Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

bismar

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: bis-mar
IPA

10

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A kind of steelyard used in Orkney.

Etymology

From Danish bismer, from Middle Low German bisemer, via a Slavic language from Turkish batman (“a unit of weight”).

Origin

Source language: Danish

Word Breakdown

Root: bismer, bisemer, -, batman

Inflected Forms

bismars (plural)

Questions

What does bismar mean?: A kind of steelyard used in Orkney.
Where does bismar come from?: It is traced to Danish.

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