—— (from nervous movements), viii. 25.
Prolixity (heightening the effect of a tale), x. 50.
Prolongatio veneris (Imsák), v. 76.
Prominence of the pugaeic muscles insisted upon, ii. 98.
Property (of the heirless lapses to the treasury), iv. 62.
—— (left by will), vi. 213.
Prophets (have some manual trade), ii. 286.
—— (named in the Koran), v. 210.
—— (and their agnomina), vi. 270.
Proportion of horse and foot in Arab and Turcoman armies, vii. 1.
Prostitution (never wholly abolished in Al-Islam), viii. 115.
Prostration (must be made to Allah only), vi. 136.
Protestants (four great _Sommités_), vii. 124.
Prothesis without apodosis (a favourite style in Arabic), vi. 203, 239.
Proverbs true to nature, i. 307.
Providence (and Justice), v. 286.
Province (“some” = Sancho Panza’s “insula”), ii. 188.
Puellæ Wakwakienses, viii. 89.
Puns (wretched and otherwise), ii. 64, 179, 182; iv. 258; vii. 53, 288,
307; viii. 35, 228, 329; ix. 278, 289; x. 11, 27.
Punctilios of the Desert, vi. 264.
Purgation (Easterns most careful during), v. 154.
Purifying (after evacuation), ii. 326.
Purity of love attains a prophetic strain, iii. 6.
Pyramidennarren, v. 106.
Pyramids (Ar. Al-Ahrám), v. 105.
—— (containing unopened chambers?), v. 106.
—— (verses on the), x. 150.
Qanoon-e-Islam quoted on the subject of horoscopes, etc. i. 213.
Quarter (son of the = neighbour), vi. 236.
Queen’s mischief = the mischief which may (or will) come from the
Queen, viii. 98.
Question (expressing emphatic assertion), ix. 182.
Questions (indiscreet, the rule throughout Arabia), iii. 105.
Quibbling away (a truly diplomatic art), v. 86.
Ra’ad al-Kásif (Pr. N.) = the loud-pealing Thunder, vi. 221.
Ra’ad Sháh A. P. = thunder-king, vii. 55.
Raas al-Mál = capital, viii. 248.
Raat-hu = she saw him, viii. 298.
Ra’áyá (pl. of Ra’íyat) = Ryot, iii. 215.
Rabbatí = my she-Lord, applied to the fire, vii. 36.
Rabelaisian humour of the richest, iv. 152.
Rabite, classical term for a noble Arab horse, iii. 72.
Racing a favourite pastime, ii. 273.
Raff = shelf running round a room, viii. 122.
Ráfisi = denier, Shí’ah, iv. 44.
Rafw = artistic style of darning, vi. 198.
Rag (burnt, used as styptic), iv. 108.
Rághib = the Desirous, v. 145.
—— (= expecter; Záhid = rejecter), viii. 315.
Ráh = pure old wine, iv. 186.
Rahan = pledge, ix. 311.
Ráhatáni (Al-) = the two rests, viii. 342.
Rahíl (small dromedary), iii. 67.
Rahim, Rihm = womb for uterine relations, vii. 123.
Rahmah (Pr. N.) = the puritanical “Mercy,” vi. 226.
Raiment of devotees (white wool), vii. 214.
Rais = captain, master (not owner) of a ship, i. 127; vi. 12.
Raising the tail, sign of excitement in the Arab blood-horse, iii. 84.
Rajab = worshipping (seventh Arab month), v. 54.
Rajaz = the seventh Bahr of Arabic prosody, i. 251.
Rajul ikhtiyár = a middle-aged man, i. 55.
Rakham = aquiline vulture, viii. 20.
Rákí (distilled from raisins), v. 65.
Rakb = fast-going caravan, iv. 254.
Ramazán (moon of), viii. 33.
Ramlah (half-way house between Jaffa and Jerusalem), vi. 103.
Rank (derived from Pers. rang = colour), ii. 192.
—— (thine is with me such as thou couldst wish = I esteem thee as thou
deservest), ix. 41.
