—— (cleanses the Ka’abah of idols), 80
—— (on dying the hair, etc.), 194
—— (on lovers), 205
—— (on his being seen in sleep), 287
—— (places the “black stone”), 261
Mole on cheek (black as Bilál), 142
Monoculars (rascals), 194
Moon-faced (not absurd), 192
Moon (masculine), 261
Mountain (the, at Cairo), 294
Mountains (the pegs of the earth), 174
Mudawwarah (a gong?), 135
Muhallil (_see_ Mustahall).
Mukaddam (Anglo-Indicè Mucuddum) = overseer, 42
Munkasir (broken) = languid, 195
Musámarah = chatting at night, 237
Mustahall (Mustahill) = one who marries a thrice divorced woman and
divorces her to make her lawful for her first husband, 48
Mutawakkil (Al-), Caliph, 291
Muwallad = a slave born in a Moslem land, 291
Muwashshah (stanza), 54
Myrtle-bush = young beard, 143
Nafísah (great-grand-daughter of the Imám Hasan), 46
Nahás = brass, 178
—— (asfar = brass; ahmar = copper), 230
Nahr = slaughtering a camel by stabbing, 95
Na’ím = Heaven, 143
Nauroz = new (year’s) day, 244
Negro (Legend of his origin), 250
Negrofied races like “walking tun-butts”, 255
Ni’amat = a blessing, 1
Nisáb (Al-), smallest sum for stealing which the hand is mutilated, 157
Nún-like brow, 249
Nymphomania (ascribed to worms in the vagina), 298
Oath (kept to the letter), 70
Obayd ibn Táhir (Under-Prefect of Baghdad), 291
One-eyed men considered rascals, 194
Pashas’ (agents for bribery in Constantinople), 183
Payne quoted, 50; 66; 197; 221; 222
Peccadillo in good old days (murder), 275
Penis = Ark al-Haláwat, 51
—— (correspondence of size), 52
Person (Arabic Shakhs), 97
Pharaoh (signs to), 249
Pilgrimage quoted (i. 75-77), 6
—— (i. 285; ii. 78), 36
—— (iii. 306), 75
—— (i. 123), 78
—— (iii. 295), 80
—— (iii. 303), 95
—— (ii. 119), 114
—— (i. 213), 115
—— (iii. 156, 162, 216, 220), 125
—— (iii. 168, 174, 175), 148
—— (ii. 329), 254
—— (iii. 192), 261
—— (i. 43), 293
Pistachio-nut (tight-fitting shell of), 216
Plain-speaking of the Badawi, 102
Plural of Majesty, 156
Polissonnerie (Egyptian), 226
Porcelain (not made in Egypt or Syria), 164
Pride of beauty intoxicates, 34
Procès verbal (customary with Moslems), 73
Property (of the heirless lapses to the Treasury), 62
Pun, 258
Rabelaisian humour of the richest, 152
Ráfizi = denier, Shí’ah, 44
Rag (burnt, used as styptic), 108
Ráh = pure old wine, 186
Rakb = fast-going caravan, 254
Ráshid (Pasha, etc.), 202
Rasúl = one sent, “apostle,” not prophet, 284
Raven of the waste or the parting, 52
Rayy (old capital of Media), 104
Red dress (sign of wrath), 72
Repentance (a strong plea for granting aid with a Moslem), 277
Rings in the East, 24
Rizwán = Moslem St. Peter, 195
Rod (divining or “dowsing”), 73
Rotl (pl. Artál) = rotolo, pound-weight, 124
Roum = Græco-Roman Empire, 100
Rustam (not Rustum or Rustem), 219
Sabá = Biblical Sheba, 113
Sáhib (Wazirial title), 139
Sa’ír = Hell, 143
Sakatí = second-hand dealer, 77
Sakká (Anglo-Indian Bihishti) = water-carrier, 44
Salát (blessing, prayer), 60
Salím (Pr. N. = the “Safe and Sound”), 58
Salsabíl (fountain in Paradise), 195
Samharí = lance of Samhar (place or maker), 258
Samn = melted butter, Ghi, 53
Samúr (applied to cats and dogs, also to Admiral Seymour), 57
Sapphism (practised in wealthy Haríms), 234
Sara’ (epilepsy, falling sickness, possession), 89
Sarráf = money-changer (Shroff), 270
Saudá = black bile, melancholia, 251
Separation (spoken of as a defilement), 211
Sévigné of pearls, 249
Shah-bandar = lord of the port (Consul), 29
Shár, Sher and Shír, 187
Sharáb al-Tuffáh = cider, 134
Sharáríf = trefoil-shaped crenelles, 165
