The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night/Volume 3/Index
INDEX.
| Page | ||
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| 'Abd = servile | 44 | |
| Abd al-Malik ibn Marwán (Caliph) | 319 | |
| Abdullah ibn al-Zubayr | 318 | |
| Abú Kurrat = father of coolness (Chameleon) | 165 | |
| Abu 'l-Hasan (not Husn) | 162 | |
| Abu 'l-Hosayn (father of the Fortlet) = fox | 132 | |
| Abú Sirhán = father of (going out to pray by) morning | 146 | |
| 'Ad (pre-historic Arab tribe) | 294 | |
| Adultery (son of, to one's own child) | 219 | |
| Akh al-Jahálah = brother of ignorance | 162 | |
| Al (the article with Proper Names) | 309 | |
| Alak = clotted blood | 26 | |
| Ali (murder of) | 319 | |
| Alif (stature like) | 236 | |
| Allah (give thee profit) | 17 | |
| (unto, we are returning) | 317 | |
| Allusions (far-fetched, fanciful and obscure) | 58; 169; 176; 263 | |
| Alpinism (unknown) | 324 | |
| Amor discende non ascende | 240 | |
| Amsá = he passed the evening, etc. | 239 | |
| Amtár, pl. of Matr., q.v. | 295 | |
| Andam = Brazil-wood, dragon's blood | 263 | |
| Angels (appearing to Sodomites) | 301 | |
| Ape-names (expressing auspiciousness) | 159 | |
| Arab (pathos) | 55 | |
| (the noble merciful) | 88 | |
| (shop) | 163 | |
| Arák = (tooth-stick of the) wild caper-tree; Aráka = I see thee | 275 | |
| Ar'ar = Juniper-tree, "heath | 254 | |
| Ardhanárí = the half-woman | 306 | |
| Army (divided into six divisions) | 290 | |
| As'ad = more (or most) fortunate | 346 | |
| Asáfírí = sparrow-olives | 295 | |
| Ass (goad) | 116 | |
| (voice "most ungrateful") | 117 | |
| (the wild, "handy" with his hoof) | 235 | |
| Ayát = signs, Koranic verses | 307 | |
| Ayshat al-durrah murrah = the sister-wife has a bitter life | 308 | |
| Awwá (name of Satan's wife) | 229 | |
| Bátánaj = white camomile | 58 | |
| Bachelor not admitted in Arab quarters | 191 | |
| Back-parts compared to revolving heavens | 18 | |
| Badawi (cannot swim) | 69 | |
| (baser sort) | 70 | |
| (shifting camp in spring | ib. | |
| (noble) | 88 | |
| Baghdád = Garden of Justice | 100 | |
| Bahadur = the brave | 334 | |
| Bahrám (varanes) = planet Mars | 339 | |
| Bakhshish naturalized as Anglo-Egyptian | 45 | |
| Bakk = bug | 328 | |
| Ballúr (Billaur) = crystal, etc. | 194 | |
| Banát al-Na'ash = the Great Bear | 28; 221 | |
| Bands of bandits | 101 | |
| Banner (bound to a spear, sign of investiture) | 307 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| Ibn Muljam (murderer of the Caliph Ali) | 319 | |
| Ibn Síná = Avicenna | 34 | |
| Ichneumon (mongoose) | 147 | |
| Iddat = months of a woman's enforced celibacy after divorce | 292 | |
| Ikhlás (Al-) = chapter of unity | 307 | |
| Ikhwán al-Safá = Brethren of Purity | 150 | |
| Iláh al-Arsh = the God of the Empyrean | 106 | |
| Ill is thy abiding place | 137 | |
| Insane (treatment of the) | 256 | |
| Iron padlock (instead of the usual wooden bolt) | 198 | |
| Irony | 291 | |
| Isengrim (wolf) | 146 | |
| Ismid = stibium (eye-powder) | 307 | |
| Jalláb = slave-dealer | 340 | |
| Jamal (Gamal) = camel, q.v. | 110 | |
