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Bhutanese

Definitions: Bhutanese

Bhutanese

Adjective

1. Of or pertaining to or characteristic of Bhutan or its people or culture or language; "Bhutanese Buddhists".

Noun

1. A native or inhabitant of Bhutan.

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

 

Specialty Definitions: Bhutanese

DomainDefinitions

Geography

Inhabitant of Bhutan. Source: European Union. (references)

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

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Synonym: Bhutanese

Synonym: Bhutani (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Bhutanese

English words defined with "Bhutanese": Bhutanese monetary unit. (references)

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Non-Fiction Usage: Bhutanese

SubjectTopicQuote

Civil Liberties

Nepal

The UNHCR monitors the condition of the Bhutanese refugees and provides for their basic needs. (references)

Nepal

Since 1991 it also has provided asylum to Bhutanese refugees, who number 101,000. The great majority of Bhutanese refugees live in UNHCR administered camps in the eastern part of the country. (references)

Discrimination

Bhutan

Bhutanese human rights groups active outside the country claim that ethnic Nepalese actually make up approximately 35 percent of the country's population and that the Government underreports their number. (references)

Human Rights

Nepal

On September 19, police also detained a prominent Bhutanese refugee leader in connection with the murder, although that suspect had just returned from an international human rights conference overseas a few days before the killing. (references)

Bhutan

Rongthong Kunley Dorji, former leader of the Druk National Congress (DNC) and United Front for Democracy in Bhutan (UFD), was arrested in India in April 1997, following the issuance of an extradition request by Bhutanese authorities. (references)

Minorities

Bhutan

Since 1994 there has been a series of negotiations between Nepal and Bhutan to resolve the Bhutanese refugee problem. (references)

Political Economy

Bhutan

In 1998 the Government began resettling Buddhist Bhutanese from other regions of the country on land in southern districts vacated by the ethnic Nepalese living in refugee camps in Nepal, which is likely to complicate any future return of the ethnic Nepalese. (references)

Political Rights

Bhutan

The procedures for the nomination and election of National Assembly members state that in order to be eligible for nomination as a candidate, a person must be a citizen of Bhutan; be at least 25 years of age; not be married to a foreign national; not have been terminated or compulsorily retired for misconduct from government service; not have committed any act of treason against the King, the populace, and country; have no criminal record or any criminal case pending against him; have respect for the nation's laws; and be able to read and write in Dzongkha (the language, in several dialects, spoken by Bhutanese Buddhists). (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Bhutanese

"Bhutanese" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 85.71% of the time. "Bhutanese" is used about 14 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)85.71%12101,599
Noun (common)14.29%2245,945
                    Total100.00%14N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Bhutanese

Expression using "Bhutanese": bhutanese monetary unit. Additional references.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Bhutanese

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

bhutanese chat

4

bhutanese stamp

3

bhutanese design handicraft

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Bhutanese

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

Dutch

  

Bhoetaans. (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

butanano, butana. (various references)

   

German

  

bhutanisch. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

utanesebhay

   

Swedish

  

bhutanisk, bhutanes. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Bhutanese

Misspellings

"Bhutanese" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bhutanis. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Bhutanese

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-e-e-h-n-s-t-u"

-1 letter: sunbathe.

-2 letters: banshee, beneath, butanes, butenes, enthuse, ethanes, shebean, subteen, sunbath.

-3 letters: absent, aeneus, bathes, beaten, beauts, behest, butane, butene, enates, ethane, hasten, haunts, hausen, sateen, senate, snathe, subnet, tabuns, tenues, thanes, thebes, unease, unhats, unseat, usneae.

-4 letters: abets, abuse, abuts, antes, ashen, aunts, bahts, banes, baste, bates, bathe, baths, beans, beast, beats, beaus.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-e-e-h-n-s-t-u"
 

+4 letters: inexhaustible, unestablished.

 

+5 letters: extinguishable, habitualnesses.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Bhutanese


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

42 68 75 74 61 6E 65 73 65

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 01101000 01110101 01110100 01100001 01101110 01100101 01110011 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#104 &#117 &#116 &#97 &#110 &#101 &#115 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0068 0075 0074 0061 006E 0065 0073 0065

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

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

367487866780718571

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Quotations: Non-fiction
5. Usage Frequency
6. Expressions
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Derivations
10. Anagrams
11. Orthography
12. Bibliography


  

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