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Kirkuk.

A city in northeastern Iraq.

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Meaning & usage

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  1. A city in northeastern Iraq.

  2. A governorate in northeastern Iraq.

Where this word comes from

Borrowed from Kurdish Kerkûk / کەرکووک (kerkûk), from Arabic كَرْكُوك (karkūk), from Assyrian Neo-Aramaic ܟܲܪܟ݂ܵܐ (karḵā), from Aramaic כַּרְכָא (karḵā), from either Demotic Egyptian grg or from the root ܟ ܪ ܟ (k r k) related to encircling.

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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.