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1. Aten, n. View full entry 1877
...One of the names of the sun in ancient Egypt; the name by which the sun or solar disc was worshipped particularly during the reign of Amenophis IV (Akhnaten) in the 14th...
2. chalukah, n. View full entry 1880
...The distribution of contributions or donations sent by the Jews of the diaspora to support the Jews in Palestine. Now Hist....
3. charoset(h, n. View full entry 1885
...A mixture of apples, nuts, spices, etc., eaten ceremonially at the Passover seder service, symbolizing the clay mixed by the Israelites during their slavery in Egypt....
4. Danakil, n. and adj. View full entry 1875
...A member of a widely spread Hamitic people of north-eastern Ethiopia....
5. dayan, n. View full entry 1880
...A religious judge in a Jewish community....
6. Fedai, n. View full entry 1875
...An Ismaili Muslim assassin. Cf. assassin1....
7. Feraghan, n. View full entry 1929
...A costly rug made in Iran (formerly Persia), usu. of cotton....
8. gaon, n. View full entry 1780
...Used as an honorific for the heads of Jewish academies in Babylonia, Palestine, Syria, and Egypt from the 6th to the 11th centuries; later in Spain, Italy and in the eighteenth century...
9. Gelalaean, adj. View full entry 1780
...Of or pertaining to Gelal-ed-Din, ‘Glory of the Faith’, a title of Malek Shah, Sultan of Khorasan, and reformer of the Persian calendar in 1079....
10. Hurrian, n. and adj. View full entry 1911
...Name of a widespread non-Semitic people in the Middle East during the second and third millennia b.c., sometimes identified with the Horites. Also, a member of this people....
11. Kajar, n. View full entry 1883
...A member of a northern Iranian people of Turcoman origin, who formed the ruling dynasty of Persia from 1794 to 1925. Also attrib....
12. karez, n. View full entry 1875
...In Afghanistan and Baluchistan: = kanat...
13. Kermanji, n. View full entry 1882
...A language of the Iranian group spoken by the Kurds of Kurdistan....
14. kiddushin, n. View full entry 1883
...The section of the Jewish Mishnah treating of betrothal and marriage; also the ceremony of betrothal, and the money or article given by the groom to effect the betrothal....
15. Lihyanic, n. View full entry 1911
...The name of an ancient Semitic language known only from north Arabian inscriptions of the 2nd and 1st centuries b.c. Also (all forms), as ...
16. Sabora, n. View full entry 1797
...Any of a group of Jewish scholars of the 6th century c.e. who contributed explanations and revisions to the Babylonian Talmud....
17. Safavid, adj. and n. View full entry 1887
...Of or relating to a dynasty which ruled in Persia (now Iran), from 1500 to 1730; (also) designating this dynasty....
18. Senussia, n. View full entry 1888
...The fraternity founded by es-Senussi....
19. serir, n. View full entry 1886
...In Libya and Egypt: a flat area of desert strewn with rounded pebbles and boulders. Cf. reg...
20. Shardana | Sherden, n. View full entry 1877
...With pl. concord. One of the Sea Peoples, tentatively identified with the later Sardinians, who fought against the Egyptians in the 13th century b.c. and afterwards served them...
