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"ABDUL" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a servant of the powerful". |
Date "ABDUL" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1869. (references) |
Crosswords: ABDUL |
| Specialty definitions using "ABDUL": HAMED. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
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Movie/TV Titles | Abdul Tapang (1968) Tiga abdul (1964) Abdul the Bulbul Ameer (1941) VH-1 to One: Paula Abdul (1992) | |
Song Titles | Blowing Kisses In The Wind (performing artist: Paula Abdul) Cold Hearted (performing artist: Paula Abdul) Forever Your Girl (performing artist: Paula Abdul) My Love Is For Real (performing artist: Paula Abdul) Rush Rush (performing artist: Paula Abdul) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | [Sultan Abdul Hamid's gift to the Army Medical Library]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Play | Caption | Play | Caption |
 | Paula Abdul sounding piece with lots of high keyboard sounds. | | Quick Latin pop excerpt typical of a Paula Abdul style circa 1980's. |
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Business | Companies such as the national oil company, Saudi Aramco; the national petrochemical firm, Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC); Saudi Electricity Co. (SEC); Saline Water Conversion Corp. (SWCC); International Airport Projects (IAP); and King Abdul Aziz University (KAAU) are expected to restart stalled civil projects next year. Most of these projects have already specified chiller systems and orders for some of these systems have already been placed. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Jordan | In 1999 then-Prime Minister Abdul Raouf Rawabdeh issued an order directing government offices to cooperate only with JPA members. (references) |
Pakistan | In July the Bureau Chief of the Hyderabad newspaper Ummat, Abdul Hafeez Abid, was attacked and injured by armed assailants while leaving his office. (references) | |
Pakistan | For example, on April 29, four Ahmadis, including Abdul Majeed, president of the local Ahmadi community, were charged with blasphemy for constructing minarets and the Mihrab of an Ahmadi mosque. (references) | |
Economic History | Iraq | Abdul Salam Arif as president. (references) |
Afghanistan | Abdul Rashid Dostam and his Uzbek militia in March. (references) | |
Yemen | In April 1980, PDRY President Abdul Fattah Ismail resigned and went into exile. (references) | |
Human Rights | Afghanistan | On October 25, Taliban forces captured opposition leader Abdul Haq and two associates. (references) |
Bangladesh | According to a newspaper report, Abdul Quddus of Kishoreganj, remained in prison after 9 years as an accused in a robbery case. (references) | |
Yemen | Musaid's case had languished and he remained in jail because the presiding judge, Abdul Jabar Taha al-Kharasani, refused to adjudicate the case. (references) | |
Political Economy | Afghanistan | In November Taliban forces captured and executed opposition leader Abdul Haq and two associates. (references) |
Maldives | Current Maldivian President Mumoon Abdul Gayoom was elected in 1978 and reconfirmed by referendum in 1983, 1988, 1993, and 1998. (references) | |
Women | Malaysia | Shahrizat Abdul Jalil heads the new ministry and is credited with leading the successful effort to amend the federal Constitution to prohibit sex discrimination and launching a public campaign in August against violence in the home. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "ABDUL" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 96.23% of the time. "ABDUL" is used about 239 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) | 96.23% | 230 | 19,815 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 3.77% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Total | 100.00% | 239 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "ABDUL" 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 |
| Abdul | First name Male | 7,000 | 831 |
| Abdul | Last name | 1,000 | 16,660 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "ABDUL": Abdul-aziz, abdul-'aziz, Abdul-dahab, abdul-hamid, abdul-haq, Abdul-hosn, Abdul-rabur, Abdul-rahman, Abdul-wahhab, Abdul-wakil. | |
| 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. |
Misspellings | |
"ABDUL" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Abda, Abdala, Abdali, Abdiel, Abdo, Abdoulay, Abdyl, Abodala, Adbul, Afdal, Afdub, Andulo, Arduil, Dabdoub, Nabeul, Obdulio. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-d-l-u" | |
-1 letter: auld, bald, baud, daub, dual, laud. | |
-2 letters: alb, bad, bal, bud, dab, dal, dub, lab, lad. | |
-3 letters: ab, ad, al, ba, la. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-d-l-u" | |
+1 letter: belaud. | |
+2 letters: abluted, audible, audibly, baulked, belauds, busload, dupable, durable, durably, ladybug, subdual. | |
+3 letters: absurdly, adumbral, audibles, barleduc, belauded, bicaudal, bluehead, buddleia, bulkhead, bullhead, bushland, busloads, clubhand, cuboidal, durables, dutiable, educable, guidable, kilobaud, labdanum, laboured, ladybugs, laudable, laudably, slugabed, subadult, subduals, subdural, sublated, subnodal, unblamed, undoable. | |
+4 letters: abuilding, ambulated, auditable, barleducs, belauding, bluebeard, blueheads, boulevard, boxhauled, brushland, buddleias, buffaloed, buildable, bulkheads, bullheads, bulwarked, burladero, bushlands, butylated, clubhands, doubtable, dubitable, educables, endurable, endurably, husbandly, inaudible, inaudibly, jubilated, kilobauds, labdanums, lobulated, lullabied, multiband, outbawled, outblazed, outfabled, scrubland, slugabeds, soundable, squabbled, subacidly, subadults, subdermal, subleased, tabulated, tubulated, unlabeled, unridable. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 42 44 55 4C |
| 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 01000010 01000100 01010101 01001100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A B D U L |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0042 0044 0055 004C |
| 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)3536385546 |
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