Suez

See also: suez and -süz

English

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.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsuː.ɛz/

Proper noun

Suez

1. A city in northeastern Egypt.
2. Short for Suez Canal, the canal connecting the Mediterranean and Red Seas.
3. A governorate of Egypt around the city and canal.

Derived terms

• Gulf of Suez
• Suez Canal

Translations

Suez, Egypt

• Arabic: اَلسُّوَيْس (ar) m (as-suways)

  Egyptian Arabic: السويس (el-sewēs)

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 蘇伊士 / 苏伊士 (zh) (Sūyīshì)

• Czech: Suez (cs) m
• Finnish: Suez
• French: Suez (fr)
• Greek: Σουέζ (el) n (Souéz)
• Hebrew: סואץ m
• Hungarian: Szuez (hu)
• Persian: سوئز (fa) (su'ez)
• Portuguese: Suez
• Russian: Суэ́ц (ru) m (Suéc)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Су̀ез m

  Roman: Sùez (sh) m

• Spanish: Suez m
• Telugu: సూయజ్ (sūyaj)
• Turkish: Süveyş

Anagrams

• Suze, Zeus

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈsuɛs]

Proper noun

Suez m inan (related adjective suezský)

1. Suez (a town in northeastern Egypt)

Declension

Declension of Suez (sg-only hard masculine inanimate)

	singular
nominative	Suez
genitive	Suezu
dative	Suezu
accusative	Suez
vocative	Sueze
locative	Suezu
instrumental	Suezem

Further reading

• “Suez”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsu.et͡s/^*
• Rhymes: -uets
• Hyphenation: Sù‧ez

Proper noun

Suez f

1. Suez (a town in Egypt)

Derived terms

• Canale di Suez
• Golfo di Suez

Anagrams

• Zeus

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sǔez/
• Hyphenation: Su‧ez

Proper noun

Sùez m (Cyrillic spelling Су̀ез)

1. Suez (a town in Egypt)

Declension

Declension of Suez

	singular
nominative	Suez
genitive	Sueza
dative	Suezu
accusative	Suez
vocative	Suezu
locative	Suezu
instrumental	Suezom

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /ˈsweθ/ [ˈsweθ]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /ˈswes/ [ˈswes]
• Rhymes: -eθ
• Rhymes: -es
• Syllabification: Suez

Proper noun

Suez m

1. Suez (a town in Egypt)