Hadhramaut

American  

[hah-drah-mawt] / ˌhɑ drɑˈmɔt /

Or Hadramaut

noun

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

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Hadhramaut British  

/ 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)

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Other Word Forms

• Hadhramautian adjective

Etymology

Origin of Hadhramaut

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

Example Sentences

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.

From New York Times

The most prized species make their home in the gullies and wadis of Dhofar in southern Oman and Hadhramaut in war-torn eastern Yemen, and along the cliffs and scarps of the Cal Madow mountains in Somaliland, whose 1991 declaration of independence from Somalia has gone unrecognized by the rest of the world.

From New York Times

A second flight from Sana’a, carrying Yemenis, flew internally within Yemen to Seiyun airport in Hadhramaut, which is held by the UN recognised government.

From The Guardian

Eight of the new cases were reported in the southern city of Aden, while the ninth was reported in the Hadhramaut region that spans from the border with Saudi Arabia to the Gulf of Aden, according to Yemen’s supreme national emergency committee.

From Washington Times

Officials in three southern provinces — Shabwa, Hadhramaut and Socotra — rejected the self-rule declaration.

From Washington Post