INDEX
Project Gutenberg EPUB3 edition
Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
Saja’-assonance bald in translation, 2
—— answerable for galimatias, 36
Salát mamlúkíyah = praying without ablution, 148
Salátah (how composed), 132
Sálih (Pr. N.) = righteous, pious, just, 314
Samandal (Al-) = Salamander, 280
Samar = night-story, 312
Samáwah (Al-) visitation place in Babylonian Irak, 93
Samír = night-talker, 217
Sana’á (famed for leather and other work), 130
Sandals (kissed and laid on the head in token of submission), 370
Sarmújah = sandals, leggings, slippers, 370
Satl = kettle, bucket (situla?), 182
Saudawí = of a melancholic temperament, 238
Sawík = parched corn, 303
Sayf ξίφος al-Mulúk = Sword of the Kings, 325
Seal-ring of Solomon (oath by), 317
Set-off for abuse of women, 130
Shahyál bin Shárukh (Pr. N.), 331
Shakhtúr = dinghy, 362
Shammara = he tucked up (sleeve or gown), 133
Shara (Al-), mountain in Arabia, 23
Shara’ = holy law, 170
Sharít = chopper, sword, 178
Shaykh attended by a half-witted lunatic, 152
Shaykh of the Sea (-board), 357
Shazarwán = Pers. Shadurwán, palace, cornice, etc., 51
Sibawayh (Grammarian), 233
Side-muscles (her quiver = she trembles in every nerve), 219
Slave (Moslemah can compel an infidel master who has attempted her seduction to sell her), 203
Sleeping with a sword between them, 352
Shower (how delightful in rainless lands), 141
Shúm (a tough wood used for staves), 354
Shubash = Bravo!, 195
Slave-girls (newly bought pretentious and coquettish), 266
Solomon (oath by his seal-ring), 317
Street cries of Cairo, 172
Style of a Cairene public scribe, 134
Suhbat-hu = in company with him, 262
Sulamí (not Sulaymi) = of the tribe Banú Sulaym, 93