الإسكندرية

Arabic

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Ἀλεξάνδρεια (Alexándreia), full name Ἀλεξάνδρεια ἡ κατ’ Αἴγυπτον (Alexándreia hē kat’ Aígupton, “Alexandria in Egypt”), with initial Ἀλ- (Al-) reanalyzed as the Arabic definite article, metathesis of ξ /ks/ to /sk/ and the ending -εια (-eia) (pronounced /ia/ in Koine Greek) assimilated to the common Arabic feminine adjectival ending ـِيَّة (-iyya).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /al.ʔis.kan.da.rij.ja/

Proper noun

الْإِسْكَنْدَرِيَّة • (al-ʔiskandariyya) f

1. Alexandria (a city in Egypt)
2. Alexandria (a governorate of Egypt)
3. Alexandria (a city in Virginia, United States)

Declension

Declension of noun الْإِسْكَنْدَرِيَّة (al-ʔiskandariyya)

singular	singular triptote in ـَة (-a)
	indefinite	definite	construct
informal	—	الْإِسْكَنْدَرِيَّة al-ʔiskandariyya	—
nominative	—	الْإِسْكَنْدَرِيَّةُ al-ʔiskandariyyatu	—
accusative	—	الْإِسْكَنْدَرِيَّةَ al-ʔiskandariyyata	—
genitive	—	الْإِسْكَنْدَرِيَّةِ al-ʔiskandariyyati	—

Derived terms

• إِسْكَنْدَرَانِيّ (ʔiskandarāniyy)

Descendants

• → Azerbaijani: İsgəndəriyyə
• → Bashkir: Искәндәриә (İskəndəriə)
• → Chagatai: اسکندریه (ʾskndryh)
  • Uzbek: Iskandariya
• → Ottoman Turkish: اسكندریه
  • Turkish: İskenderiye
• → Persian: اسکندریه
  • → Bengali: ইস্কান্দরিয়া (iskandoriẏa)
  • → Gujarati: ઇસ્કંદરિયા (iskandriyā)
  • → Punjabi: اِسکَندَرِیَہ (īskandariyah)
  • → Urdu: اِسکَندَرِیَہ

See also

governorates of Egypt: مُحَافَظَات مِصْر (muḥāfaẓāt miṣr)edit

• أَسْوَان (ʔaswān)
• أَسْيُوط (ʔasyūṭ)
• البَحْر الأَحْمَر (al-baḥr al-ʔaḥmar)
• البُحَيْرَة (al-buḥayra)
• الجِيزَة (al-jīza)
• الدَقَهْلِيَّة (ad-daqahliyya)
• الشَرْقِيَّة (aš-šarqiyya)
• الفَيُّوم (al-fayyūm)
• القَلْيُوبِيَّة (al-qalyūbiyya)
• المِنُوفِيَّة (al-minūfiyya)
• المِنْيَا (al-minyā)
• الوَادِي الجَدِيد (al-wādī l-jadīd)
• الْأُقْصُر (al-ʔuqṣur)
• الْإِسْكَنْدَرِيَّة (al-ʔiskandariyya)
• الْإِسْمَاعِيلِيَّة (al-ʔismāʕīliyya)
• الْغَرْبِيَّة (al-ḡarbiyya)
• الْقَاهِرَة (al-qāhira)
• اَلسُّوَيْس (as-suways)
• بَنِي سُوَيْف (banī suwayf)
• بُورْسَعِيد (būrsaʕīd)
• جَنُوب سِينَاء (janūb sīnāʔ)
• دُمْيَاط (dumyāṭ)
• سَوْهَاج (sawhāj)
• شَمَال سِينَاء (šamāl sīnāʔ)
• قِنَا (qinā)
• كَفْر الشَيْخ (kafr aš-šayḵ)
• مَطْرُوح (maṭrūḥ)

References

• Wehr, Hans (1979), “إسكندرية”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN