25-685: [REDACTED] Look up دير in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Deir or DEIR may refer to: Deir in Glossary of Arabic toponyms Ed-Deir, Petra , English: 'The Monastery', a monumental rock-cut structure in Jordan Tell Deir , an archaeological site in Lebanon Deir ez-Zor or Ad-Deir, a city in Syria Draft environmental impact report ,
50-576: A desalinization plant. The city's rate of urbanization continues to outpace that of Morocco, though on most indicators of human development , it lags behind southern Morocco. Laayoune has a hot desert climate ( Köppen climate classification BWh ), moderated by the Canary Current , with an average annual temperature just over 21 °C (70 °F). A 2019 paper published in PLOS One estimated that under Representative Concentration Pathway 4.5 ,
75-485: A "moderate" scenario of climate change where global warming reaches ~2.5–3 °C (4.5–5.4 °F) by 2100, the climate of Laayoune in the year 2050 would most closely resemble the current climate of Alexandria . The annual temperature would increase by 1 °C (1.8 °F), and the temperature of the warmest month by 1.8 °C (3.2 °F), while the temperature of the coldest month would decrease by 0.1 °C (0.18 °F). According to Climate Action Tracker ,
100-467: A document required in United States environmental law People with the surname [ edit ] Edward Deir (1915–1990), Canadian canoeist See also [ edit ] All pages with titles beginning with Deir , include many place names and names of buildings, as deir is Arabic for 'monastery' or 'convent' All pages with titles containing Deir Dair , the seventh letter of
125-1129: A geographical term it signifies "producing", "containing", etc. see All pages with titles containing Ibn J [ edit ] Jama'a, Djama'a, Jami'a place of gathering, community, mosque; All pages with titles containing Jama'a All pages with titles containing Jami'a Jazira , Jezireh, Jeziret Island; All pages with titles containing Jazira All pages with titles containing Jezireh All pages with titles containing Jeziret Jebel, Djebel, Jebal, Jabal mountain; All pages with titles containing Jabal All pages with titles containing Jebal All pages with titles containing Jebel All pages with titles containing Djebel Jisr bridge; see All pages with titles containing Jisr Jubb (Arabic: جُبّ ): well, pit; see All pages with titles containing Jubb K [ edit ] Kasbah , Kasba, Kasaba See Qasba All pages with titles containing Kasba All pages with titles containing Kasbah Khirbet, Khurbet, Khirbat, etc.
150-1128: A geographical term it signifies "producing", "containing", etc.; All pages with titles containing Ab All pages with titles containing Abu Arak, pl.: Arkan Cavern or cliff (among various meanings); see All pages with titles containing Arak B [ edit ] Bab, pl.: Buwab Gate. Examples Bab el-Mandeb ; see All pages with titles containing Bab Baḥr Arabic : بحر - Sea, large river. see All pages with titles containing Bahr Beit House. see All pages with titles containing Beit Balad Arabic : بلد (sometimes transliterated as Beled or Belled) - Town; see All pages with titles containing Balad Bir Arabic : بير , Well; see All pages with titles containing Bir Birkeh Artificial pool, tank; see All pages with titles containing Birkeh Buḥayra, Baḥeirah Arabic : بحيرة , Lake, lagoon; Diminutive of بَحْر (baḥr, “sea”). Burj Arabic : برج , Tower, castle; see All pages with titles containing Burj C [ edit ] Casbah
175-974: A geographical term it signifies "producing", "containing", etc.; cf. " Mother of all "; see All pages with titles containing Umm W [ edit ] Wadi , Wad, North African Arabic : see Oued Watercourse: stream (often intermittent stream ), sometimes dry waterbed, valley All pages with titles containing Wadi All pages with titles containing Wady All pages with titles containing Wad All pages with titles containing Oued See also [ edit ] Maghreb place name etymology Oikonyms in Western and South Asia Place names of Palestine List of Arabic place names References [ edit ] ^ C.R. Conder; H.H. Kitchener (1880). Map of western Palestine in 26 sheets / from surveys conducted for
