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Via some other European language, ultimately a Middle East term, possibly from Akkadian𒌷𒀕(/Uruk/), (Biblical Erech), from Sumerian𒌷𒀕(/Unug/), the name of a city-state region in the south of ancient Iraq. Medieval Arabic uses Iraq as a geographical term for the area in the south and center of the modern Iraq. Some Arabic sources say that Iraq comes from عَرِيق(ʕarīq, “deep-rooted”), from عِرْق(ʕirq, “root”), while others say it is from Middle Persianerāq(“lowlands”), due to historic rule from Iraq's plateau-situated neighbor, Persia.
