OMAR

"OMAR" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "he that speaks", "bitter", "to have a large population", "flourishing", "thriving".

Date "OMAR" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1832. (references)

"OMAR" is a common misspelling or typo for: mar, oar.

Bible

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Crosswords: OMAR

Czech (Omar).

You thought Omar was a stoolie because Sosa said so? (Scarface; writing credit: Oliver Stone)

Garry Halliday and the Secret of Omar Khayyam (1962)

Omar Khayyam (1957)

Sidi Omar (1941)

Omar wa Jamila (1938)

Poetic Justice of Omar Khan (1915)

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Books

• Moments of Truth: Excerpts from the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Explained (reference)

• Omar : A Novel (reference)

• Omar! (reference)

• Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (reference)

• The Prophet, the Garden of the Prophet, the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (3 Cssts) (reference)

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High Tech

• OMAR SHARIF ON BRIDGE (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

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Senior U.S. officers watching operations from the bridge of USS Augusta (CA-31), off Normandy, 8 June 1944. They are (from left to right): Rear Admiral Alan G. Kirk, USN, Commander Western Naval Task Force; Lieutenant General Omar N. Bradley, U.S. Army, Commanding General, U.S. First Army; Rear Admiral Arthur D. Struble, USN, (with binoculars) Chief of Staff for RAdm. Kirk; and Major General Hugh Keen, U.S. Army. Credit: NAVY.

"Right Hand Salute! -- As the body of Lieutenant Commander Omar R. Ford, USN, one of 44 officers and men who lost their lives in USS Oriskany October 26 fire tragedy, is committed to the deep from Oriskany's flight deck during memorial services at sea in the Western Pacific, November 6, en route to San Diego, California. Fire-scarred Oriskany departed Subic Bay, Philippine Islands, for San Diego November 3." (quoted from the original caption released with this image) Note Oriskany's insignia on the light-colored flag, at right, and three destroyers steaming alongside. Nearest destroyer is USS Chevalier (DD-805). Next outboard is USS Gurke (DD-783). Photographed by JOC Dick Wood. Credit: NAVY.

Of past regrets and future fears -- Omar. Credit: Library of Congress.

General view of the Haram or Moriah. El Aksa - Omar - Church of St. Anne. Credit: Library of Congress.

Mosque of Omar / Columbian Co., Ch. Credit: Library of Congress.

Omar, West Virginia. Credit: Library of Congress.

Citizens of Omar, West Virginia. Credit: Library of Congress.

Miners' children on way from school, Omar, West Virginia. Credit: Library of Congress.

Council of War held at Lord Raglan's Head Quarters, the morning of the successful attack on the Mamelon portraits of Lord Raglan, Maréchal Pélissier, & Omar Pacha. Credit: Library of Congress.

Omar Pacha. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Original art by Omar Rayyan. (references)

Civil Liberties

Afghanistan

On February 26, Mullah Omar had ordered the destruction of all statues in the country. (references)

Tunisia

CNLT member Omar Mestiri was detained and released later in a wooded part of Tunis by men who denied they were members of the police force. (references)

Honduras

In April Channel 63 television reporter Cesar Omar Silva was dismissed, allegedly for his critical reporting on the television owners' advertisers. (references)

Discrimination

Mexico

For example, the interim president of the Yucatan State Human Rights Commission, Omar Ancona Capetillo, declared that those suffering from HIV/AIDS should be isolated or quarantined, and that if they would attempt to escape from designated facilities, security forces should shoot to kill. (references)

Economic History

Sudan

Omar Hassan Ahmed al-Bashir. (references)

Afghanistan

Its supreme head is Mullah Omar. (references)

Human Rights

Cote d'Ivoire

On April 10, Sibi Kamagate and Omar Diarrassouba were arrested and transferred to MACA after protesting the outcome of a FESCI election. (references)

Afghanistan

According to press reports, in 1999 Mullah Omar promulgated a decree ordering the Supreme Court and military courts not to interfere with one another. (references)

Colombia

In early May, Omar Yesud Lopez Alarcon, the head of the northern branch of the paramilitaries who is accused of masterminding a number of massacres, escaped from the Modelo de Cucuta prison. (references)

Minorities

Bosnia and Herzegovina

On May 5, approximately 1,500 Serbs, many of them from the hard-line nationalist Ravna Gora Chetnik movement, disrupted a cornerstone laying ceremony for the reconstruction of the destroyed Omar Pasha mosque in Trebinje, in the southern RS. Members of the crowd beat the local OHR representative and a television cameraman in a scuffle that resulted as the Serbs blocked Bosniak and international dignitaries from entering the site. (references)

Political Economy

Afghanistan

Omar headed the inner Shura (Council), located in the southern city of Kandahar. (references)

Gabon

PDG leader El Hadj Omar Bongo has been President since 1967 and was reelected for another 7-year term in 1998. The 1998 presidential and legislative elections were marred by irregularities. (references)

Political Rights

Afghanistan

The Taliban movement's authority had emanated from its leader, Mullah Omar, who carried the title Commander of the Faithful, and from the Taliban's military occupation of most of the country. (references)

Djibouti

The Constitution provides citizens with the right to change their Government, and citizens exercised this right through a generally democratic process in presidential elections held in 1999. The RPP candidate Ismael Omar Guelleh, the designated successor of former President Hassan Gouled Aptidon, won the 1999 election with 74 percent of the vote. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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

Expressions using "OMAR": Omar Bradley ♦ Omar Khayyam ♦ Omar Nelson Bradley. Additional references.

Czech

Omar. (various references)

Pig Latin

omaray

Thai

กวีชาวเปอร์เซีย (Omar Khayyam). (various references)

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

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

Derivations

Words containing "OMAR": biomarker, biomarkers, customarily, customariness, customarinesses, customary, nomarch, nomarchies, nomarchs, nomarchy, oleomargarine, oleomargarines, protomartyr, protomartyrs, uncustomarily, uncustomary. (additional references)

Misspellings

"OMAR" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ammar, Comair, Comark, Domaru, Gomard, Gombar, Hoxmark, Itmar, Mohmar, Mojar, Oamaru, Oamuru, Olar, Olmer, Omac, omad, omars, Omeara, omir, Ommer, omor, Omov, omrah, omrak, Omua, omur, Omura, Omya, onar, Ongaro, Osmiro, Otar, Otmar, Tomar, Tonmawr, Umaru, Umayr, Umir, Zohar. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: mora, roam.

-1 letter: arm, mar, moa, mor, oar, ora, ram, rom.

-2 letters: am, ar, ma, mo, om, or.

+1 letter: amort, amour, armor, aroma, carom, foram, joram, macro, major, manor, mayor, moira, molar, morae, moral, moras, moray, roams, roman.

+2 letters: amoral, amours, armors, armory, armour, aromas, bromal, caroms, carrom, chroma, clamor, crambo, enamor, femora, foamer, forams, formal, format, glamor, jorams, macron, macros, maduro, mahzor, majors, manors, marmot, maroon, marron, marrow, matron, mayors, moaner, mohair, moirai, molars, morale, morals, morass, morays, morgan, mortal, mortar, morula, normal, orgasm, paramo, radome, ramose, ramous, ramrod, ramson, random, ransom, remora, roamed, roamer, rodman, romano, romans, stroma, vagrom, varoom, womera.