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JEBEL (plur. jibed)

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 299 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JEBEL (plur. jibed)  , also written GEBEL with hard g (plur. gibal), an Arabic word meaning a
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mountain or a mountain
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chain . It is frequently used in
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place-names . The
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French transliteration of the word is djebel . Jebeli signifies a mountaineer . The
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pronunciation with a hard g
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sound is that used in the
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Egyptian
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dialect of Arabic .

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