urmia

Other forms of urmia

plural

urmias·

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 urmia

What does urmia mean?

urmia means "a shallow saline lake in northwestern Iran between Tabriz and the western border of Turkey". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in urmia?

urmia has 3 syllables: ur-mi-a. The stress falls on "ur".

What is another word for urmia?

Close synonyms include Lake Urmia, Daryacheh-ye Orumiyeh, Orumiyeh. 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 urmia a common word?

urmia 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.