Hadhramaut

Or Ha·dra·maut

[hah-drah-mawt]

noun

1. a region along the southern coast of Arabia, in the Republic of Yemen. About 204,000 sq. mi. (528,000 sq. km).

Hadhramaut

/ ˌhɑːdrəˈmɔːt /

noun

1. a plateau region of the S Arabian Peninsula, in SE Yemen on the Indian Ocean; formerly in South Yemen: corresponds roughly to the former East Aden Protectorate. Area: about 151 500 sq km (58 500 sq miles)

Other Word Forms

• Hadhramautian adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of Hadhramaut¹

First recorded in 1730–40; from Arabic Ḥaḍramawt; further origin uncertain

Example Sentences

"The step came in response to the attacks that the Houthis carried out on oil exporting terminals and which have prevented the export of more than 2 million barrels of crude out of Hadhramaut and Shabwa," an official in the Saudi-backed government, who declined to be named, said.

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In the 2,500-year-old historic center of Sana’a, the capital of modern Yemen, residents adorned the ocher walls of their multistory homes with garlands of gypsum plaster, while in the town of Shibam, which emerged in its current form in the 16th century, rammed-earth towers rose as high as seven stories from a cliff’s edge overlooking the Wadi Hadhramaut, a vertiginous landscape that blurs the boundary between the natural and the man-made.

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Last month, Yemen's Saudi-backed government said its forces intercepted armed drones launched against al-Dhabba oil terminal in Hadhramaut as an oil tanker was preparing to enter.

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Rashad Al-Alimi, the head of the presidential council that acts as Yemen's government, which holds the south, told an Arab summit last week that Houthi attacks on ports in Hadhramaut and Shabwa led to a halt in exports there, saying the group sought to "hamper the council's reform efforts focused on services and livelihoods".

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A Yemeni government official said Houthi drones attacked al-Dhabba oil terminal, located in the town of al-Shihr in Hadhramaut province, as the oil tanker Nissos was preparing to enter the terminal.

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