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 1

From Latin Gaza, from Ancient Greek Γάζα (Gáza), from Biblical Hebrew עַזָּה (ʿazzā ~ ġazzā). The Greek form of the Septuagint reflects the older Hebrew pronunciation with /ɣ~ʁ/, a phoneme that later merged with /ʕ/.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɑːzə/, /ˈɡæzə/, (in bibical contexts also) /ˈɡeɪzə/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Proper noun

Gaza

2. A city in the Gaza Strip, Palestine in the Levant.
3. A governorate of the Gaza Strip, Palestine, around the city.
4. Ellipsis of the 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.
   • 2019 April 12, Annalisa Quinn, “The Small Rebellions of Sally Rooney’s Normal People”, in The Atlantic‎^[1]:

     One critic [Madeleine Schwartz] recently noted that the politics of Rooney’s novels were largely “gestural,” with airy mentions of Gaza or austerity protests but not much radical substance.

   • 2025 March 6, Rachel Hall, “‘Trump Gaza’ AI video intended as political satire, says creator”, in The Guardian‎^[2]:

     The video – posted by Trump on his Truth Social account last week – depicts a family emerging from the wreckage of war-torn Gaza into a beachside resort town lined with skyscrapers.

5. Ellipsis of Wadi Gaza: a wadi, a valley in the Gaza Strip, Palestine.

Alternative forms

• Aza
• Azzah
• Ghazza
• Ghazzah
• Ghazze
• Ghazzeh

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:

  Hokkien: 加薩 / 加萨

  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)

• Hawaiian: Gaza
• Hebrew: עַזָּה f ('áza), עַ׳זַּה f
• Hindi: ग़ज़ा m (ġazā), ग़ज़्ज़ा m (ġazzā)
• Hungarian: Gáza (hu)
• Icelandic: Gasa
• Italian: Gaza
• Japanese: ガザ (ja) (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
• Maori: Kāha
• Marathi: गाझा (gājhā)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: Газа (Gaza)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Gaza n

• Ossetian: Газӕ (Gazæ)
• Ottoman Turkish: غزه (Gazze)
• Persian:

  Classical: غَزَّه (ġazza)

  Iranian Persian: غزه (fa) (ġazze)

• 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)

Etymology 2

Proper noun

Gaza

1. A province of Mozambique.

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 (relational 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 (in Czech), 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

German

Etymology

From Latin Gaza. The now standard pronunciation with /z/ was influenced by English Gaza, perhaps also directly by Arabic غَزّة (ḡazza).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡaːza/, (biblical, now archaic) /ˈɡaːtsa/

Proper noun

Gaza n (proper noun, genitive Gazas or (optionally with an article) Gaza)

1. Gaza (city in Palestine)

Derived terms

• Gazastreifen

Hawaiian

Alternative forms

• Kaka

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈka.ka/, [ˈkɐ.kə]

Proper noun

Gaza

1. Gaza (a region of Palestine)
2. Gaza City (a city in the Gaza Strip, Palestine)

Italian

Alternative forms

• Gazza

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡa.d͡za/ (standard)
• IPA^(key): /ˈɡa.za/ (Northern Italian dialects)
• IPA^(key): /ˈɡad.d͡za/ (Southern Italian dialects)

Proper noun

Gaza f

2. a city in the Gaza Strip, Palestine in the Levant
3. a governorate of the Gaza Strip, Palestine, around the city.
4. ellipsis of Striscia di Gaza (“Gaza Strip”)

Synonyms

• (city): città di Gaza

Derived terms

• città di Gaza
• gaziano
• Striscia di Gaza

Related terms

• arabo
• Palestina
• palestinese

See also

• Egitto
• Giordania
• Israele
• Levante
• Libano
• mar Mediterraneo

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɡaz.za]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈɡad̪.d̪͡z̪a]

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.

	singular
nominative	Gaza
genitive	Gazae
dative	Gazae
accusative	Gazam
ablative	Gazā
vocative	Gaza
locative	Gazae

Descendants

• English: Gaza
• Italian: 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 (a city in the Gaza Strip, Palestine in the Levant)
2. Gaza Strip (a region in Palestine between Egypt and Israel)

   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 f

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): /ˈɡaθa/ [ˈɡa.θa] (Spain)
• IPA^(key): /ˈɡasa/ [ˈɡa.sa] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -aθa (Spain)
• Rhymes: -asa (Latin America, Philippines)
• 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