tesem

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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
8
Letters
5

Definition of tesem

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. An extinct kind of dog from Ancient Egypt resembling a greyhound
    “We possess many illustrations of these Tesem greyhounds from the whole period of the Egyptian supremacy, some 3,000 years, and much care must have been taken to keep them pure-bred.”
    “Greyhounds, one of the oldest known groups of dogs, share a common ancestor — the Tesem.”
    “The Egyptians had inherited the Tesem as a sleek sight hound breed that had been derived from early domesticated dogs in Southwest Asia.”

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Etymology

From a nineteenth-century transcription of Egyptian ṯzm (“hound”).

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