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Algeria

  • /ælˈdʒɪəɹi.ə/ Australia, UK
  • /alˈdʒɪːɹɪjə/ British, Southern, Standard
  • /ælˈdʒɪɹi.ə/ US
  • /ɛlˈdʒiəɹi.ə/ New Zealand
  • /alˈdʒiɾe.ə/ Scotland
  • [alˈdʒiːɾe.ə] Scotland
  • /alˈdʒɛːɹi.ə/

Rhymes with -ɪɹiə

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Arabic جَزَائِر بَنِي مَزْغَنَّى (jazāʔir banī mazḡannā)ellip.

Arabic الْجَزَائِر (al-jazāʔir)bor.

French Algerbor.

English Alger

Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós

Proto-Italic *-ijos

Proto-Italic *-ios

Old Latin -ios

Latin -ius

Latin -iader.

English -ia

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French Algérieinflu.

English Algeria

From Alger + -ia, modified based on French Algérie, from the French Alger (“Algiers”) + -ie, from Algerian Arabic الدزَاير (ed-dzayer), from Arabic اَلْجَزَائِر (al-jazāʔir, “the islands”) (with elision of the first vowel), plural of جَزِيرَة (jazīra, “island”), referring to the several small islands that once existed in the Bay of Algiers. Doublet of Algiers and Algeciras.

proper noun

  1. historical Ottoman Algeria, also the regency of Algiers or al-Jazā’ir in Arabic, from 1515 to 1830. Engels welcomed the United States' conquest of territory from Mexico and the French colonization of Algeria: the Bedouin were a race of bandits anyhow.
  2. historical French or Colonial Algeria, from 1830 to 1962.
  3. The People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria, since 1962.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: algerie, tunisia, ethiopia, morocco, algerian, angola, albania, andorra, germany, algiers, argentina, country, she, alger, algerians, algérie

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name country

EspañolArgelia
한국어알제리 Aljeri
日本語アルジェリア Arujeria
中文阿爾及利亞 /阿尔及利亚 Ā'ěrjílìyà
हिन्दीअल्जीरिया aljīriyā
KiswahiliAlgeria, Aljeria
PortuguêsArgélia
FrançaisAlgérie
DeutschAlgerien
ItalianoAlgeria
ΕλληνικάΑλγερία Algería
RomânăAlgeria
РусскийАлжи́р Alžír
Tiếng ViệtAn-giê-ri, Algérie
العربيةالْجَزَائِر al-jazāʔir
עבריתאַלְגִ׳ירְיָה aljírya

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@misc{algeria_2026,
  title = {Algeria},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/algeria},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}