wadi
pronunciation
How to pronounce wadi in British English:
UK [ˈwɒdi]
How to pronounce wadi in American English:
US [ ˈwɑːdi]
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- Noun:
- gully or streambed in northern Africa and the Middle East that remains dry except during rainy season
Word Origin
- wadi (n.)
- "watercourse," 1839, from Arabic wadi "seasonal watercourse," prop. participle of wada "it flowed." It forms the Guadal- in Spanish river names.
Example
- 1. Hotels met restaurant in wadi rum .
- 2. Yemen , 2003 . A boy riding a donkey is almost swallowed by a sandstorm in wadi mur
- 3. Be all over the sky in starlit night , on the baluster that sits to the side of a wadi to the lover of be passionately in love .
- 4. He said , congress will hold mass rallies to northern states chief minister mayan wadi protest .
- 5. After 3 gorge project builds entirely , the wadi that forms 1084 square kilometer reservoir , flood terrestrial face to accumulate kilometer of 630 more than square , form a lot of library branch of a river .