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say it: BAG-dad
bagdad is a noun meaning "capital and largest city of Iraq; located on the Tigris River". It is pronounced /ˈbæɡdæd/ — BAG-dad. It carries one recorded sense.
capital and largest city of Iraq; located on the Tigris River
“Baghdad is one of the great cities of the Muslim world”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for bagdad come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.