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- Abu-il-kalb – “father of the dog”
- barhash – biting midges, no-see-ums
- bek – an Ottoman title of nobility
- bismillah ar-rahman ar-rahim – “in the name of Allah the merciful and compassionate”
- dunam – an Ottoman unit of area, roughly one quarter of an acre
- effendi – a squire, a title of respect
- fallah (pl. fellahin) – an Arab peasant
- gazeta – newspaper
- gum – a blood vengeance
- haram – the highest status of prohibition in Islam
- hareth – a hired hand
- ibrik – a small brass or copper pot, usually for making coffee
- inglizi – English
- Jabal al-Shaykh – “mountain of the sheikh”, Mount Hermon
- kardosh (pl. karadish) – a type of bread made with yeast
- khawaja – a foreigner
- Kinneret – The Sea of Galilee
- la allah ila allah wa-sayeduna muhammed rasul allah – “there is no god but Allah and our lord Muhammed is the messenger of Allah”
- mabruk – blessed
- mukhtar – a village big shot
- medina – a big city
- moshava – a type of Jewish agricultural colony of the Ottoman era, all land in which was privately owned
- Mughrabi – someone from North Africa
- nimr – a leopard
- qadi – an Islamic judge
- saj – a domed gridle
- Shulchan Aruch – a 16th century text compiling the code of Jewish law
- taboon – a large oven, usually clay, often communal
- verko – an Ottoman excise tax
- wadi – a seasonal riverbed
- yahud – Jews
- yishuv – Jews living in the Land of Israel
- Yibnawi – someone from Yibna