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LAjowARD, see Lazuward

Lamiyat = poem rhyming in L

Layali = nights, future, fate.

Layla (female Pr. N.)

(wa Majnun, love poem).

Lazuward =: lapis lazuli, azure

Letters and letter-writing

Libdah {skull-cap of felt) sign of

religious mendicant

Lisam = mouth-veil

Liver (for heart)

Lizzai al-Nisa (erotic poem)

Love (pure, becomes prophetical)

(the ear conceiveth it before the

eye)

(ten stages of)

(martyrs of).

(platonic, see vol. ii. 104).

— — (ousting affection).

Lovers in Laza (hell) as well as

Na'lm (heaven)

(parting of, a stock-topic in

poetry ....

Lukman (two of the name)

Ma'an bin ZAidah

Mahriyah (Mehari) = blood-drome

dary ....

Majlis = sitting (to a woman).

Majnun (A1-) = the mad

Malik (door-keeper of Hell)

Malik (king) taken as title

Man (extract of despicable water)

(is fire, woman tinder)

— (shown to disadvantage

beast-stories)

^— (his destiny written on his skull)

(pre-eminence above women)

Maniyat = death ; muniyat = desire

Marba' = summer quarters

Maijan = Coral-branch (slave-name)

Marriage (if consummated demands

Ghusl) . . . ..

Married men profit nothing

Martyrs of love ....

Maiwazi =: of Marw (Margiana)

Marz-ban = Warden of the Marches,

Margrave. . . ..

Md shaa 'llah (as Allah willeth) =

weU done !

Matr =: large vessel of leather or

wood

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Maurid = desert- well and road to

such

Mercy (quality of the noble Arab)

Minaret (simile for a fair young girl)

Miracles (disclaimed by Mohammed

but generally believed in).

Mirage = Sarab

Mohammed ("bom with Kohl'd

eyes") ....

Moon masc, Sun fem.

Moore (Thomas, anticipated).

Morality (geographical and chrono

logical) . . . ,.

(want of, excused by pas-

sion)

Morning-draught

Mountain, coming from the = being

a clod-hopper

sit upon the ■=■ turn anchorite

Mourning, perfumes not used during

Mu'atasim (A1-) bi'llah (Caliph)

Mu'awiyah (his Moses-like "mild

ness ")....

Muharramat (the three forbidden

things) ....

Mujahid (A1-) = fighter in Holy

War. . . ».

Mujahidun = who wage war against

infidels ....

Mukhammas = cinquains.

Mulberry-fig (for anus).

Murjiyy (sect and tenets)

NAfilah = supererogatory Koran

recitation ....

Na'lm (name for Heaven)

Naml (ant) simile for a young beard

Nizir = eye or steward. .

Night (and day, not day and night

with the Arabs).

cap

" this " = our " last ".

for day ....

Nizimi (Persian Poet)

Nuptial sheet (inspection of the)

Nur al-Huda (Pr. N. = Light of

Guidance) . . .-.

O Camphor (antiphrase = O snow

ball)

Oftentimes the ear loveth before the

eye