aqaba

• türkçesi akabe olan kentin ingilizce transkripsyona uygun şekilde yazımı.
• ismini ürdün'ün aqaba (akabe) şehrinden alan çok güzel bir de şarkı mevcut 1988 tarihli aqaba isimli june tabor albümünde. şarkının sözlerini bill caddick yazmış ve june tabor seslendirmiş, huw warren piyanoda, martin simpson gitarda, bariton gitar ve mandolada, ric sanders electrik kemanda, dave bristow yamaha dx7 and wx7 sintisayzırda ve ian blake ise bas klarnette yer alıyor. sözleri de şöyle:
  
  a man, lost in time and speed, adrift in his dreaming
  while like an arab steed the motorcycle flying on
  past the english fields, the misty morning hedgerow
  the wind in the wire weeds, the warm sirocco sighing
  
  aqaba, all my life turns on you
  all my life returns to you
  
  out of the silent wastes, no friends, no quarter
  the blood is up, the senses race, the last dawn is
  breaking
  and over the sleeping host, the unsuspecting shadows
  grim as a desert ghost to the pale ride awaiting
  
  now your eyes are turned from me, ı shall surprise you
  turn your faces to the sea, ı shall come riding
  down from the desert sands that glorious morning
  oh what a deadly dance drummed out of hiding
  
  the puppies bobbing on the tide, the blood in the sand
  dunes
  the sun dying in the sky, the black shades falling
  over the dead of night, the church bells tolling
  the owl in his silent flight, the desert wind calling