PETRA

Meaning of PETRA in English

/pee"treuh, pe"-/ , n.

an ancient city in SW Jordan: ruined structures carved out of varicolored stratified rock; capital of the Nabataeans and Edomites.

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary. Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House . 2012

PETRA — n stone (1. rock; 2. [Med.] calculus); petra de tocca touchstone; petra pumice pumice stone; petra angular cornerstone; petra philosophal …
Interlingua English vocab
PETRA — geographical name ancient city of NW Arabia on slope of Mt. Hor, site now in SW Jordan; capital of the …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
PETRA — Ancient city, Middle East. Located in what is now southwestern Jordan, it was the capital of the Nabataean kingdom from …
Английский словарь Британика
PETRA — n. ancient city in southern Jordan whose buildings are carved out of stone; female first name (German)
Толковый словарь английского языка - Редакция bed
PETRA — geographical name ancient city of NW Arabia on slope of Mt. Hor, site now in SW Jordan; capital of the …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
PETRA — (Arabic Batra, ) ancient city, centre of an Arab kingdom in Hellenistic and Roman times; its ruins are in southwest …
Britannica English vocabulary
PETRA — Petra BrE AmE ˈpetr ə ˈpiːtr-
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
PETRA — Pet ‧ ra /ˈpetrə/ BrE AmE an ancient city in Jordan, where buildings are cut into pink-coloured rock. It is …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
PETRA — n. Ancient city, Middle East. Located in what is now southwestern Jordan, it was the capital of the Nabataean kingdom …
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
PETRA — Петра
Американский Англо-Русский словарь
PETRA — г. Петра
Англо-Русский словарь Tiger
PETRA — (0) петра
English-Russian Lingvistica'98 dictionary
PETRA — г. Петра
Англо-Русский географический словарь
PETRA — n. Pronunciation: ' p ē -tr ə , ' pe- Function: geographical name ancient city of NW Arabia on slope …
Merriam Webster Collegiate English Dictionary
SULTAN ISMAIL PETRA AIRPORT — Airport Name : Sultan Ismail Petra Airport Airport Location : Kota Bharu, Malaysia IATA Code : KBR ICAO Code : …
Airport Code English Dictionary
PETRA, LESBOS — Петра
Американский Англо-Русский словарь
PETRA, BALEARIC ISLANDS — Петра
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PERRON — /per"euhn/ ; Fr. /pe rddawonn"/ , n. , pl. perrons /per"euhnz/ ; Fr. /pe rddawonn"/ . Archit. an outside platform …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
PETER I — born c. 1747, , Njego, Montenegro died Oct. 18 [Oct. 30, New Style], 1830, Cetinje Montenegrin in full Petar Petrovic …
Britannica English vocabulary
NABATAEAN ALPHABET — writing system used between approximately 150 BC and AD 150 in the Nabataean kingdom of Petra in the Arabian Peninsula. …
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NABATAEAN — member of a people of ancient Arabia whose settlements lay in the borderlands between Syria and Arabia, from the Euphrates …
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JORDAN, FLAG OF — horizontally striped black-white-green national flag with a red hoist triangle bearing a white star. The flag has a width-to-length ratio …
Britannica English vocabulary
FLAVIAN II OF ANTIOCH — died c. 518, , Petra, Arabia patriarch of Antioch probably from 498 to 512. He was chosen patriarch by the …
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FASSBINDER, RAINER WERNER
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DESY — byname of Deutsches Elektronen-synchrotron, English German Electron-synchrotron the largest centre for particle-physics research in Germany, located in Hamburg. DESY is …
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COURBET, GUSTAVE — born June 10, 1819, Ornans, France died December 31, 1877, La Tour-de-Peilz, Switzerland French painter and leader of the Realist …
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BURCKHARDT, JOHANN LUDWIG — born Nov. 24, 1784, Lausanne, Switz. died Oct. 15, 1817, Cairo also called Ibrahim Ibn 'abd Allah the first European …
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ARABIA — Arabic Jazirat Al-'Arab (Island of the Arabs), peninsular region, together with offshore islands, located in the extreme southwestern corner of …
Britannica English vocabulary
SELA, OR SELAH — (the rock), (2 Kings 14:7; Isaiah 16:1) so rendered in the Authorized Version in Judges city later (2 Chronicles 25:12) …
Smith's Bible English Dictionary
HOR — (mountain), Mount. â The mountain on which Aaron died. (Numbers 20:25,27) It was "on the boundary line," (Numbers 20:23) or …
Smith's Bible English Dictionary
ARABIA — (desert, barren), a country known in the Old Testament under two designations:- â The East Country, (Genesis 25:6) or perhaps …
Smith's Bible English Dictionary

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