Crossword-Solution: BASRAH
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| BASRAH | anagram | SHARAB |
We have 1 clue for the answer “BASRAH”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Al ___, Iraq | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
Godlike; heavenly; excellent in the highest degree;
supremely admirable; apparently above what is human. In this
application, the word admits of comparison; as, the divinest mind. Sir
J. Davies.
Hint 2 anagram
NEIVDI
Hint 3 another clue
"Delicious!"
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Sentences with BASRAH (5)
For instance, Aleppo, Cairo and Bassorah are preferred to Halab, Kahirah and Al-Basrah; when a word is half naturalised, like Alcoran or Koran, Bashaw or Pasha, which the French write Pacha; and Mahomet or Mohammed (for Muhammad), the modern form is adopted because the more familiar.
The Ghutah is one of the four earthly paradises, the others being Basrah (Bassorah), Shiraz and Samarcand.
Hereby their lord discovered me and said in his verse, 'Thou art Ibrahim without doubt or mistake'; but still I denied myself, replying, 'I am a man from Al-Basrah and a familiar of Ibrahim the Master-Musician': And on this wise I answered him, when behold, there came up to us a page bearing a rescript from thee.
The importance of this "find" was not sufficiently recognized at the time, for the tablets, which were thought to be decorated pottery, were thrown into baskets and sent down the river loose on rafts to Basrah, whence they were despatched to England on a British man o' war.
Nor when illustrating the _Arabian Nights_ had the wonderful story of Hasan of El-Basrah evidently brought home to him the same moral.