Definitions for giaour

giaour giaour

Spelling: [jou-uh r, jou-er]
IPA: /ˈdʒaʊ ər, ˈdʒaʊ ər/

Giaour is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 85 anagrams from letters in giaour (agioru).

Definitions for giaour

noun

  1. an unbeliever; a non-Muslim, especially a Christian.

Origin of giaour

1555-65; earlier gower, gour Turkish gâvur Persian gaur, variant of gabr Zoroastrian, non-Muslim; spelling giaour French, with gi- representing Turk palatalized g, later taken as spelling for

Examples for giaour

I ran him through and found a giaour corslet under his jacket.

In the following May appeared the wild and beautiful fragment, "The giaour."

The Tornado and giaour, with numerous other steam-vessels, accompanied the fleet.

Is not this princess a daughter of that accursed giaour, that dog of dogs, Hunniades?

Gyre (derived from Gayour or giaour, a dog), “to scratch like a dog.”

“The admiral is speaking to us and the giaour” said Tom, who was acting as signal-midshipman.

I will strike this giaour of a Frenchman in his tenderest spot—his heart!

"Your medicine is good, giaour," she said, with the ghost of a disdainful laugh.

See, too, Medwin's story of "one of the principal incidents in The giaour."

He sent a host of gibbering giaour ghosts to hell while on his way to heaven.

Word Value for giaour
Scrable

7

Words with friends

9

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