Iraqi
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Iraqis
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a native of Iraq.
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Also Iraqi Arabic the dialect of Arabic spoken in Iraq.
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Etymology
Origin of Iraqi
First recorded in 1770–80; from Arabic ʿIrāqī, equivalent to ʿIrāq Iraq + -ī a suffix indicating relationship or origin
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It demands teamwork, whether aboard a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier or holed up in a bombed-out Iraqi city.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
The Saudi Foreign Ministry said it would refrain from retaliating against the Iraqi militias at the request of Baghdad.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
It said the kingdom would "support the efforts of the Iraqi government" to "prevent attacks" launched from the country against neighbouring states.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
The victims, aged between 7 and 46, were mostly Iraqi Kurds, but also included Afghans, Ethiopians and Egyptians.
From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026
Repetition teaches the donkey, as the old Iraqi saying goes.
From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda
My generation has lived through two American wars with Iraq, but I’d never met Iraqis, danced to their music or heard their anthem.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
He couldn’t put a number to the amount of people he treated, which included U.S. soldiers, Iraqis, contractors, and journalists.
From Slate ● Jul. 14, 2026
Shalgham said the arrangement allows Iraqis "to keep up with global advancements in new technologies and state-of-the-art equipment".
From Barron's ● Mar. 31, 2026
Now, once again, Iraqis are watching their nation become a proxy battleground between the two rivals.
From Barron's ● Mar. 14, 2026
For instance, today almost all Japanese and Scandinavians are literate but most Iraqis are not: why did writing nevertheless arise nearly four thousand years earlier in Iraq?
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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