masr
Not valid in Scrabble
It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.
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- 6
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- 7
- Letters
- 4
Definition of masr
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
name
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Egypt
“The name of Cairo is a contraction of the title given to it by its founder of " Masr-el-Kahira," or "The Victory of Egypt," Masr signifying Egypt.”
“An epithet to its name, misri, indicates Masr or Egypt as its home.”
“Masr, meaning both the capital and the land of Egypt”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Classical Arabic مِصْر (miṣr) which originates from the Ancient Biblical Aramaic [script needed] (miṣrāyim), with the dual suffix -āyim, perhaps referring to the `two Egypts`: Upper Egypt and Lower Egypt. مَصْر (maṣr) is the colloquial Egyptian Arabic pronunciation.
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