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Bassora

Bassora is the obsolete form of Basra.

Meaning of Basra

Proper noun (1)

Basra

  1. A port city in southeastern Iraq.
  2. A governorate in southeastern Iraq.

Proper noun (2)

Basra (plural Basras)

  1. A surname from Punjabi.

Words formed from Bassora

Questions about Bassora

What is Bassora the obsolete form of?
Bassora is the obsolete form of Basra.

Words near Bassora in the dictionary

  1. bassooners
  2. bassooning
  3. bassoonist
  4. bassoonists
  5. bassoons
  6. Bassora
  7. Bassorah
  8. bassorin
  9. bassorine
  10. bassorins
  11. bassos

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Bassora (page history and authors); Basra (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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