Jabal
Variations of words jabal, jabel, jebal, jebel, jbel, djebel, jibal, etc. have been used for the Arabic word "jah-bahl"
, 'جبل', meaning "mountain, hill or slope" (as elevations). The words have been used to name many mountains, places, people, or others:
People
- See also: Jabal (name)
Places
- Gibraltar, peninsula at southern tip of Spain
- Jabal al-Tair Island, near Yemen, at the mouth of the Red Sea
- Jabel, a German municipality
- Jebel, a commune in Timiş County, Romania
- Jibal, late 1st-millennium-CE West-Asian realm
- Djebel Babor Nature Reserve, a protected area in Algeria
- Jabal Jur, Bingöl, a city in Eastern Turkey
- Jabal, Amreli, a village in Gujarat, India
Mountains and mountainous regions
- Jabal:
- Jabal al-Tariq, a.k.a. Rock of Gibraltar
- Jabal al-Lawz, northwest Saudi Arabia
- Jabal al-Thawr, Saudi Arabia
- Jabal al-Nour, "Mountain of Light", Saudi Arabia
- Jabal el-Karmil / Jabal Mar Elias, "Mount Carmel / Mount St. Elijah", Israel
- Jabal Amman, Jordan
- Jabal Libnen, "Mount Lebanon", Lebanon
- Jabal Haramoun, "Mount Hermon", Lebanon and Syria
- Jabal Amel, Lebanon
- Jabal al-Druze, Syria
- Jabal Semaan, "Mount Simeon", Syria
- Jebal:
- Jebel:
- Jebel Akhdar (Libya) - "Green Mountain"
- Jebel Akhdar (Oman) - "Green Mountain"
- Jebel Barkal, in Sudan
- Jebel Hafeet, in United Arab Emirates & Oman
- Jebel Mgoun, in Morocco, 2nd highest peak in North Africa
- Jebel Musa, north tip of Morocco, opposite Gibraltar
- Jebel Shams, "Sun Mountain", highest mountain in Oman
- Jebel Toubkal, in Morocco
- Jebel ech Chambi, in Tunisia
- Jbel:
- Djebel:
Other
- Djebel (1937-1958), race horse
See also: