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- Arabic · derived fromاَلْجَزَائِر“the islands”
- French · borrowed fromAlger
- English todayAlgiers
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.
Words from the same roots
Arabicاَلْجَزَائِر all →
Algeria
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.