Algeria

See also: algerià, Algéria, and Algèria

English

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Algeria

Etymology

From Alger +‎ -ia, modified based on French Algérie, from the French Alger (“Algiers”) +‎ -ie, from Algerian Arabic الدزَاير (al-dzayir), from Arabic اَلْجَزَائِر (al-jazāʔir, “the islands”) (with elision of the first vowel), plural of جَزِيرَة (jazīra, “island”), referring to the several small islands that once existed in the Bay of Algiers. Doublet of Algiers and Algeciras.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ælˈdʒɪəɹiə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ælˈdʒɪɹiə/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɪɹiə

Proper noun

Algeria

2. A country in North Africa. Official name: People's Democratic Republic of Algeria. Capital and largest city: Algiers.
   1. (historical) Ottoman Algeria, also the regency of Algiers or al-Jazā’ir in Arabic, from 1515 to 1830
   2. (historical) French or Colonial Algeria, from 1830 to 1962
   3. The People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria, since 1962

Derived terms

• Algerian

Descendants

• → Japanese: アルジェリア (Arujeria)

Translations

country

• Abkhaz: Алжир (Alẑir), Алџьаир (Aldžajr)
• Acehnese: Aljazair
• Adyghe: Алжир (Alžir)
• Afrikaans: Algerië
• Albanian: Algjeri (sq) f (indefinite), Algjeria (sq) f
• Algerian Sign Language: please add this translation if you can
• Amharic: አልጄሪያ (ʾälǧeriya)
• Arabic: الْجَزَائِر (ar) f pl (al-jazāʔir)

  Algerian Arabic: الدزَاير (al-dzayir)

  Egyptian Arabic: الجزاير f (el-gazayer)

  Hassaniya Arabic: please add this translation if you can

  Moroccan Arabic: الجزاير (el-jazāyir)

• Aragonese: Alcheria
• Armenian: Ալժիր (hy) (Alžir)
• Assamese: আলজেৰিয়া (alzeria)
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܓܲܙܵܐܝܼܪ (gāzaʾir)
• Asturian: Arxelia (ast) f
• Azerbaijani: Əlcəzair (az)
• Bashkir: Алжир (Aljir)
• Basque: Aljeria
• Belarusian: Алжы́р m (Alžýr), Альжы́р m (Alʹžýr) (Taraškevica)
• Bengali: আলজেরিয়া (bn) (aljeriẏa)
• Breton: Aljeria (br)
• Bulgarian: Алжи́р m (Alžír)
• Burmese: အယ်လ်ဂျီးရီးယား (ailgyi:ri:ya:)
• Catalan: Algèria (ca) f
• Central Atlas Tamazight: ⵍⵣⵣⴰⵢⴻⵔ (lzzayer), ⴷⵣⴰⵢⴻⵔ (dzayer)
• Cherokee: ᎠᎵᏥᎵᏯ (alitsiliya)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 阿爾及利亞／阿尔及利亚 (aa³ ji⁵ kap⁶ lei⁶ aa³)

  Mandarin: 阿爾及利亞／阿尔及利亚 (zh) (Ā'ěrjílìyà)

• Coptic: ⲛⲓⲛⲏⲥⲟⲥ (ninēsos)
• Cornish: Aljeri
• Corsican: Algeria f, Alghjeria f
• Crimean Tatar: Cezair
• Czech: Alžírsko (cs) n
• Danish: Algeriet (da) n
• Dhivehi: ޖަޒާއިރު (jazāiru)
• Dutch: Algerije (nl) n
• Esperanto: Alĝerio (eo)
• Estonian: Alžeeria (et)
• Faroese: Algeria n
• Finnish: Algeria (fi)
• French: Algérie (fr) f
• Galician: Alxeria (gl) f
• Georgian: ალჟირი (ka) (alžiri)
• German: Algerien (de) n
• Greek: Αλγερία (el) f (Algería)
• Gujarati: અલ્જીરિયા (aljīriyā)
• Haitian Creole: Aljeri
• Hausa: Aljeriya
• Hawaiian: ʻAlekelia
• Hebrew: אַלְגִ׳ירְיָה f (aljírya)
• Hindi: अल्जीरिया (hi) m (aljīriyā)
• Hungarian: Algéria (hu)
• Icelandic: Alsír (is) n
• Indonesian: Aljazair (id)
• Interlingua: Algeria
• Irish: An Ailgéir f
• Italian: Algeria (it) f
• Japanese: アルジェリア (ja) (Arujeria)
• Kabardian: Алджазаир (Aldžazajir)
• Kabyle: Leddzayer, Lezzayer
• Kalenjin: Aljeria
• Kamba: Aljeria
• Kannada: ಅಲ್ಜೀರಿಯ (aljīriya)
• Kazakh: Алжир (kk) (Aljir), Жезаир (Jezair)
• Khmer: អាល់ហ្សេរី (ʼalzeerii)
• Kikuyu: Aljeria
• Korean: 알제리 (ko) (Aljeri)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: جەزایر (cezayr)

