Kúfah (Al-) founded by Omar, iv. i.
—— (revolutionary spirit of), iv. 3.
Kúfiyah = coif, etc., ii. 230.
Kufr = rejecting the True Religion, i. 169.
Kuhaylat (breed of Arab horses), iii. 346.
Kulayb allows no one to approach his camp-fire, ii. 77; vi. 261.
Kulkasá = colocasia roots, i. 272.
Kullah = gugglet, i. 36.
Kulzum (Al-), old name of Suez-town, vii. 348.
Kumasrá (Kummasrá), = pear, vii. 357.
Kumayt (Al-) = bay horse with black points, vii. 128.
Kumkum (cucurbite, gourd-shaped vessel), i. 42; iv. 68, 178.
Kumm = sleeve (used as a bag), iv. 107; viii. 267.
Kun = Be (the creative word), iii. 317.
Kunáfah = vermicelli cake, x. 1.
Kundur = frankincense, ix. 7.
Kunfuz = hedgehog, ii. 88.
Kunsul = Consul, iv. 84.
Kunyat = patro- or matro-nymic, iv. 287.
Kúr = furnace, viii. 9.
—— = forge where children are hammered out (?), viii. 46.
Kurbáj = cravache, viii. 17.
Kurbán = sacrifice, viii. 16.
Kurds (Xenophon’s and Strabo’s Carduchi), iii. 100.
Kurdús = body of horse, ix. 111.
Kurrá = teachers of the correct pronunciation of the Koran, i. 113.
Kurrah = ball in the Polo game, ii. 329.
Kurrat al-Ayn = coolness of the eye, i. 72; v. 145.
Kurs (has taken the place of Iklíl), i. 270.
Kursán (Al-) = “Corsaro,” a runner, viii. 323.
Kursí (choir, throne) = desk or stool for the Koran, i. 167; vii. 311.
Kursí al-wiládah = birth-stool, ii. 80.
Kús (town in Upper Egypt), iv. 276.
Kus(s) = vulva, viii. 93.
Kush’arírah = horripilation, symptom of great joy, i. 251.
Kussá’a = curling cucumber, iv. 98.
Kusúf = eclipse of the moon, viii. 291.
Kút al-Kulúb, viii. 158.
Kutá’ah = a bit cut off, etc., vi. 272.
Kutayt = little tom-cat, ii. 39.
Kutb = axle, pole; hence prince, doyen in sainthood, v. 384.
Kuthayyir (poet), ii. 102.
Kutr Misr = tract of Egypt, ix. 286.
Kutub al-Báh = Books of Lust, x. 201.
Kuzía Fakán (Pr. N.) = “it was decreed by destiny, so it came to pass,”
ii. 175.
Lá adamnak = Heaven deprive us not of thee, i. 268.
Lá Bás (bi-zálik = there is no harm in that), iv. 164.
—— (in Marocco) = “I am pretty well,” viii. 274.
—— (= no harm is [yet] done), ix. 102.
Lá haula, etc. = there is no Majesty, etc., i. 65.
La iláha illá ’lláh = there is no God but _the_ God (tahlíl), ii. 336.
Lá kabbata hámíyah = no burning plague, x. 14.
Lá rajma ghaybin = without stone-throwing of secrecy, ix. 1.
Lá rayba fí-hi, ii. 210.
Lá tankati’í = sever not thyself from us, ix. 245.
Lá tuwáhishná = do not make me desolate, i. 62.
Lá tuwákhizná = do not chastise us = excuse us, i. 164.
La’alla = haply, belike; forsure, certainly, ix. 49.
La’ab = (sword-) play, vii. 44.
La’abah = a plaything, a puppet, a lay figure, i. 245.
La’al = ruby, v. 342.
La’an = curse, v. 250; vi. 178.
Láb (Old Pers. for Sun), vii. 296.
Laban (= milk artificially soured), vi. 201.
—— (= sweet milk), vii. 360.
—— halíb = fresh milk, vi. 201.
