farhud
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Farhūd denotes a breakdown of law and order in which life and property are in peril."
- "Those include the Farhud - a 1941 pogrom that claimed the lives of 180 members of the community and ended in mass looting of their property - and the killing of 40 Iraqi Jews in 1968 when the Baath party came to power."
Etymology
From Arabic الفَرْهُود (al-farhūd).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: الفَرْهُود