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  • proper noun Emon beach, Kwajalein island, Kwajalein atoll, Marshall Islands.

Etymologies

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From Marshallese em̧m̧an ("(it is) good").

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Examples

  • Emon, University of Toronto, has posted a new essay, The Limits of Constitutionalism in the Muslim World: History and Identity in Islamic Law.

    Archive 2008-01-01 Mary L. Dudziak 2008

  • I had Commander Emon check out your Starfleet file.

    Breakdowns Scott Ciencin 2003

  • Thoko as an assistant director, his cousin Emon as a bureau official and his sister-in-law Josephine Mlotshwa as a senior official.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1998

  • His daughter an assistant director, his cousin, Emon, a bureau official and his sister-in-law a senior official.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

  • Mkhwanazi's daughter Thoko was appointed as a assistant director, his cousin Emon as a bureau office official and his sister-in-law Josephine Mlothswa as an unspecified senior official.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

  • Mkhwanazi, his daughter, assistant director Thoko Mkhwanazi, his sister-in-law, Josephine Mlothswa and his cousin Emon Mkhwanazi.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

  • Akazome Emon, who probably died in the mid-eleventh century, were all ladies-in-waiting in the imperial court.

    Yasunari Kawabata - Nobel Lecture 1968

  • Mother sent a messenger with a letter to Emon-no-Myogu, one of our relatives who served the Princess of Sanjo.

    Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan b. 974? Murasaki Shikibu Izumi Shikibu 1920

  • [Page 131] 1 A daughter of the famous court lady, poet, and historian Akazomé Emon, to whom the court history of the time is traditionally ascribed.

    Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan b. 974? Murasaki Shikibu Izumi Shikibu 1920

  • Wednesday as the passenger train, traveling an estimated 15 to 20 mph, struck the stationary Amtrak train, said Oakland Fire Department battalion chief Emon Usher.

    StarTribune.com rss feed 2011

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