"gohr" not in English dictionaries?

[David A. Daniel]

Seems to be basically a wadi, maybe regional Sudan/Egypt?, i.e., wadi more
widely used, wadi catches on, gohr doesn't. I learned my Arabic in Tunisia,
and don't recall running into a gohr, only wadis.
DAD

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Depends.  Do other English speakers returning from Egypt use it?  Or is
it simply an Egyptian word which Werne (or O'Reilly), having no English
word which fulfilled its purpose, used a few times?

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> Does "gohr" need to be in English dictionaries?
>
>  From (via Google Books, full view):
> Expedition to Discover the Sources of the White Nile, in the Years
> 1840, 1841: From the German by C.W. O'Reilly
> By Ferdinand Werne, Charles William O'Reilly
> Translated by Charles William O'Reilly
> Published by R. Bentley, 1849
> Item notes: v. 1
>
> Many instances, including:
>
> Page 12:  "When they require water for themselves and their cattle,
> they make in the bed of the Gohr a hole, not very deep, in the sand"
>
> Page 59:  "At Gohr et Gash, I had jumped on a dromedary without first
> embracing him"
>
> Page 262:  "... a small, but strongly-flowing river, or an arm of the
> Nile ; in the latter signification it is called, without any further
> ceremony, a gohr."
>
> Page 272:  "We soon come to a gohr, or canal, apparently feeding the
> little lake."
>
> Joel
>
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