Musámarah = night-talk by moonlight, 217
Mosquito caught between the toes, 179
Musrán (Al-) = guts, 190
Mutanakkir = disguised, proud, reserved, 101
Muunah = provisions, 232
Náb (pl. Anyáb) = canine tooth, tusk, 339
Nafs-í = my soul for “the flesh”, 118
Ná’í al-maut = messenger of death, 226
Naked = without veil or upper clothing, 151
Names frequently do not appear till near the end of a tale, 43; 274
Naming a girl by name offensive, 286
Ni’am = yes in answer to a negative, 195
Night (its last the bitter parting), 243
Nitáh = a woman’s waist cloth, 180
Nostrils (his life-breath was in his = his heart was in his mouth), 258
Nostrums for divining the sex of the unborn child, 268
Núrayn = two lights (town in Turkestan), 88
Offerings (pious) = ex votos etc., 150
“Old maids” ignored in the East, 286
“Old Man of the Sea” (a Márid or evil Jinn), 338
Oman with its capital Maskat = Omana Moscha, 24
Opening doors without a key is the knavish trick of a petty thief, 182
Payne quoted, 16; 18; 57; 123; 277; 337
Pearls (fresh from water), 240
Pencilling the eyes with kohl, 250
Pens (gilded) = reeds washed with gold, 112
Pilgrimage quoted (iii. 90), 34
—— (i. 377), 9
—— (iii. 191), 21
—— (i. 14), 80
—— (ii. 62; 69), 91
—— (ii. 130; 138; 325), 92
—— (ii. 3), 95
—— (iii. 336), 104
—— (ii. 300), 124
—— (iii. 164), 136
—— (ii. 24), 140
—— (i. 59), 171
—— (i. 120), 172
—— (i. 124), 177
—— (iii. 66), 181
—— (ii. 52–54), 202
—— (i. 62), 212
—— (iii. 165), 219
Police-master legally answerable for losses, 161
Pomegranate = female parts, 151
Prin´cess English, Princess French, 245
Proportion of horse and foot in Arab and Turcoman armies, 1
Protestants (four great _Sommités_), 124
Pun, 53; 288; 307
Ra’ad Sháh, Pr. N. = thunder-king, 55
Rabbat-í = my she-Lord, applied to the fire, 36
Rahim, Rihm = womb for uterine relations, 123
Raiment of devotees (white wool), 214
Ramlah (half-way house between Jaffa and Jerusalem), 103
Ráyah Káimah = pennon flying (not “beast standing”), 118
“Renowning it” (naïve style of), 347
Repentance acquits the penitent, 72
Repetition, 293; 301
Riding on men as donkeys (facetious exaggeration of African practice),
357
Rock (falling upon a ship), 295
Ruba’al-Kharáb = the waste quarter, 80
Rubbamá = perhaps, sometimes, 218
Rudaynian lance (like a), 265
Rumourers (the two) = basin and ewer, 146
Rutub (applying to pearls) = fresh from water, 240
Sabá = the Biblical Sheba, 316
Sabaj (a black shell), 131
Safwán = clear, cold, 314
Sá’ik = the Striker, 35
Saja’-assonance bald in translation, 2
—— answerable for galimatias, 36
Salát mamlúkíyah = praying without ablution, 148
Salátah (how composed), 132
Sálih (Pr. N.) = righteous, pious, just, 314
Samandal (Al-) = Salamander, 280
Samar = night-story, 312
Samáwah (Al-) visitation place in Babylonian Irak, 93
Samír = night-talker, 217
Sana’á (famed for leather and other work), 130
Sandals (kissed and laid on the head in token of submission), 370
Sarmújah = sandals, leggings, slippers, 370
Satl = kettle, bucket (situla?), 182
Saudawí = of a melancholic temperament, 238
Sawík = parched corn, 303
Sayf ξίφος al-Mulúk = Sword of the Kings, 325
Seal-ring of Solomon (oath by), 317
Set-off for abuse of women, 130
Shahyál bin Shárukh (Pr. N.), 331
Shakhtúr = dinghy, 362
Shammara = he tucked up (sleeve or gown), 133
Shara (Al-), mountain in Arabia, 23
Shara’ = holy law, 170
Sharít = chopper, sword, 178
Shaykh attended by a half-witted lunatic, 152
Shaykh of the Sea (-board), 357
Shazarwán = Pers. Shadurwán, palace, cornice, etc., 51
Sibawayh (Grammarian), 233
Side-muscles (her quiver = she trembles in every nerve), 219
Slave (Moslemah can compel an infidel master who has attempted her
seduction to sell her), 203
Sleeping with a sword between them, 352
Shower (how delightful in rainless lands), 141
Shúm (a tough wood used for staves), 354
Shubash = Bravo!, 195
Slave-girls (newly bought pretentious and coquettish), 266
Solomon (oath by his seal-ring), 317
Street cries of Cairo, 172
Style of a Cairene public scribe, 134
Suhbat-hu = in company with him, 262
Sulamí (not Sulaymi) = of the tribe Banú Sulaym, 93
Sulaymán bin Abd al-Malik (Caliph), 99
Sulaymáníyah = Afghans, 171
Saráhíyah (vulg. Saláhíyah = glass-bottle), 370
Su’ubán = “basilisk,” large serpent, 322
Sword (between two sleepers represents _only_ the man’s honour), 353
Tábik = coffer, 350
Tábút = bier, ark, etc., 207
—— (coffer), 350
Taghaddá = he dined, 180
Táir al-bayn = parting bird, 226
Tákah = arched hollow in the wall, niche, 361
Takht, a “seat” from a throne to a saddle, 55
—— (more emphatical than Sarír), 328
Taklíd = baldricking, not girding a sword, 3
Taklíyah = onion-sauce, 322
Takwím = Tacuino (for Almanac), 296
Tamsír (derived from Misr) = founding a military cantonment, 371
Tásúmah = sandal, slipper, 197
Taverns, 324
Tayr = any flying thing, bird, 227
Tawílan jiddan, now a Cairenism, 13
Tazríb = quilting, 330
“Tell the truth!” way of taking an Eastern liar, 183
Tent (how constructed), 109
“There is no Majesty,” etc., as ejaculation of impatience, 73
Third = Tuesday, 349
Timsah = crocodile, 343
Tongue (my, is under thy feet), 239
’Ubb = breast-pocket, 205
Union opposed to “Severance”, 120
“Use this” (_i.e._ for thy daily expenses), 298
Uzrah = Azariah, 158
Vile water (Koranic term for semen), 213
Violent temper (frequent amongst Eastern princesses), 254
Virginity of slave-girls (respected by the older slave-trader, rarely
by the young), 267
Visits to the tombs, 124
Wahk, Wahak = Lasso, 61
Wahtah = quasi-epileptic fit, 127
Walíd bin Sahl (Caliph), 106
Ward Shah = Rose King, 70
Wars (al-) = carthamus tinctorius, 93
Wayha-k equivalent to Wayla-k, 127
Weapons carried under the thigh, 56
—— magic, 59
—— new forms of, 62
“Whatso thou wouldest do that do” = Do what thou wilt, 324
“Where lies China-land?” = it is a far cry to Lock Awe, 344
“Who art thou?” etc. (meaning “you are nobodies”), 286
“Whoso loveth me, let him bestow largesse upon this man”, 323
Women (blue-eyed of good omen), 164
Ya’arub bin Kahtán, 25
Yá Dâdatí = “ma mie”, 372
Yáfis, Yáfat = Japhet, 40
Yají miat khwánjah = near an hundred chargers, 345
Yá Khawand = O Master, 315
Yakhní = stew, broth, 186
Yá Sákí’ al-Wajh = O false face!, 353
Yá Ustá (for Ustáz) = O my Master, 192
Yúsuf (Grand Vizier, and his pelisse), 323
Zabbah = wooden bolt, 182
Zalábiyah bi-’Asal = honey fritters, 164
Zalzál son of Muzalzil = Earthquake son of Ennosigaius, 79
Zardah = rice dressed with honey and saffron, 189
Zardakhánat = Zarad (Ar. for hauberk) – Khánah (Pers. for house), 363
Zarráf = giraffe, 54
Záwiyah = corner (for cell, oratory), 328
Zurk = blue-eyed, dim-sighted, purblind, 164
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TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES
1. Changed ‘hog’ to ‘dog’ on p. 31.
2. Changed ‘fainted’ to ‘feinted’ on p. 60.
3. Changed ‘thy want’ to ‘thy wont’ on p. 60.
4. Changed ‘put to the route’ to ‘put to the rout’ on p. 287.
5. Added missing target for footnote on p. 301.
6. Changed ‘They son’ to ‘Thy son’ on p. 444.
7. Silently corrected simple spelling, grammar, and typographical
errors.
8. Retained anachronistic and non-standard spellings as printed.
9. Enclosed italics font in _underscores_.