Sinai
pronunciation
How to pronounce Sinai in British English:
UK [ˈsaɪˌnaɪ]
How to pronounce Sinai in American English:
US [ˈsaɪˌnaɪ]
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- Noun:
- a mountain peak in the southern Sinai Peninsula (7,500 feet high); it is believed to be the peak on which Moses received the Ten Commandments
- a desert on the Sinai Peninsula in northeastern Egypt
- a peninsula in northeastern Egypt; at north end of Red Sea
Word Origin
- Sinai
- the mountain is perhaps named for Sin, a moon goddess worshipped by Sumerians, Akkadians, and ancient Arabs. As an adjectival form, Sinaic (1769), Sinaitic (1786).
Example
- 1. Specialists from mount sinai examined her for six months .
- 2. Opening the borders to legal traffic and trade should lessen the power of jihadists and smugglers in sinai and gaza , and thus strengthen the arm of the governments in cairo and jerusalem .
- 3. The bedouin of sinai loathe the old order .
- 4. Sinai 's instability compounds the uncertainty .
- 5. Drones peer over the border at sinai .