by Elif Shafak
* ‘Welcome, this is now your home.’
* Rice cooked in sweet milk.
* Strong wind that blows from the sea.
* Small.
* Muslim scholars who specialized in law and theology.
* Mystical, intuitive knowledge.
† Sin and vice.
* Commander of the Janissary unit in charge of catapults.
* Sultan’s elite Janissary guard, who accompanied him to mosque, out hunting, etc.
* Amount of land that can be ploughed in a day.
* Armenian Easter.
* A type of syrup widely used in the Middle East.
* Hermaphrodite.
* Rice sweetened with saffron and honey.
* A system whereby the best-looking and most intelligent Christian boys were removed from their families, converted to Islam and recruited to serve the Sultan.
* Cream.
* The utmost disgrace.
* ‘I think that’s all.’
* Types of djinn, huge winged creatures of fire.
* Maternal grandmother.
* Apocalypse.
* Washer of the dead.
* Religious teacher, preacher.
* The one who has reached perfection.
* Halveti Shaykh Suleiman Effendi.
* The meal eaten the night before a fast.
* A sweet syrup made from grapes.
* Document given to a freed slave.
* Evil spirit.
* True.
* Old woman, granny.
