Part 44

Carat = Kirát, 239

Carnelion stone bitten with pearls = lips with teeth in sign of anger, 179

Cat (puss, etc.), 149

Cervantes and Arab Romance, 66

Chaff, 23

Chameleon (father of coolness), 165

Cheese a styptic, 3

Clapping hands to call servants, 173

Clogs = Kubkáb, 92

Coition (postures of), 93

Cold-of-countenance = a fool, 7

Cold speech = a silly or abusive tirade, _ib._

Comrades of the Cave, 128

Constipation (La) rend rigoureux, 242

Copulation (postures of), 93

Cowardice equally divided, 173

Criss 'cross Row, 236

Dalhamah (Romance of), 112

Dara' (dira) = habergeon, coat of ring-mail, etc., 109

Daughters of Sa'adah = zebras, 65

—— of the bier = Ursa major, 28, 221

Day of Doom (mutual retaliation), 128

—— (length of), 299

"Death in a crowd as good as a feast" (Persian proverb), 141

Divorce (triple), 292

Doors (usually shut with a wooden bolt), 198

Double entendre, 234

Dreams (true at later night), 258

Drinking at dawn, 20

—— their death agony = suffering similar pain, 315

Dromedary (_see_ Camel).

—— (guided by a nose-ring), 120

Dunyá (P. N.) = world, 7, 319

Durrah (vulg. for Zarrat _q.v._).

