INDEX.

Abbás = the grim-faced, 138
Abd al-Kádir of Gilán (founder of the Kádiri order), 41
Abd al-Malik bin Marwán (Caliph), 7
Abdullah bin Abí Kilábah, 113
Abdullah bin Málik al-Khuzá´i, 181
Abraham (Place or stone of), 148
Abu al-Muzaffir = Father of the Conqueror, 166
Abu Nowas (Pr. N. = father of the side-locks), 55; 264
Abu Hassán al-Ziyádi, 258
Abu Yúsuf (the Lawyer), 153
Adam’s loins, 111
Adi (son of Hátim al-Táyyí), 95
Adl = just (ironically), 271
Adm (Udm) = any relish, 128
Ahmad al-Danaf (Pr. N. = Calamity-Ahmad), 75
Akkám = cameleer, caravan-manager, 40
Alá al-Din (Aladdin) Glory of the Faith, 29; 33
Aláma = alá-má = upon what? wherefore, 201
Alast (day of), 111
Al Dáud (David’s family), 50
Alfi = one who costs a thousand, 225
Ali al-Zabak (Pr. N. = Mercury Ali), 75
Alif-like stature, 249
Ali Shar (Pr. N.), 187
Allah (His name pronounced against the evil eye), 34
Allah (swearing by, forbidden), 175
—— is all-knowing (= I don’t know), 283
Amáim (pl. of Imámah) = turbands, 100
Amín (Al-) = the Trusted of Allah, 261
Amír and Samúl = Jones, Brown and Robinson, 106
Amrú (pronounced Amr) and Zayd = Tom, Dick or Harry, 2
Ana fí jírat-ak = I crave thy intercession (useful phrase), 83
Anbár (pronounced Ambár), town on the Euphrates, 152
Antar (Romance quoted), 41
Antiochus and Stratonice, 10
Apple(-wine), 134
—— (many a goodly one rotten at the core), 187
Ark al-Haláwat = vein of sweetness, sugar stick, for penis, 51
Armaníyah (Armenia), 182
Arm-pits (taking a dismounting person under the, a sign of respect), 24
Artál (see Rotl)
Asídah (custard, pap), 37
Aslán (Pr. N. probably for Arslán = lion), 78
Asma´i (Al-), author of Antar, 159
Aun (of Jinns, etc.), 88
Awwádah = a lute-player, 142
Ayat (Coranic verset, sign, miracle), ib.
Ayyás (Issus of Cilicia), 76
Báb al Lúk (of Fustát), 259
Báb al Salám (of the Al-Medínah Mosque), 288
Babes of the eyes, 246
Baboon (Kird), has a natural penchant for women, 297
Badawi (bluntness and plain-speaking of), 102
Badrah = 10,000 dirhams, 281
Baháim (pl. of Bahímah = Behemoth) applied to cattle, 54
Bahramáni = Brahman, 101
Bakh Bakh! = well done!, 121
Bandage eyes (before beheading), 145
Banquets (royal), 212
—— (daintily devised), 226
Banú Isráíl, 283
—— Shaybán (Badawi tribe), 233
Barsh (Bars), commonest form of Bhang, 31
Bath, coming out of, shows that consummation has taken place, 244
Bawd (admirably portrayed), 4
Bean-eating in Egypt, 160
“Ben” of an Arab shop as opposed to the “but”, 93
Bestiality (fatally common amongst Egyptians), 299
Bhang (preparation of), 31
—— (drugging with = tabannuj), 71
Bier the (bulging = Hadbá), 63
Birkah = pool of standing water, 270
Black-mail (paid to the Badawin of Ramlah), 76
Blue-eyed (frequently = fierce-eyed), 192
Boccaccio quoted, 36
Body-guard (consists of two divisions), 62
Bread and Salt (to be taken now “cum grano salis”), 200
Breeze (rude but effective refrigerator), 199
“Brother of the Persians”, 12
Brow (like Nún), 249
Budúr = moons, 249
Buka´at al-Dam = place of blood (where it stagnates), 68
Burckhardt (fable anent his death), 78
Cairo (see Misr).
