Skin (free from exudation sounds louder under the clapping of the
hand), ix. 150.
—— (extreme delicacy of the female), ix. 321.
Sirát (Al-), the bridge of Hell, iv. 223.
Sister (by adoption), viii. 25.
Sisterhood = companions, suite, viii. 41.
Sitting on shins and knees, a trying posture, i. 130.
Siwák = tooth-stick; Siwá-ka = other than thou, iii. 275.
Sixth Abbaside Caliph, error for Fifth, viii. 56.
Siyágosh, _see_ Tufah.
Slain were those who were slain = many were slain, v. 364.
Slander (poisoned = fatal), ii. 264.
Slapping on the nape of the neck = boxing the ears, iv. 193.
Slate (Ar. Lauh), v. 73.
Slaughter (wholesale, for the delight of the gallery), viii. 255.
Slaughtering (ritual for), v. 391.
—— (by cutting the animal’s throat), viii. 44.
Slave (holds himself superior to a menial freeman), viii. 294.
Slave-girl (Moslemah can compel an infidel master who has attempted her
seduction to sell her), vii. 203.
—— (when newly bought frequently pretentious and coquettish), vii. 266.
—— (can only be sold with her consent), viii. 292.
—— (free, not forward in her address), ix. 268.
—— (lewd and treacherous by birth), ix. 280.
—— (to be sent as a spy into the Harims), ix. 292.
Slaves (fancied by debauched women), i. 191.
—— (cannibals), ii. 48.
—— (familiarity), ii. 49.
—— (called “Camphor,” like “Snowball”), ii. 47.
—— (refuse to be set free), ii. 55.
—— (manumission of), ii. 55.
—— (destructiveness), ii. 55.
—— (girls’ names), ii. 57.
—— (returning from a journey), ii. 65.
—— (Christian girls sent to Moslems), ii. 79.
—— (girls examined as to virginity), ii. 147.
—— (Behaving like one), ii. 270.
—— (O Camphor), iii. 40.
—— (set free for the benefit of the dead), iii. 211.
—— (dealer in = Jalláb), iii. 349.
—— (ambitious to have slaves of their own), v. 12.
—— (if ill-treated may demand to be sold), viii. 54.
Sledge (thrashing = tribulum), ii. 23.
Sleeper and Waker (tale of the), iv. 96.
Sleepers (the Seven of Ephesus), iii. 128.
Sleeping (and slumbering), ii. 178.
—— (with covered head and face), iii. 345.
—— (naked), v. 8.
—— (with head and body covered by a sheet), v. 18.
—— (with a sword between them), vii. 352.
Sleeplessness (contrivance against), iv. 228.
Slice of the moon = digit of the moon, i. 91.
Smile (like Mím), iv. 249.
—— (and laughter), v. 193.
Smoking out (a common practice), ii. 255.
Smothering a rival (common in Harims), ii. 58.
Smuggling men into the Harim, i. 282.
Snatching off the turband, a paying industry, i. 259.
Sneezing (etiquette of), ix. 220.
Socrates (“sanctus pæderasta”), x. 213 _seqq._
Sodomite (Ar. Lútí), v. 161.
—— (punished if detected), v. 160.
Sodomites (angels appear to), iii. 301, 304.
Sodomy (abnormally developed amongst the savages of the New World), x.
240.
—— with women, iii. 304.
Softness of skin highly prized, ii. 295.
Soft-sided, attribute of beauty, i. 168.
Soko (Maghribi form for Súk = bazar-street), viii. 230.
Sold to thee for monies received (formula of Moslem sales), vi. 73.
Soldiers of Al-Daylam = warlike as the Daylamites, viii. 82.
Sole of a valley often preferred to encamp in, ii. 85.
Solomon (his carpet), iii. 267.
—— (his food-tray), vi. 80.
—— (his seal-ring), vi. 84.
—— (the Apostle of Allah), vi. 99.
—— (his Wazir Asaf), vi. 99.
—— (his trick upon Bilkis), vi. 113.
