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

• Audio (US)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɑːk, -æk

Proper noun

Iraq (plural Iraqs)

2. A country in the Middle East and Western Asia that borders on Iran, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Syria, and Turkey, having Baghdad as its capital; modern Republic of Iraq (since 1958).
3. (historical) An expansive historical region of medieval 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

• Iraqi

Translations

country

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

  Hijazi Arabic: العِراق‎ f (al-ʿirāg)

• Aramaic:

  Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܥܝܼܪܲܩ‎ (ʿīrāq)

  Syriac: ܥܝܖܐܩ‎ (archaic)

• Armenian: Իրաք (Irakʿ)
• Assamese: ইৰাক (irak)
• Asturian: Iraq m
• Avar: Гӏиракъ (ʻiraqxʼ)
• Azerbaijani: İraq
• Bashkir: Ираҡ (İraq)
• Belarusian: Іра́к m (Irák)
• Bengali: ইরাক (irak)
• Breton: Iraq
• Bulgarian: Ира́к m (Irák)
• Burmese: အီရတ် (irat)
• Catalan: Iraq 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 m
• Danish: Irak
• Dhivehi: އިރާގް‎ (irāg)
• Dutch: Irak
• Esperanto: Irako
• Estonian: Iraak
• Farefare: Irak
• Faroese: Irak
• Finnish: Irak
• French: Iraq m, Irak m
• Galician: Iraq m
• Georgian: ერაყი (eraq̇i)
• German: Irak m
• Greek: Ιράκ n (Irák)
• Gujarati: ઈરાક (īrāk)
• Hausa: Iraƙi
• Hawaiian: ʻIlaka
• Hebrew: עִרָאק / עיראק‎ ('irák)
• Hindi: इराक़ (irāq), इराक (irāk), ईराक (īrāk)
• Hungarian: Irak
• Icelandic: Írak
• Indonesian: Irak
• Interlingua: Iraq
• Irish: an Iaráic f
• Italian: Iraq m
• Japanese: イラク (Iraku)
• Kalenjin: Irak
• Kamba: Iraki
• Kannada: ಇರಾಕ್ (irāk)
• Kazakh: Ирак (İrak), Ирақ (İraq)
• Khmer: អ៊ីរ៉ាក់ (ʼiirak)
• Kikuyu: Irak
• Korean: 이라크 (Irakeu)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: عێراق‎ ('êraq)

  Northern Kurdish: Iraq (ku)

• Kyrgyz: Ирак (İrak)
• Lak: Иракьул (Iraqʼul)
• Lao: ອີຣັກ (ʼī rak)
• Latgalian: Iraks m
• Latin: Iraquia f
• Latvian: Irāka
• Lithuanian: Irakas
• Luhya: Irak, Irak
• Luo: Irak
• Macedonian: Ирак m (Irak)
• Malay: Iraq
• Malayalam: ഇറാഖ്‌ (iṟākh‌)
• Maltese: l-Iraq
• Maori: Īrāki
• Marathi: इराक (irāk)
• Meru: Iraki
• Middle Persian: [script needed] (Ērāg)
• Mongolian: Ирак (Irak)
• Navajo: Iiwááʼ
• Norman: Iraq m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Irak (no)

  Nynorsk: Irak

• Oriya: ଇରାକ (irakô)
• Pashto: عراق‎ ('irāq)
• Persian: عراق‎ ('erâq, 'arâq)
• Polish: Irak m inan
• Portuguese: Iraque
• Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi: ਇਰਾਕ਼ (irāq)

  Shahmukhi: عِراق‎ (ʻirāq)

• Romanian: Irak n
• Russian: Ира́к m (Irák)
• Santali: ᱤᱨᱟᱠ (irak)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Ирак m

  Roman: Irak (sh) m

• Sindhi: عراق‎ (irāq)
• Sinhalese: ඉරාකය (irākaya)
• Slovak: Irák
• Slovene: Irák m
• Spanish: Irak m
• Swahili: Irak
• Swedish: Irak
• Tabasaran: Иракь (Iraq̇)
• Tagalog: Irak
• Tajik: Ироқ (Iroq)
• Tamil: இராக் (irāk), ஈராக் (īrāk)
• Tatar: Гыйрак (Ğıyraq)
• Telugu: ఇరాక్ (irāk)
• Thai: อิรัก (ì-rák)
• Tibetan: ཡི་ལའ་ཁོ (yi la' kho)
• Tigrinya: ዒራቕ (ʿiraḳʰ)
• Turkish: Irak
• Turkmen: Yrak
• Ukrainian: Іра́к m (Irák)
• Urdu: عراق‎ ('irāq)
• Uyghur: ئىراق‎ (iraq)
• Uzbek: Iroq
• 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)
• Southern Altai: ^{(please verify)} Ирак (Irak)

See also

• Baghdad
• Appendix:Countries of the world
• (countries of Asia) country of Asia; Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Burma, Cambodia, China, Cyprus, Georgia, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lebanon, Malaysia, Maldives, Mongolia, Nepal, North Korea, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, Philippines, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Syria, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Turkey, Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Yemen

Anagrams

• Qira, qari, riq'a

Asturian

Proper noun

Iraq m

1. Iraq (country)

Related terms

• iraquí

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /iˈɾak/

• Audio (Valencian)

  (file)

Proper noun

Iraq m

1. Iraq

Derived terms

• iraquià

Central Nahuatl

Proper noun

Iraq

1. Irak (a country in Asia)

French

Proper noun

Iraq m

1. Alternative spelling of Irak

Italian

Pronunciation

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

Proper noun

Iraq m

1. Iraq

Derived terms

• iracheno

Maltese

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian and/or English Iraq, from Arabic عِراق‎ (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

Iraq m

1. Iraq

Spanish

Proper noun

Iraq m

1. Alternative spelling of Irak