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FATA

FATA is the initialism of Federally Administered Tribal Areas.

Meaning of Federally Administered Tribal Areas

Proper noun

Federally Administered Tribal Areas

  1. A former administrative region of Pakistan located between Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province and Afghanistan, now part of the former.

Proper noun capitalized: Fata

Fata (plural Fatas)

  1. A surname.

Forms of FATA

pluralFatas

Origin of FATA

* As an Italian surname, from Fato, a short form of the name Bonfato (see Bonifacio) or from fata (“fairy, preying pantis”). * As an Hungarian surname, from the old personal name Fáta.

Phrases with FATA

Questions about FATA

What does FATA mean?
FATA means a surname.
What is FATA the initialism of?
FATA is the initialism of Federally Administered Tribal Areas.
What part of speech is FATA?
FATA is a proper noun.

Words near FATA in the dictionary

  1. fat-witted
  2. FAT12
  3. FAT16
  4. FAT32
  5. FAT64
  6. FATA
  7. fata morgana
  8. fata morganas
  9. Fatah
  10. fatal
  11. fatal attraction

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: FATA (page history and authors); Fata (page history and authors); Federally Administered Tribal Areas (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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