trucial
pronunciation
How to pronounce trucial in British English:
UK ['tru:sjəl]
How to pronounce trucial in American English:
US ['trusjəl]
Word Origin
- trucial (adj.)
- 1876, from truce + -ial. Trucial States, the pre-1971 name of the United Arab Emirates, is attested from 1891, in reference to the 1835 maritime truce between Britain and the Arab sheiks of Oman.
Example
- 1. Seven years later , when britain officially announced that it would disengage ( politically , not economically ) from the gulf in three years time , qatar joined bahrain and seven other trucial states in a federation .