• muṣbughan (dyed): To dye something is to color it. What is meant here is coloring the garment with ʿuṣfur (safflower) and other pleasant hues chosen for adornment.

• ʿaṣb: With a fatḥa on the ʿayn and a sukūn on the ṣād, followed by a bāʾ and nunation. Literally “twisting.” In the Nihāyah it is defined as Yemeni cloth whose yarn is first tightly twisted, then dyed and woven, so that the portions that were twisted remain white while the rest takes on the dye, producing an embroidered appearance.

• nubdha: With ḍamma on the nūn and sukūn on the bāʾ, followed by a dhāl. It means “a piece” or “a small quantity”; its plural is anbādh and it is used for something slight or negligible.

• qust: With ḍamma on the qāf and sukūn on the sīn. According to the Nihāyah, it is a kind of pleasant-smelling perfume that women in postpartum confinement and young children burn as incense.

• aẓfār: With an initial hamzah, sukūn on the ẓāʾ, followed by a fāʾ, an alif, and a rāʾ. It has no singular form. Each piece resembles a fingernail. It is a type of incense-perfume attributed to Ẓifār, one of the coastal districts of Aden.

• takhtaḍib: A woman who ikhtaḍabat alters whatever part of her body she wishes with henna or some other coloring substance.

• tamtašiṭ: When a woman mashta her hair she combs it, arranging and grooming it with a comb.