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dabkah

dabkah is the alternative spelling of dabke.

Meaning of dabke

Noun

dabke (usually uncountable, plural dabkes)

  1. (usually) A folk dance of the Levant.
    • My wife is Jordanian and has family who have lived and worked in Dubai and Abu Dhabi for years. During our time in the U.A.E., we ate with them, drank arak, watched them dance the dabke late into the evening.2026 March 16, Richard Florida, “Could This Be the End of Dubai?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

Forms of dabkah

pluraldabkahs

Questions about dabkah

What is dabkah the alternative spelling of?
Dabkah is the alternative spelling of dabke.

Words near dabkah in the dictionary

  1. dabigatran
  2. dabigatran etexilate
  3. Dabih
  4. Dabinett
  5. dabka
  6. dabkah
  7. dabke
  8. dabkeh
  9. dabki
  10. dabloon
  11. dabloons

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dabkah (page history and authors); dabke (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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