Who and what is in The Blind Owl

His cousin and foster-sister, now his wife, who refuses him and gives herself to others. Her little brother calls her Shah-joon.

Also زنم، آن لکاته، همین لکاته، این لکاته، این دختر، زنت، شاه‌جون، یک زن لکاته

ent_wife · first appears P094.L09 · 83 lines

The wet-nurse of both the narrator and his wife, who tends him in his illness and brings him gossip.

Also دایه‌ام، ننه‌جون، این زن، دایهٔ پیرم

ent_nurse · first appears P099.L01 · 49 lines

The scarf-wrapped old man of the painting who sits under the cypress, laughs his dry laugh, drives the hearse, digs the grave and gives the narrator the jar. He returns through the book in other men.

Also پیرمرد، پیرمردی قوزکرده، کالسکه‌چی، پیرمرد کالسکه‌چی، پیرمرد قوزکرده، هیکل قوزکردهٔ پیرمرد

ent_old_man · first appears P013.L07 · 36 lines

The old man who sits with his wares opposite the narrator’s window in Part 2; also called the old reciter, the filthy beggar and the demigod. The narrator turns into him.

Also پیرمرد، پیرمرد قاری، مردی شبیه پیرمرد خنزرپنزری، پیرمرد بساطی

ent_junk_dealer · first appears P098.L01 · 35 lines

A painter of pen-case covers who lives alone and writes this account for his shadow. By the end he has become the hunchbacked old man.

Also نقاش مرده‌ها، نقاش روی جلد قلمدان

ent_narrator · first appears P011.L01 · 31 lines

The girl in black of his painting and his vision across the stream; she comes to his house, dies there, and he paints her open eyes before burying her.

Also مرده، یک زن یا فرشته، دختر

ent_ethereal_girl · first appears P007.L02 · 30 lines

His shadow on the wall, shaped like an owl; the one he writes for.

Also سایه‌ام، سایهٔ خودم، سایهٔ مرا، سایه‌های مضاعف خودم، سایه خمیده‌ام

ent_shadow · first appears P004.L06 · 27 lines

Opposite the window; every morning he hangs the sheep carcasses and strokes them before cutting.

Also مرد قصاب، او، این مرد، آن مرد قصاب، قصاب جلو خانه‌مان، قصابها

ent_butcher · first appears P097.L02 · 22 lines

Twin brother of the uncle, a merchant in India who fell in love with the temple dancer.

Also پدرم

ent_father · first appears P015.L06 · 21 lines

A dancer of the Lingam temple in India; the narrator’s mother. The name is also used for the dancing girl painted on the pen case.

Also مادرم، یک بوگام‌داسی، مادر، این دختر، بوگام‌داسی ـ یعنی مادرم، مادر من

ent_bugam_dasi · first appears P100.L04 · 19 lines

His father’s twin, a ship’s captain and merchant to India; looks like the old man of the painting. Which twin survived the cobra ordeal is never known.

Also عمویم، ناخدای کشتی، عمویم پیرمردی بود قوزکرده

ent_uncle · first appears P013.L12 · 19 lines

His father’s sister, who raised him as a son; mother of the wife.

Also عمه‌ام، مرده، مادرش، مادرزنم، مادر او

ent_aunt · first appears P100.L04 · 18 lines

The child the harlot is pregnant with; the nurse reports she is sewing it a burial shirt, and an untimely call to prayer suggests she is in labour.

Also بچه، بچهٔ او، بچه خودش، بچه‌ام

ent_wife_child · first appears P121.L06 · 9 lines

A boy with Turkmen eyes who calls his sister Shah-joon.

Also پسر کوچکش - برادرزنم، چشم‌های ترکمنی خود، برادر، بچه

ent_brother_in_law · first appears P137.L09 · 6 lines

The aunt’s husband, a hunched old man in a scarf.

Also پدرزنم، پدرش

ent_father_in_law · first appears P108.L16 · 6 lines

The doctor who comes to treat the narrator, with a milk-and-sugar-colored turban.

ent_physician · first appears P115.L01 · 6 lines

A motionless figure that sits beside the curtain in the dark and stares at him. Its face is the one he saw at Sizdah Bedar by the Soren stream, it looks like the butcher, and he calls it 'this shadow, my double'. It vanishes when he lights the lamp.

