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Sarazin

Sarazin is the obsolete form of Saracen.

Meaning of Saracen

Noun

Saracen (plural Saracens)

  1. A member of a nomadic people from the Sinai near the Roman province of Arabia in the early centuries AD, who were specifically distinct from Arabs.
  2. (dated) A Muslim, especially one involved in the Crusades.
    • We pretend to be Christians, and, from the superior Light we enjoy, ought to exceed Heathens, Turks, Saracens, Moors, Negroes, and Indians, in the Knowledge and Practice of what is right.1764, Benjamin Franklin, A Narrative of the Late Massacres
  3. (dated) A pirate in the Mediterranean.

Forms of Sarazin

pluralSarazins

Questions about Sarazin

What is Sarazin the obsolete form of?
Sarazin is the obsolete form of Saracen.

Words near Sarazin in the dictionary

  1. Saray
  2. saray helva
  3. Saraydarian
  4. Saraydarians
  5. Sarayu
  6. Sarazin
  7. Sarazins
  8. Saraṇaṅkara
  9. sarbacand
  10. sarbacands
  11. sarbacane

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Sarazin (page history and authors); Saracen (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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