Irak

Irak

1. (dated and non-native speakers' English) Rare spelling of Iraq.
   • 1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 41:

     Ben Shohnah relates, that in the year 456 of the Hejira, in the reign of Caiem, the twenty-sixth caliph of the house of Abbas, a report was raised in Bagdad which immediately spread throughout the whole province of Irak, that some Turks being out hunting saw in the desert a black tent, beneath which there was a number of people of both sexes, who were beating their cheeks, and uttering loud cries, as is the custom in the East when any one is dead.

• kira, raik, rika, Rika, Arik, krai, ikra, Kira, Kari, raki

Irak

1. Iraq (a country in Western Asia in the Middle East; capital: Bagdad)

• Irakiër
• Irakkees
• Iraks

Irak m (definite Iraku)

1. Iraq (a country in Western Asia in the Middle East)

   Synonym: Republika e Irakut

Irak

1. Iraq (a country in Western Asia in the Middle East)

From Arabic الْعِرَاق (al-ʕirāq).

Irak

1. Iraq (a country in Western Asia in the Middle East)

• iraker
• irakisk

• IPA^(key): /iˈrɑk/

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Irak n

1. Iraq (a country in Western Asia in the Middle East)

Irak n

1. Iraq (a country in Western Asia in the Middle East)

From Arabic الْعِرَاق (al-ʕirāq).

• IPA^(key): /ˈirɑk/, [ˈirɑ̝k]
• Rhymes: -irɑk
• Syllabification^(key): I‧rak
• Hyphenation^(key): I‧rak

Irak

1. Iraq (a country in Western Asia in the Middle East)

   Irakin tasavalta ― Republic of Iraq

• irakilainen

• Kari, arki, kari, raki

• IPA^(key): /i.ʁak/

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Irak m

1. Iraq (a country in Western Asia in the Middle East)

• État islamique d'Irak
• État islamique en Irak et au Levant

• Erack (obsolete)
• Irack (obsolete)
• Jerack (in Fraktur with a single type J for I and J; obsolete)

Borrowed from Arabic اَلْعِرَاق (al-ʕirāq).

• IPA^(key): /iˈʁaːk/

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• Rhymes: -aːk

Irak m or n (proper noun, strong, genitive Iraks or Irak, plural Irak)

1. Iraq (a country in Western Asia in the Middle East)
   • (Can we date this quote?), Siegfried Auermann, Germanen und Wikinger. Wikingerfahrten, Normanenreiche, Runenkunde, Reinhard Welz Vermittler Verlag Mannheim e.K., page 101:

     Dreißig Jahre nachher fuhren ſie auf Strömen und über Land in das Kaſpische Meer hinein, ſpäter drangen ſie gar bis nach Aserbeidſchan und in das Irak vor.

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   • 1821, Friedrich Chriſtoph Schloſſer, Weltgeſchichte in zuſammenhängender Erzählung. Dritten Bandes erſter Theil, page 82:

     Auch mit ſeinem Halbbruder Mohammed mußte er hernach theilen h); dieſer behielt Aderbidſchan und ihm ſelbst blieb nur die Herrſchaft des Oſtens und die Oberlehnsherrſchaft über beide Irak.

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   • 1824, Joſeph von Hammer, Motenebbi, der größte arabiſche Dichter, page XXIX:

     Motenebbi hatte zwar ſelbst nach ſeiner Trennung von Seifeddewlet desſelben in mittelbarem und unmittelbarem Lobe gedacht, aber er fühlte ſich doch nicht mehr an deſſen Hof hingezogen, und begab ſich nun an den des großen Fürſten der Dynaſtie Bujeh, Adhad-ed-dewlet, welcher die beyden Irak (das arabiſche und perſiſche) beherrſchte, und wechſelweiſe in den Hauptſtädten dieſer beyden Länder, zu Schiraſ und Bagdad, reſidierte.

