# Gaza
## English
### Etymology 1

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

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɡɑːzə/
* (General American) IPA: /ˈɡæzə/
* (biblical contexts) IPA: /ˈɡeɪzə/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)

#### Proper noun

Gaza
* A city in the Gaza Strip, Palestine, in the Levant.
* A governorate of the Gaza Strip, Palestine, around the city.
* 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.
** 2019 April 12, Annalisa Quinn, “The Small Rebellions of Sally Rooney’s Normal People”, in The Atlantic‎: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.
* 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

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 (ğazza)
Iranian Persian: غزه (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) :

### Etymology 2
#### Proper noun

Gaza
* A province of Mozambique.

## Catalan
### Proper noun

Gaza f
* Gaza, Gaza City (a city in Palestine)

#### Derived terms

* franja de Gaza

## Czech
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈɡaza]
* Rhymes: -aza

### Proper noun

Gaza f (relational adjective gazský, demonym Gazan)
* Gaza

#### Declension
### 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: /ˈɣaː.zaː/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: Ga‧za

### Proper noun

Gaza f
* Gaza, Gaza City (a city in Palestine)
* Short for Gazastrook.

#### Derived terms

* Gazaan
* Gazastrook
* Gaziet

## French
### Etymology

From Latin Gaza.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɡa.za/
* Rhymes: -za

### Proper noun

Gaza f
* Gaza

#### Derived terms

* bande de Gaza

## Hawaiian
### Alternative forms

* Kaka

### Pronunciation

IPA: /ˈka.ka/, [ˈkɐ.kə]

### Proper noun

Gaza
* Gaza (a region of Palestine)
* 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: /ˈɡa.d͡za/ (standard)
* IPA: /ˈɡa.za/ (Northern Italian dialects)
* IPA: /ˈɡad.d͡za/ (Southern Italian dialects)

### Proper noun

Gaza f
* A city in the Gaza Strip, Palestine, in the Levant.
* A governorate of the Gaza Strip, Palestine, around the city.
* Ellipsis of Striscia di Gaza, a region of Palestine, a north–south strip of land bordering the Mediterranean and the Sinai Peninsula at the southwestern end of the Levant.

#### 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: /ˈɡaz.za/, [ˈɡäz̪ːä]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈɡad.d͡za/, [ˈɡäd̪ː͡z̪ä]

### Proper noun

Gaza f sg (genitive Gazae); first declension
* Gaza (the capital of the Gaza Strip, Palestine)

#### Declension

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

#### Descendants

* English: Gaza
* Italian: Gaza
* Sicilian: Gazza

## Polish
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin Gaza.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɡa.za/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -aza
* Syllabification: Ga‧za
* Homophone: gaza

### Proper noun

Gaza f (related adjective gazański)
* Gaza (a city in the Gaza Strip, Palestine, in the Levant)
* Gaza Strip (A region in Palestine between Egypt and Israel)
    Synonym: Strefa Gazy
* Gaza (a province of Mozambique)

#### Declension
### Further reading

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

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɡa.zɐ/
* Rhymes: -azɐ
* Hyphenation: Ga‧za

### Proper noun

Gaza
* Gaza (a city in Palestine)
* 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)
* Gaza (a city in Palestine)

### See also

* Pojas Gaze

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

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

### Proper noun

Gaza ?
* Gaza, Gaza City (a city in Palestine)

#### Derived terms

* franja de Gaza

## Swahili
### Pronunciation

* Audio (Kenya):(file)

### Proper noun

Gaza
* Gaza