السويس

Uncertain but sometimes connected to South Levantine Arabic forms of سُوس (sūs, “licorice”). A folk etymology sometimes relates it to a supposed Egyptian suan (“beginning”), but this appears to be a ghost word or misinterpretation as no such word exists.

• IPA^(key): /as.su.wajs/

اَلسُّوَيْس • (as-suways) m

1. Suez (a port city, the capital city of Suez governorate, Egypt)
2. Suez (a governorate of Egypt)

• قَنَاة اَلسُّوَيْس (qanā(t) as-suways)
• خَلِيج اَلسُّوَيْس (ḵalīj as-suways)