arabian nights in English

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a collection of stories and romances written in Arabic, called in full The Arabian Nights' Entertainment . The stories include the tales of Aladdin and Sinbad the Sailor.

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2. The plot is based on stories from the Arabian Nights.

3. 1001 Arabian Nights is the first in a series of popular puzzle games

4. Lit.: Arabian Nights, “The Barmecide’s Feast”] See: Illusion Barmecide feast beggar given empty dishes, imaginary

5. Citizen Perera is being treated to another Barmecide feast like the beggar in the Arabian Nights

6. " Sounds like the Arabian Nights , " said Mrs. White , as she rose and began to set the supper .

7. Lit.: Arabian Nights, “The Barmecide’s Feast”] See: Feast Barmecide feast imaginary feast served t0 beggar by prince

8. Aladdin definition is - a youth in the Arabian Nights' Entertainments who comes into possession of a magic lamp.

9. She woke Astart, and in her sleep's amaze, * Swayed as the swaying branch in rain we see; Arabian nights

10. From a tale in the Arabian Nights in which a rich man serves a beggar an imaginary banquet; see Barmecide

11. Barmecide was a prince in the Arabian Nights who offered a beggar a feast and set an empty plate before him

12. 'Barmecide' is a fictional eponym from the Arabian Nights which refers to a meal that looks good but doesn't come up to expectations.

13. Arabian Nights is a compelling look at both Arabic culture and Western ideas of the East--and the perfect addition to any home library

14. After Barmecide, a nobleman in the story "Barber's Sixth Brother" from the collection "One Thousand and One Nights" (also known as "The Arabian Nights")

15. Barmecide definition, a member of a noble Persian family of Baghdad who, according to a tale in The Arabian Nights' Entertainments, gave a beggar a pretended feast with empty dishes

16. (In The Arabian Nights, Aladdin finds a magic lamp in a Cave.) I know you think your garage is full of junk, but to an antiques collector like me, it's an Aladdin's Cave! See also: Cave Cave in 1

17. “Aladdin” is of course is adapted from the eponymous Middle Eastern folktale from the eighteenth-century anthology “One Thousand and One Arabian Nights,” and tells the story of a penniless street urchin who finds a magic lamp and discovers that inside is …

18. It refers to a story in The Arabian Nights’ Entertainments, in which a prince named Barmecide invites a poor, starving man to a sumptuous feast, at which all the dishes are imaginary.The poor man plays his host’s game, pretends to get drunk on the imaginary wine, and strikes the prince.

19. ‘The Barmecide caressed Schacabac mightily, and told him, "I not only forgive the blow you have given me, but I desire henceforward we should be friends.’ Origin Early 18th century (as a noun): from Arabic Barmakī, the name of a prince in the Arabian Nights' Entertainments, who gave a beggar a feast consisting of ornate but empty dishes.

20. N Barmecide One who offers imaginary food or illusory benefits: in allusion to the story, told in the Arabian Nights, of a member of the Barmecide family of Bagdad, who on one occasion placed a succession of empty dishes before a beggar, pretending that they contained a sumptuous repast, a fiction which the beggar humorously accepted.; Barmecide Like, or like the entertainment of, the