A district or administrative division, especially in North Africa (Algeria); also a Berber women's dance.
From Arabic dāʾira (circle, district, region). The word entered English through colonial contact with North Africa and the Maghreb region.
The same word serves double duty—it's both an administrative boundary and a traditional dance—which shows how Arabic words often carry layers of cultural meaning that English borrowed along with the term!
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