ghazeeyeh

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Egyptian Arabic غازية (ḡāziyya), plural غوازي (ḡawāzi).

Noun

ghazeeyeh (plural ghazeeyehs or ghawazee)

1. An Egyptian dancing girl

   Synonym: ghawazee

Further reading

• Cameron, Donald Andreas (1892) An Arabic-English vocabulary for the use of English students of modern Egyptian Arabic, London: Bernard Quaritch, page 193a