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tazeea

tazeea is the archaic form of tazia.

Meaning of tazia

Noun

tazia (countable and uncountable, plural tazias)

  1. (countable) A representation of the tombs of Hasan and Husayn (the grandsons of Muhammad), carried in the South Asian and Indo-Caribbean Shiite processions of Muharram.
    • Gilt and paper presentations of their tombs are borne with shouting and wailing, music, torches, and yells, through the principal thoroughfares of the City; which fakements are called tazias.1888, Rudyard Kipling, ‘On the City Wall’, In Black and White, Folio Society, published 2005, page 437
    Synonyms:
    taboot

Forms of tazeea

pluraltazeeas

Questions about tazeea

What is tazeea the archaic form of?
Tazeea is the archaic form of tazia.

Words near tazeea in the dictionary

  1. tazarotene
  2. tazasubrate
  3. taze
  4. tazed
  5. tazee
  6. tazeea
  7. tazeeas
  8. tazeer
  9. tazees
  10. tazel
  11. tazels

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tazeea (page history and authors); tazia (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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