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1. Adeni, n. and adj. View full entry 1950
...A native or inhabitant of Aden....
2. Baath, n. View full entry 1955
...Used attrib. and occas. absol. (with the) to designate a pan-Arab socialist party founded by Michel Aflaq, Salah al-Din al-Bitar, and other intellectuals in Syria in...
3. birr, n.2 View full entry 1976
...The unit of currency in Ethiopia, consisting of 100 cents, which replaced the Ethiopian dollar in 1976; a note or coin of this value....
4. brit, n.2 View full entry 1856
...= brit milah...
5. genizah, n. View full entry 1897
...A store-room or repository for damaged, discarded, or heretical books and papers and sacred relics, attached to many synagogues; also, the contents of a genizah....
6. hawaladar, n. View full entry 2000
...A person who acts as an agent in a hawala transaction; a hawala dealer. Cf. hawala...
7. intifada, n. View full entry 1985
...An Arab uprising or revolt, spec. the Palestinian insurrection and unrest in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip, which began in late 1987....
8. kharaj | khaˈratch, n. View full entry 1860
...Tribute; rent; poll-tax: see caratch...
9. khor, n. View full entry 1884
...A watercourse, ravine, nullah, dry bed of a stream....
10. kotal, n. View full entry 1880
...The pass over a mountain; a col; the ridge or summit of a pass....
11. Krav Maga, n. View full entry 1985
...A system of hand-to-hand combat and self-defence training developed by the Israel Defence Forces, with no formal rules, focusing instead on instinctive and improvised movements....
12. Likud, n. View full entry 1973
...A nationalist coalition party in the State of Israel, formed in 1973 to oppose Labour monopoly government....
13. Mendoub, n. View full entry 1923
...The Sultan of Morocco's representative in the administration of the international city of Tangier, with responsibility for presiding over the legislative assembly....
14. meze, n. View full entry 1904
...In Turkish, Greek, and Middle Eastern cookery: a selection of hot or cold dishes, served usually as an hors d'oeuvre or with an aperitif; a single dish of this type....
15. Palmach, n. View full entry 1943
...A commando force of the Haganah, created in 1941 and incorporated into the Israeli national army in 1948....
16. pashmina, n. and adj. View full entry 1850
...A superior type of cashmere fabric made from pashm (or a blend of pashm and silk) and usually woven in South Asia. Also (occas.): the soft goat's hair from which this fabric...
17. peshmerga, n. View full entry 1965
...A member of a Kurdish nationalist revolutionary army established in the early 1960s. Also more generally: a Kurdish partisan or guerrilla....
18. Rakah, n. View full entry 1968
...A communist party in the state of Israel, formed in 1965....
19. rial, n.3 View full entry 1930
...The monetary unit of Iran, introduced in 1930 and equal to one hundred dinars....
20. Sahrawi, n. View full entry 1976
...An inhabitant of Western (formerly Spanish) Sahara, a Saharan; also collect., the people itself. Also attrib....
