Do camels really spit? Yes, and it’s most unpleasant. They aren’t actually spitting, though—it’s more like throwing up!
-Camel Fact Sheet, San Diego Zoo
In Cairo I’d learned the verb To Vomit as Rajja’a, the intensive Form II of Raja’a, To Return, but Wehr instead gives Rajja’a as, To Sing or Chant in a Vibrant, Quavering Tone, and Lane gives it as, To Repeat the Profession of Faith [There is No God But God…], First in a Faint Voice, Second in a Strong Voice, although neither dictionary does justice to the sounds of our retching after we drank from the sulphurous Kalabsha wells.