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neekseni t1_iy9tb1b wrote

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>Wadi means river or watercourse in Arabic.

Watercourse yes, as in water channel or riverbed, but river not really. The original meaning of the word is valley

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practically_floored t1_iy9yqsi wrote

It's used a lot for dry riverbeds that become rivers during floods in places like the UAE. But in for example Spain it's used in names of actual rivers, for example Guadalquivir, Guadiana, Guadiaro etc

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t00oldforthisshit t1_iyanda1 wrote

Like the connection between "cricks" and "hollers" in Appalachian American English

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