—— (oath by his seal-ring), vii. 317.
—— and David (their burial-place), v. 310.
—— and Al-Sakhr, ii. 97.
Solomon’s death fixing the date of a tale, i. 41.
—— prison (the copper cucurbites in which he imprisoned the rebellious
Jinns), viii. 157.
“Son” used for “grandson” as more affectionate, i. 243.
—— (the lamp of a dark house), ii. 280.
—— (of a century = hundred years old), i. 126.
—— (of Persian Kings, not Prince but descendant), iii. 163.
—— (of ten years dieth not in the ninth), viii. 70.
Sons of Adam = men, i. 130.
—— of Sásán = Sassanides, i. 2.
—— (brought as servants unto Kings), ix. 43.
—— of the road = wayfarers, ii. 23.
Sophia (Pr. N. and Mosque), ii. 79.
Sortes Virgilianæ, v. 44.
Soul (Thou knowest what is in mine and I know not what is in Thine), v.
216.
—— (you may have his, but leave me his body), viii. 284.
—— (for lover), ix. 25.
Souls (doctrine of the three), v. 218.
Spartivento = mountain whereon the clouds split, viii. 19.
Speaker puts himself first, i. 33.
Speaking _en prince_, ii. 184.
Speaking to the “gallery,” viii. 128.
Spears and javelines, vi. 263.
Speech (this my = the words I am about to speak), viii. 147.
Speech (inverted), viii. 318.
Speech (for prayers imprecating parting), viii. 347.
Sperm (though it were a drop of marguerite), viii. 210.
Spider-web, frailest of houses (Koranic), ix. 59.
Spindle (thinner than a), iii. 260.
Spiritual Sciences (Moslem form of Cabbala), ii. 151.
Spiritualism (the religion of the nineteenth century), ix. 86.
Spittle dried up from fear, i. 285.
Spoon (Ar. Mi’lakah), ix. 141.
Spurring = kicking with the shovel-stirrup ii. 89.
Squatting against a wall, iv. 119.
Squeeze of the tomb (Fishás), v. 111.
Staff broken in the first bout = failure in the first attempt, i. 64.
Stages (ten, of love-sickness), iii. 36.
Stallion (I am not one to be struck on the nose), vi. 262.
Standards reversed in sign of defeat, ii. 259.
Stations of the Moon (Ar. Manázil), v. 228.
Stature (Alif-like), iv. 249.
Steel (Ar. Bulád), vi. 115.
Steward (pendant to the parable of the unjust), ix. 66.
St. George (posture), iii. 304.
Stirrup (walking by the), vi. 234.
“Stone-bow” _not_ “cross-bow,” iii. 116.
Stoning (of the devil at Mina), v. 203.
Stones (precious), v. 312.
—— (ditto, and their mines), vi. 18.
—— (removed from the path by the pious), vi. 190.
Story-teller (picture of the), x. 164.
Strangers (treated with kindly care), v. 171.
“Strangers yet” (Lord Houghton quoted), v. 284.
Street (the, called Yellow), iv. 93.
—— (-watering), iv. 107.
Street-cries of Cairo, vii. 172.
Street-melodies changing with fashion, i. 311.
Striking the right hand upon the left in sign of vexation, i. 298.
Striking with the shoe, the pipe-stick, etc. highly insulting, i. 110.
Stuff his mouth with jewels (reward for poetry), iv. 103.
Stuff a dead man’s mouth with cotton, iv. 193.
Style (of a Cairene public scribe) vii. 134.
—— (intended to be worthy of a statesman) ix. 42.
Su’adá = Beatrice, iv. 267.
Subán = dragon, ix. 277.
Subhán a’llah pronounced to keep off the evil eye, iii. 224.
Subhat-hu = in company with him, vii. 262.
Subh-i-kázib = false dawn, i. 78.
Subh-i-sádik = true dawn, i. 78.
Submission (Ar. Khafz al-Jináh = lowering the wings) ix. 74.