Also یک هیکل ترسناک، صورت او، آن هیکل

ent_double_figure · first appears P158.L04 · 4 lines

The God of the mosque and of Arabic prayer, whom the narrator finds 'too much for me' and suspects is a projection of earthly rulers; the nurse wishes God would kill him to give him ease.

Also خدا، خدایی

ent_god · first appears P151.L02 · 4 lines

The unknown painter who decorated the Ragha jar centuries ago with the same face the narrator drew; the narrator thinks of him as a pen-case painter like himself and an 'old fellow-sufferer'.

Also نقاش کوزه، یک نفر همدرد قدیمی

ent_jar_painter · first appears P076.L03 · 4 lines

Naneh-Joon's daughter-in-law, whom she treats like a co-wife; seen from the courtyard window with hazel eyes, fair hair and a small slender nose.

Also عروسش

ent_nurse_daughter_in_law · first appears P145.L03 · 4 lines

A girl in a thin black silk dress who comes from behind the cypresses by the Soren stream, biting her left fingernail, and vanishes toward the fortress; he takes her for a former inhabitant of ancient Ray. Her gestures and dress echo the wife as a child (P135.L13-17), so she may be a vision of the wife.

Also یک دختر بچه، آن دخترک، آن دختر سیاهپوش

ent_girl_fortress · first appears P134.L05 · 3 lines

The town's police chief, whose arrest the narrator expects; he means to drink the poisoned wine before being taken.

ent_police_chief · first appears P084.L03 · 3 lines

Naneh-Joon's son, whose love for his wife she resents.

Also پسرش

ent_nurse_son · first appears P145.L03 · 2 lines

Indian snake-charmer who conducts the cobra ordeal between the narrator's father and uncle, playing the reed pipe to which Bugam-Dasi dances.

ent_snake_charmer · first appears P102.L07 · 2 lines

The narrator wonders whether the cool hand on his burning forehead at dawn was Azrael's; the nurse says it was his wife's.

ent_azrael · first appears P121.L03 · 1 line

Bathhouse worker who pours water over the narrator's head; for a moment his dark thoughts seem washed away.

ent_bath_attendant · first appears P176.L02 · 1 line

Mentioned only in the narrator's fantasy that the butcher, caressing her, thinks of sheep and what killing her would earn him.

Also زنش

ent_butcher_wife · first appears P164.L08 · 1 line

A madman the narrator is sure was kept chained in his room before dying, whose influence poisons the walls.

Also یک نفر دیوانه زنجیری

ent_chained_madman · first appears P175.L02 · 1 line

The Quran is laid on the dead aunt's belly so that the devil will not enter her body.

ent_devil · first appears P108.L08 · 1 line

Red-clad executioner in the Mohammadiyeh gallows dream, to whom the mother-in-law points the narrator: 'Hang this one too.'

ent_executioner · first appears P142.L03 · 1 line

Mentioned only as having been given an aphrodisiac by the family physician.

Also پدربزرگم

ent_grandfather · first appears P115.L03 · 1 line

Distant street vendor heard at morning crying his wares.

ent_mulberry_seller · first appears P143.L07 · 1 line

The cleric who performed the marriage, reciting a few Arabic words that placed the wife under the narrator's authority.

ent_mullah · first appears P110.L07 · 1 line

The common people, whom the narrator despises.

Also دنیای رجاله‌ها، مردمان معمولی، رجاله‌ها، این رجاله‌ها، رجاله‌هایی

grp_rabble · first appears P093.L04 · 22 lines

A band of drunken watchmen passing in the lane at night, joking obscenely and singing the song of the wine of Ray; the narrator draws back in fear.

Also یک دسته گزمه مست، چند نفر داروغه مست، یکدسته گزمه مست، یک دسته گزمهٔ مست

grp_watchmen · first appears P085.L02 · 5 lines

The harlot's many lovers, whom the narrator courts and brings to her: a tripe seller, a jurist, a liver seller, the chief constable, a well digger, a merchant, a philosopher, 'all apprentices of a sheep-head cook'. They belong to the rabble.

