h'bad
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
Abbreviation of Hyderabad: a city in Telangana, India.
Example Sentences
- "AFSUR-UL-MULK, Afsur-ud-Dowlat, Afsur Jung, Mirza Mohamed Beg, Khan Bahadur, Nawab, Lie. Col.; K.C.I.E.; er.; C.I.E. 1897; M. Hon. A.D.C. to Nizam of Hyder. Commander the Nizam’s Regular Force, b. Aurangabad (Deccan): o.s. of late Vilayet Ali Beg, Ressaldar 3rd Lancers H’bad contingent"
- "[An] unfortunate development in Indian newspapers is the abbreviation of the names of cities and states to meet headline requirements. Thus, ‘Maharashtra’ has become ‘M’rashtra’ and ‘Hyderabad’ has become ‘H’bad’. A good headline writer must avoid short cuts in writing headlines."
Etymology
Contraction of Hyderabad. The apostrophe character ' separating the first letter of the unabbreviated spelling from the Persian placename suffix -abad with the elision of the initial vowel letter. Compare A’bad.