Aswan

Meaning

Proper Noun

  • city in southern Egypt (country), the capital of the Aswan Governorate.

Origin

  • Borrowed from Egyptian Arabic أسوان, itself borrowed from Coptic ⲥⲟⲩⲁⲛ, from Egyptian swnw, s-wn:n-nw:W-T11:niwt

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