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5 letters · 5 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun a water wheel with buckets attached to the rim; used to raise water for transfer to an irrigation channel
originFrom Spanish noria, from Arabic نَاعُورَة (nāʕūra), from Classical Syriac ܢܥܘܪܬܐ (nāʿōrtāʾ, “water wheel; growler”), from ܢܥܪ (nʿar, “to roar, growl, bray”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0