indicate the level to which a name has been verified.
Type Region & Settlement
Usage English, Albanian, Armenian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Burmese, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malay, Maltese, Mongolian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish, Swedish, Tagalog, Turkmen
Scripts Գազա(Armenian) Газа(Bulgarian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Macedonian, Mongolian Cyrillic, Russian, Serbian) ဂါဇာ(Burmese) Γάζα(Greek) ग़ज़ा(Hindi) ガザ(Japanese Katakana)
Pronounced Pron. /ˈɡɑː.zə/(English) /ɡɑ.ˈzɑ/(Eastern Armenian) /kʰɑ.ˈzɑ/(Western Armenian) /gà.zà/(Burmese) /ˈgǎː.za/(Croatian, Russian, Serbian) /ˈɡa.za/(Czech) /ˈɣaː.zaː/(Dutch) /ˈɣa.za/(French, German, Greek) /ˈga.za/(Indonesian) /gä.d͡zä/(Italian, Japanese) /ˈɡa.zɐ/(Polish, Portuguese) /ˈɡa.θa/(European Spanish) /ˈga.sa/(Latin American Spanish) [key·simplify]
Meaning & History
From Hebrew עזה ('azza) most commonly believed to be derived from the word עז ('az) meaning "strong, fierce". This is the name of a region in western Asia on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea (referred to as the Gaza Strip), as well as a city in this region (called Gaza City).