Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

zaza

/ˈzɑ.zɑ/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.52 in modern English

Syllables: za-za
IPA: /ˈzɑ.zɑ/

22

Scrabble Score

4

Letters

2

Syllables

2

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A person who speaks Zazaki, an Iranian language belonging to the Indo-European language family.

noun

Exotic marijuana.

Slang; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"Having grabbed the torch from the first wave of Brooklyn drill's innovators, Fivio Foreign is all about the genre's future. The gravelly-voiced rapper took over the second half of 2020 with his viral hit "Big Drip," whose video has a whole Hennessy-brandishing squad smoking zaza in front of a Shake Shack, of all places — bringing big roll-up-a-Backwoods-on-the-last-car-of-the-subway energy to a part of Brooklyn where the average overpaying tenant probably rides a unicycle to work."
"Top shelf zaza disrupted my circadian rhythm. I have seen the Magna Carta, I've seen the Eye of Horus. I was flippin' bricks for Mansa Musa before y'all even became a type-1 civilization."

Etymology

From Zazaki Zaza.

Word Breakdown

Root: Zaza

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /ˈzɑ.zɑ/
British English: /ˈzɑː.zɑː/

Usage

Inflected Forms

Zazas (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

Zazaki

Synonyms

bhang benj boo broccoli bud buddha cannabis cheeba choof daccha dank devil's lettuce

Questions

How do you pronounce zaza?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈzɑ.zɑ/.
What does zaza mean?: A person who speaks Zazaki, an Iranian language belonging to the Indo-European language family.
Where does zaza come from?: From Zazaki Zaza.

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