Iraq

See also: İraq

English

Flag of Iraq: اللّٰه أكبر

Alternative forms

• Irak

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic الْعِرَاق (al-ʕirāq, “Iraq”), of uncertain derivation. Possibly from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Sumerian “Uruk” or “Warka” (Biblical “Erech”) region in the south of ancient Iraq. 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 [script needed] (ˀl'k' /⁠erāg⁠/, “lowlands”), due to historic rule from Iraq's plateau-situated neighbor, Persia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪˈɹɑːk/, /ɪˈɹak/
• IPA^(key): /ɪˈɹak/
• IPA^(key): /ɪˈɹæk/, /ɪˈɹɑk/, /aɪˈɹæk/

• Audio (US):

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  • Rhymes: -ɑːk
  • Rhymes: -æk

Proper noun

Iraq (plural Iraqs)

2. The Republic of Iraq, a country (since 1958) in the Middle East and Western Asia that borders on Iran, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Syria and Turkey, having Baghdad as its capital city.

Derived terms

• Iraqi

Translations

country

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

  Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܥܝܪܐܩ (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)

  Hakka: 伊拉克 (Yî-là-khiet)

  Mandarin: 伊拉克 (zh) (Yīlàkè)

  Min Dong: 伊拉克 (Ĭ-lá-káik)

  Min Nan: 伊拉克 (I-lá-khek)

• Czech: Irák (cs) m
• Danish: Irak (da)
• Dhivehi: އިރާގް (irāg)
• Dutch: Irak (nl)
• Esperanto: Irako (eo)
• Estonian: Iraak (et)
• Faroese: Irak
• Finnish: Irak (fi)
• French: Iraq (fr) m, Irak (fr) m
• Galician: Iraq (gl) m
• Georgian: ერაყი (ka) (eraq̇i)
• German: Irak (de) m
• Greek: Ιράκ (el) n (Irák)
• Gujarati: ઈરાક (īrāk)
• Hausa: Iraƙi
• Hawaiian: ʻIlaka
• Hebrew: עִרָאק / עיראק (he) ('irák)
• Hindi: इराक़ (irāq), इराक (hi) (irāk), ईराक (hi) (īrāk)
• Hungarian: Irak (hu)
• Icelandic: Írak (is)
• Indonesian: Irak (id)
• Interlingua: Iraq
• Italian: Iraq (it) m
• Japanese: イラク (ja) (Iraku)
• Kalenjin: Irak
• Kamba: Iraki
• Kannada: ಇರಾಕ್ (kn) (irāk)
• Kazakh: Ирак (İrak)
• Khmer: អ៊ីរ៉ាក់ (km) (ʼiirak)
• Kikuyu: Irak
• Korean: 이라크 (Irakeu)
• Kurdish:

  Kurmanji: Iraq (ku)

  Sorani: عێراق ('êraq)

• Kyrgyz: Ирак (İrak)
• Lak: Иракьул (Iraqʼul)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Lao: 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
• Malayalam: ഇറാഖ് (iṟākh‌)
• Maltese: l-Iraq (mt)
• Maori: Īrāki
• Marathi: इराक (irāk)
• Meru: Iraki
• Middle Persian: [script needed] (Ērāg)
• Mongolian: Ирак (mn) (Irak)
• Navajo: Iiwááʼ
• Norman: Iraq m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Irak (no)

  Nynorsk: Irak (nn)

• Oriya: ଇରାକ (irakô)
• Pashto: عراق (ps) ('irāq)
• Persian: عراق (fa) ('erâq, 'arâq)
• Polish: Irak (pl) m inan
• Portuguese: Iraque (pt)
• Punjabi: ਇਰਾਕ (pa) (irāk)
• Romanian: Irak (ro) n
• Russian: Ира́к (ru) m (Irák)
• Santali: ᱤᱨᱟᱠ (irak)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Ирак m

  Roman: Irak (sh) m

• Sindhi: عراق (irāq)
• Sinhalese: ඉරාකය (irākaya)
• Slovak: Irák
• Slovene: Irák (sl) m
• Spanish: Irak (es) m
• Swahili: Irak
• Swedish: Irak (sv)
• 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)
• Turkish: Irak (tr)
• Turkmen: Yrak
• Ukrainian: Іра́к (uk) m (Irák)
• Urdu: عراق ('irāq)
• Uyghur: ئىراق (iraq)
• Uzbek: Iroq (uz)
• Vietnamese: I-rắc
• Welsh: Irac
• Yiddish: איראַק (irak)
• Yoruba: Iraki

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Northern Altai: ^{(please verify)} Ирак (Irak)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Southern Altai: ^{(please verify)} Ирак (Irak)

See also

• Baghdad
• Appendix:Countries of the world

Anagrams

• Qira, qari, riq'a

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Asturian

Proper noun

Iraq m

1. Iraq (country)

Related terms

• iraquí

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Catalan

Pronunciation

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

Proper noun

Iraq m

1. Iraq

Derived terms

• iraquià

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Italian

Proper noun

Iraq m

1. Iraq

Derived terms

• iracheno

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Spanish

Proper noun

Iraq m

1. Alternative spelling of Irak