  Northern Kurdish: Cezayir (ku)

• Kyrgyz: Алжир (ky) (Aljir), Алжазайыр (Aljazayır)
• Ladino: Arjelia
• Lao: ອານເຍຣີ (ʼān nyē rī)
• Latin: Algerium
• Latvian: Alžīrija (lv) f
• Lithuanian: Alžyras (lt) m
• Luhya: Aljeria
• Luo: Aljeria
• Luxembourgish: Algerien
• Macedonian: Алжир (mk) m (Alžir)
• Malagasy: Alzeria
• Malay: Algeria (ms)
• Malayalam: അൾജീരിയ (aḷjīriya)
• Maltese: l-Alġerija f
• Maori: Aratiria
• Marathi: अल्जेरिया (aljeriyā)
• Meru: Aljeria
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: Алжир (Alžir)

• Nauruan: Algeria
• Navajo: Aljííya
• Norman: Algérie f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Algerie (no) n

  Nynorsk: Algerie (nn) n

• Occitan: Argeria (oc) f, Algeria f
• Pashto: الجزاير (ps) m (aljazāyᶕr)
• Persian:

  Dari: اَلْجَزَایِر (fa) (aljazāyir)

  Iranian Persian: اَلْجَزایِر (fa) (aljazâyer)

• Polish: Algieria (pl) f
• Portuguese: Argélia (pt) f
• Romanian: Algeria (ro) f
• Romansch: Algeria
• Russian: Алжи́р (ru) m (Alžír)
• Sardinian: Algeria f
• Scots: Algerie
• Scottish Gaelic: Algeria
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: А̀лжӣр m

  Roman: Àlžīr (sh) m

• Shan: မိူင်းဢႄးၵျီးရီးယႃး (móeng ʼáae kjíi ríi yáa)
• Sicilian: Algirìa f
• Sinhalese: ඇල්ජීරියාව (æljīriyāwa)
• Slovak: Alžírsko (sk) n
• Slovene: Alžírija (sl) f
• Spanish: Argelia (es) f
• Swahili: Algeria (sw), Aljeria (sw)
• Swedish: Algeriet (sv) n
• Tachawit: please add this translation if you can
• Tagalog: Arhelya
• Tajik: Алҷазоир (tg) (Aljazoyir)
• Tamil: அல்சீரியா (alcīriyā)
• Tashelhit: please add this translation if you can
• Tatar: Әлҗәзаир (Älcäzair), Алжир (Aljir)
• Thai: แอลจีเรีย (th) (ɛl-jii-riia)
• Tibetan: ཨཱལ་ཇི་རི་ཡ (āl ji ri ya)
• Tigrinya: ኣልጀርያ (ʾalǧärya)
• Turkish: Cezayir (tr)
• Turkmen: Alžir
• Ukrainian: Алжи́р (uk) m (Alžýr)
• Urdu: اَلْجَزَائِر m (aljazāir), اَلْجِیرِیا m (aljīriyā)
• Uyghur: ئالجىرىيە (ug) (aljiriye)
• Uzbek: Jazoir (uz)
• Vietnamese: An-giê-ri
• Võro: Alžeeriä
• Welsh: Algeria (cy)
• West Frisian: Algerije n
• Yiddish: אַלזשיר (alzhir), אַלגעריע (algerye)

