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Appendix 'C' (contd.).

Masha'a* (Ar.)
- "Owned in shares", i.e. village land not permanently allotted to individuals but held in common and annually distributed.

Mass Hazit Israel

(H.) - "Israel's Front Fund" of the Stern Group.

Matruka* (Ar.) - Land withdrawn from private use and allotted to public use.

Meshek (H.) - "Farm", "agricultural economic unit".

Mewat* (Ar.) - "Waste land owned b the State".

Mikve Israel (II.) - "Hope of Israel". The first agricultural school founded in 1870 by Charles Netter.

Miri* (Ar.) - Land over which a heritable right of possession is granted by the State though the Raq Uri (ownership) remains in the State. Analogous with copyhold.

Mizrahi (H.) "Eastern". The main party of orthodox Zion is ts. See page 959.

Mudawwara* (Ar.) - Land transferred from the Sultan to the Treasury after the Turkish revolution of 1908.

Mughara (Ar.) Mukhtar (Ar.)

Mulk* (Ar.)

Nebi (Ar.) Nesher (H.) Nir (H.)

N.Z.0.

Qada (Ar.) P.I.C.A.

Palmach (H.)

Pasha

P.C.P. or P.K.P. Pessah (H.) Po'alei Zion (H.) Purim (H.)

Ras (Ar.)

- "Cavern".

- Arabic: Village headman. Lit. "the chosen one".

Hebrew: Settlement representative, who deals with external affairs.

- "Property" - in particular refers to allodiall and, i.e, freehold as opposed to miri (q.v.). - "Prophet".

- "Eagle". Cement factory near Haifa.

- 'Fallow land": co-operative agricultural

societies.

- New Zionist Organisation of the Rev iaion ia *. party.

- See Sanjaq.

- Palestine Jewish Colonisation Association.

See page 374.

-•- Abbreviation for Plugot Machats: mobile detachments of the Hagana.

- Honorific of Turkish origin approximating to "Lord". It follows the first personal name, e.g. Ahmad Pasha Jezzar; cf. Bey (q.v.).

- 'Palestine Communist Party".

- HF east of Passover".

---. "Workers of Zion" - extreme left wing party.

- "Feast of Esther".

- "Promontory"; "peak"; "head" (e.g. of a

spring or river). Rosh Hashana

(H.) - The Jewish Festival of the New Year, which falls in September. Rosh =Ar. Ras, head.
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* See section 1 of chapter VIII.

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