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- Arabic · borrowed fromخَانْ يُونُسْ
- English todayKhan Younus
From Arabic خَانْ يُونُسْ (ḵān yūnus). Literally, “Jonah's Inn, caravansary of Jonah”. Named after Mamluk Pashtun Emir Yunus al-Noorzai, who founded the settlement as Salqah.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.