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Definition: Dushanbe |
DushanbeNoun1. The capital of Tajikistan; formerly Stalinabad 1926-1991. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Geography | Capital of Tajikistan. Source: European Union. (references) |
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The city served as the headquarters for Ibrahim Bek, a Tajik leader who fought the Bolsheviks. From 1929, when the city became the capital of the Tadzhik Soviet Socilaist Republic, to 1961, it was known as Stalinabad. A university and the Tajik Academy of Sciences are in the city.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Dushanbe."
Synonym: DushanbeSynonym: capital of Tajikistan (n). (additional references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Civil Liberties | Tajikistan | As before, government officials continued to maintain that Dushanbe was still "off-limits" for refugees. (references) |
Tajikistan | For example, the mayor of Dushanbe has prohibited mosques from using microphones for the five daily calls to prayer. (references) | |
Tajikistan | In April the government announced on Dushanbe television that it would begin implementing a decree requiring Afghan refugees in Dushanbe to relocate to "predetermined" areas by the end of June. (references) | |
Economic History | Tajikistan | Capital: Dushanbe. (references) |
Tajikistan | The embassy can be reached 24 hours a day, by calling either the Dushanbe or Almaty offices. (references) | |
Tajikistan | American Embassy Dushanbe personnel continue to work in Tajikistan on an unscheduled and intermittent basis. (references) | |
Human Rights | Tajikistan | In April a bombing at a Dushanbe market killed 3 persons and injured 11 others; the bombing was believed to be connected to a dispute between Afghan organized crime groups. (references) |
Tajikistan | The OSCE mission in Dushanbe continues to monitor human rights issues with the help of its five field offices; however, these field offices experienced varying levels of cooperation with local authorities. (references) | |
Tajikistan | In May two men from the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Oblast were tried and sentenced to be executed for the killing of former Deputy Minister of Security, Shamsullo Tobirov, in a February 2000 attack apparently directed at the Mayor of Dushanbe; the two men had not been executed pending an appeal at year's end. (references) | |
Minorities | Tajikistan | In December 2000, the Svyato-Nikolskii Russian Orthodox Church and a Seventh Day Adventist Church in Dushanbe were bombed. (references) |
Tajikistan | A Slavic university and a Russian high school operate in Dushanbe with Russian as the language of instruction, but also include ethnic Tajik and Uzbek students. (references) | |
Political Rights | Tajikistan | On May 27, Parliamentary by-elections took place in three districts: The city of Dushanbe and the regions of Khatalon and Sughd. (references) |
Worker Rights | Tajikistan | One such program in 2000 held seminars in Dushanbe, Khojand, and Qhurganteppa for journalists, lawyers, and law enforcement officials. (references) |
Tajikistan | The majority of victims are female, ethnically Tajik, single, aged 20 to 26, usually with at least one child (the children typically come under the care of extended family), and are new arrivals to Dushanbe or Khojand from a rural upbringing with little education. (references) | |
Tajikistan | A report by the Tajikistan Mission of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) issued during the year, estimated that more than 1,000 women were trafficked from the country during 2000. Victims come primarily from Khojand or Dushanbe, and most commonly are trafficked to the Middle East, including the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Russia, other former Soviet Union countries, Turkey, and Iran. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Dushanbe" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Dushanbe" is used about 38 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) | 100% | 38 | 55,818 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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 |
dushanbe tajikistan | 139 |
dushanbe | 20 |
dushanbe hotel | 10 |
chat dushanbe | 3 |
dushanbe house tea | 2 |
dushanbe ru | 2 |
boulder dushanbe house tea | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "Dushanbe"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | Ð"ушанбе. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ushanbeday duchanbé. (various references) Ð"ушанбе. (various references) glavni grad tadžikistana. (various references) Duchanbé. (various references) Ð"уншанбе. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-d-e-h-n-s-u" | |
-1 letter: husband, subdean, subhead, unbased. | |
-2 letters: abused, bashed, bushed, daubes, hausen, sundae, unshed. | |
-3 letters: abuse, ashed, ashen, bands, baned, banes, based, bauds, beads, beans, beaus, bends, bunds, bused, daube, daubs, deans, deash, dunes, habus, hades, hands, hanse, heads, nabes, nudes, sabed, sadhe, sadhu, saned, sedan, shade, shend, subah, usnea. | |
-4 letters: abed, ands, anes, anus, bade. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-d-e-h-n-s-u" | |
+1 letter: husbanded, husbander, sunbathed, unabashed. | |
+2 letters: husbanders, husbandmen, subheading, subtrahend. | |
+3 letters: husbandries, subheadings, subtrahends, unabashedly. | |
+4 letters: househusband. | |
+5 letters: boardinghouse, househusbands, unestablished. | |
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