[FN#609] Lit. “proceeded from her in truth.”

[FN#610] Tih, lit. pride, haughtiness, but, by analogy, “coquetry.”

[FN#611] Lit.  “Gaiety, ecstasy or intoxication (keif) whirled (dara) in his head.”

[FN#612] Lit. “not itself exactly with him” (ma hiya bi-eimhi indahu.)

[FN#613] Lit. “turned over” (kelebet, a clerical error for kebbelel).

[FN#614] Tekeddemet lihi wa basethu fi kheddihi.  Burton, “again she kissed its lip and offered it to him.”

[FN#615] Terakedsou, lit. raced with one another.

[FN#616] Babu ’sz szeray.

[FN#617] Night DLXXXIV.

[FN#618] Keszr.

[FN#619] Lit. “in” (fi); but fi is evidently used here in mistake for bi, the two prepositions being practically interchangeable in modern Arabic of the style of our present text.

[FN#620] Burton, “his costliest raiment.”

[FN#621] Or chamber (keszr).

[FN#622] Night DLXXXV.

[FN#623] Sic (raihh), a common vulgarism in this text.

[FN#624] Night DLXXXVI.

[FN#625] Lit. “also” (eidsan).

[FN#626] i.e. the two were as like as two halves of a bean.

[FN#627] i.e. the world.

[FN#628] Or death (Saturn), the eighth division of the common astrological figure.

[FN#629] Menkeleh.  See my Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Vol.  I. p. 129, note 1. {see Vol. 1 of Payne’s Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, FN#41}

[FN#630] Dsameh.

[FN#631] Liha keramat kethireh.  Kerameh (sing. of keramat), properly a favour or mark of grace, a supernatural gift bestowed by God upon His pious servants, by virtue whereof they perform miracles, which latter are also by derivation called keramat.  Cf.  Acts viii. 28:  “Thou hast thought that the gift of God,” i.e. the power of performing miracles, “may be purchased with money.”

[FN#632] Night DLXXXVII.

[FN#633] Weliyeh.

[FN#634] Fe-ain (where), probably a mistranscription for fe-men (who).

[FN#635] Sitti, fem. of Sidi, “my lord,” the common title of a saint among modern Arabic-speaking peoples.

[FN#635] Meskin, lit. “poor wretch,” but used as our “good man” and the French “bonhomme,” in a sense of somewhat contemptuous familiarity.

[FN#636] Lit. “wished the man increase of his good (istekthera bi-kheirihi, for which idiomatic expression= “he thanked him,” see ante, p. 135, note 3 {see FN#383}), and thanked his excellence” (favour or kindness, fedsl).

[FN#637] Sherabati.  Burton, “vintner.”

[FN#638] Keniz, a word which I cannot find in any dictionary, but which appears to be the past participle (in the secondary form for mecnouz, as ketil, slain, for mertoul,) of keneza, a lost verb of which only the fourth form acneza, he drank from a cup (kinz), survives, and to mean “something drunk from a cup.”  Burton, “wine.”