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Algeria
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English
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Etymology
en :af Algiers<alt:Alger> -ia<id:place> :influence fr:Algérie 1
From en Alger -ia place, modified based on en fr Algérie, from the French fr Alger Algiers -ie 1, from en arq الدزَاير ed-dzayer, from en ar اَلْجَزَائِر the islands (with elision of the first vowel), plural of ar جَزِيرَة island, referring to the several small islands that once existed in the Bay of Algiers.ǧazar‑ جَزَرَ http://www2.hf.uio.no/common/apps/permlink/permlink.php?app=polyglotta&context=record&uid=337b8bff-7861-11ed-9f71-005056a97067 30 July 2019 en Algiers Algeciras. en ar ج ز ر
Pronunciation
en /ælˈdʒɪəɹi.ə/ RP,AU
en /alˈdʒɪːɹɪjə/ SSB
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Soundguys-Algeria.wav SSB
en /ælˈdʒɪɹi.ə/ GA
en En-us-Algeria.ogg US
en /ɛlˈdʒiəɹi.ə/ NZ
en /alˈdʒiɾe.ə/ [alˈdʒiːɾe.ə] Scotland
en /alˈdʒɛːɹi.ə/ East Anglia,cheer-chair
en ɪɹiə 4
Proper noun
en Q262en country r/North Africa Algiers People's Democratic Republic of Algeria. from 1575 Algerian adj. & n. 1059269477 June 2025 1
en historical Ottoman Algeria, also the regency of Algiers or al-Jazā’ir in Arabic, from 1515 to 1830.
en 1978 Kołakowski Leszek Leszek Kołakowski w:Main Currents of Marxism II: The Golden Age pl Główne nurty marksizmu: rozwój P[aul] S[teven] Falla 1976 w:Clarendon Press w:Oxford 9780198245698 961252281 89 https://archive.org/details/maincurrentsofma00lesz/page/89 Engels welcomed the United States' conquest of territory from Mexico and the French colonization of Algeria: the Bedouin were a race of bandits anyhow.
en historical French or Colonial Algeria, from 1830 to 1962.
The People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria, since 1962.
Derived terms
en Algerine Algerian French Algeria
Descendants
haw ʻAlekelia 1
ja 1 アルジェリア Arujeria
Translations
Q262 country
Abkhaz: ab Алжир, ab Алџьаир
Acehnese: ace Aljazair
Afrikaans: af Algerië
Albanian: sq Algjeri f indefinite, sq Algjeria f
Algerian Sign Language: asp
Amharic: am አልጄሪያ
Arabic: ar الْجَزَائِر f-p
Algerian Arabic: arq الدزَاير al-dzayir
Egyptian Arabic: arz الجزاير f el-gazayer
Hassaniya Arabic: mey
Moroccan Arabic: ary الجزاير el-jazāyir
Tunisian Arabic: aeb دزِايِر dzēyer
Aragonese: an Alcheria
Aramaic:
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: aii ܓܲܙܵܐܝܼܪ gāzaʾir
Armenian: hy Ալժիր
Assamese: as আলজেৰিয়া alzeria
Asturian: ast Arxelia f
Azerbaijani: az Əlcəzair
Balinese: ban Algéria, ban Aljazair
Bashkir: ba Алжир
Basque: eu Aljeria
Belarusian: be Алжы́р m, be Альжы́р m Taraškevica
Bengali: bn আলজেরিয়া
Betawi: bew Aljajaèr, bew Jajaèr
Breton: br Aljeria
Bulgarian: bg Алжи́р m
Burmese: my အယ်လ်ဂျီးရီးယား
Catalan: ca Algèria f
Central Atlas Tamazight: tzm ⵍⵣⵣⴰⵢⴻⵔ, tzm ⴷⵣⴰⵢⴻⵔ
Chechen: ce Алжазаира
Cherokee: chr ᎠᎵᏥᎵᏯ
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 阿爾及利亞 aa3 ji5 kap6 lei6 aa3
Mandarin: cmn 阿爾及利亞 Ā'ěrjílìyà
Circassian:
East Circassian: kbd Алджазаир
West Circassian: ady Алжир
Coptic: cop ⲛⲓⲛⲏⲥⲟⲥ
Cornish: kw Aljeri
Corsican: co Algeria f, co Alghjeria f
Crimean Tatar: crh Cezair
Czech: cs Alžírsko n
Danish: da Algeriet n
Dhivehi: dv ޖަޒާއިރު
Dutch: nl Algerije n
Esperanto: eo Alĝerio
Estonian: et Alžeeria
Faroese: fo Algeria n
Finnish: fi Algeria
French: fr Algérie f
Frisian:
West Frisian: fy Algerije n
Galician: gl Alxeria f
Georgian: ka ალჟირი
German: de Algerien n
Greek: el Αλγερία f
Gujarati: gu અલ્જીરિયા
Haitian Creole: ht Aljeri
Hausa: ha Aljeriya
Hawaiian: haw ʻAlekelia
Hebrew: he אַלְגִ׳ירְיָה f aljírya
Hindi: hi अल्जीरिया m
Hungarian: hu Algéria
Icelandic: is Alsír n
Indonesian: id Aljazair
Interlingua: ia Algeria
Irish: ga Ailgéir f An Ailgéir