Labbayka (= Here am I, called Talbiyah), i. 226; ii. 227.
—— (pronounced on sighting Meccah), v. 203.
Labbis al-Búsah tabkí ’Arúsah = clothe the reed and it will become a
bride, viii. 201.
Labtayt (Pr. N. = Toledo), iv. 99.
Lactation (term of), v. 299.
—— (no cohabitation during), v. 299.
Ladies of the family (waiting upon the guests), vi. 237.
Láhik = the Overtaker, viii. 341.
Láit = one acting like the tribe of Lot, sodomite, ix. 253.
Lajlaj = rolling anything in the mouth; stammering, ix. 322.
Lájuward, _see_ Lázuward, iii. 33.
Lake Kárún, vi. 217.
Lakít = fœtus, foundling, contemptible fellow, vii. 145.
Lámí (Al-) = the l-shaped, forked (os hyoïdes), v. 219.
Lámíyat = poem rhyming in L, iii. 143.
Lane quoted: i. 1, 36, 42, 74, 77, 83, 93, 100, 104, 131, 147, 163,
201, 210, 213, 215, 217, 223, 245, 259, 269, 270, 291, 311, 314,
317, 340; ii. 5, 38, 41, 46, 56, 77, 80, 89, 93, 131, 167, 206, 215,
243, 292, 304, 314, 315, 328, 332; iii. 20, 30, 44, 112, 114, 116,
117, 141, 162, 176, 181, 191, 211, 212, 222, 259, 322, 331, 341; iv.
2, 12, 46, 55, 63, 66, 82, 95, 96, 107, 110, 124, 136, 144, 152,
160, 164, 171, 181, 187, 189, 191, 196, 199, 200, 202, 204, 205,
209, 212, 214, 219, 222, 228, 231, 233, 244, 254, 268, 271, 273,
279, 287, 297; v. 2, 32, 33, 37, 44, 45, 64, 104, 112, 120, 121,
144, 145, 189, 201, 231, 259, 273, 286, 298; vi. 1, 8, 11, 17, 33,
49, 57, 61, 66, 80, 180, 191, 196, 214, 216, 247, 257, 282; vii. 95,
96, 111, 113, 118, 119, 123, 124, 135, 136, 139, 144, 172, 182, 195,
196, 209, 250, 269, 275, 280, 282, 303, 306, 309, 314, 322, 328,
346, 354, 357; viii. 14, 18, 21, 27, 35, 53, 62, 68, 77, 80, 84, 94,
97, 102, 122, 124, 128, 131, 147, 148, 155, 156, 166, 177, 179, 180,
187, 205, 264, 285, 298, 337; ix. 32, 33, 146, 168, 170, 182, 221,
222, 224, 226, 229, 246, 291, 304, 307; x. 1, 11, 12, 19, 34, 36,
50, 52, 70, 115.
Language of signs, ii. 304.
Languages (study of, should be assisted by ear and tongue), x. 96.
Largesse (better than the mace), viii. 163.
Lasm (Lathm) = kissing the lower face, iv. 259.
Lasting calamity = furious knight, vi. 290.
Latter night = hours between the last sleep and dawn, i. 24.
Laughing in one’s face not meant for an affront, i. 320.
Laughter rare and sign of a troubled mind, i. 248.
Lauh = tablet used as slate, v. 73.
Lauh al-Mahfúz = the Preserved Tablet (of Allah’s decrees), v. 322.
Lauláka = but for thee, for thy sake, v. 306.
Laun = colour, hue (for dish), vii. 185.
Láwandiyah (Al-) = Levantines, ix. 275.
Layálí = nights, future, fate, iii. 318.
Layl (night) frequently = the interval between sunset and sunset, ii.
260.
Laylá (female Pr. N.), iii. 135.
—— wa Majnún (love poem), iii. 183.
Laylat al-Kábilah = to-night, ix. 271.
Laylat al-Kadr = Night of Power, vi. 180.
Laylat al-Wafá = the night of completion of the Nile-flood, i. 291.
