English Explanatory Dictionary

Algeria

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A country in North Africa. Official name: People's Democratic Republic of Algeria. Capital and largest city: Algiers.
  2. Ottoman Algeria, also the regency of Algiers or al-Jazā’ir in Arabic, from 1515 to 1830
  3. French or Colonial Algeria, from 1830 to 1962
  4. The People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria, since 1962

Pronunciation

/ælˈdʒɪəɹiə/ /ælˈdʒɪɹiə/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Soundguys-Algeria.wav En-us-Algeria.ogg

Word forms

Algeria

Etymology

Etymology tree Arabic جَزَائِر بَنِي مَزْغَنَّى (jazāʔir banī mazḡannā)ellip. Arabic الْجَزَائِر (al-jazāʔir)bor. French Algerbor. English Alger Proto-Indo-European *-yós Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Latin -iader. English -ia ▲ French Algérieinflu. English Algeria From Alger + -ia, modified based on French Algérie, from the French Alger (“Algiers”) + -ie, from Algerian Arabic الدزَاير (ed-dzayer), from Arabic اَلْجَزَائِر (al-jazāʔir, “the islands”) (with elision of the first vowel), plural of جَزِيرَة (jazīra, “island”), referring to the several small islands that once existed in the Bay of Algiers. Doublet of Algiers and Algeciras.

Derived words

Algerian Algerine French Algeria

Translations

Abkhaz: Алжир Abkhaz: Алџьаир Acehnese: Aljazair Afrikaans: Algerië Albanian: Algjeri Albanian: Algjeria Amharic: አልጄሪያ Arabic: الْجَزَائِر Arabic: الجزاير Algerian Arabic: الدزَاير Aragonese: Alcheria Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܓܲܙܵܐܝܼܪ Armenian: Ալժիր Assamese: আলজেৰিয়া Asturian: Arxelia Azerbaijani: Əlcəzair Balinese: Algéria Balinese: Aljazair Bashkir: Алжир Basque: Aljeria Belarusian: Алжы́р Belarusian: Альжы́р Bengali: আলজেরিয়া Betawi: Aljajaèr Betawi: Jajaèr Breton: Aljeria Bulgarian: Алжи́р Burmese: အယ်လ်ဂျီးရီးယား Catalan: Algèria Central Atlas Tamazight: ⵍⵣⵣⴰⵢⴻⵔ Central Atlas Tamazight: ⴷⵣⴰⵢⴻⵔ Chechen: Алжазаира Cherokee: ᎠᎵᏥᎵᏯ Chinese Cantonese: 阿爾及利亞 /阿尔及利亚 Chinese Mandarin: 阿爾及利亞 /阿尔及利亚 East Circassian: Алджазаир West Circassian: Алжир Coptic: ⲛⲓⲛⲏⲥⲟⲥ Cornish: Aljeri Corsican: Algeria Corsican: Alghjeria Crimean Tatar: Cezair Czech: Alžírsko Danish: Algeriet Dhivehi: ޖަޒާއިރު Dutch: Algerije Esperanto: Alĝerio Estonian: Alžeeria
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