tigris
IPA: tˈaɪgrʌs
Root Word: Tigris
noun
- A river in Southwest Asia flowing 1,150 miles east-southeast from the Armenian Highland in Turkey through Iraq. It forms the eastern edge of classical Mesopotamia. It unites with the Euphrates River to form the Shatt al-Arab before flowing into the Persian Gulf.
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Examples of "tigris" in Sentences
- It should be on the left bank of the Tigris.
- It is one of the tributaries of the Tigris River.
- He built the city of Numaniya on the right bank of Tigris.
- One of the most important was Seleucia on the Tigris river.
- All these words possess the characteristic of the Tigris River.
- Baghdad, the capital of Iraq, stands on the banks of the Tigris.
- I think you meant the land between the Tigris and the Euphrates.
- Her weeping eyes became the source of the Tigris and the Euphrates.
- But they relate to the Tigris and the Nile, not to the Shatt al Arab.
- He then seized the fortress Ekallatum on the left bank of the Tigris.