Random Image

You are here: Random Image > Words beginning with g > Random Image for gadaba

Possible definitions for gadaba

Adana
City (pop., 1995: 1,066,000), S central Turkey, on the Seyhan River. An agricultural and industrial center and one of Turkey's largest cities, it probably overlies a Hittite settlement that dates from c.1400 BC. Conquered by Alexander the Great in 335-334 BC, it was later a Roman military station. It came under the rule of the Abbasid Arabs at the end of the 7th cent. AD and changed hands intermittently until the establishment of the Turkmen dynasty in 1378. Adana's prosperity has long derived from the fertile valleys behind it and its position as a bridgehead on the Anatolian-Arabian trade routes.


Adapa
Legendary sage of the Sumerian city of Eridu. Endowed with great intelligence by Ea but still mortal, he was the hero of the Sumerian myth of the Fall of Man. Adapa was fishing when he was blown into the sea by the S wind, whose wings he broke in rage. The heavenly doorkeepers Tammuz and Ningishzida interceded for him when he was summoned before Anu for punishment, but when Anu offered him the bread and water of eternal life, he refused, and humankind thus became mortal.


Aqaba
NE arm of the Red Sea penetrating between Saudi Arabia and the Sinai Peninsula. It is 100 mi (160 km) long and varies in width from 12 to 17 mi (19-27 km). Its head touches Egypt, Israel, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia. Its only sheltered harbor is Dhahab (Dahab), Egypt; Jordan and Israel created the ports of Aqaba and Elat, respectively, as outlets to the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean.


Calabar
City (pop., 1993 est.: 162,000), SE Nigeria. Lying along the Calabar River above its confluence with the Cross River, it was settled in the 17th cent. by the Efik, and became an important trading center for Europeans arriving on the African coast. After accepting British protection in 1884, it served as capital of a British protectorate until British administrative headquarters were moved to Lagos in 1906. With its natural harbor, it remains an important port.


calabash
Tree (Crescentia cujete) of the trumpet-creeper family (Bignoniaceae) that grows in Central and S. America, the W. Indies, and extreme S Florida. It is often grown as an ornamental. It produces large spherical fruits, the hard shells of which are useful as bowls, cups, and other water containers when hollowed out. The fruit's shell encloses a whitish pulp and thin, dark brown seeds. The tree bears funnel-shaped, light green and purple-streaked flowers and evergreen leaves. Fruits of the unrelated bottle gourd (Lagenaria siceraria) are also known as calabashes.


database
Collection of data or information organized for rapid search and retrieval, especially by a computer. Databases are structured to facilitate storage, retrieval, modification, and deletion of data in conjunction with various data-processing operations. A database consists of a file or set of files that can be broken down into records, each of ...

Top words beginning with G: grandma, gnostically, girthes, granolithic, gramary, gravis, goutier, growling, gardnerella, griffado, geognosies, gring, genee, grolieresque, guttersnipish, guiltsick, gomel, grieced, glochidiate, grouping

More words beginning with G.

Browse the alphabet: A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z