Nilotic al-Ourouba was the probable original home of the Zensunni, the Misr. Nilotic al-Ourrouba is likely referring to the name of a location on Old Earth, encompassing the areas of Egypt, the Nile Valley and maybe some additional areas of North Africa, and/or the Middle East.
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"Nilotic" refers to the Nile river, usually denoting that something is related to the Nile river or to the people, cultures or civilisations within the Nile river basin (for example Nilotic peoples or Nilotic languages). "Al-Ourouba" العروبة in Arabic literally translates as "Arabism", "Arabness"[1] (the quality of someone or something being ethnically or culturally Arab), hence it can be translated as the "Nilotic Arabism" or "Arabism of the Nile region".
In Children of Dune, this is confirmed as Leto and Ghanima speak to each other in Egyptian.
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- ↑ عروبة (ʕurūba) entry in Wiktionary: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D8%B9%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%A8%D8%A9#Etymology_1