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Amarah
Aradhi Amumiyah.
Arasa
Auqaf
Baghlah Large trading vessel.
Bardi
Bawari
BIr
Chaulan
Balia
Dukhn
Fahl Nakhl
Fallah Arabic for ‘peasant’. It was used by British officials to refer to agricultural workers or to members of a social class employed primarily in agricultural labour.
Falih
Farakh (pi Farukh)
Nakhl.
Garah
Hadhr
Haji
Hafidh
Hamara
Huntah
Harfi
Hassir
Haushiyah
Husyan (singular,
Hasu).
Idhra
Imam
Jabal
Jalab (pk Ijlab)
Jarib
Karid (pi. Karud) ..
Kharab
Khums
APPENDIX A.
Glossary of Arabic Terms.
... Cultivated land under date trees in a date garden.
... Public land.
... Ground rent.
... Plural of Waqf.
... Arab dhow A term adopted by British officials to refer to local sailing vessels in the western Indian Ocean. .
,.. A reed used for fuel in kilns, and for making coarse
reed mats.
.. A coarse reed mat made from Bardi.
.. Well or pit.
.. A reed from which soft mats are made.
.. A method of lift irrigation, by means of a bucket
and weighted pole.
.. Millet.
.. Male date tree.
.. Cultivator.
.. Fishing spear.
A date tree up to five years.
.. A raft of mats or reeds.
.. Settled cultivators.
.. A Muhammadan who has done pilgrimage to
Mecca.
.. Quran reader.
.. A disease which attacks wheat.
. Wheat.
.. A kind of paddy.
.. A soft reed mat.
.. A shaikh’s body guard (Riverain Arab expression
only).
Holes dug in sand near river bed in order to obtain
water, e.g., at Dafinah and Baswah.
. Millet.
.. A leader of prayer in a mosque.
. Hill.
. Import duty on sheep.
. 42,700 square feet.
. A method of lift irrigation.
. Uncultivated land anywhere.
One-fifth (used in revenue matters).