Definitions for giaours

giaours giaour

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

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

You can make 183 anagrams from letters in giaours (agiorsu).

Definitions for giaours

noun

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

Origin of giaours

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 giaours

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for giaours
Scrable

7

Words with friends

9

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