From Middle English Palestyne , from Old English Palestina , from Latin Palaestīna ( “ Roman province of Palestine ” ) , from Ancient Greek Παλαιστίνη ( Palaistínē , “ Philistia and the surrounding region ” ) , from Hebrew פְּלֶשֶׁת ( p'léshet , “ Philistia, land of the Philistines ” ) .[ 1] [ 2] The term P-l-s-t or P-r-s-t , found in five Ancient Egyptian inscriptions (beginning with one at Medinet Habu from circa 1170 BCE and ending with Padiiset's Statue inscription from circa 900-850 BCE ) as the name of a people near Egypt, is traditionally taken to be cognate.[ 3] [ 4] Seven Assyrian inscriptions contain the word "Palas(h)tu" or "Pilistu", which is usually also taken to be cognate.[ 5] [ 6]
IPA (key ) : /ˈpæləˌstaɪn/
IPA (key ) : /ˈpæləˌstiːn/ ( chiefly U.S. place names )
Palestine
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A country in Western Asia , in the Middle East ; the State of Palestine ; the homeland of the Palestinian people.
2019 July 17, Talia Levin, “When Non-Jews Wield Anti-Semitism as Political Shield”, in GQ [1] :Jews and Israel are not synonymous; nor is support for Palestine synonymous with anti-Semitism; nor is questioning the orthodoxy of the Republican party, which the majority of us do with relish, an insult to Jewry.
( sometimes strictly ) The West Bank and Gaza Strip .
The region in Western Asia in the Middle East between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River.
2019 July 15, Greg Afinogenov, “The Jewish Case for Open Borders”, in Jewish Currents [2] , number Summer 2019:Most Zionists hoped for a state of their own, but early in the 20th century, writers like Hillel Solotaroff and Chaim Zhitlowsky, both Yiddish-speaking immigrant intellectuals in New York, imagined another alternative: a federation of self-governing anarchist communes in Palestine that would defend Jewish life without relying on state power.
( historical , technical ) A British colonial entity administering approximately the lands mentioned in definition 1.
( historical , technical , rare ) The British League of Nations Mandate for Palestine, of which this region was a part (the remainder being Transjordan , which covered approximately the lands of the modern Kingdom (originally Emirate) of Jordan ).
( historical ) Any of four Ancient Roman and Byzantine provinces in the eastern Mediterranean: Syria Palaestina , Palaestina Prima , Palaestina Secunda and Palaestina Salutaris .
A number of places in the United States :
A town in St. Francis County , Arkansas .
A community of Newtown , Fairfield County , Connecticut .
A village in Crawford County , Illinois .
A township in Woodford County , Illinois .
An unincorporated community in Brookville Township, Franklin County , Indiana .
An unincorporated community in Harrison Township, Kosciusko County , Indiana .
An extinct town in Shawswick Township, Lawrence County , Indiana .
A township in Story County , Iowa .
A township in Cooper County , Missouri .
A village in Darke County , Ohio .
A city, the county seat of Anderson County , Texas , United States .
An unincorporated community in Greenbrier County , West Virginia .
An unincorporated community in Wirt County , West Virginia .
A community in the City of Kawartha Lakes , Ontario , Canada .
A village in Over Wallop parish, Test Valley district, Hampshire , England ( OS grid ref SU2640) .
( region ) : The use of Palestine to refer to the region between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea has been, since the latter half of the 20th century, sometimes seen as politically or emotionally charged; indeed, this is true of all terms for this region.
