Definitions for Fayum

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Fayum Fa·yum

Spelling: [fahy-yoom]

IPA: /faɪˈyum/

Fayum is a 5 letter English word.

You can make 37 anagrams from letters in Fayum (afmuy).

Definitions for Fayum

noun, adjective

1. Faiyum.

noun

1. Faiyum (def 2).
2. a province in N central Egypt: many archaeological remains. 691 sq. mi. (1790 sq. km).
3. Also called El Faiyum, El Fayum. a city in and the capital of this province, SW of Cairo.

adjective

1. pertaining to or designating a style of portrait painting developed in Egypt under Roman rule, examples of which have been found principally in Faiyum dating from the 2nd and 3rd centuries a.d., characterized chiefly by the frontality of the head, the modeling of form, and emphasis on the eyes.

Examples for Fayum

This mixed body were the recipients of large grants of land in the Fayum.

A week in the desert and the flowery oasis of the Fayum, with the two most charming women in Egypt!

In Fayum, the native city of Saadiah, there lived at that period only twenty Jewish families.

If troops of the priests go from Thebes ye will drive them back and not let them approach Fayum.

It, moreover, included the whole basin of the Fayum, on the west of the valley.

At Cairo and in the Fayum, attar of roses and other perfumes are manufactured.

The capital of the Fayum, Medinet el-Fayum, has a population of 37,320.

South-west of the Fayum, and forming part of the mudiria, is the Gharak depression.

Saadiah was born in Fayum (Egypt) in 892, and died in Sura in 942.

At the end of 1819 they left Fayum with a few companions, and entered the Libyan desert.