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zaouia

zaouia is the alternative spelling of zawiya.

Meaning of zawiya

Noun

zawiya (plural zawiyas)

  1. In North and West Africa, a Muslim religious school or community, or its mosque.

Forms of zaouia

pluralzaouias

Questions about zaouia

What is zaouia the alternative spelling of?
Zaouia is the alternative spelling of zawiya.

Words near zaouia in the dictionary

  1. Zanzibarians
  2. Zanzibaris
  3. Zanzy
  4. zao
  5. Zaociao
  6. zaouia
  7. zaouias
  8. zaouiya
  9. Zaouli
  10. Zaoyang
  11. Zaozernaia Hill

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Adapted from Wiktionary: zaouia (page history and authors); zawiya (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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