Also فاسق‌های جفت و تاک، فاسقهای او، همه شاگرد کله‌پز، فاسقهای زنم

grp_wife_lovers · first appears P110.L07 · 5 lines

The people of the narrator's house, collectively: they sleep, gather at his door when he screams, and fetch the physician.

Also همهٔ اهل خانه، همه اهل خانه

grp_household · first appears P108.L07 · 3 lines

The long-dead people who lived in the mud-brick ruins on the mountains near the grave; among them, the narrator imagines, was the jar painter.

Also مردمانی، این مردمان

grp_ancient_dwellers · first appears P079.L02 · 2 lines

Children who joined the narrator and the harlot in hide-and-seek by the Soren stream on a childhood Sizdah Bedar.

Also بچه‌ها

grp_children · first appears P135.L11 · 2 lines

The old man under the cypress on the pen case squats like the yogis of India.

grp_yogis · first appears P013.L07 · 2 lines

Euphemism for the jinn; the wife blames them for the bruises on her arm after she went into the cellar.

grp_az_ma_behtaran · first appears P196.L07 · 1 line

Naked, turbaned men who play the monotonous music to which Bugam-Dasi dances in the Lingam temple.

grp_temple_musicians · first appears P101.L12 · 1 line

The Indian cobra of the ordeal between the twin brothers; its venom is in the old wine.

Also مارناگ، یک مارناگ، مار، مار خشمگین، مار خشمناک، یک مار هندی، مار هندی

ent_naga · first appears P102.L04 · 15 lines

The two sheep the butcher's shop uses up each day, whose carcasses he caresses and cuts with the bone-handled knife.

Also گوسفندها، لش گوسفند، ران گوسفندها، دو گوسفند، لاشهٔ گوسفندها، سر همهٔ گوسفندها

crt_sheep · first appears P097.L01 · 11 lines

The two lean black horses, 'like anatomical specimens', with bells at their necks, that draw the old man's hearse; their forelegs are likened to a thief's hands cut off and plunged in hot oil.

Also اسبها

crt_hearse_horses · first appears P056.L02 · 5 lines

Two thin, consumptive black nags that bring sheep carcasses to the butcher's shop each morning; described with the same cut-off-hands image as the hearse horses.

Also یابوهای سیاه لاغر، یابوها، یابوی سیاه لاغر

crt_packhorses · first appears P097.L03 · 5 lines

Thick-necked yellow dog that rules the neighbourhood and looks longingly at the butcher's hand.

Also آن سگ زرد گردن‌کلفت، آن سگ، سگ جلو دکان قصابی، سگ زرد جلو قصابی

crt_yellow_dog · first appears P097.L13 · 4 lines

The narrator becomes like an owl, and his shadow on the wall takes an owl's shape and reads what he writes; it is the book's title image.

crt_owl · first appears P202.L06 · 3 lines

Worms writhing in the clotted blood of the girl's corpse, clinging to the narrator, feasting on her in the grave.

Also کرمهای کوچکی

crt_worms · first appears P066.L04 · 3 lines

Legendary bird that sits alone and silent by the sea; the narrator's image of the silence he once preferred.

crt_butimar · first appears P085.L01 · 1 line

Two golden wasp-flies that circle the narrator after the burial; the jar's glaze is later the colour of a crushed golden wasp.

Also دو مگس زنبور طلایی

crt_wasp_flies · first appears P067.L02 · 1 line

The room where he paints, writes and smokes opium; its window faces the butcher and the junk dealer.

Also اطاقم، اطاق، این اطاق، اتاقم، اطاق خودم، این اطاق فقیر، اطاق تاریک، اطاق کوچکی

plc_room · first appears P010.L02 · 87 lines

The inherited family house where he grew up with his aunt.

Also خانه‌ام، خانه‌مان، خونت، این خانه، خانه‌ای، در خانه‌ام، خونهٔ تو، خونه‌ات

plc_house · first appears P012.L01 · 27 lines

His window onto the street, the butcher’s shop and the junk dealer.

Also دریچه اطاقم، دریچه، پنجرهٔ اطاقم، شیشه‌های پنجره، پنجره اطاقم، دو دریچه، این دو دریچه، دریچهٔ اطاق من

plc_window · first appears P014.L05 · 19 lines

The old city where the story is set.