—— (conferred by a Sovereign’s addressing a person by a title), ix.
119.
Rape (rendered excusable by wilfulness), vi. 187.
Rás al Killaut = Head of Killaut, a son of the sons of the Jinn, ix. 8.
Rás al-Tín = Headland of Clay (not Figs), v. 112.
Rashaa = fawn beginning to walk, v. 149.
Rashád = garden-cresses or stones; viii. 194.
Rashíd = the heaven-directed, viii. 194.
Rashid (Pasha, etc.), iv. 202.
Rashid = Rosetta, viii. 288.
Rasíf (Al-) river-quay, dyke, viii. 150.
Rasm = usage (justifies a father killing his son), ii. 7.
Rasúl = one sent, “apostle,” not prophet, iv. 284.
Rasy = praising in a funeral sermon, iii. 291.
Ratánah = a jargon, iii. 200.
Raushan = window, iii. 171.
Raushaná (splendour) = Roxana, iii. 171.
Rauzah (Al-) = the gardens, i. 291.
—— (at Cairo), v. 169.
Raven of the waste or the parting, iv. 52; viii. 236.
Ráwí = story-teller (also used for Reciter of Traditions), x. 163.
Ráy = rede (“private judgment”), vi. 146.
Ráyah káímah = pennons flying (not “beast standing”), vii. 118.
Raydaníyah (camping ground near Cairo), i. 245.
Rayhán = scented herb, viii. 187.
Rayhání = a curved character, i. 128; ii. 301.
Ráyí = rationalist, vi. 146.
Rayy (old city of Media), iv. 104.
Ready to fly for delight, iii. 26.
Ream (It. risma, Ar. rizmah), v. 108.
Red dress (sign of wrath), iv. 72; vi. 250.
Red Sea (cleaves in twelve places), v. 236.
Reed = pen (title of the Koranic chapt. lxviii), ii. 68.
Reed-pipe (Nay), v. 50.
Refusal of a gift, greatest affront, i. 336.
—— (of a demand in marriage a sore insult), vi. 262.
Relations between Badawi tribes, vi. 267.
Rending of garments as sign of sorrow or vexation, i. 308.
“Renowning it” (boasting of one’s tribe), iii. 80, 108.
—— (naïve style of), vii. 347.
Repentance (a strong plead for granting aid with a Moslem), iv. 277.
—— (acquits the penitent), vii. 72.
Repetition, vii. 293, 301.
—— (of an address in token of kindness), v. 370.
Resignation (noble instance of), x. 42.
Respect shown to parts of the body, exuviæ, etc., i. 276.
Rest (in Eastern travel before eating and drinking), viii. 142.
Retorts (of a sharp Fellah), vi. 232.
Return unto Allah, iii. 317.
Return-Salám, viii. 309.
Revenge (a sacred duty), viii. 26.
Ribá = interest, usury, v. 201; viii. 248.
Ridding the sea of its rubbish, ix. 169.
Riddle “surprise” (specimen of), v. 239.
Riders (names of such on various beasts), viii. 239.
Riding on the ass an old Biblical practice, i. 262.
Riding on men as donkeys (facetious exaggeration of African practice),
vii. 357.
Ríf (Al-) = lowland, viii. 304.
Rihl = wooden saddle, iii. 117.
Rijál al-Ghayb (invisible controls), ii. 211; x. 14.
Rims cars, i. 131.
Rind (rand) = willow, bay, aloes-wood, iii. 172.
Ring (in memoriam), vi. 199.
—— (lost in the Hárím raises jealous suspicion), vi. 200.
Rings in the East, iv. 24.
Rising up and sitting down sign of agitation, ii. 112.
River (the = Tigris-Euphrates), ix. 313.
Rivers (underground), vi. 63.
Rizam (pl. of rizmah) = bales, reams, v. 108.
Rizwán (approbation) = key-keeper of Paradise, iii. 15, 20; iv. 195;
viii. 265.
Robbing (to keep life and body together, an acceptable plea), ix. 137.
Robe (the hidden, story of), vi. 188.
Robing one’s self in rags = becoming a Fakír, ii. 171.
Robinson Crusoe (with a touch of Arabic prayerfulness), v. 291.
Rod (divining or dowsing), iv. 73.
Roman superficiality (notable instance of), x. 116.
Rosary, iii. 123.
Rose (in Arab. masculine), viii. 274.
Rose-water (for “nobility and gentry,” even in tea), v. 357.
Rotl (pl. Artál) = rotolo, pound weight, iv. 124.
Roum = Græco-Roman Empire, iv. 100.
Roumi (in Marocco = European), viii. 268.
Royalty in the guise of merchants, iii. 12.
Rozistán = day-station, i. 29.
Rub’ al-Kharáb (probably for the Great Arabian Desert), vii. 80; x. 42.
Rubb = syrup, “Rob,” ii. 3.
Rubbamá = perhaps, sometimes (more emphatic than rubba), vii. 218.
Rubber (shampooer), iii. 17.
Rubhah (townlet on the frontier of Syria), iii. 52.
Ruby (La’al, Yákút), v. 342.
—— (of exceptional size), vi. 66.
Rudaynah and Rudaynian lances, ii. 1.
Rudaynian lance (like a), vii. 265.
Rúh = spirit, breath of life, ix. 67.
Ruh = be off, ix. 168.
Ruh bilá Fuzúl = Begone and none of your impudence, viii. 163.
Ruhbán = monks, viii. 256.
Ruká’í = correspondence hand, i. 128.
Ruk’atayn = two-bow prayer, i. 142.
Rukb = travellers on camels, return caravan, viii. 238.
Rukh (Roc and “Roc’s” feathers), v. 122.
—— (the world-wide “Wundervogel”), vi. 16.
—— (study of, by Prof. Bianconi), vi. 49.
Rukhám = alabaster, i. 295.
Rumourers (the two) = basin and ewer, vii. 146.
Rustak (Al-), city of Oman, vi. 289.
Rustam (not Rustum or Rustem), iv. 219.
Rutub (applying to pearls = fresh from water), vii. 240.
Ryot = liege, subject; Fellah, peasant, iii. 215.
Sá’a (measure of corn, etc.), vi. 203.
Sa’ad = auspiciousness, prosperity; derivatives, i. 9.
Sa’adah (female Pr. N.), iii. 65.
Sa’ádah = worldly prosperity and future happiness, ix. 327.
Sa’alab = fox, iii. 132.
Sa’alabah (name of a tribe), iii. 107.
Sabá = Biblical Sheba, iv. 113; vii. 316.
Sabab = rope (hence a cause), ii. 14; viii. 100.
Sabaj (not Sabah) a black shell, vii. 131.
Sabaka = he out-raced, ix. 111.
Sabaka Kúrahá = he pierced her forge, viii. 46.
Sabb = low abuse, iii. 311.
Sabbágh = dyer, ii. 305.
Sabbáh bin Rammáh bin Humám = the Comely, son of the Spearman, son of
the Lion, iii. 67.
Sabbahaka ’llah bi-’l-Khayr = Allah give thee good morning, vi. 196.
Sabbath (kept in silence), v. 339.
Sabbation (River), v. 337.
Sabíhat al-’Urs = gift on the wedding morning, x. 18.
Sábik = forerunner, viii. 341.
Sabíkah = bar, lamina, ingot, viii. 10.
Sabíyah = young lady, ix. 226.
Sabr = patience and aloes, source of puns, i. 138; viii. 35; ix. 278.
Sabt = Sabbath, ii. 305.
Sabúr = Sapor II., vi. 274.
Sacrifice (Ar. Kurbán), viii. 16.
Sacy, Silvestre de (on the origin of The Nights), x. 76.
Sád (Letter, simile for the eye), v. 34.
Sadaf = cowrie, i. 19.
Sadakah = voluntary alms, opposed to Zakát, i. 339.
Sadd = wall, dyke, i. 114; ii. 128.
Sádir = returning from the water (_see_ Wárid), iii. 56.
