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Baghdad vs Kish - What's the difference?

baghdad | kish |

As proper nouns the difference between baghdad and kish

is that baghdad is the capital of, and largest city in Iraq, situated in the center of the country on the Tigris river; an ancient city and historical center of the Muslim world while Kish is an ancient city of Sumer, located some 12 km east of Babylon, and 80 km south of Baghdad.

As a noun kish is

a basket used in Ireland, mainly for carrying turf.

baghdad

English

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • The capital of, and largest city in Iraq, situated in the center of the country on the Tigris river; an ancient city and historical center of the Muslim world.

    • Derived terms

    * Baghdad by the Bay * Baghdadi * Baghdadian

    kish

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) cis, .

    Noun

    (es)
  • a basket used in Ireland, mainly for carrying turf
  • :*1922 : Ignorant as a kish of brogues, worth fifty thousand pounds. — James Joyce, Ulysses

    • Etymology 2

    Compare (etyl) Kies gravel, pyrites.

    Noun

    (-)
  • The graphite formed incidentally in iron smelting.
    • (Webster 1913)

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