Algeria

Meaning

Proper Noun

• country North Africa (region)

Origin

• Modified from French Algérie, from the French Alger -ie, from Algerian Arabic الدزَاير, from Arabic اَلْجَزَائِر ("the islands") (with elision of the first vowel), plural of جَزِيرَة, referring to the several small islands that once existed in the Bay of Algiers.