ghazeeyeh

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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Egyptian Arabic غازية (ḡāziyya), plural غوازي (ḡawāzi).

Pronunciation

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Noun

ghazeeyeh (plural ghazeeyehs or ghawazee)

  1. An Egyptian dancing girl
    Synonym: ghawazee

Further reading

  • Cameron, Donald Andreas (1892) An Arabic-English vocabulary for the use of English students of modern Egyptian Arabic, London: Bernard Quaritch, page 193a