3.5.18
The above are in addition to words that give direct expression to this joy and happiness, such as86
jaʿbāʾ,
“huge and large”
jalanbāʾ,
“fat”; synonyms khunḍubah, khaḍʿabah, kabkābah, ḥawthāʾ, waʿthah
khidabbah,
“huge”
dikhdibah,
“firm”
sarhabah,
“immense”
ṭubākhiyyah,
“fleshy”
lubākhiyyah,
“well fleshed”; synonym diʿkāyah
mubarnadah,
“well fleshed”; similarly, hudkūrah
thaʾdah
sturdily built and “well fleshed”
thahmad,
“fat and large”
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rajrājah,
a woman whose flesh quivers upon her
ḍamʿaj,
“a perfect, huge woman”
baydaḥ,
“corpulent”; synonym baldaḥ
daḥūḥ,
“large”
dumluḥah,
“huge and full-bodied”
ṣaldaḥah,
“broad”
baydakhah,
“full-bodied”
murmūrah,
“with skin that is smooth and flesh that quivers”
dakhūṣ,
“full of fat”
raḍrāḍah,
“having flesh that quivers upon her”
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biliz,
“huge or light”
daḥmalah,
“huge and full-bodied”
dumaḥilah,
“fat and comely of physique”
rabilah,
“massively thighed”
qiṣāf,
“huge”
muzannarah,
“tall and large-bodied”
mulaʿʿaẓah,
“well built, tall, and fat”
haykalah,
“huge”
ḍunʾakah,
“firm-fleshed and tendonous”
kināz,
“with much flesh, and solid”
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munizzah,
“hard and tight”
mulazzazah,
“well knit and vigorous”
khanḍarif,
“huge and fleshy with large breasts”
qahbalis,
“huge”
shakhīṣah,
“immense”
dayyāṣah,
“well fleshed and short”
ʿānik,
“fat”
ʿabīlah,
“massive”
maʾlah,
“fat and huge”
warihah,
one says “the woman became warihah” meaning “her body fat increased”
khaẓiyah baẓiyah,
“fat and plump”
and others too many to cite. Does “His Honor Our Lord the Most Excellent” judge or “Our Venerated” emir have half as many names and sobriquets? This ends our demonstration of the misconception regarding the practice of this custom.87
3.5.22
Now I declare: the next morning, once the aforementioned business of the backside-turning had taken its course, the Fāriyāq beseeched her to travel, supported in this by the Bag-man and his wife, all of them promising her she would see marvels on the island that would make her forget the unpleasantness of separation from her loved ones. With God’s help and His intervention for a happy outcome, she agreed, and they set off on the “fire-ship.” The Almighty also was kind enough to harden the heart of the captain against her: every time he heard her moan with pain he would get angry, mutter to himself, and damn the eyes of women and their traveling. Among the servants, however, there was a comely young man who tried to take his place, though he failed to do so because of the shortness of the distance, which was on the order of five days (enough, on land, to seduce five girls, ten grown women, and fifteen widows). Then they reached the island’s quarantine, where they stayed for thirty days, after which they entered the town, each family taking lodgings appropriate to its situation.