Sucking the tongue = “kissing with th’ inner lip” i. 270.
Sucking the dead mother’s breast, touch of Arab pathos, ii. 128.
Súdán = our Soudan, iii. 75.
Súdán-men = Negroes, viii. 266.
Suez (Ar. Al-Suways) vi. 80.
Súf (wool); Súfí (Gnostic) iii. 140.
Sufiism (rise of) x. 128.
Súfís (stages of their journey) v. 264.
—— (address Allah as a lover would his beloved) iv. 263, 298.
Suffah = “sofa” (shelf) iv. 275.
Sufrah (provision-bag and table-cloth) i. 178; v. 8; viii. 269; ix.
141.
Sufyán al-Thaurí, ii. 202; v. 81.
Sugar-stick = German Zuckerpüppchen, i. 167.
Sughr (Thughr) _see_ Saghr.
Suha, star in the Great Bear, i. 167; iii. 28.
Sujúd = prostration, iv. 248.
Sukát (pl. of Sákí = cup-bearer) v. 66.
Sukita fí aydíhim = it repented them, v. 191.
Sukúb (Pr. N.) = flowing, pouring, viii. 209.
Suláf al-Khandarísí (a contradiction) viii. 203.
Suláfah = ptisane of wine, must, iv. 258; v. 158.
Sulamí = belonging to the Banu Sulaym tribe, vii. 93.
Sulaymá, dim. of Salma = any beautiful woman, iii. 263.
Sulaymán and Sakhr al-Jinní, i. 42.
Sulaymán bin Abd al-Malik (Caliph) ii. 167; vii. 99.
Sulaymáníyah = Afgháns, vii. 171.
Sullam = ladder; whipping-post, i. 331.
Sultán (anachronistic use of the title) v. 88, 179.
—— (fit for the service of = for the service of a temporal monarch)
viii. 325.
Sulus = engrossing hand, i. 128.
Sumbul al-’Anbari = spikenard, viii. 273.
Sumr = brown, black, iv. 251.
Sums of large amount weighed, i. 281.
Sun (greeting Mohammed) i. 45.
—— (likened to a bride displaying her charms to man) x. 38.
Sun and Moon (luminaries for day and night) v. 228.
—— (do not outstrip each other) v. 228.
Sunan (used for Rasm) = usage, customs, ix. 74.
Sundus = brocade, v. 57.
Sunnah = practice of the Prophet, etc., v. 36, 167.
Sunni (versus Shí’ah) iv. 82.
Suns (for fair-faced boys and women) viii. 242.
Superiority of man above woman, iii. 332.
Supernaturalismus (has a material basis) viii. 31.
Superstitious practices not confined to the lower orders, i. 40.
Suráhíyah (vulg. Suláhíyah) = glass-bottle, vii. 370.
Surayyá = Stars of Wealth (lit. moderately rich) viii. 303.
Suritu = I was possessed of a Jinn, ix. 27.
Surrah = purse, pouch, viii. 71.
Surriyah = concubine, i. 27.
Susannah and the Elders in Moslem garb, v. 97.
Sutures of the skull, iii. 123.
Su’ubán = dragon, cockatrice = Tammím, i. 172; vii. 322.
Su’ud used as a counter-odour, i. 279.
Suwán = syenite, i. 238; ix. 316.
Suways (Al-) = Suez, vi. 80; ix. 10.
Swan-maidens, v. 346; viii. 30.
Swearing (on Blade and Book) ii. 332.
—— (by Allah, forbidden) iv. 175.
Sweet (the, slang for fire) ii. 163.
Sweetmeat of Safety, iv. 60; viii. 105.
Swevens (an they but prove true) ix. 284.
Swimming (studied in Baghdad) vi. 134.
Sword (making invisible) iv. 176; vi. 230.
—— (between sleepers represents only the man’s honour) vii. 353.
Sycamore fig (for anus) iii. 302.
Syene (town on the Nile) iv. 152.
Syphilis (origin of) x. 89.
—— (hippic) x. 90.