geographic region
Afrikaans: Palestina n
Albanian: Palestina (sq) f , Palestinë f ( indefinite )
Antillean Creole: Palestinn f
Arabic: فِلَسْطِين (ar) f ( filasṭīn )
Hijazi Arabic: فلسطين f ( falasṭīn )
Moroccan Arabic: فلسطين f ( filisṭīn )
South Levantine Arabic: فلسطين f ( falasṭīn )
Aramaic:
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܦܲܠܸܣܛܝܼܢܵܐ ( pālistīna )
Classical Syriac: ܦܠܣܛܝܢ
Armenian: Պաղեստին ( Paġestin )
Asturian: Palestina (ast)
Azerbaijani: Fələstin (az)
Bavarian: Palästina n
Belarusian: Палесці́на f ( Paljescína ) , Палесты́на f ( Paljestýna ) ( Taraškievica )
Bengali: ফিলিস্তিন (bn) ( philistin ) , প্যালেস্টাইন (bn) ( pêlesṭain )
Breton: Palestina (br) f
Bulgarian: Палести́на f ( Palestína )
Burmese: ပါလက်စတိုင်း ( palakca.tuing: )
Catalan: Palestina f
Chinese:
Cantonese: 巴勒斯坦 ( baa1 lak6 si1 taan2 )
Hakka: 巴勒斯坦 ( Pâ-le̍t-sṳ̂-thán )
Hokkien: 巴勒斯坦 ( Pa-le̍k-su-thán )
Mandarin: 巴勒斯坦 (zh) ( Bālèsītǎn )
Wu: 巴勒斯坦 ( 1 pa-leq-sy-the)
Corsican: Palestina f , Palistina f
Czech: Palestina (cs) f
Danish: Palæstina n
Dutch: Palestina (nl) n
Esperanto: Palestino
Estonian: Palestiina
Finnish: Palestiina (fi)
French: Palestine (fr) f
Galician: Palestina (gl)
Georgian: პალესტინა (ka) ( ṗalesṭina )
German: Palästina (de) n
Greek: Παλαιστίνη (el) f ( Palaistíni )
Ancient: Παλαιστίνη f ( Palaistínē )
Guianese Creole: Palestin
Haitian Creole: Palestìn f
Hebrew: פָּלֶשְׂתִּינָה (he) f ( palestína ) , מדינה פלסטינית f
Hindi: फ़िलिस्तीन (hi) m ( filistīn ) , फ़िलस्तीन m ( filastīn ) , फ़लस्तीन m ( falastīn ) , फ़िलीस्तीन m ( filīstīn )
Icelandic: Palestína f
Ido: Palestina (io)
Irish: Palaistín f , Palaistíne f
Italian: Palestina (it) f
Japanese: パレスチナ (ja) ( Paresuchina )
Kazakh: Палестина (kk) ( Palestina )
Khmer: ប៉ាឡេស្ទីន ( paaleestiin )
Korean: 팔레스타인 (ko) ( Palleseutain ) , 팔레스티나 (ko) ( Palleseutina ) ( North Korea )
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: فلستین f ( flistîn )
Northern Kurdish: Filistîn (ku) f
Kyrgyz: Палестина ( Palestina )
Lao: ປາເລດໄຕ ( pā lēt tai ) , ປາເລດສະຕິນ ( pā lēt sa tin )
Latin: Palaestīna (la) f , Palēstīna f
Latvian: Palestīna f
Lithuanian: Palestina (lt) f
Macedonian: Палести́на f ( Palestína )
Malay: Palestin (ms)
Maori: Parihitini , Paratinia
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: Палестин ( Palestin )
Norwegian:
Bokmål: Palestina (no) n
Nynorsk: Palestina n
Occitan: Palestina (oc) f
Ottoman Turkish: فلسطین ( felestin )
Pashto: فلسطين (ps) m ( falastin )
Persian:
Dari: فَلَسْطِین (fa) ( falastīn )
Iranian Persian: فِلِسْطین (fa) ( felestin )
Polish: Palestyna (pl) f
Portuguese: Palestina (pt) f
Romanian: Palestina f
Russian: Палести́на (ru) f ( Palestína )
Sardinian: Palestina f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: Палести́на f
Roman: Palestína (sh) f
Sicilian: Palistina f
Slovak: Palestína f
Slovene: Palestína (sl) f
Swahili: Palestina (sw)
Tagalog: Palestina
Tajik: Фаластин ( Falastin )
Thai: ปาเลสไตน์ ( bpaa-lées-dtaai )
