ⲁⲗⲕⲓⲣⲓⲃⲉⲛ

Coptic

Kairouan from the Minaret of the Great Mosque

Alternative forms

• ⲡⲓⲕⲩⲣⲓⲛⲛⲉ (pikurinne) — Bohairic
• ⲧⲕⲩⲣⲏⲛⲏ (tkurēnē) — Sahidic

Etymology

From Arabic اَلْقَيْرُوَان (al-qayruwān).

Proper noun

ⲁⲗⲕⲓⲣⲓⲃⲉⲛ • (alkiriben) m

1. (Sahidic) Kairouan (a city in Tunisia)

References

• Kircher, Athanasius (1643) Lingua Aegyptiaca Restituta, Romae: Hermann Scheus apud Ludouicum Grignanum, page 212
• Isḥāḳ, Emile Māher. 1975. "The phonetics and phonology of the Boḥairic dialect of Coptic and the Survival of Coptic Word in the Colloquial and Classical Arabic of Egypt and of Coptic Grammatical Constructions in Colloquial Egyptian Arabic". University of Oxford