INDEX
Project Gutenberg EPUB3 edition
Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
MS. copy of The Nights (price of one in Egypt), 312
Mu’attik al-Rikáb = Liberator of Necks, 331
Muhájirin = companions in Mohammed’s flight, 92
Mu’in al-Dín = Aider of the Faith, 354
Mujauhar = damascened, 84
Mulabbas = dragées, 205
Munádamah = table-talk, 309
Munawwarah (al-) = The Illumined (Title of Al-Medinah), 95
Musáfahah = putting palm to palm, 52
Musáhikah = tribadism, 132
Musámarah = night-talk by moonlight, 217
Mosquito caught between the toes, 179
Musrán (Al-) = guts, 190
Mutanakkir = disguised, proud, reserved, 101
Muunah = provisions, 232
Náb (pl. Anyáb) = canine tooth, tusk, 339
Nafs-í = my soul for “the flesh”, 118
Ná’í al-maut = messenger of death, 226
Naked = without veil or upper clothing, 151
Names frequently do not appear till near the end of a tale, 43; 274
Naming a girl by name offensive, 286
Ni’am = yes in answer to a negative, 195
Night (its last the bitter parting), 243
Nitáh = a woman’s waist cloth, 180
Nostrils (his life-breath was in his = his heart was in his mouth), 258
Nostrums for divining the sex of the unborn child, 268
Núrayn = two lights (town in Turkestan), 88
Offerings (pious) = ex votos etc., 150
“Old maids” ignored in the East, 286
“Old Man of the Sea” (a Márid or evil Jinn), 338
Oman with its capital Maskat = Omana Moscha, 24
Opening doors without a key is the knavish trick of a petty thief, 182
Payne quoted, 16; 18; 57; 123; 277; 337
Pearls (fresh from water), 240
Pencilling the eyes with kohl, 250
Pens (gilded) = reeds washed with gold, 112
Pilgrimage quoted (iii. 90), 34
—— (i. 377), 9
—— (iii. 191), 21
—— (i. 14), 80