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Sāḳī
(4,960 words)
(a.), cup-bearer, the person charged with pouring wine, to be distinguished from the chief butler or sommelier (
s̲h̲arābī or
ṣāḥib al-s̲h̲arāb ). The chief butler, an important official of the ʿAbbāsid court and the great houses of the highest classes (M.M. Ahsan,
Social
life under the
ʿAbbāsids , London 1979, 156), is not unreminiscent of the
sār ha-mas̲h̲kīm of the Pharaohs’ court (Gen. xl, 1) and the Sāsānid
maybad̲h̲ (A. Christensen,
L’Iran sous les Sassanides2 , Copenhagen 1944, 21-3, 389). 1. In Arabic usage. During the
D̲j̲āhiliyya .
sāḳī had a double c…
Mart̲h̲iya
(12,364 words)
or
mart̲h̲āt (A., pl.
marāt̲h̲ī ) “elegy”, a poem composed in Arabic (or in an Islamic language following the Arabic tradition) to lament the passing of a beloved person and to celebrate his ¶ merits;
rit̲h̲āʾ , from the same root, denotes both lamentation and the corresponding literary genre. 1. In Arabic literature. The origin of the
mart̲h̲iya may be found in the rhymed and rhythmic laments going with the ritual movements performed as a ritual around the funeral cortège by female relatives of the deceased, before this role bec…
