Balady

Balady ( _ar. بلدي) or "Baladi" is an Arabic word, meaning the endemic to an area (antonyms include "shami" or "chami", meaning "imported" "immigrant").

Some citrus species or varieties throughout the world are so named. [View Page 6 of the [http://www.corse.inra.fr/sra/synonym.pdf Corsican Collection] for a list of many varieties of several citrus species named Balady or Baladi] [Balady is in prentesies Local by the [http://www.fao.org/docrep/U5000E/U5000E0n.htm FAO org] ]

"Baladi" is also the name of a duple meter used in Arabic music.

ee also

*The Baladi group of Yemenite Jews
*The Balady Citron of Palestine.
* Baladi cheese

References

External links

* [http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/abstract/113405596/ABSTRACT?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0 Preservation of the Egyptian Lime Variety Balady]
* [http://ressources.ciheam.org/om/pdf/a28/96605882.pdf Baladi Date Palms in Jericho ]