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
Pummel of the saddle, 85.
Quarters, containing rooms in which girls are sold, 71.
Queen Shu’á’ah = Queen Sunbeam, 107.
“Quench that fire for him” (_i.e._ hush up the matter), 15.
Raas Ghanam = a head of sheep (form of expressing singularity common to
Arabic), 207.
Raba’ = _lit._ spring quarters (_tr._ “a lodging house”), 19.
Rasílah = a (she) partner (_tr._ “accompanyist”), 44.
Rayhánah, _i.e._ the “Basil,” mostly a servile name, 20.
Red Camel (Ahmar), 248.
Rikkí al-Saut = soften the sound (or “lower thy voice”), 89.
Rúhí = _lit._ my breath (_tr._ “my sprite”), 120.
Rustaki, from Rustak, a quarter of Baghdah, 209.
Saff Kamaríyát min al-Zujáj = glazed and coloured lunettes, 39.
Sahbá = red wine, 99.
Sáhils, or shore-lands, 3.
Sákiyah = water-wheel, 47.
Sammár = reciters, 3.
Santír = psalteries, 246.
Sat down (in sign of agitation), 211.
Sawákí = channels, 93.
Severance-spies = stars and planets, 236.
Shahrazad and Shahryar, 259.
Shaking his clothes (in sign of quitting possession), 205.
Sharárah = a spark, 87.
Sharí’at, forbidding divorce by compulsion, 147.
Sharifí = a sequin, 143.
Sharkíyah (province in Egypt), 16.
Sharr fi al-Haramayn = wickedness in the two Holy Places, 220.
Shawáhid (meaning that heart testifies to heart) _tr._ “hearts have
their witnesses,” 87.
Shaybání (Al-) = “Of the Shaybán tribe,” 191, 199.
Shaykh al-Hujjáj = Shaykh of the Pilgrims, 63.
“Shaykh al-Tawaif” may mean “Shaykh of the Tribes” (of Jinns), 117.
Shayyan li ’lláh = _lit._ (Give me some) Thing for (the love of) Allah
(_tr._ “An alms, for the love of Allah”), 44.
Sházz = Voice (doubtful if girl’s, nightingale’s, or dove’s), 244.
“She heard a blowing behind her” (a phenomena well known to
spiritualists), 101.
“She will double thy store of presents,” 111.
Shuhbá (Al-) = Ash-coloured, verging upon white, 110.
Sídí = “my lord” (here becomes part of a name), 151.
Sijn al-Dam = the Prison of Blood, 161.
Sim’án-son = son of Simeon, _i.e._ a Christian, 175.
Singing and music blameable (Makrúh), though not actually damnable, 46.
Sir fi hálik (_pron._ Sirfhák) = Go about thy business, 44.
Sirr (a secret), afterwards Kitmán (concealment) = keeping a lover
down-hearted, 218.
Sitt al-Miláh = Lady or princess of the Fair (ones), 155.
Slaves fond of talking over their sale, 94.
Sons of Adam = his Moslem neighbours, 30.
Sons of the Path = Travellers, Nomads, Wild Arabs, 213.
“Son of the Road” = a mere passer-by, a stranger, 235.
“Spoiling for a fight,” 199.
“Squeezed my ribs,” a bear-like attack, common amongst lower orders of
Egypt and Syria, 47.
Sunnah and Farz = The practice (of the Prophet) and the Holy Law
(Koranic), 10.
Surah = Koranic chapter; here possibly clerical error for Súrah—sort
(of food), 173.
Súsan = the lily (in Heb.), 116.
Swooper of the Jinn, 202.
Táb = “tip-cat,” 54.
Táf (Al-) a suburb of Baghdah, 71.
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Supplemental Nights to the Book of the Thousand and One Nights — Volume 2 (of 6) — John Shaqi
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