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"Asker" Quotes from Famous Books
... "royal," a superior growth. The same story makes mention (vol. i. 94) of Kalandars or religious mendicants, a term popularly corrupted, even in writing, to Karandal.[FN179] Here again "Kalandar" may be due only to the scribes as the Bresl. Edit. reads Sa'aluk asker, beggar. The Khan al-Masrur in the Nazarene Broker's story (i. 265) was a ruin during the early ninth century A.H. A.D. 1420; but the Bab Zuwaylah (i. 269) dates from A.D. 1087. In the same tale occurs the Darb al-Munkari (or Munakkari) which is ... — The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 10 • Richard F. Burton |
Words linked to "Asker" : quizzer, examiner, ask, cross-examiner, interrogator, inquisitor, interviewer, questioner, verbalizer, speaker, talker, pollster, utterer, canvasser, tester, querier, verbaliser, inquirer, enquirer, cross-questioner, headcounter, poll taker |
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