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ABUDAH

Specialty Definition: ABUDAH

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Abudah A merchant of Bagdad, haunted every night by an old hag; he finds at last that the way to rid himself of this torment is to "fear God, and keep his commandments." - Tales of the Genii.
"Like Abudah, he is always looking out for the Fury, and knows that the night will come with the inevitable hag with it." - Thackeray. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Usage Frequency: ABUDAH

"ABUDAH" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 52.38% of the time. "ABUDAH" is used about 21 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)52.38%11106,044
Interjection47.62%10111,207
                    Total100.00%21N/A

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

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Anagrams: ABUDAH

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-b-d-h-u"

-2 letters: baud, daub, habu.

-3 letters: aah, aba, aha, baa, bad, bah, bud, dab, dah, dub, duh, had, hub.

-4 letters: aa, ab, ad, ah, ba, ha, uh.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-b-d-h-u"
 

+1 letter: bahadur.

 

+2 letters: bahadurs, subahdar.

 

+3 letters: subahdars, unabashed.

 

+4 letters: backhauled, habituated, husbandman.

 

+5 letters: unabashedly.

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

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Alternative Orthography: ABUDAH


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

41 42 55 44 41 48

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)

01000001 01000010 01010101 01000100 01000001 01001000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#66 &#85 &#68 &#65 &#72

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0042 0055 0044 0041 0048

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

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

353655383542

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INDEX

1. Usage Frequency
2. Anagrams
3. Orthography
4. Bibliography


  

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