dhourra

English

Pronunciation
  • Rhymes: -ʊəɹə

Noun

dhourra (uncountable)

  1. Alternative form of durra
    • 1846, Julia Pardoe, Miss Pardoe's Complete Works, page 55:
      “Khoja,” said the pasha, slowly, removing the chibouque from his mouth, and looking towards the secretary; “write that Yacob the Jew shall, before sunset, pay an avania to the pasha of one hundred piastres, for selling dhourra within the walls of the city, without authority—now Hebrew, once more we listen.”
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