الجيزة
Arabic
Etymology
Uncertain. Al-Maqrizi derives it from Classical Syriac ܓܹܣܵܐ (gissa, “side”). Peust suggests a Persian etymology from Persian دز (dez, “castle”). Everett-Heath suggests an Egyptian etymology from Egyptian r-gs-ḥr (“on the side of the high one (pyramid)”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /al.d͡ʒiː.za/
Proper noun
الجِيزَة • (al-jīza) f
- Giza (a city, the capital city of Giza governorate, Egypt)
- Giza (a governorate of Egypt)
See also
- أَسْوَان (ʔaswān)
- أَسْيُوط (ʔasyūṭ)
- البَحْر الأَحْمَر (al-baḥr al-ʔaḥmar)
- البُحَيْرَة (al-buḥayra)
- الجِيزَة (al-jīza)
- الدَقَهْلِيَّة (ad-daqahliyya)
- الشَرْقِيَّة (aš-šarqiyya)
- الفَيُّوم (al-fayyūm)
- القَلْيُوبِيَّة (al-qalyūbiyya)
- المِنُوفِيَّة (al-minūfiyya)
- المِنْيَا (al-minyā)
- الوَادِي الجَدِيد (al-wādī l-jadīd)
- الْأُقْصُر (al-ʔuqṣur)
- الْإِسْكَنْدَرِيَّة (al-ʔiskandariyya)
- الْإِسْمَاعِيلِيَّة (al-ʔismāʕīliyya)
- الْغَرْبِيَّة (al-ḡarbiyya)
- الْقَاهِرَة (al-qāhira)
- اَلسُّوَيْس (as-suways)
- بَنِي سُوَيْف (banī suwayf)
- بُورْسَعِيد (būrsaʕīd)
- جَنُوب سَيْنَاء (janūb saynāʔ)
- دِمْياط (dimyāṭ)
- سَوْهَاج (sawhāj)
- شَمَال سَيْنَاء (šamāl saynāʔ)
- قِنَا (qinā)
- كَفْر الشَيْخ (kafr aš-šayḵ)
- مَطْرُوح (maṭrūḥ)
References
- Carsten Peust, Konstanz (2010) Die Toponyme vorarabischen Ursprungs im modernen Ägypten, Göttingen, 2010, p. 44