muhafazah
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Vinony's link graph records 62 inbound references to muhafazah, and connects out to Arabic, wilaya and Saudi Arabia.
Vinony files it under Governorates and Types of administrative division.
Vinony links it to 45 Wikipedia language editions.
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- governorate
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- Muhafazat in Arab countries
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A '''' is a first-level administrative division of many Arab countries, and a second-level administrative division in Saudi Arabia. The term is usually translated as "governorate", and occasionally as "province".
It comes from the Arabic root , , (verb: , ), which means to "keep" and "guard".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “muhafazah” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.