Gaza
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英文释义
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- A city in the Gaza Strip, Palestine in the Levant; in full, Gaza City.
- A Nguni ethnic group in Southern Africa.
- A governorate of the Gaza Strip, Palestine, around the city.
- A historical empire in Southern Africa; in full, Gaza Empire.
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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.
— 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.
- A province of Mozambique.
- Ellipsis of Wadi Gaza: a wadi, a valley in the Gaza Strip, Palestine.
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Etymology tree
Biblical Hebrew עַזָּה (ʕazzɔ̂)bor.
Ancient Greek Γάζα (Gáza)bor.
Latin Gazabor.
English Gaza
Borrowed from Latin Gaza, borrowed from Ancient Greek Γάζα (Gáza), borrowed from Biblical Hebrew עַזָּה (ʕazzɔ̂). The Greek form of the Septuagint reflects the older Hebrew pronunciation with /ɣ~ʁ/, a phoneme that later merged with /ʕ/.
Biblical Hebrew עַזָּה (ʕazzɔ̂)bor.
Ancient Greek Γάζα (Gáza)bor.
Latin Gazabor.
English Gaza
Borrowed from Latin Gaza, borrowed from Ancient Greek Γάζα (Gáza), borrowed from Biblical Hebrew עַזָּה (ʕazzɔ̂). The Greek form of the Septuagint reflects the older Hebrew pronunciation with /ɣ~ʁ/, a phoneme that later merged with /ʕ/.
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For sense 2, the founder of the Gaza Empire, Soshangane, named it after his grandfather Gasa kaLanga.
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