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Shadoof or shaduf comes from the Arabic word شادوف, šādūf. It is also called a lift, [5] well pole, well sweep, or simply a sweep in the US. [12] A less common English translation is swape. [13] Picotah (or picota) is a Portuguese loan word. It is also called a jiégāo (桔槹) in Chinese.
Hazz al-quhuf is composed in the style of a literary commentary on a 42-line poem purported to be written by a peasant (Arabic: فلاح, fallāḥ) named Abu Shaduf. [1] In his commentary, al-Shirbini describes different customs of peasants and urban dwellers, and notes regional distinctions between the Sa'idi people of Upper Egypt, people of the Nile Delta in Lower Egypt, and the poorest ...
Diversion dam — The first Diversion dam is Sadd el-Kafara Dam built in Egypt around 2700 B.C. [19]; Noria — Norias appeared in Egypt in the 4th Century B.C. [20]; Beekeeping — domesticated Beekeeping was first recorded in ancient Egypt around 2600 B.C. [21] [22] as well as the first use of smoke while extracting the honey from bee nests.
The first known crane machine was the shaduf, a water-lifting device that was invented in ancient Mesopotamia (modern Iraq) and then appeared in ancient Egyptian technology. Construction cranes later appeared in ancient Greece, where they were powered by men or animals (such as donkeys), and used for the construction of buildings.
The Egyptian city of Cairo was founded by the Fatimid Caliphate and served as its capital city. At the time, Cairo was second only to Baghdad , capital of the rival Abbasid Caliphate . After the fall of Baghdad , however, Cairo overtook it as the largest city in the Mediterranean region until the early modern period .
This is a list of known ancient Egyptian towns and cities. [1] The list is for sites intended for permanent settlement and does not include fortresses and other locations of intermittent habitation. a capital of ancient Egypt
Having been to Egypt and the surrounding areas myself, I have seen Egyptian designs of Shadufs(is 'shadufs' the proper plural for 'shaduf'?) and when I have found a native Egyptian or Western Person that has been living there for a long time, I found that they spelled it 'Shaduf' and I hink that this should be the name of the article so ...
Known most popularly in the modern era and to scholarship by its traditional Greek name Leontopolis Λεόντων πόλις [1] (literally, "city of lions"), or Leonto Λεοντώ, ("lion"), [2] the demographic makeup of the city varied culturally and linguistically over its long history, and the Greek name was progressively used more and more over the native Egyptian Taremu ("Land of Fish ...