غزة

Attested in Egyptian and Akkadian, but ultimately of unknown origin. More at Biblical Hebrew עַזָּה (Ġazzā).

• IPA^(key): /ɣaz.za/

غَزَّة • (ḡazza) f

1. Gaza (a city in the Gaza Strip, Palestine in the Levant)
   • a. 1229, Yāqūt al-Ḥamawīy, edited by Ferdinand Wüstenfeld, كتاب معجم البلدان [kitāb muʿjam al-buldān]‎^[1], volume 3, Leipzig: F.A. Brockhaus, published 1868, page 799:
   • 1865 CE, Bible (SVD), Book of Judges, 16:1:

     ثُمَّ ذَهَبَ شَمْشُونُ إِلَى غَزَّةَ، وَرَأَى هُنَاكَ ٱمْرَأَةً زَانِيَةً فَدَخَلَ إِلَيْهَا.

     ṯumma ḏahaba šamšūnu ʔilā ḡazzata, wa-raʔā hunāka mraʔatan zāniyatan fa-daḵala ʔilayhā.

     Then went Samson to Gaza, and saw there a harlot, and went in unto her.

• غَزِّيّ (ḡazziyy), غَزَّاوِيّ (ḡazzāwiyy, “Gazan”)
• قِطَاع غَزَّة (qiṭāʕ ḡazza, “the Gaza Strip”)

From Arabic غَزَّة (ḡazza), ultimately of unknown origin.

• IPA^(key): /ɣaz.ze/, [ˈɣaz.ze]

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غزّة • (ḡazze) f

1. Gaza (a city in the Gaza Strip, Palestine in the Levant)

• غزّاوي (ḡazzāwi, “Gazan”)
• قطاع غزّة (qiṭāʕ ḡazze, “the Gaza Strip”)