English word senses marked with place category "Middle East"
Parent categories: Regions of Africa, Regions of Asia, Regions, Places, Africa, Asia, Political subdivisions, Names, Earth, Eurasia, Polities, Nature
Total 9 word senses
- MENA (Proper name) Initialism of Middle East News Agency (a news agency based in Cairo, established in 1955, nationalized and affiliated to the Egyptian Ministry of Information in 1960.)
- MENA (Proper name) Initialism of Middle East and North Africa.
- Middle East (Proper name) The region between the Near East and the Far East.
- Mideast (Proper name) Synonym of Middle East
- axis of resistance (Proper name) An Iranian-led, anti-American, anti-Zionist, Shiite Islamist coalition in the Middle East whose significant participants include the IRGC, Hezbollah, Hamas, and the Houthis.
- mina (Noun) A monetary unit of ancient Greece and the Middle East, originally equivalent to the weight of a mina of silver.
- mina (Noun) A unit of weight of varying value used in the ancient Middle East, especially Babylonia, Mesopotamia and Egypt; also an ancient Greek measure of weight equivalent to 1/60th of a talent, approximately 400-700 grams.
- qafiz (Noun) A traditional Arab unit of volume, varying over time, place, and substance measured.
- talent (Noun) A unit of weight and money used in ancient times in Greece, the Roman Empire, and the Middle East, equal to about 30 to 60 kg in various times and places.
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