A dreamer or visionary who makes unrealistic plans; someone who indulges in idle fantasies about the future without taking practical action.
From the Arabic tale 'Alnaschar and His Glass Bottles' in the Arabian Nights, where a poor man dreams of becoming wealthy through fantasies about selling glass wares. The character's name became a type name for impractical dreamers.
This word comes directly from a medieval Middle Eastern folktale—it shows how powerful stories travel across cultures so completely that character names become vocabulary words describing a personality type everyone recognizes.
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