Supplemental Nights to the Book of the Thousand and One Nights — Volume 2 (of 6)
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Supplemental Nights to the Book of the Thousand and One Nights — Volume 2 (of 6)
Fairy tales; Tales -- Arab countries
—— be the judge between me and thee, 52.
—— decreed of old, 90.
—— “Enter in the name of” = Bismillah, 38.
—— Gifted of, 200.
—— I look to, for aid, 202.
—— is All-great, 125.
—— “I seek refuge with” _i.e._, Allah forfend, 9.
—— made easy to me, 53.
—— Men, who resign themselves to = _i.e._, Moslems who practice the
Religion of Resignation, 271.
Allah open to thee the door of subsistence, 44.
—— removed to the mercy of = he died, 78.
—— Take refuge with, from the Evil eye of her charms, 245.
—— This is the deposit of, then thy deposit = “I commit him to thy
charge under God,” 184.
—— whom Allah save and assain, 173.
Allah ya’tík = Allah will give it thee, not I, 44.
“A mighty matter” may also mean “A masterful man” (reading Imraam = man
for Amran = matter), 204.
Amín al-Hukm = “Faithful of Command,” 7.
’Anbar (_tr._ “Ambergris”), 67.
’Anká (Al-) = _lit._ “The long-necked” (bird), 128.
“Après moi le déluge,” 123.
Arab lovers jealous of their mistresses’ nightly phantom, 179.
Arab, of noble tribe, always first to mount his own mare, 248.
Arja’ = _lit._ return (_tr._ “desist”), 105.
Arzi-há = in its earth, its outlying suburbs (_tr._ “environs”), 198.
Ashírah = clan, 225.
At her last breath, when cured by the magic of love, 243.
Atwash (Al-) = one notable for levity of mind, 16.
A’zán-hú = _lit._ “its ears” (_tr._ “its pegs”), 159.
Aznání = emaciated one, 214.
Bahár = ox-eye herb, 13.
Bakar (Ox) and Taur (Bull), Moslem emblems of stupidity, 178.
Balass ruby = of rare wood set with rubies, 251.
Balát = the flags (slabs of limestone and sandstone), 21.
Baliyah = bane and bale (to jingle with “Bábiliyah”), 153.
Banát al-hawá = _lit._ daughters of love (_tr._ “a merry girl”), 137.
Banú Shaybán = the King’s own tribe, 199.
Barári = deserts, 16.
Barber, the usual operator in circumcision, 116.
Bashkhánah (Al-) = the curtain, 165.
Bathing after copulation kept up by both sexes in ancient Rome, 142.
Bí-adabí = being without Adab (= rudeness, etc.), 68.
Bibars (_pron._ “Baybars”), 3.
Bid’ah = _lit._ an innovation, a new thing (_tr._ “accursed custom”),
266.
Bi jildi ’l-bakar = a cow hide, 96.
“Bilád al-Maghrib (al-Aksa” in full) = the Farthest Land of the Setting
Sun (_tr._ “Sundown-Land”), 252.
Bishr and Hind (two well-known lovers), 211.
“Bismillah” = Enter in the name of Allah, 38.
“Bismillah; in the name of the Lord” = “Let us go,” etc., 85.
Blackening faces a promise of Hell-fire, 42.
Blood-feuds troublesome to travellers, 222.
Bráhmani = Hindu, Indian, 111.
Branchlet = a youth’s slender form, 162.
Breslau Ed. quoted, 3, 54, 55, 63, 67, 151, 183, 191, 259, 263, 275.
Bridegroom offers coffee and Halwá to friends after a “happy night,”
142.
Brutality of a Moslem mob, 168.
Bukhti = The Bactrian or double-humped dromedary, 235.
Bunduki (adj. of Bunbuk) = Venetian, 204.
Burka’ = the face veil of Egypt, etc., 172.
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