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Dunmeh

Dunmeh is the alternative form of Dönmeh.

Meaning of Dönmeh

Noun

Dönmeh pl (plural only)

  1. (historical, plural, plural-only) A group of crypto-Jews in the Ottoman Empire who, to avoid imprisonment after declaring arrival of the doomsday messiah, converted publicly to Islam, but retained their Jewish beliefs in secret.

Questions about Dunmeh

What is Dunmeh the alternative form of?
Dunmeh is the alternative form of Dönmeh.

Words near Dunmeh in the dictionary

  1. Dunlop
  2. Dunlops
  3. Dunloy
  4. Dunluce
  5. Dunmanway
  6. Dunmeh
  7. Dunmere
  8. dunmesh
  9. Dunmire
  10. Dunmires
  11. Dunmore

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Dunmeh (page history and authors); Dönmeh (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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