Definitions for zenanas

zenanas ze·na·na

Spelling: [zuh-nah-nuh]
IPA: /zəˈnɑ nə/

Zenanas is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 72 anagrams from letters in zenanas (aaennsz).

Definitions for zenanas

noun

  1. the part of the house in which the women and girls of a family are secluded.
  2. its occupants collectively.

Origin of zenanas

1755-65; Hindi Persian zanāna, female, pertaining to women, adj. derivative of zan woman; cognate with Sanskrit jani woman, wife, Greek gynḗ, OCS žena, Old English cwēn woman, wife; see

Examples for zenanas

The Khan then returned to the zenana, where Lurlee Khnum met him.

“Now I will tell you something of zenana visiting,” she said.

And with this I made the under-clothing for the palace and the zenana.

A young journalist was requested to write something about the zenana Mission.

But in visiting a zenana I only saw the inhabitants of that one house.

Other interesting conveyances are those in which the zenana ladies travel.

She offered her hand tremblingly, and led Gascoigne into the zenana.

His treasures and his zenana; I may even be able to secure his person.

It is reached through an opening under a block of zenana buildings.

Everybody is asleep; there is no woman here to send to him in the zenana.

Word Value for zenanas
Scrable

15

Words with friends

17

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