Tigris River
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- proper noun
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río Tigris
- The Assyrian city of Nineveh was situated on the banks of the Tigris River, near present-day Mosul in Iraq, on a fault line unsettled by earthquakes since ancient times.
Examples
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About 200 yards away was the edge of the Tigris River.
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Their books and manuscripts, representing centuries of Muslim scholarship, were thrown into the Tigris River so that it was said to run black with ink.
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Their books and manuscripts, representing centuries of Muslim scholarship, were thrown into the Tigris River so that it was said to run black with ink.
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Baghdad is a sprawling city on the Tigris River with a population of 5.6 million people.
Academic text (2005) -
Located in the north on the Tigris River, it is a largely Sunni city with a mixed population of Kurds and Arabs.
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At this point, he turns to describe his own twilight walk, surrounded by the characteristic landscape of al-Karkh, a neighborhood of Baghdad on the western bank of the Tigris River.
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Baghdad is a sprawling city on the Tigris River with a population of 5.6 million people.
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The Assyrian city of Nineveh was situated on the banks of the Tigris River, near present-day Mosul in Iraq.
Synonyms
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4.4
A large river in western Asia that flows through Turkey and Iraq
Surface Forms
Morphology
This is a fully compositional name: a proper noun 'Tigris' plus the common noun 'river', so the meaning 'the river called the Tigris' is directly derivable from the parts. The pattern (name + category) is cross-linguistically common and will be immediately clear to a B1 learner who knows the constituents.
Etymology
Tigris River may come from an old word meaning 'arrow' or 'fast' because the river runs quickly like an arrow through the land, so people used that image when they named it.