tribe possibly those of Ád who had gone to Meccah to pray for rain and
thus escaped the general destruction. See vol. i. 65. Perhaps they
were the Jews of Aylah who in David’s day were transformed into
monkeys for fishing on the Sabbath (Saturday). Koran ii. 61.
Footnote 414:
I can see no reason why Lane purposely changes this to “the extremity
of their country.”
Footnote 415:
Koran xxii. 44, Mr. Payne remarks:—This absurd addition is probably
due to some copyist, who thought to show his knowledge of the Koran,
but did not understand the meaning of the verse from which the
quotation is taken and which runs thus, “How many cities have We
destroyed, whilst yet they transgressed, and they are laid low on
their own foundations and wells abandoned and high-builded palaces!”
Mr. Lane observes that the words are either misunderstood or purposely
misapplied by the author of the tale. Purposeful perversions of Holy
Writ are very popular amongst Moslems and form part of their rhetoric;
but such is not the case here. According to Von Hammer (Trébutien ii.
154), “Eastern geographers place the Bir al-Mu’utallal (Ruined Well)
and the Kasr al-Mashíd (High-builded Castle) in the province of
Hadramaut, and we wait for a new Niebuhr to inform us what are the
monuments or the ruins so called.” His text translates puits arides et
palais de plâtre (not likely!). Lane remarks that Mashíd mostly means
“plastered,” but here = Mushayyad, lofty, explained in the Jalálayn
Commentary as = rafí’a, high-raised. The two places are also mentioned
by Al-Mas’údi; and they occur in Al-Kazwíni (see Night dccclviii.):
both of these authors making the Koran directly allude to them.
Footnote 416:
Arab. (from Pers.) Aywán which here corresponds with the Egyptian
“líwán” a tall saloon with estrades.
Footnote 417:
This naïve style of “renowning it” is customary in the East,
contrasting with the servile address of the subject—“thy slave” etc.
Footnote 418:
Daulat (not Dawlah) the Anglo-Indian Dowlat; prop. meaning the shifts
of affairs, hence, fortune, empire, kingdom. Khátún = “lady,” I have
noted, follows the name after Turkish fashion.
Footnote 419:
The old name of Suez-town from the Greek Clysma (the shutting), which
named the Gulf of Suez “Sea of Kulzum.” The ruins in the shape of a
huge mound, upon which Sá’id Pasha built a Kiosk-palace, lie to the
north of the modern town and have been noticed by me, (Pilgrimage,
Midian etc.) The Rev. Prof. Sayce examined the mound and from the
Roman remains found in it determined it to be a fort guarding the old
mouth of the Old Egyptian Sweet-water Canal which then debouched near
the town.
Footnote 420:
_i.e._ Tuesday. See vol. iii, 249.
Footnote 421:
Because being a Jinniyah the foster-sister could have come to her and
saved her from old maidenhood.
Footnote 422:
Arab. “Hájah” properly a needful thing. This consisted according to
the Bresl. Edit. of certain perfumes, by burning which she could
summon the Queen of the Jinn.
Footnote 423:
Probably used in its sense of a “black crow.” The Bresl. Edit. (iv.
261). has “Khátim” (seal-ring) which is but one of its almost
innumerable misprints.
Footnote 424:
Here it is called “Tábik” and afterwards “Tábút.”
Footnote 425:
_i.e._ raising from the lower hinge-pins. See vol. ii 214.
Footnote 426:
Arab. Abrísam or Ibrísam (from Persian Abrísham or Ibrísham) = raw
silk or floss, _i.e._ untwisted silk.
Footnote 427:
This knightly practice, evidently borrowed from the East, appears in
many romances of chivalry _e.g._ When Sir Tristran is found by King
Mark asleep beside Ysonde (Isentt) with drawn sword between them, the
former cried:—
Gif they weren in sinne
Nought so they no lay.
And we are told:—
Sir Amys and the lady bright
To bed gan they go;
And when they weren in bed laid,
Sir Amys his sword out-brayed
And held it between them two.
