English Explanatory Dictionary

Nubia

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. The region of the upper Nile valley now part of Sudan and far-southern Egypt.
  2. The former polity ruling that region.
noun
  1. A light, knitted headscarf worn by women.

Pronunciation

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Word forms

Nubia nubias nuby

Etymology

The origin of this word is contested. At root it is probably a geographical rather than an ethnic designation. (See Nubians § Etymology on Wikipedia.Wikipedia ). The related term Noba was used (with some uncertainty even among the writers as to its meaning) both for a people already living in the area and for those who conquered it in the 4th century CE.

Related words

Nubian Nubiology

Translations

Afrikaans: Nubië Albanian: Nubia Arabic: النُّوبَة Armenian: Նուբիա Azerbaijani: Nubiya Basque: Nubia Belarusian: Ну́бія Bulgarian: Нубия Catalan: Núbia Chinese Mandarin: 努比亞 /努比亚 Czech: Núbie Danish: Nubien Dutch: Nubië Esperanto: Nubio Estonian: Nuubia Finnish: Nubia French: Nubie Galician: Nubia Georgian: ნუბია German: Nubien Greek: Νουβία Hebrew: נוביה Hungarian: Núbia Icelandic: Núbía Indonesian: Nubia Italian: Nubia Japanese: ヌビア Kazakh: Нубия Korean: 누비아 Kyrgyz: Нубия Latvian: Nūbija Lithuanian: Nubija Macedonian: Нубија Malay: Nubia Marathi: नुबिया Norwegian Bokmål: Nubia Norwegian Nynorsk: Nubia Persian: نوبه Polish: Nubia Portuguese: Núbia
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