nakba day
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.07 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A Palestinian annual holiday on the 15th of May to commemorate the Nakba, the 1948 expulsion of Palestinians from their homes.
Example Sentences
- "The US and UK are expected to stay away from the UN General Assembly’s first-ever commemoration of Nakba Day on May 15. Israel called on UN member states to shun the event held 75 years after Arab armies attacked the nascent Jewish state on that same day in 1948."