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qamishli

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.72 in modern English

Syllables
qamish-li
IPA
22
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A city in al-Hasakah Governorate in northeastern Syria, on the border with Turkey.

Etymology

From Turkish kamış (“common reed”) + -li (“with”), a calque of Classical Syriac ܒܝܬ ܙܠܝܢ (bēṯ zālīn, literally “house of reeds”). Compare Azerbaijani qamışlıq.

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Word Breakdown

Questions

What does qamishli mean?
A city in al-Hasakah Governorate in northeastern Syria, on the border with Turkey.
Where does qamishli come from?
It is traced to Turkish.

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