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Borrowed from French Sfax, from Tunisian Arabic صفاقس (ṣfāqis), from Arabic صَفاقِس (ṣafāqis).

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  • IPA(key): /səˈfæks/, /ˈsfæks/

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Sfax

  1. A city in Sfax Governorate, Tunisia.
    • 2023 March 30, Simon Speakman Cordall, “Tunisian morgue overflows as more people attempt risky sea crossing”, in The Guardian[1]:
      On a recent afternoon in the Tunisian coastal city of Sfax, as shoppers hurried around a market buying food and drink for that evening’s iftar meal, a small group of men from sub-Saharan Africa gathered near a stall selling phone accessories.
  2. Sfax Governorate, one of the governorates in Tunisia.

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French Sfax, from Tunisian Arabic صفاقس (ṣfāqis), from Arabic صَفاقِس (ṣafāqis).

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  • IPA(key): /sfaks/, (also) /svaks/, [sʋaks]
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Sfax n (proper noun, genitive Sfax' or (with an article) Sfax)

  1. Sfax (a city in Tunisia)

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Sfax f

  1. Sfax (a city in Tunisia)