ghazeeyeh
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Egyptian Arabic غازية (ḡāziyya), plural غوازي (ḡawāzi).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]ghazeeyeh (plural ghazeeyehs or ghawazee)
- An Egyptian dancing girl
- Synonym: ghawazee
Further reading
[edit]- Cameron, Donald Andreas (1892) An Arabic-English vocabulary for the use of English students of modern Egyptian Arabic, London: Bernard Quaritch, page 193a