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Lájuward, see Lázuward 33
Lámiyat = poem rhyming in L 143
Layáli = nights, future, fate 318
Layla (female Pr. N.) 135
—— (wa Majnún, love poem) 183
Lázuward = lapis lazuli, azure 33
Letters and letter-writing 24
Libdah (skull-cap of felt) sign of religious mendicant 62
Lisám = mouth-veil 283
Liver (for heart) 240
Lizzat al-Nisá (erotic poem) 93
Love (pure, becomes prophetical) 6
—— (the ear conceiveth it before the eye) 9
—— (ten stages of) 36
—— (martyrs of) 211
—— (platonic, see vol. ii. 104) 232
—— (ousting affection) 240
Lovers in Lazá (hell) as well as Na'ím (heaven) 58
—— (parting of, a stock-topic in poetry 58
Lukmán (two of the name) 264
Ma'an bin Záidah 236
Mahríyah (Mehari) = blood-dromedary 277
Majlis = sitting (to a woman) 92
Majnún (Al-) = the mad 72
Málik (door-keeper of Hell) 20
Malik (king) taken as title 51
Man (extract of despicable water) 16
—— (is fire, woman tinder) 59
—— (shown to disadvantage in beast-stories) 115
—— (his destiny written on his skull) 123
—— (pre-eminence above women) 332
Maniyat = death; muniyat = desire 291
Marba' = summer quarters 79
Marján = Coral-branch (slave-name) 169
Marriage (if consummated demands Ghusl) 286
Married men profit nothing 2
Martyrs of love 211
Marwazi = of Marw (Margiana) 222
Marz-bán = Warden of the Marches, Margrave 256
Má sháa 'llah (as Allah willeth) = well done! 92
Matr = large vessel of leather or wood 295
Maurid = desert-well and road to such 33
Mercy (quality of the noble Arab) 88
Minaret (simile for a fair young girl) 69
Miracles (disclaimed by Mohammed but generally believed in) 346
Mirage = Saráb 319
Mohammed ("born with Kohl'd eyes") 232
Moon masc., Sun fem. 28
Moore (Thomas, anticipated) 305
Morality (geographical and chronological) 241
—— (want of, excused by passion) 269
Morning-draught 20
Mountain, coming from the = being a clod-hopper 324
—— sit upon the = turn anchorite ib.
Mourning, perfumes not used during 63
Mu'atasim (Al-) bi'llah (Caliph) 81
Mu'áwiyah (his Moses-like "mildness") 286
Muharramát (the three forbidden things) 340
Mujáhid (Al-) = fighter in Holy War 51
Mujáhidún = who wage war against infidels 39
Mukhammas = cinquains 280
Mulberry-fig (for anus) 302
Murjiyy (sect and tenets) 341
Náfilah = supererogatory Koran-recitation 222
Na'ím (name for Heaven) 19
Naml (ant) simile for a young beard 58
Názir = eye or steward 233
Night (and day, not day and night with the Arabs) 121
—— cap 222
—— "this" = our "last" 249
—— for day 318
Nizámí (Persian Poet) 183
Nuptial sheet (inspection of the) 289
Núr al-Hudá (Pr. N. = Light of Guidance) 17
O Camphor (antiphrase = O snow ball) 40
Oftentimes the ear loveth before the eye 9