Definition of Jebel

1. Noun. A hill, a mountain (qualifier especially in the Middle East or North Africa). ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Jebel

1. a mountain [n -S] - See also: mountain

Lexicographical Neighbors of Jebel

jealousness
jealousnesses
jealousy
jean
jeanbandyite
jeaned
jeanette
jeanettes
jeans
jeans jacket
jeanswear
jears
jeast
jeat
jeats
jebel (current term)
jebels
jedding ax
jedding axes
jedge
jedgment
jedi
jedis
jedwabite
jee
jeed
jeeing
jeel
jeeled
jeelie

Literary usage of Jebel

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Geological Magazine by Henry Woodward (1900)
"II Mokattam Serie* (Middle Eocene) : top of jebel Abyad, south of Wadi ... Bartonian or top of Mokattam Series : jebel Abyad. Abyad. ..."

2. The Literature of Egypt and the Soudan from the Earliest Times to the Year by Ibrahim-Hilmy (1888)
"... with steps up to jebel Musa—Gardens of Convent, with Plain of Er ... with jebel Musa in the background—Wady ed Deir and the Plain of Er ..."

3. Biblical Researches in Palestine and the Adjacent Regions: A Journal of by Edward Robinson, Eli Smith (1856)
"The mighty parallel ridges of Lebanon and Anti-Lebanon, the jebel ... The lofty southern end of Anti- Lebanon is called jebel esh-Sheikh. ..."

4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"A mountain by which Israel had their encampment in the desert, and the place of Aaron's death; commonly identified with jebel Neb! Harun, SW of Petra, ..."

5. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by Charles Anderson Dana (1876)
"It is divided from the jebel ed-Deir on the east by a narrow valley, on one of tho slopes ... Opposite, in a succession of terraces, rises the jebel Sona, ..."

6. Report of the Annual Meeting (1872)
"Experiments on two other sand-slides, a little to the south of jebel ... jebel Nagas is the name given to a high sand-slope in the western coast-range of ..."

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