Definitions for zarebas

zarebas za·re·ba

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

Zarebas is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 136 anagrams from letters in zarebas (aabersz).

Definitions for zarebas

noun

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

Origin of zarebas

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

Examples for zarebas

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

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

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

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

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

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.'

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

Word Value for zarebas
Scrable

17

Words with friends

18

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