Banú Tay, the tribe of the chieftain and poet Hátim Táí, i. 179.
Banú Thakíf, a noble tribe sprung from Iyád, v. 46.
Barbasa (with dental sibilant “Sín”) = he sought, looked for (with palatial sibilant “Sád”) = he watered the ground abundantly (ST.) iv. 291.
Barber, being a surgeon ready to bleed a madman, v. 277.
—— the usual operator in circumcision, ii. 116.
Bardawán, the well-known city in Hindostan whose iron was famous, vi. 71.
Barniyah = Pot (in which manna was collected) i. 265.
“Bartamán” for “Martaban” = a pot, jar, etc. (_tr._ “a crock”) iv. 204–223.
Báshá (_Arab._ form of _Turk._ “Pasha”) derivation, iv. 137.
“Bashákhín,” _pl._ of “Bashkhánah” = hangings, arras, vi. 44.
Bashárah, can hardly be applied to ill news (faulty text), i. 34.
Bashárah, Al- (_Arab._) = a gift of good news, iv. 307.
Bashkhánah (corr. of _Pers._ “Peshkhánah = state-tents sent forward on march”) _tr. here_ “a hanging,” v. 131.
—— custom of, among Eastern Moslems, v. 106.
Bassorah-city = “Balsorah” (Galland), “Bansrá” (H.V.) iii. 3.
Bast, a preparation of Bhang (_Cannabis sativa_) iv. 19.
Bastinado used to extort confession, i. 148.
Bát (for “Bit”) = Pass the night here (in Fellah speech) iv. 246.
—— = “the night has passed” (ST.) iv. 246.
Bathá = lowlands and plains outside Meccan Valley, i. 42.
Bathing after copulation kept up by both sexes in ancient Rome, ii. 142.
Batiyah (_Arab._) gen. = a black jack, a leathern flagon (_tr._ “Keg”) iv. 125.
Bayt al-Mukaddas = Sanctified House, iii. 407.
Bazzistán (_Arab._-_Pers._) = market-place for Bazz = cloth, iii. 431.
Bawwábah Al = a place where doorkeepers meet, a police-station (_tr._ “guard-house”) v. 309.
Baybúnah (_prop._ “Bábúnaj” in _Arab._, and “Bábúk” in _Pers._) = the white Camomile flower, vi. 27.
Bayn farsi-k wa ’l-damí = _lit._ between fœces and menses (_tr._ “thy droppings and drippings”) i. 41.
Baysár or Baysárah, a dish peculiar to Egypt = beans seasoned with milk and honey, iv. 176. Also “Baysár” or “Faysár,” iv. 291.
Bayzah (_Arab._) = an egg, a testicle, v. 360.
“Bean and ’twas split, A,” proverb suggesting “par nobile fratrum,” iii. 179.
Beating the bosom with a sunbaked brick, i. 34.
Bed (on roof) made of carpet or thin mattress strewn upon the stucco flooring of the terrace roof, v. 219.