—— (Chaff), 215
—— (Slang), 75
Calligraphy, 196
Camel-slaughtering (Nahr), 95
Capo bianco, Coda verde, 36
Catamites (rising to highest rank in Turkey), 225
—— (in Turkish baths), 226
Chastity (merchandise in trust from Allah), 43
Child of the nurse, etc. = delicately reared, 34
China (kingdom), 175
Chinese Shadows, 193
Cider (Arab. Sharáb al-Tuffáh), 134
City of Brass (Copper), 176
Claimant of blood-revenge, 109
—— and Defendant, 150
Cloth of frieze and cloth of gold, 145
Clothes (tattered, sign of grief), 158
Consul (Shah-bandar), 29
—— (Kunsul), 84
Cowrie (shells, etc., for small change), 77
Crenelles = Sharáríf, 165
Crow-claw and Camel-hoof, 217
Cutting bones before flesh = “sharp as a razor”, 295
Dalak = footrasp, 254
Danaf (Al-) = the Distressing Sickness, 75
Darb al-Asfar = the Street called Yellow, 93
Darr al-Káil = divinely he spoke who said, 20
Darrij = Let them slide, 220
Deity of the East despotic, 118
—— after the fashion of each race, 267
Depilation (Solomon and Bilkís), 256
Dinghy (Kárib), 168
Divining-rod (dowsing-rod), 73
Dogs (clothed in hot-damp countries), 266
Dream (Speaker in a), 239
Dress (Scarlet of a King in anger), 72
Drop (black, of the heart), 251
Drunk (with one’s own beauty), 34
Dukhúl = going in to the bride, 30
Durká’ah = lower part of the floor (opposed to Liwán), 71
Eating (gives rights of guestship), 214
—— (superstitious belief in its power), 218
Efendi (Turkish title = our esquire), 53
Egyptian vulgarism, 107
—— characteristic, 260
Embracing (like the Lám embraceth the Alif), 243
Emerald (white?), 164
Eunuchs (driving the people out of a lady’s way), 126
—— (who have studied the Harím), 228
Euphemy (announcing death), 61
—— (thou shalt die), 90
—— (all is well), 138
—— (the far one is a Nazarene), 215
Exaggeration characteristic of The Nights, 273
Eye (the Evil) on children, 37
—— (babes of the), 246
Eyes (bandaged before beheading), 145
—— (blue), 192
—— (one-eyed men), 194
Faces (on the day of Judgment), 249
Far off one (the, shall die), 90
Farkh Akrab (vulgarism for Ukayrib) = a young scorpion, 46
Farsakh = parasang, 230
Fat and Thin (dispute between), 254
Fátihah (the opening chapter of the Koran), 36
Firmán = Wazirial order, 61
Fí sabíli ´llahi = on Allah’s path (martyrdom), 247
Flatulence produced by bean-eating, 160
Food (partaken gives rights of protection), 214
—— (superstitious belief in its power), 218
Freewill (and the Korán), 275
Friends weeping when they meet after long parting, 26
—— (“damned ill-natured” ones), 137
Fulán = Fulano, a certain person, 278
Furkán = Koran, 90
Futúh (openings, victories), 51
Ghabah = a copse, 40
Gháshiyah = étui, scabbard; sleeved cloak, 131
Ghuráb al-Bayn = raven of parting, 52
Gold (different names of, required by Arabic rhetoric), 97
Goody goody preachments, 187
Gong (Mudawwarah), 135
Hábáb (Habá) = motes, 257
Habzalam (Pr. N. = seed of tyranny; “Absalom”?), 66
Hadbá (the bulging bier), 63
Hadís = tradition of the Prophet, 207
Hair-dyes (Mohammed), 194
Hájj (or Háji, not Hajji), 215
Hajjáj (Al-) bin Yúsuf, Governor, of Al-Hijáz and Al-Irák, 3
Hajjám = barber-surgeon, cupper, bleeder, 112
Haláwah = sweetmeat, 60
Hákim (Al-) bi-Amri ´llah, 296
Hand (left, how used), 129
—— (white, symbol of generosity; black of niggardness), 185
—— (his for her), 279
Harím (double entendre = Harem and Honour), 98
—— (= wife), 126
—— (hot-bed of Sapphism and Tribadism), 234
Harrák (ship = Carrack?), 130
Hasan bin Sahl (Wazir of Al-Maamún), 124
Hasab = quantity, opposed to Nasab = birth, 171
Hásid = an envier, 137
Hátim of Tayy (proverbial for Liberality), 94
Hazramaut (Hazarmaveth), 118
Heart (black drop in), 256
Heaven (Na´ím), 143
Hell (Sa´ír), ib.
