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Rualla, n. and a.|ruːˈalə| Also Ruála, Ruwalla, etc. A. n. A Bedouin people; a member of this people. B. adj. Of or pertaining to this people.
1831J. L. Burckhardt Notes on Bedouins & Wahábys I. 6 El Raualla..generally occupy the desert from Djebel Shammar towards the Djof, and thence towards the southern vicinity of the Hauran; but they frequently encamp between the Tigris and Euphrates. 1875Encycl. Brit. II. 247/2 First, the Anezah clan, whose pasture⁓grounds extend from Syria southward to the limits of Jebel Shomer... Their principal subdivisions are the Sebaá on the north, the Woold-Alee on the west, and the Ruála on the south. 1888C. M. Doughty Trav. Arabia Deserta I. vii. 194 The poor man had been maimed thus by a Ruwàlla lance-thrust in the mouth, when riding in the North. 1917[see Howeitat]. 1918T. E. Lawrence Lett. (1938) 248 We decided to carry out a flying attack..with our regular troops, the Rualla horse.., and such Hauran peasants as should be brave enough to declare for us. 1926― Seven Pillars (1935) iii. xxx. 174 His was the chief family of the Rualla, but Nuri had no precedence among them at birth, nor was he loved. Ibid., One of the chief men of the Ruwalla. 1959W. Thesiger Arabian Sands iii. 54 In Syria I..had visited the summer camp of the Rualla, a city of black tents. |