ABDALLAH

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

Specialty Definition: ABDALLAH

Domain	Definition
Literature	Abdallah the father of Mahomet, was so beautiful, that when he married Amina, 200 virgins broke their hearts from disappointed love. - Washington Irving: Life of Mahomet. Abdallah Brother and predecessor of Giaffir, pacha of Abydos. He was murdered by Giaffir (2 syl.). - Byron: Bride of Abydos. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
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Modern Usage: ABDALLAH

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	Karim Ben Abdallah (1980)
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Commercial Usage: ABDALLAH

Domain	Title
Books	L'agent noir : une taupe dans l'affaire Abdallah (reference) (more book examples)
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Non-Fiction Usage: ABDALLAH

Subject	Topic	Quote
Civil Liberties	Chad	The Chadian Superior Council of Islamic Affairs has long considered that the Faydal Djaria group does not conform to Islamic tenets and had requested the Ministry of Interior to arrest the group's spiritual leader, Ahmat Abdallah. (references)
Economic History	Yemen	President Ali Abdallah Salih was elected by Parliament on October 1, 1994 to a 5-year term. (references)
	Yemen	The head of Islaah, Paramount Hashid Sheik Abdallah Bin Husayn Al-Ahmar, is the speaker of Parliament. (references)
Human Rights	Lebanon	Four persons died in custody during 2000. In January 2000, a Sudanese asylum seeker, Abdallah Juma' Jarkum, died of malaria in Zahle prison. (references)
Political Economy	Sudan	There was no further action taken in the 1999 case of Abdallah Chol, Hassan Abu Adhan, and Gladino (Sam) Okieny, who died as a result of torture while in the custody of military intelligence personnel. (references)
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Usage Frequency: ABDALLAH

"ABDALLAH" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 95.45% of the time. "ABDALLAH" is used about 66 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)	95.45%	63	42,364
Interjection	3.03%	2	245,945
Noun (singular)	1.52%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	66	N/A

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Name Usage Frequency: ABDALLAH

The following table summarizes the usage of "ABDALLAH" 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
Abdallah	Last name	1,000	16,661
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: ABDALLAH

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
abdallah	10
abdallah candy	9
abdallah king	3
abdallah chocolate	2
abdallah abu battuta ibn	2
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Anagrams: ABDALLAH

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-a-b-d-h-l-l"
	-2 letters: ballad, halala.
	-3 letters: hadal.
	-4 letters: alba, baal, bald, ball, blah, dahl, dhal, hall.
	-5 letters: aah, aal, aba, aha, ala, alb, all, baa, bad, bah, bal, dab, dah, dal, had, lab, lad.
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