jebeln.

1600 J. Pory tr. J. Leo Africanus Geogr. Hist. Afr. ii. 58 (heading) Of the mountaine of Iron, commonly called Gebelelhadih.

1834 Penny Cycl. II. 210/1 The mountainous region in the interior is distinguished by the appellation of Jabal, ‘the Hills’.]

1844 A. W. Kinglake Eothen xxvii. 387 For a part of two days I wound under the base of the snow-crowned Djibel el Sheik.

1848 H. Martineau Eastern Life I. i. iv. 53 It [sc. the causeway] extends from the river bank to the town, and thence on to the Djebel (mountain) with many limbs from this main trunk.

1920 Blackwood's Mag. Nov. 667/1 An enormous waste of rocky jebels and broad sandy plains.

1924 Blackwood's Mag. Oct. 562/1 The mountains or gebels, to give them their local name, are honeycombed with caves.

1927 Chambers's Jrnl. 535/1 A low-lying bank of white mist wound itself round the gaunt jabal.

1942 F. Stark Lett. from Syria 186 He thought I was referring to the Intelligence in the Jebel Druse!

1968 New Scientist 30 May 447/3 Swarms of desert locusts have whirled up like djinns from the moist jebels on both sides of the Red Sea.

1970 Guardian 3 Aug. 3/1 The annual monsoon..hits the Jebel, the mountain range behind Salala.