The Collaborative International Dictionary
Arrish \Ar"rish\, n. [See Eddish.] The stubble of wheat or grass; a stubble field; eddish.
The moment we entered the stubble or arrish.
--Blackw.
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Wikipedia
Arish or Al-Arīsh ( , Hrinokorura) is the capital and largest city (with 114,900 inhabitants ) of the Egyptian governorate of North Sinai, as well as the largest city on the entire Sinai Peninsula, lying on the Mediterranean coast of the Sinai peninsula, northeast of Cairo. Arish is distinguished by its clear blue water, widespread fruitful palmy wood on its coast, and its soft white sand. It has a marina, and many luxury hotels. The city also has some of the faculties of Suez Canal University.
Arish is by a big wadi, the Wadi Al Arish, which receives flash flood water from much of north and central Sinai. The Azzaraniq national park is on the eastern side of Arish.
Usage examples of "arish".
ElArish, and after its rupture, and then they can judge of his character.
The pattern would take them from an area northeast of Alexandria, Egypt, east toward Port Said and the Sinai to the El Arish area, and then dogleg northeast along the Israeli coast to a point west of Beirut, Lebanon.
Crete and Cyprus and then head diagonally toward El Arish in the Sinai along an established civilian air corridor.
Upon reaching a point some twenty-five miles northeast of El Arish, he would reverse course and begin their orbit.
El Arish could be seen with the naked eye, like a solitary mast in a sea of sand.
At that very moment, near the minaret at El Arish, Israeli forces were engaged in a criminal slaughter.
El Arish, eavesdropping on surrounding communications, Israeli soldiers turned the town into a slaughterhouse, systematically butchering their prisoners.
In the shadow of the El Arish mosque, they lined up about sixty unarmed Egyptian prisoners, hands tied behind their backs, and then opened fire with machine guns until the pale desert sand turned red.
El Arish, the Israeli journalist Gabi Bron saw about 150 Egyptian POWs sitting on the ground, crowded together with their hands held at the backs of their necks.
Ariel Sharon, who was capturing territory south of El Arish at the time of the slaughter, had been close to massacres during other conflicts.
Not only was the ship clearly visible to the forces at El Arish, it had been positively identified by Israeli naval headquarters.
El Arish and while the massacres were taking place, a report was received from an army commander there that a ship was shelling the Israelis from the sea.
El Arish and called for an immediate strike by the air force fighters.
Israeli Army commander at El Arish, where the war crimes were taking place.
Now it was flying a diagonal track from Crete and Cyprus to El Arish and back.