Asyut

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A governorate of Egypt.
  2. The capital of the Asyut Governorate in Egypt.
  3. An ancient city situated near that modern capital.

Word forms

Asyut

Etymology

From Arabic أسيوط (Asyūṭ), from Coptic ⲥⲓⲟⲟⲩⲧ (sioout), from Egyptian z:zA-A-w-t*y:niwt (zꜣwtj, “Asyut”).

This entry uses open data from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA/GFDL). Word forms are used for search and are not indexed as separate pages.