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proper noun

Kairouan

/kɛ.ʁwɑ̃/

proper noun/kɛ.ʁwɑ̃/

Kairouan (a city in Tunisia)

Related: kairouanais, Kairouanais, Kairouanaise

Borrowed from Arabic الْقَيْرَوَان (al-qayrawān), definite form of قَيْرَوَان (qayrawān, “caravan”), from Middle Persian kʾlwʾn'. Doublet of caravane.