Sadness (House of), viii. 64.
Sady = Hámah, _q.v._; iii. 293.
Safà (ground-wave _in_ Meccah), v. 203.
Safe-guard (I am in thy = I appeal to thy honour), vi. 158.
Saffron (aphrodisiac), ii. 234.
Safínah = (Noah’s) Ark, ix. 310.
Safíyu ’llah (Adam) = pure of Allah, ii. 124.
Safwán (Pr. N.) = clear, cold, vii. 314.
Saghr (Thagr), the opening of the lips showing the teeth, i. 156; viii.
289.
Sahákah = tribadism, ii. 234.
Sáhib = companion, used as a Wazirial title, i. 237; iv. 139; v. 71.
Sáhib al-Shartah = chief of the watch (Prefect of Police), i. 259.
Sáhib Nafas = master of breath, a minor saint healing by expiration, i.
107.
Sahífah = page, book, viii. 148.
Sahíkah = Tribade, viii. 130.
Sáhil (Al-) = the coast (Phœnicia), ix. 22.
Sáhil Masr = the river side (at Cairo), i. 291.
Sahím al-Layl (Pr. N.) = he who shooteth an arrow by night, vi. 261.
Sáhirah = place for the gathering of souls on Doom-day, iii. 323.
Sahm-hu = his shaft, vi. 100.
Sahm mush ab = forked (not barbed) arrow, ix. 48.
Sá’í = running between Safá and Marwah, ii. 327.
Sáibah = she-camel freed from labour, iii. 78.
—— = a woman who lets herself go (a-whoring, etc.), viii. 151.
Sa’íd = Upper Egypt, viii. 304.
Sa’íd bin Jubayr, ii. 201.
Sa’íd bin Sálim (Governor of Khorasan), v. 94.
Sa’íd bin Zayd (traditionist), v. 81.
Sa’ídah = the auspicious (fem.), ix. 330.
Sá’ik = the Striker (Pr. N.), vii. 35.
Sá’ikah = thunderbolt, vi. 271.
Sailor (Ar. equivalents for), vi. 242.
Sáim al-dahr = perennial faster, v. 112.
Saint, Santon (Walí), v. 112.
Saint and Sinner, v. 115.
Sa’ír = Hell, iv. 143.
Sáis = groom, horsekeeper (Syce), vi. 9.
Saj’a (= rhymed prose), i. 116.
—— (instance of), v. 160.
—— (bald in translation), vii. 2.
—— (answerable for galimatias), vii. 36.
Sajjádah = prayer-rug, vi. 193.
Sák = calf of the leg, ii. 327.
Sakatí = second hand dealer, iv. 77.
Sakhr al-Jinní alluded to, i. 41; v. 316.
Sákí = cup bearer, ii. 27, 327.
—— (and Sák-í), ix. 253.
Sákin = quiescent (applied to a closing wound), ix. 255.
Sákiyah = the Persian water-wheel, i. 123; ix. 218.
Sakká (Anglo-Indian Bihishti) = water-carrier, iv. 44; v. 89.
Sakr = hawk, ii. 293.
Saksar (Pers. Sag-sar = dog’s head), vi. 37.
Sa’lab = fox, jackal, vi. 211; ix. 48, 103.
Salaf (Al-) = ancestry (referring to Mohammed), v. 90.
Saláhitah (Al-) island, vi. 30.
Sal’am = S(allà) Al(lah) ’A(layhi wa, salla) M, _see_ Abhak, ii. 24.
Salám (to be answered by a better salutation), ii. 146.
—— (of prayers), ii. 243.
—— (becomes Shalúm with the Jews), viii. 223.
—— (not returned, a Moslem form of Boycotting), viii. 302.
Salámát = Welcome! vi. 232.
Salát (blessing, prayer), iv. 60.
Salát mamlúkíyah = praying without ablution, vii. 148.
Salátah (how composed), vii. 132.
Salb = crucifying, iii. 25.
Sale (forced on by the bystanders), viii. 310.
Sales (formula of), vi. 73.
Sálifah = silken plait, viii. 223.
