28-527: [REDACTED] Look up نهر in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Nahr may refer to: Nahr (toponymy) , a component of Arabic toponyms literally meaning "river" Al-Nahr , a Palestinian village Non-allelic homologous recombination See also [ edit ] Nahar (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
56-430: A depth of 29 metres ; 96 feet (16 fathoms) deep, while the western, or Dact-el-Mayun , has a width of 20.3 kilometres (11.0 nmi) and a depth of 310 metres; 1,020 feet (170 fathoms). Near the coast of Djibouti lies a group of smaller islands known as the " Seven Brothers ". There is a surface current inwards in the eastern channel, but a strong undercurrent outwards in the western channel. The Bab-el-Mandeb acts as
84-1129: A geographical term it signifies "producing", "containing", etc. see All pages with titles containing Ibn J [ edit ] Jama'a, Djama'a, Jami'a place of gathering, community, mosque; All pages with titles containing Jama'a All pages with titles containing Jami'a Jazira , Jezireh, Jeziret Island; All pages with titles containing Jazira All pages with titles containing Jezireh All pages with titles containing Jeziret Jebel, Djebel, Jebal, Jabal mountain; All pages with titles containing Jabal All pages with titles containing Jebal All pages with titles containing Jebel All pages with titles containing Djebel Jisr bridge; see All pages with titles containing Jisr Jubb (Arabic: جُبّ ): well, pit; see All pages with titles containing Jubb K [ edit ] Kasbah , Kasba, Kasaba See Qasba All pages with titles containing Kasba All pages with titles containing Kasbah Khirbet, Khurbet, Khirbat, etc.
112-1128: A geographical term it signifies "producing", "containing", etc.; All pages with titles containing Ab All pages with titles containing Abu Arak, pl.: Arkan Cavern or cliff (among various meanings); see All pages with titles containing Arak B [ edit ] Bab, pl.: Buwab Gate. Examples Bab el-Mandeb ; see All pages with titles containing Bab Baḥr Arabic : بحر - Sea, large river. see All pages with titles containing Bahr Beit House. see All pages with titles containing Beit Balad Arabic : بلد (sometimes transliterated as Beled or Belled) - Town; see All pages with titles containing Balad Bir Arabic : بير , Well; see All pages with titles containing Bir Birkeh Artificial pool, tank; see All pages with titles containing Birkeh Buḥayra, Baḥeirah Arabic : بحيرة , Lake, lagoon; Diminutive of بَحْر (baḥr, “sea”). Burj Arabic : برج , Tower, castle; see All pages with titles containing Burj C [ edit ] Casbah
140-979: A geographical term it signifies "producing", "containing", etc.; cf. " Mother of all "; see All pages with titles containing Umm W [ edit ] Wadi , Wad, North African Arabic : see Oued Watercourse: stream (often intermittent stream ), sometimes dry waterbed, valley All pages with titles containing Wadi All pages with titles containing Wady All pages with titles containing Wad All pages with titles containing Oued See also [ edit ] Maghreb place name etymology Oikonyms in Western and South Asia Place names of Palestine List of Arabic place names References [ edit ] ^ C.R. Conder; H.H. Kitchener (1880). Map of western Palestine in 26 sheets / from surveys conducted for
168-1168: A grave of a saint, ruler, etc.. Examples: Mazar-i-Sharif All pages with titles containing Mazar All pages with titles containing Al-Mazar All pages with titles containing Almazar Mazra', Mazra'a, Al-Mazra'a, Mazraa مزرعة , mazraʿa: farm, مزرع , mazraʿ: field, farmland, origin for majra , hamlet in Indian subcontinent N [ edit ] Nahr wikt:نهر , river, e.g., Nahr-e Mian ; see All pages with titles containing Nahr-e O [ edit ] Oued In North African Arabic , same as Wadi ; see All pages with titles containing Oued Q [ edit ] Qabr, Kabr, pl.:Qubūr Arabic : قَبْر , pl. Arabic : قُبُور - tomb, grave All pages with titles containing Qabr All pages with titles containing Qubur Qal'at, Qalat , Qala , Qalaat, Qal'a Arabic, Persian. Fortified place, fort, fortress, castle; see All pages with titles containing Qalat Casbah , Kasbah , Qaṣba, Qaṣbah, Qaṣaba Arabic: القصبة , romanized: al-qaṣaba ),
