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[ wah-dee ] / ˈwɑ di / SEE SYNONYMS FOR wadi ON THESAURUS.COM
noun, plural wa·dis.(in Arabia, Syria, northern Africa, etc.) the channel of a watercourse that is dry except during periods of rainfall. such a stream or watercourse itself. a valley. Origin of wadiFirst recorded in 1830–40, wadi is from the Arabic word wādī Words nearby wadiwade, Wade-Giles system, wade in, wader, waders, wadi, Wadi Halfa, wading bird, wading pool, wadmal, Wad Medani Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for wadiEven with a GPS, it was easy to get disoriented in a wadi, or to mistake one trail for another. The Fourth War: My Lunch with a Jihadi|Elliot Ackerman|January 21, 2014|DAILY BEAST Hadeel, a vivacious 27-year-old from the Wadi Ara region, teaches Arabic in a Jewish Israeli elementary school. What American Jews Can Learn From ‘Dove’s Cry’|Sigal Samuel|November 18, 2013|DAILY BEAST What he may not know is that from this museum, the site of the Deir Yassin massacre is visible just across the wadi. Mr. President, Don’t Forget The Nakba|Yousef Munayyer|March 19, 2013|DAILY BEAST He knows the topography and geography of Israel/Palestine, literally street by street and wadi by wadi. How to Revive The Peace Process: A Modest Proposal|Letty Cottin Pogrebin|May 9, 2012|DAILY BEAST
To the left of the Wadi are many vegetable gardens, with numerous wells. The Caravan Route between Egypt and Syria|Ludwig Salvator The point at which this wadi commenced was about a mile or so nearer to the enemy than the line of our positions opposite Gaza. With the British Army in The Holy Land|Henry Osmond Lock The Wadi Mellahah is another huge cleft or rift, running about a mile to the west of, and more or less parallel to, the Jordan. With the Judans in the Palestine Campaign|J. H. (John Henry) Patterson Calder was the one man in Wadi Halfa who could claim something like intimacy with Durrance. The Four Feathers|A. E. W. Mason It was generally rumoured that he was the Pasha of Wadi Halfa. Fire and Sword in the Sudan|Rudolf C. Slatin
British Dictionary definitions for wadi
noun plural -diesa watercourse in N Africa and Arabia, dry except in the rainy season Word Origin for wadiC19: from Arabic Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to wadigully, creek, stream, sluice, canal, estuary, aqueduct, brook, channel, flume, conduit, gutter, culvert, inlet, chute, drain, gullet, trench, ravine, river Scientific definitions for wadi
A gully or streambed in northern Africa and southwest Asia that remains dry except during the rainy season. The American Heritage® Science Dictionary Copyright © 2011. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved. |