Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

birobidzhaner

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: biro-bidzhan-er
IPA

30

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

3

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A native or inhabitant of Birobidzhan.

Example Sentences

"In the Khabarovsk prison too there must have been other Jews beside the Birobidzhaners, but they never were placed in the same cells with us."
"Still, Birobidzhaners could count on state funding to create many of their own Yiddish institutions."
"Young Birobidzhaners were bemused when a group of ethnically Slavic subbotniks, or Sabbatarians, settled in one of the villages of the JAR, but would not work on Saturday, because they were committed to living by Biblical law."

Etymology

From Birobidzhan + -er.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: Birobidzhan

Inflected Forms

Birobidzhaners (plural)

Questions

What does birobidzhaner mean?: A native or inhabitant of Birobidzhan.
Where does birobidzhaner come from?: From Birobidzhan + -er.

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