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kairouan

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.35 in modern English

Syllables
kairouan
IPA
12
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A city in Tunisia.

Uncountable

Etymology

Borrowed from French Kairouan, from Arabic الْقَيْرَوَان (al-qayrawān), definite form of قَيْرَوَان (qayrawān, “caravan”), from Middle Persian kʾlwʾn' (kārawān); see there for more. Doublet of caravan.

Origin

Word Breakdown

  • Root: الْقَيْرَوَان, kʾlwʾn'

Usage

Inflected Forms

Cairouan (alternative, dated) Cairoan (alternative, obsolete)

Derived Forms

Kairouani

Questions

What does kairouan mean?
A city in Tunisia.
Where does kairouan come from?
It is traced to Arabic.

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