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Definition: Dubai |
DubaiNoun1. Port city in the United Arab Emirates on the Persian Gulf. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Dubai or Dubayy (in Arabic: دبي) is both one of the seven emirates that make up the United Arab Emirates on the Arabian Peninsula, and the main city of the emirate, sometimes called "Dubai City" if necessary to distinguish.At 4,043 sq km, it is the second largest emirate, after Abu Dhabi. The territory is located on the Persian Gulf, southwest of Sharjah and northeast of Abu Dhabi, and reaches into the interior. The small separate enclave of Hatta is in the mountains on the border with Muscat.
Dubai became one of the Trucial States in 1853. It joined the UAE on December 2, 1971. It has since become a large and modern city, with an estimated population of 865,000 in 2000. Dubai is also famous for the Dubai International Airport, which is the hub to UAE's international airline Emirates.
There will be an entertainment complex in Dubai called Dubai Land, which includes a theme park. Dubai Land includes the Mall of Arabia, which will be the largest shopping mall in the world. Dubai Land is slated to open in 2006.
History of Dubai
There was a pearl-diving and fishing community at the mouth of Dubai Creek for many centuries, but modern Dubai dates its existence to the 1830s when the Bani Yas tribe under the Al-Maktoum family settled there and renounced allegiance to Abu Dhabi. Successive sheikhs encouraged contacts with outsiders, especially the British, who made Dubai a regular port of call.
Stamps and postal history of Dubai
A post office of British India was opened August 19, 1909. It used the stamps of India on mail, with postmark "Dubai Persian Gulf", until India's independence in 1947, then stamps of Pakistan until March 31, 1948. Pakistan also becoming independent, the British government set up a postal administration for Eastern Arabia and used overprinted British stamps until January 7, 1961, when Dubai issued its own stamps inscribed "Trucial States". (Despite the name, these were only on sale in Dubai's post office.)
The Dubai Post Department took over the postal service June 14, 1963 and the following day issued a series of stamps depicting sea life, views of Dubai, and Sheik Rashid bin Said al Maktoum. This was the opening salvo of a barrage of issue over the next few years; the emirate discovered that stamp collectors were willing to give it money for colored labels with "Dubai" printed on them, and by the time the postal system was merged with that of other emirates, in mid-1972, it had issued over 400 stamps, few of which ever saw usage on mail.
External links
- UAE government official site
- Dubai World Cup, an annual thoroughbred horse race
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Dubai."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| DUB | English | Dubai | Geography |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: Dubai |
| Non-English Usage: "Dubai" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. German (Dubai). |
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| "Dubai Airport" by Martin Manegold Commentary: "Dubai Airport 2002." | "Dusit Dubai" by T. Al Nakib Commentary: "A Dubai high rise." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | The national carrier for Dubai is Emirates Airline. (references) | |
Arab Health 2000 will be held in Dubai, usually in December. (references) | ||
No American carrier to date has requested landing rights to Dubai. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | United Arab Emirates | Dubai permits a Hindu temple and two Sikh temples to operate. (references) |
United Arab Emirates | The Catholic Church, Dubai Emirate's second, opened in November. (references) | |
United Arab Emirates | Dubai Media City hosts a wide range of Western and Arab media outlets. (references) | |
Economic History | Uae | DOHMS manages Rashid, Dubai, Wasl and Maktoum Hospitals. (references) |
Uae | There are 2 Iranian and maternity hospitals in Dubai and Fujairah. (references) | |
Uae | The port of Jebel Ali in Dubai is the largest manmade port in the world. (references) | |
Human Rights | United Arab Emirates | Only the Emirate of Dubai has a public defender's office. (references) |
United Arab Emirates | Dubai prison conditions generally meet international standards. (references) | |
United Arab Emirates | Most prisoners in Dubai are allowed family visits and a number of telephone calls. (references) | |
Political Economy | UNITED ARAB EMIRATES | Abu Dhabi and Dubai, the most prosperous emirates, contribute the largest shares. (references) |
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES | The foreign assets of the Abu Dhabi and Dubai governments and their official agencies are believed to be significantly larger than the reserves of the central bank. (references) | |
