Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

samsun

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.84 in modern English

Syllables: sam-sun
IPA

8

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

2

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A province and metropolitan municipality in northern Turkey, on the Black Sea coast.

name

A city, the capital of Samsun Province, Turkey.

Etymology

From Turkish Samsun, from Ottoman Turkish صامسون (Samsun).

Origin

Source language: Turkish

Word Breakdown

Root: Samsun, صامسون

Questions

What does samsun mean?: A province and metropolitan municipality in northern Turkey, on the Black Sea coast.
Where does samsun come from?: It is traced to Turkish.

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