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zabtieh

zabtieh is the alternative 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 zabtieh

pluralzabtiehs

Questions about zabtieh

What is zabtieh the alternative form of?
Zabtieh is the alternative form of zaptieh.

Words near zabtieh in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: zabtieh (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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