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| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Isaf An Arabian idol in the form of a man, brought from Syria, and placed in Es-Safa, near the temple of Mecca. Some say Isaf was a man converted into stone for impiety, and that Mahomet suffered this one "idol" to remain as a warning to his disciples. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
ISAF | French | Force internationale de sécurité en Afghanistan | Military & Defense |
ISAF | German | Internationale Schutztruppe für Afghanistan | Military & Defense |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
| "ISAF" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "ISAF" 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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
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 |
isaf | 105 |
isaf kabul | 9 |
afghanistan isaf | 7 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "ISAF"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
French | ISAF, Force internationale de sécurité en Afghanistan, Force internationale d?assistance à la sécurité. (various references) | ||||
German | ISAF (International Security Assistance Force, International Security Force for Afghanistan), Internationale Sicherheitsbeistandstruppe (International Security Assistance Force, International Security Force for Afghanistan), Internationale Schutztruppe für Afghanistan (International Security Assistance Force, International Security Force for Afghanistan). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | isafay | ||||
Derivations | |
Words containing "ISAF": disaffect, disaffected, disaffecting, disaffection, disaffections, disaffects, disaffiliate, disaffiliated, disaffiliates, disaffiliating, disaffiliation, disaffiliations, disaffirm, disaffirmance, disaffirmances, disaffirmed, disaffirming, disaffirms. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-f-i-s" | |
-1 letter: ais, fas, ifs. | |
-2 letters: ai, as, fa, if, is, si. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-f-i-s" | |
+1 letter: alifs, fails, fairs, fiars, fiats, hafis, kaifs, naifs, waifs. | |
+2 letters: afrits, basify, califs, facias, facies, fagins, faints, faiths, fakirs, falsie, famish, faqirs, fascia, favism, ferias, fiasco, fiesta, finals, fiscal, flails, flairs, frails, fraise, friars, fusain, gasify, kafirs, kalifs, mafias, massif, oafish, pilafs, safari, salify, sharif, sifaka, tafias. | |
+3 letters: affairs, affines, affirms, affixes, alfakis, baffies, batfish, bifaces, catfish, deafish, distaff, fabrics, facials, facings, faddish, faddism, faddist, fadeins, fadings, faeries, failles, fainest, fairest, fairies, fairish, fajitas, falsies, falsify, falsity, famines, fancies, fanions, fannies, fanwise, faquirs, farcies, farinas, farside, fasciae, fascial, fascias, fascine, fascism, fascist, fashing, fashion, fasting, fatties, fattish, fauvism, fauvist, favisms, feasing, fecials, feijoas, fetials, fiacres, fiances, fiaschi, fiascos, fibulas, fiestas, finales, finalis, finials, firmans, fiscals, fishway, fissate, fistula, fixates, flavins, fraises, frazils, freesia, fuchsia, funkias, fusains, fustian, garfish, haffits, hagfish, infalls, infants, infares, insofar, kaffirs, khalifs, maffias, mafiosi, mafioso, maftirs, massifs, mastiff, oarfish, panfish, piaffes, pilaffs, raffias, raffish, ratfish, safaris, salsify, satisfy, sawfish, scarify, sharifs, sifakas, suffari, taffias, taffies, tariffs, waffies, zaffirs. | |
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