Umm al-Su’úd (Pr. N.) = Mother of Prosperities, 173
’Unnábí = between dark yellow and red (jujube-colour), 143
Veiling her honour = saving her from being ravished, 330
“Vigilance Committees” (for abating scandals), 98
Visit (confers a blessing in polite parlance), 185
Visits (should not be over-frequent), 273
Wa = and (introducing a parenthetic speech), 282
Wicket (small doorway at the side of a gate), 320
Wife (contrast between vicious servile and virtuous of noble birth), 302
Wittol (pictured with driest Arab humour), 269
—— (their marrying a second time reckoned disgraceful), 246
—— (practically only two ways of treating them), 303
—— fulánah = O certain person! (fem.), 270
Yastaghíbúní = they take advantage of my absence, 224
Zaffú = they conducted her (in the sense of “they displayed her”), 245
Zaurá (Al-) = the bow (name of Baghdád), 13
Zaynab and Zayd (generic names for women and men), 250
Ziyárah = visiting the Prophet (’s tomb), 178
Zur ghibban tazid hubban = call rarely that friendship last fairly, 273
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