Iraq

See also: iraq and İraq

English

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Iraq

Wikipedia

Alternative forms

• Irak (dated, rare)
• 'Irâq, Irâq, 'Irāq, Irāq, ʿIrāq (rare)

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic الْعِرَاق (al-ʕirāq, “Iraq”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɪˈɹɑːk/, /ɪˈɹæk/

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• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /ɪˈɹæk/, /ɪˈɹɑk/, (proscribed) /aɪˈɹæk/

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• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ɪˈɹɐːk/
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /əˈɹɐːk/
• Rhymes: -ɑːk, -æk

Proper noun

Iraq (plural Iraqs)

2. A country in Western Asia in the Middle East. Official name: Republic of Iraq. Capital and largest city: Baghdad.
   • 2007 August 9, “M-16s a step forward for Iraqi forces, says US”, in Reuters‎:

     The AK-47s handed in would then be registered in the database before being redistributed to new units formed as Iraq takes over security control from U.S.-led forces, he said.

4. (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

• Ajami Iraq
• Arabian Iraq
• Iraqi
• Iraqnam
• Iraqnophobia
• Islamic State in Iraq and Syria
• Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant
• Islamic State of Iraq and Syria
• Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
• Vietraq

Translations

country

Abaza: Ирак (Irak) Afrikaans: Irak Akan: Irak Amharic: ኢራቅ (ʾiraḳ) Arabic: الْعِرَاق (ar) f (al-ʕirāq) Egyptian Arabic: العراق f (elʕerāʔ), عراق f (ʕerāʔ) Hijazi Arabic: العِراق f (al-ʕirāg) Aramaic: Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܥܝܼܪܲܩ (ʿīrāq) Syriac: ܥܝܖܐܩ (archaic) Armenian: Իրաք (hy) (Irakʻ) Assamese: ইৰাক (irak) Asturian: Iraq (ast) m Avar: Гӏиракъ (ʻiraqxʼ) Azerbaijani: İraq (az) Bashkir: Ираҡ (İraq) Belarusian: Іра́к m (Irák) Bengali: ইরাক (bn) (irak) Breton: Iraq Bulgarian: Ира́к (bg) m (Irák) Burmese: အီရတ် (irat) Catalan: Iraq (ca) m Chechen: ӏиракъ (ˀiraqʼ) Chinese: Cantonese: 伊拉克 (ji1 laai1 hak1) Eastern Min: (please verify) 伊拉克 (Ĭ-lá-káik) Hakka: 伊拉克 (Yî-là-khiet) Hokkien: 伊拉克 (I-lá-khek) Mandarin: 伊拉克 (zh) (Yīlākè) Czech: Irák (cs) m Danish: Irak (da) n Dhivehi: އިރާގް (irāg) Dutch: Irak (nl) n Esperanto: Irako (eo) Estonian: Iraak (et) Farefare: Irak Faroese: Irak Finnish: Irak (fi) French: Iraq (fr) m, Irak (fr) m Gagauz: İrak Galician: Iraq (gl) m Georgian: ერაყი (ka) (eraq̇i) German: Irak (de) m Greek: Ιράκ (el) n (Irák) Gujarati: ઇરાક m or n (irāk) Hausa: Iraƙi Hawaiian: ʻIlaka Hebrew: עִרָאק / עיראק (he) ('irák) Hindi: इराक़ m (irāq), इराक (hi) m (irāk), ईराक (hi) m (īrāk) Hungarian: Irak (hu) Icelandic: Írak (is) n Indonesian: Irak (id) Interlingua: Iraq Irish: an Iaráic f Italian: Iraq (it) m Japanese: イラク (ja) (Iraku) Kalenjin: Irak Kamba: Iraki Kannada: ಇರಾಕ್ (kn) (irāk) Kazakh: Ирак (kk) (İrak), Ирақ (İraq) Khmer: អ៊ីរ៉ាក់ (km) (ʼiirak) Kikuyu: Irak Korean: 이라크 (ko) (Irakeu) Kurdish: Central Kurdish: عێراق (ckb) ('êraq) Northern Kurdish: Iraq (ku) Kyrgyz: Ирак (İrak) Ladino: Irak Lak: Иракьул (Iraqʼul) Lao: ອີລັກ (ʼī lak), ອີຣັກ (ʼī rak) Latgalian: Iraks m Latin: Iraquia f Latvian: Irāka (lv) Lithuanian: Irakas (lt) Luhya: Irak, Irak Luo: Irak Macedonian: Ирак (mk) m (Irak) Malay: Iraq (ms) Malayalam: ഇറാഖ് (iṟākh‌) Maltese: l-Iraq (mt) Maori: Īrāki Marathi: इराक (irāk) Meru: Iraki Middle Persian: [script needed] (Ērāg) Mongolian: Cyrillic: Ирак (mn) (Irak) Navajo: Iiwááʼ Norman: Iraq m Northern Altai: Ирак (Irak) Norwegian: Bokmål: Irak (no) n Nynorsk: Irak (nn) n Odia: ଇରାକ (irāka) Pashto: عراق (ps) m ('irāq) Persian: Dari: عِرَاق (irāq) Iranian Persian: عِراق (erâġ) Polish: Irak (pl) m inan Portuguese: Iraque (pt) Punjabi: Gurmukhi: ਇਰਾਕ਼ (irāq) Shahmukhi: عِراق (ʻirāq) Romanian: Irak (ro) n Russian: Ира́к (ru) m (Irák) Santali: ᱤᱨᱟᱠ (irak) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: Ѝра̄к m Roman: Ìrāk (sh) m Sindhi: عراق (irāq) Sinhalese: ඉරාකය (irākaya) Slovak: Irák Slovene: Irák (sl) m Southern Altai: Ирак (Irak) Spanish: Irak (es) m Swahili: Irak Swedish: Irak (sv) n Tabasaran: Иракь (Iraq̇) Tagalog: Irak Tajik: Ироқ (Iroq) Tamil: இராக் (irāk), ஈராக் (īrāk) Tatar: Гыйрак (Ğıyraq) Telugu: ఇరాక్ (te) (irāk) Thai: อิรัก (th) (ì-rák) Tibetan: ཡི་ལའ་ཁོ (yi la' kho) Tigrinya: ዒራቕ (ʿirax̣) Turkish: Irak (tr) Turkmen: Yrak Ukrainian: Іра́к (uk) m (Irák) Urdu: عِراق m ('irāq) Uyghur: ئىراق (iraq) Uzbek: Iroq (uz) Vietnamese: I-rắc Welsh: Irac Yiddish: איראַק (irak) Yoruba: Ìráàkì Zhuang: Yihlahgwz

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

• Qira, qari, riq'a

Asturian

Asturian Wikipedia has an article on:

Iraq

Wikipedia ^ast

Proper noun

Iraq m

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

Related terms

• iraquí

Catalan

Catalan Wikipedia has an article on:

Iraq

Wikipedia ^ca

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [iˈɾak]

• Audio (Valencia):

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Proper noun

Iraq m

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

Derived terms

• iraquià

Central Nahuatl

Proper noun

Iraq

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

Crimean Tatar

Crimean Tatar Wikipedia has an article on:

Iraq

Wikipedia ^crh

Proper noun

Iraq

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

French

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

Iraq m

1. alternative spelling of Irak: Iraq (a country in Western Asia in the Middle East)