Etymology

Essaouira

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Today it means: A city in the western Moroccan economic region of Marrakesh-Safi, on the Atlantic coast. Full definition →

Arabic الصَّوِيرَة
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  1. Arabic · borrowed fromالصَّوِيرَة
  2. English todayEssaouira

From Arabic الصَّوِيرَة (aṣ-ṣawīra, literally “the little rampart”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.