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... roots that other dictionaries do not recognize. 12: to compare Biblical words with modern meanings in some important situations. 13: Find Arab words and roots that are closely related to their corresponding Hebrew root. 14: Find Hebrew words that are closely related to some Arabic words....

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...ing-gown and slippers, whom I had seen sitting inside the gate. He was the Arab porter of the hotel, and as he marshalled the new visitors into the ro... ...wore a pair of yellow slippers. It was manifest to me at a glance that the Arab gentleman was got up in his best raiment, and that no expense had been... ...suit. And here I cannot but make a remark on the personal bearing of these Arabs. Whether they be Arabs or Turks, or Copts, it is always the same. The... ...is ap- pearance? He is a stumpy, short, podgy man; but then so also was my Arab friend at Suez. Judkins is always dressed from head to foot in a decen... ...nd yet how mean is his appearance, as compared with the appearance of that Arab;—how mean also is his gait, how ignoble his step! Judkins could buy th... ...b;—how mean also is his gait, how ignoble his step! Judkins could buy that Arab out four times over, and hardly feel the loss; and yet were they to en... ...ess, should a personal quarrel arise between them, would Judkins punch the Arab’s head; ay, and re- duce him to utter ignominy at his feet. Judkins wo... ...ould break his heart in despair rather than not return a blow; whereas the Arab would put up with any indignity of that sort. Nevertheless Judkins is ... ... to introduce an oriental costume in Friday Street. At this moment, as the Arab gentleman entered the cavernous coffee-room, I felt that I was greatly...

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...nd Cairo, and then say if this was not so. It was probably taken from the “Arabian Nights,” and the picture produced was one of strange, fantastic, lu... ...s- 4 An Unprotected Female at the Pyramids toms, and the delights of the “Arabian Nights” are shorn of half their value. When we have seen a thing it... ...ulness of his own personal dignity which always adheres to a Turk or to an Arab. We chatter as much at Cairo as elsewhere, and eat as much and drink a... ...from the palm-tree grove, through a village crowded with dirty, straggling Arab children, on to the cultivated plain, beyond which the Pyramids stood,... ...d a glass of wine.” “How on earth we are to eat and drink with those nasty Arab people around us, I can’t conceive. They tell me we 16 An Unprotected... ...thern of the two Pyramids. They were by this time surrounded by a crowd of Arab guides, or Arabs profess- ing to be guides, who had already ascertaine... ... take hold of me I’ll shoot you!” This was said to one specially energetic Arab, who, in his efforts to secure his prey, had caught hold of Mr. Damer ... ...!” And then Abdallah, thus invoked, came up, and ex- plained to the man in Arabic that he would gain his ob- ject more surely if he would behave himse... ...pt to signify money, and is eternally dinned into the ears of strangers by Arab suppliants. Mrs. Damer 19 Anthony Trollope ought to have known better...

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...ome days, and to put myself under the peculiar guardianship of two Bedouin Arabs, who were to accompany me as long as I should remain east of Jerusale... ...dge the fact of the tariff. I would rather have fallen in with my friendly Arabs, as it were by chance, and have re- warded their fidelity at the end ... ...d been made. Joseph, my dragoman, was to come to me with the horses and an Arab groom at five in the morning, and we were to encounter our Bedouins ou... ... groom-boy will do for both. But you’ll have to pay forty shillings to the Arabs! There’s no get- ting over that. The consul won’t even look after you... .... But I would not have it. It would be quite time enough for that when the Arabs were leaving us. “Because,” he added, “strangers, I know, are sometim... ...uld arise. “As for danger,” said I, “I think more of this than I do of the Arabs,” and I put my hand on my revolver. “But as they agreed to be here, h... ... there, and shade afforded by a rock under which the water sprung; and the Arabs had constructed a tank out of which the horses could drink, so that t... ...e mounted, one on a very sorry-looking jade, but the other on a good stout Arab barb. They had guns slung behind their backs, coloured handkerchiefs o... ...grims wound out of sight; and it ended in our being accompanied by the two Arabs, 18 A Ride Across Palestine who thus left their greater charge to ta...

