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Definition: Qatar |
QatarNoun1. An Arab country on the peninsula of Qatar; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1971; the economy is dominated by oil. 2. A peninsula extending northward from the Arabian mainland into the Persian Gulf. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| 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 |
| QA | Danish | Staten Qatar | Geography |
| QA | Dutch | Staat Qatar | Geography |
| QA | English | State of Qatar | Geography |
| QA | French | État du Qatar | Geography, Law |
| QA | Italian | Stato del Qatar | Geography |
| QA | Spanish | Estado de Qatar | Geography |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: QatarSynonyms: Katar (n), Katar Peninsula (n), Qatar Peninsula (n), State of Katar (n), State of Qatar (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Qatar |
| English words defined with "Qatar": Bida ♦ capital of Qatar ♦ Doha ♦ El Beda ♦ Katar, Katari ♦ Qatari, Qatari monetary unit, Qatari riyal ♦ riyal ♦ State of Katar, State of Qatar. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Qatar": QA. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Qatar" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Italian (Qatar). |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | ![]() | 379th Air Expeditionary Wing, Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | The Kingdom accounts for about 65% of total imports to the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) market, which includes Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, and Saudi Arabia. (references) | |
As the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries, which include Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman, Bahrain, and the United Arab Emirates, begin to integrate into a common customs group, the tariffs across GCC borders will most likely decrease or be removed for items made in any one of these countries. (references) | ||
The SGH tender is a six-country annual request for laboratory supplies and diagnostic products, whereby foreign pre-qualified companies are invited to bid for the supply of various laboratory items to the Ministries of Health of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman, Bahrain, and the United Arab Emirates. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Mauritania | Unlike in the previous year, the Government did not pressure Radio France International to discontinue its broadcasts or the Government of Qatar to discontinue its Al-Jazeera broadcast to the country following the transmission of several programs highly critical of the Government. (references) |
Economic History | Qatar | Qatar is politically stable. (references) |
Qatar | Personal income tax: Nonexistent in Qatar. (references) | |
Political Economy | Qatar | Qatar, an Arab state on the Persian Gulf, is a monarchy with no constitution or political parties. (references) |
Qatar | A strong supporter of a just and durable peace and economic development in the Middle East, Qatar publicly opposes terrorism and extremism of any kind. (references) | |
Qatar | Some women have been appointed to leading Government positions at the Undersecretary and Professor levels in the Ministry of Education and the state-owned Qatar University. (references) | |
Trade | Qatar | There is no deposit insurance scheme in Qatar. (references) |
Qatar | Qatar enforces shelf life standards for about 75 food products. (references) | |
Qatar | The development of Qatar's North Field dominates all projects in Qatar. (references) | |
Travel | Qatar | Qatar is no exception. (references) |
Qatar | Qatar local time is GMT plus 3 hours. (references) | |
Qatar | Officially, Qatar uses the Gregorian calendar. (references) | |
Women | Qatar | Females constitute approximately two-thirds of the student body at Qatar University. (references) |
Worker Rights | Sri Lanka | Boys are trafficked to the Middle East (primarily Qatar and the United Arab Emirates) as camel jockeys. (references) |
Pakistan | There are approximately 1,000 such children in Qatar, and there are reports of such children in Saudi Arabia. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Qatar" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Qatar" is used about 112 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% | 112 | 30,646 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "Qatar": capital of qatar ♦ Qatar Peninsula ♦ state of qatar. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "Qatar": Bahrain-qatar. | |
| 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 |
qatar | 1,255 | banking business education government health hosting hotel insurance qatar retail web | 14 |
doha qatar | 739 | qatar telecom | 12 |
qatar airway | 219 | bank commercial qatar | 11 |
qatar airline | 78 | bank national qatar | 11 |
qatar map | 78 | qatar weather | 11 |
qatar hotel | 77 | foundation qatar | 11 |
petroleum qatar | 75 | qatar ruler | 10 |
al qatar wakrah | 45 | government qatar | 10 |
ar qatar rayyan | 33 | qatar visa | 10 |
qatar university | 31 | qatar information | 9 |
in job qatar | 29 | gas qatar | 9 |
embassy qatar | 28 | football qatar | 9 |
job qatar | 26 | qatar tv | 9 |
capital qatar | 25 | bush qatar | 8 |
qatar picture | 21 | hsbc qatar | 8 |
qatar air | 18 | army qatar | 8 |
air force qatar | 17 | employment qatar | 8 |
news qatar | 17 | qatar flag | 8 |
al qatar udeid | 15 | academy qatar | 8 |
qatar newspaper | 15 | qatar photo | 8 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "Qatar"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 卡"". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | Qatar (State of Qatar, The State of Qatar), QA (State of Qatar), staten Qatar (State of Qatar, The State of Qatar). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | Katar (Katar). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | Kataro (Katar). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | Qatarin valtio (State of Qatar), Qatar (State of Qatar), QA (State of Qatar). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | Qatar (QAT:Doha:Qatar riyal, State of Qatar, The State of Qatar), QAT (QAT:Doha:Qatar riyal, State of Qatar), QA (QAT:Doha:Qatar riyal, State of Qatar), L'Etat du Qatar (The State of Qatar), le Qatar (State of Qatar), l'État du Qatar (State of Qatar), État du Qatar (QAT:Doha:Qatar riyal, State of Qatar). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Katar (Katar, Qatar (qa)). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | QA (State of Qatar), Κράτος του Κατάρ (State of Qatar), Κατάρ (State of Qatar). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | Qatar (QAT:Doha:Qatar riyal, State of Qatar, The State of Qatar). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 카타르. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | atarqay Catar (attract, clam, collect, court, glean, look for, pick up). (various references) катар (catarrh). (various references) Qatar (State of Qatar), QA (State of Qatar), Estado de Qatar (State of Qatar), Catarro (catarrh, cold). (various references) Qatar (State of Qatar), QA (State of Qatar), Staten Qatar (State of Qatar). (various references) การ์ต้า, ประเทศการ์ต้า. (various references) Катар. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Qatar" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Atar, Fatar, Patar, Qaddur, Qadr, Qalaat, Qalat, Qantara, Qashqai, Qawar, Qitat, Qtac, quatar, Quattara. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-q-r-t" | |
-2 letters: art, qat, rat, tar. | |
-3 letters: aa, ar, at, ta. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-q-r-t" | |
+2 letters: quadrat, quartan. | |
+3 letters: aquarist, paraquat, paraquet, quadrant, quadrate, quadrats, quartans, quatrain. | |
+4 letters: antiquark, antiquary, aquarists, paraquats, paraquets, quadrants, quadrated, quadrates, quadratic, quatrains. | |
+5 letters: antiquarks, aquatinter, earthquake, equatorial, marquisate, quadrantal, quadrantes, quadratics, quadrating, quadrature, quarantine, quarterage, quaternary, reacquaint. | |
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