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Iraqi

/ɪˈɹɑːki/

Iraqi adjective: of, from, or pertaining to Iraq, or the Iraqi people.

Adjective

Iraqi (not comparable)

  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.2007 August 9, “M-16s a step forward for Iraqi forces, says US”, in Reuters
    • 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.2024 September 3, Eric Schmitt, “U.S. and Iraqi Commandos Targeted ISIS in Sprawling Operation”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 03 Sep 2024
  2. (historical) Of, from, or pertaining to Persian Iraq.

Noun

Iraqi (plural Iraqis)

  1. A person from Iraq or of Iraqi descent.
    • The order, which effectively halts the display of the flag virtually anywhere in Iraq, except the United States Embassy, said that flying the flag on buildings in Iraq would only reenforce the anti-American message that the military was "here to oppress the Iraqis."2003 April 10, Bernard Weinraub, “Army Seeks to Present Troops as 'Liberators'”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 02 Jun 2025
    • 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.2007 August 9, “M-16s a step forward for Iraqi forces, says US”, in Reuters
    Synonyms:
    Iraqian

Iraqi meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Urdu and Bengali

Iraqi in Hindi

of, from or pertaining to Iraq
इराक़ी irāqī, इराकी irākī
person from Iraq
इराक़ी irāqī

Iraqi in Marathi

of, from or pertaining to Iraq
इराकी irākī
person from Iraq
इराकी irākī

Iraqi in Urdu

of, from or pertaining to Iraq
عراقی 'irāqī
person from Iraq
عراقی 'irāqī

Iraqi in Bengali

ইরাকী
More languagesFewer languages
Iraqi in Tagalog
Iraki
Iraqi in Arabic
عِرَاقِيّ ʕirāqiyy, عِرَاقِيَّة ʕirāqiyya
Iraqi in Persian
عراقی 'erâqi

Synonyms of Iraqi

Forms of Iraqi

pluralIraqis

Origin of Iraqi

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

Words formed from Iraqi

Phrases with Iraqi

Questions about Iraqi

What does Iraqi mean?
Iraqi means of, from, or pertaining to Iraq, or the Iraqi people.
What is Iraqi in Hindi?
Iraqi in Hindi is इराक़ी (irāqī), इराकी (irākī). See Iraqi meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is Iraqi?
Iraqi can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce Iraqi?
Iraqi is pronounced /ɪˈɹɑːki/.

Words near Iraqi in the dictionary

  1. Iranun
  2. Iranzamin
  3. Iraq
  4. Iraq al-Ajam
  5. Iraqgate
  6. Iraqi
  7. Iraqi Bacter
  8. Iraqian
  9. Iraqians
  10. Iraqibacter
  11. Iraqification

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Iraqi (page history and authors); Iraqi (Bengali Wiktionary) (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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