See also

• Appendix:Countries of the world
• (countries of Africa) countries of Africa; Algeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cabo Verde, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Côte d'Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, São Tomé and Príncipe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Western Sahara, Zambia, Zimbabwe ^{(Category: en:Countries in Africa) [edit]}
• (provinces of Algeria) province of Algeria; Adrar, Aïn Defla, Aïn Témouchent, Algiers, Annaba, Batna, Béchar, Béjaïa, Béni Abbès, Biskra, Blida, Bordj Badji Mokhtar, Bordj Bou Arréridj, Bouira, Boumerdès, Chlef, Constantine, Djanet, Djelfa, El Bayadh, El Meghaier, El Meniaa, El Oued, El Tarf, Ghardaïa, Guelma, Illizi, In Guezzam, In Salah, Jijel, Khenchela, Laghouat, M'sila, Mascara, Médéa, Mila, Mostaganem, Naama, Oran, Ouargla, Ouled Djellal, Oum el Bouaghi, Relizane, Saïda, Sétif, Sidi Bel Abbès, Skikda, Souk Ahras, Sétif, Tamanrasset, Tébessa, Tiaret, Timimoun, Tindouf, Tipaza, Tissemsilt, Tizi Ouzou, Tlemcen, Touggourt ^{(Category: en:Provinces of Algeria)}

Anagrams

• lairage, regalia

Finnish

Etymology

From French Algérie. Compare English Algeria.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑlɡeriɑ/, [ˈɑ̝lɡe̞ˌriɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -iɑ
• Syllabification^(key): Al‧ge‧ri‧a

Proper noun

Algeria

1. Algeria (a country in North Africa)

Declension

Inflection of Algeria (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation)
nominative		Algeria	—
genitive		Algerian	—
partitive		Algeriaa	—
illative		Algeriaan	—
		singular	plural
nominative		Algeria	—
accusative	nom.	Algeria	—
	gen.	Algerian
genitive		Algerian	—
partitive		Algeriaa	—
inessive		Algeriassa	—
elative		Algeriasta	—
illative		Algeriaan	—
adessive		Algerialla	—
ablative		Algerialta	—
allative		Algerialle	—
essive		Algeriana	—
translative		Algeriaksi	—
abessive		Algeriatta	—
instructive		—	—
comitative		See the possessive forms below.

Possessive forms of Algeria (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation)

first-person singular possessor singular plural nominative Algeriani — accusative nom. Algeriani — gen. Algeriani genitive Algeriani — partitive Algeriaani — inessive Algeriassani — elative Algeriastani — illative Algeriaani — adessive Algeriallani — ablative Algerialtani — allative Algerialleni — essive Algerianani — translative Algeriakseni — abessive Algeriattani — instructive — — comitative — — second-person singular possessor singular plural nominative Algeriasi — accusative nom. Algeriasi — gen. Algeriasi genitive Algeriasi — partitive Algeriaasi — inessive Algeriassasi — elative Algeriastasi — illative Algeriaasi — adessive Algeriallasi — ablative Algerialtasi — allative Algeriallesi — essive Algerianasi — translative Algeriaksesi — abessive Algeriattasi — instructive — — comitative — — first-person plural possessor singular plural nominative Algeriamme — accusative nom. Algeriamme — gen. Algeriamme genitive Algeriamme — partitive Algeriaamme — inessive Algeriassamme — elative Algeriastamme — illative Algeriaamme — adessive Algeriallamme — ablative Algerialtamme — allative Algeriallemme — essive Algerianamme — translative Algeriaksemme — abessive Algeriattamme — instructive — — comitative — — second-person plural possessor singular plural nominative Algerianne — accusative nom. Algerianne — gen. Algerianne genitive Algerianne — partitive Algeriaanne — inessive Algeriassanne — elative Algeriastanne — illative Algeriaanne — adessive Algeriallanne — ablative Algerialtanne — allative Algeriallenne — essive Algeriananne — translative Algeriaksenne — abessive Algeriattanne — instructive — — comitative — — third-person possessor singular plural nominative Algeriansa — accusative nom. Algeriansa — gen. Algeriansa genitive Algeriansa — partitive Algeriaansa — inessive Algeriassaan Algeriassansa — elative Algeriastaan Algeriastansa — illative Algeriaansa — adessive Algeriallaan Algeriallansa — ablative Algerialtaan Algerialtansa — allative Algerialleen Algeriallensa — essive Algerianaan Algerianansa — translative Algeriakseen Algeriaksensa — abessive Algeriattaan Algeriattansa — instructive — — comitative — —

