Definitions for Hafiz

Hafiz ha·fiz

Spelling: [hah-fiz]
IPA: /ˈhɑ fɪz/

Hafiz is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 20 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 24 anagrams from letters in Hafiz (afhiz).

Definitions for Hafiz

noun

  1. a title of respect for a Muslim who knows the Koran by heart.
  2. (Shams ud-din Mohammed) c1320–89? Persian poet.

Origin of Hafiz

First recorded in 1655-65, hafiz is from the Arabic word ḥāfiz literally, a guard, one who keeps (in memory)

Examples for Hafiz

Presently she became aware that hafiz, too, saw the visitor, and was watching him.

“Usually such a bounty is placed on persons who are in hiding, hafiz Saeed is not,” he said.

“The bounty has made hafiz Saeed a global name,” a member of his entourage told The Daily Beast, wishing not to be named.

I must say that I, for one, never wholly believed in the Mysticism of hafiz.

I remember crying my eyes out when hafiz Al-Assad, the father of Bashar, died in 2000.

hafiz also speaks of the Nightingale's Pehlevi, which did not change with the People's.

The founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba, the group that attacked Mumbai in 2008, hafiz Saeed, was the host and master of ceremonies.

Only he despises the verse of hafiz who is not himself by nature noble.

The mastermind of the 2008 Mumbai massacre and head of Lashkar-e-Taiba, hafiz Saeed, make no effort to hide.

We add to these fragments of hafiz a few specimens from other poets.

Word Value for Hafiz
Scrable

20

Words with friends

19

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