Definitions for scarab

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scarab scar·ab

Spelling: [skar-uh b]

IPA: /ˈskær əb/

Scarab is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 104 anagrams from letters in scarab (aabcrs).

Definitions for scarab

noun

1. any scarabaeid beetle, especially Scarabaeus sacer, regarded as sacred by the ancient Egyptians.
2. a representation or image of a beetle, much used among the ancient Egyptians as a symbol, seal, amulet, or the like.
3. a gem cut to resemble a beetle.

Origin of scarab

First recorded in 1570-80; short for scarabaeus

Examples for scarab

The scarab it must be remembered was in the Egyptian thought, an androgyne.

It was made oval in the form of the base of the Egyptian scarab.

Some figures have the scarab over the head, sometimes in place of the head.

Represented with the head and legs of a man the scarab was an emblem of Ptah.

After the Christian era the influence of cult of the scarab was still felt.

This scarab is a poor thing, give it back to me and you shall have a better.

Hence the scarab was an emblem of the resurrection and immortality.

The scarab Madge knew to be a beetle sacred to the Egyptians.

This scarab was in a ring on the finger of the mummy of a woman.

Into the glisten of a scarab is polished the prophecy of a life.