indicate the level to which a name has been verified.
Type Settlement
Usage Arabic (Egyptian), English, Afrikaans, Albanian, Armenian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Danish, Estonian, Finnish, Hebrew, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malay, Maltese, Mongolian, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovene, Swedish, Uzbek
Scripts جيزة(Egyptian Arabic) Գիզա(Armenian) Гиза(Bulgarian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Macedonian, Mongolian Cyrillic, Russian, Serbian, Uzbek) גיזה(Hebrew) गीज़ा(Hindi)
Meaning & History
Meaning uncertain. It may be derived from Syriac ܓܣܐ (gissa) meaning "side", Persian دژ (dezh) meaning "fort, fortress, castle" or Egyptian r-gs-ḥr meaning "the side of the high one". This is the name of a city in Egypt, famous for its ancient monuments. In Egyptian Arabic its name is typically written with the definite article: الجيزة (il-Giza).