ali baba

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(Edebiyat) Ali Baba and Forty Thieves
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A fictional character featured in Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves of The Arabian Nights, famous for his encounter with the Forty Thieves and their treasure trove cave that opens on the command "open sesame"
An ethnic slur used by occupational soldiers for a native of Iraq
An extremely lucky person, especially one who acquires a large fortune by luck or by chance
poor woodcutter who entered the cave of the forty thieves by means of the magic words "Open Sesame" (from one of the stories in "The Arabian Nights")
the main character in a story called Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, from The Arabian Nights. Ali Baba sees 40 thieves enter a secret cave (=a large hole in the side of a cliff or under the ground) by saying the magic words "Open Sesame", which makes a door in the cliff open. He repeats these words, enters the cave, and takes some of the gold that the thieves keep there
the fictional woodcutter who discovered that `open sesame' opened a cave in the Arabian Nights' Entertainments
Forty Thieves
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
A classic tale of medieval Arabic literature where the honest protagonist Ali Baba defeats the Forty Thieves whose robberies were in a cave that automatically opens and seals itself, respectively, on the commands Open Sesame and Close Sesame
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