mahgrib

Other forms of mahgrib

plural

mahgribs·

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 mahgrib

What does mahgrib mean?

mahgrib means "the region of northwest Africa comprising the Atlas Mountains and the coastlands of Morocco and Algeria and Tunisia".

How many syllables are in mahgrib?

mahgrib has 2 syllables and divides as mah-grib 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 mahgrib?

Close synonyms include Maghreb. 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 mahgrib a common word?

mahgrib 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.