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- Arabic · borrowed fromبِير طَوِيل
- English todayBir Tawil
Borrowed from Arabic بِير طَوِيل (bīr ṭawīl) or بِئْر طَوِيل (biʔr ṭawīl, literally “tall water well”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Bir Tawil
Today it means: A region of Africa, along the border between Egypt and Sudan, currently considered as terra nullius. It is declared by Egypt to be Sudanese and Sudan to be Egyptian, and claimed by neither country. Full definition →
Arabic بِير طَوِيل