Index.
351
| Eye (man of the = pupil) | 286 | |
| (white = blind) | 323 | |
| Fables proper (oldest part of The Nights) | 114 | |
| Fairer to-day than fair of yesterday = ever increasing in beauty | 331 | |
| Falak (clearing) = breaking forth of light from darkness | 22 | |
| Falcon (see Hawk, Bází) | 154 | |
| Falling on the back with laughter | 306 | |
| Farting for fear | 118 | |
| Fátin = tempter, seducer | 82 | |
| Firdausi, the Persian Homer, quoted | 83 | |
| Fire and sickness cannot cohabit (see Kayy) | 59 | |
| worshippers slandered | 326 | |
| First at the feast and last at the fray | 81 | |
| Fist (putting into fist = putting oneself at another's mercy) | 155 | |
| Flying for delight | 26 | |
| Foot, smallness of, sign of "blood" | 227 | |
| Formula of praise pronounced to avert the evil eye | 224 | |
| Fortune makes kneel her camel by some other one = encamps with a favourite | 141 | |
| Foster-brother (dearer than kith and kin) | 256 | |
| Fox, cunning man (see Wolf) | 132 | |
| Freeing slaves for the benefit of the souls of the departed | 211 | |
| Fulán (fulano in Span. and Port.) = a certain person | 191 | |
| Futúh = openings, victories, benefit | 304 | |
| Gamin (faire le) | ib. | |
| Gates (two to port towns) | 281 | |
| Geography in its bearings on Morality | 241 | |
| Geomantic process | 269 | |
| Gharám (Pr. N.) = eagerness, desire, love-longing | 172 | |
| Ghazá (Artemisia-shrub) | 220 | |
| Ghost (phantom = Tayf) | 252 | |
| Ghurrah = blaze on a horse's forehead | 118 | |
| Ghusl al-Sihhah = washing of health | 266 | |
| Give a man luck and throw him into the sea | 341 | |
| Goad (of the donkey-boy) | 116 | |
| Gossamer (names for) | 217 | |
| Grave (levelling slave and sovereign) | 323 | |
| Hair-strings (of black silk) | 311 | |
| (significance of) | 313 | |
| Hájib = groom, chamberlain | 233 | |
| Hajín (tall camel) | 67 | |
| Hámah (soul of a murdered man in form of a bird sprung from his head) | 293 | |
| Hammám-bath a luxury as well as a necessity | 19 | |
| Hands behind the back (posture of submission) | 218 | |
| stained in stripes like ring-rows of a chain-armour | 176 | |
| Hárút and Márút (sorcerer-angels) | 217 | |
| Harwalah = pas gymnastique | 121 | |
| Hashsháshún = assassins | 91 | |
| Hashish, see Bhang | ib. | |
| orgie in London | ib. | |
| Hawar = intensity of black and white in the eyes | 233 | |
| Háwi = juggler playing tricks with snakes | 145 | |
| Hawk, see Báshik, Bázi | 61; 138 | |
| Hayát al-Nufús = Life of Souls | 283 | |
| Házir and Bádi = townsman and nomad | 234 | |
| Head (must always be kept covered) | 275 | |
| Headsman delaying execution | 42 | |
| Hemistichs divided | 166 | |
| Hermaphrodites (Khunsá) | 306 | |
| Heroine of Eastern Romance eats well | 168 | |
| Hijl = partridge | 138 | |
| "Him" for "her" | 78 | |
| Hinges (of ancient doors) | 41 | |
| Hips, leanness of, "anti-pathetic " to Easterns | 226 | |
| Hoof (of the wild ass) | 235 | |
| Horripilation = gooseflesh | 2 | |
| Horse (names of the) | 72 | |
| stealing honourable | 73 | |
| Host (enters first as safe-guard against guet-apens) | 208 | |
| Houris | 233 | |
| Hudhud = hoopoe | 128 | |
| Húr, see Houris | 233 | |
| Hurr = free, noble, independent opp. to 'Abd = servile | 44 | |
| Iblís = the Despairer | 223 | |
| Ibn Abdún al-Andalúsi (poet) | 319 |
