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Large ornamental tropical American tree with bipinnate leaves and globose clusters of flowers with crimson stamens and sweet-pulp seed pods eaten by cattle
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zaman
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Zaman (literally "time" or "era" in Turkish ), sometimes stylized as ZAMAN , is a daily in Turkey . Zaman was a major, high-circulation daily before government seizure on 4th of March, 2016 (the circulation was around 650,000 as of February 2016) It was ...
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n. (taxlink Albizia saman species noshow=1), a large tropical tree in the pea family.
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Word definitions in WordNet
n. large ornamental tropical American tree with bipinnate leaves and globose clusters of flowers with crimson stamens and sweet-pulp seed pods eaten by cattle [syn: rain tree , saman , monkeypod , monkey pod , zamang , Albizia saman ]
Usage examples of zaman.
And thanks above all for kindly ceasing to rape and murder a virgin every night, and for persuading Shah Zaman to cease also!
Shah Zaman looked narrowly at his bride, standing naked beside the bed with her trembling razor, and cleared his throat.
Despite his position Shah Zaman smiled like the Genie through his pearly beard and declared that Scheherazade was right to think love ephemeral.
The mamelukes reluctantly let her go, but left the room only when Shah Zaman, still stripped and bound, repeated his order.
And no man knows it better than Shah Zaman, to whom therefore the second half of his life will be sweeter than the first.
Shahnate has been brought: this my husband, Shah Zaman, who was once Shahinshah of all the Empire of Persia, is now a pigeon keeper and cherry picker!
They were all males, and only the Shah Zaman joined us at the sumptuously laid dining cloth.
The next day I slept late, and so did my father and uncle, for their consultation with Shah Zaman had lasted well into the night.
Again we had our servants dress us in our best new raiment, and again we joined the Shah Zaman for the evening meal, and again it was a delicious repast, again excepting the Shiraz wine.
When I got to my room, the servant Karim informed me that I was to be accorded the honor of dining that evening with the Shah Zaman and his Shahryar Zahd.
It was called simply the Daiwan, from its profusion of daiwan pillows on which sat the Shah Zaman and the Wazir Jamshid and various elderly muftis of Muslim law, and sometimes some visiting Mongol emissaries of the Ilkhan Abagha.
At the palace, the Shah Zaman and Shahryar Zahd were waiting for us, in a room well heaped with gifts they wished us to convey for them to the Khakhan Kubilai.
Shah Zaman said it was from Kashan that he procures virgin boys to distribute as gifts to other monarchs.
Of course, that city was only nominally a capital, and its sovereign Sultan was, like the Shah Zaman of Persia, only a token ruler, subordinate to the Mongol Khanate.
Perhaps you think that I am too old to share her inevitable regret diat her foster parents did not seize die opportunity of subjecting her embryo to die Zaman transformation, but I am not.