INDEX.
Project Gutenberg EPUB3 edition
Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
Lá adamnák=Heaven deprive us not of thee, 268
Labbayka=Here am I, called Talbiyah, 226
Laylat al-Wafá=the night of completion of the Nile-flood, 291
Lá Haula, etc.=there is no Majesty etc., 69
Lá tawáhishná=do not make us desolate, 62
Lá tawákhizná=do not chastise us=excuse us, 164
Latter night=hours between the last sleep and dawn, 24
Laughing in one's face not intended as an affront, 320
Laughter rare and sign of a troubled spirit, 248
Life-breath in the nostrils=heart in the mouth, 42
Like mother like daughter, 299
Liver=seat of passion, 27
Loghah=Arabic language, also a vocabulary, dictionary, 251
Loosening the hair an immodesty in women sanctioned only by a great calamity, 314
Lukmah=mouthful, 261
Madfa'=cannon, showing modern date, 223
Magnet Mountains, fable probably based on the currents, 140
Mail-coat and habergeon simile for a glittering stream, 291
Ma'ín, Ma'ún=smitten with the evil eye, 123
Majnún=madman, 10
Making water, 259
Mahkamah=Kazi's Court, 21
Malik or Malak=Seraph or Sovran, 253
Mamlúk=white slaves trained to arms, 81
Márid=contumacious Jinni, 41
Máristán (from Pers. Bímáristán=place of sickness), 288
Marmar=marble, 295
Marriage not valid without receipt of settlement, 276
Mashá ilí=bearer of a cresset (Mash'al), 259
Masíhi=follower of the Messiah, 258
Maskhút=transformed (mostly into something hideous); a statue, 165
Massage (shampooing), 172
Mausil (Mosul) alluding to the junction of Assyria and Babylonia, 82
Maydán=parade ground, 46
Maymúnah, proverbial name now forgotten, 57
Meat rarely coloured in modern days, 310
Merchants and shopkeepers carrying, swords, 54
Miao or Mau=cat, 220
Mikra'ah=palm-rod, 99
Mihráb and Minaret, symbols of Venus and Priapus?, 166