Laylat ams = yesternight, vii. 186.
Lazá (Hell for Jews), ii. 140; viii. 346.
Lázuward = lapis lazuli, azure, iii. 33; ix. 190.
Leaving one standing (pour se faire valoir), vi. 252.
Leg-cut (severs horse’s leg), ii. 220.
Legs (making mute the anklets), vii. 131.
—— (shall be bared on a certain day), ix. 253.
Lentils (cheapest and poorest food in Egypt), x. 31.
Leprosy (white = bahak or baras, black = juzám), v. 294.
—— (thickens voice), iv. 50.
—— (shows first at the wrist), iv. 51.
Lesbianism, x. 209.
Letter (reading _not_ always understanding), ii. 112.
—— (model specimen), iv. 57.
—— (toren tears a kingdom), vii. 2.
Letters and letter-writing, iii. 24.
—— (French), vii. 190.
Li-ajal = for the sake of, low Egyptian, ii. 113.
Libdah (skull-cap of felt) sign of a religious mendicant, iii. 62.
Liberality (men proverbial for their), iv. 96.
—— (after poverty), viii. 182.
Libraries (large ones known by the Arabs), viii. 79.
—— (much appreciated by the Arabs), x. 175.
Lice bred by perspiration, ii. 69.
Lie (only degrading if told for fear of telling the truth), ix. 87.
—— (simulating truth), ix. 223.
Lieu d’aisance (in Eastern crafts), ix. 332.
Líf = fibre of palm-fronds, v. 45; vi. 50.
Life (by the, of thy youth) oath of women, iv. 49.
—— (cheap in hot countries), iv. 275.
Life-breath in the nostrils = heart in the mouth, i. 42.
Light (of salvation shining from the face of Prophets), ix. 324.
Light-worshippers (are liars), iv. 252.
Lijám shadíd = sharp bit, ix. 70.
Like mother, like daughter, i. 299.
Li ’lláhi darru-ka = the Lord has been copious to thee, iv. 20.
Lion (beguiled by flattery), v. 40.
—— (as Sultan of the beasts jealous of a man’s power), x. 34.
—— at home, lamb abroad, ii. 183.
Lisám (mouth-band for men, chin-veil) = Tasmak for women, ii. 31, 230;
iii. 283.
Lisán al-Hamal = lamb’s tongue (plantain), viii. 273.
Listening not held dishonourable, vii. 279.
Litholatry of the old Arabs, vi. 269.
Liver = seat of passion, i. 27.
—— (for heart), iii. 240.
—— (and spleen held to be congealed blood), v. 220.
Living (the, who dieth not), vi. 67.
Liwá = Arab Tempe, vii. 115.
Liwán = Al-Aywán, iv. 71; vii. 347.
Liyyah = fat sheep (calves like tails of), viii. 291.
Lizzat al-Nisá (erotic poem), iii. 93.
Loathing of prohibition, ix. 279.
Locks (Mohammed’s), ii. 230.
Logah = Arabic language, also a vocabulary, dictionary, i. 251.
Logogriphs, viii. 93.
Lokman (three of the name), x. 118.
Loosening the hair an immodesty in women sanctioned only by a great
calamity, i. 314.
Lord for Lady = she, v. 60.
—— (of the East and West), v. 228.
Lost on Allah’s way = martyr, ii. 330.
Lot (this is ours = I have been lucky and will share with you), ix.
328.
Lot, _see_ Lútí.
Lote-tree (beyond which there is no passing), v. 393.
Lots = games of chance, v. 223.
Love (pure, becomes prophetical), iii. 6.
—— (the ear conceiveth it before the eye), iii. 9.
—— (ten stages of), iii. 36.
—— (martyrs of), iii. 211.
—— (platonic, _see_ vol. ii. 104), iii. 232.
—— (ousting affection), iii. 240.
—— (martyrs of), iv. 205.
—— (clairvoyance), iv. 238.
—— (excess of), iv. 238.
—— (strange chances of), v. 71.
—— (deaths from), v. 134.
