Meaning of sebil | Babel Free

Definitions

A fountain, a small structure in a Muslim area where water is freely dispensed to members of the public.

Equivalents

Examples

“Her tomb is at the far end⟳ of the complex, completed in 1796, which also includes a sebil, soup kitchen, school, large cemetery, […]”

“Addition of architectonic elements for public use⟳ to these walls, sebil and fountains, also gives them particular volume[…]”

“Don Carlos is supposed to prepare⟳ the most and best kid skins in South America, thanks to the bark of the sebil tree, vast forests of which grow⟳ on these ranges and in Tucuman. Don Carlos is a capital fellow, speaks French, English, German, ...”

“Growing with or near the sebil, we find⟳ the two cedars, the white and the pink; the lapaccio, that we have⟳ remarked likewise in the sub-zone of the urunday, the walnut, the laurel, the tatane, the pacara, the mulberry, the tipa, the male oak, the ...”

“[...] and as the bark of the curupau tree, which from its name⟳ and general description may be a niopo tree, serves, according to Cardus, to tan hides in eastern Bolivia, so in like⟳ manner the bark of sebil is used to tan hides ...”

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