Italian: it Algeria f
Japanese: ja アルジェリア Arujeria
Javanese: jv Algir
Kabyle: kab Lezzayer f
Kalenjin: kln Aljeria
Kamba: kam Aljeria
Kannada: kn ಅಲ್ಜೀರಿಯ
Kazakh: kk Алжир, kk Жезаир
Khmer: km អាល់ហ្សេរី
Kikuyu: ki Aljeria
Korean: ko ^알제리
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: ckb جەزایر
Northern Kurdish: kmr Cezayir
Kyrgyz: ky Алжир, ky Алжазайыр
Ladino: lad Arjelia
Lao: lo ອານເຍຣີ
Latin: la Algerium
Latvian: lv Alžīrija f
Lithuanian: lt Alžyras m
Luhya: luy Aljeria
Luo: luo Aljeria
Luxembourgish: lb Algerien
Macedonian: mk Алжир m
Malagasy: mg Alzeria
Malay: ms Algeria
Malayalam: ml അൾജീരിയ
Maltese: mt Alġerija f l-Alġerija
Māori: mi Aratiria
Marathi: mr अल्जेरिया
Meru: mer Aljeria
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: mn Алжир
Nauruan: na Algeria
Navajo: nv Aljííya
Norman: nrf Algérie f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: nb Algerie n
Nynorsk: nn Algerie n
Occitan: oc Argeria f, oc Algeria f
Pannonian Rusyn: rsk Алжир m
Pashto: ps الجزاير m aljazāyᶕr
Persian:
Dari: prs اَلْجَزَایِر
Iranian Persian: fa-ira اَلْجَزایِر
Polish: pl Algieria f
Portuguese: pt Argélia f
Romanian: ro Algeria f
Romansh: rm Algeria
Russian: ru Алжи́р m
Sardinian: sc Algeria f
Scots: sco Algerie
Scottish Gaelic: gd Algeria
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: sh А̀лжӣр m
Latin: sh Àlžīr m
Shan: shn မိူင်းဢႄးၵျီးရီးယႃး
Sicilian: scn Algirìa f
Sinhalese: si ඇල්ජීරියාව
Slovak: sk Alžírsko n
Slovene: sl Alžírija f
Spanish: es Argelia f
Sundanese: su Aljazair
Swahili: sw Algeria, sw Aljeria
Swedish: sv Algeriet n
Tachawit: shy
Tagalog: tl Arhelya
Tajik: tg Алҷазоир
Tamil: ta அல்சீரியா, ta அல்ஜீரியா
Tashelhit: shi ddzayr
Tatar: tt Әлҗәзаир, tt Алжир
Thai: th แอลจีเรีย
Tibetan: bo ཨཱལ་ཇི་རི་ཡ
Tigrinya: ti ኣልጀርያ
Turkish: tr Cezayir
Turkmen: tk Alžir
Ukrainian: uk Алжи́р m
Urdu: ur اَلْجَزَائِر m, ur اَلْجِیرِیا m
Uyghur: ug ئالجىرىيە
Uzbek: uz Jazoir
Vietnamese: vi An-giê-ri, vi Algérie
Võro: vro Alžeeriä
Welsh: cy Algeria
Wolaytta: wal Aljjeeriya
Yiddish: yi אַלזשיר, yi אַלגעריע
See also
(ISO codes) mul DZ, mul DZA
References
Anagrams
en aaegilr lairage regalia
en exonyms
Finnish
fi:
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From fi fr Algérie. Compare en Algeria.
Proper noun
fi Algeria Q262
Declension
sg Algeri a
Derived terms
fi algerialainen
fi compounds algerianarabia algeriangundi algeriannakkeli algeriantamaani
Etymology 2
Proper noun
fi proper noun form
fi Alger par s
Anagrams
fi aaegilr regaali
Italian
it:
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Etymology
From it ar اَلْجَزَائِر the islands, plural of ar جَزِيرَة island, referring to the several small islands that once existed in the Bay of Algiers.
Pronunciation
+<audio:It-Algeria.ogg>
Proper noun
f
it Algeria Q262
Derived terms
it algerino
Anagrams
it aaegilr aligera regalai regalia
it exonyms
Romanian
ro:
Etymology
ro :bor fr:Algérie + 1
Pronunciation
ro /alˈd͡ʒe.ri.a/
ro LL-Q7913 (ron)-KlaudiuMihaila-Algeria.wav
ro eria 4
ro Al ge ri a
Proper noun
ro proper noun f genitive/dative Algeriei
ro Algeria Q262
Declension
Algeri sg
Related terms
ro Alger
ro algerian
ro algeriană
Swahili
sw:
Alternative forms
sw Aljeria
Pronunciation
sw Sw-ke-Algeria.flac Kenya
Proper noun
sw proper noun
sw Algeria Q262
See also
Welsh
cy:
Etymology
From cy en Algeria, from cy fr Algérie, ultimately from cy ar اَلْجَزَائِر.
Pronunciation
cy /alˈd͡ʒɛrja/ /alˈd͡ʒiːrja/
Proper noun
f
cy Algeria Q262
Derived terms
cy Algeraidd<t:Algerian><pos:adjective> Algeriad<t:Algerian (man/woman)> delor cnau Algeria<t:Kabylie nuthatch> derw Algeria<t:Algerian oak> gellesg Algeria<t:Algerian irises> Gweriniaeth Ddemocrataidd Pobl Algeria<t:People's Democratic Republic of Algeria> iorwg Algeria<t:Algerian ivy>
See also
Mutation
cy exonyms