Crossword clues for samarra
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Samarra \Sa*mar"ra\, n. See Simar.
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 look on his bony face) one day in the marketplace in Baghdad; he flees in terror and by dusk has reached Samarra. Death takes him there, and, when questioned, replies, "I was astonished to see him in Baghdad, for I had an appointment with him tonight in Samarra."
Wiktionary
n. (alternative form of simar English)
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 Caliphate and the only remaining Islamic capital that retains its original plan, architecture and artistic relics. In 2007, UNESCO named Samarra one of its World Heritage Sites.
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.