DİS and not DUYUS, as found in Freytag; see Alcala under junco. Captain Lyon (Travels in Northern Africa, p. 256) writes DÉESA, that is, DĪSA; this is the name of a unit, which Alcala also gives. In the very correct manuscript containing the Treatise on the Art of War, this word is also written with a kasra in this passage (man. 92, fol. 85): AL-QURUS IS A PIECE OF ROPE FROM SHIP ROPES AND IT IS GRASS AMONG THEM. (First Egypt) DALA' LAHU AL-DUYYIS MINHU TU'MALU HIBALU AL-SUFUNI KAMA YA'MALU AQALLU AL-'IRAQI MIN AL-SA'IB.

DHA'IB pl. DAWĀ'IB, purse (of hemp), p. 114; Cazwini, II, p. 175.

DHAHAB. The word DHA'IB in the phrase p. 133, l. 5, is very embarrassing. M. de Goeje has only hesitantly translated: "which begin to disappear," and he now believes that this translation is no more admissible than that of Jaubert, who believed that DHA'IB designated a species of fig tree (see p. 158 of the translation). Indeed, although DHAHAB can mean "beginning to disappear," the context of the phrase requires another meaning. DHA'IB KABIR WA TAJAR TAMAR DHA'IB, says the author; he therefore generally praises the fruit trees of this country, and one would be led to believe that DHA'IB means approximately the same thing as DAMIR. It would not be impossible for it to have this meaning. One says FI AL-SAMA'I FI AL-SAMA' AW DHA'IB FI AL-SAMA' for very high (Mas'oudi, II, p. 48, 82; Ibn-Batouta, I, p. 287, 337, IV, p. 165); similarly DHA'IB FI AL-GHARS (Edrisi, Clim. I, Sect. 7; and in it he called it DHA'IB FI AL-GHARS and in the Kitab al-Aghani one finds QALA MU'ABBAD GHANNAT DA'AJANI GHANA'I WA A'JABA AL-NASU DHAHAB (p. 44) DHAHAB or is almost a synonym of DA'IR.

RA'S. RA'S often indicates what is most remote, distant. When speaking of time and things that have duration, it means: the end, the term. Thus RA'S AL-SAMADI, FI RA'SI ANQURUN, FI RA'SI AL-SAMADI, (or rather meaning, at the end of the century, of the year; see Meusinger, Supputai Liber de interpretibus Koran, p. 65, RA'S AL-SAYRI.