Sálih = a pious man, vii. 314; viii. 191.
—— prophet sent to Thámúd, i. 169.
—— (grandson of Shem?), v. 210.
—— (his she-camel), v. 235.
—— al-Mazani (theologian), v. 261.
Sálihiyah = the Holy (name of a town), ix. 287.
Salím (Pr. N. = the “Safe and Sound”), iv. 58.
Sallah = basket of wickerwork, ix. 56.
Salli ’alà ’l-Nabí = bless the prophet (imposing silence), v. 65.
Salmá and Laylá = our “Mary and Martha,” i. 265.
Salsabíl (fountain of Paradise), iii. 57; iv. 195.
Salutation (the first), v. 200.
—— (Salám, unwillingly addressed to a Christian), v. 284.
—— (from a rider to a man who stands, and from the latter to one who
sits), ix. 1.
Saluting after prayer, ix. 254.
Sama’an wa Tá’atan to be translated variously, i. 96.
Samak = common fish, vi. 69.
Samandal (Al-) = Salamander, vii. 280.
Samar = night-story, vii. 312.
Samáwah (Al-), visitation place in Babylonian Irak, vii. 93.
Samharí = lance of Samhar (place or maker), iv. 258.
Samír = night-talker, vii. 217.
Samn = melted butter, Ghi, i. 144; iv. 53; ix. 39.
—— = clarified butter, ix. 39.
Samsam (sword of the Tobba Amru bin Ma’ad Kurb), ii. 127.
Samúm = poisonous wind (Simoon), vi. 88.
Samúr (applied to cats and dogs, also to Admiral Seymour), iv. 57.
Sana’á (capital of Al-Yaman), v. 16.
—— (famed for leather and other work), vii. 130.
Sanájik = banners, ensigns, etc., ix. 290.
Sand (knowing by the = geomancy), ix. 117.
Sandal (Pr. N.) = Sandal-wood, viii. 169.
—— (scented with), v. 192.
—— (Ar. Na’al), vi. 209.
Sandalí (eunuch deprived of penis and testes), v. 46.
Sandals (kissed and laid on the head in token of submission), vii. 370.
Sandúk al-Nuzur = box of vowed oblations, viii. 330.
Sapphic venery, ii. 234.
Sapphism (practised in wealthy Haríms), iv. 234.
Sappho (the “Mascula”), x. 208.
Sar’ (epilepsy, falling sickness, possession), iv. 89; v. 28.
Sár = vendetta, i. 101, 114.
Saráb = mirage, iii. 319; vi. 93.
Sarandíb = Selan-dvípa (Ceylon), vi. 64.
Saráwíl = bag or petticoat trousers, i. 222.
—— (plural or singular?), ix. 225.
Sardáb = underground room, souterrain, tunnel, i. 340; v. 128; ix. 241,
274.
Sarí al-Sakatí (Sufi ascetic), ix. 21.
Sarídah (Tharídah) = brewis, v. 223.
Sarír = bier (empty), ii. 46.
Sarmújah = leggings, sandals, slippers, vii. 370.
Sarráf = Anglo-Indian “Shroff,” i. 210; iv. 270.
Sásá bin Shays, vi. 274.
Sassanides, i. 75.
Satan (his malice weak in comparison with women’s), vi. 144.
Satl = kettle, bucket (situla?), vii. 182.
Sátúr = chopper, viii. 162.
Saub (Tobe) ’Atábi = tabby silk, viii. 201.
Saudá = black bile, melancholia, iv. 251.
Saudawí = of a melancholic temperament, vii. 238.
Sauf (particle to express future), ii. 269, 296.
Saulajan = bat in “bat and ball,” ii. 329.
Sawáb = reward in Heaven, i. 96.
Sawád = blackness of the hair, x. 60.
Sawáhílí = shore-men, ix. 22.
Sawálif = tresses, locks, v. 158.
Sawík = parched corn, vii. 303.
Sawwáhún = wanderers, pilgrims, viii. 336.
Sawwán = Syenite, iii. 324.
