单词 | liwa |
释义 | liwan. Now historical. In the Ottoman Empire and subsequently in certain of its Arabic-speaking successor states: a province or large administrative district. Cf. sanjak n. 1. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > territorial jurisdiction or areas subject to > an administrative division of territory > [noun] > in Arabic countries liwa1856 1856 A. L. Kœppen World in Middle Ages (new ed.) II. x. 756 These chiefs divided among themselves the western provinces to which they..gave their own names, still preserved in the Liwas or Sandjacs of the Porte. 1881 E. H. Palmer & W. Besant Conder & Kitchener's Surv. W. Palestine I. 44 The Wiláyets are divided into Liwás (or Sanjak) or Provinces. 1918 Near East 8 Feb. 109/1 To-day this town [sc. El Kerak] is the capital of the Liwa called after it, which is the southernmost division of the vilayet of Syria. 1962 Times 14 Aug. 9/7 The main centre of activity has now shifted northwards to the liwa of Mosul. 2014 A. A. Allawi Faisal I of Iraq xx. 427 The cabinet had carved a new liwa out of the area of Irbil. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1856 |
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