Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

oorlam

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: oor-lam
IPA

8

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

2

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any member of a subtribe of the Nama people, originally formed from mixed-race descendants of indigenous Khoikhoi, Europeans and slaves from Madagascar, India, and Indonesia.

Inflected Forms

Oorlams (plural) Oerlam (alternative) Orlaam (alternative) Orlam (alternative)

Questions

What does oorlam mean?: Any member of a subtribe of the Nama people, originally formed from mixed-race descendants of indigenous Khoikhoi, Europeans and slaves from Madagascar, India, and Indonesia.

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