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ashura

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.36 in modern English

Syllables
ashu-ra
IPA
9
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A holy day falling on the 10th day of Muharram, an optional fasting day for Sunni Muslim and a commemoration day of the martyrdom of Husayn ibn Ali in 680 AD for Shia Muslim.

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic عَاشُورَاء (ʕāšūrāʔ, “tenth, tenth day”).

Inflected Forms

‘Ashura (alternative)

Questions

What does ashura mean?
A holy day falling on the 10th day of Muharram, an optional fasting day for Sunni Muslim and a commemoration day of the martyrdom of Husayn ibn Ali in 680 AD for Shia Muslim.
Where does ashura come from?
Borrowed from Arabic عَاشُورَاء (ʕāšūrāʔ, “tenth, tenth day”).

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