sambuusa
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "There are influences from across the Arabian Sea, as with sambuusas, triangles of dough sealed around cumin-laced ground beef or chicken, distant kin to Indian samosas."
Etymology
From Somali sambuus, from Classical Persian سَنْبوسَه (sanbōsa), from Middle Persian *sambōsag. Doublet of sambusa, sambusak, sambuseh, samosa, and samsa.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: sambuus, سَنْبوسَه, *sambōsag