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Saqiya (Arabic: ساقِية, the
Arabic name of a
mechanical water lifting device) was a
village in
Palestine (Jaffa district) 8.5
kilometers (5.3 mi) away...
- A sāqiyah or
saqiya (Arabic: ساقية), also
spelled sakia or saqia) is a
mechanical water lifting device. It is also
called a
Persian wheel, tablia, rehat...
- a
connecting rod in two of his water-raising machines: the crank-driven
saqiya chain pump and the double-action
reciprocating piston suction pump. His...
- the wheel. For
devices powered by animals, the
usual term is
saqiyah or
saqiya.
Other types of
similar devices are
grouped under the name of
chain pumps...
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Mosque of As-
Saqiya (Arabic: مسجد السقيا) is a
mosque located in Medina,
Saudi Arabia inside the
current Anbariya train station. The
mosque was
built on...
- and Rome Timpano, in music,
singular of timpani, a
kettledrum Sakia or
saqiya, in
Latin "tympanum", a water-raising
device Larnaca Tympanum, a medieval...
- The built-up area of two
Muslim Arab villages, Kafr 'Ana in the east and
Saqiya to the west, are
located within the
current Or
Yehuda city limits. Both...
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Persianate world, such as the
acequia (deriving from the
classical Arabic as-
sāqiya) –
subterranean channels used to
transport water from
highland aquifers...
- from
Islamic Afghanistan.
Other original Islamic developments included the
saqiya with a
flywheel effect from
Islamic Spain, the
reciprocating suction pump...
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Laessoe writes as
follows on the
question of the
saqiya: "I
consider it
unlikely that any
reference to the
saqiya will
appear in
ancient Mesopotamian sources...
