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Alf Laylah iva Laylak,

Barid (cold = silly, contemptible,

foolish) ....

Bashik (small sparrow-hawk) .

Bath (first after sickness) .

Bizi (Pers. Baz) = F. peregrinator

hawk, falcon

Beard (long, and short wits) .

- (forked, characteristic of

Persian) ....

Beast-stories (oldest matter in The

Nights) ....

Beauties of nature provoke hunger in

Orientals ....

Bhang (properties of the drug) .

Bilad al-Suddn = Land of the black

(our Soudan)

Bilal (benefits), name of Mohammed'

Muazzin. ....

Bint 'ariis = daughter of the bride

groom (Ichneumon) .

Birds denote the neighbourhood of a

village ....

Bismillah (Bi 'Smi 'llah = in the

name of God, etc.)

Blaze {see Ghurrah) ....

Boasting of one's tribe (see Renown

ing it) ... .

Bostin (female Pr. N.) = flower

garden ....

Braying of the ass .

Brothers of Purity . •

■ of ignorance rr: Ignoramus

Brotherhood (forms of making)

Bruising the testicles a feminine mode

of murdering men . .

Budiir (Badoura) =: full moons

Bukhti (two-humped camel) .

 

Caliphs Tai li 'llah . -Si; 307

Walid (A1-) .... 69

Mu'atasim bi 'llah . . 81

Wasik (Al.) . . . ib.

■ Abd al-Malik bin Marwan . 319

Ali . . . . . ii>.

- Mu'awiyah .... id.

Camels (breeds of) . . . 67; no

■ (names) . • . .110

■ (haltered, nose-ring used for

dromedaries) . . . .120

■ (Mehari, Mahriyah) . . 277

Camphor (simile for a fair face) . 1 74

Carat = Kirit .... 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 = Kubkab .... 92

Coition (postures of) • • • 93

Cold-of-countenance = a fool . . 7

Cold speech =: a silly or abusive tirade id.

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) . . lia

Dara' (dira) ^ habergeon, coat of

ring-mall, 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 .... 3'S

Dromedary {see Camel).

(guided by a nose-ring) . 120

Dunya (P. N.) =: world . . 7 ; 319

Durrah (vulg. for Zarrat g.v.).

 

Easterns sleep with covered heads . 345

Eating together makes friends . . 71

Egyptian ( = archi-) polissonnerie . 243

Euphemy . 68; I02 ; 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 Jioo) # 235