Noun: razzia
| Singular | razzia |
| Plural | razzias |
Sample Sentences
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A week ago the police started razzias (raids), and lots of gay and not gay people have been taken to the police department off of the main avenues, bars, (gay and not gay), baths, and restaurants. [1984 April 21, Jorge A., “Getting Together”, in Gay Community News, page 5:]
Nouns inflected like razzia
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from French razzia, from Algerian Arabic غَزِيَّة (ḡaziya), equalling Arabic غَزْوَة (ḡazwa, “raid, military campaign”). Doublet of ghazwa. See: French Nouns '
razzia'.