Syria (Shám) = left-hand land, ii. 224.
Taakhír = acting with deliberation, ix. 328.
Ta’álík = hanging lamps, ix. 320.
Ta’ám = meat; millet, ii. 67.
Táb (game) = tip-cat, ii. 314.
Tabannuj = drugging with Bhang, iv. 71.
Tabban lahu = perdition on him! iv. 142.
Tábik = coffer, vii. 350.
Tabl = kettledrum, viii. 18.
Tablet (Ar. Lauh) v. 37.
—— (the Preserved), v. 322.
Tábút = bier, ark, etc., ii. 46; vii. 207, 350.
Tabzír = female circumcision, ii. 234.
Tadmúrah (founds Tadmur or Palmyra) vi. 116.
Tafazzal = favorisca (have the kindness) ii. 103.
Taggáa, ii. 88.
Taghaddá = he dined, vii. 180.
Taghúm, a kind of onomatopoetic grunt, i. 228.
Tághút (idol) iii. 217.
Tahlíl = Refrain of Unity, ii. 236.
Táif (Al-), town famous for scented leather, viii. 273.
Táifí leather, viii. 303.
Tail (wagging of, a sign of anger with felidæ) ix. 72.
Tái’li ’llah (Caliph) iii. 51, 307.
Tailor made to cut out the cloth in owner’s presence, i. 321.
Táír al-bayn = parting-bird, vii. 226.
Táj al-Mulúk Khárán = crown of the kings of amorous blandishment, ii.
291.
Táj Kisrawí = Chosroan crown, ix. 319.
Tájír Alfí = a merchant worth a thousand (left indefinite) ix. 313.
Takaddum and Takádum (difference between) iv. 171.
Tákah = arched hollow in the wall, niche, vii. 361.
Takhíl = adorning with Kohl, iii. 57.
Takhmísh = tearing the face in grief, ix. 10.
Takht (sitting accommodation from a throne to a saddle, capital), v.
322; vii. 55.
—— (more emphatical than Sarír), vii. 328.
Takht-rawán = moving throne (mule-litter), ii. 180; v. 175.
Tákiyah = calotte worn under the Fez, skull-cap, i. 224; viii. 120.
Taklíd = baldricking, not girding, a sword, vii. 3.
Takliyah = onion-sauce, vii. 322.
Takrúrí = Moslem from Central and Western North Africa, ii. 15.
Taksím = distribution, analysis, ix. 77.
Takwím = Tacuíno (for Almanac), vii. 296.
Talák bi ’l-Salásah = triple divorce, iii. 292.
Talbiyah = the cry Labbayka, i. 226; ii. 227.
Talking birds (watching over wives), vi. 132.
Tamar al-Hindí (Tamarind) = the Indian date, iii. 297.
Tamar Hanná = flower of privet, i. 83; viii. 176.
Tam Múz = July, i. 53.
Ta’mím = crowning with turband or tiara; covering, wetting, v. 199.
Tamsír (derived from Misr) = founding a military cantonment, vii. 371.
Tanjah = Tanjiers, vi. 106.
Tanwín al-Izáfah = the nunnation in construction, ix. 272.
Tár = tambourine, i. 215.
Taráib = breast-bone, v. 132.
Tarbúsh = Pers. Sar-púsh, head cover, i. 215.
Target (Ar. Darakah), vi. 9.
Tárhah = head-veil, ii. 52.
Tárík = clear the way, i. 66.
Tárik (Jabal al-) = Gibraltar, iv. 100.
Taríkah = musical mode, modulation, ix. 27.
Taríkat = (mystic) path to knowledge, v. 111.
Ta’rís-ak = thy going between (pimping), vi. 196.
Tarjumán = truchman, i. 100.
Tarn-Kappe (Siegfried’s), iv. 176; viii. 120.
Tars Daylamí = Median Targe, viii. 291.
Tás (from Pers. Tásah), = tasse, viii. 224.
Tasawwuf (rise of), x. 128.
