Algiers

English

Etymology

From French Algiers, 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. Doublet of Algeria and Algeciras.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ælˈdʒɪə(ɹ)z/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ælˈd͡ʒiɹz/
• Rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)z

Proper noun

Algiers

2. The capital and largest city of Algeria.
4. A province of Algeria.

Translations

the capital of Algeria

• Afrikaans: Algiers
• Albanian: Algjer m
• Amharic: አልጀርስ (ʾälǧärs)
• Antillean Creole: Aljé
• Arabic: الْجَزَائِر (ar) f pl (al-jazāʔir)

  Algerian Arabic: الدزاير (ed-dzāyir)

  Egyptian Arabic: الجزاير (el-gazāyer)

  Moroccan Arabic: الجزائر (el-jazāʔir), الجزاير (el-jazāyir)

• Aramaic:

  Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܓܙܐܝܪ (gzˀir)

• Armenian: Ալժիր (hy) (Alžir)
• Asturian: Arxel (ast)
• Azerbaijani: Əlcəzair (az)
• Bashkir: Алжир (Aljir)
• Belarusian: Алжы́р m (Alžýr), Альжы́р m (Alʹžýr) (Taraškevica)
• Bulgarian: Алжи́р m (Alžír)
• Burmese: အယ်လဂျီးယားမြို့ (aila.gyi:ya:mrui.)
• Catalan: Alger (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 阿爾及爾／阿尔及尔 (aa³ ji⁵ aa³ ji⁵)

  Mandarin: 阿爾及爾／阿尔及尔 (zh) (Ā'ěrjí'ěr)

• Corsican: Algeri f
• Czech: Alžír (cs) m
• Danish: Algier (da) n
• Dutch: Algiers (nl) n
• Esperanto: Alĝero (eo)
• Finnish: Alger (fi)
• French: Alger (fr) m or f
• Galician: Alxer (gl)
• German: Algier (de) n
• Greek: Αλγέρι (el) n (Algéri)
• Hebrew: אַלְגִ׳יר f (aljír)
• Hindi: अल्जीयर्स m (aljīyars)
• Hungarian: Algír (hu)
• Icelandic: Algeirsborg
• Ido: Aljer (io)
• Indonesian: Aljir, Aljazair (id) (obsolete)
• Irish: Cathair na hAilgéire f
• Italian: Algeri (it) f
• Japanese: アルジェ (ja) (Aruje)
• Kabyle: ⴷⵣⴰⵢⴻ (dzayer)
• Kazakh: Алжир (kk) (Aljir)
• Khmer: អាល់ហ្សេ (km) (ʼalzee)
• Korean: 알제 (Alje)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: Cezayir (ku)

• Kyrgyz: Алжир (ky) (Aljir)
• Latin: Algeria f
• Latvian: Alžīra
• Lithuanian: Alžyras (lt)
• Macedonian: Алжир (mk) m (Alžir)
• Maltese: Alġier
• Marathi: अ‍ॅल्जियर्स (a‍ĕljiyarsa)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: Алжир (Alžir)

• Navajo: Áljiis
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Alger (no)

  Nynorsk: Alger

• Occitan: Argièr m, Argèr m, Argèir m, Algièr m
• Ottoman Turkish: جزائر (Cezâyir), جزائر غرب (Cezâyir-i Garb)
• Pashto: الجزيره f (alǰazirá)
• Persian: الجزیره (aljazire)
• Polish: Algier (pl) m
• Portuguese: Argel (pt) m
• Romanian: Alger (ro)
• Russian: Алжи́р (ru) m (Alžír)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: А̀лжӣр m

  Roman: Àlžīr (sh) m

• Sicilian: Algeri f
• Sinhalese: ඇල්ජිරියස් (æljiriyas)
• Slovak: Alžír (sk) m
• Slovene: Alžir (sl) m
• Spanish: Argel (es) m
• Swedish: Alger (sv) n
• Tagalog: Arhel
• Tajik: Алҷазира (Aljazira)
• Tamil: அல்ஜியர்ஸ் (aljiyars)
• Tatar: Әлҗәзаир (Älcäzair)
• Thai: แอลเจียร์ส (ɛl-jìiat), อัลเจียร์ส
• Tibetan: ཨཱལ་ཇི་ཡར་སི (āl ji yar si)
• Turkish: Cezayir (tr)
• Ukrainian: Алжи́р (uk) m (Alžýr)
• Urdu: الجزائر m (aljazā'ir)
• Uyghur: ئالجىر (aljir)
• Uzbek: Jazoir (uz)
• Vietnamese: An-giê
• Yiddish: אַלזשיר n (alzhir)

Anagrams

• airlegs, largies, sea-girl

Afrikaans

Proper noun

Algiers

1. Algiers (the capital and largest city of Algeria)

Derived terms

• Algierser

Adjective

Algiers (attributive Algierse, not comparable)

1. of, from, or pertaining to the Algerian city Algiers or its inhabitants

Dutch

Etymology

Ultimately from Arabic اَلْجَزَائِر (al-jazāʔir). This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑlˈɣiːrs/

• Audio (Netherlands):

  (file)

• Hyphenation: Al‧giers
• Rhymes: -iːrs

Proper noun

Algiers n

1. Algiers (the capital and largest city of Algeria)