Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

douar

/ˈduːɑː/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: douar
IPA: /ˈduːɑː/

6

Scrabble Score

5

Letters

1

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A camp or village of tents in a North African country.

Example Sentences

"“A slave would be the better word,” she answered. “I was stolen in the night from my father’s douar by a band of marauders. They brought me here and sold me to the Arab who keeps this café.”"
"he communicated by telephone instead of riding out by horseback, as in the good old days, to stay overnight in the various douars."
"‘We burn their douars, we rape their women, we confiscate their crops, we carry out the necessary exemplary executions and we round up those who are left into what I can only call concentrations camps.’"

Etymology

Borrowed from French douar, from Arabic دَوّار (dawwār).

Origin

Source language: Arabic

Word Breakdown

Root: دَوّار, د و ر

Inflected Forms

douars (plural) dowar (alternative) duar (alternative)

Questions

How do you pronounce douar?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈduːɑː/.
What does douar mean?: A camp or village of tents in a North African country.
Where does douar come from?: It is traced to Arabic.

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