Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

sastruga

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: sas-tru-ga
IPA

9

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

3

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any of a series of long, wavelike ridges or grooves formed on a snow surface by the wind, especially in polar plains, and surfaces of ice-covered lakes/seas. These dunes of snow may be blown across the plains like wind-driven waves.

Etymology

From German Sastruga, from Russian заструга (zastruga).

Origin

Source language: German

Word Breakdown

Root: Sastruga, заструга

Inflected Forms

sastrugi (plural) sastrugus (alternative) zastruga (alternative)

Questions

What does sastruga mean?: Any of a series of long, wavelike ridges or grooves formed on a snow surface by the wind, especially in polar plains, and surfaces of ice-covered lakes/seas. These dunes of snow may be blown across the plains like wind-driven waves.
Where does sastruga come from?: It is traced to German.

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