- Nile
- Nile one of the world's oldest surviving place names, from a Semitic root nahal "river." Unnamed in Old Testament, it is always merely "the river" (Heb. yeor).
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Nile — Nile … English-Hawaiian dictionary
Nile — Nile … Википедия
Nile TV — International Launched 31 October 1994 Owned by Egyptian Radio and Television Union (ERTU) Picture format 4:3 (576i, SDTV) Country Egypt Headqua … Wikipedia
NILE — NILE, river in N.E. Africa. The Nile is the lifestream of the civilizations flourishing in the valley bordering it. If the river is too high or too low in one year, disaster and famine follow in the next. Indeed, the ancient Egyptians saw in the… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
Nile — en vivo en el Jaxx Nightclub, agosto de 2007 Datos generales Origen Greenville, Carolina del Sur … Wikipedia Español
Nile — est un groupe de brutal death metal américain formé en 1995 et ayant pour particularité de teinter leurs compositions death metal d ambiances égyptiennes. Une légère influence des floridiens de Morbid Angel se fait sentir au plan des tempos et… … Wikipédia en Français
Nile — Nile … Deutsch Wikipedia
Nile — (n[imac]l), n. [L. Nilus, Gr. Nei^los.] The great river of Egypt. [1913 Webster] {Nile bird}. (Zo[ o]l.) (a) The wryneck. [Prov. Eng.] (b) The crocodile bird. {Nile goose} (Zo[ o]l.), the Egyptian goose. See Note under {Goose}, 2. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Nile — the Nile a river in northeast Africa, the longest river in the world, whose water is used for most of the farming in Egypt and Sudan. It is formed from two rivers: the Blue Nile, which starts in Ethiopia, and the White Nile, which starts in… … Dictionary of contemporary English
Nile — [nīl] river in NE Africa, formed at Khartoum, Sudan, by the juncture of the Blue Nile, flowing from N Ethiopia, c. 1,000 mi (1,610 km) & the White Nile, flowing from Lake Victoria, c. 1,650 mi (2,655 km), & flowing north through Egypt into the… … English World dictionary
nile — nile; ju·ve·nile; … English syllables