Easterns sleep with covered heads, 345

Eating together makes friends, 71

Egyptian (= archi-) polissonnerie, 243

Euphemy, 68, 102, 209, 267, 338

Evacuation (and Constipation), 242

Eve (the true seducer), 166

Eye (darkening from wine or passion), 224

—— (orbits slit up and down the face of a hideous Jinn), 235

Eye (man of the = pupil), 286

—— (white = blind), 323

Fables proper (oldest part of The Nights), 114

Fairer to-day than fair of yesterday = ever increasing in beauty, 331

Falak (clearing) = breaking forth of light from darkness, 22

Falcon (_see_ Hawk, Bází), 154

Falling on the back with laughter, 306

Farting for fear, 118

Fátin = tempter, seducer, 82

Firdausi, the Persian Homer, quoted, 83

Fire and sickness cannot cohabit (_see_ Kayy), 59

—— worshippers slandered, 326

First at the feast and last at the fray, 81

Fist (putting into fist = putting oneself at another's mercy), 155

Flying for delight, 26

Foot, smallness of, sign of "blood", 227

Formula of praise pronounced to avert the evil eye, 224

Fortune makes kneel her camel by some other one = encamps with a favourite, 141

Foster-brother (dearer than kith and kin), 256

Fox, cunning man (_see_ Wolf), 132

Freeing slaves for the benefit of the souls of the departed, 211

Fulán (fulano in Span. and Port.) = a certain person, 191

Futúh = openings, victories, benefit, 304

Gamin (faire le), _ib._

Gates (two to port towns), 281

Geography in its bearings on Morality, 241

Geomantic process, 269

Gharám (Pr. N.) = eagerness, desire, love-longing, 172

Ghazá (Artemisia-shrub), 220

Ghost (phantom = Tayf), 252

Ghurrah = blaze on a horse's forehead, 118

Ghusl al-Sihhah = washing of health, 266

Give a man luck and throw him into the sea, 341

Goad (of the donkey-boy), 116

Gossamer (names for), 217

Grave (levelling slave and sovereign), 323

Hair-strings (of black silk), 311

—— (significance of), 313

Hájib = groom, chamberlain, 233

Hajín (tall camel), 67

Hámah (soul of a murdered man in form of a bird sprung from his head), 293

Hammam-bath a luxury as well as a necessity, 19

Hands behind the back (posture of submission), 218

—— stained in stripes like ring-rows of a chain-armour, 176

Hárút and Marút (sorcerer-angels), 217

Harwalah = pas gymnastique, 121

Hashsháshín = assassins, 91

Hashish, _see_ Bhang, _ib._

—— orgie in London, _ib._

Hawar = intensity of black and white in the eyes, 233

Háwí = juggler playing tricks with snakes, 145

Hawk, _see_ Báshik, Bazi, 61, 138

Hayát al-Nufús = Life of Souls, 283

Házir and Bádi = townsman and nomad, 234

Head (must always be kept covered), 275

Headsman delaying execution, 42

Hemistichs divided, 166

Hermaphrodites (Khunsa), 306

Heroine of Eastern Romance eats well, 168

Hijl = partridge, 138

"Him" for "her", 78

Hinges (of ancient doors), 41

Hips, leanness of, "anti-pathetic" to Easterns, 226

Hoof (of the wild ass), 235

Horripilation = gooseflesh, 2

Horse (names of the), 72

—— stealing honourable, 73

Host (enters first as safe-guard against guet-apens), 208

Houris, 233

Hudhud = hoopoe, 128

Húr, _see_ Houris, 233

Hurr = free, noble, independent opp. to 'Abd = servile, 44

Iblis = the Despairer, 223

Ibn Abdun al-Andalúsi (poet), 319

Ibn Muljam (murderer of the Caliph Ali), 319

Ibn Síná = Avicenna, 34

Ichneumon (mongoose), 147

Iddat = months of a woman's enforced celibacy after divorce, 292

Ikhlás (Al-) = chapter of unity, 307

Ikhwán al-Safá = Brethren of Purity, 150

Ilàh al-Arsh = the God of the Empyrean, 106

Ill is thy abiding place, 137

Insane (treatment of the), 256

Iron padlock (instead of the usual wooden bolt), 198

Irony, 291

Isengrin (wolf), 146

