Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

yazidi

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.57 in modern English

Syllables: yazi-di
IPA

19

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

2

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A member of an endogamous, largely Kurmanji-speaking ethnoreligious group which practices Yazidism and is natively concentrated mostly in Syria, Iraq, and the Caucasus.

adj

Of or pertaining to the Yazidis or Yazidism.

name

Kurmanji, the Northern Kurdish language or dialect, as spoken by Yazidis (though sometimes, for ideological rather than authentically linguistic reasons, treated as a fully independent language).

Etymology

From Arabic يَزِيدِي (yazīdī), from Northern Kurdish êzidî.

Origin

Source language: Arabic

Word Breakdown

Root: يَزِيدِي, êzidî

Inflected Forms

Yazidis (plural) Yazidiz (plural, rare) Izedi (alternative) Yezdi (alternative) Yezidee (alternative) Yezidi (alternative) Ezidi (alternative) Eyzidi (alternative) Yizidi (alternative) Izidi (alternative) Yesidi (alternative) more Yazidi (comparative)

Synonyms

Ezdîkî

Questions

What does yazidi mean?: A member of an endogamous, largely Kurmanji-speaking ethnoreligious group which practices Yazidism and is natively concentrated mostly in Syria, Iraq, and the Caucasus.
Where does yazidi come from?: It is traced to Arabic.

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