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Zabaleen

Zabaleen is the alternative form of Zabbaleen.

Meaning of Zabbaleen

Noun

Zabbaleen (plural Zabbaleens or Zabbaleen)

  1. One of a minority religious community of Coptic Christians who work as Cairo's informal garbage collectors.

Forms of Zabaleen

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Questions about Zabaleen

What is Zabaleen the alternative form of?
Zabaleen is the alternative form of Zabbaleen.

Words near Zabaleen in the dictionary

  1. zabajones
  2. Zabala
  3. Zabala fruit
  4. Zabala fruits
  5. Zabalas
  6. Zabaleen
  7. Zabaleens
  8. Zaballos
  9. Zabana
  10. Zabaniyah
  11. Zabarma

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Zabaleen (page history and authors); Zabbaleen (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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