Tasbíh = saying Subhán Allah; Rosary, i. 258; iii. 125.
Tasmeh-pá = strap-legs, vi. 51.
Tasním (from sanam) = a fountain in Paradise, ii. 100; v. 264.
Tásúmah = sandal, slipper, ii. 197.
Taswíf = saying “Sauf,” _q.v._, ii. 296.
Taub (Saub, Tobe) = loose garment, ii. 206.
Taubah (Bi’l-) = by means or on account of penitence, ix. 83.
Taufík (Pr. N. = causing to be prosperous), iv. 1.
Taur (Thaur, Saur), a venerable remnant of an un-split speech, i. 16.
Taverns, vii. 324.
Tawáf = circumambulation of the Ka’abah, ii. 327; vi. 242.
Tawáshí, obnoxious name for a Eunuch, i. 235.
Tawashshuh = shoulder-cut, ii. 107.
Tawáf = Ka’abah-circuit, v. 203.
Tawakkul ’alà ’llah = trust in Allah, v. 208.
Tawíl (and Abt Vogler), viii. 96.
Tawílan jiddan, now a Cairenism, vii. 13.
Tayammum = washing with sand, v. 197.
Tayf = ghost, phantom, iii. 252.
Taylasán (turband worn by a preacher), iv. 286.
Tayr = any flying thing, bird, vii. 227.
Tayrab (Al-) a city, iii. 259.
Taysh = vertigo, giddiness, x. 9.
Tayy (noble Arab tribe), iv. 94.
Tazríb = quilting, vii. 330.
Tears shed over past separation, i. 283.
—— (pouring blood like red wine), iii. 169.
Teeth (their cleansing enjoined by Mohammed), v. 44.
“Tell the truth!” way of taking an Eastern liar, vii. 183.
Ten stages of love-sickness, iii. 36.
Tent (signs of a Shaykh’s), iii. 104.
—— (how constructed), vii. 109.
Testicles (names for), ii. 55.
—— (curdling in fear), ii. 233.
—— (beating and bruising of, female mode of killing a man), iii. 3.
Testimonies (the two = Shahádatayn), ii. 10.
Thakílata-k Ummak = be thy mother bereaved of thee, iv. 156.
Thamúd (prehistoric Arab tribe), iii. 294.
Thank you (Eastern equivalent for), iv. 6; v. 171.
Theft (penalty of), viii. 164.
“Them” for “her,” viii. 35.
“There is no Majesty,” etc. as ejaculation of impatience, vii. 73.
“They” for “she,” v. 41, 140; viii. 281.
Thigh-bite allowed in wrestling, ii. 93.
Third = Tuesday, vii. 349.
Thirst (affecting plea; why?), iv. 199.
Thongs (of the water skins cut, preparatory to departure), ix. 302.
Thorn of lance = eyelash, iii. 331.
Thou fillest mine eyes = I find thy beauty all-sufficient, viii. 57.
Thousand dinárs and five thousand dirhams = £500 and £125 respectively,
i. 281.
Thousand thousand = a million, vi. 98.
Three days, term of hospitality, i. 3.
Three hundred and three score rooms = one for each day of the Moslem
year, ix. 61.
Three things (are better than other three), vi. 5.
—— (not to be praised before death), ix. 39.
Threshold (of marble in sign of honour), ix. 238.
Throne-verse, v. 211.
Throwing one = bastinado on the back, i. 243.
“Throwing the handkerchief,” vi. 285.
Thrusting (applied to spear and lance), ii. 231.
Thursday night (in Moslem parlance = Friday night), v. 324.
Tibn = crushed straw, i. 16; ix. 106.
Tigris (Ar. Dajlah, Dijlah), viii. 150.
Timbák (Tumbák) = stronger variety of Tobacco, ix. 136.
Time (distribution of), ix. 71.
Time-measurers (of very ancient date), x. 85.
Timsah = crocodile, vii. 343.
Tin (Kazdír) iv. 274; vi. 39.