196-613: A kind of medina (old city) or fortress All pages with titles containing Casbah All pages with titles containing Qasba All pages with titles containing Qasbah All pages with titles containing Qasaba All pages with titles containing Kasbah Qaṣr, Kaṣr, al-Qaṣr, pl.:Quṣūr Arabic: قصر , lit. 'palace/castle/fortress', from Latin castrum All pages with titles containing Qasr All pages with titles containing Kasr All pages with titles containing Qusur It entered into Spanish and Portuguese placenames in
224-669: A kind of medina (old city) or fortress; cf. " Qasba "; see All pages with titles containing Casbah D [ edit ] Deir wikt:دير monastery, convent, cloister (often ruins thereof); see All pages with titles containing Deir Derb wikt:درب road, pass; see All pages with titles containing Derb Dhahr wikt: ridge; All pages with titles containing Dhahr H [ edit ] Haram Sacred place; see All pages with titles containing Haram Haud Reservoir, pond; see All pages with titles containing Haud I [ edit ] Ibn Son; as
252-571: A proposal for the island to be internationalized as a way to ensure the continued security of passage and navigation in the Bab-el-Mandeb, but this was refused. In 2008 a company owned by Tarek bin Laden unveiled plans to build a bridge named Bridge of the Horns across the strait, linking Yemen with Djibouti . Middle East Development LLC issued a notice to construct a bridge passing across
280-935: A strategic link between the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea via the Red Sea and the Suez Canal . Most exports of petroleum and natural gas from the Persian Gulf that transit the Suez Canal or the SUMED Pipeline pass through both the Bab el-Mandeb and the Strait of Hormuz . While the narrow width of the strait requires vessels to travel through the territorial sea of adjacent states, under
308-941: Is the conjunctive form "ruin of" (خربة) of the Arabic word for "ruin" ( خرب , khirba , kharab ("ruined")) All pages with titles containing Khirbet All pages with titles containing Khirbat All pages with titles containing Khurbet All pages with titles containing Kharab Ksar , qsar, plural: ksour, qsour Maghrebi Arabic ; See "Qasr" All pages with titles containing Ksar All pages with titles containing Ksour All pages with titles containing Qsar Kul'ah, Kal'at, Kalat, Kala, Kaleh Arabic, Persian. See "Qalat" All pages with titles containing Kal'at All pages with titles containing Kalat All pages with titles containing Kaleh M [ edit ] Mazar مزار : shrine, grave, tomb, etc. cf. " Mazar (mausoleum) ". The placename usually refers to
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#1732764819999336-720: The Arabian Peninsula from the Horn of Africa . In "Bab-el-Mandeb", "Bab" means "gate" while "Mandeb" means "lamentation" or "grief". The distance across is about 26 kilometres (14 nmi) from Ras Menheli in Yemen to Ras Siyyan in Djibouti. The island of Perim divides the strait into two channels, of which the eastern, known as the Bab Iskender (Alexander's Strait), is 5.37 kilometres (2.90 nmi) wide and has
364-568: The Gate of Grief or the Gate of Tears , is a strait between Yemen on the Arabian Peninsula and Djibouti and Eritrea in the Horn of Africa . It connects the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden and by extension the Indian Ocean . The strait derives its name from the dangers attending its navigation or, according to an Arab legend, from the numbers who were drowned by an earthquake that separated
392-531: The Miocene epoch created the Danakil Isthmus, a land bridge forming a broad connection between Yemen and Ethiopia. During the last 100,000 years, eustatic sea level fluctuations have led to alternate opening and closing of the straits. According to the recent single origin hypothesis , the straits of Bab-el-Mandeb were probably witness to the earliest migrations of modern humans . It is presumed that
420-571: The Red Sea and the trade routes through the Suez Canal. It was used as a coaling station to refuel steamships until 1935 when the reduced use of coal as fuel rendered the operation unprofitable. The British presence continued until 1967 when the island became part of the People's Republic of South Yemen . Before the handover, the British government had put forward before the United Nations
448-556: The 19th century. Contents: Top A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z See also References External links A [ edit ] 'Ain, pl.: `Ayūn, ʿUyūn Spring, fountain, source. Examples: El Aaiún All pages with titles containing Ain All pages with titles containing Aiun Ab, Abu Father; as
