ruffian of the day, but the hero of a tale antedating The Nights in
their present form. See Terminal Essay, s. ii.
Footnote 541:
_i.e._ Hoping to catch Nur al-Din.
Footnote 542:
Arab. “Sawwáhún” = the Wanderers, Pilgrims, wandering Arabs, whose
religion, Al-Islam, so styled by its Christian opponents. And yet the
new creed was at once accepted by whole regions of Christians, and
Mauritania, which had rejected Roman paganism and Gothic Christianity.
This was _e.g._ Syria and the so-called “Holy Land,” not because, as
is fondly asserted by Christians, Al-Islam was forced upon them by the
sword, but on account of its fulfilling a need, its supplying a higher
belief, unity as opposed to plurality, and its preaching a more manly
attitude of mind and a more sensible rule of conduct. Arabic still
preserves a host of words special to the Christian creed; and many of
them have been adopted by Moslems but with changes of signification.
Footnote 543:
_i.e._ of things commanded and things prohibited. The writer is
thinking of the Koran in which there are not a few abrogated
injunctions.
Footnote 544:
See below for the allusion.
Footnote 545:
Arab. “Kafrá” = desert place. It occurs in this couplet:
Wa Kabrun Harbin fí-makánin Kafrin;
Wa laysa Kurba Kabri Harbin Kabrun.
Harb’s corse is quartered in coarse wold accurst;
Nor close to corse of Harb is other corse;—
words made purposely harsh because uttered by a Jinni who killed a
traveller named “Harb.” So Homer;—
πολλὰ δ’ ἄναντα, κάταντα, πάραντά τε δόχμιά τ’ ἦλθον.
and Pope
O’er hills, o’er dales, o’er crags, o’er rocks they go, etc.
See Preface (p. v.) to Captain A. Lockett’s learned and whimsical
volume, “The Miut Amil” etc. Calcutta, 1814.
Footnote 546:
These lines have occurred vol. iv. 267. I quote Mr. Lane.
Footnote 547:
The topothesia is here designedly made absurd. Alexandria was one of
the first cities taken by the Moslems (A.H. 21 = 642) and the
Christian pirates preferred attacking weaker places, Rosetta and
Damietta.
Footnote 548:
Arab. “Bilád al-Rúm,” here and elsewhere applied to France.
Footnote 549:
Here the last line of p. 324, vol. iv. in the Mac. Edit. is misplaced
and belongs to the next page.
Footnote 550:
Arab. Akhawán shakíkán = brothers german (of men and beasts) born of
one father and mother, sire and dam.
Footnote 551:
“The Forerunner” and “the Overtaker,” terms borrowed from the Arab
Epsom.
Footnote 552:
Known to us as “the web and pin,” it is a film which affects Arab
horses in the damp hot regions of Malabar and Zanzibar and soon blinds
them. This equine cataract combined with loin-disease compels men to
ride Pegu and other ponies.
Footnote 553:
Arab. “Zujáj bikr” whose apparent meaning would be glass in the lump
and unworked. Zaj áj bears, however, the meaning of clove-nails (the
ripe bud of the clove-shrub) and may possibly apply to one of the
manifold “Alfáz Adwiyah” (names of drugs). Here, however, pounded
glass would be all sufficient to blind a horse: it is much used in the
East especially for dogs affected by intestinal vermicules.
Footnote 554:
Alluding to the Arab saying “The two rests” (Al-ráhatáni) “certainty
of success or failure,” as opposed to “Wiswás” when the mind
fluctuates in doubt.
Footnote 555:
She falls in love with the groom, thus anticipating the noble
self-devotion of Miss Aurora Floyd.
Footnote 556:
Arab. “Túfán” see vol. v. 156: here it means the “Deluge of Noah.”
Footnote 557:
Two of the Hells. See vol. v. 240.
Footnote 558:
Lit. “Out upon a prayer who imprecated our parting!”
Footnote 559:
The use of masculine for feminine has frequently been noted. I have
rarely changed the gender or the number the plural being often
employed for the singular (vol. i. 98). Such change may avoid
“mystification and confusion” but this is the very purpose of the
substitution which must be preserved if “local colour” is to be
respected.