Tín = fig, simile for a woman’s parts, iii. 302.
—— = clay puddled with chaff, v. 112.
Tinder (a styptic), iv. 108.
Tingis = Tanjah (Tangiers), vi. 106.
Tip-cat stick, ii. 314.
Tíryák = theriack, treacle (antidote), iii. 65.
Title (used by a Sovereign in addressing a person confers the rank),
ix. 119.
Tob = Span. Adobe (unbaked brick), ii. 17.
Tobacco (its mention inserted by some scribe), ix. 136.
—— (first mention of), x. 91.
Tobba (Himyaritic) = the Great or Chief, i. 216.
Tohfah = rarity, present, viii. 55.
Tongue (of the case = words suggested by circumstances), i. 121.
—— (made to utter (?) what is in the heart of man), v. 218.
—— (my, is under thy feet), vii. 239.
Too much for him (to come by lawfully), ix. 174.
Tooth-pick (Ar. Khilál), v. 44.
Topothesia (designedly made absurd), viii. 338.
Tor (Mount Sinai), ii. 242.
—— (its shaking), ii. 281.
Torrens quoted, i. 56, 147, 203, 206, 225, 228, 251, 271; ii. 4, 19,
38, 93; iii. 218, 235, 249, 289; iv. 187, 189, 236; v. 80, 96, 188;
viii. 280, 305, 309, 319, 321, 327; ix. 278.
Torrents (Ar. Sayl), a dangerous feature in Arabia, vi. 164.
Tortoise (the colossal), vi. 33.
Torture easier than giving up cash, viii. 189.
Tossing upon coals of fire, iii. 61.
Touch of nature (making all the world kin), x. 24.
Toujours perdrix, vi. 130.
Toutes putes, ix. 298.
Traditionists:
Al-Zuhrí, ii. 198.
Ibn Abí Aufá, _ib._ 200.
Sa’id bin Jubayr, _ib._ 201.
Sufyán al-Thaurí, _ib._ 202.
Bishr al-Háfí, _ib._ 203.
Mansúr bin Ammár, _ib._ 204.
Trafalgar = Taraf al-Gharb (edge of the West), ix. 50.
Trailing the skirts = humbly, ii. 165; viii. 301.
Trances and faintings (common in romances of chivalry), viii. 118.
Transformation (sudden of character frequent in Eastern stories), viii.
178.
Translators (should be “bould”), ix. 244.
Traveller (a model one tells the truth when an untruth would not serve
him), vi. 7.
Travelling at night, ii. 286.
Treasure (resembling one from which the talismans had been loosed), ix.
287.
Treasures (enchanted in some one’s name and nature), iv. 296.
Trébutien quoted, iv. 268; vii. 91, 98, 139, 314, 318, 324, 331, 346,
353, 361; ix. 33, 63; x. 9, 54, 69, 80, 98.
Tree of Paradise (Ar. Túbà), v. 237.
Tribade (Ar. Sahíkah, Musáhikah), viii. 130.
Tribadism, iv. 234.
Tribe (one fortuneth another), ix. 342.
Tribes (relations between), vi. 267.
Tribulum (thrashing sledge), ii. 108.
Tricks (two = before and behind), v. 161.
Triregno (denoted by the Papal Tiara), ii. 236.
Trouser-string, ii. 60.
Truth (most worthy to be followed), v. 145.
—— (is becoming manifest), v. 159.
—— (told so as to be more deceptive than a lie), ix. 223.
—— prevailing, falsehood failing, iv. 80.
Túbà (tree of Paradise), v. 237.
Tubah (fifth Coptic month), v. 231.
Tufah = felis caracal, lynx, vi. 260.
Túfán (Typhoon, etc.), iv. 156.
Túfán = Deluge of Noah, viii. 346.
Tufayl (proverbial intruder), iv. 123.
Tufaylí = parasite, v. 130.
Tulf = Sordes unguinum (fie!), viii. 195.
Tughrà = imperial cypher, v. 184.
Tughrái (Al-), poet, iii. 143.
