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Appendix 'c' (contd.).

Bey, Beg or Bek

(Ar.) - Honorific, of Turkish origin, applied to Rons of Pashas and civil and military dignitaries. It follows the first personal name, e.g. Hamdi Bey Bebe,n.

Bir (Ar.) Be-er

(H.)- "Well".

Birks, Birket (Ar.) - 11Artificial pool", "cistern".

Bnei Brit (H.) - "Sons of the Covenant"; a charitable organisation modelled on Freemasons.

Brit Mila (H.)

- "Pact of circumcision", i.e. ritual circumcision ceremony.

Brit Trumpeldor

(H.) - Revisionist youth movement named after Yosef Trumpeldor, killed in 1920 in defence of Tel Hai.

- Properly Qada. A Turkish administrative division of a Sanjaq (q.v.). A sub-district under the British Administration.

- Turkish register for finally recording all land transactions. Lit. "per-pebual".

- "Midwife".

- "Monastery".

- "Disperaiou" (after the destruction of Herod's Temple in A.D. '701); Jewry outside Palestine.

- "Valley". When preceded by 11Ha" refers to the valley par excellence - the valley of Yizreel separating the hills of Galilee from those of Samaria.

- "Land of Israel". The initials 'E.I.' in Hebrew appear on Palestine stamps, notes and coinage.

- "The Window", "Peephole". Illegal periodical published by Haga.na.

- "Plough". The area ploughed by a. pair of oxen during the season; the area varies according to the terrain; in Beisan it is about 135 dunums.

Gbor (Ar.) -- "Depression"; the Jordan valley.

Ghor Mudawwara Lands in the Jordan valley transferred from (Ar.) - Sultan 'Abdul Hamid to the Turkish Government and thence to the Palestine Government.

Golden Book - Register kept by the Jewish National Fund of

names of substantial subscribers to the Jewish

Caza (Ar.)

Da'imi (Ar.)

Daya (Ar.)

Deir (Ar.) Diaspora (Greek)

Emeq (H.)

Eretz Israel (H.)

Eshnav (H.)

Feddan (Ar.)

Goy (pl. Goylm)

(H.) - In Yiddish, a non-Jew; Hebrew plural, the Nations, i.e. "Gentiles".

cause.

Ha (often joined to to the following

word) (H.) - "The".

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