200-1164: A grave of a saint, ruler, etc.. Examples: Mazar-i-Sharif All pages with titles containing Mazar All pages with titles containing Al-Mazar All pages with titles containing Almazar Mazra', Mazra'a, Al-Mazra'a, Mazraa مزرعة , mazraʿa: farm, مزرع , mazraʿ: field, farmland, origin for majra , hamlet in Indian subcontinent N [ edit ] Nahr wikt:نهر , river, e.g., Nahr-e Mian ; see All pages with titles containing Nahr-e O [ edit ] Oued In North African Arabic , same as Wadi ; see All pages with titles containing Oued Q [ edit ] Qabr, Kabr, pl.:Qubūr Arabic : قَبْر , pl. Arabic : قُبُور - tomb, grave All pages with titles containing Qabr All pages with titles containing Qubur Qal'at, Qalat , Qala , Qalaat, Qal'a Arabic, Persian. Fortified place, fort, fortress, castle; see All pages with titles containing Qalat Casbah , Kasbah , Qaṣba, Qaṣbah, Qaṣaba Arabic: القصبة , romanized: al-qaṣaba ),
225-613: A kind of medina (old city) or fortress All pages with titles containing Casbah All pages with titles containing Qasba All pages with titles containing Qasbah All pages with titles containing Qasaba All pages with titles containing Kasbah Qaṣr, Kaṣr, al-Qaṣr, pl.:Quṣūr Arabic: قصر , lit. 'palace/castle/fortress', from Latin castrum All pages with titles containing Qasr All pages with titles containing Kasr All pages with titles containing Qusur It entered into Spanish and Portuguese placenames in
250-669: A kind of medina (old city) or fortress; cf. " Qasba "; see All pages with titles containing Casbah D [ edit ] Deir wikt:دير monastery, convent, cloister (often ruins thereof); see All pages with titles containing Deir Derb wikt:درب road, pass; see All pages with titles containing Derb Dhahr wikt: ridge; All pages with titles containing Dhahr H [ edit ] Haram Sacred place; see All pages with titles containing Haram Haud Reservoir, pond; see All pages with titles containing Haud I [ edit ] Ibn Son; as
275-548: Is Jeunesse Massira . The club plays in the Moroccan Second Division , the second highest football league in the country. Jeunesse Massira uses Stade Sheikh Mohamed Laghdaf for training and games. Laayoune is served by the international Hassan I Airport . French school associated to the Alliance française was established in 2018, the city also includes a Spanish international school, Colegio Español La Paz, owned by
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#1732837360871300-519: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Glossary of Arabic toponyms#deir Glossary of Arabic terms found in Arabic toponyms [REDACTED] PEF Survey of Western Palestine Key Map The glossary of Arabic toponyms gives translations of Arabic terms commonly found as components in Arabic toponyms . A significant number of them were put together during
325-575: Is the capital of the Laâyoune-Sakia El Hamra region administered by Morocco, it is still under the supervision of MINURSO , an UN mission. The town is located south of the dry river of Saguia el-Hamra , where the old lower town constructed by Spanish colonists is located. The St. Francis of Assisi Cathedral was constructed during the Spanish period and is still active with a few Catholic missionaries. Laayoune or El Aaiún are respectively
350-888: Is the conjunctive form "ruin of" (خربة) of the Arabic word for "ruin" ( خرب , khirba , kharab ("ruined")) All pages with titles containing Khirbet All pages with titles containing Khirbat All pages with titles containing Khurbet All pages with titles containing Kharab Ksar , qsar, plural: ksour, qsour Maghrebi Arabic ; See "Qasr" All pages with titles containing Ksar All pages with titles containing Ksour All pages with titles containing Qsar Kul'ah, Kal'at, Kalat, Kala, Kaleh Arabic, Persian. See "Qalat" All pages with titles containing Kal'at All pages with titles containing Kalat All pages with titles containing Kaleh M [ edit ] Mazar مزار : shrine, grave, tomb, etc. cf. " Mazar (mausoleum) ". The placename usually refers to
