  - Abdallah ibn al-Mu’tazz (poet-prince), 39
- AbdÚn (convent of), 40
- AbÚ al-Sa’ÁdÁt (Pr. N.) = Father of Prosperities, 29
- AbÚ MijÁn (song of), 41
- AbÚ Tabak = Father of whipping, 5
- ’ÁdilÍyah (Mosque in Cairo), 6
- Aesop (the fable-writer), 117
- ’AjÁib al-Hind = Marvels of Ind, 153
- A’lÁj = sturdy miscreants, 38
- Allah (will make things easy = will send us aid), 2
- —— (give thee quittance of responsibility), 11
- —— (will send thee thy daily bread), 13
- Alnashar (story of), 146
- ’Ámir = one who inhabiteth, haunter, 6
- ’Amm = uncle (polite address to a father-in-law), 32
- Ánasa-kum = ye are honoured by knowing him, 11
- Arabs (for plundering nomades), 25
- Arianism and early Christianity, 190
- Arms and Armour, 86
- Artists in cosmetics, 234
- ’AsÁkir = corner-terminals of a litter, 32
- Asal Kasab = cane-honey, 3
- —— Katr = drip-honey, 2
- Ash’ab (proverbial for greed), 15
- Astarte (primarily the planet Venus?), 229
- ’AttÁr = perfume-seller, druggist, 8
- ’Aysh = that on which man lives (for bread), 3
- BÁb (Al-) al-’Ali = Sublime Porte, 5
- BÁb al-Nasr = Gate of Victory, 6
- BarmakÍs (history of the family), 137
- BattÁl (Al-), story of, 74
- Bazar (locked at night), 13
- Betrothed (for “intended to be married with regal ceremony”), 55
- Boccaccio and The Nights, 160
- Book (black as her), 1
- Boulgrin, Bougre, Bougrerie (derivations of the terms), 249
- Bresl. Edit. quoted, 54. seqq.
- —— (mean colloquialism thereof), 169
- Brides of the Treasure, 31
- Burckhardt quoted, 144
- Cairene jargon, 8
- —— (savoir faire), 10
- —— (bonhomie), 28
- —— (knows his fellow-Cairene), 35
- Calamity (i.e. to the enemy), 33
- Cannibalism in the New World, 240
- Caravaggio (picture of St. Rosario), 219
- Castration (texts justifying or enjoining it), 227
- Character-sketch (making amends for abuse of women), 24
- Cask (for “home” of the maiden wine), 38
- Children (one of its = a native of), Story-teller (picture of the), 164
- Sufyism (rise of), 128
- Sun (likened to a bride displaying her charms to man), 38
- Syphilis (origin of), 89
- —— (hippic), 90
- Tasawwuf (rise of), 128
- Taysh = vertigo, giddiness, 9
- Time-measurers (of very ancient date), 85
- Tobacco (mention of), 91
- Touch of nature (making all the world kin), 24
- TrÉbutien quoted, 9; 54; 69; 80; 98
- Umm al-Raas = crown of the head, 44
- Umm Kulsum (one of the AmsÁl of the Arabs for debauchery), 194
- ’Urrah = dung, 1
- Visvakarma = the Anti-creator, 131
- Whoso praiseth and then blameth lieth twice, 15
- Woman, women (treated leniently in a Kazi’s court), 4
- Womankind (their status in Al-Islam), 195
- YÁ AbÚ al-LithÁmayn = “O sire of the chin-veils twain”, 20
- Yellow-girl (for light-coloured wine), 39
- ZarÁbÍn = slaves’ shoes, 1
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