Ararat
    n 1: the mountain peak that Noah's ark landed on as the waters
         of the great flood receded [syn: Ararat, Mount Ararat,
         Mt. Ararat]

Ararat
   sacred land or high land, the name of a country on one of the
   mountains of which the ark rested after the Flood subsided (Gen.
   8:4). The "mountains" mentioned were probably the Kurdish range
   of South Armenia. In 2 Kings 19:37, Isa. 37:38, the word is
   rendered "Armenia" in the Authorized Version, but in the Revised
   Version, "Land of Ararat." In Jer. 51:27, the name denotes the
   central or southern portion of Armenia. It is, however,
   generally applied to a high and almost inaccessible mountain
   which rises majestically from the plain of the Araxes. It has
   two conical peaks, about 7 miles apart, the one 14,300 feet and
   the other 10,300 feet above the level of the plain. Three
   thousand feet of the summit of the higher of these peaks is
   covered with perpetual snow. It is called Kuh-i-nuh, i.e.,
   "Noah's mountain", by the Persians. This part of Armenia was
   inhabited by a people who spoke a language unlike any other now
   known, though it may have been related to the modern Georgian.
   About B.C. 900 they borrowed the cuneiform characters of
   Nineveh, and from this time we have inscriptions of a line of
   kings who at times contended with Assyria. At the close of the
   seventh century B.C. the kingdom of Ararat came to an end, and
   the country was occupied by a people who are ancestors of the
   Armenians of the present day.
   

Ararat, the curse of trembling