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zabtie

zabtie is the archaic form of zaptieh.

Meaning of zaptieh

Noun

zaptieh (plural zaptiehs)

  1. A Turkish policeman.
    • One of the most striking photographs of the deportations that have come out of Armenia. Here is shown a column of Christians on the path across the great plains of the Mamuret-ul-Aziz. The zaptieths are shown walking along at one side.1918, Aurora Mardiganian, Ravished Armenia, page 10

Forms of zabtie

pluralzabties

Questions about zabtie

What is zabtie the archaic form of?
Zabtie is the archaic form of zaptieh.

Words near zabtie in the dictionary

  1. Zabriskie
  2. Zabriskies
  3. Zabrze
  4. zabt
  5. zabti
  6. zabtie
  7. zabtieh
  8. zabtiehs
  9. zabties
  10. Zabu
  11. Zabul

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Adapted from Wiktionary: zabtie (page history and authors); zaptieh (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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