Wadi

Definition: Wadi

Wadi

Noun

1. Gully or streambed in North Africa and the Middle East that remains dry except during rainy season.

Date "wadi" was first used: 1839. (references)

Specialty Definitions: Wadi

Domain	Definitions
Mining	A. A term used in the desert regions of Southwestern Asia and Northern Africa for a stream bed or channel, or a steep-sided and bouldery ravine, gully, or valley, or a dry wash, that is usually dry except during the rainy season, and that often forms an oasis b. The intermittent and torrential stream that flows through a wadi and ends in a closed basin c. A shallow, usually sharply defined, closed basin in which a wadi terminates.---Etymol: Arabic. Variant plurals: wadis; wadies; wadian; widan. See also:arroyo; nullah. Also spelled: wady; waddy. Syn:oued;widiyan. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: Wadi

Non-English Usage: "Wadi" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

German (wadi).

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Modern Usage: Wadi

Domain

Usage

Movie/TV Titles

Wadi al mot (1966)

Al Wadi al akhdar (1961)

Shadia al wadi (1946)

Wadi el numjum (1943)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Wadi

Domain	Title
Books	Discoveries in the Wadi Ed-Daliyeh (reference) Night in the wadi (reference) The Amethyst Mining Inscriptions of Wadi El-Hudi (reference) The monasteries of the Wadi 'n Natrûn New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Egyptian Expedition, 1926-[33] (reference) The Wadi Al Jubah Archaeological Project: Geological and Archaeological Reconnaissance in the Yemen Arab Republic, 1985 (reference) (more book examples)

Music	(Sahrat Hub) Evening With Wadi and Nasri [IMPORT] (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Wadi

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Photo Album: Wadi

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Wadi Rum in Jordan, only about 50 miles inland. Reminiscent of the American Southwest.Credit: Small World.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Wadi

Subject	Topic	Quote
Business		These highway roads include the Alexandria to Al Fayoum road (199 kilometers); Assiut to al Fayuom (210 kilometers); Al Fayoum to Aswan (1850 kilometers); Deirut, a province of Assiut to Al Farafra Oasis in the Western Desert (260 kilometers); Al Kharga Oasis to Shark Al Owaynate, far southwest (500 kilometers); Deirut to Aswan (433 kilometers); Salloom, on the Libyan border, to Wadi Al Natroun (length not declared). (references)
Economic History	Yemen	A direct link between Sanaa and Wadi Hadramaut via Marib was completed in 1999. (references)
Human Rights	Egypt	Aboul Wafa, who was arrested in October 2000 on suspicion of possession of illegal drugs, had been transferred to the police station from Wadi Natroun prison in preparation for his court-ordered release. (references)
	Egypt	In September the Deputy Chief of Wadi Natroun prison was sentenced to 10 years' hard labor, a prison officer to 7 years' hard labor, and 4 police officers to 5 years' hard labor plus dismissal from their jobs for involvement in the February 2000 death under torture of Ahmed Mohamed Eissa. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Wadi

"Wadi" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 74.55% of the time. "Wadi" is used about 55 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (proper)	74.55%	41	53,521
Noun (singular)	20%	11	106,044
Adjective (general or positive)	3.64%	2	245,945
Noun (common)	1.82%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	55	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Wadi

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
airport al arabia dawasser saudi wadi	24
halfa sudan wadi	21
wadi	16
wadi wild	15
wadi rum	9
wadi al safi	6
hussain.com wadi	5
dubai wadi wild	4
park wadi water wild	4
hussain wadi	4
e hussain wadi	3
el safi wadi	3
hotel musa wadi	3
e hussain.com wadi	2
in trumpet wadi	2
qelt wadi	2
najran wadi	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Wadi

Language		Translations for "wadi"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Arabic		‏نهر (chute, flow, river, strand, stream), ‏وادي (vale), ‏جدول (bayou, brook, chart, creek, flow, glen, gulch, gully, gutter, index, list, panel, purl, register, rill, rivulet, runlet, runnel, scale, schedule, small stream, stagger, stream, table, tabulate, tally, water course). (various references)

Danish		vadi (arroyo, quady, wady). (various references)

Dutch		wadi (arroyo, quady, wady). (various references)

Finnish		vadi (arroyo, quady, wady), kausiuoma (arroyo, quady, wady). (various references)

French		Oued (wady). (various references)

German		Wadi (arroyo, quady, wady). (various references)

Greek		Wady (arroyo, quady, wady), Wadi (arroyo, quady, wady), Quady (arroyo, quady, wady), Ρέμα. (various references)

Hebrew		ֵא�"י, ׀חל (Brook). (various references)

Italian		uadi (arroyo, quady, wady), fiumara (arroyo, quady, wady). (various references)

Pig Latin		adiway

Portuguese		uedes (arroyo, quady, wady), uádi (arroyo, quady, wady). (various references)

Russian		вади. (various references)

Spanish		Cauce (bed, bowl, channel, nullah, riverbed, watercourse), "wadi","wady", "quady". (various references)

Swedish		wadi (arroyo, quady, wady), arroyo (arroyo, quady, wady). (various references)

Turkish		Yazın Kuruyan Dere. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Wadi

Language	Period	Translations
Arabic	500-Modern	wadi. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations: Wadi

Derivations
	Words beginning with "wadi": wadies, wading, wadis. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Wadi

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-i-w"
	-1 letter: aid, daw, wad.
	-2 letters: ad, ai, aw, id.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-i-w"
	+1 letter: diwan, wadis.
	+2 letters: dawing, dawtie, diwans, inward, midway, waddie, wadies, wading, waifed, wailed, waired, waited, waived, whidah, wizard.
	+3 letters: airward, awaited, bawdier, bawdies, bawdily, bawdric, dawning, dawties, dawting, disavow, drawing, indrawn, inwards, miaowed, midways, misdraw, rawhide, sideway, skidway, tideway, waddied, waddies, wadding, waisted, warding, waylaid, wayside, wearied, whidahs, wildcat, windage, windbag, windway, wizards, woodsia.
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