Mosul (exempted from idolatrous worship), v. 64.
—— stuff = muslin, i. 229.
Mother (waiting upon the adult sons) vi. 237.
—— (in Arab tales = ma mère), viii. 27.
Mother’s milk = nature, ii. 44.
Mounds = rubbish heaps outlying Eastern cities, i. 71.
Mountain (coming from the = being a clodhopper), iii. 324.
—— (sit upon the = turn anchorite), iii. 324.
—— (the, at Cairo), iv. 294.
Mountains (the pegs of the earth), iv. 174.
Mourning (perfumes not used during), iii. 63.
—— (normal term of forty days), ix. 311.
Moustachio (salt to a kiss), v. 165.
Mouth compared to the ring of Sulayman, i. 84.
Mrigatrishná = the thirst of the deer (mirage), vi. 93.
MS. copy of The Nights (price of one in Egypt), vii. 312.
Muákhát = entering in a formal agreement for partnership, viii. 232.
Mu’allim = teacher, master (address to a Jew or Christian), viii. 150.
Mu’arras = pimp, i. 338.
Mu’attik al-Rikáb = Liberator of Necks, vii. 331.
Mu’áwiyah (Caliph), ii. 160, 161.
—— (his Moses-like “mildness”), iii. 286.
Muayyad (Sultan and calligrapher), ii. 32.
Muazzin (who calls to prayer), ii. 306.
Mubárak (f. mubárakah) = blessed (a favourite slave-name), ix. 58.
Mubárakah = the blessed (fem.), ix. 330.
Mudarris = professor, x. 8.
Mudawwarah (a gong?), iv. 135.
Muftí (Doctor of Law), vi. 254.
Muhabbat (Al-) al-gharizíyah = natural affection, viii. 110.
Muháfiz = district-governor, i. 259.
Muhájirún = companions in Mohammed’s flight, vii. 92.
Muhakkah = “Court-hand,” i. 129.
Muhallil, _see_ Mustahall.
Muhammad, Ahmad and Mahmúd, vi. 273.
Muhammarah = fricandoed, i. 286.
Muhárabah = doing battle, ix. 92.
Muharramát (the three forbidden things), iii. 340; v. 148.
Mu’ín al-Din = Aider of the Faith, vii. 354.
Mujáhid (Al-) = fighter in Holy War, iii. 51.
Mujáhidún, plur. of the previous, iii. 39.
Mujauhar = damascened, vii. 84.
Mujáwirún = lower servants, sweepers, etc. v. 119.
Mujtabá = the Accepted, i. 77.
Mukaddam (Anglo-Indicè Muccudum) = overseer, iv. 42.
Mukarrabún = those near Allah, v. 319.
Mukhammas = cinquains, iii. 280.
Mukri = Koranist, v. 216.
Mulabbas = dragées, vii. 205.
Mulákát = going to meet an approaching guest, v. 330.
Mulberry-fig (for anus), iii. 302.
Mummery = “Mahommerie” x. 178.
Munádamah = table-talk, “conversation over the cup,” vii. 309.
Munáfik = hypocrite, v. 207.
Munakkishah = woman who applies the dye to a face, i. 270.
Munawwarah (Al-) = the Illumined (title of Al-Medinah), vii. 95.
Munázarah = dispute, ix. 243.
Munázirah = like (fem.), ix. 243.
Munkar and Nakír (the questioning angels), v. 111; ix. 163; x. 47.
Munkasir (broken) = languid, iv. 195.
Munkati’ = cut off, viii. 24.
Muráhanah = game at forfeits, vi. 204.
Murder (to be punished by the family), v. 103.
—— (to save one’s life approved of), vi. 44.
Murjiyy (sect and tenets), iii. 341.
Murtazà = the Elect, i. 77.
Músà = Moses, ii. 205.
Músá bin Nusayr (conqueror of Spain), vi. 86.
Mus’ab bin al-Zubayr, v. 79.
Musáfahah = joining palms for “shaking hand,” vi. 287; vii. 52; ix.
342.
Musáhakah = tribadism, vii. 132.
Musáhikah = tribade, viii. 130.
Musakhkham (Al-) = the defiled Cross, ii. 220.
