Nahd, pl. Nahūd, A High or Elevated Thing, A Girl’s or Woman’s Breast
-Lane’s Lexicon
In my notebook at the time I must have misspelled the name of the well flats outside the small town of Nahud from where we first set off, because ever after I could not find it on any map…until today, when I opened the Library of Congress website and saw Wadi al-Hileiwi just west of town on a map from the British colonial Khartoum Survey Office. But more interesting are the topographic lines of Jebel Nahud just east of town clearly showing a double summit, albeit one higher than the other, so my question remains, If there are two of them, why is the town’s name not in the Dual form, Nahdān?
