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Subject: word search-foreign language
Category: Reference, Education and News > General Reference
Asked by: infernos-ga
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Posted: 26 Jun 2003 12:15 PDT
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Question ID: 222095
Does the word "nusrahl" or the name or phrase "Mesa Nusrahl" exist in any language?
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Subject: Re: word search-foreign language
Answered By: gwagner-ga on 26 Jun 2003 12:59 PDT
 
Dear Infernos,
 
Thanks for your interesting question. As you probably know, it is of
course extremely difficult to prove with 100% certainty that this word
does not exist in any language. However, I am fairly certain that
neither "nusrahl" nor the phrase "Mesa Nusrahl" exist, at least in any
language with written records using the Latin script. Here's how I
came to that conclusion:

First of all, neither the word nor the phrase appear in any of the 3
Billion webpages indexed by Google. Searching for "nusrahl" does not
return any webpages:

://www.google.com/search?q=nusrahl

That alone is already a pretty good indication that the word does not
exist in this spelling. I then searched all of the 18 dictionaries on

http://dictionaries.travlang.com/

for this word and again, no result. Lastly, I searched the Library of
Congress's Global Gateway,

http://international.loc.gov/intldl/intldlhome.html

and its general index of books,

http://catalog.loc.gov/

which includes the largest collection of books in the world. Again, no
luck.

That said, I included the disclaimer above concerning the Latin
script, since it might be the case that this word is a phonetic
translation from a different script, which makes it more difficult to
track down. For example, the word "nusral" seems to exist both as a
last name and possibly also as a word. There are at least three
people, who have the name Nusral, as seen as by this Google search:
 
://www.google.com/search?q=Nusral
 
Please let me know if you have any reason to believe that "Nusral" is
a possible spelling. If so, I'd be happy to do a few further searches.
If not, I am fairly confident to answer your question with a No, the
word or phrase does not exist in any language.
 
Best wishes,
gwagner-ga

Clarification of Answer by gwagner-ga on 26 Jun 2003 23:08 PDT
Hi,

Just wanted to make sure you see pinkfreud's comment below: "Nusrah"
is an Arabic word.

gwagner-ga
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Subject: Re: word search-foreign language
From: pinkfreud-ga on 26 Jun 2003 14:11 PDT
 
"Nusrah" is a word in Arabic (meaning "support"), and is also a name.

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