Arabic-L:LING:waadii ar-raafidayn query

[Dilworth B. Parkinson]

----------------------------------------------------------------------
Arabic-L: Mon 20 Nov 2000
Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson <dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu>
[To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu]
[To unsubscribe, send message to listserv at byu.edu with first line reading:
          unsubscribe arabic-l                                      ]

-------------------------Directory-------------------------------------

1) Subject: waadii ar-raafidayn query

-------------------------Messages--------------------------------------
1)
Date: 20 Nov 2000
From: Srpko Lestaric <srpkole at EUnet.yu>
Subject: waadii ar-raafidayn query

Mesopotamia (waadii maa bayna an-nahrayn) is, as all know, also called
waadii ar-raafidayn.
Is there a particular English equivalence to this beautiful way of naming
the land between and around Tigris and Euphrates?
Thanks.

Srpko Lestaric

--------------------------------------------------------------------------
End of Arabic-L: 20 Nov 2000