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Algeria · الجزائر
al-Jazāʾir · Algérie · al-ja-ZAA-ir · tamurt tatrart seg 1962
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Jazāʾir Banī Mazghanna → الجزائر · The city’s name, shortened, became the country’s under the Ottomans.Yettwasenqed
الجزائر → Cezayir-i Garp · Arabic into Ottoman Turkish.Yettwasenqed
الجزائر → Algérie · Through the city’s French name, Alger.Yettwasenqed
Algérie → Algeria · French into English.Yettwasenqed
الجزائر → Dzayer · From al-Jazāʾir, or from “those of Ziri”: both are proposed.Yeldi
Miṣra n Leqran deg Mesra?YeldiAyen ur nemsasa ara ar tura
No name covered today’s borders until the 20th century.Numidia, Mauretania and the Middle Maghreb each covered part; the Regency of Algiers and French Algérie stopped short of most of the Sahara. What did the people of this land call the whole of it?Ddem yiwet · bdu amennuḍ →Is Dzayer from al-Jazāʾir, “the islands”, or from “those of Ziri”?Both are proposed; neither is shown by an early text.Ddem yiwet · bdu amennuḍ →Icosium: the Greek “twenty” story is a folk etymology.Coins give the Punic name as ʾYKSM. Its meaning is still argued.Ddem yiwet · bdu amennuḍ →A place named in the Koran is proposed here.Mesra is put forward for the Koran’s Miṣr. It is not proven.Ddem yiwet · bdu amennuḍ →Tallitin
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