[FN#379] Arab. "Mayd á n al-F í l," prob. for Birkat al-F í l, the Tank of the Elephant before-mentioned. Lane quotes Al Makrizi who in his Khitat informs us that the lakelet was made abot the end of the seventh century (A.H.), and in the seventeenth year of the eighth century became the site of the stables. The Bresl. Edit. (iv. 214) reads "Maydan al-'Adl," prob. for Al-' Á dil the name of the King who laid out the Mayd á n.
[FN#380] Arab. "Ash á b al-Ziy á '," the latter word mostly signifies estates consisting, strictly speaking of land under artificial irrigation.
[FN#381] The Bresl. Edit. (iv. 215) has "Chaw á shiyah" = 'Chiaush, the Turkish word, written with the Pers. "ch," a letter which in Arabic is supplanted by "sh," everywhere except in Morocco.
[FN#382] Arab. "Z á wiyah" li