Footnote 560:
The well-known Koranic verse, whereby Allah is introduced into an
indecent tale and “Holy Writ” is punned upon. I have noticed (iii.
206) that victory Fat’h lit. = opening everything (as _e.g._ a
maidenhead).
END OF VOL. VIII.
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INDEX.
Abáah (vulg. ’Abáyah) = cloak, 42
Abír (a fragrant powder sprinkled on face, body and clothes), 240
Abjad (logogriphs derived from it), 93
Ablution obligatory after copulation, 305
Abú al-Ruwaysh = little feather, 77
Abú al-Sa’ádát = Father of Prosperities, 148
Abú Lahab and his wife, 291
Abú Maryam (a term of contempt), 306
Abú Mohammed al-Battál (hero of an older tale), 335
Adan = our Aden, 248
Adím = leather (Bulghár, Marocco), 80
Áhirah = strumpet (_see_ Fájirah), 109
Ahjár al-Kassárín = Fulling-stones, 334
Ahlan = as one of the household, 269
Air (I fear it for her when it bloweth), 53
Akhawán shakíkán = (two) brothers german, 340
Akík = carnelian (“Seal with seals of”), 228
Akíl (son of Abú Tálib), 172
Akmám (_see_ Kumm)
Akr Kayrawán = ball of silver-dross, 267
Akúna fidá-kȧ = may I be thy ransom, 36
Alchemy (its practice has cost many a life), 11
Alexandria (praise of), 289
Allah (I take refuge with Him from gainsaying thee = God forbid that I
should oppose thee), 53
Allah (perpetuate his shadow), 170
Allaho akbar (the Moslem war-cry), 265
Alwán (pl. of laun, colour) = viands, dishes; 23
Amazons (of Dahome), 39
Ambar al-Khám = rude ambergris, 85
Amúd al-Sawárí = the Pillar of Masts (Diocletian’s column), 323
Anagnorisis (admirably managed), 104
Andalíb = nightingale (masc. in Arabic), 282
’Andam = Brazil wood, 225
Angels shooting Jinn, 292
Anistaná = thy company gladdens us, 231
Ansár = auxiliaries, 183
Anwá, pl. of Nau q.v., 266
Anwár = lights, flowers, 270; 282
Apricots (various kinds), 268
Arabian Odyssey, 7
Arús (Al-) = the bride (tropical name for wine), 203
Asaf bin Barkhiya (Solomon’s Wazir), 133
Asháb = companions, 183
Astár (pl. of Satr) = chopper, 184
Aswad = black (used for any dark colour), 268
’Atb = blame, reproach (for disgrace), 112
Atheist (Ar. Zindík), 27
Atnáb = tent-ropes, 240
Avanie (Ar. Gharámah), 181
Awák = ounces (pl. of Ukíyah), 12
Azrak = blue, 4
Báb al-Bahr and Báb al-Barr, 55; 318
Babylonian eyes = bewitching ones, 278
Baghdád (House of Peace), 51
Bahr al-azrak = blue river, _not_ Blue Nile, 4
Bahríyah = crew, 17
Baltiyah = Labrus Niloticus, 290
Banát = daughters, protégées, 39
Bán (species of Moringa), 322
Banní (Bunní) = Cyprinus Bynni, 187
Baras = leprosy, 24
Bastardy (a sore offence amongst Moslems), 115
Batárikah = patriarchs; monks, 256
—— = knights, 319; 324
Bath (may it be a blessing to thee), 200
Batiyah = jar, flagon, 323
Bawwák = trumpeter (a discreditable character), 192
Bayáz = Whiteness, 295
Bayáz = Silurus Bajad (cat-fish), 150
Bayt Sha’ar = house of hair (for a couplet), 279
Báz (vulg. for Tabl) = kettle-drum, 18
Belt (Ar. Kamar), 156
Better largesse than the mace, 163
Bí-Fardayn = “with two singles” (meaning baskets), 162
Bilád al-Rúm (applied to France), 339
Bilkís (Queen of Sheba), 82
Bird-girls, 29
Bisát (Al-) wa’l-masnad = carpet and cushion, 55
Bismillah Námí = Now please, go to sleep, 178
Bismillah = enter in Allah’s name, 202
Books (of the Judgment-day), 294
Box (Ar. ’Ulbah), 71
Boycotting (Oriental forms of), 302
Bread and salt (bond of), 12
Breslau edition quoted, 7; 18; 66; 98; 113; 197; 242; 264; 273.