This occurs in the old French romance of Amys and Amyloun which is
taken into the tale of the Ravens in the Seven Wise Masters where
Ludovic personates his friend Alexander in marrying the King of
Egypt’s daughter and sleeps every night with a bare blade between him
and the bride. See also Aladdin and his lamp. An Englishman remarked,
“The drawn sword would be little hindrance to a man and maid coming
together.” The drawn sword represented _only_ the Prince’s honour.
Footnote 428:
Arab. “Ya Sáki’ al-Wajh,” which Lane translates by “lying” or “liar.”
Footnote 429:
Kamín (in Bresl. Edit. “bayn” = between) Al-Bahrayn = Ambuscade or
lurking-place of the two seas. The name of the city in Lane is
“’Emareeych” imaginary but derived from Emarch (’imárah) = being
populous. Trébutien (ii. 161) takes from Bresl. Edit. “Amar” and
translates the port-name, “le lieu de refuge des deux mers.”
Footnote 430:
_i.e._ “High of (among) the Kings.” Lane proposes to read ’Ali al-Mulk
= high in dominion.
Footnote 431:
Pronounce Mu’inuddeen = Aider of the Faith. The Bresl. Edit. (iv. 266)
also reads “Mu’in al-Riyásah” = Mu’in of the Captaincies.
Footnote 432:
Arab. Shúm = a tough wood used for the staves with which donkeys are
driven. Sir Gardner Wilkinson informed Lane that it is the ash.
Footnote 433:
In Persian we find the fuller metaphorical form, “kissing the ground
of obedience.”
Footnote 434:
For the Shaykh of the Sea(-board) in Sindbad the Seaman see vol. vi.
50.
Footnote 435:
That this riding is a facetious exaggeration of the African practice I
find was guessed by Mr. Keightley.
Footnote 436:
Arab. “Kummasra”: the root seems to be “Kamsara” = being slender or
compact.
Footnote 437:
Lane translates, “by reason of the exhilaration produced by
intoxication.” But the Arabic here has no assonance. The passage also
alludes to the drunken habits of those blameless Ethiopians, the races
of Central Africa where, after midday a chief is rarely if ever found
sober. We hear much about drink in England but Englishmen are mere
babes compared with these stalwart Negroes. In Unyamwezi I found all
the standing bedsteads of pole-sleepers and bark-slabs disposed at an
angle of about 20 degrees for the purpose of draining off the huge
pottle-fulls of Pombe (Osirian beer) drained by the occupants; and,
comminxit lectum potus might be said of the whole male population.
Footnote 438:
This is not exaggerated. When at Hebron I saw the biblical spectacle
of two men carrying a huge bunch slung to a pole, not so much for the
weight as to keep the grapes from injury.
Footnote 439:
The Mac. and Bul. Edits. add, “and with him a host of others after his
kind”; but these words are omitted by the Bresl. Edit. and apparently
from the sequel there was only one Ghul-giant.
Footnote 440:
Probably alluding to the most barbarous Persian practice of plucking
or tearing out the eyes from their sockets. See Sir John Malcolm’s
description of the capture of Kirmán and Morier (in Zohrab, the
hostage) for the wholesale blinding of the Asterabadian by the
Eunuch-King Agha Mohammed Shah. I may note that the mediæval Italian
practice called _bacinare_, or scorching with red-hot basins, came
from Persia.
Footnote 441:
Arab. “Laban” as opposed to “Halíb”: in Night dcclxxiv (_infra_ p.
365) the former is used for sweet milk, and other passages could be
cited. I have noted that all galaktophagi, or milk-drinking races,
prefer the artificially soured to the sweet, choosing the fermentation
to take place outside rather than inside their stomachs. Amongst the
Somal I never saw man, woman or child drink a drop of fresh milk; and
they offered considerable opposition to our heating it for coffee.
Footnote 442:
Arab. Tákah not “an aperture” as Lane has it, but an arched hollow in
the wall.
