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shahtoosh

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
shah-toosh
IPA
18
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A light but warm Kashmiri shawl made with hair from the chiru, or Tibetan antelope (Pantholops hodgsonii), an endangered species.

Countable

noun

Fibre used in the making of such shawls.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian [Term?], meaning "king of fine wools".

Origin

Usage

Inflected Forms

shahtooshes (plural) shahtush (alternative) shatoosh (alternative)

Questions

What does shahtoosh mean?
A light but warm Kashmiri shawl made with hair from the chiru, or Tibetan antelope (Pantholops hodgsonii), an endangered species.
Where does shahtoosh come from?
It is traced to Persian.

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