A sāqiyah or saqiya (Arabic: ساقية), also spelled sakia or saqia) is a mechanical water lifting device. It is also called a Persian wheel, tablia, rehat...
22 KB (2,607 words) - 20:57, 25 August 2024
Noria (section Noria versus saqiyah)
water to turn the wheel. For devices powered by animals, the usual term is saqiyah or saqiya. Other types of similar devices are grouped under the name of...
16 KB (1,823 words) - 21:03, 14 April 2024
el Hamra [saˈɣi.a el ˈxamɾa] , Arabic: الساقية الحمراء, romanized: al-Saqiyah al-Hamra'a, lit. 'Red Canal') was, with Río de Oro, one of the two territories...
2 KB (202 words) - 13:35, 14 August 2024
developed a type of water wheel or scoop wheel, the saqiyah, named kolē by the Kush. The saqiyah was developed during the Meroitic period to improve irrigation...
79 KB (8,709 words) - 20:43, 5 September 2024
ġunġlien giuggiulena جنجلان (junjulān) sesame seed sieqja saia ساقية (sāqiyah) canal kenur tannura تنور (tannūr) oven żagħfran zaffarana زعفران (zaʿfarān)...
77 KB (5,823 words) - 07:31, 10 September 2024
early 11th century, Ibn Bassal pioneered the use of flywheel in noria and saqiyah. The use of the flywheel as a general mechanical device to equalize the...
19 KB (2,512 words) - 10:24, 11 September 2024
demonstrates improvements in animal husbandry and in irrigation such as with the saqiyah waterwheel. These changes made agriculture far more productive, supporting...
33 KB (3,827 words) - 23:40, 6 April 2024
word acequia (and the Catalan word séquia) originate from Arabic word al-sāqiyah (الساقیة) which has more than one meaning: "the water conduit" or "one...
18 KB (2,027 words) - 07:34, 1 September 2024
be compensated for at the beginning of the first century AD, when the saqiyah waterwheel was developed. Until then, the area was only sparsely populated...
18 KB (2,173 words) - 06:03, 14 July 2024
الساقية الحمراء ووادي الذهب, romanized: al-Jabhah ash-Shaʿbiyah Li-Taḥrīr as-Sāqiyah al-Ḥamrāʾ wa Wādī adh-Dhahab), is a Sahrawi nationalist liberation movement...
41 KB (4,358 words) - 11:12, 24 August 2024
اتحاد شبيبة الساقية الحمراء ووادي الذهب, romanized: Ittiḥād Shabībat al-Sāqiyah al-Ḥamrāʼ wa-Wādī al-Dhahab), also known by its Spanish acronym UJSARIO...
11 KB (1,032 words) - 00:41, 9 August 2024
as-saniyah (السانية) "the lifter." acequia: irrigation canal. From Arabic as-saqiyah (الساقية) "the irrigator"[ʔlsaːqj] (listen). acerola: fruit of the trees...
122 KB (13,215 words) - 14:28, 5 September 2024
{\displaystyle \sin ^{2}\left({\frac {x}{2}}\right)={\frac {1-\cos(x)}{2}}} . Saqiyah: Paddle-driven water-lifting wheels had appeared in ancient Egypt by the...
163 KB (17,995 words) - 02:45, 27 August 2024
Samannud Samuel Birch (Egyptologist) Sanakht Sandal-bearer Sankhenre Sewadjtu Saqiyah Saqqara Saqqara Bird Saqqara ostracon Saqqara Tablet Sara Yorke Stevenson...
80 KB (8,033 words) - 15:43, 2 September 2024
ISBN 1-4175-2290-9. OCLC 56131464. Abu Salim, Muhammad Ibrahim (1980). al-Saqiyah. Khartoum: Maʻhad al-Dirāsāt al-Afrīqīyah al-Āsyawīyah. Asad, Talal (1966)...
7 KB (835 words) - 21:17, 22 August 2024
(warm room) and caldarium (hot room), with attached furnace, water well, sāqiyah or water-lifting device, and raised water tank. In terms of decoration...
7 KB (690 words) - 16:47, 18 May 2024
Mudon as Sagheera fi Libia – The growth of small towns in Libya) Dār al-Sāqiyah lil-Nashr, Benghazi, pp. 118–123, ISBN 978-9959-854-10-0 Al Qayqab (Approved)...
5 KB (385 words) - 20:25, 17 September 2023
Āl ash-Sharīf, claim descent, saying he was a Maghrebi Arab from the as-Sāqiyah al-Ḥamrā’, from which his nisba, or onomastic for place of descent, seen...
55 KB (6,782 words) - 09:21, 28 August 2024
is also the commander of the army, rests with his retinue by a saqiyah. By the saqiyah, three sisters are talking to each other, all of them wishing to...
40 KB (6,666 words) - 22:25, 10 September 2024