jinja
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.07 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
name
A city and district at the north end of Lake Victoria, Uganda.
Example Sentences
- "If cities ailed, Jinja had sleeping sickness. Idi Amin’s sudden expulsion of whites and Asians back in 1972 had hit the city harder than anywhere else. In just over a decade, Jinja’s status as the country’s largest industrial city had become questionable."
Etymology
Borrowed from Japanese 神社 (じんじゃ, jinja), from Middle Chinese 神社, from Old Chinese 神社 (“sacrificial altar, shrine”), from 神 (*hlin, “deity, divine”) + 社 (*ɦljaːʔ, “Earth deity [and altar]”). Cognate with Mandarin 神社 (shénshè, “shrine”).
Word Breakdown
- Root: 神社