chania
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.07 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Etymology
From Latin Chania, from Byzantine Greek Χανιά (Khaniá), from Arabic الخان (al-ḵān) + -ιά (-iá, “-ia: forming place names”), literally from ال (al-, “the, place of the”) + خان (ḵān, “caravanserai, inn”) but possibly transliterating a neighborhood whose named derived from its former importance in the worship of the Minoan god Velchanos, whose Minoan name was transcribed into Ancient Greek as Ϝελχάνος (Welkhános).
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Root: Chania, Χανιά, الخان, -