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Warqa

Warqa is the alternative spelling of Warka.

Meaning of Warka

Proper noun

Warka

  1. Synonym of Uruk, the ancient city or the modern archaeological site.
    • The discovery in Uruk of a brecciated limestone vase of the Jamdat Nasr period made of a material almost certainly imported from the Mosul area, and the occurrence at Gawrah and Warka of the curious double looped idols seems to me significant evidence of a close contact between Assyria and Sumer at...1936, M. E. L. Mallowan, Review of The Development of Sumerian Art, by Leonard Woolley, in Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, page 337
    Synonyms:
    Uruk

Questions about Warqa

What is Warqa the alternative spelling of?
Warqa is the alternative spelling of Warka.

Words near Warqa in the dictionary

  1. warps and wefts
  2. warps and woofs
  3. warpt
  4. warpwise
  5. warpy
  6. Warqa
  7. warr
  8. warra
  9. Warrabah
  10. Warrabkook
  11. Warrack

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Warqa (page history and authors); Warka (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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