Ismid = stibium (eye-powder), 307

Jalláb = slave-dealer, 340

Jamal (Gamal) = camel, _q.v._, 110

Jamíz (Jammayz) = sycamore-fig, 302

Jannat al-Na'ím = Garden of Delight, 19

Jeweller (in Eastern tales generally a rascal), 186

Jihád = fighting for the faith, 39

Jinnis (names of), 225

Joining prayers, 174

Kahlil = whose eyes are kohl'd by nature, 346

Kahlá = nature-kohl'd, 232

Káma-Shástra (Ars Amoris Indica), 93

Kamar al-Zamán (Camaralzaman = Moon of the Age), 213

Kamaráni = the two moons for sun and moon, 300

Kámat Alfiyyah = a shape like the letter Alif, 236

Kanát = subterranean water-course, 141

Kánún (dulcimer, "zither"), 211

Kapoteshwara and Kapoteshí, 126

Kasídah = Ode, elegy, 262

Katúl (Al-) = the slayer, 72

Kausaj = man with a thin, short beard, cunning, tricksy, 246

Kaysún = yellow camomile, 58

Kayy (Al-) = cautery, the end of medicine-cure, 59

Kerchief of Dismissal, 295

Khálidán (for Khálidát) = the Canaries, 212

Khán (caravanserai) and its magazines, 14

Khanjar = dagger, hanger (poisoned), 90

Khassat-hu = she gelded him, 47

Khauf (Al-) maksúm = fear (cowardice) is equally apportioned, 173

Khayt hamayán = threads of vanity (gossamer), 217

Khaznah = treasury of money (£5,000), 278

Khizáb (dye used by women), 105

Khunsa = flexible, flaccid (hermaphrodite), 306

Kiblah = fronting-place of prayer

Kissing (like a pigeon feeding its young), 275

Kinchin lay (Arab form of), 102

Kirát (weight = 2-3 grains; length = one finger-breadth), 239

Kohl (applying of = takhíl), 57

—— -eyed = Kahlá, f., 232

Koka Pandit (Hindu ars Amandi), 93

Koran quoted (x. 10-12; lvi. 24-26; lxxxviii. 17-20), 19

—— (xii. 31), 21

—— (cxiii. 1), 22

—— (ii. 186; lx. 1), 39

—— (lxxvi.), 57

—— (ii. 23), 65

—— (xxxi. 18; lxvii. 7), 117

—— (ii. 191), 123

—— (xviii.; xxii. 20; lxxxvii.), 128

—— (ii. 96, 256), 217

—— (ii.; iii.; xxxvi.; lv.; lxvii.; cxiii.; cxiv.), 222

—— (ii. 32; xviii. 48), 223

—— (xxiii. 20; xcv. 1), 276

—— (xxvi.), 294

—— (xi.), 301

—— (xxiii. 38), 302

—— (ii.; li. 9; xxxv. 11), 304

—— (cxii.), 307

—— (xxiv. 39), 319

—— (xxi.), 323

—— (iv. 38), 332

Kubkáb = bath clogs, 92

Kuhailat (breed of Arab horses), 346

Kun = be, the creative word, 317

Kurds (Xenophon's and Strabo's Carduchi), 100

Lájuward, _see_ Lázuward, 33

Lámiyat = poem rhyming in _L_, 143

Layáli = nights, future, fate, 318

Layla (female Pr. N.), 135

—— (wa Majnún, love poem), 183

Lázuward = lapis lazuli, azure, 33

Letters and letter-writing, 24

Libdah (skull-cap of felt) sign of a religious mendicant, 62

Lisám = mouth-veil, 283

Liver (for heart), 240

Lizzat al-Nisá (erotic poem), 93

Love (pure, becomes prophetical), 6

—— (the ear conceiveth it before the eye), 9

—— (ten stages of), 36

—— (martyrs of), 211

—— (platonic, _see_ vol. ii. 104), 232

—— (ousting affection), 240

Lovers in Lazá (hell) as well as Na'ím (heaven), 58

—— (parting of, a stock-topic in poetry), 58

Lukmán (two of the name), 264

Ma'an bin Zá'idah, 236

Mahríyah (Mehari) = blood-dromedary, 277

Majlis = sitting (to a woman), 92

Majnún (Al-) = the mad, 72

Málik (door-keeper of Hell), 20

Malik (king) taken as title, 51

Man (extract of despicable water), 16

—— (is fire, woman tinder), 59

—— (shown to disadvantage in beast-stories), 115

—— (his destiny written on his skull), 123

—— (pre-eminence above women), 332

Maniyat = death; muniyat = desire, 291

Marba' = summer quarters, 79

Marján = Coral-branch (slave-name), 169

Marriage (if consummated demands Ghusl), 286

Married men profit nothing, 2

Martyrs of love, 211

Márwazi = of Marw (Margiana), 222

Marz-bán = Warden of the Marches, Margrave, 256

Má sháa 'llah (as Allah willeth) = well done!, 92

