  - AbbÁs = the grim-faced, 138
- Abd al-KÁdir of GilÁn (founder of the KÁdiri order), 41
- Abd al-Malik bin MarwÁn (Caliph), 7
- Abdullah bin AbÍ KilÁbah, 113
- Abdullah bin MÁlik al-KhuzÁ´i, 181
- Abraham (Place or stone of), 148
- Abu al-Muzaffir = Father of the Conqueror, 166
- Abu Nowas (Pr. N. = father of the side-locks), 55; 264
- Abu HassÁn al-ZiyÁdi, 258
- Abu YÚsuf (the Lawyer), 153
- Adam’s loins, 111
- Adi (son of HÁtim al-TÁyyÍ), 95
- Adl = just (ironically), 271
- Adm (Udm) = any relish, 128
- Ahmad al-Danaf (Pr. N. = Calamity-Ahmad), 75
- AkkÁm = cameleer, caravan-manager, 40
- AlÁ al-Din (Aladdin) Glory of the Faith, 29; 33
- AlÁma = alÁ-mÁ = upon what? wherefore, 201
- Alast (day of), 111
- Al DÁud (David’s family), 50
- Alfi = one who costs a thousand, 225
- Ali al-Zabak (Pr. N. = Mercury Ali), 75
- Alif-like stature, 249
- Ali Shar (Pr. N.), 187
- Allah (His name pronounced against the evil eye), 34
- Allah (swearing by, forbidden), 175
- —— is all-knowing (= I don’t know), 283
- AmÁim (pl. of ImÁmah) = turbands, 100
- AmÍn (Al-) = the Trusted of Allah, 261
- AmÍr and SamÚl = Jones, Brown and Robinson, 106
- AmrÚ (pronounced Amr) and Zayd = Tom, Dick or Harry, 2
- Ana fÍ jÍrat-ak = I crave thy intercession (useful phrase), 83
- AnbÁr (pronounced AmbÁr), town on the Euphrates, 152
- Antar (Romance quoted), 41
- Antiochus and Stratonice, 10
- Apple(-wine), 134
- —— (many a goodly one rotten at the core), 187
- Ark al-HalÁwat = vein of sweetness, sugar stick, for penis, 51
- ArmanÍyah (Armenia), 182
- Arm-pits (taking a dismounting person under the, a sign of respect), 24
- ArtÁl (see Rotl)
- AsÍdah (custard, pap), 37
- AslÁn (Pr. N. probably for ArslÁn = lion), 78
- Asma´i (Al-), author of Antar, 159
- Aun (of Jinns, etc.), 88
- AwwÁdah = a lute-player, 142
- Ayat (Coranic verset, sign, miracle), ib.
- AyyÁs (Issus of Cilicia), 76
- BÁb al LÚk (of FustÁt), 259
- BÁb al SalÁm (of the Al-MedÍnah Mosque), 137
- HÁtim of Tayy (proverbial for Liberality), 94
- Hazramaut (Hazarmaveth), 118
- Heart (black drop in), 256
- Heaven (Na´Ím), 143
- Hell (Sa´Ír), ib.
- —— (cold as well as hot), 253
- HibÁl = ropes, 193
- Homme achetÉ = de bonne famille, 225
- HÚd (prophet = Heber?), 118
- HurÁk = tinder, 108
- Hurry (in a newly married couple indecent), 244
- HurÚf al-MutabbakÁt = the flattened sounds, 223
- “I told you so” (even more common in East than West), 69
- IbrahÍm bin al-Mahdi (Pretender to the Caliphate), 103
- IbrahÍm al-Mosili, 108
- ImÁm (The Seventh = Caliph Al-MaamÚn), 111
- —— (the fugleman at the prayer-niche), 227
- ImÁmah = turband, 100
- Inconsequence (of the Author of The Nights), 155
- Infirmity (and infirm letters), 243
- Inscriptions (on trays, plates, etc.), 235
- Inshallah = D.V., 286
- Insomnia (curious treatment of), 229
- IrÁdah = Sultan’s order, 61
- Iram (the Many-columned), 113
- Irony, 271
- Irreverence (Egyptian), 47
- Isaac (IshÁk) of Mosul, 119
- Ishmael (place of his sacrifice), 75
- IstinjÁ = washing the fundament after stool, 129
- Ja’afar the Barmecide (mode of his death), 159
- —— (river or rivulet), 292
- Jabal al-TÁrik = Gibraltar, 100
- Jacob’s daughters, 14
- JawÁn (Pr. N.; Pers. = youth, juvenis), 208
- Job (a Syrian), 221
- “Joyance is three things,” etc., 254
- JufÚn = eyebrows or eyelashes, 260
- Jugular vein (from —— to ——), 92
- Justice (poetical, not done), 28
- JuzÁm = leprosy, 51
- Ka’ab al-AhbÁr (of the Scribes, two of the name), 115
- Ka’abah (Pilgrim clinging to its curtain), 125
- KabbÁzah = a “holding woman”, 227
- Kahirah = City of Mars (Cairo), 271
- KahramÁn (Pers.) = braves, heroes, 115
- KallÁ = prorsus non, 257
- KaptÁn = Capitano, 85
- Kara Gyuz (see KhiyÁl).
- KÁrib (pl. KawÁrib) = dinghy, 168
- KarÚrah = bottle for urine, 11
- Kasa’ah = wooden bowl, porringer,
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- 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),
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- YÁ SÍn (heart of the Koran, chapt. xxxvi.),
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