The People of Palestine: An enlarged edition of "The Peasantry of Palestine, Life, Manners and Customs of the Village"Grant, Elihu
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The People of Palestine: An enlarged edition of "The Peasantry of Palestine, Life, Manners and Customs of the Village"
Grant, Elihu
Palestine -- Social life and customs; Palestinian Arabs -- Social life and customs; Peasants -- Palestine
_Khâbyeh_, a large store-bin made of clay.
_Ṣandûḳ_, a small box used by the women as a chest for clothing and
personal treasures.
_Ṭâḥûn_, a stone mill for grinding wheat.
_Môḳadeh_, an earthen fire-pot.
_Kânûn_, a clay brazier on which charcoal is burned. Coffee is roasted
and cooked over this brazier.
_Jurun_, a mortar.
_Mahbâsh_ (_mahbâj_), the pestle.
_Maḥmaṣeh_, a rotary coffee-roaster of tin, turned by a handle.
_Ibrîḳ_, a small pitcher or pot.
_Ḥaṣîreh_, a straw mat for the floor.
_Mikniseh_, a short-handled broom.
_Ḳuda‛_ (or ḳudah), a large basket, wide and shallow.
_Ḳuba‛_, a tiny basket of the same shape.
_Ṣînîyeh_, a plain straw mat used as a tray or as a cover for the
_bâṭeyeh_.
_Ṭubuḳ_,[84] a fancy straw mat used in the same way as the _ṣînîyeh_.
_Hanâbeh_, a small clay eating-dish.
_Kirmîyeh_, a trencher.
_Bâṭeyeh_, a dough-bowl (of wood).
_Ṭôs_, an earthen bowl.
_Zibdîyeh_, a larger bowl.
_Ṭunjereh_, a copper cooking vessel, whitened, sometimes used as a
serving-dish.
_Dist_, a very large ṭunjereh for serving food to guests; also used as
a pan in which to wash clothes.
_Maftûlîyeh_, a special dish for making _maftûl_, a paste that looks
like buckshot. The dish has a perforated bottom like a colander.
_Jarreh_, a general name for a jar.
_Ghuṭâh_, a cover of a jar (a general name for a cover).
_Mughṭâs_, a dipper.
_Ḍharf_, a goat skin for fetching water.
_‛Aslîyeh_, a slender jar.
_Sifl_, a jar for oil.
_Sherbeh_, a drinking jar.
_Ghurbâl_, a wheat sieve.
_Minkhul_ (corrupted into _mûkhil_), a flour sieve made of hair.
_Sirâj_, a lamp.
_Misrajeh_, a lamp shelf.
_Khûṣeh_, a knife.
_Sikkîneh_, a knife.
_Finjân_, a cup.
_Mughrafeh_, a ladle.
_Mua‛laḳah_, a spoon.
_Watad_, a peg driven into the wall.
_Ḳûseh_, an alcove for stowaway.
_Khurraḳeh_, a poke-hole in the wall.
_Firâsh_, a bed.
_Ilḥâf_, a quilt.
_Mukhaddeh_ (or _wasâdeh_), a pillow, often filled with _tibn_.
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