Caravan. (Word Corner).Caravans have a long history before the present motor-hauled vehicles of that name, going back to the Persian karvan (group of desert travellers). A caravanserai (from the Persian) is like a motel for camels and the people travelling with them, with a central courtyard For alternative meanings of the word "court", see: Court (disambiguation). A court or courtyard is an enclosed area, often a space enclosed by a building that is open to the sky. often large enough to hold hundreds of camels. Serai means palace or inn. Seragilo, from the same root, is a harem, often in a palace. Haram For the municipality of Haram, see . For the technical Islamic legal meaning, see . The Arabic term ḥaram has a meaning of "sanctuary" or "holy site" in Islam. is Arabic for 'forbidden place'. The harmatan (the forbidden one) may often blow around the walls of a caravanserai, as it is a dry and dusty Saharan wind. More prosaically, a van, or small truck, is an abbreviation abbreviation, in writing, arbitrary shortening of a word, usually by cutting off letters from the end, as in U.S. and Gen. (General). Contraction serves the same purpose but is understood strictly to be the shortening of a word by cutting out letters in the middle, of caravan caravan, group of travelers or merchants banded together and organized for mutual assistance and defense while traveling through unsettled or hostile country. . |
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