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Date "AKBAR" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1832. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Akbar An Arabic word, meaning "Very Great." Akbar-Khan, the "very great Khan," is applied especially to the Khan of Hindûstan who reigned 1556--1605. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: AKBAR |
| Specialty definitions using "AKBAR": Alla Akbar ♦ Kingly Titles ♦ Se lim. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "AKBAR" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Indonesian (big, exalted, great). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Allahu Akbar (1959) Der Tiger Akbar (1951) Akbar Saleem Anarkali (1978) Allahu Akbar (1977) Amar Akbar Anthony (1977) | |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Civil Liberties | Iran | In October 2000, Akbar Tajik-Saeeki, identified as the prayer leader at a Tehran mosque, reportedly was jailed by the SCC for signing a petition that protested the continued detention of Grand Ayatollah Montazeri. (references) |
Pakistan | In 1998 a Shi'a Muslim, Ghulam Akbar, was convicted of blasphemy for allegedly making derogatory remarks about the Prophet Mohammed in 1995. He was sentenced to death, the first time a Muslim had been sentenced to death for a violation of the blasphemy law. (references) | |
Iran | Among those imprisoned were Mashallah Shamsolvaezin, the editor of a number of now-banned newspapers; Latif Safari, Shamsolvaezin's publisher; and independent journalists, such as Akbar Ganji, Ahmed Zeidabadi, Massoud Behnoud, Ebrahim Nabavi, and Ezzatollah Sahabi. (references) | |
Economic History | Iraq | Between the green stars written in Arabic: Allahu Akbar (God is great). (references) |
Iran | In August 1989, Ali Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani, the speaker of the National Assembly, was elected President by an overwhelming majority. (references) | |
Human Rights | Bangladesh | According to newspaper reports, Akbar also showed his injuries to the court. (references) |
Political Economy | Indonesia | The DPR, under the chairmanship of Akbar Tandjung of the GOLKAR Party, has vigorously asserted its constitutional prerogatives, including its right to review government-proposed legislation, to question and challenge the President and members of his cabinet, and to provide a forum for public debate and presentation of grievances. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "AKBAR" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 98.04% of the time. "AKBAR" is used about 102 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) | 98.04% | 100 | 32,668 |
| Noun (singular) | 1.96% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 102 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "AKBAR" 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 |
| Akbar | Last name | 1,000 | 14,699 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "AKBAR": Hu-akbar. | |
| 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 |
akbar | 125 | akbar biamila gbaja | 4 |
akbar hasan k sgt | 70 | akbar tami | 4 |
akbar hasan sgt | 25 | akbar sgt | 4 |
akbar hasan | 23 | akbar ahmed | 3 |
akbar great | 21 | akbar emperor | 3 |
allah akbar | 16 | akbar khans mahal taj | 3 |
amar akbar anthony | 15 | akbar al | 3 |
akbar restaurant | 14 | ustad ali akbar khan | 3 |
akbar asan | 12 | akbar hassan | 2 |
allahu akbar | 10 | akbar dr naim | 2 |
akbar hasan k | 10 | akbar emperor mughal | 2 |
ali akbar khan | 10 | akbar travel | 2 |
akbar naim | 8 | ali akbar college | 2 |
admiral akbar | 5 | akbar ali college music | 2 |
akbar font | 5 | akbar nj restaurant | 2 |
akbar skandar | 5 | akbar ganji | 2 |
akbar im na | 5 | akbar pray | 2 |
ali akbar | 5 | akbar mughal | 2 |
akbar asan sgt | 5 | akbar skandor | 2 |
akbar jeff | 4 | akbar king | 2 |
akbar khan | 2 | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: kabar. | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-k-r" | |
-1 letter: arak, bark, kbar. | |
-2 letters: aba, arb, ark, baa, bar, bra, kab. | |
-3 letters: aa, ab, ar, ba, ka. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-b-k-r" | |
+1 letter: kabars. | |
+2 letters: arabesk, barrack, bidarka, tanbark. | |
+3 letters: arabesks, backward, backwrap, backyard, baidarka, ballpark, bankcard, bareback, baresark, barracks, bidarkas, brakeage, brakeman, breakage, daybreak, drawback, grayback, hardback, shagbark, soapbark, tanbarks. | |
+4 letters: aerobrake, amberjack, backboard, backtrack, backwards, backwater, backwraps, backyards, baidarkas, ballparks, bankcards, baresarks, barracked, barracker, boardwalk, brakeages, breakable, breakages, breakaway, breakfast, canebrake, carryback, crackback, daybreaks, drawbacks, frankable, graybacks, hardbacks, jailbreak, karabiner, packboard, paperback, razorback, shagbarks, soapbarks, tackboard, trackball. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 4B 42 41 52 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- -.- -... .- .-. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01001011 01000010 01000001 01010010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A K B A R |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 004B 0042 0041 0052 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3545363552 |
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