Iraqi
Americannoun
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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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The U.S. conflict with Iran had already sparked a new war in Lebanon between Israel and Hezbollah and pulled in Iraqi militias that had largely sat out three years of war in the region.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
An eight-part thriller on TNT follows the search for—and a CIA analyst’s subsequent interrogation of—the notorious Iraqi leader.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 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
A British national of Iraqi birth, Saad al-Hilli was holidaying with his family in the picturesque countryside of Lake Annecy in eastern France.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026
"You remember Saddam Hussein, the old Iraqi dictator?"
From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda
The real return isn’t in hotel occupancy or pounds of ribs sold; it’s in the 90 minutes when 40 million Iraqis narrowed to one—a man weeping over a goal that meant nothing and everything.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
Five of his eight fellow crew members were Iraqis who departed for home, leaving him and the other sailors on board.
From Barron's ● Mar. 20, 2026
He said Iraqis would weather this latest conflict, too.
From Barron's ● Mar. 14, 2026
We can and should hope for a better outcome for Iranians than for Iraqis: freedom from an oppressive regime, minimal death and destruction, a smooth democratic transition, a functional democracy, a peaceful and prosperous society.
From Slate ● Mar. 11, 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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