Sharíf = a descendant of Mohammed, 170
“Short and thick is never quick”, 194
Shuumán = a pestilent fellow, 75
Sifr = whistling, 206
Signet-rings, 24
Signs (to Pharaoh), 249
Sikankúr = Σκίγκος (_see_ Aphrodisiacs), 32
Sinning (for the pleasure of being pardoned), 111
Sirát (Al-), the bridge of Hell, 223
Slapping on the nape of neck = “boxing the ears”, 193
Sleeper and Waker (Tale of the), 96
Sleeplessness (contrivance against), 228
Smile (like Mím), 249
Squatting against a wall, 119
Stature (Alif-like), 249
Street (the, called Yellow), 93
—— (watering), 107
Stuff his mouth with jewels (reward for poetry), 103
—— a dead man’s mouth with cotton, 193
Su’adá = Beatrice, 267
Suffah = “sofa” (shelf), 275
Sujúd = prostration, 248
Suláfah = ptisane of wine, 258
Sumr = brown, black, 251
Sunní (versus Shí’ah, _see_ Ráfizí), 82
Swearing (by Allah forbidden), 175
Sweetmeat of Safety, 60
Sword (making invisible), 176
Syene (town on the Nile), 152
Tabannuj = drugging with Bhang, 71
Tabban lahu = perdition to him, 142
Takaddum and Takádum (difference between), 171
Tárik (Jabal al-) = Gibraltar, 100
Taufík (P.N.) = causing to be prosperous, 1
Taylasán (turband worn by a preacher), 286
Tayy (noble Arab tribe), 94
Thakilata-k Ummak = be thy mother bereaved of thee, 156
Thank you (Eastern equivalent), 6
Thirst (affecting plea; why?), 199
Tin (Kazdír), 274
Tinder (a styptic), 108
Torrens quoted, 187; 189; 235; 236
Treasures (enchanted in some one’s name and nature), 296
Trébutien quoted, 268
Tribadism, 234
Truth prevailing, falsehood failing, 80
Túfán (Typhoon, etc.), 156
Tufayl (proverbial intruder), 123
Turband (white, distinctive of Moslems), 214
Udm (_see_ Adm)
Ukáb = eagle, vulture, 177
Ukayl (Akíl?), 22
Unguium fulgor, 252
Vellication, 256
Voice (thickened by leprosy), 50
Wada’a (_see_ Cowrie), 77
Waggid (Hebr. speaker in a dream), 289
Wailing over the past, 239
Wakíl = agent (_see_ Pashas), 182
Walid (Al-) bin Abd al-Malik, Caliph, 100
Wardán (a Fellah name, also of a village), 293
Waríd (jugular vein), 92
Water (sight of running, makes a Persian long for strong drink), 75
Watering the streets, 107
Waybah = 6 to 7 English gallons, 86
Whistling (Sifr), 206
White as milk (opposed to black as mud, etc.), 140
—— hand (symbol of generosity, etc.), 185
—— turband (distinctive of Moslems), 214
—— hand of Moses (sign to Pharaoh), 249
—— and black faces on the day of Judgment, _ib._
Woman (old bawd), 4
—— (names), 12
—— (less handsome than man), 15
—— (walk and gait), 16
—— (bride night), 30
—— (oath of a), 49
—— (insolence of princesses), 145
—— (inner, her meanings), 146
Woman (answering question by counter-question), 148
—— (Abyssinian famous as “holders”), 227
—— (slave name), 232
—— (intercourse between), 234
—— (white-skinned supposed to be heating and unwholesome), 253
Writer of The Nights careless, 155
Writing (styles of), 196
Yá Ma’ashar al-Muslimín = Ho! Moslems, 149
Yá Nasráni = O Nazarene, 199
Yá Shátir = O clever one (in a bad sense), 209
Yá Sín (heart of the Koran, chapt. xxxvi.), 50
Yasrib (ancient name of Al-Medínah), 114
Yá Wadúd = O loving one, 54
Yohanná = John, 87
Yunán = Ionia, ancient Greece, 100
Záka = he tasted, 188
Zakariyá and Zakar, 51
Zakkúm (Al-) tree of Hell, 259
Zanzibar (cannibals, etc.), 168
Zaybak (Al-) = the quicksilver, 75
Zimbíl (Zambíl) = limp basket of palm-leaves, 119
Zimmí = a (Christian, Jewish or Majúsí) tributary, 199
Zubaydah (Pr. N.) = creamkin, 48
Zu ‘l-Kurá’a (Pr. N.) = Lord of cattle-feet, 95
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