mazar-i-sharif

1. 1.

   a city in northern Afghanistan

   Broadercity

   Part ofAfghanistan

Questions about mazar-i-sharif

What does mazar-i-sharif mean?

mazar-i-sharif means "a city in northern Afghanistan".

How many syllables are in mazar-i-sharif?

mazar-i-sharif has 5 syllables and divides as ma-za-r-i--sha-rif 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.

Is mazar-i-sharif a common word?

mazar-i-sharif is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.