Musallà = place of prayer, oratory, v. 261.
Musámarah = chatting at night, iv. 237; vii. 217.
Music (forbidden by Mohammed), ix. 31.
Musk (scent of heaven), ii. 300.
—— (sherbet flavoured with), v. 66.
Mushayyad = lofty, high-builded, viii. 23.
Muslim bin al-Walíd (poet), v. 128.
Musquito caught between the toes, vii. 179.
Musrán (Al-) guts, vii. 190.
Mustafà (the chosen) = Mohammed, i. 77; ii. 40.
Mustahakk = deserving, x. 52.
Mustahall (Mustahill) = one who marries a thrice divorced woman and
divorces her to make her lawful for her first husband, iv. 48.
Musta’ín (Al-) bi ’lláh (Caliph), ix. 246.
Mutalammis (Al-), the poet and his fatal letter, v. 74.
Mustansir bi ’llah (Al-) = one seeking help in Allah, i. 317.
Mutanakkir = disguised, proud, reserved, vii. 101.
Mu’tasim (Al-) bi ’llah (Caliph), iii. 81; ix. 232.
Mutawakkil (Al-) Caliph, iv. 291; v. 153; ix. 232.
Mutawallí = Prefect of Police, i. 259.
Mutawwif = leader in the Tawáf, _q.v._ v. 203.
Mu’tazid (Al-) bi ’lláh (Caliph), ix. 229.
Mu’tazz (Al-) bi ’lláh (Caliph), ix. 242.
Mu’ujizah = miracle of a prophet, ii. 237.
Muunah = provisions, vii. 232; ix. 104.
Muunis (Pr. N. = Companion), v. 164.
Muwaffak = well-notched, v. 33.
Muwallad = a slave born in a Moslem land, iv. 291.
Muwashshah (stanza), iv. 54.
Muzaní (Al-), ii. 208.
Muzayyin (Figaro of the East), i. 304.
Myrtle-bush = young beard, iv. 143.
Mystification explained by extraordinary likeness, viii. 40.
Na’al = sandal, shoe, horse-shoe, vi. 207.
Náb (pl. Anyáb) = canine tooth, tusk, vii. 339.
Nabbút = quarter-staff, i. 234; viii. 186.
Nabhán (sons of), vi. 262.
Nabí = prophet, ix. 178.
Nábighah al-Zubyání (pre-Islamitic poet), vi. 85.
Nadd (a compound perfume), i. 310.
Naddábah = mourning woman, i. 311.
Nadím = cup-companion, i. 46.
Nafahát = breathings, benefits, v. 29.
Nafakah = sum necessary for the expenses of the pilgrimage, ix. 178.
Nafas = breath, i. 107.
Nafs = soul, life, i. 107.
Náfi’ (traditionist), v. 204.
Náfilah = supererogatory Koran recitation, iii. 222.
Nafísah (great-grand-daughter of the Imám Hasan), iv. 46.
Nafísah (Pr. N.) = the Precious one, viii. 328.
Nafs-í = my soul for “the flesh,” vii. 118.
Nafs Ammárah = “the Flesh,” viii. 31.
—— al-Nátikah = intellectual soul, viii. 31.
—— al-Ghazabíyah = animal function, viii. 31.
—— al-Shahwáníyah = vegetative property, viii. 31.
Nága-kings (of Hinduism), v. 302.
Nahás (vulg. for Nuhás, _q.v._), ii. 327; iv. 178.
Náhí-ka = let it suffice thee, x. 22.
Nahnu málihín = we are on term of salt, i. 344.
Nahr = slaughtering a camel by stabbing, iv. 95.
Nahr = river, vi. 163.
Nahs = nasty, i. 301.
Ná’i al-maut = messenger of death, vii. 226.
Náihah = keener, hired mourner, i. 311.
Na’ím = delight (name for Heaven), iii. 19; iv. 143.
Na’íman = may it benefit thee! after bathing, etc., ii. 5.
Naïveté (of the Horatian kind), ix. 215.
Najásah = nastiness (anything unclean), vi. 178.
Najíb (al-taraf = son of a common Moslemah by a Sayyid, _q.v._), v.
259.
