wadin.
/ˈwɒdi/, /ˈwɑːdi/, U.S. /ˈwɑdi/ In certain Arabic-speaking countries, a ravine or valley which in the rainy season becomes a watercourse; the stream or torrent running through such a ravine. Also attributive.
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the world > the earth > water > rivers and streams > stream > [noun] > intermittent
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the world > the earth > land > landscape > low land > valley > [noun] > other types
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wadi1902
pocket valley1904
1839 J. Kinnear Cairo, Petra & Damascus (1841) iii. 93 Our route..continued among narrow rocky wadies of a less desolate appearance.
1843 J. G. Whittier Patucket Falls in Prose Wks. (1889) I. 360 It resembled..some Arabian wady, exhausted by a year's drought.
1850 W. Irving Mahomet (1853) i. 3 Some of the former occupied the fertile wadies, or valleys, scattered here and there among the mountains.
1856 A. P. Stanley Sinai & Palestine i. ii. 70 A stair of rock brought us into a wâdy (Sidri), enclosed between red granite mountains... I cannot too often repeat, that these wâdys are exactly like rivers, except in having no water.
1902 D. G. Hogarth Nearer East 139 The palm-lined wadi beds of Jebel Akhdar.
1902 D. G. Hogarth Nearer East 143 Aromatic scrub and an occasional thorn is all that can be expected in the wadi bottoms.
1912 S. R. Driver tr. Bible Judges v. 21 in Expositor Feb. 121 The wady Kishon swept them away, The on-coming wady.
1980 Encounter May 90/2 Off we go, with me stumbling after him over the rough stony ground of the wadi bed.
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