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Algiers
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English
Algiers (province)
Regency of Algiers
Algiers, New Orleans
right|thumb|250px|Flag of Algiers (sense 1)
right|thumb|250px|Location of Algiers (sense 4)
Etymology
en :bor fr:Alger
From en fr Alger, from en ar اَلْجَزَائِر the islands, plural of ar جَزِيرَة island, referring to the several small islands that once existed in the Bay of Algiers. en Algeria Algeciras. For the New Orleans neighborhood, the name is ultimately uncertain.
Pronunciation
en /ælˈdʒɪə(ɹ)z/ UK
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Algiers.wav Southern England
en /ælˈd͡ʒiɹz/ US
en ɪə(ɹ)z 2
Proper noun
en Q3561en caplc c/Algeria.
en metonym The Algerian government.
en Q141026en province c/Algeria.
en Q3045696en historical en historical autonomous province/and/vassal state of the c/Ottoman Empire located in what is now the country of c/Algeria, also called the Regency of Algiers.
en NOLAen neighborhood of city/New Orleans s/Louisiana c/United States.
Derived terms
en algerine
Translations
the capital of Algeria
Afrikaans: af Algiers
Albanian: sq Algjer m
Amharic: am አልጀርስ
Antillean Creole: gcf Aljé
Arabic: ar الْجَزَائِر f-p
Algerian Arabic: arq الدزاير ed-dzāyir
Egyptian Arabic: arz الجزاير el-gazāyer
Moroccan Arabic: ary الجزائر el-jazāʔir, ary الجزاير el-jazāyir
Aramaic:
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: aii ܓܙܐܝܪ
Armenian: hy Ալժիր
Asturian: ast Arxel
Azerbaijani: az Əlcəzair
Bashkir: ba Алжир
Belarusian: be Алжы́р m, be Альжы́р m Taraškevica
Bulgarian: bg Алжи́р m
Burmese: my အယ်လဂျီးယားမြို့
Catalan: ca Alger m
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 阿爾及爾 aa3 ji5 aa3 ji5
Mandarin: cmn 阿爾及爾 Ā'ěrjí'ěr
Corsican: co Algeri f
Czech: cs Alžír m
Danish: da Algier n
Dutch: nl Algiers n
Esperanto: eo Alĝero
Finnish: fi Alger
French: fr Alger m f
Galician: gl Alxer
German: de Algier n
Greek: el Αλγέρι n
Ancient Greek: grc Ἰκόσιον n
Hebrew: he אַלְגִ׳יר f aljír
Hindi: hi अल्जीयर्स m
Hungarian: hu Algír
Icelandic: is Algeirsborg
Ido: io Aljer
Indonesian: id Aljir, id Aljazair obsolete
Irish: ga Cathair na hAilgéire f
Italian: it Algeri f
Japanese: ja アルジェ Aruje
Kabyle: kab Lezzayer f
Kazakh: kk Алжир
Khmer: km អាល់ហ្សេ
Korean: ko ^알제
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: kmr Cezayir
Kyrgyz: ky Алжир
Latin: la Algeria f, la Icosium f
Latvian: lv Alžīra
Lithuanian: lt Alžyras
Macedonian: mk Алжир m
Maltese: mt Alġier
Marathi: mr अॅल्जियर्स
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: mn Алжир
Navajo: nv Áljiis
Norwegian:
Bokmål: nb Alger
Nynorsk: nn Alger
Occitan: oc Argièr m, oc Argèr m, oc Argèir m, oc Algièr m
Pannonian Rusyn: rsk Алжир m
Pashto: ps الجزيره f alǰazirá
Persian: fa الجزیره aljazire
Polish: pl Algier m
Portuguese: pt Argel m
Romanian: ro Alger
Russian: ru Алжи́р m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: sh А̀лжӣр m
Latin: sh Àlžīr m
Sicilian: scn Algeri f
Sinhalese: si ඇල්ජිරියස්
Slovak: sk Alžír m
Slovene: sl Alžir m
Spanish: es Argel m
Swedish: sv Alger n
Tagalog: tl Arhel
Tajik: tg Алҷазира
Tamil: ta அல்ஜியர்ஸ்
Tatar: tt Әлҗәзаир
Thai: th แอลเจียร์ส, th อัลเจียร์ส
Tibetan: bo ཨཱལ་ཇི་ཡར་སི
Turkish: tr Cezayir
Ottoman Turkish: ota جزائر Cezâyir, ota جزائر غرب Cezâyir-i Garb
Ukrainian: uk Алжи́р m
Urdu: ur الجزائر m aljazā'ir
Uyghur: ug ئالجىر
Uzbek: uz Jazoir
Vietnamese: vi An-giê
Yiddish: yi אַלזשיר n
Anagrams
en aegilrs airlegs largies sea-girl
en exonyms
en Ottoman Empire
Afrikaans
af:
Proper noun
af Algiers Q3561
Derived terms
af Algierser
Adjective
-
of, from, or pertaining to the Algerian city en Algiers or its inhabitants
Dutch
Etymology
Ultimately from nl ar اَلْجَزَائِر. nl
Pronunciation
nl /ɑlˈɣiːrs/
nl Nl-Algiers.ogg Netherlands
nl Al giers
nl iːrs
Proper noun
n
nl Algiers Q3561