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tazias

tazias is the plural 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

Questions about tazias

What is tazias the plural of?
Tazias is the plural of tazia.

Words near tazias in the dictionary

  1. Tazewell
  2. Tazewell County
  3. tazheranite
  4. tazi
  5. tazia
  6. tazias
  7. tazing
  8. taziprinone
  9. tazir
  10. tazis
  11. Tazlina

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