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...but it was too dark to distinguish anything under the overhanging bushes. “Arabs, no doubt,” muttered Almayer to himself, peering into the solid black... ...A grave voice answered— “Tuan Almayer is speaking to a friend. There is no Arab here.” Almayer’s heart gave a great leap. “Dain!” he exclaimed. “At la... ...the midst of unscrupulous intrigues and of a fierce trade competition. The Arabs had found out the river, had established a trading post in Sambir, an... ...ong consultations with his friend and ally, Syed Abdulla, the chief of the Arab trading post, a man of great wealth and of great influence in the isla... ...ance of success against men so unscrupulous and resolute as his rivals the Arabs. The trade fell away from the large godowns, and the godowns themselv... ...his life. Lakamba reigned in his stead now, having been well served by his Arab friends with the Dutch authorities. Syed Abdulla was the great man and... ...had set. Had they done so they knew there was no mercy to be expected from Arab or Rajah; no rice to be got on credit in the times of scarcity from ei... ...ls of the flesh from the young Mem Putih. In the cool of the evening grave Arabs in long white shirts and yellow sleeveless jackets walked slowly on t... ...cumstances Almayer brightened up a little. All was not lost perhaps. Those Arabs and Malays saw at last that he was a man of some ability, he thought....

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...of a sensation. If they love the odd and pictur- esque, if they loved the “Arabian Nights” in their youth, let them book themselves on board one of th... ...d daggers in his girdle; fierce, but not the least dangerous. Wild swarthy Arabs, who had come in with the caravans, walked solemnly about, very diffe... ...tain, chequered all over with light and shadow, and engraved with delicate arabesques and sentences from the Koran? But the greatest sensation of all ... ...that poor little blubbering Mahometan:he will never be able to relish the “Arabian Nights” in the original, all his life long. From this scene we rush... ... who had just been making a tour in Syria, and who professed to speak both Arabic and Turkish quite fluently—which I thought he might have learned whe... ...m Cornhill to Grand Cairo making love just as they do on the Boulevard. An Arab porter left his bales, and the camel he was unloading, to come and loo... ...men’s attire, by the neatness of the little house, prettily decorated with arabesque paintings, neat mats, and gay carpets, they were a family well to... ...dling through the water with outstretched arms, grinning and yelling their Arab invitations to mount their shoulders. I think these fel- lows frighten... ...while, were having arguments about the eternal backsheesh with the roaring Arab boatmen; and I recall with wonder and delight especially, the curses a...

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...ncal soldier fell into the hands of the Maugrabins, and was taken by these Arabs into the deserts beyond the falls of the Nile. In order to place a su... ...ved to play his part with honor to the last. “The day before yesterday the Arabs would have killed me, perhaps,” he said; so considering himself as go... ...of, don’t we? Aren’t you ashamed of yourself? So you have been eating some Arab or other, have you? That doesn’t matter. They’re animals just the same...

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...g Mounts Araz and Couco, and bor- dering on Djigheli Bay, were really wild Arabs, claiming high descent, but very loose Mohammedans, and savage in the... ... rates only held the two youths tightly, vituperating them no doubt in bad Arabic,—Lanty grinding his teeth with rage, though scarcely feeling the pai... ... beneath Mount Araz, a spur of the Atlas, and was in the possession of the Arab tribe called Cabeleyze, which is said to mean ‘the revolted.’ The revo... ...hose Ishmaelite traditions and customs that are innate in the blood of the Arab. 57 Yo n g e When Estelle awoke from her long sleep of exhaustion, sh... ...g to arrange his remnant of clothing. There was a short respite, while the Arabs, all turning eastwards, chanted their morning devotions with a solemn... ...e was an immense amount of deafening shrieking and gesticulating among the Arabs. Hassan was responding, and finally turned to Lanty, when the anxious... ...directly, so that he was able cautiously to hand a gourd to Victorine. The Arabs were heavy sleepers, and the two were able to talk under their breath... ...d, and among the fragments were found several portions of books. These the Arabs disre- garded, being too ignorant even to read their own Koran, and y... ...d to assist in their own dissection when the secrets were too much for the Arabs. There was the King of Spain’s portrait rent from its costly setting ...

