الجزائر

The broken plural of جَزِيرَة‎ (jazīra, “island”) has come to be the proper name for Algeria, its capital, and the islands in its bay, as there were once several small islands in the Bay of Algiers. Most of these islands are now connected to the shore or have been removed. الْجَزَائِر‎ (al-jazāʔir) is itself a truncated form of the city's older name of جَزَائِر بَنِي مَزْغَنَّى‎ (jazāʔir banī mazḡannā, “the islands of (the tribe) Ait Mazghanna”), which was used by early medieval geographers such as Muhammad al-Idrisi and Yaqut al-Hamawi.

• IPA^(key): /al.d͡ʒa.zaː.ʔir/

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الْجَزَائِر • (al-jazāʔir) f pl

1. Algeria (a country in North Africa)
2. Algiers (the capital city of Algeria)

• → Azerbaijani: Əlcəzair
• → English: Algeria, Algiers
• → Spanish: Argelia
• → Indonesian: Aljazair
• → Turkish: Cezayir
• → Urdu: الجزائر‎

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

Borrowed from Arabic الْجَزَائِر‎ (al-jazāʔir).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /əl.d͡ʒə.zɑː.ɪɾ/
• (Deccani) IPA^(key): /əl.d͡ʒə.zɑː.ɪɾ/
• Rhymes: -ir

اَلْجَزَائِر • (transliteration needed) m (Hindi spelling अल-जज़ाइर)

1. Algeria (a country in the North Africa, Africa)

• الجزائری‎ (aljazāirī)