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Glossary.
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The following are a few descriptive terms which occur in the following pages, with place-names, and the abbreviations used:—
| ABU | Father. |
| AIN | Spring. |
| BEIT | House. |
| BIRKETT | Pool. |
| BIR | Well. |
| DEIR | Monastery. |
| ED, EL, ER, ES, EZ | The definite article THE |
| JEBEL | Mountain. |
| JISR | Bridge. |
| KEFR | Village. |
| KAHN | Inn. |
| KHURBET (abbrev. KH.) | Ruin. |
| MAKHADET | Ford. |
| NAHR | River. |
| NEBY | A Prophet. |
| RAS | Head, cape, top. |
| SHEIKH (abbrev. SH.) | Chief, elder, saint. |
| TEL | Mound (especially one covering ruins). |
| WADI | A watercourse (normally dry). |
