1statusIslammil.Mameluke, elite soldier in various Muslim countries (descending from emancipated slaves that established a military-political class):
(
1194-99;
MS: s.xiii2
) Dampnedeus [...] Leva entr’els unes tençons Des Cordins e des Mamelons, Saveir mon li quels descendoient A pié e nos genz [a]tendroient
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(
1219-21;
MS: s.xivin
)
Saffedin out quinze femmes [....]. E si acune de eles out fiz de li [...], si gireit ové cele plus sovent ke ové totes les autres. Cele ke n'ust nul enfaunt de li serreit balie a un mameliu
(l. mameluc) a garder cum ben li plut
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Mameluc (1194-99)