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• JEBEL (plur. jibed)

JEBEL (plur. jibed)  , also written GEBEL with hard g (plur. gibal), an Arabic word meaning a See also:

• MOUNTAIN (0. Fr. montaigne; popular Lat. montanea, an adjectival form from the classical mons, montis, whence Eng. " mount," a form usually used along with the name of an individual mountain, e.g. Mt Everest)
• MOUNTAIN, THE (La Montagne)

mountain or a mountain See also:

• CHAIN (through the O. Fr. citable, chcene, &c., from Lat. catena)

chain . It is frequently used in See also:

• PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place-names . The See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French transliteration of the word is djebel . Jebeli signifies a mountaineer . The See also:

• PRONUNCIATION (Lat. pronuntiatio, from pronuntiare, proclaim, announce, pronounce)

pronunciation with a hard g See also:

• SOUND
• SOUND, THE (Danish Oresund)

sound is that used in the See also:

• EGYPTIAN

Egyptian See also:

• DIALECT (from Gr. Sia stcror, conversation, manner of speaking, &aXeyec6at, to converse)

dialect of Arabic .