Jabal

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Jabal may refer to:

  1. The Arabic (جبل) word for mountain (also transliterated jebel and gebel). Prominent mountains include:
  2. Jibal, an emirate in a mountainous part of Iran in Buwayhid times.
  3. Lamech, descendant of Cain.

Jebel (plur. Jjibal), also written Gebel with hard "g" (plur. gibed), is frequently used in place-names. The French transliteration of the word is djebel. Jebeli signifies a mountaineer. The pronunciation with a hard "g" sound is that used in the Egyptian dialect of Arabic.

This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.