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   List of company name etymologies

   Mitsubishi – the name Mitsubishi (三菱) has two parts: mitsu means three and hishi (changing to bishi in the middle of the word) means diamond (the shape). ... The new name was written in katakana with eight strokes, a number that is considered lucky in Japan.
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   List of English words of Persian origin

   The word means Enough, Stop. ... Etymology: modification of Persian balam. a Persian-gulf boat holding about eight persons and propelled by paddles or poles.
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   English words with uncommon properties

   The term cryptozoology means the study of hidden animals and oology is the study of eggs; this implies that the study of hidden eggs could be described as cryptooology, where each o possesses a separate sound. ... An eight-word sequence including proper nouns is: ta (thanks, British), tam (Scottish cap), Tama (asteroid), Tamar (English river), tamari (soy sauce), tamarin (monkey), tamarind (tree), tamarinds (plural).
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   Baptism

   The person being baptized must be at least eight years old. ... Islam requires a sort of washing called Ghusul (Arabic word means washing), similar to Judaic practices mentioned above, which should include the washing of the whole body in special order or immersion of the whole body (submersion), in a river for instance.
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   Left-handedness

   Such long-term impairment is defined as eight months or more. ... In Portuguese, the most common word for left-handed person, canhoto, was once used to identify the devil, and canhestro, a related word, means "clumsy" (sinistro means only "sinister").
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   Longest word in English

   It is comprised of pieces of various words from the world's faiths and means "god within". ... The longest word whose letters are in alphabetical order is the eight-letter Aegilops, a grass genus.
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   Fuck

   In 1983, pornographer Larry Flynt, representing himself before the U.S. Supreme Court in a libel case, shouted, "Fuck this court!" during the proceedings, and then called the justices "nothing but eight assholes and a token cunt" (referring to Justice Sandra Day O'Connor). ... The pronunciation of the word fuck literally means jaw in Arabic.
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   PDP-8

   This did not mean what the word means today (that a lower-level program fetched and interpreted the OPR instruction), but meant what we might now call "bit-banged": Each bit of the instruction word specified a certain action, and the programmer could achieve several actions in a single instruction cycle by setting multiple bits. ... The 8/A added a new set of instructions for handling more than eight fields of memory.
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   Ezhava

   Some historians argue that the word ilavar is derived from Villavar which means archers who were a warrior caste among the Dravidians who ruled most of India, along with their allies Meenavars (fishermen) during ancient times.(Villu, Proto-Dravidian word, means bow) Villavars founded the Chera kingdom and the Chera king was addressed as Villavar Kon. ... In this, a group of eight performers, two each, twin around each other like serpents and rise up, battling with sticks.
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    Fuzhou dialect

    In Qī Lín Bāyīn, the Foochowese is described as having eight tones, which explains how the book got its title (Bāyīn means "eight tones"). ... tă̤h, [thɛʔ5], noun, meaning "money", is from the word "take";

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• List of company name etymologies,
• List of English words of Persian origin,
• English words with uncommon properties,
• Baptism,
• Left-handedness,
• Longest word in English,
• Fuck,
• PDP-8,
• Ezhava,
• Fuzhou dialect