nowruz

Questions about nowruz

What does nowruz mean?

nowruz 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 nowruz?

nowruz has 2 syllables and divides as no-wruz 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 nowruz?

Close synonyms include Noruz, Nowrooz. 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 nowruz a common word?

nowruz 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.