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Alf Laylah wa Laylah.
Oldest matter in The Nights the beast-stories 114
Oubliettes (in old Eastern houses) 327
Out of sight of my friend is better and pleasanter 315
Paradise of Mohammed not wholly sensual 19
Parody of the Testification 215
Partridge = Hijl 138
Pathos (touch of) 55
Patience (cutting the cords of) 178
Payne quoted 130; 172; 193; 252; 275
Penis (as to anus and cunnus) 303
Perfumes not used during mourning 63
—— (natural) 231
Pigeon (language, etc.) 126
—— (blood of the young) 289
Pilgrimage quoted (ii. 22) 7
—— (iii. 77) 65
—— (iii. 14) 67
—— (i. 216) 81
—— (i. 64) 91
—— (iii. 185) 107
—— (iii. 270) 118
—— (iii. 208) 121
—— (iii. 218) 126
—— (i. 52) 151
—— (iii. 307) 159
—— (i. 99) 163
—— (iii. 239) 174
—— (iii. 22) 220
—— (ii. 282) 241
—— (iii. 144) 252
—— (ii. 213, 321) 304
—— (iii. 192-194) 319
—— (i. 106) 324
Plates as armature 216
Plural of Majesty 16
Poke (counterfeit) 302
Polissonnerie (characteristic) 243
Polygamy and Polyandry in relation to climate 241
Postillon (Le) 304
Postures of coition 93
Prayer (rules for joining in) 174
—— (two-bow) 213
—— niche = way-side chapel 324
Precedent (merit appertains to) 264
Preposterous venery 304
Preventives (the two) 222
Prima Venus debet esse cruenta 289
Purity of love attains a prophetic strain 6
Questions (indiscreet, the rule throughout Arabia) 105
Ra'áyá (pl. of Ra'íyat) = Ryot 215
Rabite classical term for a noble Arab horse 72
Rahíl (small dromedary) 67
Raising the tail sign of excitement in the Arab blood-horse 84
Rasy = praising in a funeral sermon 291
Rátanah = a jargon 200
Raushan = window 171
Raushaná (splendour) = Roxana ib.
Ready to fly for delight 26
"Renowning it" (boasting of one's tribe) 80; 108
Return unto Alláh 317
Rihl = wooden saddle 117
Rind (rand) = willow, bay, aloes, wood 172
Rizwán (approbation) = key-keeper of Paradise 15, 20
Rosary 123
Royalty in the guise of merchants 12
Rubber, see Shampooer 17
Rubhah (townlet on the frontier of Syria) 52
Ryot = liege, subject; Fellah, peasant 215
Sa'adah (female Pr. N.) 65
Sa'alabah (name of a tribe) 107
Sa'alab = fox 132
Sabb = low abuse 311
Sabbáh bin Rammáh bin Humám = the Comely, son of the Spearman, son of the Lion 67
Sádr = returning from the water (see Wárid) 56
Sady = Hámah, q.v. 293
Sáhirah = place for the gathering of souls on Doom-day 323
Sáibah = she-camel freed from labour 78
Salb = crucifying 25
Salsabíl (fountains of Paradise) 57
Saráb = mirage 319
Sawwán = Syenite 324
Seal and Sealing-wax 189