Búdikah (Bútakah) = crucible, 8
Buhayrah = tank, cistern, 19
Búm = owl (introduced to rhyme with Kayyúm = the Eternal), 286
Burckhardt quoted, 23; 285
Bystanders (forcing on a sale), 310
Camels (red the best kind), 303
Carmel = Karam El (God’s vineyard), 203
Cask in Auerbach’s Keller, 131
Cat-fish (Ar. Bayáz), 150
Chaff, 147; 152; 175; 189
Change (sudden, of disposition), 213
Cheating (not only venial but laudable under circumstances), 217
Checkmate (Pers. Ar. Sháh mát) = the King is dead, _ib._
Chin-veil donned (showing intention to act like a man), 99
Cloak (Ar. ’Abáah), 42
Closet (the forbidden and bird-girls), 29
Coffee (anachronism), 274
Coition (the seal of love), 304
—— (local excellencies of), _ib._
—— (ablution obligatory after it), 305
Compliment (model of a courtly one), 165
Composed of seed by all men shed = superfetation of iniquity, 15
Confusion of religious mythologies (by way of chaff), 152
Contrition for romancing, 66
Cowardice (proverb anent), 333
Crescent-like (for emaciated), 300
Crew (Ar. Bahríyah, Nawátíyah), 17
Dáa al-Kabír (Great Evil) = Dáa al-Fíl (Elephantine Evil, _i.e._,
Elephantiasis), 24
Dádat = nurse (Pers.), 209
Dajlah (Dijlah) = Tigris (Heb. Hid-dekel), 150
Dakkah = settle, 84
Dár al-Na’ím = Dwelling of Delight, 183
Daylam (Al-), soldiers of = warlike as the Daylamites, 82
Demesne (Ar. Himà), 225
Dijlah (Tigris) River and Valley of Peace, 51
Dirhams (thousand = £375), 10
Disposition (sudden change of), 213
Dist (Dist) = large copper chauldron, 177
Diversion of an Eastern Potentate, 171
Doggrel, 225; 228
Double entendre, 153; 251
Dreams (play an important part in the Romances of Chivalry), 113
Drunken son (excused by mother, rebuked by father), 287
Dues demanded lead to imprisonment for arrears, 170
Eating and Drinking (before thinking of the lover), 260
East and West (confounded by a beauty-dazed monk), 279
Eginhardt (belongs to the clerical profession), 326
Entertainments (names of), 231
Euphemistic speech, 173
Eye (Thou shalt be in mine = I will keep thee as though thou wert the
apple of my eye), 90
Eyes (Babylonian) = bewitching, 278
Fa-immá ’alayhá wa-immá bihá = whether (luck go) against it or (luck
go) with it, 157
Faintings and trances (common in Romances of Chivalry), 118
Fájirah = harlot (often mere abuse without special meaning), 109
Fard Kalmah = a single word (vulgarism), 188
Farkh Samak = fish-chick (for young fish), 149
Farsalah = parcel, 162
Fate (written in the sutures of the skull), 237
Fath = opening (_e.g._ of a maidenhead), 348
Fátimah (daughter of Mohammed), 252
Favours (not lawful until sanctified by love), 226
Fawn (for a graceful youth), 329
Feet (lack the European development of sebaceous glands), 43
—— (coldness of, a symptom of impotence), 317
Female (Amazon) Island, 60
Feminine (persistency of purpose, confirmed by “Consolations of
religion”), 99
—— (mind prone to exaggeration), 25
—— (friend does not hesitate to prescribe fibs), 37
Festival (Ar. ’Íd), 142
Fidá = ransom, self-sacrifice, 36
Fidá’an = instead of, _ib._
Fig and Sycamore (unclean allusion in), 269
Fillet = the Greek “Stephane”, 209
