Bahr

Bahr, an Arabic word signifying a large body of water, is applied both to lakes and rivers.—Bahr-el-Abiad (the White River), and Bahr-el-Azrak (the Blue River), are the chief branches of the Nile (q.v.).—Bahr-el-Ghazal is the name of the upper branch of the Nile, constituted by the Bahr-el-Arab and many other tributaries, which flows sluggishly eastward to join the Bahr-el-Jebel and so form the Bahr-el-Abiad. The Bahr-el-Ghazal gives name to a province of what was the Egyptian Sudan, bravely held for years by the governor, Frank Lupton (see Lupton Bey's paper in the Proc. Geog. Soc. for 1884).—Bahr-el-Yemen is the Red

Sea (q.v.), and Bahr-Lût (Sea of Lot) the Dead Sea (q.v.).