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Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

zograf

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
zo-graf
IPA
19
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A surname. Famously born by a saint (George the Zograf, an icon in Zograf Monastery) and used as the pen name of a number of Bulgarian iconographers and painters.

Etymology

Historical Macedonian, Bulgarian and Serbo-Croatian personal appellation, later used as pen name, which comes from the tradition of iconography in Eastern Orthodoxy. It comes from the occupation of iconograph or painter: Greek ζωγράφος (zográfos, “painter”), from ζωή (zoḯ, “life”) + -γράφος (-gráfos, “scribe”).

Origin

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

Zograph (alternative)

Questions

What does zograf mean?
A surname. Famously born by a saint (George the Zograf, an icon in Zograf Monastery) and used as the pen name of a number of Bulgarian iconographers and painters.
Where does zograf come from?
It is traced to Greek.

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