207.
Hysterical Arab temperament, ii. 54, 101, 181.
Ibáziyah sect, vii. 125.
Iblís (diabolus) = Despairer, i. 13; iii. 22; ix. 300.
—— (Cherubim cherished by Allah), v. 319.
—— (cursed and expelled), v. 320.
Ibn Abbás (Companion), v. 212.
Ibn Abdún al-Andalúsí (poet), iii. 319.
Ibn Abí Anfa, ii. 200.
Ibn al-Kirnás = son of the chase (for Persian Kurnas = pimp, cuckold?),
viii. 157.
Ibn al-’Ukáb (Pr. N.) = Son of the Eagle, viii. 198.
Ibn Hamdún (transmitter of poetry and history), ix. 229.
Ibn Harám = son of adultery, abuse not necessarily reflecting on the
parent, i. 231.
Ibn ’Irs = weasel, ix. 114.
Ibn Muljam (murderer of the Caliph Ali), iii. 319.
Ibn Síná = Avicenna, iii. 34.
Ibráhím bin Adham, ii. 203.
Ibrahím bin al-Mahdí (Pretender to the Caliphate) iv. 103.
Ibrahim al-Mausilí, iv. 108; ix. 304.
Ibrat = needle graver and ’Ibrat = warning, a favourite jingle, i. 104.
Ibrík = ewer, and Tisht = basin, used for washing the hands, i. 241;
vii. 146.
Ibrísam = raw silk, floss, vii. 352.
Ichneumon (mongoose), iii. 147.
Ichthyological marvels, vi. 33.
’Íd = festivals (the two of Al-Islám), viii. 142.
Id al-Kabír = the Great Festival, i. 28.
Iddat = months of a woman’s enforced celibacy after divorce, iii. 292.
—— (of widowhood), vi. 256; x. 43.
Ídgáh (place of prayer), ii. 202.
Ifrít, divided into two races like mankind, i. 11.
Ifrítah = she-Ifrit, i. 34.
Ihdak = encompassing, as the white encloses the black of the eye, i.
49.
Ihtiláj-námah = Book of palpitations, viii. 25.
Ihtilám = wet dream as a sign of puberty, vii. 183.
Ihtizáz = shaking with delight, i. 50.
I’itikáf (Al-) = retreat, v. 202.
Ijtilá = displaying of the bride on her wedding night, vii. 198.
Ikálat (Al-) = cancelling, “resiliation,” v. 204.
Ikh! Ikh! (cry to a camel to make it kneel down), ii. 139.
Ikhlás (Al-) = Chapter of Unity, iii. 307.
Ikhtiyán al Khutan = Khaitan (?), x. 9.
Ikhwán al-Safá = Brethren of Purity, iii. 150.
Iklíl = diadem, now obsolete, i. 270.
Iklím = the seven climates of Ptolemy, i. 233.
Iksah = plait, etc., vii. 150.
Iksír (Al-) = dry drug (from ξηρον), v. 315; viii. 9.
Ikyán = living gold, viii. 272, 275.
Iláh = God, v. 196.
Iláh al-Arsh = the God of the Empyrean, iii. 106.
Iliad and Pentaur’s Epic, vii. 362.
Ill is thy abiding place, iii. 137.
Ill-treatment (a plea for a lawful demand to be sold), viii. 55.
Ilm al-Káf = K-science for Alchemy, v. 307.
Ilm al-Rúhání = Spiritualism, i. 305.
Images of living beings forbidden, v. 3.
—— (= statues), v. 223.
Imám = leader, antistes, ii. 203.
—— (the Seventh = Caliph al-Maamún), iv. 111.