Algerianize

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verb

to make Algerian.

Scrabble 21

Meanings

verbAlgerianize (third-person singular simple present Algerianizes, present participle Algerianizing, simple past and past participle Algerianized)

present singular third person Algerianizes · participle present Algerianizing · participle past Algerianized · past Algerianized

  1. to make Algerian.

    A common game played by bilinguals is to Algerianize French words, and Frenchify AA words.

    2013, Aleya Rouchdy, Language Contact and Language Conflict in Arabic, Routledge, →ISBN, page 247
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    As regards the secondary level, we have started to Algerianize texts and we have already brought out history and French books as well as two geography books for the first four years of secondary education.

    1969, United States Joint Publications Research Service, Translations on Sub-Saharan Africa, page 18

    This excessive zeal to Algerianize education employment has in some cases prevented recruitment of needed and better qualified non-Algerians

    2003, Damtew Teferra, Philip G. Altbach, African Higher Education: An International Reference Handbook, page 153

Origin

Translations

French algérianiser
  • algérianiserTranslations
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