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Alger.

Algiers (the capital city of Algeria)

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Meaning & usage

name/al.ʒe/
  1. Algiers (the capital city of Algeria)

    feminine
  2. Algiers (a historical autonomous province and vassal state of the Ottoman Empire, located in what is now the country of Algeria, also called the Regency of Algiers)

    feminine · historical
Where this word comes from

Borrowed from Algerian Arabic الجزائر (el-dzāyir, literally “the islands”) (Standard Arabic الْجَزَائِر (al-jazāʔir), plural of جَزِيرَة (jazīra, “island”)), referring to the several small islands that once existed in the Bay of Algiers.

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