Tughyán = Kufr, rejection of the True Religion, i. 169.
Túmár = uncial letters, i. 129.
Tuning (peculiar fashions of Arab musicians with regard to it), ix. 27.
Turband (not put upon the ground out of respect), i. 223.
—— (white, distinctive of Moslems), iv. 214.
—— (substitute for a purse), viii. 190.
—— (worn large by the learned), v. 120.
—— (inclining from the head-tops), ix. 221.
“Turk” probably a late addition, i. 52.
Turk (= Turkoman, nomade), ii. 218.
—— (= plunderer, robber), ii. 304.
—— (provoked to hunger by beauties of nature), iii. 32.
—— (appears under the Abbasides), iii. 81.
Turkey (Future of), ix. 94.
Turks (fair boy-slaves abounding in Baghdád), v. 66.
—— (forming the body-guard of the Abbasides), ix. 245.
Turning round in despair against an oppressor, i. 246.
Turtúr (an Arab’s bonnet), ii. 143.
Tusks (of elephants, not teeth), vi. 82.
Tuwuffiya = he was received (into the grace of God), ix. 54.
Two sayings (double entendre), viii. 153.
Tyrant (from, to tyrant = from official to official), vi. 214.
’Ubb = breast-pocket (poche au sein), viii. 205.
Ubi aves ibi angeli, iii. 280.
Ubullah (canal leading from Bassorah to Ubullah-town), ix. 31.
’Úd Jalakí = Damascus lute, ii. 100.
Udah, properly Uta = private room of a concubine, i. 286.
Udm = “kitchen” (see Adm), ix. 213.
Uff ’alayka = fie upon thee (Uff = sordes aurium), viii. 195.
Uhnúkh = Enoch (Idris?), v. 210.
Ujb = arrogance (in the Spanish sense of gaiety, etc.), vi. 164.
Ukáb = eagle, vulture, iv. 177.
Ukáb al-kásir = the breaker eagle, ix. 69.
Ukayl (Akíl?), iv. 22.
Ukhuwán = camomile, iii. 58.
Ukiyyah (pl. Awák) = ounce, ix. 216.
’Ulbah = box, viii. 71.
Ultra-Shakespearean geography “Fars of Roum,” i. 45.
Ulysses (the Arabian), vi. 40.
Umámah and ’Ásikah, tale of two women now forgotten, i. 61.
Umm al-banát wa ’l-banín = mother of daughters and sons, ix. 175.
Umm al-raas = crown of the head, x. 44.
Umm al Su’úd (Pr. N.) = Mother of Prosperities, ix. 173.
Umm ’Ámir = mother of Amir, nickname for the hyena, i. 43.
Umm Amru (mother of ’Amr) and the ass, v. 118.
Umm Kulsum (one of the Amsál of the Arabs for debauchery), x. 194.
’Ummál (pl. of ’Ámil = governor), ix. 26.
’Umrah = lesser Pilgrimage, ii. 169; v. 205.
“Unberufen,” ix. 180.
Underground rivers, vi. 63.
Unguinum fulgor, iv. 252.
Unhappy thou! vi. 285.
’Unnábí = between dark yellow and red (jujube-colour), ix. 143.
Union opposed to “Severance,” vii. 120.
Uns al-Wujúd (Pr. N.) = Delight of existing things, v. 33.
Unveiling the face a sign of being a Christian, ii. 119.
Upakoshá (Vararuchi’s wife), vi. 172.
’Urb = Arabs of pure race, ix. 293.
’Urbán = wild Arabs, i. 112.
Urine (pollutes), iii. 229.
Urining, ii. 326.
—— (wiping after), iii. 229.
Urkúb = tendon Achilles, hough, viii. 185.
’Urrah = dung, x. 1.
Urwah = handle, button-hole, v. 227.
“Use this” (_i.e._ for thy daily expenses), vii. 298.
Usfúr = safflower, i. 219.
Ushári = camel travelling ten days, iii. 67.
