nowrooz

Questions about nowrooz

What does nowrooz mean?

nowrooz means "(Persian) the new year holiday in Iran and Azerbaijan and Afghanistan and Pakistan and parts of India and among the Kurds; comes at the vernal equinox".

How many syllables are in nowrooz?

nowrooz has 2 syllables and divides as no-wrooz 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 nowrooz?

Close synonyms include Noruz, Nowruz. 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 nowrooz a common word?

nowrooz 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.