INDEX
Project Gutenberg EPUB3 edition
Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
Abú Amir bin Marwán, 142
Abú al-Hamlát = father of assaults, etc., 149
Abú Alí al-Husayn the Wag, 130
Abú al-Sakhá = father of munificence, 133
Account asked from outgoing Governors, 102
—— of them will be presently given = we leave them for the present, 157
Acids applied as counter-inebriants, 32
Address without vocative particle more emphatic, 125
Addressing by the name not courteous, 114
Adolescent (un, aime toutes les femmes), 299
Affirmative and negative particles, 195
Africa (suggested derivation of the name), 60
Agha (Al-) = chief police officer, 156
Ahassa bi’l-Shurbah = “he smelt a rat”, 144
Ajal = yes verily, 195
’Ajwah = dates pressed into a solid mass and—deified, 14
Akákír = drugs, spices, 147
Akhlát (town in Armenia), 88
Akík (al-) two of the name, 140
Akyál, title of the Himyarite Kings, 60
Alà Kulli hál = in any case, 272
Alà raghm = in spite of, 121
Alas for his chance of escaping = there is none, 183
Ali Zaybak = Mercury Ali, 172
’Álí al-Mulúk = high among the Kings, 354
Alif, Há, Wáw as tests of calligraphy, 112
Alhambra = (Dár) al-hamrá, the Red, 49
Allah confound the far One (hard swearing), 155
—— succour the Caliph against thee, 159
—— is All-knowing, 209
Alláho Akbar, the Arab slogan-cry, 8
’Amala hílah for tricking a Syro-Egyptian vulgarism, 43
Amám-ak = before thee, 94
’Amáriyah (Pr. N. of town), 353
Amend her case = bathe her etc., 266
Amsár (pl. of Misr) = settled provinces, 371
Ansár = Medinite auxiliaries, 92
Ape see Cynocephalus
Apes (remnant of some ancient tribe), 346
Arabian Night converted into an Arabian Note, 314