Fine feathers make fine birds, 201
Fingán (for Finján) = (coffee-) cup, 200
Finger (run round the inside of a vessel), _ib._
Finger-tips (making marks in the ground), 72
Firásah = physiognomy, 326
Fish changed into apes (true Fellah-“chaff”), 147
—— (of Paradise, promising acceptance of prayer), 163
Flattery (more telling if proceeding from the heart), 104
Formality (a sign of good breeding), 308
“Forty days” = our honey-moon, 47
Fourteen (poetically expressed), 70
Frail (Ar. Farsalah), 162
Frame (crescent-like by reason of leanness), 300
Friend (feminine, does not hesitate to prescribe a fib), 37
Front-teeth wide apart (a beauty amongst the Egyptians, not the Arabs),
147
Funduk = Fondaco, 184
Funeral oration on an Arabian Achilles (after Hariri), 348
Full (Fill) = Arabian jessamine, 273
“Gallery” (Speaking to the), 128
Ghadr = cheating, 217
Gháliyah (Al-) = older English “Algallia”, 220
Gharámah = avanie, 151
Ghayúr = jealous (applied to Time), 67
Ghází = one who fights for the faith (Zealot), 211
Ghuráb = galleon (grab), 323
Gloria (in, Italian term for the venereal finish), 329
Gold-pieces (stuck on the cheeks of singing-girls, etc.), 275
Green gown (Anglo-India = white ball-dress with blades of grass
behind), 32
Groom (falling in love with), 345
“Guebre” (introduced by Lord Byron), 8
Gull-fairs, 90
Habitations (names given to them by the Arabs), 229
Habl = cord; cause, 100
Háfiz quoted, 120
Hakk = right (Hakkí = mine), 335
Haláwat al-Salámah = sweetmeat for the returning of a friend, 325
Haling by the hair (reminiscence of “marriage by capture”), 40
Hamzah (uncle of the Prophet), 172
Hanabát = “hanap”, 202
Hand (cut off in penalty for theft), 164
—— (cut off for striking a father), 287
Hárún al-Rashíd (described by Al-Siyúti), 160
Hashísh (said to him = his mind, under its influence, suggested to
him), 155
Hásil, Hásilah = cell in a Khan for storing goods, 184; 196
Hassún (diminutive of Hasan), 81
Haudaj (Hind. Howda) = camel-litter for women, 235
Háwiyah (name of a Hell), 346
Hazrat = our mediæval “præsentia vostra”, 254
“Hearer” not “Reader” addressed, 316
Heavens (names of the seven), 111
Hells (names of the seven and intended inhabitants), _ib._
Heroism of a doubtful character, 27
Hesperides (apples of, probably golden nuggets), 272
Himà = guarded side, demesne, 102; 225
“His” for “her”, 50
Hizám = girdle, 160
“Holy Writ” punned upon, 348
“House of Sadness”, 64
Housewife (looks to the main chance), 144
Hubúb (Pr. N.) = awaking, blowing hard, 209
Humbly (expressed by standing on their heads), 279
Hump-back (graphically described), 297
Ibn al-Kirnás (Pr. N.) = son of the chase (for Pers. Kurnas = pimp,
cuckold?), 157
Ibn al-’Ukáb (Pr. N.) = Son of the Eagle, 198
’Íd = festivals (the two of al-Islám), 142
Ihtílajnámeh = book of palpitations, 25
Iksír (Al-) = dry drug (from ξηρόν), 9; 12
Ikyán = living gold, 272; 275
Ill-treatment (a slave’s plea for a lawful demand to be sold), 54
Impudence (intended to be that of a captive Princess), 295
Inadvertency of the tale-teller, 141
Ink-case (origin of), 178
Innín = impotence, 317
Inshallah = D.V., 104
Inverted speech, 179
