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Vinony

Damietta

proper noun

  1. city in Egypt
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˌdæmiːˈɛtə/ / /ˌdæmiːˈjɛtə/ / /ˌdæmɪˈɛtə/

name

Etymology: From Medieval Latin Damietta, from the medieval pronunciation /dɑmˈjɑdi/ of Coptic ⲧⲁⲙⲓⲁϯ (Tamiati) with influence from Latin -etta (“-ette: forming diminutives”), the former sometimes hypothesized to be from Egyptian dmjt (“town, harbor”), from Egyptian d-mi-i-N21:Z1 (dmj, “mooring, port; town”) + t (-t, feminine ending).

  1. A town in the Nile delta in Egypt.