Sumbul al ’Anbari = spikenard, 273
Suns (for fair-faced boys and women), 242
Sultán (fit for the service of = for the service of a temporal
monarch), 325
Supernaturalism (has a material basis), 30
Surayyá = Stars of wealth, 303
Surrah = purse, pouch, 71
Swan-maidens, 30
Sweetmeat for salvation (provided for the returning traveller), 105
Tabl = kettle-drum, 18
Táif (Al-), town famous for scented leather, 273
Táifí leather, 303
Takiyah = skull-cap, 120
Tamar Hanna = Henna flowers, 176
Tarn-Kappe (making invisible), 120
Tars Daylamí = Median targe, 291
Tás (from Pers. Tásah) = tasse, 224
Tawíl (and Abt. Vogler), 94
Theft (penalty for), 164
“Them” for her, 35
“They” for she, 281
Thou fillest mine eyes = I find thy beauty all-sufficient, 57
Tigris (Ar-Dijlah, Dajlah), 150
Tohfah = rarity, present, 55
Topothesia (designedly made absurd), 338
Torture easier to bear than giving up cash, 189
Torrens quoted 280; 305; 309; 314; 321; 327.
Trailing the skirt (for assuming humble manners), 301
Trances and faintings (common in Romances of Chivalry), 118
Transformation (sudden) of character frequent in Eastern stories, 178
Tribade (Ar. Sahíkah, Musáhikah), 130
Túfán = Deluge of Noah, 346
Tuff = Sordes unguinum (fie! see Uff), 195
Turban (substitute for a purse), 190
Two Sayings (double entendre), 153
Uff ’alayka = fie upon thee! (Uff = sordes aurium), 195
Ulbah = box, 71
Urkúb = tendon Achilles, bough, 185
Uzn al-Kuffah = ear (handle) of the basket, 161
Verses afore-mentioned (distinguishing formula of “Hasan of Bassorah”),
126
—— (purposely harsh), 337
View (gorgeous description of), 30
Wa al-Salam (used in a variety of senses), 74
Wákites (number their islands), 88
Wák Wák (Islands of), 60
Walahán (Al-) = the love-distraught (abjective, not lakab), 33
Wa’lláhi = I swear by Allah, 310
Walímah = a wedding feast, 231
Ward = rose; Wardah = a single rose, 274
Watad = tent-peg (also a prosodical term), 279
Web and pin (eye disease of horses), 341
What calamity is upon thee = what a bother thou art, 177
What manner of thing is Al-Rashíd? = What has he to do here?, 176
Whistling (to call animals to water), 278
White (not black) mourning colour under the Abbasides, 200
Whiteness (for lustre, honour), 295
Whoso beguileth folk, him shall Allah beguile, 143
“Why don’t (can’t) you buy me?”, 300
Wisháh = belt, scarf, 209
Wine (breeds gladness, etc.), 202
—— (Mohammed’s teaching anent it), 277
—— (in cup or cup in wine?), ib.
Witness (bear it against me, meaning of the phrase), 22
Woman, Women (stealing of their clothes), 30
—— (her heart the only bond known by her), 54
—— (reasons for their aging early in the East), 86
—— (always to be addressed “Ummí” = my mother), 87
—— (often hide their names from the husband and his family), 100
—— (semi-maniacal rancour of a good one against an erring sister), 118
Woman, (when old, the most vindictive of her kind), 137
—— (who are neither thine nor another’s), 208
—— (their bodies impregnated with scent), 279
Wrestling amongst the Egyptian Fellah, 199
Yá A’awar = O one-eye (obscene meaning of the phrase), 185
—— Khwájah = O Master, 18
—— layta = would to heaven, 48
—— Mumátil = O Slow o’ pay, 169
—— Salám = O Safety (a vulgar ejaculation), 98
—— Shukayr = O little tulip, 168
Yásamín = Jessamine (name of a slave-girl), 176
Za’ar = a man with fair skin, red hair, and blue eyes, 297
Zahrawíyah = lovely as the Venus-star, 251
Zakhmah (Zukhmah) = strap, stirrup-leather, 18
Zakzúk = young of the Shál, 185
Zarbu’l Nawákísi = striking of gongs (pun on the word), 329
Zayn al-Mawásif (Pr.N.) = Adornment of (good) Qualities, 205
Zinád = fire-sticks, 80
Zindik = Atheist, 27
Zubaydah (wife of Harun al-Rashid), 56; 158
Zujáj bikr = unworked glass, 342
Zunnár = ζωνάριον, 305
Zurayk (diminutive of Azrak = blue-eyed), 195
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TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES
1. Added missing footnote anchor after “sacrifice” on p. 16.
2. Changed “as is does” to “as it does” on p. 31.
3. Added missing footnote anchor after “recite” on p. 94.
4. Changed “manner oaths” to “manner of oaths” on p. 104.
5. Added missing footnote anchor after “Mawwál” on p. 151.
6. Changed “δαχμία” to “δόχμιά” in footnote 545.
7. Silently corrected simple spelling, grammar, and typographical
errors.
8. Retained anachronistic and non-standard spellings as printed.
9. Enclosed italics font in _underscores_.
10. Superscripts are denoted by a carat before a single superscript
character or a series of superscripted characters enclosed in curly
braces, e.g. M^r. or M^{ister}.