Basrah

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Basrah

proper noun

Dated spelling of Basra: a major city in Iraq. It so happened that Christmas was near and I was invited to go to Basrah, so I used that for an excuse to not make an aftercall. Months later, when I was sitting in the hospital one day, a woman came throwing her black abba over my head.

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@misc{basrah_2026,
  title = {Basrah},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/basrah},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}