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Fostat

Fostat is the alternative form of Fustat.

Meaning of Fustat

Proper noun

Fustat

  1. (historical) Synonym of Cairo, a city in Egypt, as the capital of Egypt under the Rashidun, Umayyad, and Abbasid Caliphates and as the capital of the Fatimid Caliphate.
    Synonyms:
    Cairo

Questions about Fostat

What is Fostat the alternative form of?
Fostat is the alternative form of Fustat.

Words near Fostat in the dictionary

  1. fossæ
  2. fossé
  3. fossés
  4. FOSTA
  5. fostamatinib
  6. Fostat
  7. fostemsavir
  8. foster
  9. foster brother
  10. foster care
  11. foster child

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Fostat (page history and authors); Fustat (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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