Matr = large vessel of leather or wood, 295

Maurid = desert-well and road to such, 33

Mercy (quality of the noble Arab), 88

Minaret (simile for a fair young girl), 69

Miracles (disclaimed by Mohammed but generally believed in), 346

Mirage = Saráb, 319

Mohammed ("born with Kohl'd eyes"), 232

Moon masc., Sun fem., 28

Moore (Thomas, anticipated), 305

Morality (geographical and chronological), 241

—— (want of, excused by passion), 269

Morning-draught, 20

Mountain, coming from the = being a clod-hopper, 324

—— sit upon the = turn anchorite, _ib._

Mourning, perfumes not used during, 63

Mu'atasim (Al-) bi'llah (Caliph), 81

Mu'áwiyah (his Moses-like "mildness"), 286

Muharramát (the three forbidden things), 340

Mujáhid (Al-) = fighter in Holy War, 51

Mujáhidún = who wage war against infidels, 39

Mukhammas = cinquains, 280

Mulberry-fig (for anus), 302

Murjiy (sect and tenets), 341

Náfilah = supererogatory Koran-recitation, 222

Na'ím (name for Heaven), 19

Naml (ant) simile for a young beard, 58

Názir = eye or steward, 233

Night (and day, not day and night with the Arabs), 121

—— cap, 222

—— "this" = our "last", 249

—— for day, 318

Nizámi (Persian Poet), 183

Nuptial sheet (inspection of the), 289

Núr al-Hudá (Pr. N. = Light of Guidance), 17

O Camphor (antiphrase = O snowball), 40

Oftentimes the ear loveth before the eye, 9

Oldest matter in The Nights the beast-stories, 114

Oubliettes (in old Eastern houses), 327

Out of sight of my friend is better and pleasanter, 315

Paradise of Mohammed not wholly sensual, 19

Parody of the Testification, 215

Partridge = Hijl, 138

Pathos (touch of), 55

Patience (cutting the cords of), 178

Payne quoted, 130, 172, 193, 252, 275

Penis (as to anus and cunnus), 303

Perfumes not used during mourning, 63

—— (natural), 231

Pigeon (language, etc.), 126

—— (blood of the young), 289

Pilgrimage quoted (ii. 22), 7

—— (iii. 77), 65

—— (iii. 14), 67

—— (i. 216), 81

—— (i. 64), 91

—— (iii. 185), 107

—— (iii. 270), 118

—— (iii. 208), 121

—— (iii. 218), 126

—— (i. 52), 151

—— (iii. 307), 159

—— (i. 99), 163

—— (iii. 239), 174

—— (iii. 22), 220

—— (ii. 282), 241

—— (iii. 144), 252

—— (ii. 213, 321), 304

—— (iii. 192-194), 319

—— (i. 106), 324

Plates as armature, 216

Plural of Majesty, 16

Poke (counterfeit), 302

Polissonnerie (characteristic), 243

Polygamy and Polyandry in relation to climate, 241

Postillon (Le), 304

Postures of coition, 93

Prayer (rules for joining in), 174

—— (two-bow), 213

—— niche = wayside chapel, 324

Precedent (merit appertains to), 264

Preposterous venery, 304

Preventives (the two), 222

Prima Venus debet esse cruenta, 289

Purity of love attains a prophetic strain, 6

Questions (indiscreet, the rule throughout Arabia), 105

Ra'áyá (pl. of Ra'íyat) = Ryot, 215

Rabite classical term for a noble Arab horse, 72

Rahíl (small dromedary), 67

Raising the tail sign of excitement in the Arab blood-horse, 84

Rasy = praising in a funeral sermon, 291

Ritánah = a jargon, 200

Raushan = window, 171

Raushaná (splendour) = Roxana, _ib._

Ready to fly for delight, 26

"Renowning it" (boasting of one's tribe), 80, 108

Return unto Allah, 317

Rihl = wooden saddle, 117

Rind (rand) = willow, bay, aloes, wood, 172

Rizwán (approbation) = key-keeper of Paradise, 15, 20

Rosary, 123

Royalty in the guise of merchants, 12

Rubber, _see_ Shampooer, 17

Ruhbah (townlet on the frontier of Syria), 52

Ryot = liege, subject; Fellah, peasant, 215

Sa'adah (female Pr. N.), 65

Sa'alabah (name of a tribe), 107

Sa'alab = fox, 132

Sabb = low abuse, 311

Sabbáh bin Rammáh bin Humám = the Comely, son of the Spearman, son of the Lion, 67

