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Iraqi city on the Tigris
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samarra
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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 ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Samarra \Sa*mar"ra\, n. See Simar .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (alternative form of simar English)
Usage examples of samarra.
The Samarra Natatorium stood at the edge of the sea, surrounded by the ruins of a once thriving neighborhood that had been forsaken some decades earlier.
It took most of the week, but he finally managed an invitation to join a small party of corporate attorneys who were going to the Samarra Natatorium that weekend.