[ه]Haddāra, Waterfall…[ح]Hadāra, Civilization
-Wehr
I remember circling a camel with KhairAllah and asking him to name its various body parts that I would unlikely learn anywhere else, certainly not in a classroom or a dictionary. Qujja, Hump Hair. Zurr, Chest Callous. Sharam, Cleft Lip. Arqūb, Rear Leg Callous. Rashrash, Eye Lash. Nakhāra, Nostril Closure Flap. Watayyi’, Foot Pad. Mufthār, Toe Nail.
But because I didn’t hear differences in his pronunciation of the emphatic and non-emphatic H and D consonants, nor his doubled letters, I transcribed phonetically as best I could in English. So when I recently reviewed this list and found that I had written the word Hadāra for Dulla, the foot long pink inflated membrane that a rutting male expells and retracts from his foaming throat with a great gurgling sound, I was at a loss. Spelled with which letter H, the emphatic (ح) or the non-emphatic (ه)? In Wehr I could find it neither way, so I guess that Waterfall will have to do.