Also شهر، ملک ری، شهر قدیم ری، کوشکها، مسجدها و باغهایش، شهر ری، شهر قدیمی ری

plc_ray · first appears P063.L04 · 17 lines

Opposite his window.

Also دکانش، دکان قصابی حقیری، دکان، در دکان قصابی، جلو قصابی، قصابی، دکان

plc_butcher_shop · first appears P048.L06 · 15 lines

The dark closet behind his room, with the air-hole through which he first sees the vision.

Also پستوی تاریک اطاقم، پستو، یک پستوی تاریک، پستوی اطاقت، پردهٔ پستو

plc_back_closet · first appears P015.L09 · 14 lines

Where his father and uncle traded and where his mother danced in the temple.

Also هند، هندی، بتکدهٔ هند، شهرهای دیگر هند، یک شهر دوردست هند

plc_india · first appears P013.L07 · 14 lines

Public bath where the narrator watches his shadow on the sweating wall; the wife also goes there, and the nurse says she conceived there.

Also شاهنشین حمام، دیوار حمام، دیوار عرق‌کرده حمام، سر بینه، خزانه حمام، دیوار عرق‌کردهٔ حمام، حموم

plc_bathhouse · first appears P176.L01 · 11 lines

The lonely place beyond the hills where the old man digs the girl’s grave and unearths the jar.

Also این محل، اینجا، قبر، قبر او، آنجا نزدیک کوه

plc_graveyard · first appears P060.L06 · 10 lines

The misty road the hearse travels, lined with crooked trees and gray geometric houses (triangles, cubes, cones) with dark glassless windows overgrown with morning glory.

Also این خانه‌ها، جادهٔ مخصوصی، سر پیچ جاده، این خانه

plc_hearse_road · first appears P058.L02 · 10 lines

The dark dungeon-like room in India into which the father and uncle are thrown with the cobra.

Also سیاهچال، اطاق، اطاق مخصوصی

plc_ordeal_dungeon · first appears P102.L06 · 9 lines

The square air-hole above the shelf in the back closet. Through it the narrator sees the old man, the girl and the cypress. Afterwards it is found walled up, as if it had never existed. It is not the same thing as the room's window (پنجره).

Also روزنهٔ دیوار، سوراخ هواخور رف، روزنهٔ چهارگوشهٔ دیوار، روزنهٔ پستوی اطاقم، یک سوراخ، این روزنه

plc_closet_opening · first appears P015.L12 · 8 lines

Where he and his cousin played hide-and-seek as children on the thirteenth day of Nowruz.

Also همان نهر سورن

plc_stream_soren · first appears P133.L01 · 8 lines

The room the harlot sets apart from the narrator's after his attempt to go to her by force.

Also اطاق، اطاقش، اطاق زنم، اطاق زنم، اطاقش، اطاق او، اطاق آن لکاته

plc_wife_room · first appears P110.L10 · 7 lines

The alley onto which the room's second window opens, connecting him to the city of Ray.

plc_alley · first appears P094.L14 · 5 lines

The house's courtyard, with a stone mortar in its corner; one of the room's two windows opens onto it.

Also گوشه حیاطمان، حیاط خودمان، آب حوض، حیاطمان

plc_courtyard · first appears P090.L04 · 5 lines

The temple in India where Bugam-Dasi danced.

Also معبد لینگم، معبد، بتکده

plc_lingam_temple · first appears P101.L07 · 5 lines

The room where the aunt lies dead with camphor candles; scene of the harlot's single embrace, interrupted by her father through the curtain.

Also اطاق مجاور، اطاق مرده، اطاق

plc_aunt_room · first appears P108.L07 · 4 lines

City in a dream with geometric houses wrapped in morning glory, where everyone has died standing and heads fall off when touched.

Also شهر ناشناسی، این شهر، دکان قصابی (در خواب)، کوچه‌ها

plc_dream_city · first appears P162.L01 · 4 lines

Dried-up riverbed beside the cypress trunk where the girl is buried; echoes the stream by the cypress in the painting.

