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Answer for the clue "Arabian country, capital San'a ", 5 letters:
yemen

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
southwestern region of Arabia, from Arabic Yemen , literally "the country of the south," from yaman "right side" (i.e., south side, if one is facing east). The right side regarded as auspicious, hence Arabic yamana "he was happy," literally "he went to ...

Usage examples of yemen.

Citing security threats, the FBI withdrew its agents from Yemen, severely curtailing the probe into the bombing of the Cole.

These have even led Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, lordan, and Yemen, among others, to establish parliaments where the people at least have a forum to air their grievances, if not yet a mechanism to govern themselves.

Jordan, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, and Yemen have instituted democratic changes that appear to be building momentum for greater reforms.

Martyrdom and pledged to establish nineteen spiritual assemblies in the British Isles, double the number of assemblies in the Indian subcontinent, establish ninety-five new centers of the Faith in Persia, convert the groups in Bahrein, Mecca and Kabul into assemblies and plant the banner of the Faith in the Arabian territories of Yemen, Oman, Ahsa and Kuweit.

The German savants, mostly attributing them to the Saba tribes, who immigrated from Yemen about our first century, tried the Himyaritic syllabaries and failed.

Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Albania, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, East Germany, Yugoslavia, North Korea, Cuba, South Yemen, Congo-Brazzaville, North Vietnam, Guinea-Bissau, Cambodia, Laos, South Vietnam, Ethiopia, Angola, Mozambique, Nicaragua, the Seychelles, Grenada, and Afghanistan.

On May 24 alone,counterterrorism officials grappled with reports alleging plots in Yemen and Italy, as well as a report about a cell in Canada that an anonymous caller had claimed might be planning an attack against the United States.

The natives of Yemen and Persia were scattered round Toledo and the inland country, and the fertile seats of Grenada were bestowed on ten thousand horsemen of Syria and Irak, the children of the purest and most noble of the Arabian tribes.

The Hijaz, as it was called, the area north of Yemen that was dominated by the Quraysh tribe.

Cheney stopped in Yemen and met with President Ali Abdullah Saleh at the Sanna airport.

Bengala no es igual a la luna del Yemen, pero se deja describir con las mismas voces.

Sure, there were little telltale signs like the Soviets marching through Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Mongolia, Turkmenia, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kirgizia, Poland, Moldavia, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Albania, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, East Germany, Yugoslavia, North Korea, Cuba, South Yemen, Congo-Brazzaville, North Vietnam, Guinea-Bissau, Cambodia, Laos, South Vietnam, Ethiopia, Angola, Mozambique, Nicaragua, the Seychelles, Grenada, and Afghanistan.

The stately country homes were taken over, one by one, by Saudi and Kuwaiti royalty, or by the sterner commissars of Democratic Yemen and the nouveau riche mullahs of post-Khomeini Iran.

Communist regimes were established in South Yemen and Congo-Brazzaville.

Yemen on foote and communes many oon, With shorte staves thikke as they may goon, Pypes, trompes, nakerers, clariounes, That in the bataille blowen blody sounes.