Jeddah (city): Difference between revisions

Some people take “Jeddah” to mean line or road and seaside (or riverside), and some believe that Jeddah is called so because it was on the seaside, and [[Mecca]] was connected to cities on the other side of the sea through Jeddah. Some people take the term to be an Arabic form for the Nabataean term, Kidd. There are some myths that since the resting place of [[Eve]]—the mother of all human beings—is located in this city, or the city is where she fell from Eden, it is called so (since the word, “jadda”, in Arabic, means grandmother). Others take the name to come from its adjacent sea (Jeddah sea).