Irishman (the typical in Arab garb), 191
Ironical speech, 3
—— (a favourite with the Fellah), 164
Ishárah = beckoning, 233
Iskandariyah = city of Alexander, 289
Island for Land, 317
Ism al-A’azam = the most Great name of Allah, 133
Jalájal = small bells for falcons etc., 271
Jar (ridden by witches), 131
Jarrah = jar, 177
Jawáshíyah = guard, 330
Jew (never your equal, either above or below you), 153
—— (marrying a Moslemah deserves no pity), 262
Jokh al-Saklat = rich brocade on broadcloth, 202
Judad (for Judad) pl. of Jadíd = “new” (_i.e._ old) coin, 121
Juggling with heaven, 168
Jamár = palm-pith and cabbage, 270
Juzám = Elephantiasis, 24
Kabbát = saucers, 12
Kafrà = desert place, 337
Kamán = Kamá (as) + anna (that, since), 197
Kamar = belt, 156
Kámil, Basít, Wáfir (names of three popular metres), 91
Karbús = saddle-bow, 77
Karmút = Silurus Carmoth Niloticus, 185
Karrat azlá’hu = his ribs felt cold (after hearty eating), 189
Kaukab al-Durrí = cluster of pearls, 291
Kaylúlah = noon-tide nap, 191
Kayrawán = the Greek Cyrene, 317
Kayyimah = guardian (fem.), 330
Káz (Al-) = shears, 9
Kází of Kázís = Chief Kazi, 245
Khák-bák = “hocus pocus” etc., 328
Khalanj (vessels made of it), 271
Khalkínah = copper chauldron, 177
Kharajú = they (masc.) went forth (vulg. for kharajna fem.), 144
Khaukhah = tunnel, 330
Koran quoted (iii. 90), 51
—— (xxxix. 54), 182
—— (vi. 99), 267
—— xvi. 69; ii. 216; v. 92, 277
—— (cxiii. 13), 285
—— (cxi. 184), 291
—— (xvii.; xviii.; lxix; lxxxiv.), 294
Khuld = fourth (yellow coral) heaven, 47
Khutúb (Pr. N.) = affairs, misfortunes, 209
Khilál (emblem of attenuation), 258
Kímiyá = Alchemy (from χυμεία = wet drug), 9
Kimkhá = (velvet of) “Kimcob”, 201
Kír = bellows, 9
Kiráb = wooden sword-case, 267
Kirám = nobles; Kurúm = vines, 203
Kirsh al-Nukhál = guts of bran, 169
Kissing (en tout bien et en tout honneur), 25
Kohls (many kinds of), 10
Kubbád = Shaddock, 272
Kúr = furnace, 9
—— (= forge where children are hammered out), 46
Kumm = sleeve; petal, 267; 275
Kurbáj = cravache, 17
Kurbán = sacrifice, 16
Kursán = “Corsaro,” a runner, 323
Kus(s) = Vulva, 93
Kusúf = eclipse of the moon, 291
Kút al-Kulúb (Pr. N.) = nourishment of the hearts, 158
La Baas = (in Marocco) “I am well”, 274
Labbis al-Búsah tabkí ’Arúsah = clothe the reed and it becomes a bride,
201
Láhik = the Overtaker, 341
Lane quoted, 7; 14; 18; 21; 27; 35; 53; 62; 67; 77; 80; 84; 94; 97;
102; 122; 124; 128; 131; 147; 148; 155; 156; 166; 177; 179; 180;
187; 205; 264; 285; 298; 337
Largesse (better than the mace), 163
Lazá (name of a Hell), 346
Liberality (after Poverty), 182
Libraries (large ones appreciated by the Arabs), 79
Lisán al-Hamal = Lamb’s tongue (plantain), 273
Liyyah = fat sheep (calves like tails of), 291
Logogriphs, 93
Love (called upon to torment the lover still more), 75
Love-children (exceedingly rare among Moslems), 115
Love-liesse (never lacked between folk, _i.e._ people of different
conditions), 212
Lovers (becoming Moslems secure the good-will of the audience), 224
Lute (personification of), 281
Má al-Mala = water (brilliancy) of beauty, 47
Maghdád (for Baghdád, as Makkah and Bakkah), 51
