Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

tesem

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: tesem
IPA

7

Scrabble Score

5

Letters

1

Syllables

4

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An extinct kind of dog from Ancient Egypt resembling a greyhound

Example Sentences

"We possess many illustrations of these Tesem greyhounds from the whole period of the Egyptian supremacy, some 3,000 years, and much care must have been taken to keep them pure-bred."
"Greyhounds, one of the oldest known groups of dogs, share a common ancestor — the Tesem."
"The Egyptians had inherited the Tesem as a sleek sight hound breed that had been derived from early domesticated dogs in Southwest Asia."

Etymology

From a nineteenth-century transcription of Egyptian ṯzm (“hound”).

Origin

Source language: Egyptian

Word Breakdown

Root: ṯzm

Inflected Forms

Tesems (plural)

Questions

What does tesem mean?: An extinct kind of dog from Ancient Egypt resembling a greyhound
Where does tesem come from?: It is traced to Egyptian.

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