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  • The word translated "slay" is in Arabic "nahr," which has many meanings.

    The Faith of Islam Edward Sell

  • [FN#131] The camel's throat, I repeat, is not cut as in the case of other animals, the muscles being too strong: it is slaughtered by the "nahr," i.e. thrusting a knife into the hollow at the commissure of the chest.

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

  • Achenar, is derived from the Arabic آخر النهر ākhir an-nahr, meaning "the End of the River".

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] 2010

  • Achenar, is derived from the Arabic آخر النهر ākhir an-nahr, meaning "the End of the River".

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] BMcP 2010

  • Whether you approve of it or not, media representations of the nahr al-barid crisis did encourage Lebanese to fall in line unquestioningly behind the army as a symbol of national unity, effectively to unify against the Palestinian refugee community.

    Sunday, May 25, 2008 As'ad 2008

  • With the exception of some people I know who were providing relief to the multiply-displaced residents of nahr al-barid and a very few journalists, many lebanese people seem to have obliged.

    Sunday, May 25, 2008 As'ad 2008

  • Whether you approve of it or not, media representations of the nahr al-barid crisis did encourage Lebanese to fall in line unquestioningly behind the army as a symbol of national unity, effectively to unify against the Palestinian refugee community.

    Saturday, May 31, 2008 As'ad 2008

  • From the tone of your rejoinder, you seem to be suggesting that in this discussion of the Lebanese army I am not sufficiently sympathetic towards the people of nahr al-barid.

    Sunday, May 25, 2008 As'ad 2008

  • With the exception of some people I know who were providing relief to the multiply-displaced residents of nahr al-barid and a very few journalists, many lebanese people seem to have obliged.

    Saturday, May 31, 2008 As'ad 2008

  • From the tone of your rejoinder, you seem to be suggesting that in this discussion of the Lebanese army I am not sufficiently sympathetic towards the people of nahr al-barid.

    Saturday, May 31, 2008 As'ad 2008

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