iskenderun
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.43 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A port city in Hatay Province, southeastern Turkey.
Etymology
From Turkish İskenderun and Ottoman Turkish إسكندرون (İskenderun), from Arabic الْإِسْكَنْدَرُون (al-ʔIskandarūn), ultimately from Ancient Greek Ἀλεξάνδρεια (Alexándreia, “Alexandria”), from Ἀλέξανδρος (Aléxandros, “Alexander”) + -εια (-eia, “-ia: forming place names”) in reference to Alexander the Great of Macedonia. Doublet of Alexandria, Alexandretta, Kandahar, and Scandaroon.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: İskenderun, إسكندرون, الْإِسْكَنْدَرُون, Ἀλεξάνδρεια