The Hausa people of Sudan have a term equivalent to lesbian, kifi, that may also be applied to males to mean " neither party insists on a particular sexual role ".

For times predating 1899, usage of the term " Sudan " for the territory of the Republic of Sudan is somewhat anachronistic, and may also refer to the more diffuse concept of the Sudan region

In 1991, the Library of Congress used the term ' Sudan People's Armed Forces ' to refer to the entire armed forces, but by the late 2000s ( decade ), the ' Sudanese Armed Forces ' term was most widespread.

Sheesha (), from the Persian word shīshe (), meaning glass, is the common term for the hookah in Egypt, Sudan and the Arab countries of the Persian Gulf ( including Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Oman, UAE, and Saudi Arabia ), and in Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Somalia and Yemen.

The latter term is generally found in the Maghreb, while the former is typical of usage in the Mashriq ( broadly defined, including Egypt, Sudan, Levant, Iraq and the Arabian Peninsula ).

Various western historical writers have sometimes used the term dervish rather loosely, linking it to, among other things, the Mahdist uprising in Sudan and other rebellions against colonial powers.

The term originated in reference to medieval French motets, but the technique remains in common use in contemporary music ( Louis Andriessen's Hoketus ), popular music ( funk, stereo panning, the work of Robert Fripp and Adrian Belew in King Crimson ), Indonesian gamelan music ( interlocking patterns shared between two instruments — called imbal in Java and Kotekan in Bali ), Andean siku ( panpipe ) music ( two pipe sets sharing the full number of pitches between them ), handbell music ( tunes being distributed between two or more players ), Rara street processions in Haiti, as well as in the Gaga in the Dominican Republic and many African cultures such as the Ba-Benzélé ( featured on Herbie Hancock's " Watermelon Man ", see Pygmy music ), Mbuti, Basarwa ( Khoisan ), the Gumuz tribe from the Blue Nile Province ( Sudan ), and Gogo ( Tanzania ).

In Saharan countries, there is a term Al-Maghreb Al-Qadeem aka Old Maghreb ( Ancient Trans-Saharan trading sphere of influence, cross culturalization and trade ; primarily consisting of over 20 countries such as: present day Morocco ( Taghaza ), Algeria ( Djayr ), Tunisia ( Tunis ), Libya ( Libu ), Egypt ( Kemet ), Mauritania, Senegal, Gambia, Mali, Ancient Ghana ( Ouagadougou ), Niger and Nigeria were once one region, Burkino Faso, The Western Sahara ( also Taghaza ), South Africa, Sudan ( Nubia ), Somalia, Ethiopia ( Kush ), Eritrea etc.

The term has also been applied to actions targeting Iran, Sudan, Northern Ireland, Myanmar, and Israel.

The Janjaweed ( Arabic: < big > جنجويد </ big > janjawīd, formed from the Arabic words for " man ", " gun " and " horse "; also transliterated Janjawid ) is a blanket term used to describe mostly gunmen in Darfur, western Sudan, and now eastern Chad .< ref >

The term " Sudan " may also refer to the following:

For Sudan the term state, and for Mauritania the term region is used.

Nuba is a collective term used here for the peoples who inhabit the Nuba Mountains of South Kordofan state, in southern Sudan.

The term ashraf was also applied in Sudan to the family of Muhammad Ahmad ibn as Sayyid Abd Allah, known as the Mahdi ( 1848 – 85 ).

Although its name literally means Nubian, it bears no relation at all to the Nubian languages spoken by Nubian groups in the south of Egypt and north of Sudan ; its name derives from a misuse of the term " Nubi ".

In some countries, such as Egypt and Sudan, Mawlid is used as a generic term for the celebration of birthdays of local Sufi saints and not only restricted to the observance of the birth of Muhammad.

Kerma ( now known as Dukki Gel, a Nubian term which can be roughly translated as " red mound ") was the capital city of the Kingdom of Kerma, which was located in present day Egypt and Sudan.

In the 19th Century the term was associated with the followers of the Mahdi and Osman Digna in the Sudan who fought against Anglo-Egyptian forces in a series of wars at the close of the century.

She thought that the term " Sudan " at this time was associated with a territory in the Nile basin, the current Sudan.

David Roberts, in his book " In Search of the Old Ones: Exploring the Anasazi World of the Southwest ", explained his reason for using the term " Anasazi " over a term using " Puebloan ", noting that the latter term " derives from the language of an oppressor who treated the indigenes of the Southwest far more brutally than the Navajo ever did.

The term " antibacterial " derives from Greek ἀντί ( anti ), " against " + βακτήριον ( baktērion ), diminutive of βακτηρία ( baktēria ), " staff, cane ", because the first ones to be discovered were rod-shaped, and the term " antibiotic " derives from anti + βιωτικός ( biōtikos ), " fil for life, lively ", which comes from βίωσις ( biōsis ), " way of life ", and that from βίος ( bios ), " life ".

It is also possible that the term derives from the Welsh Brit Gweldig, the term for a ruler of Britain.

