Arabic-L:LING:Phoenix responses

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Date:  12 Oct 2001
From: "Munther A. Younes" <may2 at cornell.edu>
Subject: Phoenix response

Part of the story "Wakeel al-Bahr wal-TayTawa" in the "Lion and Ox"
chapter of Kalila wa Dimna by Ibn al-Muqaffa9 deals with al-9anqaa',
the queen of the birds.

Munther Younes
Cornell University

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Date:  12 Oct 2001
From: "Schub, Michael" <michael.schub at trincoll.edu>
Subject: Phoenix response

See *1001 Nights* (translated by E. Lane), Chap 20, n.22; and
Lane's Dictionary, p. 2177, Column 1, middle.
[The Hebrew cognate means "giant."]  Best wishes,
                                       Mike Schub

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