Usirát (Al-), island, vi. 57.
Usúl (= fundamentals), ii. 15.
—— (= forbears, ancestors), ix. 246.
Usury (Ar. Ribá), v. 201.
—— (verset of), v. 215.
Usus = os sacrum, v. 219.
’Utbí (Al-), poet, v. 133.
Uzayr = Esdras, i. 257.
Uzn al-Kuffah = ear (handle) of the basket, viii. 161.
Uzrah = Azariyah, vii. 158.
Varieties of handwriting, i. 129.
Veil, _see_ Lisám, ii. 31.
Veiling her honour = saving her from being ravished, ix. 330.
Vellication, iv. 256.
Vengeance (of a disappointed suitor apprehended), vi. 286.
Verses (purposely harsh), viii. 337.
—— (aforementioned, distinguishing formula of “Hasan of Bassorah”),
viii. 126.
Versets (number of the Koranic), v. 110.
View (gorgeous description of), viii. 30.
“Vigilance Committees” (for abating scandals), ix. 98.
Vile water (Koranic term for semen), vii. 213.
Violent temper (frequent amongst Eastern princesses), vii. 254.
Virgil (a magician), v. 44.
Virginity of slave-girls (respected by the older slave-trader, rarely
by the young), vii. 267.
Visit (confers a blessing in polite parlance), ix. 185.
Visits (in dreamland), v. 47.
—— (to the tombs), vii. 124.
—— (should not be overfrequent), ix. 273.
Visvakarma = anti-creator, v. 320; x. 131.
Vivisepulture, vi. 41.
Voice (thickened by leprosy), iv. 50.
Wa = and (introducing a parenthetic speech), ix. 282.
Wa’ar = rough (ground unfit for riding), vi. 140.
Wa ba’ad (_see_ Ammá ba’ad, vol. ii. 34) = and afterwards, iii. 181.
Wada’a, _see_ Cowrie, iv. 77.
Wadd, Suwá’a and Yagús (idols), vi. 282.
Waddle of “Arab ladies,” iii. 37.
Wády = valley; slayer, i. 51; ii. 85; iii. 234.
Wády al-Naml = Valley of the Emmets, v. 337.
Wady al-Ward = Vale of Roses, vi. 276.
Wády Zahrán = Valley Flowery, v. 360.
Waggid (Hebr. speaker in a dream), iv. 289.
Wahk, Wahak = Lasso, vii. 61.
Wahsh = wild beast and synonyms, i. 242.
Wahtah (Al-) = quasi-epileptic fit, vii. 127.
Wailing over the past, iv. 239.
Waist (slender, hips large), iii. 278.
Wakálah, described in Pilgrimage (i. 60), i. 266.
Wakíl = agent (_see_ Pashas), iv. 182.
Wakites (number their islands), viii. 88.
Wakkád = stoker, i. 312; ii. 134.
Wák Wák (Islands of), viii. 60.
Walad = son (more ceremonious than “ibn”), v. 386.
Walgh = lapping of a dog, iii. 319.
Walhán (Al-) = the distracted, iii. 226; viii. 33; ix. 6.
Wáli = (civil) Governor, i. 259.
Walí = Saint, Santon, v. 112.
—— ’ahd = heir-presumptive, ix. 87.
Walíd (Al-) bin Abd al-Malik, Caliph, iv. 100.
—— bin Marwán (Caliph), ii. 167; iii. 69.
—— bin Sahl (Caliph), vii. 106.
Wálidati = my mother, speaking to one not of the family, iii. 208.
Walímah = marriage-feast, vi. 74; viii. 231.
Walking afoot (not dignified), vi. 227.
Wa ’lláhi = I swear by Allah, viii. 310.
—— tayyib = by Allah, good! ii. 34.
Wa ’l-Salám = and here ends the matter, i. 102.
—— (used in a variety of senses), viii. 74.
Wanderer in the mountains = a recluse avoiding society, vi. 158.
Wárahmatáh = Alas, the pity of it, v. 42.