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...t epoch of religion, among a very different people: Mahometanism among the Arabs. A great change; what a change and progress is indicated here, in the... ...t he did mean some true thing, ask candidly what it was or might be. These Arabs Mahomet was born among are certainly a no- table people. Their countr... ...something most agile, active, and yet most meditative, enthusiastic in the Arab character. The Per- sians are called the French of the East; we will c... ...racter. The Per- sians are called the French of the East; we will call the Arabs Oriental Italians. A gifted noble people; a people of wild strong fee... ...mong them before the time of Mahomet. Sale says, at Ocadh, in the South of Arabia, there were yearly fairs, and there, when the merchandising was done... ...or prizes:—the wild people gathered to hear that. One Jewish quality these Arabs manifest; the outcome of many or of all high qualities: what we may c... ... or singing it,—a kind of diluted worship. They had many Proph- ets, these Arabs; T eachers each to his tribe, each according to the light he had. But... ...k, in the Bible or out of it, of equal literary merit.— T o the idolatrous Arabs one of the most ancient universal objects of worship was that Black S... ... this Caabah Stone and Hagar’s Well, from the pilgrimings of all tribes of Arabs thither, that Mecca took its rise as a Town. A great town once, thoug...

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...ent I could extract from any- body was that it was he who had “brought the Arabs into the river.” That must have happened many years before. But how d... ...ile he glared angrily at the retreating back. Didn’t that fellow bring the Arabs into the river! Nevertheless Willems turned up next morning on Almaye... ...on an expedition up the river in charge of a steam-launch belonging to the Arabs, to make some discovery or other. On account of the strange reluctanc... ... for to-night. Use my own boatmen. Transship them from the Caroline to the Arab barque,” went on the mas- ter in his hoarse undertone. “And don’t you ... ...,” he said, calling him to his side, “d’ye see that barque here? That’s an Arab vessel. White men have mostly given up the game, but this 42 An Outca... ...y a lazy man-of-war blunders at last against the river. I mean to keep the Arabs out of it, with their lies and their intrigues. I shall keep the veno... ...inning to drop it astern when a white figure started up on the poop of the Arab vessel, and a voice called out— “Greeting to the Rajah Laut!” “To you ... ...l- known personality in the islands. Such a man might be found amongst the Arab traders. Lingard’s jeal- ousy, said Babalatchi, kept all the traders o... ...affliction. Often the old ruler of Sambir would visit informally the blind Arab and listen gravely to his talk during the hot hours of an afternoon. I...

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...silence of Comedy among a people intensely susceptible to laughter, as the Arabian Nights will testify. Where the veil is over women’s-faces, you cann... ...he Comic spirit is driven to the gutters of grossness to slake its thirst. Arabs in this respect are worse than Italians—much worse than Germans; just... ... and master of critical style, tells of a conversation he had once with an Arab gentleman on the topic of the different man- agement of these difficul... ... agement of these difficult creatures in Orient and in Occi- dent: and the Arab spoke in praise of many good results of the greater freedom enjoyed by... ...oman!’ Our representative of temperate notions demurely consented that the Arab’s pride of inflammability should insist on the prudery of the veil as ... ...mes of some degree of social equality of the sexes. I am not quot- ing the Arab to exhort and disturb the somnolent East; rather for cultivated women ...

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...ch I was almost totally unacquainted, unless by early recollections of the Arabian Nights’ Entertainments; and not only did I labour under the incapac... ... victor in many con- tests. The Saracen came on at the speedy gallop of an Arab horse- man, managing his steed more by his limbs and the inflec- tion ... ..., indeed, no longer the fanatical savages who had burst from the centre of Arabian deserts, with the sabre in one hand and the Koran in the other, to ... ...weat hung still clammy on the limbs of the latter, when those of the noble Arab were com- pletely dried by the interval of tranquil exercise, all savi... ...hem to the fare of the desert, although, since their Syrian conquests, the Arabian simplicity of life frequently gave place to the most unbounded prof... ...rcise both sword and lance. This Theodorick is protected both by T urk and Arab; and, though one of strange conditions at intervals, yet, on the whole... ... oppressive thirst than I have this day experienced.” “It is called in the Arabic language,” answered the Saracen, “by a name which signifies the Diam... ... harsh in an Eastern ear. Brave Saracen, let me ask which of the tribes of Arabia claims your descent, and by what name you are known?” “Sir Kenneth,”... ...“I joy that your name is such as my lips can easily utter. For me, I am no Arab, yet derive my descent from a line neither less wild nor less war- lik...

