Lane imagines that it came from the Jew's daughter being called'Sa'adat.' But the latter is the Jew's wife （Night dcccxxxiii）
and the word in the text is plural.
[194]Arab.'Furkh samak'lit.a fish-chick，an Egyptian vulgarism.
[195]Arab.'Al-Rasif'；usually a river-quay，levee，an embankment.Here it refers to the great dyke which distributed the Tigris-water.
[196]Arab.'Dajlah，'see vol.i，p 180.It is evidently the origin of the biblical'Hiddekel''Hid'= fierceness；swiftness.
[197]Arab.'Bayaz'a kind of Silurus （S.Bajad，Forsk.）
which Sonnini calls Bayatto，Saksatt and Hebede；also Bogar （Bakar，an ox）.The skin is lubricous，the flesh is soft and insipid and the fish often grows to the size of a man.Captain Speke and I found huge specimens in the Tangany ika Lake.
[198]Arab.'Mu'allim，'vulg.'M'allim，'prop.= teacher；master esp.of a trade，a craft.In Egypt and Syria it is a civil address to a Jew or a Christian，as Hajj is to a Moslem.
[199]Arab.'Gharamah，'an exaction，usually on the part of government like a corvee etc.The Europeo-Egyptian term is Avania （Ital.） or Avanie （French）.
[200]Arab.'Sayyib-hu'an Egyptian vulgarism found also in Syria.Hence Saibah，a woman who lets herself go （a-whoring）
etc.It is syn.with'Dashar，'which Dozy believes to be a softening of Jashar；and Jashsh became Dashsh.
[201]The Silurus is generally so called in English on account of its feeler-acting mustachios.
[202]See Night dcccvii，vol.viii.p.94.
[203]This extraordinary confusion of two distinct religious mythologies cannot be the result of ignorance.Educated Moslems know at least as much as Christians do，on these subjects，but the Rawi or story-teller speaks to the'Gallery.' In fact it becomes a mere'chaff' and The Nights give some neat specimens of our modern linguistic.
[204]See vol.ii.197.'Al-Siddikah'（fem.） is a title of Ayishah，who，however，does not appear to have deserved it.
[205]The Jew's wife.