| aah | (verb) express admiration and pleasure by uttering `ooh' or `aah' | Synonyms: ooh |
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| alhamdulilah | (noun) An expression meaning 'praise God' in Arabic | - |
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| aliyah | (noun) (Judaism) immigration of Jews to Israel | - |
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| (noun) (Judaism) the honor of being called up to the reading desk in the synagogue to read from the Torah | - |
| amah | (noun) a female domestic | Synonyms: housemaid, maid, maidservant |
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| (noun) a woman hired to suckle a child of someone else | Synonyms: wet-nurse, wet nurse, wetnurse |
| ayah | (noun) (in India) a native nursemaid who looks after children | - |
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| ayatollah | (noun) a high-ranking Shiite religious leader who is regarded as an authority on religious law and its interpretation and who has political power as well | - |
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| blah | (noun) pompous or pretentious talk or writing | Synonyms: bombast, claptrap, fustian, rant |
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| budgereegah | (noun) small Australian parakeet usually light green with black and yellow markings in the wild but bred in many colors | Synonyms: budgerigar, budgerygah, budgie, grass parakeet, lovebird, Melopsittacus undulatus, shell parakeet |
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| budgerygah | (noun) small Australian parakeet usually light green with black and yellow markings in the wild but bred in many colors | Synonyms: budgereegah, budgerigar, budgie, grass parakeet, lovebird, Melopsittacus undulatus, shell parakeet |
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| cabbalah | (noun) an esoteric or occult matter resembling the Kabbalah that is traditionally secret | Synonyms: cabala, cabbala, kabala, kabbala, kabbalah, qabala, qabalah |
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| casbah | (noun) an older or native quarter of many cities in northern Africa; the quarter in which the citadel is located | Synonyms: kasbah |
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| challah | (noun) (Judaism) a loaf of white bread containing eggs and leavened with yeast; often formed into braided loaves and glazed with eggs before baking | Synonyms: hallah |
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| cheetah | (noun) long-legged spotted cat of Africa and southwestern Asia having nonretractile claws; the swiftest mammal; can be trained to run down game | Synonyms: Acinonyx jubatus, chetah |
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| chetah | (noun) long-legged spotted cat of Africa and southwestern Asia having nonretractile claws; the swiftest mammal; can be trained to run down game | Synonyms: Acinonyx jubatus, cheetah |
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| chutzpah | (noun) (Yiddish) unbelievable gall; insolence; audacity | Synonyms: chutzpa, hutzpah |
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| dah | (noun) the longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code | Synonyms: dash |
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| dawah | (noun) missionary work for Islam | Synonyms: da'wah |
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| dourah | (noun) sorghums of dry regions of Asia and North Africa | Synonyms: doura, durra, Egyptian corn, Guinea corn, Indian millet |
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| ephah | (noun) an ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel | Synonyms: epha |
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| fatwah | (noun) (Islam) a legal opinion or ruling issued by an Islamic scholar | - |
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| fellah | (noun) an agricultural laborer in Arab countries | - |
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| hallah | (noun) (Judaism) a loaf of white bread containing eggs and leavened with yeast; often formed into braided loaves and glazed with eggs before baking | Synonyms: challah |
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| hallelujah | (noun) a shout or song of praise to God | - |
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| hookah | (noun) an oriental tobacco pipe with a long flexible tube connected to a container where the smoke is cooled by passing through water | Synonyms: calean, chicha, hubble-bubble, hubbly-bubbly, kalian, narghile, nargileh, sheesha, shisha, water pipe |
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| houdah | (noun) a (usually canopied) seat for riding on the back of a camel or elephant | Synonyms: howdah |
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| howdah | (noun) a (usually canopied) seat for riding on the back of a camel or elephant | Synonyms: houdah |
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| hurrah | (noun) a victory cheer | Synonyms: hooray |
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| (verb) shout `hurrah!' | - |
| hutzpah | (noun) (Yiddish) unbelievable gall; insolence; audacity | Synonyms: chutzpa, chutzpah |
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| intifadah | (noun) an uprising by Palestinian Arabs (in both the Gaza Strip and the West Bank) against Israel in the late 1980s and again in 2000 | Synonyms: intifada |
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| jonah | (noun) a person believed to bring bad luck to those around him | Synonyms: jinx |
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| kabbalah | (noun) an esoteric or occult matter resembling the Kabbalah that is traditionally secret | Synonyms: cabala, cabbala, cabbalah, kabala, kabbala, qabala, qabalah |
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| kasbah | (noun) an older or native quarter of many cities in northern Africa; the quarter in which the citadel is located | Synonyms: casbah |
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| khalifah | (noun) the civil and religious leader of a Muslim state considered to be a representative of Allah on earth | Synonyms: calif, caliph, kalif, kaliph, khalif |
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| lah | (noun) the syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization | Synonyms: la |
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| loofah | (noun) the loofah climber that has cylindrical fruit | Synonyms: Luffa cylindrica, vegetable sponge |
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| (noun) the dried fibrous part of the fruit of a plant of the genus Luffa; used as a washing sponge or strainer | Synonyms: loofa, loufah sponge, luffa |
| madrasah | (noun) Muslim schools in Bangladesh and Pakistan | Synonyms: madrasa |
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| maharajah | (noun) a great raja; a Hindu prince or king in India ranking above a raja | Synonyms: maharaja |
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| mastabah | (noun) an ancient Egyptian mud-brick tomb with a rectangular base and sloping sides and flat roof | Synonyms: mastaba |
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| matzah | (noun) brittle flat bread eaten at Passover | Synonyms: matzo, matzoh, unleavened bread |
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| megillah | (noun) (Yiddish) a long boring tediously detailed account | - |