Najíb (al-tarafayn = whose parents are both of Apostolic blood), v.
259.
Najis = ceremonially impure, ix. 337.
Nájiyah = Salvadora, ii. 145.
Najm al-Munkazzi = shooting star, viii. 329.
Najm al-Sabáh (Pr. N.) = Star o’ Morn, viii. 107.
Najrán (in Syria), ii. 232.
Naká = sand-hill, x. 27.
Nakat = to spot; to handsel, viii. 266.
Naked = without veil or upper clothing, vii. 151.
Nakedness (Ar. Aurat), vi. 30.
—— (paraphrased), i. 327.
Nakfúr = Nicephorus, ii. 77.
Nakh = make a camel kneel down by the cry Ikh! Ikh! ii. 139.
Nákhúzah Zulayt = skipper rapscallion, viii. 175.
Nakíb, a caravan-leader, chief, syndic, i. 269.
Nákisátu ’aklin wa dín = failing in wit and faith, ix. 298.
Nakkár = Pecker (a fabulous fish), ix. 184.
Nakl-i-safar (move preliminary to a journey), ii. 84.
Nákús = wooden gong (used as bell), vi. 47; viii. 328.
Name of Allah introduced into an indecent tale essentially Egyptian, i.
12.
Names (of God), v. 214.
—— (= magical formula), v. 369.
—— (frequently do not appear till near the end of a tale), vii. 43, 75,
274.
—— (approved by Allah), ix. 165.
Naming of a child, ii. 174.
Naming a girl by name offensive, vii. 286.
Naml (ant) simile for a young beard, iii. 58.
Námúsiyah = mosquito curtains, viii. 330.
Napoleonic pose (attitude assumed by a slave), ix. 320.
Nár (fire), ii. 163.
—— (fem., like the names of other elements), viii. 16.
Narcissus (with negro eyes = yellowish white), ii. 24.
Narcissus and Hippolytus (assumed as types of morosa voluptas, etc.),
x. 215.
Narjis = Narcissus, i. 294.
—— (name of a slave-girl), viii. 176.
Nashshár (Al-) = the sawer, i. 335.
Násik = a devotee, ix. 40.
Naskh = copying hand, i. 128.
Nasím = Zephyr (emendation for Nadím = cup-companion), viii. 62.
Násir (Pr. N.) = triumphing, ix. 310.
Nasrání = follower of Him of Nazareth, i. 258.
Nat’a = leather used by way of table-cloth, i. 20.
Nat’a al-dam = the leather of blood, i. 318; ii. 41.
Nation (its power consists in its numbers of fighting men), v. 255.
Nau (pl. Anwá) = setting of one star simultaneous with another’s
rising, viii. 266.
Naurúz = new (year’s) day, iv. 244.
Navel, as to beauty and health, i. 84.
—— (largeness of, much appreciated), viii. 33.
Nawá = date-stone; Nawáyah = severance, ii. 315.
Nawátíyah = crew (navigata, nauta), viii. 17.
Nay = reed-pipe, v. 50.
Naysábúr (town in Khorasan), ix. 230.
Názih = travelled far and wide, v. 52.
Názir = overseer, ii. 304; iii. 233.
Nearness of seat a mark of honour, i. 250.
Negro (Legend of his origin), iv. 250.
Negroes preferred by debauched women, i. 6.
—— (familiarity of boys with white girls), ii. 49.
—— (their skin assumes dust-colour in cold, etc.), ii. 127.
Negrofied races like “walking tun-butts,” iv. 255.
Neighbour before the house, companion before the journey, ii. 207.
Neighbours (frequently on the worst of terms), vi. 236.
Nemo repente fuit turpissimus (not believed in by Easterns), ix. 91.
“New Arabian Nights,” vi. 257.
New-moon of Ramazán watched for, i. 84.
New moon of the Festival = Crescent of the breakfast, ix. 249, 250.
News (what is behind thee of, O Asám), viii. 222.
Ni’am = yes in answer to a negative, vii. 195.
Ni’amat = a blessing, iv. 1.
Night (and day, not day and night, with the Arabs), iii. 121.
—— (-cap), iii. 222.
—— (“this” = our “last”), iii. 249.
—— (for day), iii. 318.
