Iraq

See also: iraq and İraq

English

Flag of Iraq: اللّٰه أكبر

Map of Iraq

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/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ɪˈɹak/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ɪˈɹæk/, /ɪˈɹɑk/, /aɪˈɹæk/

• Audio (US):

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• 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.
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

 

Translations

country

• Abaza: Ирак (Irak)
• Afrikaans: Irak
• Akan: Irak
• Amharic: ኢራቅ (ʾiraḳ)
• Arabic: الْعِرَاق (ar) f (al-ʕirāq)

  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 (fa) (irāq)

  Iranian Persian: عِراق (fa) (erâğ)

• 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 (ʿiraḳʰ)
• 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: Iraki
• Zhuang: Yihlahgwz

See also

• Baghdad
• Appendix:Countries of the world
• (countries of Asia) country of Asia; 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

Proper noun

Iraq m

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

Related terms

• iraquí

Catalan

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

Proper noun

Iraq

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

French

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Proper noun

Iraq m

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

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /iˈrak/, /ˈi.rak/
• Rhymes: -ak, -irak
• Hyphenation: I‧ràq, Ì‧raq

Proper noun

Iraq m

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

Derived terms

• iracheno

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

1. Iraq (a country in Western Asia, in the Middle East; official name: Repubblika tal-Iraq)

Spanish

Proper noun

Iraq m

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