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Yes. The word sanjak is a Scrabble US word. The word sanjak is worth 17 points in Scrabble:

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6-letter words (1 found)

SANJAK,

5-letter words (1 found)

KANAS,

4-letter words (8 found)

AKAS,ANAS,ANSA,JAKS,KAAS,KANA,KANS,SANK,

3-letter words (10 found)

AAS,AKA,ANA,ANS,ASK,JAK,KAS,NAS,SAN,SKA,

2-letter words (6 found)

AA,AN,AS,JA,KA,NA,

You can make 26 words from sanjak according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of sanjak

sanjak

Alternative forms

  • zanzack [17th c.], sanjac, sancak

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish سنجاق (sancâk, “subdivision of a vilayet”, literally “flag, banner”), from Proto-Turkic *sančgak (“lance, streamer attached to a spear”).

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈsandʒak/

Noun

sanjak (plural sanjaks)

  1. (politics) A district, a prefecture, particularly (historical) a second-level administrative division of the Ottoman Empire. [from 16th c.]
  2. (historical, inexact, obsolete) Synonym of sanjakbey: the officer supervising a sanjak. [16th–19th c.]

Synonyms

  • district, prefecture, county, sanjakship, sanjakate, mutasarrifate, mutasarriflik

Coordinate terms

  • vilayet, kaza, nahiyah
  • sanjakbey, mutasarrif, kaymakam

Derived terms

  • sanjakry, sanjakship, sanjakate

Related terms

  • sanjakbey

Translations

References

  • “sanjak, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 2022.

Anagrams

  • Janaks

Acehnese

Etymology

Derived from Arabic سـجـع (sajʕ, “rhymed prose”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /saɲɟaʔ/

Noun

sanjak

  1. a kind of verse used in national Acehnese poetry

References

  • Thurgood, Graham (1999) From Ancient Cham to Modern Dialects: Two Thousand Years of Language Contact and Change, Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, pages 54-56.

Source: wiktionary.org