Mahall = (a man’s) quarters, 229
Mahmudah = praiseworthy; confection of Aloes, 35
Malak = level ground, 285
Malakút (Al-) = The world of spirits (Sufi term), 145
Mamarr al-Tujjár = passing-place of the traders, 155
Mamrak = sky-window, etc., 156
Man (one worthier in Allah’s sight than a thousand Jinn), 5; 44
Manár al-Saná (Pr. N.) = Place of Light, 104
Manáshif (pl. of Minshafah q.v.), 92
Mansúr wa Munazzam = oratio soluta et ligata, 226
Manzil, Makám = (a lady’s) lodgings, 229
Marhúb = terrible, 180
Marriage (“by capture”), 40
—— (one of the institutions of the Apostles), 137
Married never once (emphasizes poverty), 145
Marseille (probably alluded to), 315
Maryam (a Christian name), 306
Masúkah = stick used for driving cattle, 147
Maryam al-Husn = place of the white doe (Rím) of beauty, 321
Mawwál (for Mawálíyah) = short poem, 94; 151
Menses (coition during and leprosy), 24
Mikhaddah = cheek-pillow, 273
Mine (idioms for expressing it), 335
Minshafah (pl. Manáshif) = drying towel, 92
Moharram = first month of the Moslem year, 71
Mohtasib = Inspector of weights and measures, 293
Money (carried round the waist), 288
—— (weighed = paid down), 290
Monkery (none in Al-Islám), 137
Monoculars (famed for mischief), 318
Moons (for cup-bearers), 227
Mortal (one better in Allah’s sight than a thousand Jinn), 5; 44
Moslem (dignity contrasting with Christian abasement), 5; 44
—— (can circumcise, marry and bury himself), 22
Moslems (their number preordained), 154
Mother (in Arab. tales = ma mère), 27
Muákhát = entering in a formal agreement of partnership, 232
Mu’allim = teacher, master (addressing a Jew or Christian), 150
Muhabbat (Al-) al-gharizíyah = natural affection, 110
Munkati’ = cut off, 24
Musáhikah = Tribade, 130
Mushayyad = lofty, high-built, 23
Mystification explained by extraordinary likeness, 40
Nabbút = quarterstaff, 186
Nafs Ammárah = the Flesh, 31
—— al-Nátikah = intellectual soul, _ib._
—— al-Ghazabiyah = animal function, _ib._
—— al-Shahwaniyah = vegetative property, _ib._
Najm al-Sabáh (Pr. N.) = Star o’ Morn, 107
Nákhúzah Zulayt = Skipper Rapscallion, 175
Nár = fire (fem. like the names of the other elements), 16
Narjis = Narcissus (name of a slave girl), 176
Nasím = Zephyr (emendation for Nadím = cup-bearer), 62
Navel (largeness of much appreciated), 33
Nawátíyah = crew (nauta, navita), 17
Nafísah (Pr. N.) = The Precious one, 328
Najm al-Munkazzi = shooting star, 329
Nakat = to spot; to handsel, 266
Nákús = wooden gong, 328
Nau (pl. Anwá) setting of one star simultaneous with another’s rising,
266
Námúsíyah = mosquito curtain, 330
News (what is behind thee of, O Asám?), 222
Night (consists of three watches), 330
Numbering the streets etc., a classical custom, 88
Núr al-Hudá (Pr. N.) = Light of Salvation, 97
Oath (retrieved by expiation), 263
—— (of divorce), 187; 311
Object first seen in the morning determines the fortunes of the day,
147
Orange (a growth of India), 272
O whose thrall am I = To her (I drink), 224
Palmerin of England, 64
Particles of swearing, 310
Partner in very deed, 181
Payne quoted, 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; 314; 326; 327.
