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"AHMED" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "more worthy of praise". |
Date "AHMED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1832. (references) |
"AHMED" is a common misspelling or typo for: ached, aimed, amend, amid, armed, ashamed, harmed. |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Ahmed (Prince). Noted for the tent given him by the fairy Pari-banou, which would cover a whole army, but might be carried in one's pocket; and for the apple of Samarcand, which would cure all diseases. - Arabian Nights, Prince Ahmed, etc. This tent coincides in a marvellous manner with the Norse ship called Skidbladnir (q.v.). (See Solomon's Carpet.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: AHMED |
| Specialty definitions using "AHMED": Houssain ♦ Pavilion of Prince Ahmed. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | My name is Ahmed Ibn Fahdlan Ibn Al Abbas Ibn Rashid Ibn Hamad. (The 13th Warrior; writing credit: William Wisher Jr.) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Ani Ahmed (1966) El principe de la Alhambra Ahmed (1998) Mr. Ahmed (1995) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Airman 1st Class Dianne Phillips zooms in on a high-altitude picture of an A-10 aircraft from Ahmed Al-Jaber Air Base in Southwest Asia. (P.; photo by Staff Sgt. James Rush).. |  | Staff Sgt. Brian Smith checks film to make sure it wasn't scratched during processing. Smith's unit, the 9th Intelligence Squadron (Deployed) recently arrived at Ahmed Al-Jaber Air Base in Southwest Asia. (P.; photo by Staff Sgt. James Rush).. |
 | Group portrait of (from left to right) Cuban Premier Fidel Castro, Algerian Premier Ahmed Ben Bella, and Cuban President Osvaldo Dorticós, seated in convertible car in street procession, Havana, Cuba. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | Minister Dr. Ahmed Nazif and his new team quickly prepared a national plan for the development of communications and the IT industry and identified a number of areas for action. (references) | |
Minister Ahmed Nazif has stated that he would like to see more multinational companies come to Egypt in partnership with local private sector companies in the communications and IT fields. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Tunisia | Among them were Ahmed Laamari, Yousef Khedri, and Chokri Gargouri. (references) |
Bangladesh | When Sumon was attacked, a senior journalist, Shafi Uddin Ahmed, tried to rescue him and also was attacked by the student group. (references) | |
Morocco | In early January, Ahmed Marzouki published "Tazmamart: Cellule 10," about his 18 years as a prisoner at the notorious Tazmamart prison. (references) | |
Economic History | Sudan | Omar Hassan Ahmed al-Bashir. (references) |
Djibouti | Ahmed Dini Ahmed represented the FRUD. (references) | |
Oman | His dynasty, the Al Sa'id, was founded about 250 years ago by Imam Ahmed bin Sa'id. (references) | |
Human Rights | India | In February security forces reportedly fired into a crowd of villagers protesting the death of Jaleel Ahmed Shah. (references) |
Bangladesh | In May 2000, several young men shot and killed Iftekhar Ahmed Shipu, owner of a cellular telephone shop in Dhaka, after Shipu refused to give them a free telephone. (references) | |
India | The team also referred to the deaths of Ahmed Khan and Mohammed Ismail Kaloo as custodial deaths, refuting the security forces' explanations that they died in shooting encounters. (references) | |
Political Economy | Djibouti | Opposition candidate Moussa Ahmed Idriss, of the Unified Djiboutian Opposition (ODU), received 26 percent of the vote. (references) |
Afghanistan | Rabbani and his chief military commander, Ahmed Shah Masood, for most of the year, controlled the majority Tajik areas in the country's extreme northeast. (references) | |
Political Rights | Djibouti | The ODU candidate Moussa Ahmed Idriss received 26 percent of the vote. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "AHMED" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 72.85% of the time. "AHMED" is used about 442 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) | 72.85% | 322 | 16,053 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 14.71% | 65 | 41,645 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 11.31% | 50 | 48,117 |
| Noun (common) | 0.68% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 0.45% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 442 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "AHMED" 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 |
| Ahmed | First name Male | 5,000 | 1,000 |
| Ahmed | Last name | 4,000 | 3,288 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| "AHMED" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "more worthy of praise". | |||
| The following table summarizes names related to "AHMED." | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Related Name |
| Ahmad | Male | Arabic | N/A |
| Ahmed | Male | Arabic | Ahmad |
| Ahmet | Male | Turkish | Ahmad |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "AHMED": Ahmed Salman Rushdie ♦ Ahmed Zoki Yamani. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "AHMED": sid-ahmed. | |
| 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-d-e-h-m" | |
-1 letter: ahem, dame, hade, haed, haem, hame, head, made, mead. | |
-2 letters: dah, dam, edh, had, hae, ham, hem, mad, mae, med. | |
-3 letters: ad, ae, ah, am, de, ed, eh, em, ha, he, hm, ma, me. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-h-m" | |
+1 letter: hammed, harmed, lamedh, mashed, shamed. | |
+2 letters: ashamed, chamade, champed, charmed, chasmed, haemoid, headman, headmen, herdman, homaged, lamedhs, marched, matched, shammed, smashed, whammed. | |
+3 letters: ambushed, anthemed, beshamed, chamades, chammied, chedarim, demarche, drachmae, drumhead, dumbhead, famished, fathomed, halidome, hamboned, hammered, hampered, handmade, handsome, handymen, headlamp, headmost, headroom, headsman, headsmen, hebdomad, hematoid, herdsman, homeland, homemade, homeward, machined, madhouse, masthead, meathead, menhaden, methadon, misheard, oompahed, rhabdome, rhumbaed, semihard, shambled, shammied, shamoyed, unharmed, unshamed. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 48 4D 45 44 |
| 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)01000001 01001000 01001101 01000101 01000100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A H M E D |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0048 004D 0045 0044 |
| 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)3542473938 |
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