KUFIC

  

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KUFIC

Definition: KUFIC

KUFIC

Adjective

1. See Cufic.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "KUFIC" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1888. (references)

"KUFIC" is a common misspelling or typo for: cubic, kefir, kumis, uric.

 

Specialty Definition: KUFIC

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Literature

Kufic Ancient Arabic letters; so called from Kufa, a town in the pashalic of Bagdad, noted for expert copyists of the ancient Arabic MSS. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: KUFIC

Specialty definitions using "KUFIC": Kufic Coins. (references)

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Anagrams: KUFIC

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-f-i-k-u"

-1 letter: cuif, fuci.

-2 letters: ick, kif.

-3 letters: if.

 Words containing the letters "c-f-i-k-u"
 

+3 letters: cufflink, stickful, suckfish.

 

+4 letters: cufflinks, fruitcake, jackfruit, stickfuls.

 

+5 letters: fruitcakes, jackfruits, suckfishes, unfrocking.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: KUFIC


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4B 55 46 49 43

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-.-    ..-    ..-.    ..    -.-.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001011 01010101 01000110 01001001 01000011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#75 &#85 &#70 &#73 &#67

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004B 0055 0046 0049 0043

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4555404337

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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