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Misr: The historical Zensunni (Fremen) term for themselves: "The People". Apparently the Misr Sunni ancestors fled from Nilotic al-Ourouba to become the Fremen and or Zensunni.

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Miṣr is the Arabic and modern official name of Egypt. The word

is of Semitic origin, directly related to other Semitic words for Egypt such as the Hebrew "מִצְרַיִם"‎ ("Mitzrááim") and Akkadian "mi-iṣ-ru" ("miṣru")


and originally connoted "metropolis" or "civilization" and means "country", or "frontier-land".

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