Abú Sirhán = Father of (going out to pray by) Morning, iii. 146; ix. 104.
Abú Yakzán = awakener (ass, cock), i. 16, 18.
Abú Zarr (companion of the Prophet), ii. 200; v. 102.
Abyssinians (hardly to be called blackamoors), vi. 63.
Account asked from outgoing Governors, vii. 102.
Account of them will be presently given = “we leave them for the present,” vii. 157.
Acids applied as counter-inebriants, viii. 32.
Acquit me of responsibility = pardon me, ii. 76.
—— (formula of dismissing a servant), vi. 243.
Acquittance of all possible claims after business transactions (quoted on Judgment-Day), ix. 285.
’Ád (tribe of the prehistoric Arabs) i. 65; iii. 294; ix. 174.
Adab = anything between good education and good manners, i. 132; ix. 41.
Adam’s Peak (Ar. Jabal al-Ramun), vi. 65.
Ádamí = an Adamite (opposed to Jinn), ix. 169.
Address without vocative particle more emphatic, vii. 125.
Addressing by the name not courteous, vii. 114.
Ádil (Al-) = the Just (Caliph Omar), v. 103.
Adím = leather (Bulghár, Morocco), viii. 80.
Admiral (fishing for the King’s table), ix. 159.
Adnán (Arab genealogy begins with), v. 100.
Adolescent (Un, aime toutes les femmes), vii. 299.
Adultery (none without an adulterer), v. 90.
—— (to be proved by four witnesses), v. 97.
—— (son of, to one’s own child), iii. 219.
Affirmative and negative particles, vii. 195.
Afridun (Furaydun) absurd name for a Greek king, ii. 82.
Africa (suggested derivation of the name), vii. 60.
Aghá = master, sir, gentleman (politely applied to a Eunuch), i. 235; ii. 50.
—— (Al-) for chief police officer, vii. 156.
Ahassa bi ’l-shurbah = “he smelt a rat,” vii. 144.
Ahd (Al-) wa al-Mísák = oath and covenant, ix. 327.
Ahdab = hunchback (opposed to Ak’as), i. 213.
Áhirah = strumpet (_see_ Fájirah), viii. 109.
Ahjár al-Kassárín = falling-stones, viii. 334.
Ahl al-Bayt = the person of the house (euphemistic for wife), vi. 199.
Ahlan = as one of the household, viii. 269.
Ahmad = the praised one, Mohammed, ii. 226.
Ahmad al-Danaf (Pr. N.) = Calamity Ahmad, iv. 75.
—— bin Abí Dawád (High Chancellor to the Abbasides), ix. 244.
—— bin Hanbal (founder of the fourth Moslem School), ii. 204.
Ahr (ihr) = fornication, in the sense of irreligion, ii. 258.
Ahwáz (city and province of Khuzistan), vi. 287.