Hama

[hah-mah, hah-mah]

noun

1. a city in W Syria, on the Orontes River.

Hama

/ ˈhɑːmɑː /

noun

1. Biblical name: Hamath. a city in W Syria, on the Orontes River: an early Hittite settlement; famous for its huge water wheels, used for irrigation since the Middle Ages. Pop: 439 000 (2005 est)

Example Sentences

Discovered days earlier in a well in the countryside outside the city of Hama, the bodies had been sent to Damascus to be examined by Dr. Hourani and his team at the Syrian Identification Center, a forensic lab set up earlier this year.

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But that hasn’t stopped the lab from working on the bodies from smaller mass graves, like the corpses that turned up from the Hama countryside.

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In Hama, 15 different families had come forward to claim the bodies as their own.

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The bodies had been discovered in a well bored into the earth between rows of olive trees in a village called Ma’an, near Hama just off the M5 highway, a north-south spine that for years had been a strategic prize in the war for both the regime and the rebels.

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Our favorite dish is called hama chill.

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