—— (its promise spread with butter that melteth with day-rise), v. 77.
—— (its last the bitter parting), vii. 243.
—— (consists of three watches), i. 175; viii. 330.
Níl (Al-) = flood season corresponding to summer, i. 290.
Nílah = indigo, dye-stuff, ix. 144.
Nile-water sweet and light, i. 290.
Nímchahrah = half-face (Pers., a kind of demon), v. 333.
Nimr = leopard, ix. 63.
Nimrod of the desert, ii. 291.
Nimsá = Cermans, ii. 219.
Nimshah (Namshah?) = dagger of state, ii. 193.
Nineteen the age of an oldish old maid in Egypt, i. 212.
Nisáb (Al-), smallest sum for stealing which the hand is mutilated, iv.
157.
Niták, a woman’s waistcloth, vii. 180.
Níyah (Al-) = ceremonial intention of prayer, v. 163; x. 254.
Nizámí (Persian poet), iii. 183.
Noachian dispensation (revived Al-Islam as revealed to Adam), v. 372.
Noisy merriment scandalous to Moslem “respectability,” i. 95.
Nostrils (his life-breath was in his, = his heart was in his mouth),
vii. 258.
Nostrums for divining the sex of the unborn child, vii. 268.
Nothing for nothing a sexual point d’honneur, i. 87.
Nuhás (vulg. Nahás) = copper, brass, i. 40; ii. 327; iv. 178, 230; vi.
83.
Nukl = quatre mendiants, ix. 177, 213.
Numbering the streets, etc. a classical custom, viii. 88.
Nún (simile for the eyebrow), v. 34.
Nún-like brow, iv. 249.
Nuptial sheet (inspection of), iii. 289.
Nur al-Huda (Pr. N.) = Light of Salvation, iii. 17; viii. 97.
Núrayn = two lights (town in Turkestan), vii. 88.
Nusf = half-dirham, ii. 37; vi. 214; ix. 139, 167.
Nusk = piety, abstinence from women, ix. 243.
Nu’umán (Al-) bin Munzir (tyrant of Hírah), v. 74.
Nu’umán’s flower = anemone, ii. 325.
Nuzhat al-Zamán = delight of the age, ii. 81.
Nymphomania (ascribed to worms in the vagina), iv. 298.
Oath (a serious thing amongst Moslems), i. 179.
—— (inconsiderately taken), ii. 136.
—— (kept to the letter), iv. 70.
—— (retrieved by expiation), viii. 263.
—— (of divorce), viii. 287, 311.
Obayd Allah (Pr. N.), v. 164.
Obayd ibn Táhir (Under-Prefect of Baghdad), iv. 291.
Object first seen in the morning determines the fortunes of the day,
viii. 147.
Obscene abuse meant as familiarity, not insult, ii. 88.
O Camphor (antiphrase = O snowball), iii. 40.
Ocean (Jamm), v. 93.
—— (of darkness), v. 309.
“Off-with-his-head” style (not to be taken literally), ix. 308.
Offering for naught = closing with the offer, ii. 4.
Offerings (pious = ex votos, etc.), vii. 150.
Oftentimes the ear loveth before the eye, iii. 9.
Ohod (battle of), ii. 165.
Old age (graphically described), v. 3.
“Old maids” ignored in the East, vii. 286.
“Old Man of the Sea” (a Márid or evil Jinn), vii. 338.
Old woman (polite equivalents for), v. 163.
Oldest matter in The Nights the beast-stories, iii. 114.
Olemá (pl. of ’Álim) = the learned in the law, v. 183.
—— (Time-serving), x. 44.
Omán = Eastern Arabia, i. 83.
—— (with capital Maskat = Omana Moscha), vii. 24.
Omar bin al-Khattáb (Caliph), ii. 158, 159, 162, 164; v. 103.
Omar-i-Khayyám (astronomer-poet), ix. 230.
Omen (Fál), v. 136.
Onanism (discouraged by circumcision), x. 233.
One-eyed men considered rascals, iv. 194.
Opener (of the door of daily bread), vi. 216.
Opening doors without a key is the knavish trick of a petty thief, vii.
182.
Ophidia (of monstrous size), vi. 29.
