encountered this Arabic word and that he is not in a position to propose a better etymology. He could have boldly stated that Marina's is false. It does not explain the ending (τα), and the word كربة was never in use in Spain; it is an old word belonging to the language of the Desert. There is a slight and extremely frequent error in carabia in Spanish writings of the Middle Ages; the cedilla has been omitted and carabia is the Arabic سَرَبِيَّة سَطَحَ، مُسْتَطَحَ = مُسْتَطْلَحَ or perhaps مُسْتَطْلَحَ (reading from manuscript A.) surface, area, p. 316, l. 6 سَفَر is particularly used in the sense of traveling by sea, navigating; في ايام سفر الاسطول, p. 139, على اوقات سفر المراكب; viguer. p. 137 - ٬97 .p زمن الصيف ومدة السفر, ٬16 .p. زمن الضيف ومدة السفر; title: transport ships, p. 11, 193, more pe-سِعْوَرِيّ سَفَرِيَّة, pl. سُفْسَارِيّة, a type of cloak, a burnous, p. 19; compare Defrémery, Mémoires d'hist. orient., p. 159. مُسْقَط مُسْفَط ,مُسْقِط , like مَوْقِع) (see the article on this word), river mouth, p. 1, l. 5 ff., p. 113, last l. مُسْقَف مُسْقَف, the covered part of a mosque, the opposite of صَحْن the uncovered part, p. 21; in Ibn-Batouta, I, p. 306, l. 1, where the edition gives .مُسْقَعَة the manuscript of M. de Gayangos has .مُسْقَعَة Ibn-al-Khatib, manuscript of M. de Gayangos, fol. 106 r. وَحَشَ احْيَاسِ جَامِع : غَرَنَاطَة بِنَظَرِهِ فَصَلَ مَالٌ كَثِيرٌ مِنْ غَلَبِهِ وَنَبَهِ بِاجْتِمَاعِهِ لِيَزِيدَ بِهِ بَلَانَينَ في مُسْقَعَة مِنْ شَرِفِهِ وَغَرَبِهِ سَفَلَاسِيلُون, silk fabric embroidered with gold, in old French siglaton, p. 1; see the Glossary on the Bayân. سَقَلُو نَذَارِبُون, scolopendra, p. 1. سَفِي ,مُسْتَفِي, watering trough, p. 1; Alcala pilar de aqua.