Sentence examples for which means stone from inspiring English sources

Often called the Sassi (which means stone), or the City of Stone, this part of Matera is a maze of caves, churches — some dating back to Roman times — zigzagging steps and stone facades carved from a massive slope of yellowed tufa.

Traditionally made with thinly sliced mutton leg which is marinated with black spices (black cardamom, cloves, pepper, allspice and a lichen known as black stone flower) and tenderised using raw papaya paste, these would be cooked over hot stones – hence the term "pathar" which means stone in Hindi.

He named the stone Ebhen ha-ezer, which means stone of help.

Journalist Arvid Sagen stated in 2001 that the name owed its origins to the Norwegian word "hole"; which means a round hill, and "stein", which means stone.

The term "coprolite" has its roots in the Greek language, derived from kopros, which means dung, and lithos, which means stone.

Fajr, Arabic for dawn, is a reference to the long-range rockets that Hamas has fired into Israel; Sijil, which means stones of clay, is the name Hamas gave to the cross-border conflict with Israel.

To this day the term pozzolana, or pozzolan, refers either to the cement itself or to any finely divided aluminosilicate that reacts with lime in water to form cement. (The term cement, meanwhile, derives from the Latin word caementum, which meant stone chippings such as were used in Roman mortar not the binding material itself).

Dela Rosa, nicknamed "Bato," which means rock or stone, told the Senate committee that the drug suspects were killed because they resisted arrest.

Jawaharlal – which means "precious stone" – was born into a wealthy Kashmiri family in 1889.

The first association I have with the word "evan" in Hebrew is a monthly prayer that includes the line: "Evan maasu habonim, hayta l'rosh pina" which means, "A stone that was disregarded by the builders, became the cornerstone".

"Lupus" is the Latin form of the first element of his Old English name, which means "wolf-stone".