Rujm

Rujm (رجم, 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 6 km 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")