Kirkuk
kir·kuk
noun
1.
a city in northeastern Iraq; the center of a rich oilfield with pipelines to the Mediterranean
Origin
Borrowed from Kurdish Kerkûk / کەرکووک (kerkûk), from Arabic كَرْكُوك (karkūk), from Assyrian Neo-Aramaic ܟܲܪܟ݂ܵܐ (karḵā), from Aramaic כַּרְכָא (karḵā), from either Demotic Egyptian grg or from the root ܟ ܪ ܟ (k r k) related to encircling.
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