hizbullah

Other forms of hizbullah

plural

hizbullahs·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about hizbullah

What does hizbullah mean?

hizbullah means "a Shiite terrorist organization with strong ties to Iran; seeks to create an Iranian fundamentalist Islamic state in Lebanon; car bombs are the signature weapon".

How many syllables are in hizbullah?

hizbullah has 3 syllables and divides as hiz-bul-lah under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for hizbullah?

Close synonyms include Hizballah, Hezbollah, Hizbollah, Lebanese Hizballah, Party of God. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is hizbullah a common word?

hizbullah is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.