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imambara

noun

imambara is spelled I-M-A-M-B-A-R-A: 8 letters. It appears about once in every 81 million words in written English, the 286,585th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, imambara means “In South Asia, a congregation hall for Shiites to mourn the death of Husayn ibn Ali in the month of Muharram; a husayniyya” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of imambara is imambaras.

How many letters and syllables are in imambara?

Letters8: I-M-A-M-B-A-R-A
In writingabout once in every 81 million words; the 286,585th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is imambara?

Imambara appears about once in every 81 million words in written English, the 286,585th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Forms of imambara

  • imambaras plural
  • imambarah
  • imambargah

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does imambara mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    In South Asia, a congregation hall for Shiites to mourn the death of Husayn ibn Ali in the month of Muharram; a husayniyya.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Where does imambara come from?

From Urdu اِمام باڑا (imām bāṛā) or اِمام باڑَہ (imām bāṛa).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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