Orange (a growth of India), viii. 272.
Oriental orgie different from European, i. 93.
Othello (even he does not kill Emilia), ix. 300.
Othmán (Caliph), ii. 163.
—— (Kátib al-Kuran), v. 215.
Oubliettes (in old Eastern houses), iii. 327.
Out of the sight of my friend is better and pleasanter, iii. 315.
O whose thrall am I, etc. = To her (I drink), viii. 224.
Pain (resembling the drawing of a tooth), x. 21.
Palace (of the Caliph at Baghdad), vi. 189.
Palaces (avoided by the pious), vi. 182.
—— (in ruins for want of repair), x. 61.
Palgrave and Al-Islam, x. 189.
Palmerin of England, viii. 64.
Palm-stick (a salutary rod), ii. 22.
Palsy (creeps over him), v. 251.
Pander-dodge to get more money, i. 302.
Panel-dodge fatally common, i. 323.
Paper (his = the whiteness of his skin), v. 161.
Paradise (of the Moslem not wholly sensual), iii. 19; ix. 322.
Parapets (on terrace-roofs made obligatory by Moses), v. 72.
Parasite (Ar. Tufaylí), v. 130.
Parent (ticklish on the Pundonor), ix. 288.
Paris Jockey-club scene anticipated, i. 327.
Parisian MSS. of The Nights, x. 104.
Parody on the testification of Allah’s Unity, i. 177; iii. 215.
Parrot-story a world-wide folk-lore, i. 52.
Particles of swearing, viii. 310.
Partner in very deed, viii. 181.
Partridge (Ar. Hijl), iii. 138.
Partridges (story of the two), vi. 183.
Pashas’ agents for bribery in Constantinople, iv. 183.
Passengers in difficulties take command, i. 140.
Pathos (touch of), iii. 55.
Patience (cutting the cords of), iii. 178.
Pausing as long as Allah pleased = musing a long time, vi. 109.
Pay-chest (of a Hammám bath), ix. 152.
Payne quoted, i. 129, 150, 167, 209, 217; ii. 19, 185, 304; iii. 58,
130, 162, 172, 193, 252, 275, 291; iv. 50, 54, 66, 197, 221, 222; v.
44, 49, 65, 86, 112, 161, 192, 204, 346; vii. 16, 18, 57, 123, 178,
277, 337; viii. 21, 32, 64, 70, 72, 80, 117, 125, 130, 131, 148,
158, 168, 179, 216, 223, 224, 262, 264, 271, 275, 278, 279, 282,
293, 294, 298, 314, 326, 327; ix. 22, 28, 79, 84, 86, 89, 171, 212,
224, 226, 227, 250, 251, 265, 268, 290; x. 50, 52, 74, 104, 140,
142, 167.
Peaches (Sultani and Andam), viii. 270.
Pearl supposed to lose 1 per cent. per ann. of its lustre, i. 165.
Pearl-fisheries, vi. 60.
Pearls (shaded by hair = teeth under mustachio), v. 157.
—— (fresh from water), vii. 240.
—— (resting on the sand-bank), ix. 164.
Pears (various kinds of), viii. 269.
Peccadillo in good olden days (murder), iv. 275.
“Péché philosophique” (the, in France), x. 249.
Pederasts (list of famous), x. 252.
Pehlevi version of the Panchatantra, x. 120.
Pen and Preserved Tablet, ii. 68.
Pencilling the eyes with Kohl, vii. 250.
Penis (as to anus and cunnus), iii. 303.
—— (Ark al-Halawat), iv. 51.
—— (correspondence of size), iv. 52.
—— (and its succedanea), x. 239.
Pens (gilded = reeds washed with gold), vii. 112.
People of His affection = those who deserve His love, ix. 92.
Pepper (and the discovery of the Cape route), vi. 38.
—— (-plantations shaded by bananas), vi. 57.
Perfumes (not used during mourning), iii. 63.
—— (natural), iii. 231.
Periphrase containing a negative adds emphasis, ii. 83.
Persian (“I am a, but not lying now”), v. 26.
—— (poets mostly addressing youths), v. 156.
Persians always suspected, viii. 8.
