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Meaning of "Kairouan" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD KAIROUAN

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PRONUNCIATION OF KAIROUAN

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF KAIROUAN

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Kairouan is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES KAIROUAN MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Kairouan

Kairouan

Kairouan, also known as Kirwan or al-Qayrawan, is the capital of the Kairouan Governorate in Tunisia. Referred to as the Islamic Cultural Capital, it is a UNESCO World Heritage site. The city was founded by the Arabs around 670. In the period of Caliph Mu'awiya, it became an important centre for Islamic and Quranic learning, and thus attracting a large number of Muslims from various parts of the world, next only to Mecca and Medina. The holy Mosque of Uqba is situated in the city. In 2003, the city had about 150,000 inhabitants.

Definition of Kairouan in the English dictionary

The definition of Kairouan in the dictionary is a city in NE Tunisia: one of the holy cities of Islam; pilgrimage and trading centre. Pop: 124 000.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE KAIROUAN

Kairwan
Kaiser
kaiserdom
kaiserin
kaiserism
kaisership
Kaiserslautern

WORDS THAT END LIKE KAIROUAN

Antiguan
Assouan
Assuan
Don Juan
duan
gargantuan
guan
Labuan
lauan
Nicaraguan
San Juan
Sichuan
Siouan
Szechuan
taguan
Taiyuan
tuan
Tuvaluan
Yinchuan
yuan

Synonyms and antonyms of Kairouan in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «Kairouan» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF KAIROUAN

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The translations of Kairouan from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «Kairouan» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

凯鲁万
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

Kairouan
570 millions of speakers

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Kairouan
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

Kairouan
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

القيروان
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Кайруан
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

Kairouan
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

Kairouan
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

Kairouan
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kairouan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Kairouan
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

カイルアン
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

Kairouan의
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Kairouan
85 millions of speakers
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Kairouan
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

Kairouan
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

केअरौआन
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Kairouan
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

Kairouan
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Kairouan
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Кайруан
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Kairouan
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

Καϊρουάν
15 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Afrikaans

Kairouan
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

Kairouan
10 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Norwegian

Kairouan
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of Kairouan

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «KAIROUAN»

The term «Kairouan» is regularly used and occupies the 67.249 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «KAIROUAN» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about Kairouan

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «KAIROUAN»

Discover the use of Kairouan in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to Kairouan and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Tunis, Kairouan & Carthage
First published in 1908, this is a marvellously rich, witty and evocative account of the great cities of Tunisia at the dawn of the 20th century.
Graham Petrie, 2003
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Tunis, Kairouan & Carthage: described and illustrated with ...
described and illustrated with forty-eight paintings Graham Petrie. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS FACING PAGE The Approach to the Ancient Slave-Market from the Souk- des-Etoffes, Tunis . . . . -94 Place Bab-Souika and the Mosque of Sidi ...
Graham Petrie, 1908
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International Dictionary of Historic Places: Middle East and ...
Contact: National Office of Tunisian Tourism 1, avenue Mohamed V Tunis Tunisia 341 077 Kairouan (also called Qairwan or Al-Qayrawan) is located at a crossroads in the center of a large plain of the Dorsale mountain range in the Maghrib ...
Trudy Ring, Robert M. Salkin, Sharon La Boda, 1996
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The Living and the Dead in Islam: Indices
... the gender of the deceased. 430 434 434 434 435 435 437 438 438 4x2 572 POETRY IN KAIROUAN EPITAPHS. Year Gender33 Metre Source Quotation 306 male Tawil Inscriptions Kairouan 97 Chapter 1 p.90f. 308 male Basit Inscriptions  ...
‎2004
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Historic Cities of the Islamic World
Later on, particularly at the beginning of the reign of the Æusaynids, Kairouan recovered and gained second place in the country. WazÒr al-SarrÊj (d. 1149/ 1736–7) noted at the beginning of the 18th century: “At this moment, after Tunis, ...
Clifford Edmund Bosworth, 2007
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Art and History: Tunisia
Kairouan Of outstanding elegance is the Barber's Mosque, magnificently embroidered with. Kairouan was founded as the natural heir to Carthage when the latter city seemed destined for irreversible decline. And the founders took to heart the ...
Giovanna Magi, Patrizia Fabbri, 2008
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The Rough Guide to Tunisia
Daniel Jacobs, Peter Morris. Kairouan to: Douz (4 daily; 5hr); Enfida (4 daily; 1hr); Gates (7 daily; 4hr); Gafsa (7 daily; 4hr); Hammamet (6 daily; 2hr 15min); Houmt Souk (3 daily; 4hr 30min]; Kasserine (6 daily; 2hr); Le Kef (3 daily; 3hr 30min); ...
Daniel Jacobs, Peter Morris, 2001
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Klee
Before the gates of Kairouan. 1914, 216 vor den Toren v. Kairuan Water-colour and pencil on cardboard. 20.7x3 1. 5 cm Paul Klee Foundation. Kunstmuseum Bern. Berne plied one on top of the other join together to form a view of a town.
Susanna Partsch, Paul Klee, 2000
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The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism: From Sacred Texts to ...
A letter of the Palestinian Gaon Solomon ben Yehuda to Fuståt, discovered in the Geniza, mentions incidentally “what happened to the Kairouan community when the hand was extended against them and their enemies would have prevailed ...
Andrew G. Bostom
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Gardner's Art through the Ages: The Western Perspective
10-8 Aerial view (left) and plan (right) of the Great Mosque, Kairouan, Tunisia, ca. 836–875. The arcaded forecourt in front of the hypostyle hall of the Kairouan mosque resembles a Roman forum ( FIG . 7-43), but it incorporates the distinctive  ...
Fred Kleiner, 2009