Sayd wa Kanas = hunting and coursing, i. 9.
Sayf (ξίφος) al-Mulúk = Sword of the Kings, vii. 325.
Sayf Zu al-Yazan (hero of a Persian romance), viii. 21.
Sayhún and Jayhún = Jaxartes and Bactrus, ii. 78; v. 41.
Sáyih = wanderer (not “pilgrim”), ix. 51.
Sayl = torrent, vi. 164.
Sayr = broad girdle, viii. 325.
Sayyib (Thayyib) = woman who leaves her husband after lying once with
him, viii. 324.
Sayyib-hu = let him go, viii. 151.
Sayyid (descendant from Mohammed through Al-Hasan), v. 259.
Scabbard (Ar. Ghimd), v. 158.
Scalding a stump in oil a common surgery practice, i. 297.
Schoolmaster (derided in East and West), v. 118.
Schools (attached to mosques), x. 174.
Scorpions of the brow = accroche-cœurs, etc., i. 168; viii. 209.
Scoundrels (described with superior gusto), ix. 135.
Scrotum (curdling in fear), ii. 233.
Sea of Al-Karkar, vi. 101.
Sea (striking out sparks), ix. 314.
Sea-stallion (myth of the), vi. 6.
Seal (and sealing-wax), iii. 189.
—— (affixed to make an act binding), v. 184.
—— (breaking the = taking the maidenhead), v. 154.
Sealing a covered dish (a necessary precaution against poison), i. 244.
Seal-ring of Solomon (oath by), vii. 317.
Seas (the two = the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean), i. 173.
—— (fresh = lakes and rivers), v. 326.
Seclusion (royal, and its consequences), ix. 91.
Secrets (instances and sayings with regard to their keeping), v. 83.
Secrets (of workmanship, withheld from apprentices), ix. 263.
Seditions in Kúfah caused by Caliph Othman’s nepotism, ii. 163.
Seduction (the truth about it), iii. 166.
Seeing sweetness of speech = finding it out in converse, ix. 14.
Separation (spoken of as a defilement), iv. 211.
Seeking refuge with Allah, v. 200.
Septentriones (four oxen and their wain), ii. 3.
Sepulchre, erroneously called a little Wali, i. 105.
Serpent does not sting or bite, but strikes, iii. 160.
—— (breaks the bones of its devoured prey by winding round a tree or
rock), vi. 29.
—— (breath of), vi. 29.
—— (preserving from sickness), vi. 66.
—— (in Ar. mostly feminine), vi. 75.
Serving the Lord by sinning against one’s body, ii. 208.
Set-off for abuse of women, vii. 130.
Seven deadly sins, ii. 175.
Seven schools or editions of the Koran, i. 113.
Seven sleepers, iii. 128.
Sévigné of pearls, iv. 249.
Sha’abán (moon of), v. 191.
Shább = youth between puberty and forty, i. 55.
Shabistán = night station, i. 29.
Shadow (may yours never be less), viii. 170.
Shafáif = lower labia, viii. 93.
Sháfi’i (school of theology), ii. 151.
Shahádatayn = the two Testimonies, ii. 10; iii. 346.
Shah-bandar = lord of the port (Consul), iv. 29.
Shah (Al-) mát = the King is dead (checkmate), viii. 217.
Sháhid = index, pointer, ii. 300.
Sháhmiyah (large tent), ii. 194.
Sháh-púr = Kings son, Σαβὼρ, Sapor, v. 2.
Shahrazád (various explanations of the name), i. 14; ii. 3.
Shahrimán _not_ Shah Zemán, iii. 7, 212.
Shahryár = city friend, i. 2.
Shahyál bin Shárukh (Pr. N.), vii. 331.
Shah Zamán = King of the Age, i. 2.
Sháib al-Ingház = grey beard shaking with disapproval, iii. 307.
Sha’ilah = link (also lamp, wick, etc.), i. 259.
Shakespear and musical glasses, ii. 3.
Shakespearean “topothesia” out-Shakespeared, iii. 212.