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| menorah | (noun) (Judaism) a candelabrum with nine branches; used during the Hanukkah festival | - |
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| messiah | (noun) any expected deliverer | Synonyms: christ |
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| mezuzah | (noun) religious texts from Deuteronomy inscribed on parchment and rolled up in a case that is attached to the doorframe of many Jewish households in accordance with Jewish law | Synonyms: mezuza |
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| mikvah | (noun) (Hebrew) a ritual purification and cleansing bath that Orthodox Jews take on certain occasions (as before Sabbath or after menstruation) | - |
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| minah | (noun) tropical Asian starlings | Synonyms: mina, myna, myna bird, mynah, mynah bird |
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| mishpachah | (noun) (Yiddish) the entire family network of relatives by blood or marriage (and sometimes close friends) | Synonyms: mishpocha |
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| mitsvah | (noun) (Judaism) a good deed performed out of religious duty | Synonyms: mitzvah |
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| (noun) (Judaism) a precept or commandment of the Jewish law | Synonyms: mitzvah |
| mitzvah | (noun) (Judaism) a good deed performed out of religious duty | Synonyms: mitsvah |
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| (noun) (Judaism) a precept or commandment of the Jewish law | Synonyms: mitsvah |
| moolah | (noun) informal terms for money | Synonyms: boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, loot, lucre, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum |
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| mynah | (noun) tropical Asian starlings | Synonyms: mina, minah, myna, myna bird, mynah bird |
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| nullah | (noun) a ravine or gully in southern Asia | - |
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| numdah | (noun) an embroidered rug made from a coarse Indian felt | Synonyms: nammad, numdah rug |
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| obeah | (noun) a religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery; practiced in parts of the West Indies and tropical Americas | Synonyms: obi |
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| (noun) (West Indies) followers of a religious system involving witchcraft and sorcery | Synonyms: obi |
| opah | (noun) large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean | Synonyms: Lampris regius, moonfish |
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| pariah | (noun) a person who is rejected (from society or home) | Synonyms: castaway, Ishmael, outcast |
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| punkah | (noun) a large fan consisting of a frame covered with canvas that is suspended from the ceiling; used in India for circulating air in a room | - |
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| purdah | (noun) a screen used in India to separate women from men or strangers | - |
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| (noun) the traditional Hindu or Muslim system of keeping women secluded | Synonyms: sex segregation |
| (noun) a state of social isolation | Synonyms: solitude |
| qabalah | (noun) an esoteric or occult matter resembling the Kabbalah that is traditionally secret | Synonyms: cabala, cabbala, cabbalah, kabala, kabbala, kabbalah, qabala |
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| rajah | (noun) a prince or king in India | Synonyms: raja |
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| rugulah | (noun) pastry made with a cream cheese dough and different fillings (as raisins and walnuts and cinnamon or chocolate and walnut and apricot preserves) | Synonyms: rugelach, ruggelach |
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| rupiah | (noun) the basic unit of money in Indonesia; equal to 100 sen | - |
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| salaah | (noun) the second pillar of Islam is prayer; a prescribed liturgy performed five times a day (preferably in a mosque) and oriented toward Mecca | Synonyms: salaat, salah, salat |
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| salah | (noun) the second pillar of Islam is prayer; a prescribed liturgy performed five times a day (preferably in a mosque) and oriented toward Mecca | Synonyms: salaah, salaat, salat |
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| savannah | (noun) a flat grassland in tropical or subtropical regions | Synonyms: savanna |
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| shahadah | (noun) the first pillar of Islam is an affirmation of faith | - |
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| shariah | (noun) the code of law derived from the Koran and from the teachings and example of Mohammed | Synonyms: Islamic law, sharia, sharia law, shariah law |
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| shibah | (noun) (Judaism) a period of seven days of mourning after the death of close relative | Synonyms: shiva, shivah |
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| shillalah | (noun) a cudgel made of hardwood (usually oak or blackthorn) | Synonyms: shillelagh |
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| shittah | (noun) source of a wood mentioned frequently in the Bible; probably a species of genus Acacia | Synonyms: shittah tree |
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| shivah | (noun) (Judaism) a period of seven days of mourning after the death of close relative | Synonyms: shibah, shiva |
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| sirrah | (noun) formerly a contemptuous term of address to an inferior man or boy; often used in anger | - |
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| terefah | (adjective) not conforming to dietary laws | Synonyms: nonkosher, tref |
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| tussah | (noun) oriental moth that produces brownish silk | Synonyms: Antheraea mylitta, tusseh, tusser, tussore, tussur |
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| verandah | (noun) a porch along the outside of a building (sometimes partly enclosed) | Synonyms: gallery, veranda |
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| wallah | (noun) usually in combination: person in charge of or employed at a particular thing | - |
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| waratah | (noun) tall shrub of eastern Australia having oblanceolate to obovate leaves and red flowers in compact racemes | Synonyms: Telopea Oreades |
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| (noun) straggling shrub with narrow leaves and conspicuous red flowers in dense globular racemes | Synonyms: Telopea speciosissima |
| whidah | (noun) mostly black African weaverbird | Synonyms: whydah, widow bird |
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| whydah | (noun) mostly black African weaverbird | Synonyms: whidah, widow bird |
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| yeah | (adverb) not only so, but | Synonyms: yea |
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| yeshivah | (noun) an academy for the advanced study of Jewish texts (primarily the Talmud) | Synonyms: yeshiva |
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