Arafat (Arafat`) , a granite hill E. of Mecca, a place of pilgrimage as the spot where Adam received his wife after 200 years separation from her on account of their disobedience to the Lord in deference to the suggestion of Satan.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Araf * Ar`ago, François