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Date "ABBAS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1878. (references) |
"ABBAS" is a common misspelling or typo for: abase, abash, abbacy, abbess, abbeys, babes. |
Crosswords: ABBAS |
| Specialty definitions using "ABBAS": Abbassides ♦ Liesse. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "ABBAS": Abbot. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "ABBAS" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Latin (abbot). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | My name is Ahmed Ibn Fahdlan Ibn Al Abbas Ibn Rashid Ibn Hamad. (The 13th Warrior; writing credit: William Wisher Jr.) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Abbas yolcu (1959) To Abbas (2002) Cicek abbas (1982) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Civil Liberties | Burundi | On March 15, Abbas Mbazumutima, the station's chief editor, also was arrested. (references) |
Pakistan | On August 27, unknown assailants killed a Shi'a Muslim Deputy Superintendent of Police, Kausar Abbas Shah Gillani, in Bahawalpur, Punjab. (references) | |
Economic History | Iran | Iran underwent a revival under the Safavid dynasty (1502-1736), the most prominent figure of which was Shah Abbas. (references) |
Human Rights | Bangladesh | Gunmen from Iqbal's procession fired on a pro-hartal procession led by BNP leader Mirza Abbas, killing three demonstrators. (references) |
Political Economy | Sudan | Abbas was tried, convicted, and fined. (references) |
Sudan | On February 4, authorities arrested, fined, and charged with libel Amal Abbas, the only female chief editor of a newspaper, the Al Rai Al-Akhar, for the publication of an article that accused the governor of Khartoum of corruption. (references) | |
Political Rights | Pakistan | For example, Sarfaz Abbas Khan, the Federal Minister for Refugee Affairs, was accused of purchasing votes to influence one district nazim election in the NWFP; however, the candidate he supported did not win. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "ABBAS" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "ABBAS" is used about 92 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 100% | 92 | 34,282 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "ABBAS" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Abbas | Last name | 1,000 | 18,370 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "ABBAS": Abul-abbas, Al-abbas. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "ABBAS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Italian | abate (Abbe, abbot). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | abbasay aint, ABBA= Padre, Dios. ABBAS, tío de Mahoma.. (various references) | ||||||||||
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "ABBAS" (pronounced ubÄ"s) |
| 3 | -b Ä" s | Bos. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: babas. | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-b-s" | |
-1 letter: abas, abba, baas, baba. | |
-2 letters: aas, aba, abs, baa, bas, sab. | |
-3 letters: aa, ab, as, ba. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-b-b-s" | |
+1 letter: babkas, kababs, sabbat. | |
+2 letters: babassu, babesia, babysat, balboas, baobabs, sabbath, sabbats. | |
+3 letters: abbacies, abusable, babassus, babesias, babirusa, babushka, backstab, barbasco, baseball, beanbags, cabbages, cabbalas, cabombas, gabbards, gabbarts, kabbalas, sabbaths, sabbatic, scabbard. | |
+4 letters: absorbant, babirusas, babushkas, backbeats, backstabs, barbarism, barbarous, barbascos, barbicans, barbitals, bareboats, baseballs, baseboard, beanballs, bilabials, cabbalahs, kabbalahs, sabbatics, scabbards. | |
+5 letters: absorbable, absorbance, absorbancy, absorbants, adsorbable, ascribable, backboards, bafflegabs, barbarians, barbarisms, barbarizes, barbascoes, baseboards, basketball, blackballs, breakables, rabbinates, sabbatical, scabbarded. | |
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