Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

dönmeh

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: don-meh
IPA

11

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A group of crypto-Jews in the Ottoman Empire who, to avoid imprisonment after declaring arrival of the doomsday messiah, converted publicly to Islam, but retained their Jewish beliefs in secret.

Etymology

From Turkish Dönme, from Ottoman Turkish دونمه (dönme), of a root prefix meaning "turn" or "convert".

Origin

Source language: Turkish

Word Breakdown

Root: Dönme, دونمه

Inflected Forms

Donmeh (alternative) Dönme (alternative) Donme (alternative) Dunmeh (alternative)

Questions

What does dönmeh mean?: A group of crypto-Jews in the Ottoman Empire who, to avoid imprisonment after declaring arrival of the doomsday messiah, converted publicly to Islam, but retained their Jewish beliefs in secret.
Where does dönmeh come from?: It is traced to Turkish.

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