غزة

See also: غزه‎, غره‎, and غرة‎

Arabic

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ɣaz.za/

Proper noun

غَزَّة • (ḡazza) f

  1. Gaza (a city in Gaza Strip, Palestine)
    • a. 1229, Yāqūt al-Ḥamawīy, Ferdinand Wüstenfeld, editor, كتاب معجم البلدان [kitāb muʿjam al-buldān]‎, volume 3, Leipzig: F.A. Brockhaus, published 1868, page 799:
    • 1865 CE, Bible (SVD), Book of Judges, 16:1:
      ‏ثُمَّ ذَهَبَ شَمْشُونُ إِلَى غَزَّةَ، وَرَأَى هُنَاكَ ٱمْرَأَةً زَانِيَةً فَدَخَلَ إِلَيْهَا.‎‎
      ṯumma ḏahaba šamšūnu ʔilā ḡazzata, wa-raʔā hunāka mraʔatan zāniyatan fa-daḵala ʔilayhā.
      Then went Samson to Gaza, and saw there a harlot, and went in unto her.

Declension
Declension of noun غَزَّة (ḡazza)
Singular singular diptote in ـَة (-a)
Indefinite Definite Construct
Informal — غَزَّة
ḡazza		 —
Nominative — غَزَّةُ
ḡazzatu		 —
Accusative — غَزَّةَ
ḡazzata		 —
Genitive — غَزَّةَ
ḡazzata		 —

South Levantine Arabic

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ɣaz.ze/, [ˈɣaz.ze]
  • Audio (al-Lidd)(file)

Proper noun

غزّة • (ḡazze) f

  1. Gaza (a city in Gaza Strip, Palestine)

See also
  • غزّاوي‎ (ḡazzāwi, “Gazan”)
  • قطاع غزّة‎ (qiṭāʕ ḡazze, “the Gaza Strip”)
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