—— (cold as well as hot), 253
Hibál = ropes, 193
Homme acheté = de bonne famille, 225
Húd (prophet = Heber?), 118
Hurák = tinder, 108
Hurry (in a newly married couple indecent), 244
Hurúf al-Mutabbakát = the flattened sounds, 223
“I told you so” (even more common in East than West), 69
Ibrahím bin al-Mahdi (Pretender to the Caliphate), 103
Ibrahím al-Mosili, 108
Imám (The Seventh = Caliph Al-Maamún), 111
—— (the fugleman at the prayer-niche), 227
Imámah = turband, 100
Inconsequence (of the Author of The Nights), 155
Infirmity (and infirm letters), 243
Inscriptions (on trays, plates, etc.), 235
Inshallah = D.V., 286
Insomnia (curious treatment of), 229
Irádah = Sultan’s order, 61
Iram (the Many-columned), 113
Irony, 271
Irreverence (Egyptian), 47
Isaac (Ishák) of Mosul, 119
Ishmael (place of his sacrifice), 75
Istinjá = washing the fundament after stool, 129
Ja’afar the Barmecide (mode of his death), 159
—— (river or rivulet), 292
Jabal al-Tárik = Gibraltar, 100
Jacob’s daughters, 14
Jawán (Pr. N.; Pers. = youth, juvenis), 208
Job (a Syrian), 221
“Joyance is three things,” etc., 254
Jufún = eyebrows or eyelashes, 260
Jugular vein (from —— to ——), 92
Justice (poetical, not done), 28
Juzám = leprosy, 51
Ka’ab al-Ahbár (of the Scribes, two of the name), 115
Ka’abah (Pilgrim clinging to its curtain), 125
Kabbázah = a “holding woman”, 227
Kahirah = City of Mars (Cairo), 271
Kahramán (Pers.) = braves, heroes, 115
Kallá = prorsus non, 257
Kaptán = Capitano, 85
Kara Gyuz (see Khiyál).
Kárib (pl. Kawárib) = dinghy, 168
Karúrah = bottle for urine, 11
Kasa’ah = wooden bowl, porringer, 283
Kasri (Al-) Governor of the two Iraks, 155
Katá = sand-grouse, 111
Kátala-k Allah = Allah strike thee dead (facetiously), 264; 265
Katíl = the Irish “kilt”, 139
Kausar (river of Paradise), 196
Kawárib (see Kárib).
Kazdír = Skr. Kastíra (Tin), 274
Kerchief (shaking and throwing the), 62
Khalí’a = a wag, a wicked wit, 229
Khammárah = wine-shop, tavern, “hotel”, 79
Khátún (Turk. Lady), 66
Khayr = good news by euphemy, 138
Khayzarán = rattan-palm, 255
Khizr (the Green Prophet), 175
Khiyál (Chinese shadows), 193
Khuff = walking-boot, 107
Khumásiyah = five feet high, 191
Kíl wa Kál = it was said and he said (chit-chat), 207
King (dressing in scarlet when wroth), 72
Kirámát = Saints’ miracles, 45
Kird = baboon, 297
Kishk (Kashk) = porridge, 214
Kissing (names for), 259
Kohl (he would steal it off the eye-ball = a very expert thief), 68
Koran quoted (xxv. 70), 5
—— (xii. 84, 93, 96; xvi.), 14
—— (opening chapter), 36
—— (xiii. 14), 43
—— (chapter Yá Sín), 50
—— (xvii. 84), 80
—— (xlix., Inner Apartments), 102
—— (xvi. 112), ib.
—— (xii. 92), 111
—— (lxxxix. 6-7), 115
—— (iii. 178), 156
—— (xvi.), 174
—— (ii. 224), 175
—— (xxi. 38), 244
—— (iii. 103; vii. 105; xxvii. 12), 249
—— (cxiv. 1), 251
—— (ii. 26), 254
—— (ii. 64; xxvii.), 256
—— (xvii. 62; xxxvii. 16), 259
—— (xli. 46), 275
Kúfah (Al-) founded by Omar, 1
—— (revolutionary spirit of), 3
Kumkum (cucurbite, gourd-shaped vessel), 68; 178
Kumm = sleeve, used as a bag, 107
Kunyat = patro- or matro-nymic, 287
Kunsul = Consul, 84
Kús (town in Upper Egypt), 276
Kussá’a = curling cucumber, 98
Lá baas bi-zálik = there is no harm in that, 164
Labtayt (Pr. N. = Toledo), 99
Lane quoted, 2; 55; 63; 66; 84; 95; 96; 107; 110; 124; 136; 160; 164; 171; 181; 187; 189; 191; 196; 199; 200; 202; 204; 205; 209; 212; 214; 219; 222; 228; 231; 233; 244; 254; 268; 271; 273; 279; 287; 297.
Lasm (Lathm) = kissing the lower face, 259
Leprosy (thickens voice), 50
—— (shows first at the wrist), 51
Letter (model specimen), 57
Liberality (men proverbial for their), 96
Life (by the, of thy youth) oath of women, 49
—— (cheap in hot countries), 275
Light-worshipers (are liars), 252
Li’lláhi darru-ka = the Lord has been copious to thee, 20
Liwán = Al-Aywán, 71
Love (martyrs of), 205
—— (clairvoyance), 238
—— (excess of), ib.
Lúk-Gate (proverb referring to), 259
Lumà = dark hue of the inner lips, 251
Lutf (servile name = elegance, delicacy), 232
Maamun (Al-), Caliph, 109
Ma’an bin Záidah (Pr. N. of a generous Arab), 96
Ma’áni-há (her meanings = her inner woman), 146
Madinát al-Nabi (Al-Medinah) = City of the Prophet, 114
Madness (there is a pleasure in), 204
Maka’ad = sitting-room, 78
Malik (Al-) al-Násir = the conquering King, 271
Man (handsomer than woman), 15
Mansúr al-Nimri (poet), 179
Martyrs (of love), 205
Martyrdom, 247
Mashá’ilí = cresset-bearer, for public crier, hangman, 61
Maukab (Al-) = Procession-day, 287
Mauz = Musa (Banana), 201
“May thy life be prolonged”, 62
Melancholy (chronic under the brightest skies), 239
Men (is there a famine of) = are men so few?, 295
Mikashshah = broom, 208
Mikbas (pot of lighted charcoal), 246
Military and Police sneered at, 270
Milk, white as, opposed to black as mud, 140
Mím-like mouth, 249
Mind (one by vinegar, another by wine = each goes its own way), 72
Minínah = biscuit, 86
Misr (vulg. Masr) = Egypt, 29
Mohammed (his uncles), 22
—— (traditional saying of), 35
—— (cleanses the Ka’abah of idols), 80
—— (on dying the hair, etc.), 194
—— (on lovers), 205
—— (on his being seen in sleep), 287
—— (places the “black stone”), 261
Mole on cheek (black as Bilál), 142
Monoculars (rascals), 194
Moon-faced (not absurd), 192
Moon (masculine), 261
Mountain (the, at Cairo), 294
Mountains (the pegs of the earth), 174
Mudawwarah (a gong?), 135
Muhallil (see Mustahall).
Mukaddam (Anglo-Indicè Mucuddum) = overseer, 42
Munkasir (broken) = languid, 195
Musámarah = chatting at night, 237
Mustahall (Mustahill) = one who marries a thrice divorced woman and divorces her to make her lawful for her first husband, 48
Mutawakkil (Al-), Caliph, 291
Muwallad = a slave born in a Moslem land, 291
Muwashshah (stanza), 54
Myrtle-bush = young beard, 143
Nafísah (great-grand-daughter of the Imám Hasan), 46
Nahás = brass, 178
—— (asfar = brass; ahmar = copper), 230
Nahr = slaughtering a camel by stabbing, 95
Na’ím = Heaven, 143
Nauroz = new (year’s) day, 244
Negro (Legend of his origin), 250
Negrofied races like “walking tun-butts”, 255
Ni’amat = a blessing, 1
Nisáb (Al-), smallest sum for stealing which the hand is mutilated, 157
Nún-like brow, 249
Nymphomania (ascribed to worms in the vagina), 298
Oath (kept to the letter), 70
Obayd ibn Táhir (Under-Prefect of Baghdad), 291
One-eyed men considered rascals, 194
Pashas’ (agents for bribery in Constantinople), 183
Payne quoted, 50; 66; 197; 221; 222
Peccadillo in good old days (murder), 275
Penis = Ark al-Haláwat, 51
—— (correspondence of size), 52
Person (Arabic Shakhs), 97
Pharaoh (signs to), 249
Pilgrimage quoted (i. 75-77), 6
—— (i. 285; ii. 78), 36
—— (iii. 306), 75
—— (i. 123), 78
—— (iii. 295), 80
—— (iii. 303), 95
—— (ii. 119), 114
—— (i. 213), 115
—— (iii. 156, 162, 216, 220), 125
—— (iii. 168, 174, 175), 148
—— (ii. 329), 254
—— (iii. 192), 261
—— (i. 43), 293
Pistachio-nut (tight-fitting shell of), 216
Plain-speaking of the Badawi, 102
Plural of Majesty, 156
Polissonnerie (Egyptian), 226
Porcelain (not made in Egypt or Syria), 164
Pride of beauty intoxicates, 34
Procès verbal (customary with Moslems), 73
Property (of the heirless lapses to the Treasury), 62
Pun, 258
Rabelaisian humour of the richest, 152
Ráfizi = denier, Shí’ah, 44
Rag (burnt, used as styptic), 108
Ráh = pure old wine, 186
Rakb = fast-going caravan, 254
Ráshid (Pasha, etc.), 202
Rasúl = one sent, “apostle,” not prophet, 284
Raven of the waste or the parting, 52
Rayy (old capital of Media), 104
Red dress (sign of wrath), 72
Repentance (a strong plea for granting aid with a Moslem), 277
Rings in the East, 24
Rizwán = Moslem St. Peter, 195
Rod (divining or “dowsing”), 73
Rotl (pl. Artál) = rotolo, pound-weight, 124
Roum = Græco-Roman Empire, 100
Rustam (not Rustum or Rustem), 219
Sabá = Biblical Sheba, 113
Sáhib (Wazirial title), 139
Sa’ír = Hell, 143
Sakatí = second-hand dealer, 77
Sakká (Anglo-Indian Bihishti) = water-carrier, 44
Salát (blessing, prayer), 60
Salím (Pr. N. = the “Safe and Sound”), 58
Salsabíl (fountain in Paradise), 195
Samharí = lance of Samhar (place or maker), 258
Samn = melted butter, Ghi, 53
Samúr (applied to cats and dogs, also to Admiral Seymour), 57
Sapphism (practised in wealthy Haríms), 234
Sara’ (epilepsy, falling sickness, possession), 89
Sarráf = money-changer (Shroff), 270
Saudá = black bile, melancholia, 251
Separation (spoken of as a defilement), 211
Sévigné of pearls, 249
Shah-bandar = lord of the port (Consul), 29
Shár, Sher and Shír, 187
Sharáb al-Tuffáh = cider, 134
Sharáríf = trefoil-shaped crenelles, 165
Sharíf = a descendant of Mohammed, 170
“Short and thick is never quick”, 194
Shuumán = a pestilent fellow, 75
Sifr = whistling, 206
Signet-rings, 24
Signs (to Pharaoh), 249
