Kufic
Americanadjective
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of or relating to Kufa or its inhabitants.
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noting or pertaining to the characters of the Arabic alphabet used in the writing of the original Quran, in the time of Muhammad.
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adjective
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Etymology
Origin of Kufic
Example Sentences
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The cathedral’s massive blackened bronze door is carved with intricate, geometric Arabic calligraphy called Kufic and wide enough to let a team of horses through.
From New York Times ● Aug. 30, 2022
There it was, its swollen pages of gazelle skin inscribed with the bold black letters of the Kufic script.
From New York Times ● May 11, 2020
The squarish Kufic script, its hard angles a counterpoint to the floral excesses of the rest of the design, snaked its way up in bright blue over the two minarets.
From New York Times ● May 11, 2020
Near the bottom the words appeared in the old Kufic script - the letters were wide and blocky.
From BBC ● Mar. 2, 2016
They contain, according to him, mostly proper names, with devotional formulae, similar to those of the Sinaitic inscriptions and the Kufic and later epigraphs which we discovered.
From The Land of Midian — Volume 2 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
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