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manakish

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
man-ak-ish
IPA
17
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A Levantine Arabic food resembling a pizza and consisting of dough topped with thyme, cheese, or ground meat.

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مَنَاقِيش (manāqīš).

Origin

Word Breakdown

  • Root: مَنَاقِيش, ن ق ش

Inflected Forms

manaeesh (alternative) manaqish (alternative) manakeesh (alternative) man'oushe (alternative) man'ousheh (alternative) manageesh (alternative) mankousheh (alternative) manoushe (alternative) manousheh (alternative) manooshe (alternative) manaqeesh (alternative)

Questions

What does manakish mean?
A Levantine Arabic food resembling a pizza and consisting of dough topped with thyme, cheese, or ground meat.
Where does manakish come from?
It is traced to Arabic.

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