| Jamíz (Jammayz) = sycamore-fig | 302 | |
| Jannat al-Na'ím = Garden of Delight | 19 | |
| Jeweller (in Eastern tales generally a rascal) | 186 | |
| Jihád = fighting for the faith | 39 | |
| Jinnis (names of) | 225 | |
| Joining prayers | 174 | |
| Kahil = whose eyes are kohl'd by nature | 346 | |
| Kahlá = nature-kohl'd | 232 | |
| Káma-Shástra (Ars Amoris Indica) | 93 | |
| Kamar al-Zamán (Camaralzaman = Moon of the Age) | 213 | |
| Kamaráni = the two moons for sun and moon | 300 | |
| Kámat Alfiyyah = a shape like the letter Alif | 236 | |
| Kánát = subterranean water-course | 141 | |
| Kanún (dulcimer, "zither") | 211 | |
| Kapoteshwara and Kapoteshi | 126 | |
| Kasídah = Ode, elegy | 262 | |
| Katúl (Al-) = the slayer | 72 | |
| Kausaj = man with a thin, short beard, cunning, tricksy | 246 | |
| Kaysúm = yellow camomile | 58 | |
| Kayy (Al-) = cautery, the end of medicine-cure | 59 | |
| Kerchief of Dismissal | 295 | |
| Khálidán (for Khálidát) = the Canaries | 212 | |
| Khán (caravanserai) and its magazines | 14 | |
| Khanjar = dagger, hanger (poisoned) | 90 | |
| Khassat-hu = she gelded him | 47 | |
| Khauf (Al-) maksúm = fear (cowardice) is equally apportioned | 173 | |
| Khayt hamayán = threads of vanity (gossamer) | 217 | |
| Khaznah = treasury of money (£5,000) | 278 | |
| Khizáb (dye used by women) | 105 | |
| Khunsa = flexible, flaccid (hermaphrodite) | 306 | |
| Kiblah = fronting-place of prayer | ||
| Kissing (like a pigeon feeding its young) | 275 | |
| Kinchin lay (Arab form of) | 102 | |
| Kirát (weight = 2-3 grains; length = one finger-breadth) | 239 | |
| Kohl (applying of = takhíl) | 57 | |
| -eyed = Kahlá, f. | 232 | |
| Koka Pandit (Hindú ars Amandi) | 93 | |
| Koran quoted (x. 10-12; lvi. 24-26; lxxxviii. 17-20) | 19 | |
| (xii. 31) | 21 | |
| (cxiii. 1) | 22 | |
| (ii. 186; lx. 1) | 39 | |
| (lxxvi.) | 57 | |
| (ii. 23) | 65 | |
| (xxxi. 18; lxvii. 7) | 117 | |
| (ii. 191) | 123 | |
| (xviii.; xxii. 20; lxxxvii.) | 128 | |
| (ii. 96, 256) | 217 | |
| (ii.; iii.; xxxvi.; lv.; lxvii; cxiii; cxiv.) | 222 | |
| (ii. 32; xviii. 48) | 223 | |
| (xxiii. 20; xcv. 1) | 276 | |
| (xxvi.) | 294 | |
| (xi.) | 301 | |
| (xxiii. 38) | 302 | |
| (ii.; li. 9; xxxv. 11) | 304 | |
| (cxii.) | 307 | |
| (xxiv. 39 | 319 | |
| (xxi.) | 323 | |
| (iv. 38) | 332 | |
| Kubkáb = bath clogs | 92 | |
| Kuhailat (breed of Arab horses) | 346 | |
| Kun = be, the creative word | 317 | |
| Kurds (Xenophon's and Strabo's Carduchi) | 100 | |
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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 | |
| 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 | |
| Seduction (the truth about it) | 166 | |
| Serpent does not sting or bite, but strike | 160 | |
| Seven Sleepers | 128 | |
| Shahádatáni (Al-) = the two Testimonies | 346 | |
| Shahriman not Shah Zemán | 7; 212 | |
| Sháibal-Ingház = gray beard, shaking with disapproval | 307 | |
| Shakespearean "topothesia" out Shakespeared | 212 | |
| Shakhs = a person, a black spot | 26 | |
| Shampooer (rubber) = Mukayyit or bagman | 17 | |
