Shatt-al-Arab

American  

[shat-al-ar-uhb, shaht-] / ˈʃæt ælˈær əb, ˈʃɑt- /

noun

1. a river in SE Iraq, formed by the junction of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, flowing SE to the Persian Gulf. 123 miles (198 km) long.

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Shatt-al-Arab British  

/ ˈʃætælˈærəb /

noun

1. a river in SE Iraq, formed by the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers: flows southeast as part of the border between Iraq and Iran to the Persian Gulf. Length: 193 km (120 miles)

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Example Sentences

Basra sits along the Shatt-Al-Arab waterway, which runs into the Persian Gulf, 65 miles away.

From Washington Times

Within two years Iran will have built a bridge over the Shatt-al-Arab river into Iraq and into the Fertile Crescent, he says.

From Economist

"They asked our company to go to Khorramshahr, and from our company only five people managed to cross Shatt-al-Arab waterway bordering Iraq with Iran," says Adnan.

From BBC

The Iranians, on the other hand, claimed they had merely been trying to capture four Iraqi islands in the Shatt-al-Arab waterway and had inflicted heavy casualties.

From Time Magazine Archive

Two thousand Iranian soldiers, toting U.S.-made equipment, goose-stepped through Abadan's native quarter, in a sputtering gesture of defiance at the British cruiser Mauritius and other British warships anchored close by, in the Shatt-al-Arab estuary.

From Time Magazine Archive