href="@public@vhost@g@html@files@51252@51252-h@51252-h-10.htm.html#Page_83" class="pginternal">83 GhilmÁn=WuldÁn, the beautiful youths of Paradise, 211 GhÚtah=thickly grown lowland, 115 GhÚlah=ogress, 55 Going straight to the point preferred to filer le parfait amour, 268 Gold makes bold, 340 Ground-floor usually let for shops, 319 Habb=grain of the heart, 250 HabbÁniyah=grain-seller's quarter, 269 HabÍb, euphemism for lover, 223 HayhÁt, onomatopoetic=heigh-ho!, 76 Hair should be allowed all to grow or be shaven off, 308 Hair-dyes all vegetable matter, 326 Halab=Aleppo, 292 Hammam, going to the=convalescence, 288 ——, showing that a woman's monthly ailment is over, 286 HarÍm=Harem, used for the inmates, wife, etc., 165 HarÍsah, a favourite dish, 131 Hasanta ya Hasan=bene detto, Benedetto!, 251 HashÍsh, intoxicant prepared of hemp, 225 Haste ye to salvation, part of the AzÁn, 224 HÁtif=mysterious voice, 142 Hauk! Hauk!=heehaw!, 221 Head in the poke=into the noose, 179 High-bosomed damsel a favourite with Arab tale-tellers, 84 Hog, popular term of abuse, 188 Horoscopes, etc., 213 Horseplay frequently ending in bastinado, 325 House of Peace=Baghdad, 139 Houses of Lamentation in Moslem burial-grounds, 94 Humming not a favourite practice with Moslems, 311 Hunchback looked upon with fear and aversion, 258 HÚr al-Ayn=with eyes of lively white and black, 90 Hurr=gentleman, 254 Hurry is from Hell, 264 Iblis=Despairer, 13 Ibn HarÁm=son of adultery, abuse not necessarily reflecting on the parent, 231 Ibrat=needle-graver and Ibrat=warning, a favourite jingle, 104 IbrÍk=ewer, and Tisht=basin, used for washing the hands, 241 Id al-KabÍr=the Great Festival, 28 IfrÍt, divided into two races like mankind, 11 Ifritah=she-Ifrit, 34 IhdÁk=encompassing, as the white encloses the black of the eye, 49 IhtizÁz=shaking with delight, 50 IklÍl=diadem, now obsolete, 270 IklÍm=the seven climates of Ptolemy, 233 Ilm al-RuhÁni=Spiritualism, 305 Improvising still common amongst the Badawin, 39 Incest lawful amongst ancient peoples, 110 Inheritance, law of, settled by the Koran, 174 InshÁd=
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