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• The word is sometimes used without a definite article as in English: Irak, in Irak. In this case, the genitive is always Iraks, for example Iraks Hauptstadt – "Iraq's capital".
• More commonly, however, the definite article is used with the name: der Irak, im Irak. In this case, the genitive usually is des Irak, although des Iraks is also correct: die Hauptstadt des Irak(s) – "the capital of Iraq".
• The plural refers to the Arabian or Arab Iraq and the Persian Iraq.

• Iraker
• irakisch
• Irak-Dinar
• Irakkrieg

• IPA^(key): [ˈirɒk]
• Hyphenation: Irak
• Rhymes: -ɒk

Irak

1. Iraq (a country in Western Asia in the Middle East; official name: Iraki Köztársaság)

From Dutch Irak, from Arabic الْعِرَاق (al-ʕirāq, “Iraq”), of uncertain derivation. Medieval Arabic uses ‘Iraq’ as a geographical term for the area in the south and center of the modern Iraq. Some Arabic sources say that Iraq comes from عَرِيق (ʕarīq, “deep-rooted”), from عِرْق (ʕirq, “root”), while others say it is from Middle Persian's Middle Persian ˀl'k' (/⁠erāg⁠/, “lowlands”), due to historic rule from Iraq's plateau-situated neighbor, Persia.

• IPA^(key): [ˈirak̚]
• Hyphenation: I‧rak

Irak

1. Iraq (a country in Western Asia in the Middle East)

• “Irak” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Irak

1. Iraq (a country in Western Asia in the Middle East)

• iraker
• irakisk, iraksk

Irak

1. Iraq (a country in Western Asia in the Middle East)

• irakar
• irakisk, iraksk

• IPA^(key): /ˈi.rak/

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• Rhymes: -irak
• Syllabification: I‧rak

Irak m

1. Iraq (a country in Western Asia in the Middle East)

• Irak in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• Irak in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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Irak n

1. Iraq (a country in Western Asia in the Middle East)

• IPA^(key): /ǐraːk/
• Hyphenation: I‧rak

Ìrāk m inan (Cyrillic spelling Ѝра̄к)

1. Iraq (a country in Western Asia in the Middle East)

• IPA^(key): [ˈirak]

Irak m inan (genitive singular Iraku, declension pattern of dub)

1. Iraq (a country in Western Asia in the Middle East)

• Iračan m
• Iračanka f
• iracký

• “Irak”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025

• IPA^(key): /iráːk/

Irȃk m inan

1. Iraq (a country in Western Asia in the Middle East)

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Masculine inan., hard o-stem
nominative	Irák
genitive	Iráka
	singular
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	Irák
genitive (rodȋlnik)	Iráka
dative (dajȃlnik)	Iráku
accusative (tožȋlnik)	Irák
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	Iráku
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	Irákom

• Iračàn / Iračánka
• iráški

• Iraq

• IPA^(key): /iˈɾak/ [iˈɾak]

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• Rhymes: -ak
• Syllabification: I‧rak

Irak m

1. Iraq (a country in Western Asia in the Middle East)

• The definite article is optional when referring to Iraq's exonym in Spanish (i.e. el Iraq). In writing, it tends to be preceded by the definite article when spelt with a 'q' and tends to lack the article when spelt with a 'k' although this may vary regionally.

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Irak

1. Iraq (a country in Western Asia in the Middle East)

• IPA^(key): /ɪˈrɑːk/

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• Rhymes: -ɑːk

Irak n (genitive Iraks)

1. Iraq (a country in Western Asia in the Middle East)

• irakier
• irakisk
• irakiska

• Irak in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• Svensk MeSH

• rika

Borrowed from Spanish Irak (“Iraq”).

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ʔiˈɾak/ [ʔɪˈɾak̚]
• Rhymes: -ak
• Syllabification: I‧rak

Irák (Baybayin spelling ᜁᜇᜃ᜔)

1. Iraq (a country in Western Asia in the Middle East)

• kari

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish عراق (“low country along a river, especially the Tigris”), from Arabic الْعِرَاق (al-ʕirāq).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɯːɾɑk/
• Hyphenation: I‧rak

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Irak

1. Iraq (a country in Western Asia in the Middle East)

• Iraklı

• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “عراق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1292