Akaba

[ ah-kuh-buh, ak-uh- ]

/ ˈɑ kə bə, ˈæk ə- /

Aqaba.

Origin of Akaba

First recorded in 1945–50

Aqaba

[ ah-kuh-buh, ak-uh- ]

/ ˈɑ kə bə, ˈæk ə- /

a seaport in SW Jordan, at the N end of the Gulf of Aqaba.

Gulf of, an arm of the Red Sea, between Saudi Arabia and Egypt. 100 miles (160 km) long.

We joined the camels on the way, and after two hours of stones ascended the very steep Akaba Beva.

Southern Arabia |Theodore Bent
Ezion-geber, at the head of the Gulf of Akaba, was its seaport.

The Rand-McNally Bible Atlas |Jesse L. Hurlbut
A small Egyptian force was then directed to occupy Taba, a port near Akaba but on the western side of the gulf.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 |Various
On the south its border was the country of the Midianites, and the head of the Gulf of Akaba.

The Rand-McNally Bible Atlas |Jesse L. Hurlbut

They sailed on July 6th, and were five days in reaching the mouth of the Gulf of Akaba.

Travels in Arabia |Bayard Taylor

Aqaba

/ (ˈækəbə) /

the only port in Jordan, in the southwest, on the Gulf of Aqaba . Pop: 80 790 (2004)