Benghazi

English

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish بنغازى (Bingâzi) and Arabic بِنْغَازِي (Binḡāzī), apparently from earlier 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)".

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /bɛnˈɡɑ.zi/

Proper noun

Benghazi

1. A port city in eastern Libya.

Derived terms

• Benghazi boiler
• Benghazi Handicap

Translations

Benghazi, Libya

• Afrikaans: Benghazi
• Arabic: بِنْغَازِي m (binḡāzī)
• Armenian: Բենղազի (Benġazi)
• Azerbaijani: Benqazi
• Basque: Bengazi
• Belarusian: Бенгазі (Bjenhazi)
• Bikol Central: Benghazi
• Breton: Benghazi
• Bulgarian: Бенгази (Bengazi)
• Catalan: Bengasi
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 班加西 (zh) (Bānjiāxī)

• Czech: Benghází
• Danish: Benghazi
• Dutch: Benghazi
• Esperanto: Bengazi
• Estonian: Banghāzī
• Finnish: Bengasi
• French: Benghazi (fr)
• Georgian: ბენღაზი (benɣazi)
• German: Bengasi
• Greek: Βεγγάζη (el) (Vengázi)
• Greenlandic: Benghazi
• Hebrew: בנגאזי
• Hungarian: Bengázi (hu)
• Indonesian: Benghazi
• Irish: Benghazi
• Italian: Bengasi
• Japanese: ベンガジ (Bengaji)
• Kazakh: Бенгази (Beñazi)
• Khmer: បេងហ្គាហ្ស៊ី (beenggiəhsii)
• Korean: 벵가지 (benggaji)
• Latin: Hesperides
• Latvian: Bengāzī
• Lithuanian: Bengazis
• Malay: Benghazi
• Marathi: बेनगाझी n (bengājhī)
• Neapolitan: Bengasi
• Norwegian: Benghazi
• Occitan: Bengazi
• Ottoman Turkish: بنغازى (Bingâzi)
• Persian: بنغازی
• Piedmontese: Bèngasi
• Polish: Bengazi
• Portuguese: Bengasi
• Romanian: Benghazi
• Russian: Бенга́зи m (Bengázi)
• Scots: Benghazi
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Бенгази

• Sicilian: Bengasi
• Slovak: Bengázi
• Slovene: Bengazi
• Spanish: Bengasi (es) m, Bengazi m
• Swedish: Benghazi
• Tajik: Бенғази (Benġazi)
• Tamil: பங்காசி (paṅkāci)
• Thai: เบงกาซี (baynggaasee)
• Turkish: Bingazi (tr)
• Ukrainian: Бенгазі (Benhazi)
• Vietnamese: Benghazi
• Volapük: Bängasi
• Welsh: Benghazi
• West Frisian: Bengazy