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zayat

/ˈzaɪ.ət/noun

zayat is a noun meaning “A building in Myanmar used for meetings and religious assemblies and to give shelter to travellers” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled Z-A-Y-A-T, and it appears about once in every 60 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of zayat is zayats.

What does zayat mean?

noun

  1. 1

    A building in Myanmar used for meetings and religious assemblies and to give shelter to travellers.

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

How do you pronounce zayat?

  • /ˈzaɪ.ət/
  • /ˈzɑːjət/

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

Forms of zayat

  • zayats plural

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

How common is zayat?

Zayat appears about once in every 60 million words in written English, the 243,301st 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).

Where does zayat come from?

From Burmese ဇရပ် (ja.rap).

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