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iraqi

//ɪˈɹɑːki//

Adjective

A word that describes or modifies a noun or pronoun.

Noun

A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

Note for iraqi

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Forms

Plural
iraqis

Definitions

Adjective

A word that describes or modifies a noun or pronoun.

  1. 1.Of, from, or pertaining to Iraq, or the Iraqi people.

    • Under an urgent need to arm Iraqi forces, weapons had been supplied by coalition members and Iraqi procurements, and captured weapons had also been used, Dempsey said.
    • The United States and other allied forces have helped Iraqi forces carry out more than 250 counterterrorism missions since last October, according to a senior U.S. military official.

Noun

A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

  1. 1.A person from Iraq or of Iraqi descent.

    • They had to choose between properly equipping the Iraqis and risk seeing arms fall into the hands of insurgents or providing inferior weapons that would make it harder to fight them.

Frequency

Overall

Uncommon· #2516

By learning goal

Everyday conversation
Uncommon
General reading & writing
Uncommon
Academic
Rare
Literature
Rare

Etymology

From Arabic عِرَاقِيّ (ʕirāqiyy, “Iraqi”), equivalent to Iraq + -i.

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