"Suez" meaning in English

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Proper name

IPA: /ˈsuː.ɛz/
Etymology: From Arabic اَلسُّوَيْس (as-suways), from ال (al-, “the, place of the”) + سويس, of uncertain origin but sometimes connected to South Levantine Arabic forms of سُوس (sūs, “licorice”). A folk etymology sometimes relates it to a supposed Egyptian suan (“beginning”), but this appears to be a ghost word or misinterpretation as no such word exists. Etymology templates: {{der|en|ar|اَلسُّوَيْس}} Arabic اَلسُّوَيْس (as-suways), {{der|en|ajp|-}} South Levantine Arabic, {{cog|egy||suan|beginning}} Egyptian suan (“beginning”) Head templates: {{en-proper noun}} Suez
  1. A city in northeastern Egypt. Categories (place): Cities in Egypt, Places in Egypt Translations (Suez, Egypt): اَلسُّوَيْس (as-suways) [masculine] (Arabic), السويس (el-sewēs) [Egyptian-Arabic] (Arabic), 蘇伊士 (Chinese Mandarin), 苏伊士 (Sūyīshì) (Chinese Mandarin), Suez [masculine] (Czech), Suez (Finnish), Suez (French), Σουέζ (Souéz) [neuter] (Greek), סואץ [masculine] (Hebrew), Szuez (Hungarian), سوئز (su'ez) (Persian), Suez (Portuguese), Суэ́ц (Suéc) [masculine] (Russian), Су̀ез [Cyrillic, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), Sùez [Roman, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), Suez [masculine] (Spanish), సూయజ్ (sūyaj) (Telugu), Süveyş (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-Suez-en-name-i0ZfB0YX Disambiguation of 'Suez, Egypt': 45 22 33
  2. Short for Suez Canal, the canal connecting the Mediterranean and Red Seas. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of Alternative form of: Suez Canal (extra: the canal connecting the Mediterranean and Red Seas) Derived forms: Gulf of Suez, Suez Canal
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  3. A governorate of Egypt around the city and canal. Categories (place): Governorates of Egypt, Places in Egypt
    Sense id: en-Suez-en-name-8DeYgD1P
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (d8cb2f3 and 4e554ae). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.