—— (made public disgraces), v. 151.
—— (man and woman with regard to), vii. 299.
—— (called upon to torment the lover still more), viii. 75.
—— (cruelty of), x. 26.
Love-children (exceedingly rare amongst Moslems), viii. 115.
Love-liesse (never lacked between folk, _i.e._ people of different
conditions), viii. 212.
Lovers in Lazá (hell) as well as in Na’ím (heaven), iii. 58.
—— (parting of, a stock-topic in poetry), iii. 58.
—— (buried together), v. 71.
—— (model ones, becoming an ordinary married couple), v. 92.
—— (becoming Moslems secure the good will of the audience), viii. 224.
Loving folk = something more than benevolence, ii. 2.
Lúk-Gate (proverb referring to), iv. 259.
Lukmah = mouthful, i. 261; vii. 367.
Lukmán (Æsop of the Arabs), ii. 199.
Lukmán (three of the name), iii. 264; x. 118.
Lullilooing (Tahlíl Zagrútah, Kil), ii. 80.
Lúlúah = union pearl; wild cow, ix. 218.
Lumá = dark hue of the inner lips, iv. 251.
Lupin-flour used as soap, ii. 136.
Luss = thief, robber, ix. 106.
Lute (personification of), viii. 281.
Lutf (servile name = elegance, delicacy), iv. 232.
Lútí (of the people of Lot = Sodomite), v. 161.
Lying (until one’s self believes the lie to be truth), x. 14.
Lynch-law (the modern form of Jus talionis), v. 103.
Lymph (alluding to the “Neptunist” doctrine), ix. 77.
Lynx (trained for hunting), ii. 293.
Má al-Khalaf, _see_ Khiláf, ii. 136.
Má al-Maláhah = water (brilliancy) of beauty, viii. 47.
Má Dáhiyatak = what is thy misfortune? (for “what ill business is
this?”), ix. 137.
Má kaharaní ahadun = none vexeth (or has overcome) me, ix. 156.
Ma’abíd (singer and composer), v. 147.
Maamún (Al), son and successor of Hárún al-Rashíd, i. 185; iv. 109.
Ma’an bin Záidah, iii. 236; iv. 96.
Ma’áni-há (her meanings = her inner woman), iv. 146.
Ma’arúf = kindness, favour, x. 1.
Mace (Ar. Dabbús), vi. 249.
—— (a dangerous weapon), vii. 24.
Macnaghten’s Edition, x. 81.
Madfá = cannon, showing modern date, i. 223.
Madinat al-Nabí (Al-Medínah) = City of the Prophet, iv. 114.
Madness (there is a pleasure in), iv. 204.
Mafárik (Al-) = partings of the hair, vii. 222.
Mafa’úl = patient, passive (Catamite), v. 156.
Magazine (as one wherein wheat is heaped up = unmarried), vii. 372.
Magháribah (pl. of Maghribí = Western man, Moor, “Maurus”), vi. 220.
Maghdád (for Baghdád, as Makkah and Bakkah), viii. 51.
Maghrib (al-Aksà) = the land of the setting sun, ix. 50.
Magic studied by Jews, ii. 234.
Magic Horse (history of the fable), v. 2.
Magnet Mountains, fable probably based on the currents, i. 140.
Mahá = wild cattle, vii. 280.
Mahall = (a man’s) quarters, viii. 229.
Mahall al-Zauk = seat of taste, sensorium, ix. 83.
Maháráj = great Rajah, vi. 8, 67.
Mahayá = Má al-Hayát = _aqua vitæ_, vii. 132.
Mahdí (Al-) Caliph, vii. 136; ix. 334.
Mahmil (mahmal) = litter, ii. 131.
Mahmúdah = praiseworthy; confection of aloes, viii. 35.
Mahr = marriage dowry, settlement, vii. 126; ix. 32.
Mahríyah (Mehari) = blood-dromedary, iii. 277.
Maid and Magpie, vi. 182.
Mail-coat and habergeon, simile for a glittering stream, i. 291.
