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Algeria
Etymology
From Alger + -ia , modified based on French Algérie , from the French Alger ( “ Algiers ” ) + -ie , from Algerian Arabic الدزَاير ( al-dzayir ) , 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.[ 1] Doublet of Algiers and Algeciras .
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Algeria
A country in North Africa . Official name: People's Democratic Republic of Algeria . Capital and largest city: Algiers .
( historical ) Ottoman Algeria, also the regency of Algiers or al-Jazā’ir in Arabic, from 1515 to 1830
( historical ) French or Colonial Algeria, from 1830 to 1962
The People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria , since 1962
Derived terms
Descendants
Translations
country
Abkhaz: Алжир ( Alẑir ) , Алџьаир ( Aldžajr )
Acehnese: Aljazair
Adyghe: Алжир ( Alžir )
Afrikaans: Algerië
Albanian: Algjeri (sq) f ( indefinite ) , Algjeria (sq) f
Algerian Sign Language: please add this translation if you can
Amharic: አልጄሪያ ( ʾälǧeriya )
Arabic: الْجَزَائِر (ar) f pl ( al-jazāʔir )
Algerian Arabic: الدزَاير ( al-dzayir )
Egyptian Arabic: الجزاير f ( el-gazayer )
Hassaniya Arabic: please add this translation if you can
Moroccan Arabic: الجزاير ( el-jazāyir )
Aragonese: Alcheria
Armenian: Ալժիր (hy) ( Alžir )
Assamese: আলজেৰিয়া ( alzeria )
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܓܲܙܵܐܝܼܪ ( gāzaʾir )
Asturian: Arxelia (ast) f
Azerbaijani: Əlcəzair (az)
Bashkir: Алжир ( Aljir )
Basque: Aljeria
Belarusian: Алжы́р m ( Alžýr ) , Альжы́р m ( Alʹžýr ) ( Taraškevica )
Bengali: আলজেরিয়া (bn) ( aljeriẏa )
Breton: Aljeria (br)
Bulgarian: Алжи́р m ( Alžír )
Burmese: အယ်လ်ဂျီးရီးယား ( ailgyi:ri:ya: )
Catalan: Algèria (ca) f
Central Atlas Tamazight: ⵍⵣⵣⴰⵢⴻⵔ ( lzzayer ) , ⴷⵣⴰⵢⴻⵔ ( dzayer )
Cherokee: ᎠᎵᏥᎵᏯ ( alitsiliya )
Chinese:
Cantonese: 阿爾及利亞 / 阿尔及利亚 ( aa3 ji5 kap6 lei6 aa3 )
Mandarin: 阿爾及利亞 / 阿尔及利亚 (zh) ( Ā'ěrjílìyà )
Coptic: ⲛⲓⲛⲏⲥⲟⲥ ( ninēsos )
Cornish: Aljeri
Corsican: Algeria f , Alghjeria f
Crimean Tatar: Cezair
Czech: Alžírsko (cs) n
Danish: Algeriet (da) n
Dhivehi: ޖަޒާއިރު ( jazāiru )
Dutch: Algerije (nl) n
Esperanto: Alĝerio (eo)
Estonian: Alžeeria (et)
Faroese: Algeria n
Finnish: Algeria (fi)
French: Algérie (fr) f
Galician: Alxeria (gl) f
Georgian: ალჟირი (ka) ( alžiri )
German: Algerien (de) n
Greek: Αλγερία (el) f ( Algería )
Gujarati: અલ્જીરિયા ( aljīriyā )
Haitian Creole: Aljeri
Hausa: Aljeriya
Hawaiian: ʻAlekelia
Hebrew: אַלְגִ׳ירְיָה f ( aljírya )
Hindi: अल्जीरिया (hi) m ( aljīriyā )
Hungarian: Algéria (hu)
Icelandic: Alsír (is) n
Indonesian: Aljazair (id)
Interlingua: Algeria
Irish: An Ailgéir f
Italian: Algeria (it) f
Japanese: アルジェリア (ja) ( Arujeria )
Kabardian: Алджазаир ( Aldžazajir )
Kabyle: Leddzayer , Lezzayer
Kalenjin: Aljeria
Kamba: Aljeria
Kannada: ಅಲ್ಜೀರಿಯ ( aljīriya )
Kazakh: Алжир (kk) ( Aljir ) , Жезаир ( Jezair )
Khmer: អាល់ហ្សេរី ( ʼalzeerii )
Kikuyu: Aljeria
Korean: 알제리 (ko) ( Aljeri )
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: جەزایر ( cezayr )
Northern Kurdish: Cezayir (ku)
Kyrgyz: Алжир (ky) ( Aljir ) , Алжазайыр ( Aljazayır )
Ladino: Arjelia
Lao: ອານເຍຣີ ( ʼān nyē rī )
Latin: Algerium
Latvian: Alžīrija (lv) f
Lithuanian: Alžyras (lt) m
Luhya: Aljeria
Luo: Aljeria
Luxembourgish: Algerien
Macedonian: Алжир (mk) m ( Alžir )
Malagasy: Alzeria
Malay: Algeria (ms)