Persians (delighting in practical jokes), ix. 177.
Person (Ar. Shakhs), iv. 97; viii. 159.
Peshadians (race of Persian Kings), i. 75.
Petrified folk, ix. 318.
Phaedra and Hippolytus, vi. 127.
Pharao (signs to), iv. 249.
“Philippi” and “Alexanders” in Sidon, ii. 82.
Philosophic (used in a bad sense), vi. 257.
Physical prognostication familiar to Mesmerists, ii. 72.
Physiognomy (Ar. Firásah, Kiyáfah), viii. 326.
Physiologists (practise on the simiads), v. 220.
Physis and Anti-physis, v. 320.
Picnics (on the Rauzah island), v. 169.
Pidar-sokhtah = (son of a) burnt father (Persian insult), vi. 26.
Pièces de circonstance (mostly mere doggrel), ii. 261; viii. 59.
Pigeon (language, etc.), iii. 126.
—— (blood of the young), _ib._ 289.
Pilgrimage quoted, i. 28.
—— (iii. 11), _ib._ 46.
—— (i. 5; ii. 196), _ib._ 51.
—— (ii. 71), _ib._ 74.
—— (ii. 309), _ib._ 77.
—— (iii. 126), _ib._ 97.
—— (i. 86), _ib._ 107.
—— (iii. 31, etc.), _ib._ 112.
—— (i. 327), _ib._ 120.
—— (ii. 198), _ib._ 123.
—— (iii. 104), _ib._ 134.
—— (iii. 350), _ib._ 138.
—— (i. chapt. xi.), _ib._ 140.
—— (iii. 137), _ib._ 170.
—— (iii. 200), _ib._ 174.
—— (iii. 60, 62) _ib._ 208.
—— (i. 202), _ib._ 214.
—— (ii. 275), _ib._ 215.
—— (i. 118), _ib._ 219.
—— (ii. 215), _ib._ 220.
—— (iii. 125, 232), _ib._ 226.
—— (i. 313), _ib._ 228.
—— (iii. 63), _ib._ 230.
—— (i. 84; iii. 43), _ib._ 245.
—— (i. 127), _ib._ 250.
—— (ii. 175), _ib._ 256.
—— (i. 160), _ib._ 258.
—— (i. 255; i. 60), _ib._ 266.
—— (iii. 263), _ib._ 269.
—— (iii. 201, 202), _ib._ 284.
—— (i. 53), _ib._ 294.
—— (i. 240; iii. 35, 36), _ib._ 308.
—— (i. 11; iii. 285), ii. 5.
—— (i. 261; iii. 7), _ib._ 15.
—— (i. 210; 346), _ib._ 31.
—— (ii. 77), _ib._ 40.
—— (iii. 330), _ib._ 113.
—— (ii. 113), _ib._ 114.
—— (i. 99), _ib._ 316.
—— (ii. 274), _ib._ 326.
—— (ii. 176; i. 174), _ib._ 330.
—— (i. 276), _ib._ 338.
—— (iii. 333), _ib._ 124.
—— (iii. 12), _ib._ 131.
—— (iii. 254), _ib._ 132.
—— (i. 222; ii. 91), _ib._ 139.
—— (ii. 118), _ib._ 140.
—— (i. 121), _ib._ 163.
—— (ii. 227), _ib._ 165.
—— (iii. 226, 342, 344), _ib._ 169.
—— (ii. 49), _ib._ 178.
—— (i. 305), _ib._ 180.
—— (iii. 322), _ib._ 203.
—— (ii. 89), _ib._ 220.
—— (iii. 115), _ib._ 224.
—— (iii. 232), _ib._ 227.
—— (i. 346), _ib._ 230.
—— (iii. 78), _ib._ 236.
—— (ii. 110), _ib._ 242.
—— (iii. 171–175; 203), _ib._ 272.
—— (iii. 113), _ib._ 286.
—— (iii. 71), _ib._ 293.
—— (ii. 105, 205), _ib._ 317.
—— (ii. 58; iii. 343), _ib._ 327.
—— (i. 110), _ib._ 330.
—— (ii. 22), iii. 7.
—— (iii. 77), _ib._ 65.
—— (iii. 14), _ib._ 67.
