Vulgar words in Arabian nights. English (Page 1)
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Petis de la Croix ("Persian and Turkish Tales"), Chavis and Cazotte ("New Arabian Nights"), Dow ("Ináyatu llah") and Morell ("Tales of the Genii"), with others manifold whose names are now all but forgotten, carried out the Gallandian liberties to the extreme of licence and succeeded in producing a branchlet of literature, the most vapid, frigid and insipid that can be imagined by man,--a bastard Europeo-Oriental, pseudo-Eastern world of Western marionettes garbed in the gear which Asiatic are (or were) supposed to wear, with sentiments and opinions, manners and morals to match; the whole utterly lacking life, local colour, vraisemblance, human interest.
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The cadet tasting a bit of kid exclaimed, "This kid was suckled by a bitch"; and the youngest exclaimed, "Assuredly this Sultan must be a son of shame, a bastard."
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But which is he who declared that I am a bastard and what was his proof and what sign in me exposed it to him?"
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The Sharper answered, "O my lord, my proof was thy bidding our being rationed, after showing the perfection of our skill, with a dish of roast meat and two scones of bread; whereby I knew thee to be of cook's breed, for the Kings be wont in such case to make presents of money and valuables, not of meat and bread as thou didst, and this evidenced thee to be a bastard King."
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Accordingly, the boys collected their belongings and laded them upon an ass and we walked about half-way when behold, the whole party, big and little, stood still and said to me, "O our lord, we are athirst and burning with drowthiness, nor can we stir from this spot and if we leave it without drinking we shall all die."
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But as he went I bespake him with the words which the poet sang when the Ass of Umm Amr[FN#222] went off:-- Ass and Umm Amr bewent their way; * Nor Ass nor Umm Amr returned for aye, and then I cited the saying of another:-- When I forced him to fare I bade him hie, * Where Umm Kash'am[FN#223] caused her selle to fly."
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Hereat they mounted him upon an ass and bore him to the place he described and, pitching a tent, set him therein and all sat around him.
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Now when sunset time came I brought them in for the evening meal and they supped and were cheered, and as soon as the hour for night-prayer had passed I spread for them sleeping-gear and said to them, "O our guests, be careful of yourselves lest the wind come forth from your bellies, for with me dwelleth the wife of my father, who disgusteth fizzles and who dieth if she hear a fart."
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Now when the five merchants came and asked after me the folk said, "He hath deceased and they have graved him in his grave;" whereupon the creditors cried, "By Allah, there is no help but that we go and piss upon his fosse."
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Shaw and other travellers mention the Mauritanian "Jumart," the breed between a bull and a mare (or jennyass) or an ass and a cow.
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Buffon disbelieved in the mongrel, holding it to be a mere bardeau, got by a stallion horse out of an ass.
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The model man was Iyás al-Muzani, al-Kazi (of Bassorah), in the 2nd century A.H., mentioned by Al-Harírí in his 7th Ass.
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Hence, if Ass and Umm Amr went off together, it is more than likely that neither came back.--St.]
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It was considered a point of good breeding to use these "Kunyah" for the purpose of varying speech (see al-Hariri Ass.
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= a pimp, a pander.
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It is opposed to "Zirt" = a loud fart and the vulgar term, see vol.
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It must not be confounded with "Serraglio" = the Harem, Gynecium or women's rooms, which appears to be a bastard neo-Latin word "Serrare," through the French Serrer.