"Dahabeah" is a word in ENGLISH

An artificial bar or obstruction placed in a river or water course to increase the depth of water; as, the …

A large, edible, siluroid fish of the Nile, of two species (Bagrina bayad and B. docmac).

A remarkable ganoid fish (Polypterus bichir) found in the Nile and other African rivers. See Brachioganoidei.

A large species of barbel (Barbus bynni), found in the Nile, and much esteemed for food.

An edible fish of the Nile (genus Chromis).

One of the Chromidae, a family of fresh-water fishes abundant in the tropical parts of America and Africa. Some are …

The principal sect of Christians in Egypt and the valley of the Nile.

A large reptile of the genus Crocodilus, of several species. They grow to the length of sixteen or eighteen feet, …

A tract of land shaped like the letter delta (/), especially when the land is alluvial and inclosed between two …

A monkey of the upper Nile and Abyssinia (Cercopithecus griseo-viridis), having the upper parts dull green, the lower parts white, …

The source, fountain, spring, or beginning, as of a stream or river; as, the head of the Nile; hence, the …

A genus of large percoid fishes, of which one species (Lates Niloticus) inhabits the Nile, and another (L. calcarifer) is …

Any fish of the genus Distichodus. Several large species inhabit the Nile.

The great river of Egypt.

An instrument for measuring the rise of water in the Nile during its periodical flood.

Of or pertaining to the river Nile; as, the Nilotic crocodile.

Of or pertaining to Pelusium, an ancient city of Egypt; as, the Pelusiac (or former eastern) outlet of the Nile.

An Egyptian deity, at first a symbol of the Nile, and so of fertility; later, one of the divinities of …

A machine, resembling a well sweep, used in Egypt for raising water from the Nile for irrigation.

A large African wading bird (Balaeniceps rex) allied to the storks and herons, and remarkable for its enormous broad swollen …