ishann.
/ˈiːʃɑːn/ A prehistoric mound in Iraq.
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1921 Blackwood's Mag. June 708/1 They had just moved their home to an ishan or mound only some ten or fifteen minutes from the river.
1927 ‘Fulanain’ Haji Rikkan i. 8 Facing us was a group of the strange mounds or ishans which here and there, in the marshes of Southern 'Iraq, stand out high, or seeming high in that vast watery expanse.
1964 W. Thesiger Marsh Arabs xix. 173 We passed a bare black mound..known to the Madan as Ishan Waqif, or Standing Island.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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