A small village or hamlet in Egypt or other Arabic-speaking regions.
From Arabic 'azab' or similar roots referring to a rural settlement, this word entered English through colonial and anthropological descriptions of Egyptian settlements.
Colonial writers used 'ezba' to describe rural Egyptian villages they encountered—the word is a linguistic souvenir of European-Arab contact, carrying the flavor of specific places in the Nile Delta!
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