Shakhs = a person; a black spot, iii. 26; viii. 159.
Shakhtúr = dinghy, vii. 362.
Shaking and nodding the head, universal items of gesture language, i.
300.
Shakiriyah = Kshatriya caste, vi. 10.
Shákuríyah = chicoré, v. 226.
Shám (Sysia) = land on the left, opposed to al-Yaman = land on the
right, i. 83.
Shámah = Khál, mole on the cheek, i. 167.
Shamardal (Al-) = the Tall One, vi. 221.
Shambar = Cassia fistularis, ii. 241.
“Shame” alluded to in cursing parents of an abused person, i. 227.
—— (extends from navel to knees), viii. 193.
Shamlah = gaberdine, viii. 160.
Shammara = he tucked up (sleeve or gown), vii. 133.
Shammir = up and ready! viii. 263.
Shampooer (rubber) = Mukayyis or bagman, iii. 17.
Shampooing the feet, i. 117.
Shams al-Daulah (imaginary king of Egypt), vi. 241.
Shams al-Nahár (Pr. N.) = Sun of the Day, v. 9.
Shams al-Zuhà (Pr. N.) = Sun of Undurn, viii. 107.
Shamtá = the grizzled (name for wine), x. 38.
Shanak = hanging, iii. 25.
Shanfarà (poet), iii. 143.
Shár, Sher and Shír, iv. 187.
Sha’r = hair of the body, pile, ix. 157.
Shara (Al-) mountain in Arabia, vii. 23.
Shar’a = holy law, vii. 170.
Sharáb al-Tuffáh = cider, iv. 134.
Sharaf al-Banát (Pr. N.) = Honour of Maidenhood, viii. 107.
Sharáríf = trefoil-shaped crenelles, iv. 165.
Sharít = chopper, sword, vii. 178.
Sharmútah = rags, tatters; a strumpet; shreds of meat = Kadíd, i. 163.
Sharrkán (Sharrun kána) = bane to the foe, ii. 78.
Shart = a single Talbiyah or cry Labbayka, i. 226.
Shásh Abyaz = white turband (distinctive sign of the True Believer),
viii. 8.
Shatm = obscene abuse, i. 182.
Shaukat = sting; pride, ii. 106.
Shaving and depilation (process of), ii. 160; ix. 139.
Shaybán (Arab tribe), v. 100.
Shaykh = an old man, elder, chief, i. 26, 55; ii. 144.
—— (attended by a half-witted lunatic), vii. 152.
—— (after the type of Abú Nowás), ix. 251.
—— (for syndic of a guild), ix. 260.
—— (of the thieves one of the worthies of a Moslem capital), vi. 204.
—— al-Bahr = Chief of the Sea (-coast), vi. 51, 53; vii. 357.
Shaykh al-Islám = Chief of the Olema, ix. 289.
—— (his mention sign of modern composition), x. 19.
Shaykh Nasr (Pr. N. = Elder of Victory), v. 343.
Shaykhah Rájihah = the excellent Religious, ix. 347.
Shaykhs (five, doubtful allusion), iii. 30.
Shays = Ab Seth, vi. 283.
Shaytán (Satan) term of abuse, iii. 25.
—— (his wife and nine sons), iii. 229.
Shayyun li ’lláhi = per amor di Dio, i. 329.
Shawáhi (from Shauh) = having fascinating eyes, ii. 269.
Shawáhí Umm al-Dawáhí = the Fascinator, Mother of Calamities, viii. 87.
Shazarwán = Pers. Shadurwán, palace, cornice, etc., vii. 51.
Shedding tears no disgrace for a man, i. 68.
Shem hamphorash = the hundredth name of God engraved on the seal-ring
of Solomon, i. 173.
Sheríf = a descendant of Mohammed, iv. 170.
Shibábah = reed-pipe, viii. 166.
Shiháb = shooting stars, i. 224.
Shikk = split man (a kind of demon), v. 333.
Shinf = gunny-bag, v. 45.
Shíraj = sesame oil, ix. 184.
