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Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic الْإِسْكَنْدَرِيَّة (al-ʔiskandariyya).
Proper noun
Iskanderīa
- Alexandria (a city in Egypt)
References
- Reinisch, Leo (1879) Die Nuba-Sprache, Wien: Wilhelm Braumüller, page 271