Mukábalah, the third form of “Kabil” = requital, retaliation (ST.) vi. 55.
Mukabbab (_Arab._) = vaulted, arched, &c. (_tr. here_ “heaped”) iv. 9.
—— (_Anglo-Indicè_ “Muccuddum”) = overseer, v. 310.
Mukattaf al-Yadayn = arms crossed behind his back (a servile posture) iii. 16.
“Mukawwamína (Al-) wa Arbábu ’l Aklám,” the latter usually meaning “scribes skilled in the arts of caligraphy,” v. 374.
Mukh, _lit._ = brain, marrow (_tr._ “dimple”) v. 86.
Mukhaddarát = maidens concealed behind curtains and veiled in the Harem, ii. 265.
Mukrif = _lit._ born of a slave father and free mother (_tr._ “blamed lad,”) vi. 137.
Mulberry-tree in Italy bears leaves till the end of October, and the foliage is as bright as spring verdure, vi. 7.
Mulúkhíyá (_der._ from Gr. μαλάχη from μαλάσσω = to soften) a favorite vegetable, iv. 176.
Mulúkhiyah náshiyah (_Arab._) _lit._ = flowing (_tr._ “gravied mallows”) iv. 176.
Munáfik (_Arab._) = “an infidel who pretendeth to believe in Al-Islam” (_tr._ “hypocrite”) iii. 83.
Munajjim = Astrologer (authority in Egyptian townlets) i. 66.
Munawwarah (Al-) = the Illumined (title given to Al-Medinah) iii. 58.
Munír = “The brilliant,” the enlightened, ii. 100.
Munkati’ah = _lit._ “cut off” (from the weal of the world) _tr._ “defenceless,” i. 337.
Munkar and Nakír, the Interrogating Angels, i. 294.
Munnaskif (for manáshif) al fillfillee; according to Scott “compound of peppers” “red, white and black;” according to Lane and _tr._ here drying towels of Líf or palm-fibre, iv. 56.
Murafraf (passive) from Rafraf = anything overhanging something else (ST.) iv. 338.
Murakhkhim = a marble cutter = simply a stone-mason, vi. 60.
Músà wa Múzi = Músà the Malignant (Múzí = vexatious, troublesome) v. 321.
—— (Dr. Steingass reads Muusí, the malignant, the malefactor) v. 321.
Musajja’ (_Arab._) = rhymed prose or Saj’a, iv. 133.
Musawwadatayn (_Arab._) = _lit._ two black things, rough copies, etc. (_tr._ “affright”) iii. 87.
Mushayyadát, _tr._ “high-builded,” iii. 66.
Músiká (_Arab._) _classically_ “Musikí,” = Μουσικὴ, _Pers._ Músikár = Music, iii. 137.
Muslimína, the inflect. plur. of “Muslim” = a True Believer, v. 367.
Mustafà = the chosen Prophet, Mohammed, v. 203.
—— bin Ism’aíl (began life as apprentice to a barber and rose to high dignity) v. 110.