Crossword-Solution: DAHNA 5 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

Bridles, double (dahna), snaffle (kazai), can be hung up on the walls, but a piece of cloth or a few sheets of paper should be fastened up behind them; and they should be frequently taken down if not in daily use, as the white ants are most destructive.

These favourable conditions of soil and climate, however, extend only a comparatively short distance into the interior, by far the larger part of which is covered by the great southern desert, the Dahna, or Ruba el Khali, empty as its name implies, and uninhabitable.

The great desert known as the Dahna or the Rub'a el Khali ("the empty quarter") is believed to cover all the interior of southern Arabia from the borders of Yemen in the west to those of Oman in the east.

Then is it not easy for me to say that I come from a distant part of the Great Dahna? Is there a man in Nejed who has crossed the Red Desert? And if I say that my father was Mohammed ibn Abd el Hamid ibn Abd el Latif, and so on to our father Isma鑲, upon whom be peace, shall any one deny that I speak truth? This is a very easy matter.' 'So much the more will it be easy for us to satisfy the people,' answered the Kadi.

The northern oases, the seat of the powerful sect of the Wahabees, are called Nedjed; and the unknown southern interior, which is believed to be almost wholly desert, inhabited only by a few wandering Bedouins, is known as the Dahna or Akhaf.