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Date "RAHMAN" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1901. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Civil Liberties | Pakistan | In December 2000, the Government declassified the Hamoodur Rahman Commission Report, which criticizes the conduct of political and military leaders during the 1971 war with India. (references) |
Bangladesh | No progress has been made in the prosecution of the persons accused in the homicide case of Shamsur Rahman, the Jessore correspondent of Dhaka-based Bangla-language daily Janakantha who was killed at his office in July 2000. Sixteen persons, including five journalists, were charged with the murder of the journalist who also was a BBC Bangla Service employee. (references) | |
Egypt | Haidar's book had been the subject of student demonstrations in May 2000. On January 6, the Prime Minister dismissed several Ministry of Culture officials following protests by Islamist members of the People's Assembly regarding three allegedly pornographic books ("Sons of Romantic Sins," by Yasser Sha'aban, "Forbidden Dreams," by Mahmoud Hamed, and "Before and After," by Tawfik Abdel Rahman) published by the Ministry. (references) | |
Economic History | Bangladesh | Ziaur Rahman ("Zia") as strongman. (references) |
Afghanistan | This conflict brought Amir Abdur Rahman to the Afghan throne. (references) | |
Bangladesh | In October 1991, members of Parliament elected a new head of state, President Abdur Rahman Biswas. (references) | |
Human Rights | Bangladesh | In 1995 the Government charged former President Hossain Mohammad Ershad with ordering the 1981 murder of the alleged assassin of President Ziaur Rahman. (references) |
Yemen | For example, in August 2000, members of the Bani Dhubian tribe kidnaped judge Abdu Rahman Abu Taleb, who was presiding over a land dispute case involving the tribe. (references) | |
Israel and the occupied territories | The clashes began following the funeral for 17-year-old Mahmoud Abdel Rahman El-Muqayed, who had been killed the previous night during an attempted arrest by the PA on an operation cell of Hamas members. (references) | |
Political Economy | Pakistan | The Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam (JUI) of Maulana Fazlur Rahman has a significant following among the Pathans of the NWFP and Baluchistan. (references) |
Bangladesh | In 1981, President Ziaur Rahman, an army general (and founder of the BNP) who came to power in the turmoil following the death of Sheikh Mujib, was himself assassinated. (references) | |
Bangladesh | In August 1975, the elected government of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman who was for long the most prominent leader in the nationalist movement was overthrown in the first of a series of military coups followed by military rule, which plagued the country for the next fifteen years. (references) | |
Political Rights | Bangladesh | At that time a caretaker Government was installed, headed by recently retired Chief Justice Latifur Rahman, who became Chief Advisor, in accordance with the Constitution. (references) |
Trade | Morocco | Contact: Export-Import Bank of the United States, 811 Vermont Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20871; 1-800-565-EXIM (3946); Talaat Rahman, Desk Officer for North Africa, Tel: (202) 565-3911; Fax: (202) 565-3931; International Lending fax: (202) 565-3816, or call 1-800-USA-TRADE for the location of your nearest U.S. Export Assistance Center. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "RAHMAN" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 97.50% of the time. "RAHMAN" is used about 40 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) | 97.5% | 39 | 55,036 |
| Noun (singular) | 2.5% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 40 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "RAHMAN" 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 |
| Rahman | Last name | 1,000 | 7,653 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Country | Name |
| Malaysia | Rahman Hydraulic Tin Berhad |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "RAHMAN": Abdel-rahman, Abdul-rahman, Al-rahman. | |
| 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. |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-h-m-n-r" | |
-2 letters: amah, haar, harm, maar, mana. | |
-3 letters: aah, aha, ama, ana, arm, ham, man, mar, nah, nam, rah, ram, ran. | |
-4 letters: aa, ah, am, an, ar, ha, hm, ma, na. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-h-m-n-r" | |
+2 letters: amaranth, chairman, earthman, farmhand, hermaean, maharani, marathon, ranchman, trashman. | |
+3 letters: amaranths, anarchism, anchorman, chairmans, charwoman, farmhands, harmattan, harmonica, maharanee, maharanis, marathons, marchpane, marihuana, marshland, monarchal, paranymph, washerman. | |
+4 letters: aerenchyma, airmanship, amenorrhea, anamorphic, anarchisms, anemograph, chairmaned, chairwoman, cochairman, harassment, harmattans, harmonicas, harvestman, hypermania, infrahuman, machinator, maharanees, maidenhair, maraschino, marathoner, marchpanes, marihuanas, marshaling, marshlands, menarcheal, monarchial, paranymphs, parenchyma, phanerogam, ultrahuman, weatherman. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 41 48 4D 41 4E |
| 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)01010010 01000001 01001000 01001101 01000001 01001110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R A H M A N |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0041 0048 004D 0041 004E |
| 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)523542473548 |
| 1. Definition 2. Usage: Commercial 3. Quotations: Non-fiction 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Names: Frequency 6. Names: Company Usage 7. Expressions 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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