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The Kingdom of Whydah (/ ˈ hw ɪ d ə, ˈ hw ɪ d ˌ ɔː /) [nb 1] was a kingdom on the coast of West Africa in what is now Benin. [1] It was a major slave trading area which exported more than one million Africans to the United States , the Caribbean and Brazil before closing its trade in the 1860s. [ 2 ]
Ouidah (English: / ˈ w iː d ə /; French: ) or Whydah (/ ˈ hw ɪ d ə,-ɔː /; Ouidah, Juida, and Juda by the French; [2] [3] Ajudá by the Portuguese; [4] and Fida by the Dutch), and known locally as Glexwe, formerly the chief port of the Kingdom of Whydah, is a city on the coast of the Republic of Benin.
Whydah may refer in English to: Whydah, one of a number of species of birds in the family Viduidae, also called indigobirds; Whydah Gally, a ship captained by pirate "Black Sam" Bellamy that was wrecked in 1717 and was discovered in 1984; Whydah (1797 ship) The Whydah, 2017 nonfiction children's book; Ouidah, city and colonial fort in present Benin
This is a list of English words of Hebrew origin. Transliterated pronunciations not found in Merriam-Webster or the American Heritage Dictionary follow Sephardic/Modern Israeli pronunciations as opposed to Ashkenazi pronunciations, with the major difference being that the letter taw ( ת ) is transliterated as a 't' as opposed to an 's'.
This is a list of words that have entered the English language from the Yiddish language, many of them by way of American English.There are differing approaches to the romanization of Yiddish orthography (which uses the Hebrew alphabet); thus, the spelling of some of the words in this list may be variable (for example, shlep is a variant of schlep, and shnozz, schnoz).
According to the Hebrew Bible, in the encounter of the burning bush (Exodus 3:14), Moses asks what he is to say to the Israelites when they ask what gods have sent him to them, and YHWH replies, "I am who I am", adding, "Say this to the people of Israel, 'I am has sent me to you. ' " [4] Despite this exchange, the Israelites are never written to have asked Moses for the name of God. [13]
The pin-tailed whydah is 12–13 cm in length, although the breeding male's tail adds another 20 cm to this. The adult male has a black back and crown, and a very long black tail. The wings are dark brown with white patches, and the underparts and the head, apart from the crown, are white. The bill is bright red.
The Middle English word Jew derives from Old English where the word is attested as early as 1000 in various forms, such as Iudeas, Gyu, Giu, Iuu, Iuw, Iew. The Old English name is derived from Old French. The modern French term is "Juif/Juive" (m/f). [3] Most European languages have retained the letter "d" in the word for "Jew".