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Balagan

Definition: Balagan

Balagan

Noun

1. A word for chaos or fiasco borrowed from modern Hebrew (where it is a loan word from Russian); "it was utter and complete balagan!".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

"Balagan" is a common misspelling or typo for: Balaam, Balata, Beluga, Bologna.

Modern Usage: Balagan

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Balagan (1993)

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Balagan

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

balagan

13
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Modern Translations: Balagan

Language Translations for "balagan"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Pig Latin

  

alaganbay.(various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Balagan

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-a-b-g-l-n"

-2 letters: alang, banal, lagan.

-3 letters: alan, alba, alga, anal, anga, baal, bang, gala, lang.

-4 letters: aal, aba, aga, ala, alb, ana, baa, bag, bal, ban, gab, gal, gan, lab, lag, nab, nag.

-5 letters: aa, ab, ag, al, an, ba, la, na.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-a-b-g-l-n"
 

+3 letters: manageable, manageably.

 

+5 letters: unmanageable, unmanageably.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Balagan


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

42 61 6C 61 67 61 6E

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)

01000010 01100001 01101100 01100001 01100111 01100001 01101110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#97 &#108 &#97 &#103 &#97 &#110

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0061 006C 0061 0067 0061 006E

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

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

36677867736780

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Modern
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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