350
Alf Laylah wa Laylah.
Bárid (cold = silly, contemptible, foolish) | 7 |
Báshik (small sparrow-hawk) | 61 |
Bath (first after sickness) | 266 |
Bází (Pers. Báz) = F. peregrinator, hawk, falcon | 138 |
Beard (long, and short wits) | 247 |
(forked, characteristic of a Persian) | 325 |
Beast-stories (oldest matter in The Nights) | 114 |
Beauties of nature provoke hunger in Orientals | 32 |
Bhang (properties of the drug) | 91 |
Bilád al-Súdán = Land of the blacks (our Soudan) | 75 |
Bilál (benefits), name of Mohammed's Muazzin | 106 |
Bint 'arús = daughter of the bridegroom (Ichneumon) | 147 |
Birds denote the neighbourhood of a village | 280 |
Bismilláh (Bi 'Smi 'lláh = in the name of God, etc.) | 182 |
Blaze (see Ghurrah) | 118 |
Boasting of one's tribe (see Renowning it) | 80 |
Bostán (female Pr. N.) = flower-garden | 345 |
Braying of the ass | 117 |
Brothers of Purity | 150 |
of ignorance = Ignoramus | 163 |
Brotherhood (forms of making) | 151 |
Bruising the testicles a feminine mode of murdering men | 3 |
Budúr (Badoura) = full moons | 228 |
Bukhti (two-humped camel) | 67 |
Caliphs Tái li 'llah | 51; 307 |
Walíd (Al-) | 69 |
Mu'atasim bi 'llah | 81 |
Wásik (Al-) | ib. |
Abd al-Malik bin Marwan | 319 |
Ali | ib. |
Mu'áwiyah | ib. |
Camels (breeds of) | 67; 110 |
(names) | 110 |
(haltered, nose-ring used for dromedaries) | 120 |
(Mehari, Mahríyah) | 277 |
Camphor (simile for a fair face) | 174 |
Carat = Kirát | 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 = Kubkáb | 92 |
Coition (postures of) | 93 |
Cold-of-countenance = a fool | 7 |
Cold speech = a silly or abusive tirade | ib. |
Comrades of the Cave | 128 |
Constipation (La) rend rigoreux | 242 |
Copulation (postures of) | 93 |
Cowardice equally divided | 173 |
Criss 'cross Row | 236 |
Dalhamah (Romance of) | 112 |
Dara' (dira) = habergeon, coat of ring-mail, 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 | 315 |
Dromedary (see Camel) | |
(guided by a nose-ring) | 120 |
Dunyá (P. N.) = world | 7; 319 |
Durrah (vulg. for Zarrat q.v.). | |
Easterns sleep with covered heads | 345 |
Eating together makes friends | 71 |
Egyptian (= archi-) polissonnerie | 243 |
Euphemy | 68; 102; 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 Jinn) | 235 |