Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Mountain; mount: a term occurring in some geographic names of Arabic origin. It is concealed in Gibraltar.
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- noun A
hill , amountain (especially in the Middle East or North Africa).
Etymologies
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Examples
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Tariq was the conqueror; "jebel" is Arabic for mountain.
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From the glassed-in porch of our small stone-block two-bedroom house all we could see for miles was flat desert interspersed with the occasional jebel and a bit of scrubby vegetation.
Crossing Mandelbaum Gate Kai Bird 2010
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From the glassed-in porch of our small stone-block two-bedroom house all we could see for miles was flat desert interspersed with the occasional jebel and a bit of scrubby vegetation.
Crossing Mandelbaum Gate Kai Bird 2010
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Endemic lists from Wickens for the Jebel Marra Area include Gnaphalium marranum, Celsia sudanica, Kickxia aegyptiaca, K. dibolophylla, Pletranthus jebel-marrae, and Felicia dentata.
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Otherways wesways like that provost scoffing bedoueen the jebel and the jpysian sea.
Finnegans Wake 2006
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They occupy this coastal strip, with a high jebel protecting them from the desert.
Two For The Lions Davis, Lindsey 1998
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The deep wooded valleys of the high jebel are as peaceful and mysterious as Delphi itself.
Two For The Lions Davis, Lindsey 1998
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Tomorrow when it's light we'll go for a stroll around the jebel and look for a feather.
Two For The Lions Davis, Lindsey 1998
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It is a finely conspicuous island, for upon the north end there is a lofty barn-roofed jebel or hill.
Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan Bennet Burleigh
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By this time you have learned that gebel is a mountain, and _jebel_, as you will find it on your map of the Peninsula of Sinai, means the same thing.
Asiatic Breezes Students on The Wing Oliver Optic 1859
qms commented on the word jebel
Flatlanders must learn how to speak:
A hillock's a hummock with cheek;
A mountain is treble
The size of a jebel
And a cowlick on top is a peak.
January 24, 2016