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BISMILLAH

Definition: BISMILLAH

BISMILLAH

Interjection

1. An adjuration or exclamation common among the Mohammedans.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "BISMILLAH" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1869. (references)

Etymology: Bismillah \Bis*mil"lah\, interj. [Arabic, in the name of God!] An adjuration or exclamation common among the Mohammedans. [Written also Bizmillah.]. (Websters 1913)

"BISMILLAH" is a common misspelling or typo for: Basilar, Bastille.

Crosswords: BISMILLAH

Non-English Usage: "BISMILLAH" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Indonesian (in the Name of Allah).

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Commercial Usage: BISMILLAH

DomainTitle

Books

  • Bismillah (reference)

  • Bismillah Khan and Benaras, the Seat of Shehnai (reference)

  • Bismillah und Inschallah : deutsch-türkische Begegnungen (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Music

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: BISMILLAH

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

  bismillah

68

  bismillah khan

9

  bismillah calligraphy

4

  ustad bismillah khan

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Rhyming with "BISMILLAH"

Words rhyming with "BISMILLAH" (pronounced 'Bis*mil"lah'): Allah, Bablah, Delilah, Fellah, Kholah, Kiblah, Mollah, Moplah, mullah, Nullah, pallah, Selah, Wallah, Yalah, Zillah. (additional references)

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Anagrams: BISMILLAH

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-h-i-i-l-l-m-s"

-2 letters: misbill.

-3 letters: alibis, bialis, bimahs, limbas, maills.

-4 letters: alibi, bails, balls, balms, basil, biali, bills, bimah, bimas, blahs, blams, hails, halls, halms, hills, iambi, iambs, ilial, lambs, limas, limba, limbi, limbs, maill, mails, malls, milia, mills, sahib, salmi, shall, shill, small.

-5 letters: ails, aims, albs, alls, alms, amis, bail, ball, balm, bals, bams, bash.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-h-i-i-l-l-m-s"
 

+5 letters: liebfraumilchs.

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

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Alternative Orthography: BISMILLAH


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

42 49 53 4D 49 4C 4C 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)

01000010 01001001 01010011 01001101 01001001 01001100 01001100 01000001 01001000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#73 &#83 &#77 &#73 &#76 &#76 &#65 &#72

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0049 0053 004D 0049 004C 004C 0041 0048

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

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

364353474346463542

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Rhymes
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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