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- Rujm (Arabic: رجم, rûjm; p. rûjûm) is an Arabic word that appears as an element in numerous place names. It can be translated as "mound, cairn, hill, spur", and also as "stone heap" or "tumulus". The following is a list of place names that include Rujm as an element:
* Kanân Rujm Kûddâh, "the peaks of the cairn of the potter", or of "the flint stone for striking fir"
* Khirbat er Rujm, "the ruin of the stone heap"
* Rujm Abu Ḥashabe
* Rujm Abu Helal, "the cairn of Abu Helal"
* Rujm Abu Meheir (Rujm Abu Muheir), "the cairn of Abu Meheir"
* Rujm Abu Shuweikeh, "the cairn of the thistles"
* Rujm Abu Zumeiter, "the cairn of Abu Zumeiter"
* Rujm Afâneh, "the cairn of rottenness"
* Rujm el 'Ajamy, "the cairn of the Persian"
* Rujm 'Alei, "the cairn of the high place"
* Rujm 'Atîyeh, "the cairn of 'Atiyeh"
* Rujm el 'Azâzimeh, "the cairn of the Azazimeh Arabs"
* Rujm el Bahr, "the cairn of the sea"; a site by the name is on the Dead Sea shore near Jericho
* Rujm el Bakarah "the cairn of the cow"
* Rujm el Bârish, "the cairn of the ground covered with variegated herbiage"
* Rujm Bâruk, "the cairn of Baruk"
* Rujm Beni Yasser, "rujm of the sons of Yasser" (a fortlet of Nabataean origin)
* Rujm Birjis (on the Kerak plateau)
* Rujm ed Debbâbeh, "the cairn of the moveable hut"
* Rujm ed Deir, "the cairn of the monastery"
* Rujm ed Derbi, "the cairn of the roadster"
* Rujm edh Dhib, "the cairn of the wolf"
* Rujm ed Dîr
* Rujm ed Dûribeh, "the cairn of the little road"
* Rujm el Fahjeh, "the cairn of el Fahjeh"
* Rujm el-Farideyyeh
* Rujm Heleiseh, "the cairn of the verdure"
* Rujm Handhal, "the cairn of colocynth"
* Rujm el Heik, "the cairn of the spindle"
* Rujm el-Hamiri, (southeast of Hebron)
* Rujm al-Henu, (Jordan)
* Rujm el Heri, (southeast of Madaba)
* Rujm el-Hiri, "the stone heap of the wild cat"
* Rujm el Humeitah, "the cairn of the mountain fig"
* Rujm el Hummûs, "the cairn of the chick-pea"
* Rujm el Humra, "the red cairn"
* Rujm Ibn Basma, "the cairn of Ibn Basma"
* Rujm Jemảh, "the cairn of the gathering"
* Rujm Jîz, "the cairn on the valley side"
* Rujm Jureideh, "the cairn of the troop"
* Rujm el Kahakîr, "the cairn of the stone heaps"
* Rujm el Kandôl, "the cairn of the thorn tree"
* Rujm el-Khadar
* Rujm el Kherâzmîyeh, "the cairn of the Kharezinians"
* Rujm el Khiâri, "the cairn of the cucumber"
* Rujm el Kurrât, "the stone of the attacks"
* Rujm Kuteit, "the cairn of the cat" or "the cairn of the crag"
* Rujm el Lukâr, "the cairn of Lukâr"
* Rujm Al-Malfouf, "circular towers"
* Rujm (el Mehawâfet) el Kibliyyeh, "the southern cairn (of the boundary)"
* Rujm (el Mehawâfet) esh Shemaliyyeh, "the northern cairn (of the boundary)"
* Rujm el-Merih, (a Nabataean or Late Roman era watchtower located 6 kilometers (3.7 mi) south of Lajjun)
* Rujm el-Meshreferh (in Jordan, associated with Mizpah)
* Rujm el Mogheifir, "the cairn of the pardoned"
* Rujm el Mutukh, "the cairn of the debris"
* Rujm en Nâkeh, (Rujm en-Naqa) "the cairn of the she-camel"
* Rujm en Niâs, "the cairn of en Niyâs
* Rujm en Nûeita, "the cairn of the sailors"
* Rujm en Nūkb, "the cairn of the pass"
* Rujm er Refeif, "the glittering cairn"
* Rujm Reheif, "the sharp-pointed cairn"
* Rujm Reiya, "the cairn of quenching thirst", or "the cairn of sweet fragrance"
* Rujm es S'â, "the cairn of the tax-gatherers"
* Rujm es Sâîgh (Rujm as-Sayigh), "the cairn of the goldsmith"
* Rujm es-Sebit
* Rujm ash Shami
* Rujm ash Shara'irah
* Rujm esh Sheikh Suleimân, "the cairn of Sheikh Suleimân"
* Rujm Shummer, "the cairn of wild fennel"
* Rujm es Sûeif, "the cairn of the little sword"
* Rujm at Tarûd, "the cairn of the projection", or "the cairn of the prominent peak"
* Rujm Umm el 'Arâis, "the cairn of the mother of brides"
* Rujm Umm Kheir, "the cairn of Umm Kheir"
* Rujm Umm es Sata, "the cairn of the mother of the assault"
* Rujm el Waîr, "the cairn of rugged rocks"
* Rujm el Yaklûm, "the cairn of Yaklûm"
* Rujm az-Zuwaira (in Zuwaira al-Fauqa, or Upper Zohar)
* Rŭjûm el Behîmeh, "the cairns of the beast"
* Rujûm Umm Kharrûbeh, "the cairns by the locust tree" (Ceratonia siliqua) (or, "the cairns of the mother of the carob tree") (en)
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