—— (i. 216), _ib._ 81.
—— (i. 64), _ib._ 91.
—— (iii. 185), _ib._ 107.
—— (iii. 270), _ib._ 118.
—— (iii. 208), _ib._ 121.
—— (iii. 218), _ib._ 126.
—— (i. 52), _ib._ 151.
—— (iii. 307), _ib._ 159.
—— (i. 99), _ib._ 163.
—— (iii. 239), _ib._ 174.
—— (iii. 22), _ib._ 226.
—— (ii. 282), _ib._ 241.
—— (iii. 144), _ib._ 252.
—— (ii. 213, 321), _ib._ 304.
—— (iii. 192–194), _ib._ 319.
—— (i. 106), _ib._ 324.
—— (i. 75–77), iv. 6.
—— (i. 285; ii. 78), _ib._ 36.
—— (iii. 306), _ib._ 75.
—— (i. 123), _ib._ 78.
—— (iii. 295), _ib._ 80.
—— (iii. 303), _ib._ 95.
—— (ii. 119), _ib._ 114.
—— (i. 213), _ib._ 115.
—— (iii. 156, 162, 216, 220), _ib._ 125.
—— (iii. 168, 174, 175), _ib._ 148.
—— (ii. 329), _ib._ 254.
—— (iii. 192), _ib._ 261.
—— (i. 43), _ib._ 293.
—— (i. 22), v. 39.
—— (ii. 287), _ib._ 44.
—— (iii. 218), _ib._ 49.
—— (i. 16), _ib._ 97.
—— (ii. 344), _ib._ 100.
—— (i. 10), _ib._ 112.
—— (ii. 161), _ib._ 119.
—— (i. 352), _ib._ 158.
—— (ii. 320), _ib._ 196.
—— (i. 110), _ib._ 201.
—— (iii. 193, 205, 226, 282), _ib._ 203.
—— (iii. 248), _ib._ 212.
—— (iii. 92), _ib._ 220.
—— (ii. 322), _ib._ 224.
—— (i. 362), _ib._ 225.
—— (ii. 288), _ib._ 236.
—— (i. 297), vi. 57.
—— (i. 180), _ib._ 61.
—— (i. 349; iii. 73), _ib._ 263.
—— (ii. 116; iii. 190), _ib._ 264.
—— (i. 370), _ib._ 276.
—— (i. 298), _ib._ 277.
—— (ii. 332), _ib._ 287.
—— (iii. 90), vii. 3, 4.
—— (i. 377), _ib._ 9.
—— (iii. 191), _ib._ 21.
—— (i. 14), _ib._ 80.
—— (ii. 62–69), _ib._ 91.
—— (ii. 130, 138, 325), _ib._ 92.
—— (ii. 3), _ib._ 95.
—— (iii. 336), _ib._ 104.
—— (i. 59), _ib._ 171.
—— (i. 120), _ib._ 172.
—— (ii. 300), _ib._ 124.
—— (ii. 24), _ib._ 140.
—— (i. 124), _ib._ 177.
—— (iii. 66), _ib._ 181.
—— (ii. 52–54), _ib._ 202.
—— (i. 62), _ib._ 212.
—— (iii. 165), _ib._ 219.
—— (iii. 70), viii. 137.
—— (iii. 365), _ib._ 157.
—— (ii. 248), _ib._ 172.
—— (ii. 130, etc.), _ib._ 183.
—— (ii. 207), _ib._ 273.
—— (i. 176), _ib._ 287.
—— (ii. 82), _ib._ 291.
—— (i. 88), _ib._ 300.
—— (i. 9), ix. 50.
—— (i. 235), _ib._ 51.
—— (iii. 66), _ib._ 81.
—— (i. 20), _ib._ 165.
—— (ii. 285–287), _ib._ 175.
—— (iii. 224, 256), _ib._ 178.
—— (i. 99), _ib._ 262.
—— (ii. 48), _ib._ 307.
—— (i. 314), _ib._ 315.
Pilgrimage not perfected save by copulation with the camel, viii. 157.
Pilgrims (offcast of the = a broken down pilgrim left to die on the
road), ix. 290.