Proper noun

Algeria

1. partitive singular of Alger

Derived terms

• algerialainen

 

compounds

• algerianarabia
• algeriangundi
• algeriannakkeli
• algeriantamaani

 

Anagrams

• regaali

Italian

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /al.d͡ʒeˈri.a/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ia
• Hyphenation: Al‧ge‧rì‧a

Proper noun

Algeria f

1. Algeria (a country in North Africa)

Derived terms

• algerino

Anagrams

• aligera, regalai, regalia

Romanian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /alˈd͡ʒe.ri.a/
• Rhymes: -eria
• Hyphenation: Al‧ge‧ri‧a

Proper noun

Algeria f (genitive/dative Algeriei)

1. Algeria (a country in North Africa)

Declension

declension of Algeria (singular only)

	singular
f gender	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(o) Algerie	Algeria
genitive/dative	(unei) Algerii	Algeriei
vocative	Algerie, Algerio

Related terms

• Alger
• algerian
• algeriană

Swahili

Alternative forms

• Aljeria

Pronunciation

• Audio (Kenya):

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Proper noun

Algeria

1. Algeria (a country in North Africa)

See also

• (countries of Africa) nchi za Afrika; Algeria or Aljeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cabo Verde, Kamerun or Cameroon or Kameruni, Jamhuri ya Afrika ya Kati, Chad or Chadi, Komori or Visiwa vya Ngazija, Cote d'Ivoire or Kodivaa, Jamhuri ya Kidemokrasia ya Kongo or Kongo-Kinshasa, Jibuti or Djibouti, Misri or Umisri, Guinea ya Ikweta or Ginekweta, Eritrea, Ethiopia or Uhabeshi or Habeshi, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea or Gine or Gini, Guinea Bisau or Guinea-Bisau or Ginebisau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagaska or Bukini, Malawi or Unyasa, Mali, Mauritania, Morisi, Mayotte, Moroko or Maroko, Msumbiji or Mozambik, Namibia, Niger or Nijeri, Nigeria or Nijeria or Naijeria, Jamhuri ya Kongo or Kongo-Brazzaville, Réunion, Rwanda or Ruanda, Mtakatifu Helena, Sao Tome na Principe, Senegal or Senegali, Shelisheli, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Afrika Kusini, Sudan Kusini, Sudan, Uswazi or Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Sahara ya Magharibi, Zambia, Zimbabwe ^{(Category: sw:Countries in Africa) [edit]}

Welsh

Etymology

From English Algeria, from French Algérie, ultimately from Arabic اَلْجَزَائِر (al-jazāʔir).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /alˈd͡ʒɛrja/, /alˈd͡ʒiːrja/

Proper noun

Algeria f

1. Algeria (a country in North Africa)

Derived terms

• Algeraidd (“Algerian”, adjective)
• Algeriad (“Algerian (man/woman)”)
• delor cnau Algeria (“Kabylie nuthatch”)
• derw Algeria (“Algerian oak”)
• gellesg Algeria (“Algerian irises”)
• Gweriniaeth Ddemocrataidd Pobl Algeria (“People's Democratic Republic of Algeria”)
• iorwg Algeria (“Algerian ivy”)

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	h-prothesis
Algeria	unchanged	unchanged	Halgeria
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

See also

• (countries of Africa) gwledydd Affrica; yr Aifft, Algeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Bwrcina Ffaso, Bwrwndi, Cabo Verde, Camerŵn, Cenia, Comoros, De Affrica, De Swdan, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Gini, Gini Bisaw, Gini Gyhydeddol, Gorllewin Sahara, Gweriniaeth Canolbarth Affrica, Gweriniaeth Ddemocrataidd y Congo, Gweriniaeth y Congo, Jibwti, Lesotho, Liberia, Libia, Madagasgar, Malawi, Mali, Mawrisiws, Mawritania, Moroco, Mosambic, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sambia, São Tomé and Príncipe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Simbabwe, Somalia, Swdan, Tansania, Tiwnisia, Togo, y Traeth Ifori, Tsiad, Wganda ^{(Category: cy:Countries in Africa) [edit]}