Footnote 443:
In Trébutien (ii. 168) the cannibal is called “Goul Eli-Fenioun” and
Von Hammer remarks, “There is no need of such likeness of name to
prove that all this episode is a manifest imitation of the adventures
of Ulysses in Polyphemus’ cave; * * * and this induces the belief that
the Arabs have been acquainted with the poems of Homer.” Living
intimately with the Greeks they could not have ignored the Iliad and
the Odyssey: indeed we know by tradition that they had translations,
now apparently lost. I cannot however, accept Lane’s conjecture that
“the story of Ulysses and Polyphemus may have been of Eastern origin.”
Possibly the myth came from Egypt, for I have shown that the opening
of the Iliad bears a suspicious likeness to the proem of Pentaur’s
Epic.
Footnote 444:
Arab. Shakhtúr.
Footnote 445:
In the Bresl. Edit. the ship is not wrecked but lands Sa’id in safety.
Footnote 446:
So in the Shah-nameh the Símurgh-bird gives one of her feathers to her
protégé Zál which he will throw into the fire when she is wanted.
Footnote 447:
Bresl. Edit. Al-Zardakhánát Arab. plur. of Zarad-Khánah, a bastard
word = armoury, from Arab. Zarad (hauberk) and Pers. Khánah = house
etc.
Footnote 448:
Some retrenchment was here found necessary to avoid “damnable
iteration.”
Footnote 449:
_i.e._ Badi’a al-Jamal.
Footnote 450:
Mohammed.
Footnote 451:
Koran xxxv. “The Creator” (Fátir) or the Angels, so called from the
first verse.
Footnote 452:
In the Bresl. Edit. (p. 263) Sayf al-Muluk drops asleep under a tree
to the lulling sound of a Sákiyah or water-wheel, and is seen by
Badi’a al-Jamal, who falls in love with him and drops tears upon his
cheeks, etc. The scene, containing much recitation is long and well
told.
Footnote 453:
Arab. “Lukmah” = a _bouchée_ of bread, meat, fruit or pastry, and
especially applied to the rice balled with the hand and delicately
inserted into a friend’s mouth.
Footnote 454:
Arab. “Saláhiyah,” also written Saráhiyah: it means an ewer-shaped
glass-bottle.
Footnote 455:
Arab “Sarmújah,” of which Von Hammer remarks that the dictionaries
ignore it; Dozy gives the forms Sarmúj, Sarmúz and Sarmúzah and
explains them by “espèce de guêtre, de sandale ou de mule, qu’on
chausse par-dessus la botte.”
Footnote 456:
In token of profound submission.
Footnote 457:
Arab. “Misr” in Ibn Khaldún is a land whose people are settled and
civilised hence “Namsur” = we settle; and “Amsár” = settled provinces.
Al-Misrayn was the title of Basrah and Kufah the two military
cantonments founded by Caliph Omar on the frontier of conquering
Arabia and conquered Persia. Hence “Tamsír” = founding such posts,
which were planted in Mesopotamia, Syria and Egypt. In these camps
were stationed the veterans who had fought under Mohammed; but the
spoils of the East soon changed them to splendid cities where luxury
and learning flourished side by side. Sprenger (Al-Mas’údi pp. 19,
177) compares them ecclesiastically with the primitive Christian
Churches such as Jerusalem, Alexandria and Antioch. But the Moslems
were animated with an ardent love of liberty and Kufah under Al-Hajjaj
the masterful, lost 100,000 of her turbulent sons without the thirst
for independence being quenched. This can hardly be said of the Early
Christians who, with the exception of a few staunch-hearted martyrs,
appear in history as pauvres diables and poules mouillées, ever
oppressed by their own most ignorant and harmful fancy that the world
was about to end.
Footnote 458:
_i.e._ Waiting to be sold and wasting away in single cursedness.
Footnote 459:
Arab. “Yá dádati”: dádat is an old servant-woman or slave, often
applied to a nurse, like its congener the Pers. Dádá, the latter often
pronounced Daddeh, as Daddeh Bazm-árá in the Kuisum-nameh (Atkinson’s
“Customs of the Women of Persia,” London, 8vo. 1832).