Sadr = returning from the water (see Wárid), 56

Sady = Hámah, _q.v._, 293

Sáhirah = place for the gathering of souls on Doom-day, 323

Sáibah = she-camel freed from labour, 78

Salb = crucifying, 25

Salsabíl (fountains of Paradise), 57

Saráb = mirage, 319

Sawwán = Syenite, 324

Seal and Sealing-wax, 189

Seduction (the truth about it), 166

Serpent does not sting or bite, but strike, 160

Seven Sleepers, 128

Shahádatáni (Al-) = the two Testimonies, 346

Shahriman not Shah Zemán, 7, 212

Sháib al-Ingház = gray beard, shaking with disapproval, 307

Shakespearean "topothesia" out-Shakespeared, 212

Shakhs = a person, a black spot, 26

Shampooer (rubber) = Mukayyis or bagman, 17

Shanak = hanging, 25

Shanfara (poet), 143

Shaykhs (five, doubtful allusion), 30

Shaytán (Satan) term of abuse, 25

—— (his wife and nine sons), 229

Shop (Arab, a "but" and a "ben"), 163

Shovel-iron stirrup = spur, 119

Signs (of a Shaykh's tent), 104

—— (lucky in a horse), 118

Sinnaur = cat; prince, 149

Siwák = tooth-stick; Siwá-ka = other than thou, 275

Slaves (O Camphor), 40

—— (set free for the benefit of the dead), 211

—— (dealer in = Jalláb), 349

Sleeping (with covered head and face), 345

Sleepers (the Seven of Ephesus), 128

Solomon (his carpet), 267

Sodomites (angels appear to), 301, 304

Sodomy with women, _ib._

Son of Persian Kings (not Prince but descendant), 163

Spindle (thinner than a), 260

St. George (posture), 304

Stages (ten, of love-sickness), 36

"Stone-bow" not "Cross-bow", 116

Subhán a'llah pronounced to keep off the evil eye, 224

Súdán = our Soudan, 75

Súf (wool), Súfi (Gnostic), 140

Suhá (Sohá) star in the Ursa Major, 28

Sulaymá, dim. of Salmá = any beautiful woman, 263

Superiority of man above woman, 332

Sutures of the skull, 123

Sycomore fig (for anus), 302

Tághút (idol), 217

Tá'í (Al-) li 'llah (Caliph), 51, 307

Takhíl = adorning with Kohl, 57

Talák bi'l-Salásah = triple divorce, 292

Tamar al-Hindi (Tamarind) = the Indian date, 297

Tasbíh = saying Subhán Allah; Rosary, 125

Tayf = ghost, phantom, 252

Tayrab (Al-) a city, 259

Tears (pouring blood like red wine), 169

Ten stages of love-sickness, 36

Tent (signs of a Shaykh's), 104

Testicles (beating and bruising of, female mode of killing a man), 3

Thamúd (pre-historic Arab tribe), 294

Thorn of lance = eyelash, 331

Tín = fig, simile for a woman's parts, 302

Tiryák = theriack, treacle (antidote), 65

Torrens quoted, 218, 235, 249, 289

Tossing upon coals of fire, 61

Tughrái (Al-), poet, 143

Turk (provoked to hunger by beauties of nature), 32

—— (appears under the Abbasides), 81

Ubi aves ibi angeli, 280

Ukhuwán = camomile, 58

Urine (pollutes), 229

Urining (wiping after), _ib._

Ushári = camel travelling ten days, 67

Wa ba'ad (see Ammá ba'ad, vol. ii. 37) = and afterwards, 181

Waddle of "Arab ladies", 37

Wády = valley; slayer, 234

Waist (slender, hips large), 278

Walahán (Lakab of a poet = The distracted), 226

Walgh = lapping of a dog, 319

Walíd (Al-) Caliph, 69

Wálidati = my mother, speaking to one not of the family, 208

Wárid = resorting to the water, 56

Wasíf = servant; fem. wasífah = concubine, 171

Wásik (Al-), Caliph, 81

Waters flowing in Heaven, 65

Wayl-ak = Woe to thee, 82

Week-days (only two names for), 249

Weeping (not for form and face alone), 318

Wives (why four, _see_ Women), 212

—— (a man's tillage), 304

What happened, happened = fortune so willed it, 68

Wine (a sun with cup-bearer for East and the drinker's mouth for West), 263

Wolf (wicked man); fox (cunning man), 132

Women (peculiar waddle), 37

—— (proposing extreme measures), 39

—— (are tinder, men fire), 59

—— (monkish horror of), 126

—— (Layla, name of), 135

—— (true seducers), 166

—— (Wálidati = my mother), 208

—— (four wives, and why), 212

—— (compared to an inn), 216

—— (large hips and thighs), 226

—— (small fine foot), 227

—— (names of), 239, 263

—— (more passionate than men), 241

—— (head must always be kept covered), 275

—— (slender-waisted but full of hips, etc.), 278

—— (Sodomy with), 304

—— (all charges laid upon them), 335

Words (divided in a couplet), 166

Writing without fingers = being unable to answer for what is written, 181

Yá Abú Libdah = O father of a felt calotte, 62

Yá Abú Sumrah = O father of brownness, 40

Yá fulán = O certain person, 191

Yá Sátir, Yá Sattár = O veiler (of sins), 41

Yá Taljí = O snowy one, 40

Yaum al-tanádí = Resurrection Day, 74

Zabbál = dung-drawer, etc., 51

Zakar (penis) = that which betokens masculinity, 3

Zamiyád = guardian angel of Bihisht, _see_ Rizwán, 20, 233

Zanab Sirhán (wolf's tail) = early dawn, 146

Zarrat (vulg. Durrah) = co-wife, sister-wife, 308

Zebra (daughter of Sa'adah), 65

Zibl = dung, 51

Zibl Khán = Le Roi Crotte, 99

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