Algiers

English

Flag of Algiers (sense 1)

Location of Algiers (sense 3)

Etymology

From French Alger, 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. For the New Orleans neighborhood, the name is ultimately uncertain.

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.
6. (historical) A historical autonomous province and vassal state of the Ottoman Empire, located in what is now the country of Algeria, also called the Regency of Algiers.
8. A neighborhood of New Orleans, Louisiana, United States.

Derived terms

• algerine

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)

  Ancient Greek: Ἰκόσιον n (Ikósion)

• 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: Lezzayer f
• Kazakh: Алжир (kk) (Aljir)
• Khmer: អាល់ហ្សេ (km) (ʼalzee)
• Korean: 알제 (Alje)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: Cezayir (ku)

• Kyrgyz: Алжир (ky) (Aljir)
• Latin: Algeria f, Icosium 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
• Pannonian Rusyn: Алжир m (Alžir)
• 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

  Latin: 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)

  Ottoman Turkish: جزائر (Cezâyir), جزائر غرب (Cezâyir-i Garb)

• 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)