Footnote 460:
Marjánah has been already explained. D’Herbelot derives from it the
Romance name _Morgante la Déconvenue_, here confounding Morgana with
Urganda; and Keltic scholars make Morgain = Mor Gwynn—the white maid
(p. 10, Keightley’s Fairy Mythology, London, Whittaker, 1833).
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INDEX
Abú Amir bin Marwán, 142
Abú al-Hamlát = father of assaults, etc., 149
Abú Alí al-Husayn the Wag, 130
Abú al-Sakhá = father of munificence, 133
Account asked from outgoing Governors, 102
—— of them will be presently given = we leave them for the present, 157
Acids applied as counter-inebriants, 32
Address without vocative particle more emphatic, 125
Addressing by the name not courteous, 114
Adolescent (un, aime toutes les femmes), 299
Affirmative and negative particles, 195
Africa (suggested derivation of the name), 60
Agha (Al-) = chief police officer, 156
Ahassa bi’l-Shurbah = “he smelt a rat”, 144
Ajal = yes verily, 195
’Ajwah = dates pressed into a solid mass and—deified, 14
Akákír = drugs, spices, 147
Akhlát (town in Armenia), 88
Akík (al-) two of the name, 140
Akyál, title of the Himyarite Kings, 60
Alà Kulli hál = in any case, 272
Alà raghm = in spite of, 121
Alas for his chance of escaping = there is none, 183
Ali Zaybak = Mercury Ali, 172
’Álí al-Mulúk = high among the Kings, 354
Alif, Há, Wáw as tests of calligraphy, 112
Alhambra = (Dár) al-hamrá, the Red, 49
Allah confound the far One (hard swearing), 155
—— succour the Caliph against thee, 159
—— is All-knowing, 209
Alláho Akbar, the Arab slogan-cry, 8
’Amala hílah for tricking a Syro-Egyptian vulgarism, 43
Amám-ak = before thee, 94
’Amáriyah (Pr. N. of town), 353
Amend her case = bathe her etc., 266
Amsár (pl. of Misr) = settled provinces, 371
Ansár = Medinite auxiliaries, 92
Ape _see_ Cynocephalus
Apes (remnant of some ancient tribe), 346
Arabian Night converted into an Arabian Note, 314
Ardashir = Artaxerxes, 209
Asaf (Solomon’s Wazir), 318
Asháb (division of), 92
Asháb al-Ziyá’ = Feudatories, 327
’Ashírah = clan, 121
’Ásim = defending, 314
Askar jarrár = drawing (conquering) army, 85
Asma’í (Al-) author of Antar, 110
Atmárí = rags (for travelling clothes), 118
Avaunt = Ikhsa, be chased like a dog, 45
Aywá (’llahi) = yes, by Allah, 195
Aywán (saloon with estrades), 347
Azarbiján = Kohistan, 104
Azdashír misprint for Ardashír, 209
Azrak = blue-eyed (so is the falcon), 164
Báb = gate (for chapter, etc.), 3
Badr Básím (Pr. N.) = Full moon smiling, 274
Bakkál = greengrocer, etc., 295
Bán = myrobalan, 247
Banner in sign of Investiture, 101
Banú Tamím (tribe), 125
Baríd = Post, 340
Batshat al-Kubrá = the great disaster (battle of Badr), 55
Battásh al-Akrán = he who assaults his peers, 55
Batánah = lining, 330
Battles described, 61
Bead thrown into a cup (signal of delivery), 324
Beast with two backs (Eastern view of), 35
Bir (Al-) al-Mu’utallal = the Ruined Well, 346
Blessings at the head of letters, 133
Blue eyes = blind with cataract, or staring, glittering, hungry, 164
Bow a cowardly weapon, 123
Breslau edition quoted, 168; 172; 173; 177; 202; 316; 321; 324; 326;
327; 329; 341; 342; 343; 350; 353; 354; 363; 367
Bride of the Hoards, 147
Bridle (not to be committed to another), 304
Bulak ed. quoted, 173; 359
Burdah = plaid of striped stuff, 95
Burckhardt quoted, 91; 93; 156
Byron (depreciated where he ought to be honoured most), 268
Caliphs: Hishám, 104
—— Walid bin Sahl, 106
—— Mahdí (Al-), 136
Canton (city of), 334
Capotes mélancoliques, 190
Chaste forbearance towards a woman frequently causes love, 189
Chawáshiyah = Chamberlains, 327
Coffer (Ar. Tábik, Tábút), 350
“Compelleth” in the sense of “burdeneth”, 285
Conjugal affection (striking picture of), 243
Copa d’agua excuse for a splendid banquet, 168
Colocasia (Ar. Kallakás), 151
Combat reminding of that of Rustam and Sohráb, 89
Conjunctive in Africans seldom white, 184
Connection (tribal seven degrees of), 121
Converts theoretically respected and practically despised, 43
Creases in the stomach insisted upon, 130
Cross-bows, 62
Cuirasses against pleasure, cobwebs against infection, 190
Cundums (French letters), 190
Cynocephalus (kills men and rapes women), 344
Dakkah = long wooden bench etc., 111
Damsel of the tribe = daughter of the chief, 95
Daulat = fortune, empire, kingdom (Pr. N.), 347
Deposits are not lost with Him = He disappointeth not etc., 334
Devotees (white woollen raiment of), 214
Dimágh = brain, meninx (for head), 178
Dirhams (50,000 = about £1,250), 105
Diwán al-Baríd = Post Office, 340
Dogs (in Eastern cities), 202
Donánmá (rejoicings for the pregnancy of a Sultana), 324
Donkey-boy like our “post-boy” of any age, 160
Donning woman’s attire in token of defeat, 188
Doors (pulled up = raised from the lower hinge-pins), 352
Drinking before or after dinner or both, 132
Drugs (is this an art of?), 147
Drunk with the excess of his beauty, 162
Drunken habits of Central African races, 357
“Early to bed” etc. (modern version of the same), 217
Elephant-faced Vetála, 34
Elephants frighting horses, 61
Eli-Fenioun = Polyphemus, 361
Euphemism of speech, 134; 142
Euphuistic speech, 285
Eyes “sunk” into the head for our “starting” from it, 36
—— (plucking or tearing out of, a Persian practice), 359
Fagfúr (Mosl. title for the Emperor of China), 335
Fakíh = divine, 325
Falastín, degraded to “Philister”, 101
Faráis (pl. of farísah) = shoulder-muscles, 219
Faránik (Al-) = letter-carrier, 340
Faráshah, noun of unity of Farásh = butterfly, moth, 305
Fárikí, adjective of Mayyáfárikín, 1
Fáris = rider, knight, 314
Farrásh, a man of general utility, tent-pitcher etc., 4
Father of Bitterness = the Devil, 116
Fátihah quoted, 286
Fátir = creator (chapter of the Koran), 366
Fatís = carrion, corps crévé, 181
Faylasúfiyah = philosopheress, 145
Fayyaz (al-) = the overflowing, 99
Fazl = grace, exceeding goodness, 220
Fearing for the lover first, 256
Fee delicately offered, 162
Fí al-Kamar in the moonshine (perhaps allusion to the Comorin islands),
269
Fig = anus, 151
Fights frequent at funerals or wedding processions, 190
Fillets hung on trees to denote an honoured tomb, 96
Fikh = theology, 325
Fire-arms mentioned, 62
Flirtation impossible in the East, 181
Floor (sitting upon the, sign of deepest dejection), 314
Foot (prehensile powers of the Eastern), 179
Fortalice of fruits (Ar. Hisn al-Fákihah), 75
French letters (all about them), 190
Fumigations to cite Jinnis etc., 363
