ⲕⲟⲩⲫⲁ

Coptic

The Great Mosque of Kufa

Alternative forms

• ⲭⲱⲃⲁ (khōba) — Bohairic

Etymology

From Arabic الْكُوفَة (al-kūfa).

Proper noun

ⲕⲟⲩⲫⲁ • (koupha) ?

1. (Bohairic) Kufa (a city in Iraq)

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