mameluke

Meaning of mameluke

noun

a member of a regime descended from Turkish, Mongol, and Circassian slaves which ruled Syria (1260–1516) and Egypt (1250–1517), and continued as a ruling military caste in Ottoman Egypt until massacred by the viceroy Muhammad Ali in 1811.

from French mameluk, from Arabic mamlūk (passive participle used as a noun meaning ‘slave’), from malaka ‘possess’.

Information about mameluke

  • It is a name.
  • The plural form of mameluke is: mamelukes.
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Hyphenation of mameluke

mameluke

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 8 chars.
  • mameluke is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

Words that rhyme with mameluke

Luke, luke, Mameluke, craigfluke, fluke, Bazluke

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