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «KAIROUAN»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term Kairouan is used in the context of the following news items.
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4 Things I Sometimes Envy In Other Faith Traditions - Patheos
Prayer at Great Mosque of Kairouan, Tunisia. Photo by Ziednsir, from WikiMedia Commons. Much of the news coming from the Muslim world is ... «Patheos, Jul 15»
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Tunisia: More Than 162000 Tonnes of Tomato Processed Until July …
... of Ariana, Manouba and Ben Arous. The quantities processed in Béja, Kairouan, El Kef and Sidi Bouzid reached about 58,605 tonnes. «AllAfrica.com, Jul 15»
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Draft Law On Reconciliation in Economic and Financial Areas …
In the land area, three draft decrees were presented. They relate to the construction of the national road No.12 between Kairouan and Sousse ... «AllAfrica.com, Jul 15»
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Paving the Way to Better Development in Tunisia
The two other scheduled road upgrades are a 56km section of the Route Nationale 12 from the tourist resort city Sousse to Kairouan. Another ... «World Bank Group, Jul 15»
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Tunisia's Terrorism Problem Goes Beyond Islamic State
Kairouan in Tunisia's interior, not far from Sidi Bouzeid, where the self-immolation of a disgruntled street vendor sparked the revolt that has ... «Geopoliticalmonitor.com, Jul 15»
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Tunisian gunman moments after massacre
On June 26, the attacker, identified as Seifeddine Rezgui, a 24-year-old graduate of Tunisia's Kairouan University, killed 38 tourists, mostly ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 15»
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The Islamic State is Not Al-Qaeda
Media later revealed the attacker as a student from Kairouan, Tunisia's fourth largest city and a noted meeting place for the now banned group ... «Fair Observer, Jul 15»
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Islamic State massacres aren't really about West
The perpetrator, Seifeddine Rezgui, was studying engineering at a university in Kairouan, an hour's drive west of Sousse. IS, which has carved ... «Zimbabwe Independent, Jul 15»
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Tunisia Seeks Its Way On A Winding, Bumpy Path
Two years ago, I first went to the town of Kairouan, one of the holiest sites in ... My trip to Kairouan in 2013 was around the time the government ... «NPR, Jul 15»
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ISIS represents a radical shift in terrorism
The odd thing about Seifeddine Rezgui, said Mr Fadi Saidi, a computer science student at Tunisia's Kairouan University, was that he was ... «TODAYonline, Jul 15»

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