Talk:Nile

The Nile is a nubian word which means (to drink), and it has another meaning (The place where you can bring the water), by the way the Nile word doesn't have a meaning in any other language. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nubiano (talk • contribs) 17:17, 8 April 2023 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 19 September 2023
Second paragraph under Etymology: change "(pronounced Nili in Arabic and its grammer)" to "(pronounced Nili in Arabic and its grammar)" Stonhenge4 (talk) 10:12, 19 September 2023 (UTC)


 * ✅ Seawolf35 (talk) 17:21, 19 September 2023 (UTC)

Etymology changes
A recent addition to the etymology section gives an Arabic folk etymology from the Arabic 'nīliyy' as the origin of English 'Nile'. The rest of the section correctly explains that the Arabic 'Nīl' and the English 'Nile' are both from Latin and Greek, which in turn have uncertain origins. The new paragraph should be either clarified or removed. 2600:4040:40DD:F300:E5D0:5A35:7E5D:B5FB (talk) 22:16, 7 October 2023 (UTC)

"Evolution river nile sudan" listed at Redirects for discussion
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Semi-protected edit request on 29 December 2023
109.242.187.57 (talk) 15:47, 29 December 2023 (UTC) River nile starts from uganda and progresses to sudan and egypt. I believe those changes have to be added. There are even serious memoranda on its use in Uganda so that egyptians dont lose out on water volume. Its sad uganda isn’t noted.
 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. Mattdaviesfsic (talk) 15:48, 29 December 2023 (UTC)

Popular etymology from the Islamic Golden Age?
A new Wiki editor has removed a paragraph which looked terribly naive, OR and messy, but might well contain an interesting "popular etymology" that was probably circulating among Arab scholars during the Islamic Golden Age. I tried to fix it and put it back in, but w/o proper accessible sources, I had to give up. For instance: What indigo? Certainly not the South American (!) Añil, not half a millennium before Columbus. And what blue dye was cultivated along the Euphrates, when classical indigo came from India? I'm reading that the Mesopotamians and after them the Arabs did import indigo dye from India and sold it on to the Mediterranean peoples, but that's it, it seems. Too much trouble, somebody pls try and save this cute story.


 * Popular etymology from the Islamic Golden Age

Ibn Al-Athir and al-Masudi, two important authors from the Islamic Golden Age, offered a popular etymology for the Arabic name of the Nile. They saw it as being derived from the Arabic word for indigo, Añil color made from the indigo dye that Arabs extracted from the indigo plant that grew by the River Euphrates, where indigo dye was the most common natural dye used by the Ancients. This is how the Nile river looked to Arabs when they first discovered it looking at the river from distance as an indigo snake in the yellow background of desert.

Ref 1: |author=ibn Al-Athir |editor=Tornberg, C. J. |de|Carl Johan Tornberg |title=al-Kāmil fī al-tārīkh / The Complete History |year= 1965 |location= Beirut |publisher= Dar Sadir |oclc= 865340285

Editor has deWiki article: Tornberg, C. J. |de|Carl Johan Tornberg

Ref2: cite book |author=al-Masudi year 1867 |title= مروج الذهب ومعادن الجوهر في التاريخ |trans-title= [Book of] Meadows of Gold and Precious Metals in History ([Kitāb] Murūj al-Dhahab wa-Ma‘ādin al-Jawhar fi al-Tārīkh) |location= Cairo |publisher= مطبعة ب ولاق |url= http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/BUHNOG698187687/EAPB?sid=galemarc&u=}}{{dead link|date= February 2024 Arminden (talk) 20:33, 8 February 2024 (UTC)

Is this map correct?
Hi, is the start point of Nile river this map correct?

If no, please correct that in OpenStreetMaps site and then apply it to the article. Thanks, Hooman Mallahzadeh (talk) 11:03, 29 March 2024 (UTC)


 * It's more or less correct, that start point is the point were the Blue Nile and the White Nile merge DervotNum4 (talk) 22:40, 29 March 2024 (UTC)