Fútah = napkin, waistcloth, 345
Galaktophagi prefer sour milk to sweet, 360
Garden (in the Prophet’s tomb at Al-Medinah), 91
Generosity (peculiar style of), 323
Ghandúr = a gallant, 181
Ghuráb al-Bayn = Raven of the Wold, 226
“Gift from me to,” etc. = “I leave it to you, sir”, 292
Giraffe, one of the most timid of the antelope tribe, 54
—— unfit for riding, 62
Girding the sovereign (found in the hieroglyphs), 328
Gloom = black hair of youth, 277
Glooms gathering and full moons dawning for hands and eyes, 247
Gold (when he looked upon it, his life seemed a light thing to him),
240
Grapes (bunch of, weighing twenty pounds, no exaggeration), 358
Grim joke (showing elation of spirits), 324
Ground (really kissed), 257
Guest-rite, 121
—— (must be fed before his errand is asked), 319
Habb al-’Ubb (a woman’s ornament), 205
Hadas = surmise, 302
Hail within sight of the Equator, 336
Hájah = a needful thing (for somewhat), 349
Hajar-coinage (?), 95
Hajjáj (al-) bin Yúsuf al-Thakifí, 97
Hákim = ruler, not to be confounded with Hakím, a doctor, etc., 29
Haláwat = sweets, 205
Halumma = bring!, 117
Hallaling = Anglo-Indian term for the Moslem rite of killing animals
for food, 9
Hammál al-Hatabi = one who carries fuel-sticks, 59
Harbak = javelin, 45
Harrakát = carracks (also used for cock-boat), 336
Hasab wa Nasal = inherited degree and acquired dignity, 279
Hatim = broken wall (at Meccah), 219
Hátim (Pr. N.) = black crow, 350
Hazza-hu = he made it quiver, 45
Henna-flower (its spermatic odour), 250
Heroes and heroines of love-tales are bonnes fourchettes, 300
Hind bint Asmá and the poet Jarír, 96
Hishám (Caliph), 104
Hisn al-Fákihah = Fortalice of fruits, 75
Hiss = (sensual) perception, 302
Hobbling a camel (how done), 119
Hubkah = doubling of a woman’s waistcloth, 180
Hullah = dress, 180
Humility of the love-lorn Princess artfully contrasted with her former
furiosity, 261
Ibáziyah sect, 125
Ibrík = ewer, 146
Ibrísam = raw silk, floss, 352
Ihtilám = wet dreams, 183
Ijtilá = displaying of the bride, 198
Iksah = plait, etc., 150
Iliad and Pentaur’s Epic, 362
Incuriousness of the Eastern story-teller, 57
Indian realm, 336
Infidel should not be killed unless refusing to become a Moslem or a
tributary, 64
Irak for Al-Irak in verse, 20
Irán = hearse, Moses’ ark, 207
Ishk ’Uzrí = platonic love, 121
Jabábirah = tyrants, giants, 84
Jábarsá, the city of Japhet, 40; 43
Jábir Atharát al-Kirám = Repairer of the Slips of the Generous, 100
Jaland, not Julned, 16
Jamil bin Ma’amar al-Uzrí (poet), 117
Ján-Sháh = Life King, 82
Japhet (Ar. Yáfis or Yáfat), 40
—— his sword, 41
Jauharah (Pr. N. = jewel), 307
Jawámard for Jawán-mard, un giovane, a brave, 17
Jazírah (al-) = Mesopotamia, 100
—— Insula for Peninsula, 333
Jilbáb = habergeon, buff jacket, 56
Julnár = Pers. Gul-i-anár (pomegranate flower), 268
Ka’ah = mess-room, barracks, 167
Kaannahu huwa = as he (was) he, 233
Ka’ak al’-I’d = buns (cake?), 196
Ka’b = heel, ankle; fortune, 177
Ka’ka’at = jangling noise, 21
Kalak = raft, 342
Kamaríyah = moon-like, 202
Kamin al-Bahrayn = Ambuscade of the two seas, 353
Karaj (town in Persian Irak), 77
Kárizán (al-) = the two mimosa gatherers, 93
Karr aynan = keep thine eye cool, 229
Kásid = Anglo-Indian Cossid, 77
