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Alf Laylah wa Laylah,

Wives (why four, see Women) .

. (a man's tillage) .

What happened, happened = fortune

so willed it ....

Wine (a sun with cup-bearer for East

and the drinker's mouth for West)

Wolf (wicked man) ; fox (cunning

man) . . . . •

Women (peculiar waddle) ' .

(proposing extreme measures

— (are tinder, men fire) .

• (monkish horror of)

(Laylah, name of)

(true seducers)

(Walidati=: my mother)

(four wives, and why) .

(compared to an inn)

(large hips and thighs)

(small fine foot) .

. (names of) . • . 239

(more passionate than men)

(head must always be kept

covered) . . . • .

. (slender-waisted but full of

hips, etc.)

(Sodomy with)

. (all charges laid upon them) .


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Words (divided in a couplet) . . 166

Writing without fingers = being un-

able to answer for what is written 181

YA Astj LiBDAH = O father of a felt

calotte 62

Yd Abu Sumrah = O father of

brown ness .... 40

Ya fulan = O certain person . . 19I

Ya Satir, Ya Sattar = O veiler (of

sins) 41

Ya Talji = O snowy one . . 40

Yaum al-tanadi = Resurrection Day 74

ZabbAl = dung-drawer, etc. .

Zakar (penis) ■=■ that which betokens

masculinity ....

Zamiyad =: guardian angel of Bihisht,

see Rizwan . . . . 20 ;

Zanab Sirhan (wolfs tail) = early

dawn .....

Zarrat (vulg. Durrah) = co-wife,

sister-wife

Zebra (daughter of Sa'adah; .

Zibl = dung

Zibl Khan = Le Roi Crotte .

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