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Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
Ruka'tayn=two-bow prayer, 142
Sa'ad=auspiciousness, prosperity; derivatives, 9
Sabr=patience and aloes, source of puns, 138
Sadaf=cowrie, 19
Sadakah=voluntary alms, opposed to Zakát, 339
Sadd=wall, dyke, 114
Sáhib=companion, used as a Wazirial title, 237
Sáhib al-Shartah=chief of the watch (Prefect of Police), 259
Sáhib Nafas=master of breath, a minor saint healing by expiration, 107
Sáhil Masr=the river side (at Cairo), 291
Saj'a=rhymed prose, 116
Sakhr al-Jinni alluded to, 41
Sákiyah=the Persian water wheel, 123
Sálih, prophet sent to Thámúd, 169
Salmá and Layla=our "Mary and Martha", 265
Sama'an wa ta atan to be translated variously, 96
Samn=clarified butter, 144
Sár=vendetta, 101, 114
Saráwil=bag or petticoat trousers, 222
Sardábeh=underground room, 340
Sarráf=Anglo-Indian "Shroff", 210
Sassanides, 75
Sawáb=reward in Heaven, 96
Sayd wa Kanas=hunting and coursing, 9
Scalding a stump in oil common surgery practice, 297
Scorpions of the brow=accroche-cœurs, etc., 168
Sealing a covered dish a necessary precaution against poison, 244
Seas, the two=the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean, 173
Sepulchre, erroneously called "a little Wali", 105
Seven schools or editions of the Koran, 113
Shább=youth between puberty and forty, 55
Shabistan=night station, 29
Shakáik al-Nu'umán=anemone, 175
Shahrázád=city-freer, 14
Shahryár=city friend, 2
Shah Zamán=King of the Age, ib.
Shaykh=an old man, elder, chief, 26
Shaykh, Shaybah=grey-beard, oldster, 55
Sha'ílah=link (also lamp, wick, etc.), 259
Shaking and nodding the head, universal items of gesture language, 300