Pillow (wisádah, makhaddah), taking to = taking to one’s bed, ii. 70.
Pistachio-nut (tight-fitting shell of), iv. 216.
Pitching tents within dog-bark from Royalty disrespectful, ii. 294.
Plain (ground), synonyms for, i. 46.
Plain-speaking (of the Badawí), iv. 102.
Plaisirs de la petite oie (practised by Eunuchs), v. 46.
Plates as armature, iii. 216.
Plato (his theory of love), x. 209.
Play “near and far” = “fast and loose,” x. 22.
Pleasure prolonged (en pensant à sa pauvre mère, etc.), v. 76.
Pleiads (the stars whereby men sail), viii. 304.
Plunder sanctioned by custom, ii. 68.
Plur. masc. used by way of modesty by a girl addressing her lover, i.
98.
Plural of Majesty, iii. 16; iv. 156.
Poetical justice (administered with vigour in The Nights), vi. 25.
Poetry of the Arabs requires knowledge of the Desert to be understood,
i. 230.
Poets (four, whose works contraried their character), x. 253.
Poison (deadly only in contact with abraded skin), vi. 202.
Poisons in the East, ix. 101.
Poke (counterfeit), iii. 302.
Policeman (called in, a severe punishment in the East; why?), ix. 137.
Police-master legally answerable for losses, vii. 161.
Polissonnerie (Egyptian), iii. 243; iv. 226.
Polo (“Goff”), v. 32.
Poltroon (contrasted with a female tiger-lamb), ix. 224.
Polygamy and Polyandry in relation to climate, iii. 241.
Polyphemus (in Arab garb), vi. 24.
—— (no Mrs. P. accepted), vi. 27.
Pomegranate fruit supposed to contain seed from Eden garden, i. 134.
—— (Hadís referring to), viii. 267.
Porcelain (not made in Egypt or Syria), iv. 164.
Postillon (Le), iii. 304.
Postures of coition, iii. 93.
Potter (simile of the), ix. 77.
Pouch (Ar. Surrah), viii. 71.
Poverty (Holy), v. 269.
Powders (coloured in sign of holiday making), x. 51.
Power (whoso has it and spareth, for Allah’s reward he prepareth), ix.
340.
Prayer (for the dead lack the Sijdah), ii. 10.
—— (of Ramazan), ii. 202.
—— (rules for joining in), iii. 174.
—— (two-bow), iii. 213.
—— (-niche = way-side chapel), iii. 324.
—— (without intention, Ar. Niyat, is valueless), v. 163.
—— (offered standing or prostrating), v. 196.
—— (of a sick person as he best can), v. 200.
—— (intonation of the voice in), v. 200.
—— (call to, Azán), v. 201.
—— (is a collector of all folk), v. 201.
Praying against (polite form for cursing), ix. 293.
Pre-Adamite doctrine, x. 179.
Preachments (to Eastern despots), v. 254.
Precautions (thwarted by Fate and Fortune), vi. 167.
Precedence (claims pre-eminence), viii. 285.
Precedent (merit appertains to), iii. 264.
Predestination (not Providence, a Moslem belief), vi. 202.
Pre-eminence (appertaineth to precedence), viii. 285.
Preliminaries of a wrestling bout, ii. 92.
Premier (Le, embellit), viii. 86.
Preposterous venery, iii. 304.
Presence (I am _in thy_ = _thy slave to slay or pardon_), ix. 124.
Preserved tablet, ii. 68.
Preventives (the two), iii. 222.
Price (without abatement = without abstracting a large bakhshish), ix.
152.
—— (shall remain), ix. 262.
Pride of beauty intoxicates, iv. 34.
Priest hidden within an image (may date from the days of Memnon), ix.
324.
Prima Venus debet esse cruenta, iii. 289.
Prime Minister carrying fish to the cookmaid, i. 63.
Prince (of a people is their servant), ix. 99.
Prin´cess, English; Prince´ss, French, vii. 245.
Prison (in the King’s Palace), ix. 52.
Prisons (Moslem), vi. 244.
Privy, a slab with slit in front and a round hole behind, i. 221.
—— and bath favourite haunts of the Jinns, vi. 141.
Procès verbal (customary with Moslems), iv. 73.