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Sunnise

Sunnise is the alternative spelling of Sunnize.

Meaning of Sunnize

Verb

Sunnize (third-person singular simple present Sunnizes, present participle Sunnizing, simple past and past participle Sunnized)

  1. (ambitransitive) To make or become Sunni
    • In this regard it must be noted that the PKK operations in Hatay have targeted the Sunni Turkmen that Turkey settled in the province after it was annexed in 1939 in order to Sunnize the region. The bulk of the population in 1939 was comprised of Alawite Arabs as is 10 to 11 percent of Syrian...1997, Akin, “Some Rotten Deals Over the Heads of Kurds that will Boomerang!”, in cl.nahost.kurdistan (Usenet)

Forms of Sunnise

third-person singular presentSunnises
present participleSunnising
past participleSunnised
pastSunnised

Origin of Sunnise

From Sunni + -ise.

Questions about Sunnise

What is Sunnise the alternative spelling of?
Sunnise is the alternative spelling of Sunnize.

Words near Sunnise in the dictionary

  1. Sunninghill
  2. Sunninghill and Ascot
  3. Sunniphobia
  4. Sunnis
  5. Sunnisation
  6. Sunnise
  7. Sunnised
  8. Sunnises
  9. sunnish
  10. Sunniside
  11. Sunnising

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Sunnise (page history and authors); Sunnize (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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