sumer

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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.

Scrabble points
7
Words With Friends
9
Letters
5
Pronunciation
/ˈs(j)uːmə/
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/ˈs(j)uːmə/ · /ˈsuːmɚ/

Definition of sumer

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

name

  1. A historical region occupied by the earliest known ancient civilization of the ancient Near East (4th to 3rd millennia BC), located in lower Mesopotamia in modern southern Iraq.

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Etymology

Learned borrowing from Akkadian 𒋗𒈨𒊒 (Šumeru), in Assyriology since the 1870s; compare French sumérien since 1872. Compare Shumer, Sumir. More at Sumer.

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