Umm Ebairiya
أم عبيرية | |
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Village | |
Coordinates: 25°29′00″N 51°23′00″E / 25.48333°N 51.38333°E | |
Country | Qatar |
Municipality | Umm Salal |
Zone | Zone 71 |
District no. | 131 |
Area | |
• Total | 7.1 km2 (2.7 sq mi) |
Umm Ebairiya ( Arabic: أم عبيرية, romanized: Umm ‘Ābirīyah) is a Qatari village in the municipality of Umm Salal. [3] [4]
In the 2015 census, it was listed as a district of Zone 71, which has a population of 90,835 and also includes all of Umm Salal's other administrative districts. [3]
It borders Umm Al Amad to the east, Umm Salal Ali to the southeast and Saina Al-Humaidi to the northeast. [4]
"Umm" means mother in Arabic and is commonly used as a prefix for geographical features. [4] The second component, "ebairiya", comes from "obri", the local name of a type of Sidr tree that grows abundantly in the region. [5]
Alternative transliterations of the name include Umm ‘Ubayrīyah, [6] Umm Obairiya, Umm A'birieh and Umm Abiriyah. [7]