Lexicographical Neighbors of Kirbeh
Literary usage of Kirbeh
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Manners & Customs of the Modern Egyptians by Edward William Lane (1908)
"The ass bears a goat's skin (called " kirbeh ") ; so too does the ... his kirbeh
has a long brass spout, and he pours the water into a brass cup, ..."
2. A Gazetteer of the Countries Adjacent to India on the Northwest: Including by Edward Thornton (1844)
"... kirbeh.—A village in Afghanistan, situate on the walker's Map of road between
Kandahar and the province of Seistan, seventy-five Atg' miles west of the ..."
3. The Red Sea and Gulf of Aden Pilot: Containing Descriptions of the Suez by William James Lloyd Wharton, John Phillips, Great Britain Hydrographic Office, Great Britain Admiralty (1900)
"... and being very poor are obliged to have recourse to the kirbeh, an inflated
sheepskin. It is commonly used. by the inhabitants of this coast from Ras al ..."
4. A Handbook of Scientific and Literary Bible Difficulties: Or, Facts and by Robert Tuck (1891)
"... this wady bears the name of El kirbeh in its upper course. Here water is
abundant, and at the mouth of the wady are the ruins of a large city lying on ..."
5. The International Standard Bible Encyclopaedia by James Orr (1915)
"... or kirbeh of modern Arabia. We find a great variety of Heb expressions, which
possibly designated special varieties, all of which were rendered ..."
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