Aboukir

Meaning

Proper Noun

• A village on the Mediterranean coast of Egypt which contains several ancient Egyptian, Greek, and Roman structures.
• A bay outside this village, at the mouth of the Nile, where on 1 August 1798 a British fleet led by Horatio Nelson defeated the French in the Battle of the Nile.

Origin

• From Egyptian Arabic أَبُو قِير, from the Arabic name of the Egyptian Copt Cyrus, قِير.