476-652: The Bab el-Mandeb Strait could keep tankers originating in the Persian Gulf from transiting the Suez Canal or reaching the SUMED Pipeline, forcing them to divert around the southern tip of Africa, which would increase transit time and shipping costs. In 2006, an estimated 3.3 million barrels (520,000 m ) of oil passed through the strait per day, out of a world total of about 43 million barrels per day (6,800,000 m /d) moved by tankers . This rose by 2014 to 5.1 million barrels per day (b/d) of crude oil, condensate and refined petroleum products headed toward Europe,
504-814: The Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund by C.R. Conder and H.H. Kitchener during the years 1872-1877 . London: Ordnance Survey Office. Index sheet (27): Topographical and Geographical Terms in Arabic . OCLC 1166941168 . ^ Siddiqi 1982 , p. 335. ^ Siddiqi & Bastian 1985 , p. 74. ^ Mann 2005 , p. 139 ^ Negev & Gibson 2005 , p. 518 Sources [ edit ] Mann, Joel F. (2005). An international glossary of place name elements . Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-5040-8 . Negev, Avraham; Gibson, Shimon (2005). Archaeological encyclopedia of
532-573: The Holy Land (4th, revised, illustrated ed.). Continuum International Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-8264-8571-7 . Siddiqi, Akhtar Husain; Bastian, Robert W. (1985). "Urban Place Names in Pakistan: A Reflection of Cultural Characteristics" . Names . 29 (1): 65–84. OCLC 500207327 . Siddiqi, Jamal Mohd (1982). Significance of technical terms in place names—a case-study of Aligarh District . Proceedings of
560-5066: The Indian History Congress. Vol. 43. pp. 332–341. JSTOR 44141245 . External links [ edit ] The intro to a 1950s gazeteer for 35,000 placenames of Arabian Peninsula and surrounding waters and islands contains a glossary of generic toponymic features v t e Geography topics Glossary History Philosophy Index Outline Branches Human Behavioral Cognitive Critical Cultural Animal Children's Economic Agricultural Cyber Development Financial Histo-economic Labor Marketing Retail Theoretical economic Transport Language Linguistics Music Vernacular Moral Psychological Emotional Neo Sexuality Religion Food Health Historical Palaeo Imagined Internet Political Critical geopolitics Electoral Geopolitics Strategic Military Population Settlement Regional Urban Music Transport Social Tourism Tropical Physical Biogeography Ecology Phytogeography Zoogeography Coastal geography / Oceanography Earth science Atmospheric science / Meteorology Environmental science Climatology / Paleoclimatology / Palaeogeography Geobiology Geophysics / Geodesy Earth system science Geomorphology / Geology Glaciology Hydrology / Limnology Soil science ( Pedology / Edaphology ) Quaternary science Technical Geodesign Geodesy Geoinformatics Geographic information science Geomatics Statistical geography Spatial analysis Integrated Environmental social science Environmental studies Landscape architecture Landscape ecology Time geography Techniques and tools Quantitative Cartography Computer cartography Web mapping Geochronology Geographic information system Distributed GIS Internet GIS Web GIS Geologic modelling Geomathematics Geostatistics Geovisualization Global Positioning System Hydrography Map algebra Participant observation Photogrammetry Remote sensing Statistical survey Surveying Land change modeling Qualitative Ethnography Geopoetics Interview (research) Survey (human research) Institutions Geographic data and information organizations Geographical societies Geoscience societies National mapping agency Education Geography education Geo-literacy Geographers on Film International Geography Olympiad National Council for Geographic Education Spatial citizenship [REDACTED] Category [REDACTED] Portal [REDACTED] Commons [REDACTED] WikiProject v t e Glossaries of science and engineering Aerospace engineering Agriculture Archaeology Architecture Artificial intelligence Astronomy Biology Botany Calculus Cell biology Chemistry Civil engineering Clinical research Computer hardware Computer science Developmental and reproductive biology Ecology Economics Electrical and electronics engineering Engineering A–L M–Z Entomology Environmental science Genetics and evolutionary biology Cellular and molecular biology 0–L M–Z Geography A–M N–Z Arabic toponyms Hebrew toponyms Western and South Asia Geology Ichthyology