375-654: Is the largest city of the disputed territory named Western Sahara , with a population of 271,344 in 2023. The city is de facto under Moroccan administration as occupied territory . The modern city is thought to have been founded by the Spanish captain Antonio de Oro in 1938. From 1958, it became the administrative capital of the Spanish Sahara , administered by the Governor General of Spanish West Africa. In 2023, Laayoune
400-669: The PEF Survey of Palestine carried out in the second half of the 19th century. Contents: Top 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 See also References External links A [ edit ] 'Ain, pl.: `Ayūn, ʿUyūn Spring, fountain, source. Examples: El Aaiún All pages with titles containing Ain All pages with titles containing Aiun Ab, Abu Father; as
425-798: The Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund by C.R. Conder and H.H. Kitchener during the years 1872-1877 . London: Ordnance Survey Office. Index sheet (27): Topographical and Geographical Terms in Arabic . OCLC 1166941168 . ^ Siddiqi 1982 , p. 335. ^ Siddiqi & Bastian 1985 , p. 74. ^ Mann 2005 , p. 139 ^ Negev & Gibson 2005 , p. 518 Sources [ edit ] Mann, Joel F. (2005). An international glossary of place name elements . Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-5040-8 . Negev, Avraham; Gibson, Shimon (2005). Archaeological encyclopedia of
450-461: The French and Spanish transliterations of one of the possible Romanized Maghrebi Arabic names for the city: Layoun , which could mean "the springs", in reference to the oases that furnish the town's water supply. The city was founded by the Spanish captain Antonio de Oro in 1938 as a small military outpost, but quickly became the Spanish Sahara 's administrative and political centre. The location
475-563: The Holy Land (4th, revised, illustrated ed.). Continuum International Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-8264-8571-7 . Siddiqi, Akhtar Husain; Bastian, Robert W. (1985). "Urban Place Names in Pakistan: A Reflection of Cultural Characteristics" . Names . 29 (1): 65–84. OCLC 500207327 . Siddiqi, Jamal Mohd (1982). Significance of technical terms in place names—a case-study of Aligarh District . Proceedings of
500-5100: The Indian History Congress. Vol. 43. pp. 332–341. JSTOR 44141245 . External links [ edit ] The intro to a 1950s gazeteer for 35,000 placenames of Arabian Peninsula and surrounding waters and islands contains a glossary of generic toponymic features v t e Geography topics Glossary History Philosophy Index Outline Branches Human Behavioral Cognitive Critical Cultural Animal Children's Economic Agricultural Cyber Development Financial Histo-economic Labor Marketing Retail Theoretical economic Transport Language Linguistics Music Vernacular Moral Psychological Emotional Neo Sexuality Religion Food Health Historical Palaeo Imagined Internet Political Critical geopolitics Electoral Geopolitics Strategic Military Population Settlement Regional Urban Music Transport Social Tourism Tropical Physical Biogeography Ecology Phytogeography Zoogeography Coastal geography / Oceanography Earth science Atmospheric science / Meteorology Environmental science Climatology / Paleoclimatology / Palaeogeography Geobiology Geophysics / Geodesy Earth system science Geomorphology / Geology Glaciology Hydrology / Limnology Soil science ( Pedology / Edaphology ) Quaternary science Technical Geodesign Geodesy Geoinformatics Geographic information science Geomatics Statistical geography Spatial analysis Integrated Environmental social science Environmental studies Landscape architecture Landscape ecology Time geography Techniques and tools Quantitative Cartography Computer cartography Web mapping Geochronology Geographic information system Distributed GIS Internet GIS Web GIS Geologic modelling Geomathematics Geostatistics Geovisualization Global Positioning System Hydrography Map algebra Participant observation Photogrammetry Remote sensing Statistical survey Surveying Land change modeling Qualitative Ethnography Geopoetics Interview (research) Survey (human research) Institutions Geographic