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iznik

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.36 in modern English

Syllables
iznik
IPA
18
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A town in Turkey.

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish ازنیق (İznik) and Turkish İznik, from Byzantine Greek Νῑ́καια (Nī́kaia), named for Nicaea wife of Lysimachus, from Ancient Greek νῑ́κη (nī́kē, “victory”) + -ῐᾰ (-ĭă, “-ia: forming feminine names”). Doublet of Nice and Nicaea.

Origin

Word Breakdown

  • Root: ⁧ازنیق⁩, İznik, Νῑ́καια, νῑ́κη

Inflected Forms

İznik (alternative)

Synonyms

Nicaea for historical names

Questions

What does iznik mean?
A town in Turkey.
Where does iznik come from?
It is traced to Turkish.

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