Definitions for hamza

hamza ham·za

Spelling: [hahm-zah]
IPA: /ˈhɑm zɑ/

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

You can make 29 anagrams from letters in hamza (aahmz).

Definitions for hamza

noun

  1. the sign used in Arabic writing to represent the glottal stop, usually written above another letter and shown in English transliterations as an apostrophe.

Origin of hamza

First recorded in 1935-40, hamza is from the Arabic word ḥamzah literally, a squeezing together

Examples for hamza

In among the gay bars and risqué bookshops, hamza started working on the fringes of the sex industry.

hamza accepted it, with a soft salute, and hid it somewhere in his robe.

hamza would not recognize the East that was in Isaacson, or perhaps he felt the Jew.

He came a little nearer to hamza, stood by the rail, and offered him a cigarette.

She sat down on the divan, and almost immediately hamza came in.

Despite the legal impediment, hamza convinced Traverso to marry him.

“Today we are colonized, and you are colonized,” hamza says.

Ayman al-Zawahiri, Nasser al-Wuhayshi, and hamza al-Ghamdi stayed with him, along with a handful of Saudi guards.

These clerics led by hamza—which means “steadfast” in Arabic—approached us warily, slowly.

She pointed to the small paper packets, which hamza had not yet carried off.

Word Value for hamza
Scrable

19

Words with friends

19

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