Benghazi

English

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish بنغازی (Bingâzi) and Arabic بِنْغَازِي (Binḡāzī), apparently from earlier مرسى بني غازي (“port of ibn Ghazi”) first attested on a 1579 map by Ali al-Sharfi. Possibly a reference to a Muslim holy man Sidi ibn Ghazi. "Ibn Ghazi" itself can literally be translated as "son of the ghazi (warrior)".

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /bɛnˈɡɑ.zi/

Proper noun

Benghazi

1. A port city in eastern Libya.
   • 2012 January 26, Moni Basu, “Libyans face tough challenges in building a new nation”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     Their frustration has surfaced in protests in several Libyan cities over the last few days, most notably in Benghazi, the seat of the revolution, where Libyans stormed the National Transitional Council building.

Derived terms

• Benghazi boiler
• Benghazi Handicap
• -ghazi

Translations

Benghazi, Libya

• Afrikaans: Benghazi
• Arabic: بِنْغَازِي m (binḡāzī)
• Armenian: Բենղազի (Benġazi)
• Azerbaijani: Benqazi
• Basque: Bengazi
• Belarusian: Бенгазі (Bjenhazi)
• Bikol Central: Benghazi
• Breton: Benghazi
• Bulgarian: Бенга́зи (Bengázi)
• Catalan: Bengasi
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 班加西 (zh) (Bānjiāxī)

• Czech: Benghází
• Danish: Benghazi
• Dutch: Benghazi
• Esperanto: Bengazi
• Estonian: Banghāzī
• Finnish: Bengasi
• French: Benghazi (fr)
• Georgian: ბენღაზი (benɣazi)
• German: Bengasi
• Greek: Βεγγάζη (el) (Vengázi)
• Greenlandic: Benghazi
• Hebrew: בנגאזי
• Hungarian: Bengázi (hu)
• Indonesian: Benghazi
• Irish: Benghazi
• Italian: Bengasi
• Japanese: ベンガジ (Bengaji)
• Kazakh: Бенгази (Beñazi)
• Khmer: បេងហ្គាហ្ស៊ី (beenggiəhsii)
• Korean: 벵가지 (benggaji)
• Latin: Hesperides
• Latvian: Bengāzī
• Lithuanian: Bengazis
• Malay: Benghazi
• Marathi: बेनगाझी n (bengājhī)
• Neapolitan: Bengasi
• Norwegian: Benghazi
• Occitan: Bengazi
• Ottoman Turkish: بنغازی (Bingâzi)
• Persian: بنغازی
• Piedmontese: Bèngasi
• Polish: Bengazi
• Portuguese: Bengasi
• Romanian: Benghazi
• Russian: Бенга́зи m (Bengázi)
• Scots: Benghazi
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Бенгази

• Sicilian: Bengasi
• Slovak: Bengázi
• Slovene: Bengazi
• Spanish: Bengasi (es) m, Bengazi m
• Swedish: Benghazi
• Tajik: Бенғази (Benġaz-i)
• Tamil: பங்காசி (paṅkāci)
• Thai: เบงกาซี (baynggaasee)
• Turkish: Bingazi (tr)
• Ukrainian: Бенгазі (Benhazi)
• Vietnamese: Benghazi
• Volapük: Bängasi
• Welsh: Benghazi
• West Frisian: Bengazy