Iraqi
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3.4
- adjective
- /ɪˈrɑːki/
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iraquí
- While hardly first-rate, the Iraqi army is more professional, more experienced, and better trained.
- the Iraqi government
- the Iraqi economy
- the Iraqi opposition
So a lot of teams were doing that for the Iraqi government officials.
- So a lot of teams were doing that for the Iraqi government officials.
- And you're going to be the chairman of the Iraqi National Congress.
- So he stopped and he asked some Iraqi police, is this where this camp is?
- So all over the western Iraqi desert, these towers just started tipping over.
- Saddam Hussein's army today controls Erbil, and Iraqi units remain deployed for further attacks.
- And so then the Iraqi army they were with, we were not expecting this to happen.
- So the eastern Syrian desert blends into the western, the Iraqi desert.
- One factor Colonel Wilson didn't put that much stock in was Iraqi nationalism, as he stated quite plainly.
- Yeah, it's, I've talked with the Iraqi people out there and I've asked them the same thing, you know, you know what?
- I am Iraqi, both my parents are Iraqi and I grew up in Oxford, which is a very white area in the UK.
Examples
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I have a wonderful piece, straight from the Iraqi National Museum.
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The Iraqi ambassador is claiming it's just an exercise.
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The lead vehicle over here on the Iraqi side caught on fire.
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So a lot of teams were doing that for the Iraqi government officials.
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And I was alone for a minute, on this Iraqi street, on the other side of the world.
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I am Iraqi, both my parents are Iraqi and I grew up in Oxford, which is a very white area in the UK.
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We have to face the Iraqi people openly.
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But the Iraqi central government doesn't have that much influence there.
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The implementation of the SOFA proceeded far more smoothly than either Iraqi or U.S. leaders had anticipated.
Academic text (2011) -
Many Iraqi artists showcase their work in international exhibitions.
Compounds
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6.9
A group of Iraqi opposition leaders and parties formed in 1992 to oppose Saddam Hussein
A government group in Iraq that gathers secret information and runs secret operations to protect the country
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5.2
A region in northern Iraq where most people are Kurds and that has its own government
A secret police force in Iraq under Saddam Hussein, feared for human rights abuses
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Iraqi comes from the country name Iraq plus the Arabic ending -i, which means 'from' or 'of'. So when Iraqi is an adjective it describes something that is 'from Iraq', like 'Iraqi art' or 'Iraqi food'.