Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

mulukhiyah

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: mu-lukhiyah
IPA

25

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Corchorus species, particularly jute mallow (Corchorus olitorius), used as a vegetable in Middle Eastern and North African cuisine, which can be boiled into a mucilaginous broth.

Uncountable

noun

The mucilaginous broth made by boiling this plant.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"Limya is preparing mulukhiyah this morning, something she ate nearly every day when she lived in Sudan. It's a stew made of lamb and the mulukhiyah leaf, also known as mallow, popular in Middle Eastern cooking."

Etymology

From Arabic مُلُوخِيَّة (mulūḵiyya).

Origin

Source language: Arabic

Word Breakdown

Root: مُلُوخِيَّة

Usage

Uncountable

Inflected Forms

malukhiyah (alternative) mloukhiya (alternative) molohiya (alternative) molokhia (alternative) moroheiya (alternative) mulukhiya (alternative) mulukhiyya (alternative) mulukhiyyah (alternative)

Synonyms

Egyptian spinach nalita

Questions

What does mulukhiyah mean?: Corchorus species, particularly jute mallow (Corchorus olitorius), used as a vegetable in Middle Eastern and North African cuisine, which can be boiled into a mucilaginous broth.
Where does mulukhiyah come from?: It is traced to Arabic.

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