zumbooruck

Questions about zumbooruck

What does zumbooruck mean?

zumbooruck means "a camel cavalry used in the early modern era by Arab, Afghan, Persian, and Indian armies".

How many syllables are in zumbooruck?

zumbooruck has 3 syllables and divides as zum-boo-ruck 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 zumbooruck?

Close synonyms include zumbooruk, zamburek, zamboorak, zamburak, camel cavalry. 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 zumbooruck a common word?

zumbooruck 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.