Shirk (partnership) = Polytheism, Dualism, Trinitarianism, i. 181; ii.
202.
—— (= syntheism), of love, v. 9.
—— of the Mushrik, v. 142.
Shiyár (old name for Saturday), ii. 305.
Shoe (Ar. Markúb, Na’al), vi. 207.
Shop (front shelf of, a seat for visitors), ix. 262.
Shops composed of a “but” and a “ben,” i. 316; iii. 163.
“Short and thick is never quick,” iv. 194.
Shouting under a ruler’s palace to attract attention, ii. 38.
Shovel-iron stirrup, iii. 119.
Shower (how delightful in rainless lands), vii. 141.
Shroud (joined in one = shrouded together?), v. 71.
Shrouds (carried by the pilgrims to Meccah), vi. 61.
Shu’ayb = Jethro, ii. 205; v. 210.
Shúbash = bravo! vii. 195.
Shudder preceding the magnetic trance, i. 44.
Shuhadá = martyrs (extensive category), i. 171.
Shuhúd = accessors of the Kazi’s court, i. 21.
Shujá’ al-Dín (Pr. N.) = the Brave of the Faith, ix. 18.
Shukkah = piece of cloth, ix. 236.
Shúm (a tough wood used for staves), viii. 354.
Shuraih (a Kazi of Kufah in the seventh century), i. 252.
Shúshah = top-knot of hair, i. 308.
Shuumán = pestilent fellow, iv. 75.
Sibawayh (grammarian), vii. 233.
Siddík = true friend, ii. 197.
Siddíkah (Al-) = the veridical (apparently undeserved title of
Ayishah), viii. 152.
Side-muscles (her, quiver) = she trembles in every nerve, vii. 219.
Sídí (from Sayyidí) = my lord, v. 283.
Sídí Ibrahím bin al-Khawwás (Pr. N.), v. 283.
Sidillah = seats, furniture, ix. 190.
Sifr = whistling, iv. 206; v. 333.
Sight comprehendeth Him not, etc., vi. 282.
Sign of the cross on the forehead, ii. 224.
Signals of debauchees, x. 219.
Signet-rings, iv. 24.
Signing with the hand _not_ our beckoning, viii. 78.
Signs (of a Shaykh’s tent), iii. 104.
—— (lucky in a horse), iii. 118.
—— (to Pharao), iv. 249.
—— (of Allah = Koranic versets), vi. 144.
—— (by various parts of the body), viii. 233.
—— (language of), ix. 269.
Signum salutis, viii. 293.
Sihr (Al-) = magic, black art, i. 305.
Sijdah = prostration, ii. 10.
Sijn al-Ghazab = Prison of Wrath, x. 45.
Sikankúr = Σκίγκος, _see_ Aphrodisiacs, iv. 32.
Silah = conjunctive sentence, coition, ix. 272.
Siláh-dár = armour-bearer, ii. 215.
Simát = dinner table, i. 178.
Simiyá = white magic, i. 305, 332.
Simoon (Ar. Samúm = poisonous wind), vi. 88.
Símurgh (guardian of the Persian mysteries), x. 130.
Sin (permitted that men might repent), ix. 83.
—— (thy, shall be on thine own neck), ix. 211.
Sín = China, ii. 77.
Sinai (convent famous for Ráki), v. 65.
Sind (matting of), v. 145.
Sindán, Sandán = anvil, viii. 8.
Sindbád (not to be confounded with the eponym of the Sindibád-námah),
vi. 4.
Sindibád the Sage, vi. 124.
Sindibád-námah (Persian romance), vi. 122.
—— quoted: vi. 129, 132, 134, 139, 143, 145, 150, 152, 169, 180, 183,
188, 202.
Singing (not harám = sinful, but makrúh = objectionable), ix. 245.
Sinnaur = cat, prince, iii. 149.
Sinning (for the pleasure of being pardoned), iv. 111.
Sins (seven deadly), ii. 175.
Sírah (small fish, fry, sprat), vi. 216; ix. 166.
Sisters (their abiding together after marriage frequently insisted
upon), x. 56.