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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In one of the pictures you see the fire wood market at Busrah.
From Topsy-Turvy Land Arabia Pictured for Children by Samuel Marinus Zwemer
It goes the long journey from Busrah to Bagdad over five hundred miles or even to Hillah and the other towns on the Euphrates river.
From Topsy-Turvy Land Arabia Pictured for Children by Samuel Marinus Zwemer
On the best kind of dates which come in wooden boxes you will find Muscat or Busrah stamped to show from what place they were shipped.
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
Of the six provinces only three are occupied by missionaries, and in the coast-line of 4,000 miles there are workers in only four centers—Aden, Muscat, Bahrein, and Busrah, and not one in the interior.
From The Call of the World or, Every Man's Supreme Opportunity by W. E. Doughty
