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KHRAIBI (Al)—
The site 0 J s „ m e Himyaritio ruins near Al 'Ali, on the Syrian Haj) route. There is a
famous stone cistern at Al Khraibi called " The milking.pa.1 of NabiSahhs she-camel.
It ia a rock which has been wrought into this shape and is 12 feet wide and 7| feet high.
Within a staTr is left in the stone of three tall steps ; the wall is massy being about 13
inches thick at the lip. The ruins are houses of rude sandstone blocks, laid in clay, and
containing Himyaritic inscriptions.
Above the cistern is a rocky pinnacle, called Al-Qal ah. -{Boughtj.)
KHUBA1B (N ajd-al)— , u
A col, in the western Hajar district of the 'Oman Sultanate, on the north side of which
rises Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. Mabrah {q. v.)*
khubAr—
One of the Daghmar (?. v.) group of villages in the 'Oman Sultanate.
KHUDAIRAH (A l)—
A sta- e on the route between 'Aqabah and Mecca; it is situated 10 hours journey
north ofYanbo' and 174 hours from 'Aqabah. The camping ground lies between two
hills said to contain copper ore. There are a good many saut trees, but no water.
khudairawat—
Some wells in the Shamiyah desert, north-eastern Arabia; they lie on the route bet-
weenVamkiyah and Samawah at a distance of 55 mdes from the former and 35 from
the latter. The water here is very brackish.
KHUDHAIRAH—
A hamlet in Qasim {q. v.), Central Arabia.
KHUDH AIRl Y AH—
A section of the Dawagir tribe (7. v.) of southern Najd, mentioned by Palgrave. They
are possibly identical with the Khadhran.—(Pa^raue.)
KHUDHR (A l)—
The Bedouin name for Bughaz-al-Akhdhar and Qalat-al-Akhdhar {q. v.).~{DougUy.)
KHUFAIRIYAH—
Some wells in the Huzum district [q. v.) of Hasa, Eastern Arabia.
KHQLAH (A l)—
A hill in the Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. -al-Miyah tract [q. v.) of Hasa, Eastern Arabia.
khumais—
A division of the Bani Lam tribe {q. v.).
KHUMlR ( S ha'ib-al) or KHUMAR— j , * ^
A torrent bed which joins Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. Haislyah {q. v.) from the northward about three
miles to the eastward of the watershed of the Haisiyah gorge. -{Leachman, 1912.)
KHUMAR ( WADI A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. )— „ ^ -u
A small valley in western Hadhramaut, crossed by the track from Yashbum to Niaab
at a point just beyond the villages of As-Saina.
khumas—
A tract in the Samawah Qadha [q.v.) of 'Iraq.
khumishah—
See 'Anaizah tribe; Wald Sulaiman sub -division o! the Bishr.
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