قيروان

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Arabic

Etymology

From Middle Persian kʾlwʾn'. Cognate with English caravan.

Noun

قَيْرَوَان (qayrawān? (plural قَيْرَوَانَات (qayrawānāt))

  1. caravan

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Persian: قیروان (qeyravân)

Further reading

  • Wehr, Hans (1979) “قيروان”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN