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Benghazi

beng·hazi

US/bɛnˈɡɑ.zi/ rare

noun

1.

port in northern Libya on the Gulf of Sidra; formerly a joint capital of Libya with Tripoli

Origin

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)".

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