Sikankúr = Σκίγκος (see Aphrodisiacs), 32
Sinning (for the pleasure of being pardoned), 111
Sirát (Al-), the bridge of Hell, 223
Slapping on the nape of neck = “boxing the ears”, 193
Sleeper and Waker (Tale of the), 96
Sleeplessness (contrivance against), 228
Smile (like Mím), 249
Squatting against a wall, 119
Stature (Alif-like), 249
Street (the, called Yellow), 93
—— (watering), 107
Stuff his mouth with jewels (reward for poetry), 103
—— a dead man’s mouth with cotton, 193
Su’adá = Beatrice, 267
Suffah = “sofa” (shelf), 275
Sujúd = prostration, 248
Suláfah = ptisane of wine, 258
Sumr = brown, black, 251
Sunní (versus Shí’ah, see Ráfizí), 82
Swearing (by Allah forbidden), 175
Sweetmeat of Safety, 60
Sword (making invisible), 176
Syene (town on the Nile), 152
Tabannuj = drugging with Bhang, 71
Tabban lahu = perdition to him, 142
Takaddum and Takádum (difference between), 171
Tárik (Jabal al-) = Gibraltar, 100
Taufík (P.N.) = causing to be prosperous, 1
Taylasán (turband worn by a preacher), 286
Tayy (noble Arab tribe), 94
Thakilata-k Ummak = be thy mother bereaved of thee, 156
Thank you (Eastern equivalent), 6
Thirst (affecting plea; why?), 199
Tin (Kazdír), 274
Tinder (a styptic), 108
Torrens quoted, 187; 189; 235; 236
Treasures (enchanted in some one’s name and nature), 296
Trébutien quoted, 268
Tribadism, 234
Truth prevailing, falsehood failing, 80
Túfán (Typhoon, etc.), 156
Tufayl (proverbial intruder), 123
Turband (white, distinctive of Moslems), 214
Udm (see Adm)
Ukáb = eagle, vulture, 177
Ukayl (Akíl?), 22
Unguium fulgor, 252
Vellication, 256
Voice (thickened by leprosy), 50
Wada’a (see Cowrie), 77
Waggid (Hebr. speaker in a dream), 289
Wailing over the past, 239
Wakíl = agent (see Pashas), 182
Walid (Al-) bin Abd al-Malik, Caliph, 100
Wardán (a Fellah name, also of a village), 293
Waríd (jugular vein), 92
Water (sight of running, makes a Persian long for strong drink), 75
Watering the streets, 107
Waybah = 6 to 7 English gallons, 86
Whistling (Sifr), 206
White as milk (opposed to black as mud, etc.), 140
—— hand (symbol of generosity, etc.), 185
—— turband (distinctive of Moslems), 214
—— hand of Moses (sign to Pharaoh), 249
—— and black faces on the day of Judgment, ib.
Woman (old bawd), 4
—— (names), 12
—— (less handsome than man), 15
—— (walk and gait), 16
—— (bride night), 30
—— (oath of a), 49
—— (insolence of princesses), 145
—— (inner, her meanings), 146
Woman (answering question by counter-question), 148
—— (Abyssinian famous as “holders”), 227
—— (slave name), 232
—— (intercourse between), 234
—— (white-skinned supposed to be heating and unwholesome), 253
Writer of The Nights careless, 155
Writing (styles of), 196
Yá Ma’ashar al-Muslimín = Ho! Moslems, 149
Yá Nasráni = O Nazarene, 199
Yá Shátir = O clever one (in a bad sense), 209
Yá Sín (heart of the Koran, chapt. xxxvi.), 50
Yasrib (ancient name of Al-Medínah), 114
Yá Wadúd = O loving one, 54
Yohanná = John, 87
Yunán = Ionia, ancient Greece, 100
Záka = he tasted, 188
Zakariyá and Zakar, 51
Zakkúm (Al-) tree of Hell, 259
Zanzibar (cannibals, etc.), 168
Zaybak (Al-) = the quicksilver, 75
Zimbíl (Zambíl) = limp basket of palm-leaves, 119
Zimmí = a (Christian, Jewish or Majúsí) tributary, 199
Zubaydah (Pr. N.) = creamkin, 48
Zu ‘l-Kurá’a (Pr. N.) = Lord of cattle-feet, 95