English Explanatory Dictionary

City of a Thousand Minarets

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. Nickname for Cairo: the capital and largest city of Egypt.

Word forms

City of a Thousand Minarets

Etymology

From the large number of mosques in the city.

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