Machine vision Mathematics Mechanical engineering Medicine Meteorology Mycology Nanotechnology Ornithology Physics Probability and statistics Psychiatry Quantum computing Robotics Scientific naming Structural engineering Virology Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Glossary_of_Arabic_toponyms&oldid=1256468800#Nahr " Categories : Lists of place name etymologies Geography-related lists Geography terminology Glossaries of science Place name element etymologies Arabic language Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description matches Wikidata Articles containing Arabic-language text Misplaced Pages glossaries using description lists Bab el-Mandeb The Bab-el-Mandeb ( Arabic : باب المندب , lit. ' Gate of Lamentation ' , Tigrinya : ባብ ኣል ማንዳብ ),
588-538: The Red Sea that would be the longest suspended passing in the world. The project was assigned to engineering company COWI in collaboration with architect studio Dissing+Weitling , both from Denmark but the announced delay to Phase 1 in 2010 and the lack of any further updates since makes this a defunct project. The Bab-el-Mandeb is also a sub-region in the Arab League , which includes Djibouti, Yemen, and Eritrea. The most significant towns and cities along both
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#1732764819999616-508: The United States, and Asia, then an estimated 6.2 b/d by 2018. Total petroleum flows through the Bab el-Mandeb Strait accounted for about 9% of total seaborne-traded petroleum (crude oil and refined petroleum products) in 2017. About 3.6 million b/d moved north toward Europe; another 2.6 million b/d flowed in the opposite direction mainly to Asian markets such as Singapore, China, and India. Paleo-environmental and tectonic events in
644-764: The forms Alcazar, Alcácer North African ( Maghrebi Arabic ) form: Ksar [REDACTED] The dictionary definition of qasr at Wiktionary R [ edit ] Ras wikt:رأس , head, cape, top, peak, etc., see All pages with titles containing Ras Rujm , plural: rujum wikt:رجم , mound, cairn , hill, spur, and also as "stone heap" or " tumulus ". All pages with titles containing Rujm All pages with titles containing Rujum S [ edit ] souk , sūq, souq wikt:سوق , "market" All pages with titles containing Souk All pages with titles containing Suk All pages with titles containing Souq U [ edit ] Umm Mother; as
672-472: The 💕 (Redirected from Nahr (toponymy) ) Glossary of Arabic terms found in Arabic toponyms [REDACTED] PEF Survey of Western Palestine Key Map The glossary of Arabic toponyms gives translations of Arabic terms commonly found as components in Arabic toponyms . A significant number of them were put together during the PEF Survey of Palestine carried out in the second half of
700-490: The oceans were then much lower and the straits were much shallower or dry, which allowed a series of emigrations along the southern coast of Asia. According to Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church tradition, the straits of Bab-el-Mandeb were witness to the earliest migrations of Semitic Ge'ez speakers into Africa, occurring c. 1900 BC, roughly around the same time as the Hebrew patriarch Jacob . The Kingdom of Aksum
728-724: The purview of Article 37 of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea , the legal concept of transit passage applies to Bab el-Mandeb, although Eritrea (unlike the rest of coastal countries) is not a party to the convention. Chokepoints are narrow channels along widely used global sea routes that are critical to global energy security. The Bab el-Mandeb Strait is 26 kilometres (14 nautical miles) wide at its narrowest point, limiting tanker traffic to two 2-mile-wide channels for inbound and outbound shipments. Closure of
756-457: The title Nahr . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nahr&oldid=1184427806 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Nahr (toponymy) From Misplaced Pages,
784-476: Was a major regional power in the Horn of Africa . It extended its rule across the strait with the conquest of the Himyarite Kingdom shortly before the rise of Islam . The British East India Company unilaterally seized the island of Perim in 1799 on behalf of its Indian empire . The government of Britain asserted its ownership in 1857 and erected a lighthouse there in 1861, using it to command
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