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Alf Laylah wa Laylah.
Wives (why four, see Women) 212
—— (a man's tillage) 304
What happened, happened = fortune so willed it 68
Wine (a sun with cup-bearer for East and the drinker's mouth for West) 263
Wolf (wicked man); fox (cunning man) 132
Women (peculiar waddle) 37
—— (proposing extreme measures) 39
—— (are tinder, men fire) 59
—— (monkish horror of) 126
—— (Laylah, name of) 135
—— (true seducers) 208
—— (Wálidati = my mother) 208
—— (four wives, and why) 212
—— (compared to an inn) 216
—— (large hips and thighs) 226
—— (small fine foot) 227
—— (names of) 239; 263
—— (more passionate than men) 241
—— (head must always be kept covered) 275
—— (slender-waisted but full of hips, etc.) 304
—— (Sodomy with) 304
—— (all charges laid upon them) 335
Words (divided in a couplet) 166
Writing without fingers=being unable to answer for what is written 181
Yá Abú Libdah = O father of a felt calotte 62
Yá Abú Sumrah = O father of brownness 40
Yá fulán = O certain person 191
Yá Sátir, Yá Sattár = O veiler (of sins) 41
Yá Talji = O snowy one 40
Yaum al-tanádí = Resurrection Day 74
Zabbál = dung-drawer, etc. 51
Zakar (penis) = that which betokens masculinity 3
Zamiyád =: guardian angel of Bihisht, see Rizwán 20; 233
Zanab Sirhán (wolfs tail) = early dawn 146
Zarrat (vulg. Durrah) = co-wife, sister-wife 308
Zebra (daughter of Sa'adah 65
Zibl = dung 51
Zibl Khán = Le Roi Crotte 99