data and information organizations Geographical societies Geoscience societies National mapping agency Education Geography education Geo-literacy Geographers on Film International Geography Olympiad National Council for Geographic Education Spatial citizenship [REDACTED] Category [REDACTED] Portal [REDACTED] Commons [REDACTED] WikiProject v t e Glossaries of science and engineering Aerospace engineering Agriculture Archaeology Architecture Artificial intelligence Astronomy Biology Botany Calculus Cell biology Chemistry Civil engineering Clinical research Computer hardware Computer science Developmental and reproductive biology Ecology Economics Electrical and electronics engineering Engineering A–L M–Z Entomology Environmental science Genetics and evolutionary biology Cellular and molecular biology 0–L M–Z Geography A–M N–Z Arabic toponyms Hebrew toponyms Western and South Asia Geology Ichthyology Machine vision Mathematics Mechanical engineering Medicine Meteorology Mycology Nanotechnology Ornithology Physics Probability and statistics Psychiatry Quantum computing Robotics Scientific naming Structural engineering Virology Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Glossary_of_Arabic_toponyms&oldid=1256468800 " Categories : Lists of place name etymologies Geography-related lists Geography terminology Glossaries of science Place name element etymologies Arabic language Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description matches Wikidata Articles containing Arabic-language text Misplaced Pages glossaries using description lists El Aai%C3%BAn Laayoune or El Aaiún ( Arabic : العيون , al-ʕuyūn [alʕujuːn] , Hassaniyya: [ˈləʕjuːn] , lit. ' The Springs ' )
525-640: The Ogham alphabet Der (disambiguation) Deyr (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Deir . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Deir&oldid=1216717699 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Disambiguation pages with surname-holder lists Hidden categories: Short description
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#1732837360871550-458: The current warming trajectory appears consistent with 2.7 °C (4.9 °F), which closely matches RCP 4.5. Laayoune has a population of 271,344 and is the largest city in Western Sahara. The city is a hub for fishing and for phosphate mining in the region. In 2010, the country was negotiating a new fishing agreement with Europe over offshore fishing. The football club of the city
575-764: The forms Alcazar, Alcácer North African ( Maghrebi Arabic ) form: Ksar [REDACTED] The dictionary definition of qasr at Wiktionary R [ edit ] Ras wikt:رأس , head, cape, top, peak, etc., see All pages with titles containing Ras Rujm , plural: rujum wikt:رجم , mound, cairn , hill, spur, and also as "stone heap" or " tumulus ". All pages with titles containing Rujm All pages with titles containing Rujum S [ edit ] souk , sūq, souq wikt:سوق , "market" All pages with titles containing Souk All pages with titles containing Suk All pages with titles containing Souq U [ edit ] Umm Mother; as
600-517: Was chosen for two reasons: the presence of water and the strategic military position the site offered. Its position on the banks of the Saguia el-Hamra river enabled good communication with the harbors of Tarfaya and Boujdour . The city underwent a period of rapid economic growth in the 1940s due to the discovery of vast deposits of phosphates at the Bou Craa site fuelling a phosphate industry. The town
625-595: Was the scene of the Zemla Intifada that occurred on June 17, 1970, that culminated in a massacre, resulting in the deaths ranging from 2 to 11 people and hundreds injured. After the Spanish withdrew in 1975, Laayoune, along with much of the rest of the Western Sahara, was annexed by Morocco. Since then, large numbers of Moroccans have moved to the city, and now outnumber the indigenous Sahrawis , who have gradually given up their traditional nomadic lifestyles. The city has continued to develop rapidly and benefits of
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