Also رودخونه، رودخانهٔ خشکی، یک رودخانهٔ خشک

plc_dry_river · first appears P061.L05 · 4 lines

House in the city with a platform (سکو) by the door, where the brother-in-law sits and from which the father-in-law emerges laughing.

Also خانهٔ پدرزنم، سکوی خانه، در خانه

plc_father_in_law_house · first appears P137.L07 · 4 lines

The deserted lanes between whitewashed walls and gray geometric houses (cubes, prisms, cones) with dark doorless openings; also the alley outside his house.

Also کوچه

plc_lanes · first appears P129.L02 · 4 lines

A dry, empty mountain near the Soren stream whose hard bulk reminds him of his nurse; it encloses a small hollow covered with blue morning-glory.

Also کوه، یک کوه خشک خالی

plc_mountain · first appears P133.L01 · 4 lines

Where, through the air-hole, he sees the old man under the cypress and the girl across the stream.

Also آنجا، یک جوی آب

plc_open_ground · first appears P015.L13 · 4 lines

The stream that separates the girl from the old man in the paintings and in the vision. The girl tries to leap it and cannot. q1 leaves it unnamed, so it may be the same as plc_stream_soren.

Also جویی

plc_stream · first appears P013.L08 · 4 lines

Indian city where the narrator's father traded and met Bugam-Dasi; also one of the places the narrator cannot tell he is not in.

Also شهر بنارس

plc_benares · first appears P089.L02 · 3 lines

A tall fortress of heavy bricks on top of the mountain, toward which the little girl in black goes; its shadows seem to come alive as the old inhabitants of Ray.

Also قلعه روی کوه

plc_fortress · first appears P133.L03 · 3 lines

Where the narrator went a few times under compulsion and lost himself looking at the glazed tiles.

Also دیوار مسجد

plc_mosque · first appears P153.L08 · 3 lines

Cemetery where the narrator, lost after the burial, sits on a gravestone and the scarf-wrapped gravedigger gives him the jar.

Also قبرسون، اینجا

plc_roadside_cemetery · first appears P069.L05 · 3 lines

Remains of ancient thick-mud-brick buildings on the ridge above the burial place, where the jar painter's people once lived.

plc_ancient_ruins · first appears P065.L03 · 2 lines

The unnamed city just beyond the ditch from the narrator's isolated house. Everyone goes out of it on Sizdah Bedar. It may turn out to be the seed's plc_ray, but q1 does not name it.

plc_city · first appears P012.L01 · 2 lines

Naneh-Joon's own home, with her son and daughter-in-law, which she talks about endlessly.

Also خانه‌اش، خانه دایه‌ام

plc_nurse_house · first appears P145.L03 · 2 lines

The shrine-cemetery south of Tehran/Ray where the hearse driver says he buries the dead every day; he names the lonely enclosure behind the mountain 'Shah Abdolazim'.

plc_shah_abdolazim · first appears P054.L07 · 2 lines

Upper room where the nurse sets his breakfast; from its sash window the butcher looks ridiculous rather than frightening.

Also بالاخانه، ارسی

plc_upstairs_room · first appears P164.L03 · 2 lines

Named only as one of the places whose ground he may be sitting on.

plc_balkh · first appears P089.L02 · 1 line

Cellar of the house where the wife claims the jinn pinched her.

plc_cellar · first appears P196.L07 · 1 line

The gate through which the narrator suddenly finds he has left the city on his walk toward the Soren.

plc_city_gate · first appears P131.L08 · 1 line

The ditch that separates the narrator's house and the ruins around it from the mud houses where the city begins.

plc_ditch · first appears P012.L03 · 1 line

The arched recess, a little beyond the butcher's shop, under which the old junk dealer sits with his wares.

Also زیر یک طاقی

plc_junk_dealer_arch · first appears P098.L01 · 1 line

The execution square of his gallows dream.

Also محمدیه

plc_mohammadiyeh · first appears P142.L01 · 1 line

Named only as one of the places whose ground he may be sitting on.

plc_nishapur · first appears P089.L02 · 1 line

The narrator flings the bone-handled knife onto the roof after his first attempt on the wife.

plc_roof · first appears P195.L20 · 1 line

Glazed violet jar of ancient Ray, dug up by the hearse driver and given to the narrator; bordered with blue morning glory and painted with the girl's face, identical to his own drawing.