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... the He- brew Scriptures to result in one of the greatest human epics, the Arab dominion. Mahomet certainly derived from the Hebrews the idea of a des... ...to in C major). Then comes my beau- tiful dominant (G major, common time). Arabia now hark- ens to the Prophet; horsemen arrive (G major, E flat, B fl... ... a tribe the work he will achieve over a world (G major). “He promises the Arabs universal dominion, and they be- lieve him because he is inspired. Th... ...t is world-weary; he has exhausted everything. Now he craves to die a god. Arabia, in fact, worships and prays to him, and we return to the first mela... ...his emotion that he went on. “Act II. The religion is now established. The Arabs are guarding the Prophet’s tent while he speaks with God (cho- rus in... ...chestra, announcing the Prophet’s first triumph (in a broken cadenza). The Arabs adore the Prophet (E flat major), and the Khaled, Amru, and Ali ar- r... ... The armies of the faithful have taken many towns and subjugated the three Arabias. Such a grand recitative!—Mahomet rewards his generals by presentin... ...at prophetic scene, which poor Monsieur Voltaire begins with these words: “Arabia’s time at last has come! “He is interrupted by a chorus of triumphan... ...abia’s time at last has come! “He is interrupted by a chorus of triumphant Arabs (twelve- eight time, accelerando). The tribes arrive in crowds; the h...

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... go—now it is Persia, now it is Macedonia, now the Eastern Empire, now the Arab, now the T urk who is ascendant. The colours change as if they were in... ...l that time there exists ob- stinately an Armenia, an essential Persia, an Arabia; they, too, advance or recede a little. I do not claim that they are... ...een times—the European settlement of America and Siberia, for example, the Arabic sweep across North Africa, the invasion of Britain by the Low German... ...will make roads not only for French, Bel- gians, and Italians, but for the Arabs whose religion and cul- ture already lie like a net over black Africa... ...speak upon such ques- tions, is Islam, and its natural propagandist is the Arab. There is no reason why he should not be a Frenchified Arab. Both the ... ...h the French and the British have the strongest interest in the revival of Arabic culture. Let the German learn T urkish if it pleases him. Through al... ...ca and Western Asia there is a great to-morrow for a renascent Islam under Arab auspices. Constantinople, that venal city of the waterways, sitting li... ... the T urk is a 132 What Is Coming? different thing from the Islam of the Arab. That was one of the great progressive impulses in the world of men. I... ...rogressive impulses in the world of men. It is our custom to underrate the Arab’s contribution to civilisation quite absurdly in comparison with our d...

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...G OF SHA OF SHA OF SHA OF SHA OF SHA GP GP GP GP GP A A A A A T T T T T AN ARABIAN ENTER AN ARABIAN ENTER AN ARABIAN ENTER AN ARABIAN ENTER AN ARABIAN... ...niversity. 3 George Meredith THE SHAVING OF SHAGPAT By George Meredith AN ARABIAN ENTERTAINMENT 1898/1909 BOOK I THE THWACKINGS IT WA S ORDAINED that... ...e she the red whirlwind of the desert before whom all bowed in terror, the Arab, the wild horsemen, and the caravans of pilgrimage; and none could sta... ... By Allah! this is so.’ Then he strode from her swiftly, and called to his Arabs. They had kindled a fire to roast the flesh of a buffalo, slaugh- ter... ...ging beside the flames of the fire. So by the direction of their Chief the Arabs brought slices of sweet buffalo-flesh to Bhanavar, with cakes of grai... ...he dis- tinguished the white cloaks and scarfs and glittering steel of the Arabs of Ruark. Presently she saw a horseman break from the rest, and race ... ...ll do doth she.’ So the twain mounted their steeds, and Ruark gathered his Arabs and placed them, some in advance, some on either side of Bhanavar; an... ...ite; and even while she looked, cries of treason and battle arose from the Arabs that were ahead, hidden by a branching wind of the way round a mounta... ...rriors that were about her, warriors of the mountain; but of Ruark and his Arabs no voice. So she said to them, ‘What do ye with me?’ And one among th...

