Ali Baba

[ ah-lee bah-bah, al-ee bab-uh ]

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noun

the poor woodcutter, hero of a tale in The Arabian Nights' Entertainments, who uses the magic words “Open sesame” to open the door to the cave in which the Forty Thieves had hidden their treasure.

Ali Baba

/ ˈælɪ ˈbɑːbə /

(in The Arabian Nights' Entertainments ) a poor woodcutter who discovers that the magic words "open sesame" will open the doors of the cave containing the treasure of the Forty Thieves

Ali Baba

The title character in “Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves,” a story from the . Ali Baba gains the treasure of the thieves, which they keep in a cave with a magical entrance.

Ali Baba opens the door of the thieves' cave with the magical password “Open, sesame.”

Ali Baba and his son, shocked at this action, cried out aloud.

Ali Baba did so, and seeing a man, started back in alarm, and cried out.

Then each of them took his saddle wallet, which seemed to Ali Baba to be full of gold and silver from its weight.

Ali Baba received Khaujeh Houssain with a smiling countenance, and in the most obliging manner.

But a slave having opened the door, Ali Baba's son took him obligingly by the hand, and in a manner forced him in.

April 19, 2024tortuous

[tawr-choo-uhs ]

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