Busra
noun
Busrah
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a variation of
Busra.
Busrah.
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a variation of
Basra.
Basranouna port in SE Iraq, N of the Persian Gulf.
Example Sentences
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From Aden to Muscat is a journey of nearly 1,500 miles, from there to Bahrein is 550, and Busrah is 400 miles further on.
From The Call of the World or, Every Man's Supreme Opportunity by W. E. Doughty
At Busrah, Rev. James Cantine began mission work in 1891, and ever since that time he and others have been ploughing and sowing seed and waiting for the showers that come before the harvest.
From Topsy-Turvy Land Arabia Pictured for Children by Samuel Marinus Zwemer
When we passed that way on our journey from Busrah to Baghdad, the land was flooded by the spring rains, so we saw nothing of the beauties of Paradise.
From Behind the Veil in Persia and Turkish Arabia An account of an Englishwoman's Eight Years' Residence amongst the Women of the East by A. Hume-Griffith
It was at Busrah that Kamil Abd el Messiah, the Moslem convert from Syria, died a witness for Christ.
From Topsy-Turvy Land Arabia Pictured for Children by Samuel Marinus Zwemer
Large steamships are loaded down with these boxes and many of them leave Busrah every year with no other cargo than dates.
From Topsy-Turvy Land Arabia Pictured for Children by Samuel Marinus Zwemer