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...beautiful Greek girl for groom, a little Circassian for a mistress, and an Arab horse! Yes, Ali Tebelen, pacha of Janina, is too little known; he need... ...u. He would draw from your eyes—” “We must paint your dear children in the arabesques,” said Bridau, interrupting Mistigris. “I would rather have them... ...nt. At the affair of the Makta, where the field had to be abandoned to the Arabs, Monsieur de Serizy was left wounded under a dead horse. Oscar, disco... ...He dashed upon the enemy, and his electrified soldiers fol- lowed him. The Arabs, in their first astonishment at this furious and unlooked-for return,... ...t was monsieur who so bravely rescued the Vicomte Jules de Serizy from the Arabs?” said Reybert, “and for whom the count has obtained the collectorshi...

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...ained, that he might learn to love it. So swift, light-limbed and fiery an Arab courser ought, for all man- ner of reasons, to have been trained to sa... ... had you asked. This period of his life he always rather accounted, as the Arabs do the idola- trous times before Mahomet’s advent, the “period of dar... .... “It would be no longer from Jerusalem to Damascus,” writes Sterling, “to Arabia, to Derbe, Lystra, Ephesus, that he would travel: but each house of ... ...its turning on the characters and acts of gods and genii, lions and foxes, Arabs and Affghauns. On the contrary, for philosophic inquiry and truths of... ...ppointed for them, and leave said island stand- ing. Allah kereem, say the Arabs! And of the English also some still know that there is a, difference ... ...magination of the people hereabouts. The Grandfather of all Relics (as the Arabs would say) in the place is the Volto Santo, which is a Face of the Sa... ...rugal people) that the Italians have their Book of Common Prayer and their Arabian Nights’ Entertainments condensed into one.” To the Sa... ...d,” so ends he, once, “that I lately found some- where this fragment of an Arab’s love-song: ‘O Ghalia! If my father were a jackass, I would sell him ...

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...nevolent face, who was adjusting his scarlet cloak, before mounting a gray Arab steed looking as old and wor- thy as himself. “Ha! a young Crusader, I... ...ook- ing down from a considerable elevation upon Sir Robert on his slender Arab. “These are the German monsters that our brethren bring over,” said Si... ...ood for nothing but food for foul birds in the East. Purvey yourself of an Arab as soon as you land. There is a rogue at Acre, one Ali by name, who wi... ... we are—pilgrims grown wiser, and runaway cap- tives, and Druses, and bold Arabs too: and the choicest of many a heretic Armenian merchants’ caravan i... ...y a Saracen village; corn and wine, fair dames, and Dam- ascus blades, and Arab steeds. Nothing has been wanting to me but thee and vengeance, and bot... ...ill and angry, and her antago- nists’ replies in Lingua Franca, mixed with Arabic, Latin, and Greek, rang through the tent, till the Prince could bear... ...married. I have ships at sea, and stuffs and jewels coming from Venice and Araby; and I am like to be Lord Mayor ere long; but there’s that I like in ...

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...ng conditions; it is even possible for us to glance at the helplessness of Arabia, Palestine, and Mesopotamia, as yet incapable of self-government, he... ...ole negro population of Africa is now rotten with diseases intro- duced by Arabs and Europeans during the last century, and such African statesmen as ... ...e the safety of such liberated popu- lations as those of Palestine, of the Arab regions of the old T urkish empire, of Armenia, of reunited Poland, an...

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...rus, he be- takes himself to the opera, prepared to become a soldier or an arab, prisoner, savage, peasant, spirit, camel’s leg or lion, a devil or a ... ...and bottom by bands of poppy-colored stuff, on which were designs in black arabesque. Below the muslin the poppy turned to rose, that amorous color, w... ...e lantern of a good woman who sold brandy and coffee to workmen and street arabs and chestnut venders—to all the Parisian popu- lace which begins its ...