Malayalam: അൾജീരിയ ( aḷjīriya )
Maltese: l-Alġerija f
Maori: Aratiria
Marathi: अल्जेरिया ( aljeriyā )
Meru: Aljeria
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: Алжир ( Alžir )
Nauruan: Algeria
Navajo: Aljííya
Norman: Algérie f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: Algerie (no) n
Nynorsk: Algerie (nn) n
Occitan: Argeria (oc) f , Algeria f
Pashto: الجزاير (ps) m ( aljazāyᶕr )
Persian:
Dari: اَلْجَزَایِر ( aljazāyir )
Iranian Persian: اَلْجَزایِر ( aljazâyer )
Polish: Algieria (pl) f
Portuguese: Argélia (pt) f
Romanian: Algeria (ro) f
Romansch: Algeria
Russian: Алжи́р (ru) m ( Alžír )
Sardinian: Algeria f
Scots: Algerie
Scottish Gaelic: Algeria
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: А̀лжӣр m
Roman: Àlžīr (sh) m
Shan: မိူင်းဢႄးၵျီးရီးယႃး ( móeng ʼáae kjíi ríi yáa )
Sicilian: Algirìa f
Sinhalese: ඇල්ජීරියාව ( æljīriyāwa )
Slovak: Alžírsko (sk) n
Slovene: Alžírija (sl) f
Spanish: Argelia (es) f
Swahili: Algeria (sw) , Aljeria (sw)
Swedish: Algeriet (sv) n
Tachawit: please add this translation if you can
Tagalog: Arhelya
Tajik: Алҷазоир (tg) ( Aljazoyir )
Tamil: அல்சீரியா ( alcīriyā )
Tashelhit: please add this translation if you can
Tatar: Әлҗәзаир ( Älcäzair ) , Алжир ( Aljir )
Thai: แอลจีเรีย (th) ( ɛl-jii-riia )
Tibetan: ཨཱལ་ཇི་རི་ཡ ( āl ji ri ya )
Tigrinya: ኣልጀርያ ( ʾalǧärya )
Turkish: Cezayir (tr)
Turkmen: Alžir
Ukrainian: Алжи́р (uk) m ( Alžýr )
Urdu: اَلْجَزَائِر m ( aljazāir ) , اَلْجِیرِیا m ( aljīriyā )
Uyghur: ئالجىرىيە (ug) ( aljiriye )
Uzbek: Jazoir (uz)
Vietnamese: An-giê-ri
Võro: Alžeeriä
Welsh: Algeria (cy)
West Frisian: Algerije n
Yiddish: אַלזשיר ( alzhir ) , אַלגעריע ( algerye )
See also
Appendix:Countries of the world
(countries of Africa ) countries of Africa ; Algeria , Angola , Benin , Botswana , Burkina Faso , Burundi , Cabo Verde , Cameroon , Central African Republic , Chad , Comoros , Côte d'Ivoire , Democratic Republic of the Congo , Djibouti , Egypt , Equatorial Guinea , Eritrea , Eswatini , Ethiopia , Gabon , Gambia , Ghana , Guinea , Guinea-Bissau , Kenya , Lesotho , Liberia , Libya , Madagascar , Malawi , Mali , Mauritania , Mauritius , Morocco , Mozambique , Namibia , Niger , Nigeria , Republic of the Congo , Rwanda , São Tomé and Príncipe , Senegal , Seychelles , Sierra Leone , Somalia , South Africa , South Sudan , Sudan , Tanzania , Togo , Tunisia , Uganda , Western Sahara , Zambia , Zimbabwe (Category: en:Countries in Africa ) [edit ]
(provinces of Algeria ) province of Algeria ; Adrar , Aïn Defla , Aïn Témouchent , Algiers , Annaba , Batna , Béchar , Béjaïa , Béni Abbès , Biskra , Blida , Bordj Badji Mokhtar , Bordj Bou Arréridj , Bouira , Boumerdès , Chlef , Constantine , Djanet , Djelfa , El Bayadh , El Meghaier , El Meniaa , El Oued , El Tarf , Ghardaïa , Guelma , Illizi , In Guezzam , In Salah , Jijel , Khenchela , Laghouat , M'sila , Mascara , Médéa , Mila , Mostaganem , Naama , Oran , Ouargla , Ouled Djellal , Oum el Bouaghi , Relizane , Saïda , Sétif , Sidi Bel Abbès , Skikda , Souk Ahras , Sétif , Tamanrasset , Tébessa , Tiaret , Timimoun , Tindouf , Tipaza , Tissemsilt , Tizi Ouzou , Tlemcen , Touggourt (Category: en:Provinces of Algeria )
References
^ Stephan Guth, editor (2013–2025 ), “ǧazar‑ جَزَرَ ”, in Etymological Dictionary of Arabic , University of Oslo, Bibliotheca Polyglotta, retrieved 30 July 2019 .
