جزيرة

Of the root ج ز ر (j-z-r). Likely an Aramaic topographic term, to be identified with Jewish Babylonian Aramaic גזרתא (“a heap or slab of wood or stone”) and Classical Syriac ܓܙܺܝܪܬܴ݁ܐ (gəzīrtā, “a heap or slab of wood or stone; merlon; door-ring, specifically Mesopotamia”), with the specific meaning of “island” but attested as Classical Syriac ܓܳܙܰܪܬܴ݁ܐ (gāzartā) and Old Armenian կղզի (kłzi) and Old Georgian კუნძული (ḳunʒuli); potentially reinterpreted from the Sumerian source of جِسْر (jisr, “(wooden) bridge”), though Semitic root derivation is superficially very plausible—from this root ج ز ر (j-z-r) / ג־ז־ר / ܓ-ܙ-ܪ (ɡ-z-r) related to “cutting, cheffing” one hardly has obtained the meaning of “an island” or “a major separated region” directly but rather by means of transferral from “smaller” meanings.

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʒa.ziː.ra/

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جَزِيرَة • (jazīra) f (plural جَزَائِر (jazāʔir) or جُزُر (juzur))

1. island
2. peninsula
3. area, region, territory, section, district; any separated location, especially one delimited by natural boundaries

• جَزَرِيّ (jazariyy)
• جَزَائِرِيّ (jazāʔiriyy)
• جَزْأَرَة (jazʔara)

• Maltese: gżira, ġżira
• → Indonesian: jazirah
• → Ottoman Turkish: جزیره (cezîre)
  • > Turkish: cezire (inherited)
• → Portuguese: lezíria
• → Persian: جزیره (jazire)
  • → Hindustani:

    Hindi: जज़ीरा (jazīrā)

    Urdu: جَزِیرَہ (jazīra)

• → Sicilian: gisira

• “gzrh”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
• Brockelmann, Carl (1928) Lexicon Syriacum (in Latin), 2nd edition, Halle: Max Niemeyer, published 1995, pages 112b–113a

From Arabic جَزِيرَة (jazīra).

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʒa.ziː.ra/.

جَزيرة • (jazīra) f (plural جُزُر (juzur))

1. island
2. isle

• شبه جزيرة (šibh jazīra, “peninsula”)

From Arabic جَزِيرَة (jazīra).

• IPA^(key): /ʒa.ziː.re/, [ʒaˈziː.re]
• IPA^(key): /ʒa.ziː.ra/, [ʒaˈziː.ra]

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جزيرة • (jazīre) f (plural جزر (juzor) or جزائر (jazāʔer))

1. island