Sha·bel·le  (shā-běl'ē, shə-)  A river, about 1,609 km (1,000 mi) long, of northeast Africa rising in central Ethiopia and flowing southeast into Somalia then southwest in a course parallel to the Indian Ocean coastline. It disappears in a swampland in southern Somalia. |
| She·be·le (shē-bā'lē, shə-) See Shabelle. |
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