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Most important of these is the Barada, a river that rises in the Anti-Lebanon Mountains and disappears into the desert. The Barada flows out of the karst spring of Ain al-Fijah , about 27 kilometres (17 mi) north west of Damascus in the Anti-Lebanon Mountains, but its true source is Lake Barada, a small lake that is also a karst spring located ...
Pharpar (or Pharphar in the Douay–Rheims Bible) is a biblical river in Syria.It is the less important of the two rivers of Damascus mentioned in the Book of Kings (2 Kings 5:12), now generally identified with the Nahr al-Awaj, also called Awaj (literally, 'crooked'), although if the reference to Damascus is limited to the city, as in the Arabic version of the Old Testament, Pharpar would be ...
The Abuna River (Spanish: Río Abuná, Portuguese: Rio Abunã) is a river in South America. As a part of the Amazon Basin, it forms part of the border between northern Bolivia and north-western Brazil. The river has a total length of 375 kilometres (233 mi). It originates in several streams east of the Cordillera Oriental of the Peruvian Andes ...
The following is the chart of the International Phonetic Alphabet, a standardized system of phonetic symbols devised and maintained by the International Phonetic Association. It is not a complete list of all possible speech sounds in the world's languages, only those about which stand-alone articles exist in this encyclopedia.
Mount Amana is at the southern end [3] [4] of the Anti-Lebanon Mountains, [5] [6] [7] [1] near the source of the river Abana. [3] [8] [4] [9] Paul Haupt identifies this mountain as Jabal az-Zabadany, northwest of Damascus. [8] Mount Amana is often confused with Mount Amanus, also known as Mount Hor, at the north end of the Syrian plain. [a]
In the vowels chart, a separate phonetic value is given for each major dialect, alongside the words used to name their corresponding lexical sets. The diaphonemes for the lexical sets given here are based on RP and General American; they are not sufficient to express all of the distinctions found in other dialects, such as Australian English.
Abana, a genus of sharpshooter (insect) Artist-Blacksmith's Association of North America , a trade association Abana (film) , a 1958 Indian Sindhi-language film
Square brackets are used with phonetic notation, whether broad or narrow [17] – that is, for actual pronunciation, possibly including details of the pronunciation that may not be used for distinguishing words in the language being transcribed, but which the author nonetheless wishes to document. Such phonetic notation is the primary function ...