Peaches (“Sultání,” Andam), 270
Pears (various kinds), 269
Persians always suspected, 8
Person (Ar. Shakhs), 159
Physiognomy (Ar. Firásah, Kiyáfah), 326
Pièces de circonstance (mostly mere doggrel), 59
Pilgrimage quoted (iii. 70), 137
—— (iii. 365), 157
—— (ii. 248), 172
—— (ii. 130, etc.), 183
—— (ii. 207), 273
—— (i. 176), 287
—— (ii. 82), 291
—— (i. 88), 300
Pilgrimage (not perfected save by copulation with the camel), 157
Pleiads (the stars whereby men sail), 304
Pomegranate (alluded to in Hadís and Korán), 267
Pouch (Ar Surrah), 71
Precedence (claims preeminence), 285
Premier (Le, embellit), 86
Prognostication from nervous movements, 25
Prostitution (never wholly abolished in Islam), 115
Puellæ Wakwakienses, 89
Pun (on Sabr), 35
—— (on a name), 228
—— (complicated), 329
Queen’s mischief = the mischief which may (or will) come from the
Queen, 98
Raas al-Mál = capital, 248
Raat-hu = she saw him, 298
Rághib = expecter; Záhid = rejecter, 315
Raff = shelf running round a room, 122
Ráhatáni (Al-) = the two rests, 342
Rakham = aquiline vulture, 20
Ramazán (moon of), 33
Rashad = garden-cresses; stones; Rashíd = the heaven-directed, 194
Rashid = Rosetta, 288
Rasíf = river-quay, dyke, 150
Raven of the Wold, 236
Rayhán = scented herb, 187
Rest (in Eastern travel before eating and drinking), 142
Return-Salám, 309
Revenge (a sacred duty), 26
Ribá, Ribh = interest, 248
Riders (names of on various beasts), 238
Ríf = low land, 304
Rizwán (door-keeper of Paradise), 265
Rose (in Arab. masc.), 274
Roumí (in Marocco = European), 268
Ruh bilà Fuzúl = Begone and none of your impudence, 163
Ruhbán = monks, 256
Rukb = travellers on camels, return caravan, 238
Sabab = robe; cause, 100
Sakaba Kúrahá = he pierced her forge, 46
Sábik = Forerunner, 341
Sabíkah = bar, lamina, ingot, 10
Sabr = patience; Aloës (pun on), 35
Sacrifice (Ar. Kurbán), 16
Sadness (House of), 64
Sahífah = page, book, 148
Sahíkah = Tribade, 130
Sa’íd = Upper Egypt, 304
Sáibah = woman who lets herself go (a-whoring, etc.), 151
Salám (becomes Shalúm with the Jews), 223
—— (not returned, a Moslem form of Boycotting), 302
Sale (forced on by the Bystanders), 310
Sálifah = silken plait, 223
Sálih = a pious man, 191
Sandal (Pr. N.) = Sandal-wood, 169
Sandúk al-Nuzur = box of vowed oblations, 330
Sátúr = chopper, 162
Saub (Tobe) ’Atábi = tabby silk, 201
Sawwáhún = Wanderers, Pilgrims, 326
Sayf Zú al Yazan (hero of a Persian Romance), 21
Sayr = broad girdle, 325
Sayyib-hu = let him go, 151
Sayyib (Thayyib) = woman who leaves her husband after consummation, 324
Scorpions (for brow-curls), 209
Shadow (may yours never be less), 170
Shafáif = lower labia, 93
Sháh (Al-) mát = the King is dead (checkmate), 217
Shakhs = person, 159
“Shame” (extends from navel to knees), 193
Shamlah = gaberdine, 160
Shammirí = up and ready!, 263
Shams al-Zuhá (Pr. N.) = Sun of Undurn, 107
Sharaf al-Banát (Pr. N.) = Honour of Maidenhood, _ib._
Shásh Abyaz = white turband (distinctive sign of the True Believer), 8
Shawáhí Umm al-Dawáhí = the Fascinator, mother of Calamities, 87
Shibábah = reed-pipe, 166
Siddíkah (Al-) = the veridical (apparently undeserved) title of
Ayishah, 152
Signing with the hand _not_ our beckoning, 78
Signs (by various parts of the body), 233
Signum salutis, 293
Sindan, Sandan = anvil, 8
Sister (by adoption), 25
Sisterhood = companions, suite, 41
Sixth Abbaside Caliph error for fifth, 56
Slave (holds himself superior to a menial freeman), 294
Slave-girl (can be sold only with her consent), 292
Slaughter (wholesale for the delight of the gallery), 255
Slaughtering (by cutting the animal’s throat), 44
Slaves (if ill-treated may claim to be sold), 54
Soko (Maghribi form for Súk) = Bazar-street, 230
Soldiers of Al-Daylam = warlike as the Daylamites, 82
Solomon’s prison (copper cucurbites), 157
Son of ten years dieth not in the ninth, 70
Soul (you may have his, but leave me the body), 284
Spartivento = mountain whereon the clouds split, 19
Speaking to the “gallery”, 128
Speech (this my = the words I am about to speak), 147
—— (inverted form of), 318
Spells (for prayers deprecating parting), 347
Sperm (though it were a drop of marguerite), 210
Súdán-men = Negroes, 266
Sukúb (Pr. N.) = flowing, pouring, 209
Sufrah = table-cloth, 269