غزة
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
- 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.
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Declension
Declension of noun غَزَّة (ḡazza)
| Singular | singular diptote in ـَة (-a) | ||
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| Indefinite | Definite | Construct | |
| Informal | — | غَزَّة ḡazza |
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| Nominative | — | غَزَّةُ ḡazzatu |
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| Accusative | — | غَزَّةَ ḡazzata |
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| Genitive | — | غَزَّةَ ḡazzata |
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South Levantine Arabic
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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)
See also
- غزّاوي (ḡazzāwi, “Gazan”)
- قطاع غزّة (qiṭāʕ ḡazze, “the Gaza Strip”)
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