The term " Bronze Age " ultimately derives from the Ages of Man, the stages of human existence on the Earth according to Greek mythology.

The name " Bohemia " derives from the Latin term for the Celtic tribe inhabiting that area, the Boii, who were called Boiohaemum in the early Middle Ages.

The term " common law " originally derives from the 1150s and 1160s, when Henry II of England established the secular English tribunals.

This learned term derives from the Latin cognatus ( blood relative ).

The term derives from the same Latin root as the word " city ", civis, meaning citizen.

The term cabal derives from Kabbalah ( a word that has numerous spelling variations ), the mystical interpretation ( of Babylonian origin ) of the Hebrew scripture, and originally meant either an occult doctrine or a secret.

Here, again, a new term appears in the record, the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle for the first time using the word scottas, from which Scots derives, to describe the inhabitants of Constantine's kingdom in its report of these events.

The term " clipper " most likely derives from the verb " clip ", which in former times meant, among other things, to run or fly swiftly.

This version of " critical " theory derives from Kant's ( 18th-century ) and Marx's ( 19th Century ) use of the term " critique ", as in Kant's Critique of Pure Reason and Marx's concept that his work Das Kapital ( Capital ) forms a " critique of political economy.

The term derives its etymology from the Daedalus Labyrinth or " complicated maze ".

The term derives from the Greek διακριτικός ( diakritikós, " distinguishing ").

The term Houge derives from the Old Norse word haugr, meaning a mound or barrow.

The term derives from the verb διασπείρω ( diaspeirō ), " I scatter ", " I spread about " and that form διά ( dia ), " between, through, across " + the verb σπείρω ( speirō ), " I sow, I scatter ".

The term ethology derives from the Greek word èthos ( ήθος ), meaning character.

The term derives from the Greek ( esôterikos ), a compound of ( esô ): " within ", thus " pertaining to the more inward ", mystic.

The term empire derives from the Latin imperium ( power, authority ).

This is done at varying speeds, ranging from the slow and fast Shifte Telli ( a musical term meaning double strings ) to the fastest, ecstatic Karshilama ( meaning greetings or welcome ).

Interim financing of construction costs is provided by a short term loan from The Chase Manhattan Bank.

If you would feel happier with full collision insurance, there is a small additional charge, again varying from country to country and depending on the term of such insurance.

The variable costs alone are assigned to the different units of freight traffic as representing `` long-run out-of-pocket costs '' -- a term with a meaning here not distinctly different from that of the economist's `` long-run marginal costs ''.

The K factor, a term used to denote the rate of heat transmission through a material ( B.t.u./sq. ft. of material/hr./*0F./in. of thickness ) ranges from 0.24 to 0.28 for flexible urethane foams and from 0.12 to 0.16 for rigid urethane foams, depending upon the formulation, density, cell size, and nature of blowing agents used.

The term " anthropology " is from the Greek anthrōpos (), " man ", understood to mean humankind or humanity, and-logia (- λογία ), " discourse " or " study.

The term " arithmetic mean " is preferred in mathematics and statistics because it helps distinguish it from other means such as the geometric and harmonic mean.

Amphibian is derived from the Ancient Greek term ἀμφίβιος ( amphíbios ), which means " both kinds of life ", amphi meaning " of both kinds " and bio meaning " life ".

While not entirely synonymous with Anatolia, the term Asia Minor, derived from the Latin Asia Minores, refers to Asia inside the Roman Empire, versus Asia Magna, all of Asia beyond the borders.

The term Ethiopic Ocean, derived from Ethiopia, was applied to the southern Atlantic as late as the mid-19th century.

" The term made an impact into English pulp science fiction starting from Jack Williamson's The Cometeers ( 1936 ) and the distinction between mechanical robots and fleshy androids was popularized by Edmond Hamilton's Captain Future ( 1940 – 1944 ).

While current mouthwash treatments must be used with a degree of frequency to prevent this bacteria from regrowing, future treatments could provide a viable long term solution.

The term allocution differs from distribution as distribution implies that the original party loses some kind of control over the information.

Anatolia ( from Greek — " east " or "( sun ) rise "; also Asia Minor, from " small Asia "; in modern ) is a geographic and historical term denoting the westernmost protrusion of Asia, comprising the majority of the Republic of Turkey.

The al-prefix was probably added through confusion with another legal term, allegeance, an " allegation " ( the French allegeance comes from the English ).

The term Angst distinguishes itself from the word Furcht ( German for " fear ") in that Furcht is a negative anticipation regarding a concrete threat, while Angst is a ( possibly nondirectional ) emotion, though the terms are colloquially sometimes used synonymously.

The Latin name ' Asteraceae ' is derived from the type genus Aster, which is a Greek term, meaning " star ".

The term may be common to Italo-Celtic, because the Celtic languages have terms for high mountains derived from alp.

The Senate also has 18 members, elected for a four year term by and from the chiefs of the islands.

In the 20 years following Bligh's campaign the term " The Ashes " largely disappeared from public use.