Gaza

See also: Gazą, Gáza, Gâza, Gâză, gaza, gazá, gazą, gaža, gaża, gażą, gáza, gâza, and gâză

English

Map of the Gaza Strip (2012)

Gaza City (2014)

Etymology

From Latin Gaza, from Ancient Greek Γάζα (Gáza), from the Biblical Hebrew עַזָּה (Ġazzā).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɑːzə/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Proper noun

Gaza

2. The capital of the Gaza Strip, Palestine, in the Levant.
3. A governorate of the Gaza Strip, Palestine, around the city.
4. Ellipsis of Gaza Strip, a region of Palestine, a north–south strip of land bordering the Mediterranean and the Sinai Peninsula at the southwestern end of the Levant.
5. Ellipsis of Wadi Gaza, a wadi and valley in the Gaza Strip, Palestine, in the Levant.

Alternative forms

• Aza
• Ghazza
• Ghazzah
• Ghazze

 

Synonyms

• (city): Gaza City

Derived terms

• Gaza City
• Gaza Envelope
• Gazan
• Gaza Strip
• Wadi Gaza

 

Translations

city

• Albanian: Gazë f, Gaza f (definite)
• Arabic: غَزَّة f (Ḡazza)

  Egyptian Arabic: غزه f

  Moroccan Arabic: غزة f

• Armenian: Գազա (Gaza)

  Old Armenian: Գազա (Gaza)

• Azerbaijani: Qəzzə (az)
• Bashkir: Ғәззә (Ğəzzə)
• Belarusian: Га́за f (Háza)
• Bengali: গাজা (gaja), গাজ্জা (gajja)
• Bulgarian: Га́за f (Gáza)
• Burmese: ဂါဇာ (gaja)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 加沙 (zh) (Jiāshā), 加薩／加萨 (Jiāsà)

• Czech: Gaza (cs) f
• Danish: Gaza n
• Dutch: Gaza (nl) n
• Egyptian: (gꜣḏꜣty)
• Estonian: Gaza (et)
• Finnish: Gaza (fi)
• French: Gaza (fr)
• Georgian: ღაზა (ɣaza)
• German: Gaza (de) n
• Greek: Γάζα (el) f (Gáza)

  Ancient: Γάζα f (Gáza)

• Hebrew: עַזָּה f ('áza), עַ׳זַּה f
• Hindi: ग़ज़ा m (ġazā), ग़ज़्ज़ा m (ġazzā)
• Hungarian: Gáza (hu)
• Icelandic: Gasa
• Italian: Gaza
• Japanese: ガザ (Gaza)
• Kazakh: Газа (Gaza)
• Khmer: ហ្គាស្សា (gaassaa)
• Korean: 가자 (ko) (Gaja)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: غەززە (ẍezze)

  Northern Kurdish: Xeze (ku)

• Kyrgyz: Газа (Gaza)
• Latvian: Gaza f
• Lithuanian: Gaza f
• Macedonian: Газа f (Gaza)
• Malay: Gaza
• Marathi: गाझा (gājhā)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: Газа (Gaza)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Gaza n

• Ossetian: Газӕ (Gazæ)
• Ottoman Turkish: غزه (Gazze)
• Persian: غَزِّه (fa) (Ğazze)
• Polish: Gaza (pl) f
• Portuguese: Gaza (pt) f
• Romanian: Gaza f
• Russian: Га́за (ru) f (Gáza)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Га́за f

  Roman: Gáza (sh) f

• Sicilian: Gazza f
• Slovak: Gaza f
• Slovene: Gaza f
• Spanish: Gaza
• Swahili: Gaza
• Swedish: Gaza n
• Tagalog: Gaza
• Tajik: Ғазза (Ġazza)
• Tatar: Газзә (Ğazzä)
• Thai: กาซ่า (gaa-sâa)
• Turkish: Gazze (tr)
• Turkmen: Gaza
• Ukrainian: Га́за f (Háza)
• Urdu: غَزَّہ m (ġazza)
• Uyghur: غەززە (ghezze)
• Uzbek: Gʻazza
• Vietnamese: Gaza
• Yiddish: עזה (ezza)

Catalan

Proper noun

Gaza f

1. Gaza, Gaza City (a city in Palestine)

Derived terms

• franja de Gaza

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡaza]
• Rhymes: -aza

Proper noun

Gaza f (related adjective gazský, demonym Gazan)

1. Gaza

Declension

Declension of Gaza (sg-only hard feminine)

	singular
nominative	Gaza
genitive	Gazy
dative	Gaze
accusative	Gazu
vocative	Gazo
locative	Gaze
instrumental	Gazou

Further reading

• Gaza in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch gaza, from Latin Gaza, from Ancient Greek Γάζα (Gáza), from Biblical Hebrew עזה (`aza).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɣaː.zaː/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: Ga‧za

Proper noun

Gaza f

1. Gaza, Gaza City (a city in Palestine)
2. Short for Gazastrook.

Derived terms

• Gazaan
• Gazastrook
• Gaziet

 

French

Etymology

From Latin Gaza.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡa.za/
• Rhymes: -za

Proper noun

Gaza f

1. Gaza

Derived terms

• bande de Gaza

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Γάζα (Gáza), from Biblical Hebrew עַזָּה ('Áza).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈɡaz.za/, [ˈɡäz̪d̪͡z̪ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈɡad.d͡za/, [ˈɡäd̪ː͡z̪ä]

Proper noun

Gaza f sg (genitive Gazae); first declension

1. Gaza (the capital of the Gaza Strip, Palestine)

Declension

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Gaza
Genitive	Gazae
Dative	Gazae
Accusative	Gazam
Ablative	Gazā
Vocative	Gaza
Locative	Gazae

Descendants

• English: Gaza
• Sicilian: Gazza

Polish

Gaza

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin Gaza.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡa.za/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -aza
• Syllabification: Ga‧za
• Homophone: gaza

Proper noun

Gaza f (related adjective gazański)

1. Gaza, Gaza City (the capital city of Gaza Strip)
2. Gaza, Gaza Strip (an exclave of Palestine)

   Synonym: Strefa Gazy

3. Gaza (a province of Mozambique)

Declension

Declension of Gaza

	singular
nominative	Gaza
genitive	Gazy
dative	Gazie
accusative	Gazę
instrumental	Gazą
locative	Gazie
vocative	Gazo

Further reading

• Gaza in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Gaza in PWN's encyclopedia

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡa.zɐ/

• Rhymes: -azɐ
• Hyphenation: Ga‧za

Proper noun

Gaza

1. Gaza (a city in Palestine)
2. A province of Mozambique

Usage notes

Gaza is never indicated by an article; see usage notes for Portugal.

Serbo-Croatian

Proper noun

Gáza f (Cyrillic spelling Га́за)

1. Gaza (a city in Palestine)

See also

• Pojas Gaze

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /ˈɡaθa/ [ˈɡa.θa]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /ˈɡasa/ [ˈɡa.sa]
• (Spain) Rhymes: -aθa
• (Latin America) Rhymes: -asa
• Syllabification: Ga‧za
• Homophones: gaza, (Latin America) gasa

Proper noun

Gaza ?

1. Gaza, Gaza City (a city in Palestine)

Derived terms

• franja de Gaza

 

Swahili

Pronunciation

• Audio (Kenya):

  (file)

Proper noun

Gaza

1. Gaza