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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 See also:mountain or a mountain See also:chain. It is frequently used in See also:place-names. The See also:French transliteration of the word is djebel. Jebeli signifies a mountaineer. The See also:pronunciation with a hard g See also:sound is that used in the See also:Egyptian See also:dialect of Arabic.

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