Definitions for zareba

zareba za·re·ba

Spelling: [zuh-ree-buh]
IPA: /zəˈri bə/

Zareba is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 67 anagrams from letters in zareba (aaberz).

Definitions for zareba

noun

  1. (in the Sudan and adjoining regions) a protective enclosure, as of thorn bushes.

Origin of zareba

First recorded in 1840-50, zareba is from the Arabic word zarībah pen

Examples for zareba

In place of a zareba, the traps were set out, but there was to be no rest for the skinners.

The infantry now moved out from the zareba, formed in two squares.

Then they bore to the left, and within half an hour came in sight of a zareba.

If not, we must hold a council, and discuss what we must do to get to the zareba.

He had his left arm broken by a bullet just as we left the zareba.

Accordingly, the zareba was soon astir, and the men bustling about their animals.

In January 1916 the German Fleet is still lurking in that zareba.

"And now for a zareba for the animals," he cried gaily, on the following morning.

Some ten or twelve thousand Arabs it was seen had surrounded the zareba.

Rush on them, then, and slay every living man within the zareba.'

Word Value for zareba
Scrable

17

Words with friends

18

Similar words for zareba
Word of the day