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Rujm (, rûjm; p. rûjûm) is an Arabic word that appears as an element in numerous place names. It can be translated as 'mound, cairn, hill, spur', and also as 'stone heap' or 'tumulus'. The following is a list of place names that include Rujm as an element:

  • Kanân Rujm Kûddâh, "the peaks of the cairn of the potter", or of "the flint stone for striking fir"

  • Khirbat er Rujm, "the ruin of the stone heap"

  • Rujm Abu Ḥashabe

  • Rujm Abu Helal, "the cairn of Abu Helal"

  • Rujm Abu Meheir (Rujm Abu Muheir), "the cairn of Abu Meheir"

  • Rujm Abu Shuweikeh, "the cairn of the thistles"

  • Rujm Abu Zumeiter, "the cairn of Abu Zumeiter"

  • Rujm Afâneh, "the cairn of rottenness"

  • Rujm el 'Ajamy, "the cairn of the Persian"

  • Rujm 'Alei, "the cairn of the high place"

  • Rujm 'Atîyeh, "the cairn of 'Atiyeh"

  • Rujm el 'Azâzimeh, "the cairn of the Azazimeh Arabs"

  • Rujm el Bahr, "the cairn of the sea"; a site by the name is on the Dead Sea shore near Jericho

  • Rujm el Bakarah "the cairn of the cow"

  • Rujm el Bârish, "the cairn of the ground covered with variegated herbiage"

  • Rujm Bâruk, "the cairn of Baruk"

  • Rujm Beni Yasser, "rujm of the sons of Yasser" (a fortlet of Nabataean origin)

  • Rujm Birjis (on the Kerak plateau)

  • Rujm ed Debbâbeh, "the cairn of the moveable hut"

  • Rujm ed Deir, "the cairn of the monastery"

  • Rujm ed Derbi, "the cairn of the roadster"

  • Rujm edh Dhib, "the cairn of the wolf"

  • Rujm ed Dîr

  • Rujm ed Dûribeh, "the cairn of the little road"

  • Rujm el Fahjeh, "the cairn of el Fahjeh"

  • Rujm el-Farideyyeh

  • Rujm Heleiseh, "the cairn of the verdure"

  • Rujm Handhal, "the cairn of colocynth"

  • Rujm el Heik, "the cairn of the spindle"

  • Rujm el-Hamiri, (southeast of Hebron)

  • Rujm al-Henu, (Jordan)

  • Rujm el Heri, (southeast of Madaba)

  • Rujm el-Hiri, "the stone heap of the wild cat"

  • Rujm el Humeitah, "the cairn of the mountain fig"

  • Rujm el Hummûs, "the cairn of the chick-pea"

  • Rujm el Humra, "the red cairn"

  • Rujm Ibn Basma, "the cairn of Ibn Basma"

  • Rujm Jemảh, "the cairn of the gathering"

  • Rujm Jîz, "the cairn on the valley side"

  • Rujm Jureideh, "the cairn of the troop"

  • Rujm el Kahakîr, "the cairn of the stone heaps"

  • Rujm el Kandôl, "the cairn of the thorn tree"

  • Rujm el-Khadar

  • Rujm el Kherâzmîyeh, "the cairn of the Kharezinians"

  • Rujm el Khiâri, "the cairn of the cucumber"

  • Rujm el Kurrât, "the stone of the attacks"

  • Rujm Kuteit, "the cairn of the cat" or "the cairn of the crag"

  • Rujm el Lukâr, "the cairn of Lukâr"

  • Rujm Al-Malfouf, "circular towers"

  • Rujm (el Mehawâfet) el Kibliyyeh, "the southern cairn (of the boundary)"

  • Rujm (el Mehawâfet) esh Shemaliyyeh, "the northern cairn (of the boundary)"

  • Rujm el-Merih, (a Nabataean or Late Roman era watchtower located south of Lajjun)

  • Rujm el-Meshreferh (in Jordan, associated with Mizpah)

  • Rujm el Mogheifir, "the cairn of the pardoned"

  • Rujm el Mutukh, "the cairn of the debris"

  • Rujm en Nâkeh, (Rujm en-Naqa) "the cairn of the she-camel"

  • Rujm en Niâs, "the cairn of en Niyâs

  • Rujm en Nûeita, "the cairn of the sailors"

  • Rujm en Nūkb, "the cairn of the pass"

  • Rujm er Refeif, "the glittering cairn"

  • Rujm Reheif, "the sharp-pointed cairn"

  • Rujm Reiya, "the cairn of quenching thirst", or "the cairn of sweet fragrance"

  • Rujm es S'â, "the cairn of the tax-gatherers"

  • Rujm es Sâîgh (Rujm as-Sayigh), "the cairn of the goldsmith"

  • Rujm es-Sebit

  • Rujm ash Shami

  • Rujm ash Shara'irah

  • Rujm esh Sheikh Suleimân, "the cairn of Sheikh Suleimân"

  • Rujm Shummer, "the cairn of wild fennel"

  • Rujm es Sûeif, "the cairn of the little sword"

  • Rujm at Tarûd, "the cairn of the projection", or "the cairn of the prominent peak"

  • Rujm Umm el 'Arâis, "the cairn of the mother of brides"

  • Rujm Umm Kheir, "the cairn of Umm Kheir"

  • Rujm Umm es Sata, "the cairn of the mother of the assault"

  • Rujm el Waîr, "the cairn of rugged rocks"

  • Rujm el Yaklûm, "the cairn of Yaklûm"

  • Rujm az-Zuwaira (in Zuwaira al-Fauqa, or Upper Zohar)

  • Rŭjûm el Behîmeh, "the cairns of the beast"

  • Rujûm Umm Kharrûbeh, "the cairns by the locust tree" (Ceratonia siliqua) (or, "the cairns of the mother of the carob tree")

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