Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

chilminar

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: chilmi-nar
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

Synonym of Persepolis, particularly its modern ruins.

Obsolete

Example Sentences

"CHILMINAR, Chelminar, or Tchelminar, the moſt beautiful piece of architecture remaining of all antiquity, being the ruins of the famous palace of Perſepolis, to which Alexander the Great, in a drunken fit, ſet fire, at the inſtigation of Thais the courtezan..."

Etymology

From Spanish Chilminara in the French translation of De Silva Figueroa's account of his travels in Persia from 1617 to 1619, from Persian چهل منار (čehel menâr, “ruins of Persepolis”), from چهل (čehel, “forty”) + منار (menâr, “minarets”), from the appearance of the ruins.

Origin

Source language: Spanish

Word Breakdown

Root: Chilminara, -, چهل منار

Usage

Obsolete

Inflected Forms

Chelminar (alternative) Tchelminar (alternative) Chihil Minar (alternative) Chil Minar (alternative) Chehel Menar (alternative) Chelmenar (alternative) Chel Menar (alternative) Cheminar (alternative) Techelminar (alternative)

Synonyms

Persepolis particularly its modern ruins

Questions

What does chilminar mean?: Synonym of Persepolis, particularly its modern ruins.
Where does chilminar come from?: It is traced to Spanish.

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