Arab. “’Alà Kulli hál,” a popular phrase, like the Anglo-American “anyhow.”
In the text the name does not appear till near the end of the tale.
These lines have occurred in vol. iii. 264, so I quote Lane ii. 499.
These lines occurred in vol. ii. 301. I quote Mr. Payne.
Arab. “Khadd” = cheek from the eye-orbit to the place where the beard grows; also applied to the side of a rough highland, the side-planks of a litter, etc. etc.
This manner of listening is not held dishonourable amongst Arabs or Easterns generally; who, however, hear as little good of themselves as westerns declare in proverb.
Arab. “Hasab wa nasab,” before explained as inherited degree and acquired dignity. See vol. iv. 171.
Arab. Mujájat = spittle running from the mouth: hence Lane, “is like running saliva,” which, in poetry is not pretty.
Arab. and Heb. Salmandra from Pers. Samandal (—dar—duk—dun, etc), a Salamander, a mouse which lives in fire, some say a bird in India and China and others confuse with the chameleon (Bochart Hiero. Part ii. chapt. vi).
Arab. “Mahá” one of the four kinds of wild cows or bovine antelopes, bubalus, Antelope defassa, A. leucoryx, etc.
These lines have occurred in vol. iii. 279; so I quote Lane (iii. 274) by way of variety; although I do not like his “bowels.”
The last verse (286) of chapt. ii. The Cow: “compelleth” in the sense of “burdeneth.”
A truly Eastern saying, which ignores the “old maids” of the West.
_i.e._ naming her before the lieges as if the speaker were her and his superior. It would have been more polite not to have gone beyond “the unique pearl and the hoarded jewel”: the offensive part of the speech was using the girl’s name.
Meaning emphatically that one and all were nobodies.
Arab. Kirát (κεράτιον) the bean of the _Abrus precatorius_, used as a weight in Arabia and India and as a bead for decoration in Africa. It is equal to four Kamhahs or wheat-grains and about 3 grs. avoir.; and being the twenty-fourth of a miskal, it is applied to that proportion of everything. Thus the Arabs say of a perfect man, “He is of four-and-twenty Kirát” _i.e._ pure gold. See vol. iii. 239.
The (she) myrtle: Kazimirski (A. de Biberstein) Dictionnaire Arabe-Francais (Paris Maisonneuve 1867) gives Marsín = Rose de Jericho: myrte.