Pumbedita[a] (Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: פוּם בְּדִיתָא Pūm Bəḏīṯāʾ, "Mouth of the Bedita"[1]) was an ancient city located in modern-day Iraq.

Guy Le Strange, in his geography of Mesopotamia in the Abbasid era constructed from Ibn Serapion (ca.

Sherira ben Hanina (tentative ascription) writes that in Arabic the Bedita is called al-Bedei'a.

[4] The twelfth-century travel account of Benjamin of Tudela gives this description: Al-Anbar ("the granaries") is mentioned by Ibn Serapion, and Strange identifies it with "the ruins named Sifeyra".

[5] According to William McGuckin de Slane, it lay ten parasangs to the west of Baghdad.