بنغازى

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Apparently from earlier Arabic 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)".

Proper noun

بنغازى • (Bingâzi)

1. Benghazi (a port city in eastern Libya)

Descendants

• Turkish: Bingazi

References

• Sezen, Tahir (2017) “Bingâzi”, in Osmanlı Yer Adları [Ottoman Place Names]‎^[1], 2nd edition, Ankara: T.C. Başbakanlık Devlet Arşivleri Genel Müdürlüğü, page 121