| Shanak = hanging | 25 | |
| Shanfara (poet) | 143 | |
| Shaykhs (five, doubtful allusion) | 30 | |
| Shaytán (Satan) term of abuse | 25 | |
| (his wife and nine sons) | 229 | |
| Shop (Arab, a "but" and a "ben") | 163 | |
| Shovel-iron stirrup = spar | 119 | |
| Signs (of a Shaykh's tent) | 104 | |
| (lucky in a horse) | 118 | |
| Sinnaur = cat; prince | 149 | |
| Siwák = tooth-stick; Siwá-ka = other than thou | 275 | |
| Slaves (O Camphor) | 40 | |
| (set free for the benefit of the dead) | 211 | |
| (dealer in = Jalláb) | 349 | |
| Sleeping (with covered head and face) | 345 | |
| Sleepers (the Seven of Ephesus) | 128 | |
| Solomon (his carpet) | 267 | |
| Sodomites (angels appear to) | 301; 304 | |
| Sodomy with women | ib. | |
| Son of Persian Kings (not Prince but descendant) | 163 | |
| Spindle (thinner than a) | 260 | |
| St. George (posture) | 304 | |
| Stages (ten, of love-sickness) | 36 | |
| "Stone-bow" not "Cross-bow" | 116 | |
| Subhána'llah pronounced to keep off the evil eye | 224 | |
| Súdán = our Soudan | 75 | |
| Súf (wool), Súfi (Gnostic) | 140 | |
| Subá (Sohá) star in the Ursa Major | 28 | |
| Sulaymá, dim. of Salmá = any beautiful woman | 263 | |
| Superiority of man above woman | 332 | |
| Sutures of the skull | 123 | |
| Sycomore fig (for anus) | 302 | |
| Tagút (idol) | 217 | |
| Ta'í (Al-) li 'llah (Caliph) | 51, 307 | |
| Takhíl = adorning with Kohl | 57 | |
| Talak bí'l-Salásah = triple divorce | 292 | |
| Tamar al-Híndi (Tamarind) = the Indian date | 297 | |
| Tasbíh = saying Subhán Allah; Rosary | 125 | |
| Tayf = ghost, phantom | 252 | |
| Tayrab (Al-) a city | 259 | |
| Tears (pouring blood like red wine) | 169 | |
| Ten stages of love-sickness | 36 | |
| Tent (signs of a Shaykh's) | 104 | |
| Testicles (beating and bruising of, female mode of killing a man) | 3 | |
| Thamúd (pre-historic Arab tribe) | 294 | |
| Thorn of lance = eye-lash | 331 | |
| Tín = fig, simile for a woman's parts | 302 | |
| Tíryák = theriack, treacle (antidote) | 65 | |
| Torrens quoted | 218; 235; 249; 289 | |
| Tossing upon coals of fire | 61 | |
| Tughrái (Al-), poet | 143 | |
| Turk (provoked to hunger by beauties of nature) | 33 | |
| (appears under the Abbasides) | 81 | |
| Ubi aves ibi angeli | 280 | |
| Ukhuwán = camomile | 58 | |
| Urine (pollutes) | 229 | |
| Urining (wiping after) | ib. | |
| Ushari = camel travelling ten days | 67 | |
| Wa ba'ad (see Ammá ba'ad, vol. ii. 37) = and afterwards | 181 | |
| Waddle of "Arab ladies" | 37 | |
| Wády = valley; slayer | 234 | |
| Waist (slender, hips large) | 278 | |
| Walahán (Lakab of a poet = The distracted) | 226 | |
| Walgh = lapping of a dog | 319 | |
| Walíd (Al-) Caliph | 69 | |
| Wálidati = my mother, speaking to one not of the family | 203 | |
| Wárid = resorting to the water | 56 | |
| Wasif = servant; fem, wasífah concubine | 171 | |
| Wásik (Al-), Caliph | 81 | |
| Waters flowing in Heaven | 65 | |
| Wayl-ak = Woe to thee | 82 | |
| Week-days (only two names for) | 249 | |
| Weeping (not for form and face alone) | 318 | |
| 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 |
