Index.
LAjowARD, see Lazuward
Lamiyat = poem rhyming in L
Layali = nights, future, fate .
Layla (female Pr. N.)
(wa Majnun, love poem) .
Lazuward =: lapis lazuli, azure
Letters and letter-writing
Libdah {skull-cap of felt) sign of
religious mendicant
Lisam = mouth-veil
Liver (for heart)
Lizzai al-Nisa (erotic poem)
Love (pure, becomes prophetical)
(the ear conceiveth it before the
eye)
(ten stages of)
(martyrs of) .
(platonic, see vol. ii. 104) .
— — (ousting affection) .
Lovers in Laza (hell) as well as
Na'lm (heaven)
(parting of, a stock-topic in
poetry ....
Lukman (two of the name)
Ma'an bin ZAidah
Mahriyah (Mehari) = blood-drome
dary ....
Majlis = sitting (to a woman) .
Majnun (A1-) = the mad
Malik (door-keeper of Hell)
Malik (king) taken as title
Man (extract of despicable water)
(is fire, woman tinder)
— (shown to disadvantage
beast-stories)
^— (his destiny written on his skull)
(pre-eminence above women)
Maniyat = death ; muniyat = desire
Marba' = summer quarters
Maijan = Coral-branch (slave-name)
Marriage (if consummated demands
Ghusl) . . . . .
Married men profit nothing
Martyrs of love ....
Maiwazi =: of Marw (Margiana)
Marz-ban = Warden of the Marches,
Margrave . . . . .
Md shaa 'llah (as Allah willeth) =
weU done !
Matr =: large vessel of leather or
wood
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Maurid = desert- well and road to
such
Mercy (quality of the noble Arab)
Minaret (simile for a fair young girl)
Miracles (disclaimed by Mohammed
but generally believed in) .
Mirage = Sarab
Mohammed ("bom with Kohl'd
eyes") ....
Moon masc, Sun fem.
Moore (Thomas, anticipated) .
Morality (geographical and chrono
logical) . . . ,.
(want of, excused by pas-
sion)
Morning-draught
Mountain, coming from the = being
a clod-hopper
sit upon the ■=■ turn anchorite
Mourning, perfumes not used during
Mu'atasim (A1-) bi'llah (Caliph)
Mu'awiyah (his Moses-like "mild
ness ")....
Muharramat (the three forbidden
things) ....
Mujahid (A1-) = fighter in Holy
War . . . » .
Mujahidun = who wage war against
infidels ....
Mukhammas = cinquains .
Mulberry-fig (for anus) .
Murjiyy (sect and tenets)
NAfilah = supererogatory Koran
recitation ....
Na'lm (name for Heaven)
Naml (ant) simile for a young beard
Nizir = eye or steward . .
Night (and day, not day and night
with the Arabs) .
cap
" this " = our " last " .
for day ....
Nizimi (Persian Poet)
Nuptial sheet (inspection of the)
Nur al-Huda (Pr. N. = Light of
Guidance) . . .- .
O Camphor (antiphrase = O snow
ball)
Oftentimes the ear loveth before the
eye
