Iraqi city on the Tigris

• "Appointment in ___"
• City in Iraq's Sunni Triangle
• John O'Hara's "Appointment in ___"

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (alternative form of simar English)

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Samarra \Sa*mar"ra\, n. See Simar .

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Sāmarrā is a city in Iraq . It stands on the east bank of the Tigris in the Saladin Governorate , north of Baghdad . In 2003 the city had an estimated population of 348,700. Samarra is in the Sunni Triangle . The city was once the capital of the Abbasid ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
city in north-central Iraq; phrase an appointment in Samarra indicating the inevitability of death is from an old Arabic tale (first in English apparently in W. Somerset Maugham's play "Sheppey," 1933), in which a man encounters Death (with a surprised ...