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Bassorah

Bassorah is the alternative 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.

Questions about Bassorah

What is Bassorah the alternative form of?
Bassorah is the alternative form of Basra.

Words near Bassorah in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Bassorah (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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