“Ana ’l-Tabíb, al-Mudáwi” (_Arab._) = I am the leach, the healer, 326.
“Aná min ahli Zálika,” _tr._ “I am of the folk of these things” (vulg. equiv. would be “Kizí,” for “Kazálika,” “Kazá” = so it is), 50.
’Anfakati-h = the hair between the lower lips and the chin, also chin itself (ST.), 427.
“Anta jáib(un) bas rájul (an) wáhid (an)” = veritable and characteristic peasant’s jargon, 359.
Ant’ amilta maskhará (for maskharah) matah (for matà), idiomatical Fellah-tongue, 269.
Ant’ aysh (for “man”) decidedly not complimentary “What (thing) art thou?” 298.
Aorist, preceded by preposition “bi,” 432.
“Arabia Deserta” (Mr. Doughty’s) quoted 10, 53, 405.
“Art thou (Al-Hajjáj) from Cairo,” a neat specimen of the figure anachronism. (Al-Hajjáj died A.H. 95; Cairo built A.H. 358), 41.
’Arús muhallíyah “a bride tricked out,” 468.
Ashkhákh Al- (_Arab._), _pl._ of Shakhkh = _lit._ the “Stales” (_tr._ “skite and piss”) (Steingass reads “bi ’l-Shakhákh” the usual modern word for urine), 265.
Ass (loan of) usually granted gratis in Fellah villages and Badawi camps, 460.
Assemblage of dramatis personæ at end of a scene highly artistic and equally improbable, 31.
“Astaghfiru ’llah,” a pious exclamation, humbling oneself before the Creator (_tr._ “sued for pardon of Almighty Allah”), 136.
Audáj (_Arab._) _pl._ of “Wadaj,” applying indiscriminately to the carotid arteries and jugular veins, 340.
Audán (_pl._ of the pop. “Widn” or “Wudn” for the literary “Uzn” = ear) ST., 301.
“Ayoh” (in text), _tr._ “here he is”; a corr. of “Í (or Ayy) hú” = yes indeed he, 265.
Aywah (different spelling for “aywa” = “yes indeed,”) or contraction for Ay (Í) wa ’lláhi = “yes, by Allah” (ST.), 265.
Azay má tafút-ní? = how canst thou quit me? 290.
Báb al-Nasr, the grand old Eastern or Desert-gate of Cairo, 457.
Bábúj (from “Bábúg” from the _Pers._ “Pay-púsh” = foot-clothing), _tr._ “papoosh,” 442.
Badr Al (_pl._ Budúr) = the “Full Moon,” 198.
Badrah (_Arab._) = a purse of ten thousand dirhams, 58.
Badrat Zahab = a purse of gold (ST.), 58.
Ballát, limestone slabs cut in the Torah quarries south of Cairo, 80.
Baltah-ji, a pioneer one of the old divisions of the Osmanli troops, surviving as a family name amongst Levantines, 336.
Baltah, for Turk. “Báltah” = an axe, a hatchet, 336.