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iraq

UK/ɪˈɹɑːk/US/ɪˈɹɑːk/
nounB1+Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #8,794 of 15,258leans written

Iraq is the Middle Eastern country of Baghdad, between two ancient rivers. Travel to Iraq, born in Iraq, the north of Iraq.

The land between the Tigris and the Euphrates is Mesopotamia, where writing, the wheel and the first cities appear in the record — which makes it as good a candidate as anywhere for where civilisation began. Baghdad was the largest city in the world in the ninth century.

See File history below for details. · Public domain

Definitions of iraq

  1. 1nouniraqA country in the Middle East.B1+

    “Iraq shares borders with Iran, Turkey, Syria, Jordan, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia.”

iraq is a country.

Where it comes from

  1. Arabic

    الْعِرَاق — Iraq

  2. English

    Iraq

  3. English, today

    iraq

Iraq Arabic الْعِرَاق (“Iraq”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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