Etymology

Nouadhibou

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Today it means: A city in northwestern Mauritania. Full definition →

Arabic نأو
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The story

  1. Arabic · derived fromضَبَاب“fog”
  2. Arabic · derived fromنأو“shelter, bay”
  3. English todayNouadhibou

Probably from Arabic نأو (“shelter, bay”) + Arabic ضَبَاب (ḍabāb, “fog”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.