OMAN | These visas can only be extended outside Oman, so visitors whose activities keep them here longer than a month face the added expense of a trip, usually to Dubai, for a visa renewal. (references) | |
Trade | Uae | Bank of America and Union National Bank have representatives office in Dubai, while Bank of New York has one in Abu Dhabi. (references) |
Uae | The first free trade zone in the UAE was the Jebel Ali Free Trade Zone, established in 1985 in Dubai and located with the largest man-made seaport in the world. (references) | |
Qatar | Most of the goods imported into Qatar from the U.S. and elsewhere come via the nearby ports of Dubai and Sharjah, both in the United Arab Emirates (U.A.E.). Transshipment clauses serve the purpose of advancing those goods from the U.A.E. to Qatar by land (by truck) and/or sea (by barge). (references) | |
Travel | Tanzania | Air Tanzania has international routes to Dubai and Saudi Arabia. (references) |
Chad | Several small companies offer some domestic flights to some regional cities and cargo service to Dubai. (references) | |
Oman | The Japanese have also captured a major share of the market, independent of transshipment through Dubai. (references) | |
Women | United Arab Emirates | Zayid University, an all-women, state-run university, has campuses in Abu Dhabi and Dubai. (references) |
United Arab Emirates | The American Universities in Dubai and Sharjah, also private institutions, are coeducational. (references) | |
United Arab Emirates | In Dubai Emirate, unmarried pregnant women must marry the father of the child; both parties are subject to arrest for fornication. (references) | |
Worker Rights | United Arab Emirates | A worker in Dubai was crushed to death by a road-rolling machine. (references) |
United Arab Emirates | In April a 7-year-old Bangladeshi boy working as a camel jockey was injured during a camel race in Dubai. (references) | |
United Arab Emirates | For example, three workers in Dubai died after a concrete wall fell on them while they were eating breakfast. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Dubai" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Dubai" is used about 145 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% | 145 | 26,217 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "Dubai": Dhabi-dubai. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
dubai | 2,698 | dubai real estate | 31 |
dubai united arab emirates | 2,095 | dubai visa | 29 |
dubai hotel | 953 | american university dubai | 28 |
job in dubai | 193 | dubai holiday | 28 |
dubai map | 126 | dubai escort | 27 |
dubai job | 118 | dubai government | 26 |
dubai airport | 77 | dubai university | 26 |
dubai police | 67 | dubai chat | 25 |
dubai island palm | 55 | dubai tourism | 25 |
dubai duty free | 54 | dubai travel | 25 |
dubai it job | 53 | dubai municipality | 25 |
dubai picture | 53 | dubai flight | 25 |
dubai tv | 51 | burj al arab dubai | 24 |
dubai internet city | 47 | used car dubai | 24 |
dubai yellow page | 45 | jumeirah beach hotel dubai | 24 |
shopping dubai | 43 | dubai chamber of commerce | 23 |
dubai uae | 43 | computer dubai | 22 |
dubai bank | 35 | city of dubai | 22 |
employment dubai | 35 | dubai media city | 21 |
dubai international airport | 32 | dubai islamic bank | 21 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "Dubai"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 迪拜. (various references) | |
French | Dubai, DUB. (various references) | |
German | Dubai. (various references) | |
Korean | 두바이. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ubaiday.(various references) | |
Russian | дюбай. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Dubai" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Daobao, Doba, Dombai, Doumbia, Dubajic, Dubal, Dubha, dubia, Dubinin, Dubna, Duboc, Dubrao, Dubrav, Dubuc, Dudai, Dumay, Dunai, Dunbui, Dyba, Gulbai, Rubaiya. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-d-i-u" | |
-1 letter: baud, daub. | |
-2 letters: aid, bad, bid, bud, dab, dib, dub, dui. | |
-3 letters: ab, ad, ai, ba, bi, id. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-d-i-u" | |
+2 letters: audible, audibly, daubier, daubing, subacid, subarid, subidea, unbraid, upbraid. | |
+3 letters: abducing, aboideau, airbound, audibles, basidium, baudekin, bicaudal, buddleia, cuboidal, daubiest, daubries, disabuse, dutiable, guidable, habitude, kilobaud, subacrid, subideas, unbiased, unbraids, upbraids. | |
+4 letters: abducting, abduction, aboideaus, aboideaux, abounding, absurdism, absurdist, absurdity, abuilding, audiobook, auditable, baudekins, beatitude, bedaubing, belauding, bodacious, buddleias, buildable, butadiene, dauberies, disabused, disabuses, dubitable, habitudes, inaudible, inaudibly, incubated, intubated, jubilated, kilobauds, lullabied, multiband, rudbeckia, subacidly, unbraided, unridable, upbraided, upbraider, urbanised, urbanized. | |
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