Also کوزه، این کوزه، نقاشی کوزه، چیزی شبیه کوزهٔ لعابی، چیزی در دستمال بسته، گلدان

obj_ragha_jar · first appears P062.L07 · 24 lines

The narrator's own old suitcase. He packs the girl's dismembered body into it to carry far away and bury, and finds it too heavy to carry alone.

Also چمدان، چمدون، چمدان مرده

obj_suitcase · first appears P052.L09 · 20 lines

A flask of old wine on the high shelf of the back closet. He inherited it from his father, and it was made on the occasion of his birth. Reaching for it, he sees the vision. Later he pours a cup from it into the girl's mouth.

Also بغلی شراب، یک بغلی شراب کهنه، بغلی، پیاله شراب زهرآلود، یک بغلی شراب ارغوانی، شراب ارغوانی، اکسیر مرگ، همان زهری

obj_wine_flask · first appears P015.L10 · 18 lines

The tree that the hunchbacked old man sits under in every painting and in the vision. Later the narrator searches for it and cannot find it.

Also درخت‌های سرو، یک درخت سرو، درخت سروی، آن درخت سرو، تنهٔ درختی، تنهٔ درخت سرو، یک درخت کهن سرو، درخت کهن سرو

obj_cypress · first appears P013.L07 · 17 lines

The narrator's refuge from pain and memory, together with wine. He increases his dose after losing the girl.

Also تریاک، بساط تریاک، افیون، رویای افیونی، تریاکی، وافور، دود اثیری تریاک

obj_opium · first appears P001.L04 · 17 lines

The flower that the girl offers the old man across the stream. The narrator decides it was no ordinary flower.

Also گلهای نیلوفر کبود، بته‌های نیلوفر کبود بی‌بو، گل نیلوفر، گل نیلوفر کبودی، گلهای نیلوفر، گل نیلوفر معمولی، بتهٔ گل نیلوفر، ساقهٔ نیلوفرها

obj_morning_glory · first appears P013.L08 · 16 lines

The junk dealer's scarf; the wife's 'Undo your neck-scarf!' refers to it, and the narrator wraps himself in one to become the old man.

Also شال گردنتو، شال گردنم، شال گردن پهنی، شال‌گردن چرک، شال‌گردن

obj_neck_scarf · first appears P054.L04 · 15 lines

The old man's rickety hearse with a coffin space, drawn by two black horses, which carries the narrator to the burial and home.

Also کالسکه، یه کالسکه نعش‌کش، یک کالسکهٔ نعش‌کش لکنته، کالسکه‌اش

obj_hearse · first appears P054.L06 · 14 lines

The narrator makes his living painting pen-case covers, always the same scene. His uncle sells them in India.

Also جلد قلمدان، قلمدان، قلمدانهای قدیم، جلد قلمدانها، نقاشیهای روی جلد قلمدان، روی قلمدان، قلمدان‌ساز، قلمدانی

obj_pen_case · first appears P011.L01 · 14 lines

The bone-handled knife kept in the back closet, which the narrator uses to cut up the girl's body. In q1 it is called کارد, not گزلیک.

Also گزلیک دسته‌استخوانی، یک گزلیک دسته‌استخوانی، گزلیک، کارد دسته‌استخوانی، گزلیک خودم، گزلیکی

obj_bone_knife · first appears P053.L01 · 13 lines

Mirror on his room's wall, more important to him than the world of the rabble; he no longer recognises himself in it.

Also یک آینه، آینه دق

obj_mirror · first appears P088.L02 · 13 lines

His room's tallow lamp; when he lights it, the frightening figure vanishes.

Also یک پیه‌سوز، پیه‌سوزی، پیه‌سوز اطاقم

obj_oil_lamp · first appears P084.L01 · 13 lines

The pleated, close-fitting black dress the girl wears in the painting, in the vision and at her death. The narrator later lays it over her dismembered body in the suitcase.

Also لباس سیاه بلند، لباس سیاه چین‌خورده، رخت سیاه نازکی، لباس سیاه چین‌خورده‌اش، لباس سیاه نازکی، لباس سیاه ابریشمی او

obj_black_dress · first appears P013.L08 · 8 lines

The picture he drew of the dead girl the previous night, found identical to the face on the jar.

