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baghdad
/ˈbæɡdæd/
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What does baghdad mean?
proper noun
- The capital city of Iraq.
- The Iraqi government.
- A governorate of Iraq.
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IPA pronunciation
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Arrived at Baghdad they enter a garden which turns out to be the Sultan's.
A kuffah,(1) the familiar pitched coracle of Baghdad, would provide an admirable model for the gigantic vessel in which Ut-napishtim rode out the Deluge.
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At the time of the Caliphat the Greek race was familiar enough to Baghdad: they were the merchants, the pedlars, the barbers, and intriguers-general of south-western Asia, and therefore the Oriental materials with which the Arabian tales were wrought must have been completely at the command of the inventive people to whom I would attribute their origin.