Kasr al-Mashíd = high-built Castle, 346
Kataba (for tattooing), 250
Kawwad = leader (for pimp), 98
Kayf hálak = how de doo?, 336
Kazá, Kismet and “Providence”, 135
“Key” = fee paid on the keys being handed to a lodger, 212
Khadd = cheek, 277
Kháfiyah = concealed; Kháinah = perfidy, 320
Khal’a al-’izár = stripping of jaws or side-beard, 248
Khalbús = buffoon, 195
Khalí’a (Al-) = the Wag, 130
Khánakah = Dervishes’ convert, 177
Khátún = lady; Pr. N., 146
Khazrá (al-) = the Green, palace of Mu’áwiyah, 124
Khirad Shah = King Intelligence; Pr. N., 73
Khiskhánah = cupboard, 199
Kirát (bean of Abrus precatorius), 289
Kisás (Al-) = lex talionis, 170
“Kiss ground” not to be taken literally, 210
Kitf al-Jamal = Camel shoulder-blade, 167
Knife, “bravest of arms”, 123
Koran quoted (iii. 11; i. 42; viii. 9), 55
—— (cxi.), 59
—— (xxxiii.), 92
—— (xx. 102), 164
—— (xii. 31), 213
—— (ii. 286), 285
—— (ii. 61; xxii. 44), 346
—— (xxxv.), 366
Kudrat = Omnipotence, 135
Kulzum (Al-), old name of Suez-town, 348
Kumayt (Al-) = bay horse with black points, 128
Kumasrá (Kummasrá) = pear, 357
Kursí = stool, 311
La’ab = sword-play, 44
Láb (old Pers. for Sun), 296
Laban = sweet milk, 360
Lakít = fœtus, foundling, contemptible fellow, 145
Lane quoted, 95; 96; 111; 113; 118; 119; 123; 124; 135; 136; 139; 144;
172; 182; 195; 196; 209; 269; 275; 280; 282; 303; 309; 314; 328; 361
Laun = colour, hue (for dish), 185
Laylat ams = yesternight, 186
Legs making mute the anklets, 131
Letter torn tears a kingdom, 2
Letters (French), 190
Listening not held dishonourable, 279
Liwá = Arab Tempe, 115
Líwán = Aywán (saloon with estrades), 347
Lukmah = bouchée, mouthful, 367
Magazine (as one wherein wheat is heaped up = unmarried), 372
Mujájat = saliva, 280
Mahá = wild cattle, 280
Malíh Kawí = very handsome (Cairene vulgarism), 150
Mafárik (Al-) = partings of the hair, 222
Mace, a dangerous weapon, 24
Mahayá = Má al-Hayát = aqua vitæ, 132
Mahdí (Al-), Caliph, 136
Mahr = marriage dowry, settlement, 126
Malík al-Násír (Saladin), 142
Manjaníkát = mangonels, 335
Mariduna = Rebels against Allah, 39
Marsín = myrtle, 290
Marwán bin al-Hakam (Governor of Al-Medinah), 125
Masculine for feminine, 140
Maskharah = masker (buffoon), 195
Maut = death, 147
Mayazib (pl. of mízáb) = gargoyles, 136
Maydán al-Fíl, 326
Maysum’s song, 97
Mayyáfárikín capital of Diyár Bakr, 1
Mercury Ali (his story sequel to that of Dalílah), 172
Metamorphosis (terms of), 294
Milk-drinking races prefer the soured milk to the sweet, 360
Mirbad (al-), market place at Bassorah, 130
Misr, Masr = Capital (applied to Memphis, Fostat and Cairo), 172
—— (for Egypt), 370
Mohammed (Allah’s right hand), 366
Mohammed bin Sulaymán al-Rabí’í (Governor of Bassorah), 130
Mohr = signet, 329
Monsters (abounding in Persian literature), 339
Morosa voluptas, 132
Mosque Al-Ahzáb = Mosque of the troops, 92
MS. copy of The Nights (price of one in Egypt), 312
Mu’attik al-Rikáb = Liberator of Necks, 331
Muhájirin = companions in Mohammed’s flight, 92
Mu’in al-Dín = Aider of the Faith, 354
Mujauhar = damascened, 84
Mulabbas = dragées, 205
Munádamah = table-talk, 309
Munawwarah (al-) = The Illumined (Title of Al-Medinah), 95
Musáfahah = putting palm to palm, 52