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Benghazi
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English
Etymology
From en ota بنغازی Bingâzi and en ar بِنْغَازِي, apparently from earlier ar مرسى بني غازي port of ibn Ghazi first attested on a 1579 map by Ali al-Sharfi. Possibly a reference to a Muslim holy man Sidi ibn Ghazi. "Ibn Ghazi" itself can literally be translated as "son of the ghazi (warrior)".
en ar غ ز و
Pronunciation
en /bɛnˈɡɑ.zi/ US
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Benghazi.wav Southern England
Proper noun
en port city in eastern c/Libya.
en Moni Basu Libyans face tough challenges in building a new nation w:CNN https://www.cnn.com/2012/01/26/world/africa/libya-challenges 2012-01-26 Their frustration has surfaced in protests in several Libyan cities over the last few days, most notably in Benghazi, the seat of the revolution, where Libyans stormed the National Transitional Council building. https://web.archive.org/web/20211022174427/https://www.cnn.com/2012/01/26/world/africa/libya-challenges 22 October 2021
Derived terms
en -ghazi Benghazi boiler Benghazi Handicap Benghazian
Translations
Benghazi, Libya
Afrikaans: af Benghazi
Arabic: ar بِنْغَازِي m
Armenian: hy Բենղազի
Azerbaijani: az Benqazi
Basque: eu Bengazi
Belarusian: be Бенгазі
Bikol:
Central Bikol: bcl Benghazi
Breton: br Benghazi
Bulgarian: bg Бенга́зи
Catalan: ca Bengasi
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 班加西 Bānjiāxī
Czech: cs Benghází
Danish: da Benghazi
Dutch: nl Benghazi
Esperanto: eo Bengazi
Estonian: et Banghāzī
Finnish: fi Bengasi
French: fr Benghazi
Frisian:
West Frisian: fy Bengazy
Georgian: ka ბენღაზი
German: de Bengasi
Greek: el Βεγγάζη
Greenlandic: kl Benghazi
Hebrew: he בנגאזי
Hindi: hi बेनग़ाज़ी m
Hungarian: hu Bengázi
Indonesian: id Benghazi
Irish: ga Benghazi
Italian: it Bengasi
Japanese: ja ベンガジ Bengaji
Kazakh: kk Бенгази
Khmer: km បេងហ្គាហ្ស៊ី
Korean: ko 벵가지
Latin: la Hesperides
Latvian: lv Bengāzī
Lithuanian: lt Bengazis
Malay: ms Benghazi
Marathi: mr बेनगाझी n
Neapolitan: nap Bengasi
Norwegian: no Benghazi
Occitan: oc Bengazi
Persian: fa بنغازی
Piedmontese: pms Bèngasi
Polish: pl Bengazi
Portuguese: pt Bengasi
Romanian: ro Benghazi
Russian: ru Бенга́зи m
Scots: sco Benghazi
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: sh Бенгази
Sicilian: scn Bengasi
Slovak: sk Bengázi
Slovene: sl Bengazi
Spanish: es Bengasi m, es Bengazi m
Swedish: sv Benghazi
Tajik: tg Бенғази
Tamil: ta பங்காசி
Thai: th เบงกาซี baynggaasee
Turkish: tr Bingazi
Ottoman Turkish: ota بنغازی Bingâzi
Ukrainian: uk Бенгазі
Vietnamese: vi Benghazi
Volapük: vo Bängasi
Welsh: cy Benghazi
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