Also نقاشی، تصویری، نقاشی من روی کاغذ، نقاشی خودم، نقاشیها، عکسها

obj_drawing · first appears P048.L02 · 8 lines

Drink in general, which the narrator uses with opium to forget. The specific inherited flask is a separate entry, obj_wine_flask.

Also شراب، مشروب، شراب کهنهٔ شیرین، شراب ملک ری

obj_wine · first appears P001.L04 · 8 lines

Cloak the narrator wears while smoking opium and puts on, yellow, hunched over, before going to the wife's room.

Also عبا، یک عبای زرد، پوستین و عبا، عبای زرد، عبایم

obj_cloak · first appears P179.L04 · 7 lines

Dirty handkerchief in which the hearse driver wraps the jar; the junk dealer's jar is likewise covered by a checked handkerchief.

Also دستمال، دستمال چرکی، دستمال چروکی، دستمال چک، آن دستمال پرمعنی، همان دستمالی

obj_handkerchief · first appears P062.L07 · 7 lines

A funeral coffin carried past his window, and the image of his room as a coffin.

obj_coffin · first appears P166.L01 · 6 lines

The brazier beside which the narrator smokes opium.

Also منقل تریاک

obj_brazier · first appears P151.L01 · 5 lines

Indian silk shirt smelling of mogra perfume that he takes from her bed and sleeps with; she raises a fuss over it.

Also پیرهن او، پیراهن، پیراهن کهنهٔ زنم، پیرهن منو

obj_wife_shirt · first appears P195.L21 · 5 lines

Gold-embroidered Indian curtain before the door, perhaps sent by the father or uncle, showing a hunchbacked old man like an Indian yogi under a cypress with a setar and a chained Bugam-Dasi-like girl dancing. In the dark the double sits beside it.

Also پرده گلدوزی، پرده عجیب ترسناکی، پرده‌های زردوزی هندی، پرده

obj_curtain · first appears P146.L11 · 4 lines

Glazed jar under a checked handkerchief among the junk dealer's wares, the only one he kept from his years as a potter; probably to be identified with the Ragha jar.

Also یک کوزهٔ لعابی، همین یکدانه کوزه، کوزه‌اش، این کوزه

obj_junk_dealer_jar · first appears P098.L03 · 4 lines

A recurring image of the narrator's love: the girl is like a female mandrake torn from her mate, and he lies with her corpse like the male and female mandrake.

Also مادهٔ مهرگیاه، نر و مادهٔ مهرگیاه

obj_mandrake · first appears P018.L03 · 4 lines

The tin box where the narrator keeps his money. He hides the drawing of the eyes in it, in the back closet.

Also قوطی

obj_tin_box · first appears P050.L06 · 4 lines

Two cookies he takes from the shelf when he flees the house and gives to his brother-in-law as if from 'Shajoon'.

Also دوتا کلوچه، کلوچه‌هایی، کلوچه‌ها

obj_cookies · first appears P129.L01 · 3 lines

The large two-person cradle in which he and his wife lay as infants.

obj_cradle · first appears P116.L04 · 3 lines

Refrain the narrator hums and the drunken watchmen sing: 'Come, let us go and drink wine, the wine of the land of Ray'.

obj_ray_song · first appears P180.L10 · 3 lines

Water jar on the shelf that he fears will fall, then knocks down and breaks by an unwilled impulse. It is not the Ragheh jar (گلدان راغه).

Also کوزه، کوزه آب

obj_water_jug · first appears P143.L01 · 3 lines

Tall gallows raised in Mohammadiyeh in his dream, from which the junk dealer hangs.

obj_gallows · first appears P142.L01 · 2 lines

The winter heating table set over the cistern in his room, around which he, the nurse and the harlot slept as children.

obj_korsi · first appears P146.L09 · 2 lines

The great idol Lingam before which Bugam-Dasi dances, and whose religion the father adopts.

Also بت بزرگ لینگم، مذهب لینگم

obj_lingam · first appears P101.L08 · 2 lines

A Quran placed on the dead aunt's belly.

Also یک قرآن

obj_quran · first appears P108.L08 · 1 line