wadi
or wa·dy
noun, plural wa·dis. (in Arabia, Syria, northern Africa, etc.)
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Contemporary Examples of wadi
Even with a GPS, it was easy to get disoriented in a wadi, or to mistake one trail for another.
Hadeel, a vivacious 27-year-old from the Wadi Ara region, teaches Arabic in a Jewish Israeli elementary school.
What he may not know is that from this museum, the site of the Deir Yassin massacre is visible just across the wadi.
He knows the topography and geography of Israel/Palestine, literally street by street and wadi by wadi.
Historical Examples of wadi
I carry no note-book with me when I go down the wadi or out into the fields.
The Book of KhalidAmeen Rihani
Everything, except the river in the wadi below, is yet asleep.
The Book of KhalidAmeen Rihani
Near Zacariah the Wadi es Sunt contains but few of those trees.
Byeways in PalestineJames Finn
He was buying up land for himself in the Wadi Al Ain and elsewhere.
Southern ArabiaTheodore Bent
So we went on, but for fully two miles, till the Wadi Adim crossed our path.
Southern ArabiaTheodore Bent