SAMARRA

  

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SAMARRA

Definition: SAMARRA

SAMARRA

Noun

1. See Simar.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

"SAMARRA" is a common misspelling or typo for: Samara, Samaria.

Commercial Usage: SAMARRA

DomainTitle

Books

  • Appointment in Samarra ; BUtterfield 8 ; Hope of heaven (reference)

  • Jackals of Samarra (reference)

  • Last Seen in Samarra (A Red Badge Novel of Suspense) (reference)

  • The Breaking of a Thousand Swords: A History of the Turkish Military of Samarra (200-275 Ah/815-889 Ce) (Suny Series in Medieval Middle East History (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Specialty Definition: Samarra

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Samarra is a town of about 201,700 inhabitants (2002), located on the east bank of Tigris, in the province of Salah ad Din in Iraq, 125 km north of Baghdad.

Samarra was one of the largest cities of ancient times. Sites of interest include the "Great Mosque" with its special sprial minaret, built in 847 when Samarra was capital of the Muslim world for 56 years in the 9th century.

External links

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Samarra."

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Usage Frequency: SAMARRA

"SAMARRA" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "SAMARRA" is used about 2 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (proper)100%2245,945

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Cities: SAMARRA


1. Samarra , Iraq
Location: 34.12 North, 43.52 East
Population (2000 estimate): 77190
Time Zone: 3 GMT
Country: Iraq

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: SAMARRA

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

appointment in samarra

11

samarra

7

iraq samarra

7

mosque samarra

3

great mosque samarra

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: SAMARRA

Language Translations for "samarra"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Pig Latin

  

amarrasay.(various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "SAMARRA"

Words rhyming with "SAMARRA" (pronounced 'Sa*mar"ra'): Abracadabra, Acciaccatura, Amphineura, Angora, Anisopleura, Anoplura, Anura, Appoggiatura, Arara, Arthropleura, Asura, Aura, Aurora, Brachyura, Branchiura, Bravura, Caelatura, Caesura, Camorra, Capibara, Capybara, Caracara, Cesura, Chara, Chelura, Chikara, Chimaera, Chimera, Cinura, Cora, Crantara, Damara, Datura, Dulcamara, Dura, Durra, Endopleura, Epeira, ERA, Eudipleura, Euthyneura, Exogyra, Eyra, Ferrara, Flora, Gastrura, Gemara, Guara, Haminura, hegira, Ichthyophthira, Isopleura, Laura, Legatura, lira, Lyra, Macrura, Madeira, Madrepora, Masora, Millepora, Mira, Mistura, Moira, Myeloneura, Ophiura, Palmyra, PANDORA, Parapleura, Passiflora, Phylloxera, Pictura, Quadra, Rhabdopleura, samara, Sassarara, Senhora, Senora, sierra, signora, Solfatara, Sophora, Sora, Streptoneura, sura, tayra, Terra, tiara, tuatara, Vara, Vettura, Viverra, Xiphura, Yeara, Zapatera. (additional references)

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Anagrams: SAMARRA

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-a-m-r-r-s"

-1 letter: asrama, samara.

-2 letters: arras, maars.

-3 letters: amas, arms, maar, mars, rams.

-4 letters: aas, ama, arm, ars, mar, mas, ram, ras.

-5 letters: aa, am, ar, as, ma.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-a-m-r-r-s"
 

+1 letter: zamarras.

 

+2 letters: marinaras.

 

+3 letters: margaritas.

 

+4 letters: agrarianism, barramundas, grammarians, mandragoras, margravates, paranormals.

 

+5 letters: agrarianisms, barbarianism, camaraderies, margraviates.

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

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Alternative Orthography: SAMARRA


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

53 41 4D 41 52 52 41

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)

01010011 01000001 01001101 01000001 01010010 01010010 01000001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#65 &#77 &#65 &#82 &#82 &#65

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0041 004D 0041 0052 0052 0041

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

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

53354735525235

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Usage Frequency
4. Cities
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Rhymes
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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