Jabal

Variations of words jabal, jabel, jebal, jebel, jbel, djebel, jibal, etc. have been used for the Arabic word "jah-bahl", 'جبل', meaning "mountain, hill or slope" (as elevations). The words have been used to name many mountains, places, people, or others:

People

See also: Jabal (name)

• Jabal (Bible)
• Muadh ibn Jabal

Places

• Gibraltar, peninsula at southern tip of Spain
• Jabal al-Tair Island, near Yemen, at the mouth of the Red Sea
• Jabel, a German municipality
• Jebel, a commune in Timiş County, Romania
• Jibal, late 1st-millennium-CE West-Asian realm
• Djebel Babor Nature Reserve, a protected area in Algeria
• Jabal Jur, Bingöl, a city in Eastern Turkey
• Jabal, Amreli, a village in Gujarat, India

Mountains and mountainous regions

• Jabal:
  • Jabal al-Tariq, a.k.a. Rock of Gibraltar
  • Jabal al-Lawz, northwest Saudi Arabia
  • Jabal al-Thawr, Saudi Arabia
  • Jabal al-Nour, "Mountain of Light", Saudi Arabia
  • Jabal el-Karmil / Jabal Mar Elias, "Mount Carmel / Mount St. Elijah", Israel
  • Jabal Amman, Jordan
  • Jabal Libnen, "Mount Lebanon", Lebanon
  • Jabal Haramoun, "Mount Hermon", Lebanon and Syria
  • Jabal Amel, Lebanon
  • Jabal al-Druze, Syria
  • Jabal Semaan, "Mount Simeon", Syria
• Jebal:
  • Jebal Barez, mountain chain in Kerman Province of Iran
• Jebel:
  • Jebel Akhdar (Libya) - "Green Mountain"
  • Jebel Akhdar (Oman) - "Green Mountain"
  • Jebel Barkal, in Sudan
  • Jebel Hafeet, in United Arab Emirates & Oman
  • Jebel Mgoun, in Morocco, 2nd highest peak in North Africa
  • Jebel Musa, Morocco, north tip of Morocco, opposite Gibraltar
  • Jebel Shams, "Sun Mountain", highest mountain in Oman
  • Jebel Toubkal, in Morocco
  • Jebel ech Chambi, in Tunisia
• Jbel:
  • Jbel Toubkal, in Morocco
• Djebel:
  • Djebel Al Awaynat, mountain in Libya, Egypt & Sudan
  • Djebel Babor, mountain formation in Algeria
  • Djebel Zaghouan, in eastern Tunisia

Other

• Djebel (1937-1958), race horse

See also:

• Jabalpur, a city in central India