Iraq
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic الْعِرَاق (al-ʕirāq, “Iraq”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ɪˈɹɑːk/, /ɪˈɹæk/
Audio (London): (file)
- (US, Canada) IPA(key): /ɪˈɹæk/, /ɪˈɹɑk/, (proscribed) /aɪˈɹæk/
Audio (US): (file)
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /ɪˈɹɐːk/
- (New Zealand) IPA(key): /əˈɹɐːk/
- Rhymes: -ɑːk, -æk
Proper noun
Iraq (plural Iraqs)
- A country in Western Asia in the Middle East. Official name: Republic of Iraq. Capital and largest city: Baghdad.
- (historical) An expansive medieval region of Western Asia, including not only the modern territories of Iraq but also large parts of western Iran (the so-called Persian Iraq).
- Synonym: Two Iraqs
Derived terms
Translations
country
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See also
- Baghdad
- Appendix:Countries of the world
countries in Asia (appendix)edit
- Afghanistan
- Armenia
- Azerbaijan
- Bahrain
- Bangladesh
- Bhutan
- Brunei
- Cambodia
- China
- Cyprus
- East Timor
- Georgia
- India
- Indonesia
- Iran
- Iraq
- Israel
- Japan
- Jordan
- Kazakhstan
- Kuwait
- Kyrgyzstan
- Laos
- Lebanon
- Malaysia
- Maldives
- Mongolia
- Myanmar
- Nepal
- North Korea
- Oman
- Pakistan
- Palestine
- Philippines
- Qatar
- Russia
- Saudi Arabia
- Singapore
- South Korea
- Sri Lanka
- Syria
- Taiwan
- Tajikistan
- Thailand
- Turkey
- Turkmenistan
- United Arab Emirates
- Uzbekistan
- Vietnam
- Yemen
Anagrams
Asturian
Proper noun
Iraq m
- Iraq (a country in Western Asia in the Middle East)
Related terms
Catalan
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Iraq m
- Iraq (a country in Western Asia in the Middle East)
Derived terms
Central Nahuatl
Proper noun
Iraq
- Iraq (a country in Western Asia in the Middle East)
Crimean Tatar
Proper noun
Iraq
- Iraq (a country in Western Asia in the Middle East)
French
Pronunciation
Audio: (file)
Proper noun
Iraq m
- alternative spelling of Irak: Iraq (a country in Western Asia in the Middle East)
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /iˈrak/, /ˈi.rak/[1]
- Rhymes: -ak, -irak
- Hyphenation: I‧ràq, Ì‧raq
Proper noun
Iraq m
- Iraq (a country in Western Asia in the Middle East)
Derived terms
References
- ^ Iraq in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
Maltese
Etymology
Internationalism, ultimately from Arabic الْعِرَاق (al-ʕirāq). The pronunciation with /ʔ/ is probably spelling-based, but perhaps reinforced by a learned understanding that the Arabic ق (q) corresponds to Maltese q.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɪˈraːʔ/
Proper noun
L-Iraq m
- Iraq (a country in Western Asia in the Middle East; official name: Repubblika tal-Iraq)
Spanish
Proper noun
Iraq m
- superseded spelling of Irak, deprecated in 2010 by the Royal Spanish Academy