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Pages in category "Arabian legendary creatures" The following 26 pages are in this category, out of 26 total. ... Sila (mythology) T. Tannin (mythology) W. Werehyena; Z.
The English form roc originates via Antoine Galland's French from Arabic ruḵḵ (Arabic: الرُخّ, romanized: ar-ruḫḫ) and that from Persian ruḵ (Dari pronunciation:). [2] In both languages, Arabic and Persian, the word is written in the Arabic script as رخ.
The Tannin (Dragon), by al-Qazwini (1203–1283).. Tannin (Hebrew: תַּנִּין tannīn; Syriac: ܬܢܝܢܐ tannīnā plural: tannīnē; Arabic: التنين tinnīn, ultimately from Akkadian 𒆗𒉌𒈾 dannina) or Tunnanu (Ugaritic: 𐎚𐎐𐎐 tnn, likely vocalized tunnanu [1]) was a sea monster in Canaanite and Hebrew mythology used as a symbol of chaos and evil.
Articles relating to the mythology of the Arabs ... Arabian legendary creatures (3 C, 26 P) D. ... Alexander the Great in Arabic tradition;
Ancient Anatolian legendary creatures (2 C) Angels (6 C, 16 P) Arabian legendary creatures (3 C, 25 P) E. Egyptian legendary creatures (2 C, 14 P) I.
Lisan al-'Arab, by Ibn Manzur, gives the following account on the term: "Creatures called jânn lived on earth but they caused mischief in it and shed blood, so God sent his angels who drove them away from the earth; and it is said that these angels became the inhabitants of the earth after the jânn.
Falak (Arabic: فلك) is the giant serpent mentioned in the One Thousand and One Nights. [1] He resides below Bahamut, the giant fish which carries (along with a bull and an angel) the rest of the universe including six hells, the earths and the heavens. [2]
Chalkydri – heavenly creatures of the Sun; Chamrosh (Persian mythology) – body of a dog, head & wings of a bird; Cinnamon bird – greek myth of an arabian bird that builds nests out of cinnamon; Devil Bird (Sri Lankan) – shrieks predicting death; Gagana – a miraculous bird with an iron beak and copper claws