Ma’ín, Ma’ún = smitten with the evil eye, i. 123.
Maintenance (of a divorced woman during Iddah), ix. 32.
Majájah = saliva, vii. 280.
Ma’janah (a place for making bricks), ii. 17.
Majlis = sitting (to a woman), iii. 92.
Majnún = madman, i. 10; iii. 72.
Majzúb = drawn, attracted (Sufí term for ecstatic), v. 57.
Maka’ad = sitting-room, iv. 78.
Makhaddah = pillow, ii. 70.
Makkamah = Kazí’s Court, i. 21.
Making water, i. 259.
Mál = Badawi money, flocks, “fee,” vi. 267.
Malak = level ground, viii. 285.
Malak or Malik = Seraph or Sovran, i. 253.
Malákay bayti ’l-ráhah = slabs of the jakes, x. 51.
“Making men” (and women), x. 199.
Malakút (Al-) = the world of spirits (Sufi term), viii. 145.
Male children (as much prized as riches), ix. 316.
Malíhah (al-) = salt-girl; beautiful, i. 340.
Malik (used as “king” in our story-books), ii. 1.
—— bin Dínár (theologian) ii. 204; vii. 261.
—— (taken as title), iii. 51.
—— (traditionist), v. 81.
—— al-Khuzá’i (intendant of the palace), v. 95.
—— (Al-) al-Násir = the conquering King, iv. 271; vii. 142; ix. 19.
Málik (door-keeper of Hell), iii. 20.
Malik Kawí = very handsome (Cairene vulgarism), vii. 150.
Malikhulíyà (Al-) = melancholy, v. 221.
Malocchio or Gettatura (evil), ix. 247.
Mamlúk (white slave trained to arms), i. 81.
Mamarr al-Tujjár = passing place of the traders, viii. 155.
Mamrak = sky-window, etc. viii. 156.
Man (extract of despicable water), iii. 16.
—— (is fire, woman tinder), iii. 59.
—— (shown to disadvantage in beast-stories), iii. 115.
—— (his destiny written on his skull), iii. 123.
—— (pre-eminence above women), iii. 332.
—— (handsomer than woman), iv. 15.
—— (his advantages above woman), v. 155.
—— (one’s evidence = two women’s), v. 155.
—— (one’s portion = two women’s), v. 155.
—— (created of congealed blood), v. 213.
—— (one worthier in Allah’s sight than a thousand Jinn), viii. 5, 44.
—— (created after God’s likeness, rather a Jewish-Christian than a
Moslem doctrine), ix. 79.
—— (I am a man of them = never mind my name), ix. 238.
—— (of the people of Allah = a Religious), ix. 51.
—— (his wrong is from the tongue), ix. 309.
Manáf (idol), v. 129.
Manár al-Saná = Place of Light, viii. 104.
Manáshif (pl. of Minshafah, _q.v._), viii. 92.
Manázil (stations of the Moon), v. 228.
Mandíl = kerchief, ii. 301.
Maniyat = death; muniyat = desire, iii. 291.
Manjanikát (Al-) = Mangonels, vii. 335.
Mankind (creates its analogues in all the elements), iv. 121.
—— (superior to Jinn), ix. 339.
Mann = from two to six pounds, vi. 80.
Man’s creation, ii. 91.
Mansúr (Pr. N.) = triumphant, ix. 310.
Mansúr (Al-) Caliph, ii. 142, 153, 210.
—— bin Ammár, ii. 204.
—— al-Nimrí (poet), iv. 179.
Mansúr wa Munazzam = oratio soluta et ligata, viii. 226.
Manumission of slaves, ii. 55.
Manzil (Makám) = (a lady’s) lodgings, viii. 229.
Maragha = he rubbed his face, ii. 60.
Marba’ = summer quarters, iii. 79.
Mardán-i-Ghayb (Himalayan brothers), ii. 211.
Mares (impregnated by the wind), vi. 9.
Marhúb = terrible, viii. 180.
Marhúm (f. Marhúmah) = late lamented, ii. 129, 196.
Márid = contumacious, i. 41.
Máridúna = rebels (against Allah), vii. 39.
Ma’rifah = article, ix. 272.
Máristán (from Pers. Bímáristán = place of sickness), i. 288.
Marján = Coral-branch (slave name), iii. 169.
Marjánah (Pr. N.) = Coral-branch, ii. 100.
—— (Morgante, Urganda, Morgain), vii. 373.
Markúb = shoe, vi. 207.
Marmar = marble, i. 295; vi. 95.
Marocco (tenanted by three Moslem races), x. 222.
Marriage (not valid without receipt of settlement), i. 276.
—— (if consummated demands Ghusl), iii. 286.
—— (by capture), viii. 40.
—— (one of the institutions of the Apostles), viii. 137.
Marriage-sheet inspected, ii. 50.
Married men profit nothing, iii. 2.
—— never once (emphasises poverty), viii. 145.
Marseille (probably alluded to), viii. 315.
Marsín = myrtle, vii. 290.
Martyrdom, iv. 247.
—— (of the drowned), ix. 340.
Martyrs (still alive), ii. 242.
—— (of love), iii. 211; iv. 205.
Marwah (ground-wave in Meccah), v. 203.
Marwazí = of Marw (Margiana), iii. 222.
Marwán bin al-Hakam (Governor of al-Medinah), vii. 125.
Maryam (a Christian name), viii. 306.
Maryam al-Husn = place of the White doe (Rím) of beauty, viii. 321.
Marz-bán = Warden of the Marches, Margrave, iii. 256.
Masculine for feminine, vii. 140.
Má sháa ’llah (as Allah willeth) = well done, iii. 92.
Mashallah = the English “Cock’s ’ill” with a difference, x. 52.
Mashhad = head and foot stone of a grave, x. 53.
Mashá’ilí = cresset-bearer, for public crier, hangman, i. 259; iv. 61.
Masíhí = follower of the Messiah, i. 258.
Maskharah = buffoon, ii. 143; vii. 195.
Maskhút = transformed (mostly in something hideous), a statue, i. 165.
Maslamah bin Abd al-Malik. ii. 167.
Massacre (the _grand moyen_ of Eastern state-craft), ix. 110.
Massage, i. 172.
Mastabah = bench of masonry, vi. 26.
Masúkah = stick used for driving cattle, viii. 147.
Matáf = place of Tawáf, _q.v._
Matárik (pl. of mitrak) = targes, ix. 225.
Matmúrah = underground cell, ii. 39.
Matr (pl. amtár) = large vessel of leather or wood, iii. 295.
Matta’aka ’llah = Allah permit thee to enjoy, ix. 125.
Matting (of Sind, famous), v. 146.
Maukab (Al-) = Procession-day, iv. 287.
Maulid = nativity, ix. 289.
Maund, _see_ Mann, vi. 80.
Maurid = desert well and road to such, iii. 33.
Mausil (_Mosul_) alluding to the junction of Assyria and Babylonia, i.
82.
Mausúl (Al-) = the conjoined (for relative pronoun or particle), ix.
272.
Maut = death, vii. 147.
Mauz = Musa (Banana), iv. 201.
Mawwál (for Mawálíyah) = short poem, viii. 94; 151.
“May thy life be prolonged,” iv. 62.
Mayázib (pl. of mízáb) = gargoyles, vii. 136.
Maydán = parade-ground, i. 46.
Maydán al-Fíl = race-course of the Elephant, vii. 326.
Maymúnah (proverbial noun now forgotten), i. 57.
Maysir = game of arrows, v. 223.
Maysúm (Badawi wife of Caliph Mu’áwiyah), ii. 160.
Maysum’s song, vii. 97.
Mayyáfárikín, ancient capital of Diyár Bakr, vii. 1.
Meat rarely coloured in modern days, i. 310.
Medicine (rules and verses bearing on domestic), v. 222.
Melancholy (chronic under the brightest skies), iv. 239.
