Rujm

Rujm (Arabic: رجم, rûjm; p. rûjûm) is an Arabic word that appears as an element in numerous place names. It can be translated as 'mound, cairn, hill, spur', and also as 'stone heap' or 'tumulus'. The following is a list of place names that include Rujm as an element:

• Kanân Rujm Kûddâh, "the peaks of the cairn of the potter", or of "the flint stone for striking fir"
• Khirbat er Rujm, "the ruin of the stone heap"
• Rujm Abu Ḥashabe
• Rujm Abu Helal, "the cairn of Abu Helal"
• Rujm Abu Meheir (Rujm Abu Muheir), "the cairn of Abu Meheir"
• Rujm Abu Shuweikeh, "the cairn of the thistles"
• Rujm Abu Zumeiter, "the cairn of Abu Zumeiter"
• Rujm Afâneh, "the cairn of rottenness"
• Rujm el 'Ajamy, "the cairn of the Persian"
• Rujm 'Alei, "the cairn of the high place"
• Rujm 'Atîyeh, "the cairn of 'Atiyeh"
• Rujm el 'Azâzimeh, "the cairn of the Azazimeh Arabs"
• Rujm el Bahr, "the cairn of the sea"; a site by the name is on the Dead Sea shore near Jericho
• Rujm el Bakarah "the cairn of the cow"
• Rujm el Bârish, "the cairn of the ground covered with variegated herbiage"
• Rujm Bâruk, "the cairn of Baruk"
• Rujm Beni Yasser, "rujm of the sons of Yasser" (a fortlet of Nabataean origin)
• Rujm Birjis (on the Kerak plateau)
• Rujm ed Debbâbeh, "the cairn of the moveable hut"
• Rujm ed Deir, "the cairn of the monastery"
• Rujm ed Derbi, "the cairn of the roadster"
• Rujm edh Dhib, "the cairn of the wolf"
• Rujm ed Dîr
• Rujm ed Dûribeh, "the cairn of the little road"
• Rujm el Fahjeh, "the cairn of el Fahjeh"
• Rujm el-Farideyyeh
• Rujm Heleiseh, "the cairn of the verdure"
• Rujm Handhal, "the cairn of colocynth"
• Rujm el Heik, "the cairn of the spindle"
• Rujm el-Hamiri, (southeast of Hebron)
• Rujm al-Henu, (Jordan)
• Rujm el Heri, (southeast of Madaba)
• Rujm el-Hiri, "the stone heap of the wild cat"
• Rujm el Humeitah, "the cairn of the mountain fig"
• Rujm el Hummûs, "the cairn of the chick-pea"
• Rujm el Humra, "the red cairn"
• Rujm Ibn Basma, "the cairn of Ibn Basma"
• Rujm Jemảh, "the cairn of the gathering"
• Rujm Jîz, "the cairn on the valley side"
• Rujm Jureideh, "the cairn of the troop"
• Rujm el Kahakîr, "the cairn of the stone heaps"
• Rujm el Kandôl, "the cairn of the thorn tree"
• Rujm el-Khadar
• Rujm el Kherâzmîyeh, "the cairn of the Kharezinians"
• Rujm el Khiâri, "the cairn of the cucumber"
• Rujm el Kurrât, "the stone of the attacks"
• Rujm Kuteit, "the cairn of the cat" or "the cairn of the crag"
• Rujm el Lukâr, "the cairn of Lukâr"
• Rujm Al-Malfouf, "circular towers"
• Rujm (el Mehawâfet) el Kibliyyeh, "the southern cairn (of the boundary)"
• Rujm (el Mehawâfet) esh Shemaliyyeh, "the northern cairn (of the boundary)"
• Rujm el-Merih, (a Nabataean or Late Roman era watchtower located 6 kilometers (3.7 mi) south of Lajjun)
• Rujm el-Meshreferh (in Jordan, associated with Mizpah)
• Rujm el Mogheifir, "the cairn of the pardoned"
• Rujm el Mutukh, "the cairn of the debris"
• Rujm en Nâkeh, (Rujm en-Naqa) "the cairn of the she-camel"
• Rujm en Niâs, "the cairn of en Niyâs
• Rujm en Nûeita, "the cairn of the sailors"
• Rujm en Nūkb, "the cairn of the pass"
• Rujm er Refeif, "the glittering cairn"
• Rujm Reheif, "the sharp-pointed cairn"
• Rujm Reiya, "the cairn of quenching thirst", or "the cairn of sweet fragrance"
• Rujm es S'â, "the cairn of the tax-gatherers"
• Rujm es Sâîgh (Rujm as-Sayigh), "the cairn of the goldsmith"
• Rujm es-Sebit
• Rujm ash Shami
• Rujm ash Shara'irah
• Rujm esh Sheikh Suleimân, "the cairn of Sheikh Suleimân"
• Rujm Shummer, "the cairn of wild fennel"
• Rujm es Sûeif, "the cairn of the little sword"
• Rujm at Tarûd, "the cairn of the projection", or "the cairn of the prominent peak"
• Rujm Umm el 'Arâis, "the cairn of the mother of brides"
• Rujm Umm Kheir, "the cairn of Umm Kheir"
• Rujm Umm es Sata, "the cairn of the mother of the assault"
• Rujm el Waîr, "the cairn of rugged rocks"
• Rujm el Yaklûm, "the cairn of Yaklûm"
• Rujm az-Zuwaira (in Zuwaira al-Fauqa, or Upper Zohar)
• Rŭjûm el Behîmeh, "the cairns of the beast"
• Rujûm Umm Kharrûbeh, "the cairns by the locust tree" (Ceratonia siliqua) (or, "the cairns of the mother of the carob tree")

See also

• Glossary of Arabic toponyms
• Place names of Palestine

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