Aboukir
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Etymology[edit]
From Egyptian Arabic أَبُو قِير (ʾabū qīr), from the Arabic name of the Egyptian Copt Cyrus, قِير (qīr).
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Aboukir
- A village on the Mediterranean coast of Egypt which contains several ancient Egyptian, Greek, and Roman structures.
- A bay outside this village, at the mouth of the Nile, where on 1 August 1798 a British fleet led by Horatio Nelson defeated the French in the Battle of the Nile.
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- Laurence Urdang (editor), The Random House College Dictionary (Random House, 1984 [1975], →ISBN), page 4
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French[edit]
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Aboukir ?
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Aboukir f