Men (is there a famine of?) = are men so few? iv. 295.
Meniver = menu vair (Mus lemmus), ix. 321.
Menses (coition during, and leprosy), viii. 34.
Menstruous discharge (made use of as a poison), ix. 101.
Merchant (worth a thousand), x. 8.
Merchants and shopkeepers carrying swords, i. 54.
Mercury Ali (his story sequel to that of Dalílah), vii. 172.
Mercy (quality of the noble Arab), iii. 88.
Mer-folk (refined with the Greeks, grotesques with other nations), ix.
169.
Messiah (made a liar by the Miscreants), ix. 15.
Metamorphosis (terms of), vii. 294.
Metempsychosis and sharpers’ tricks, v. 84.
Metrical portion of the Nights (threefold distribution of), x. 67.
Miao or Mau = cat, i. 220.
Mihráb and Minaret (symbols of Venus and Priapus?), i. 166.
Mihráj = Maháráj, _q.v._; vi. 67.
Mikashshah = broom, iv. 208.
Mihrgán = Sun-fête, degraded into Michaelmas, v. 1.
Mikbas (pot of lighted charcoal), iv. 246.
Mikhaddah = cheek-pillow, viii. 273.
Mikmarah = cover for a brasier, extinguisher, v. 120.
Miknás = town Mequinez, vi. 223.
Miknasah = broom, vi. 158.
Mi’lakah = spoon, ix. 141.
Milh = salt, i. 340.
Military and Police sneered at, iv. 270.
Milk (white as, opposed to black as mud), iv. 140.
—— (soured), v. 225.
—— (Ar. Laban, Halíb), vi. 201.
—— (by nomades always used in the soured form), vi. 201.
Milk-drinking races prefer the soured milk to the sweet, vii. 360.
Million (no Arabic word for, expressed by a thousand thousand), vi. 98.
Mím-like mouth, iv. 249.
Míms (verset of the sixteen), v. 217.
Mina (and the stoning of the Devil), v. 203.
Minaret (simile for a fair young girl), iii. 69.
Mind (one by vinegar, another by wine = each goes its own way), iv. 72.
“Mine” (various idioms for expressing it), iii. 335.
Minínah = biscuit, iv. 86.
Minshafah (pl. Manáshif) = drying towel, viii. 92.
Mikra’ah = palm-rod, i. 99.
Miracle (minor, known to Spiritualism), v. 144.
Miracles (performed by Saints’ tombs), i. 241.
—— (disclaimed by Mohammed but generally believed in), iii. 346.
—— (growing apace in the East), ix. 336.
Mirage = Saráb, iii. 319.
Mirbad (Al-) market-place at Bassorah, vii. 130.
Mirzà ’Abdullah-i-Híchmakání = Master Abdullah of Nowhere, v. 27.
“Mis”-conformation (prized by women), vi. 156.
Mishammah = an old gunny-bag, ix. 171.
Miskál = 71–72 grams in gold, used for dinar, i. 126; ix. 262.
Misr, Masr = Capital (applied to Memphis, Fostat and Cairo), vii. 172.
—— (for Egypt), vii. 370.
Misra (twelfth Coptic month), v. 232.
Misrayn (Al-) = Basrah and Kúfah, vii. 371.
Mitrahinna (Minat-ro-hinnu) = port at mouth of canal, ii. 237.
Mizr, Mizar = beer, i. 72.
Modesty (behind a curtain), v. 162.
Mohammed (best of the first and last), ii. 11.
—— (Mustafa), ii. 40.
—— (his letter to the Mukaukis), ii. 79.
—— (Periclytus and Paracletus), ii. 226.
—— (abhors the shaveling), ii. 248.
—— (bearer of glad and bad tidings), ii. 257.
—— (Congratulator and Commiserator), ii. 260.
—— (Best of Mankind), ii. 263.
—— (“born with Kohl’d eyes”), iii. 232.
—— (his uncles), iv. 22.
—— (traditional saying of), iv. 35.