Anagrams
Finnish
Etymology
From French Algérie . Compare English Algeria .
Pronunciation
IPA (key ) : /ˈɑlɡeriɑ/ ,
Rhymes: -iɑ
Hyphenation(key ) : Al‧ge‧ria
Proper noun
Algeria
Algeria (a country in North Africa )
Declension
Proper noun
Algeria
partitive singular of Alger
Derived terms
( compounds ):
Anagrams
Italian
Etymology
From Arabic اَلْجَزَائِر ( al-jazāʔir , “ the islands ” ) , plural of جَزِيرَة ( jazīra , “ island ” ) , referring to the several small islands that once existed in the Bay of Algiers.
Pronunciation
IPA (key ) : /al.d͡ʒeˈri.a/
Rhymes: -ia
Hyphenation: Al‧ge‧rì‧a
Proper noun
Algeria f
Algeria (a country in North Africa )
Derived terms
Anagrams
Romanian
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium .)
Pronunciation
IPA (key ) : /alˈd͡ʒe.ri.a/
Rhymes: -eria
Hyphenation: Al‧ge‧ri‧a
Proper noun
Algeria f (genitive/dative Algeriei )
Algeria (a country in North Africa )
Declension
Swahili
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Algeria
Algeria (a country in North Africa )
See also
(countries of Africa ) nchi za Afrika ; Algeria or Aljeria , Angola , Benin , Botswana , Burkina Faso , Burundi , Cabo Verde , Kamerun or Cameroon or Kameruni , Jamhuri ya Afrika ya Kati , Chad or Chadi , Komori or Visiwa vya Ngazija , Cote d'Ivoire or Kodivaa , Jamhuri ya Kidemokrasia ya Kongo or Kongo-Kinshasa , Jibuti or Djibouti , Misri or Umisri , Guinea ya Ikweta or Ginekweta , Eritrea , Ethiopia or Uhabeshi or Habeshi , Gabon , Gambia , Ghana , Guinea or Gine or Gini , Guinea Bisau or Guinea-Bisau or Ginebisau , Kenya , Lesotho , Liberia , Libya , Madagaska or Bukini , Malawi or Unyasa , Mali , Mauritania , Morisi , Mayotte , Moroko or Maroko , Msumbiji or Mozambik , Namibia , Niger or Nijeri , Nigeria or Nijeria or Naijeria , Jamhuri ya Kongo or Kongo-Brazzaville , Réunion , Rwanda or Ruanda , Mtakatifu Helena , Sao Tome na Principe , Senegal or Senegali , Shelisheli , Sierra Leone , Somalia , Afrika Kusini , Sudan Kusini , Sudan , Uswazi or Swaziland , Tanzania , Togo , Tunisia , Uganda , Sahara ya Magharibi , Zambia , Zimbabwe (Category: sw:Countries in Africa ) [edit ]
Welsh
Etymology
From English Algeria , from French Algérie , ultimately from Arabic اَلْجَزَائِر ( al-jazāʔir ) .
Pronunciation
IPA (key ) : /alˈd͡ʒɛrja/ , /alˈd͡ʒiːrja/
Proper noun
Algeria f
Algeria (a country in North Africa )
Derived terms
Mutation
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
See also
(countries of Africa ) gwledydd Affrica ; yr Aifft , Algeria , Angola , Benin , Botswana , Bwrcina Ffaso , Bwrwndi , Cabo Verde , Camerŵn , Cenia , y Comoros , De Affrica , De Swdan , Eritrea , Eswatini , Ethiopia , Gabon , Gambia , Ghana , Gini , Gini Bisaw , Gini Gyhydeddol , Gorllewin Sahara , Gweriniaeth Canolbarth Affrica , Gweriniaeth Ddemocrataidd y Congo , Gweriniaeth y Congo , Jibwti , Lesotho , Liberia , Libia , Madagasgar , Malawi , Mali , Mawrisiws , Mawritania , Moroco , Mosambic , Namibia , Niger , Nigeria , Rwanda , Sambia , São Tomé a Príncipe , Senegal , y Seychelles , Sierra Leone , Simbabwe , Somalia , Swdan , Tansania , Tiwnisia , Togo , y Traeth Ifori , Tsiad , Wganda (Category: cy:Countries in Africa ) [edit ]