Algerian

• IPA^(key): /ælˈd͡ʒɪɹi.ən/

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• Rhymes: -ɪɹiən

From Algeria +‎ -n.^[1]

Algerian (plural Algerians)

1. A native or inhabitant of Algeria; a person of Algerian citizenship, nationality, or ancestry.
   • 1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York: Review Books, published 2006, page 197:

     It was a view that would not necessarily be shared by Algerians subjected to the gégène or having had their bellies pumped full of water during the Battle of Algiers.

2. Wine produced in Algeria. [from 1953]^[1]

Algerian (comparative more Algerian, superlative most Algerian)

1. Of, from, or pertaining to Algeria, its people, or its culture.
   • 2007 April 26, Janet Maslin, “Terrorists Reel in a Pawn From Small-Town Iraq”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     (Yasmina Khadra is a female pseudonym for a former Algerian army officer, Mohammed Moulessehoul, who lives in France and whose work has once again been overheatedly translated by John Cullen.)

From Alger (“Algiers”) +‎ -ian.^[1]

Algerian (plural Algerians)

1. (historical) A native or inhabitant of the Regency of Algiers, Ottoman Empire. [from 1625]^[1]
2. A native or inhabitant of the city of Algiers, capital of Algeria.

Algerian (comparative more Algerian, superlative most Algerian)

1. (historical) Of, from, or pertaining to the Regency of Algiers, its people, or its culture. [from 1560]^[1]
2. Of, from, or pertaining to Algiers, its people, or its culture.

• Elgarian, geranial, regalian

Algerian

1. genitive singular of Algeria