Vulgar words in Arabian nights. English (Page 1)
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Answered the Persian, "Allah damn the Prince!
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Quoth the Caliph, "O Abu Nowas, I have sought direction of Allah Almighty and have appointed thee Kazi of pimps and panders."
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Presently, in walked Abu Nowas and was about to take his usual seat, when the Caliph cried to Masrur, the sworder, and bade him strip the poet of his clothes and bind an ass's packsaddle on his back and a halter about his head and a crupper under his rump and lead him round to all the lodgings of the slave-girls, --And Shahrazad perceived the dawn of day and ceased saying her permitted say.
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When it was the Three hundred and Eighty-third Night, She said, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that the Caliph commanded Masrur, the sworder, to strip Abu Nowas of his court-suit and bind an ass's packsaddle on his back and a halter about his head, and a crupper under his rump and lead him round to all the lodgings of the slave-girls, and the chambers of the Harim, that the women might make mock of him; then cut off his head and bring it to him.
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But for the teacher ne'er, by Allah, eye * Of mine beheld a bigger pimp than he!"
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And they tell a tale of THE MILLER AND HIS WIFE There was a miller, who had an ass to turn his mill; and he was married to a wicked wife, whom he loved, while she hated him because she was sweet upon a neighbour, who misliked her and held aloof from her.
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[FN#118] And I have heard this tale of THE SIMPLETON AND THE SHARPER A certain simpleton was once walking along, haling his ass after him by the halter, when a pair of sharpers saw him and one said to his fellow, "I will take that ass from yonder wight."
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Quoth the sharper, "I am thine ass and my story is a wonderous one and tis this.
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But I took my staff and beat her, whereupon she cursed me and Allah changed me into an ass and caused me fall into thy hands, where I have remained till this moment.
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"; and he answered, "Thou knowest not what was this ass; but I will tell thee."
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Go to the market and buy us an ass and ply thy work with it."
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Accordingly, he went to the market and stopped by the ass-stand, where behold, he saw his own ass for sale.
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When menstuous she bawds; when clean she whores; * And all her time bawd or adulteress is."
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Now when the Badawi heard this, he stretched himself out to full length on the donkey's back and let fly a terrible loud fart[FN#142] and said to Ja'afar, "Take this fart in payment of thy prescription.
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So I fell in love with her; but, two days after, the same man passed, singing the following couplet, Ass and Umm Amr' went their way; * Nor she, nor ass returned for aye.'
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Thou hast entered my house and sold my kerchief and spent my silver: so, with whom art thou wroth, O pimp?
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And I stood there but a little while before there came up a black slave, leading an ass bestridden by a damsel; and under her were housings set with gems and pearls and upon her were the richest of clothes, richness can go no farther; and I saw that she was elegant of make with languorous look and graceful mien.
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She sang and we drank, till I rose to obey a call of nature.
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he let fly a fart, great and terrible.
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But a consuming fire was lit in Abu Hasan's heart; so he pretended a call of nature; and, in lieu of seeking the bride chamber, he went down to the house court and saddled his mare and rode off, weeping bitterly, through the shadow of the night.
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Now the listener no sooner heard these words than he rose up from the bench, and fled away saying to himself, "Verily thy fart hath become a date, which shall last for ever and ever; even as the poet said, 'As long as palms shall shift the flower; * As long as palms shall sift the flour.
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She replied, "My name is Zabiyah,[FN#218] 0 Commander of the Faithful;" and he, "Sing to us Zabiyah;" so she warbled like a bird with many a trill and sang these two couplets, "Houris, and highborn Dames who feel no fear of men, * Like Meccan game forbidden man to slam:[FN#219] Their soft sweet voices make you deem them whores, * But bars them from all whoring Al-Islam."
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The handmaiden walked, with the gait of a gazelle in flight and fit to damn a devotee, till she came to a chair, whereon she seated herself.--And Shahrazad perceived the dawn of day and ceased saying her permitted say.
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When it was the Four Hundred and Seventeenth Night, She said, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that the hand maiden walked with the gait of a gazelle in flight, fit to damn a devotee, till she came to a chair whereon she seated herself.
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How many goodly wights have slept the night, enjoying * Buttocks of boys, and woke at morn in foulest mess Their garments stained by safflower, which is yellow merde; * Their shame proclaiming, showing colour of distress.
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"Jacob's wolf and the Seven Sleepers' dog and Esdras's ass and Salih's camel and Duldul the mule of the Prophet (upon whom be blessings and peace!)."
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One day, some neighbours of hers, who were woodcutters, came to her and said, "Buy thy son an ass and cords and an axe and let him go with us to the mountain and we will all of us cut wood for fuel.
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When she heard this, she joyed with exceeding joy and bought her son an ass and cords and hatchet; then, carrying him to the woodcutters, delivered him into their hands and solemnly committed him to their care.
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She asked, "What brought about his death?" and they answered, "We were cutting wood on the mountain- top, when there fell on us a heavy downfall of rain and we took shelter from it in a cavern; and suddenly thy son's ass broke loose and fled into the valley, and he ran after it, to turn it back, when there came out upon them a great wolf, who tore thy son in pieces and ravined the ass."
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"Khilal," as an emblem of attenuation occurring in Al-Hariri (Ass.
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We find it in Al-Hariri (Ass.
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Al-Haríri (Ass.
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Al-Hariri (Ass.
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Lawátí), much used in Persian as a buffoon, a debauchee, a rascal.
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The first bird is popularly supposed to have been a pigeon, and is referred to by Hudibras, "Th' apostles of this fierce religion Like Mahomet, were ass and widgeon."
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A.H. p.144) and which Indian Moslems picture with human face, ass's ears, equine body and peacock's wings and tail.
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Hence the Moslem when scrupulous uses na'al (shoe) for la'an (curse) as Ina'al abúk (for Ila'an abu'-k) or, drat (instead of damn) your father.
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Amongst the Hindus we have Brahma (the Creator) and Viswakarmá, the anti-Creator: the former makes a horse and a bull and the latter caricatures them with an ass and a buffalo, and so forth.