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zaouiya

zaouiya is the alternative form 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 zaouiya

pluralzaouiyas

Questions about zaouiya

What is zaouiya the alternative form of?
Zaouiya is the alternative form of zawiya.

Words near zaouiya in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: zaouiya (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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