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Crossword-Solution: BASRA 5 letters, 139 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

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BASRA anagram ABRAS, ARABS, ARBAS, BARAS, BARSA, SABAR, SABRA, SARAB

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"The Venice of the Middle East" 1 answer
2003 Iraq War battleground 1 answer
Arab city whose name is an anagram of ARABS 1 answer
Arabian port that's home to Sinbad Island 1 answer
Besieged Gulf War city 1 answer
Big Iraqi port 1 answer
Big city in southern Iraq 1 answer
Birthplace of Iraqi human rights advocate Reham Yacoub 1 answer
City about 300 miles from Baghdad 1 answer
City bombed in the gulf war 1 answer
City in Southern Iraq 1 answer
City occupied by Great Britain in 1914 and again in 2003 1 answer
City of mosques, in Iraq. 1 answer
City of southeast Iraq 1 answer
City of southeastern Iraq 1 answer
City of southern Iraq 1 answer
City on the Shatt al-Arab 1 answer
City on the Shatt al-Arab river 1 answer
City on the Shatt al-Arab waterway 1 answer
City whose name can be anagrammed, appropriately, to ARABS 1 answer
City whose name, appropriately, is an anagram of ARABS 1 answer
Economic capital of Iraq 1 answer
First major city north of Kuwait 1 answer
Gateway to Russia in W.W. II. 1 answer
Gulf War city 1 answer
Gulf War target 1 answer
Home of Sinbad Island 1 answer
Home of Sinbad the sailor 1 answer
Home to the Imam Ali Mosque, built in the seventh century 1 answer
Important Turkish river port. 1 answer
Iraq city where the Garden of Eden was (supposedly) 1 answer
Iraq port 1 answer
Iraq port city 1 answer
Iraq seaport 1 answer
Iraq's chief port 1 answer
Iraq's main port 1 answer
Iraq's main port city 1 answer
Iraq's only port 1 answer
Iraq's only port city 1 answer
Iraq's principal port 1 answer
Iraqi city founded in 636 1 answer
Iraqi city near the Persian Gulf 1 answer
Iraqi city of about 3,000,000 1 answer
Iraqi city of over 1.3 million 1 answer
Iraqi city on the Shatt al Arab 1 answer
Iraqi city that anagrams to "Arabs" 1 answer
Iraqi city whose name, appropriately, is an anagram of ARABS 1 answer
Iraqi city with an average high temperature of 107 degrees in August 1 answer
Iraqi oil port 1 answer
Iraqi port city 1 answer
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
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greedy person
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Sentences with BASRA (5)

The Euphrates formerly reached the sea by a separate channel, which was obstructed and diverted by the citizens of Orchoe, about twenty miles to the south-east of modern Basra.
The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Edward Gibbon 1996
The fertile province of Assyria, which stretched beyond the Tigris, as far as the mountains of Media, extended about four hundred miles from the ancient wall of Macepracta, to the territory of Basra, where the united streams of the Euphrates and Tigris discharge themselves into the Persian Gulf.
The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Edward Gibbon 1997
While they were thus talking, the prince entered, in a magnificent dress, and was not a little astonished to be presented to Mouaffac by the treacherous kází as the prince of Basra, who had come as a suitor for his daughter in marriage.
Supplemental Nights, Volume 2 Richard F. Burton 2001
But in the morning, at an early hour, a servant of the kází knocks at his door, and, on the prince opening it, says that he brings him his rags of clothes and is required to take back the dress which the kází had lent him yesterday to personate the prince of Basra.
Supplemental Nights, Volume 2 Richard F. Burton 2001
The prince, having donned his tattered garments, said to his wife, "The kází thinks he has married you to a wretched beggar, but I am no whit inferior in rank to the prince of Basra--I am also a prince, being the only son of the king of Mosel," and then proceeded to recount all his adventures.
Supplemental Nights, Volume 2 Richard F. Burton 2001

Quotes with BASRA (3)

Islam and Christianity promise eternal paradise to the faithful. And that is a powerful opiate, certainly, the hope of a better life to come. But there's a Sufi story that challenges the notion that people believe only because they need an opiate. Rabe'a al-Adiwiyah, a great woman saint of Sufism, was seem running through the streets of her hometown, Basra, carrying a torch in one hand and a bucket of water in the other. When someone asked her what she was doing, she answered…
John Green Looking for Alaska
Rabe'a al-Adiwiyah, a great woman saint of Sufism, was seen running through the streets of her hometown, Basra, carrying a torch in one hand and a bucket of water in the other. When someone asked her what she was doing, she answered, 'I am going to take this bucket of water and pour it on the flames of hell, and then I am going to use this torch to burn down the gates of paradise so that people will not love God for want of heaven or fear of hell, but because He is God.
John Green Looking for Alaska
By the end of 2008, clearly, the al Qaeda and Sunni insurgency had been relatively stabilized. And in the al Qaeda's mind, they were defeated. They actually said that in many of their transmissions that we were able to pick up. And the Shia militia, largely those trained by the Iranians in Basra and also in Sadr City, had been defeated.
Jack Keane
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Slate, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 204 times in crossword archives (1942–2025).