—— (cleanses the Ka’abah of idols), iv. 80.
—— (on dyeing the hair, etc.), iv. 194.
—— (on lovers), iv. 205.
—— (on his being seen in sleep), iv. 287.
—— (places the “black stone”), iv. 261.
—— (mentioned in the Koran), v. 210.
—— (Allah’s right hand), vii. 366.
—— (sent with the guidance and True Faith), ix. 15.
—— (before and after the Hijrah), x. 196.
Mohammed al-Amín (Caliph), v. 93.
Mohammed bin Sulaymán al-Rabi’í (Governor of Bassorah), vii. 130.
Moharram = first month of the Moslem year, viii. 71.
Mohr = signet, vii. 329.
Mohtasib = inspector of weights and measures, etc., viii. 293.
Mole on cheek (black as Bilál), iv. 142.
Moles compared with pearls, i. 177.
Monasteries (best wine made in), v. 65.
—— (Ar. Biká’a), v. 125.
—— (places of confinement for madmen), v. 139.
Monday = second day reckoning from Sabbath, i. 266.
Money (carried in the corner of a handkerchief), i. 271.
—— (large sums weighed), i. 281; ii. 145.
—— (carried round the waist), viii. 288.
—— (let lie with the folk = not dunned for), ix. 311.
Monkery (abhorred by Mohammed), ii. 248.
—— (none in Al-Islam), viii. 137.
Monoculars (unlucky to meet), i. 333.
—— (famed for mischief), iv. 194; viii. 318.
Monsters (abounding in Persian literature), vii. 399.
Months (of peace), v. 54.
—— (Coptic names of), v. 221, 232.
—— (Arabic names explained), v. 233.
Moon (blighting effect of its rays), ii. 4.
—— masculine in Semitic, ii. 45.
—— (masc., Sun fem.), iii. 28; iv. 261.
—— (simile for female beauty), v. 8.
—— (shall be cloven in twain), v. 217.
—— (its stations), v. 228.
—— (taking in hand the star = girl handing round the cup), ix. 192.
Moon-faced (not absurd), iv. 192.
Moons (for cup-bearers), viii. 227.
Moore (Thomas, anticipated), iii. 305.
Morality (geographical and chronological), iii. 241.
—— (want of, excused by passion), iii. 269.
Morbi venerei, x. 88.
Morning draught, iii. 20.
“Morosa voluptas,” vii. 132.
Mortal (one better in Allah’s sight than a thousand Jinn), viii. 5, 44.
Moses (derivation of the name), ii. 205.
—— and Jethro, ii. 205.
—— and the next world, ii. 206.
—— and Al-Khizr, ii. 263.
—— (describes his own death and burial), vi. 116.
Moslem (model Conservative), ii. 13.
—— (external), ii. 29.
—— (familiarity between high and low), ii. 32.
—— (peasants kind-hearted), ii. 69.
—— (kind feeling shown to a namesake), vi. 13.
—— (corpses should be burnt under certain circumstances), vi. 26.
—— (commonplaces of condolence), vi. 41.
—— (sales, formula of), vi. 73.
—— (consecrated ground unknown to them), vi. 161.
—— (a free-born’s sale is felony), vi. 240.
—— (dignity contrasting with Christian abasement), viii. 5, 44.
—— (can circumcise, marry and bury himself), viii. 22.
—— (on a journey tries to bear with him a new suit of clothes for the
festivals and Friday service), ix. 51.
—— (bound to discharge the debts of his dead parents), ix. 311.
—— (doctrine ignores the dictum, “ex nihilo nihil fit”), ix. 63.
—— (resignation, noble instance of), x. 42.
Moslems (their number preordained), viii. 154.
—— (deal kindly with religious mendicants), ix. 51.
—— (not ashamed of sensual appetite), ix. 84.
—— (bound to abate scandals amongst neighbours), ix. 98.
—— (husbands among them divided into three classes), ix. 263.
Mosque al-Ahzáb = mosque of the troops, vii. 92.