Tigrinya: ፍልስጤም ( fəlsəṭem )
Turkish: Filistin (tr)
Turkmen: Palestina
Ukrainian: Палести́на (uk) f ( Palestýna )
Urdu: فِلِسْطِین m ( filistīn )
Uyghur: پەلەستىن ( pelestin )
Uzbek: Falastin
Vietnamese: Pa-lét-xtin , Pa-le-xtin (vi)
Volapük: Palästinän (vo)
Walloon: Palestene (wa) f
Welsh: Palesteina f
West Frisian: Palestina n
Yiddish: פּאַלעסטינע f ( palestine )
West Bank and Gaza Strip collectively
Abkhaz: Палестина ( Pʼalestʼina )
Afrikaans: Palestina
Albanian: Palestina (sq) , Palestinë f ( indefinite )
Amharic: ፓለስታይን ( palästayn ) , ፍልስጥኤም ( fəlsəṭʾem )
Antillean Creole: Palestinn f
Arabic: فِلَسْطِين (ar) f ( filasṭīn )
South Levantine Arabic: فلسطين ( falasṭīn )
Armenian: Պաղեստին ( Paġestin ) , Պալեստինա ( Palestina )
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܦ̮ܵܠܵܣܛܝܼܢ ( falastīn )
Asturian: Palestina (ast)
Azerbaijani: Fələstin (az)
Cyrillic: Фәләстин
Belarusian: Палесці́на f ( Paljescína ) , Палесты́на f ( Paljestýna ) ( Taraškievica )
Bengali: ফিলিস্তিন (bn) ( philistin ) , প্যালেস্টাইন (bn) ( pêlesṭain )
Bulgarian: Палести́на f ( Palestína )
Burmese: ပါလက်စတိုင်း ( palakca.tuing: )
Catalan: Palestina f
Chinese:
Cantonese: 巴勒斯坦
Hakka: 巴勒斯坦 ( Pâ-le̍t-sṳ̂-thán )
Hokkien: 巴勒斯坦 ( Pa-le̍k-su-thán )
Mandarin: 巴勒斯坦 (zh) ( Bālèsītǎn )
Czech: Palestina (cs) f
Danish: Palæstina n
Dutch: Palestina (nl) n , Palestijnse Gebieden (nl) pl
Dzongkha: པེ་ལིསི་ཊི་ན། ( pe lisi ṭi na )
Esperanto: Palestino
Estonian: Palestiina
Finnish: Palestiina (fi)
French: Palestine (fr) f
Galician: Palestina (gl)
Georgian: პალესტინა (ka) ( ṗalesṭina )
German: Palästina (de) n
Greek: Παλαιστίνη (el) f ( Palaistíni )
Hausa: Palasɗinu , Falasdinu
Hebrew: פָלַסְטִין (he) f ( falastín )
Hindi: फ़िलस्तीन m ( filastīn ) , पेलेस्टाइन m ( pelesṭāin ) , फ़िलिस्तीन (hi) m ( filistīn ) , फ़लस्तीन m ( falastīn ) , फ़िलीस्तीन m ( filīstīn )
Hungarian: Palesztina (hu)
Icelandic: Palestína f
Ido: Palestina (io)
Indonesian: Palestina
Irish: an Phalaistín f
Italian: Palestina (it)
Japanese: パレスチナ (ja) ( Paresuchina )
Kalenjin: Palestin
Kamba: Palestin
Kannada: ಪ್ಯಾಲೆಸ್ಟೈನ್ ( pyālesṭain )
Kazakh: Палестина (kk) ( Palestina )
Khmer: ប៉ាឡេស្ទីន ( paaleestiin )
Kikuyu: Palestin
Korean: 팔레스타인 (ko) ( Palleseutain ) , 팔레스티나 (ko) ( Palleseutina ) ( North Korea )
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: Filistîn (ku)
Kyrgyz: Палестина ( Palestina )
Lao: ປາເລດໄຕ ( pā lēt tai )
Latin: Palaestīna (la) f
Latvian: Palestīna f
Lithuanian: Palestina (lt) f
Luhya: Palestini
Luo: Palestin
Macedonian: Палести́на f ( Palestína )
Malay: Palestin (ms)
Malayalam: പലസ്തീന് ( palastīnŭ ) , പലസ്തീൻ ( palastīṉ )
Maltese: Il-Palestina f
Maori: Paratinia
Meru: Palestin
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: Палестин ( Palestin )
Navajo: Péléstain
Norman: Palestîn m
Norwegian:
Bokmål: Palestina (no) n
Nynorsk: Palestina n
Ossetian: Палестинӕ ( Palestinæ )
Ottoman Turkish: فلسطین ( felestin )
Pashto: فلسطين (ps) m ( falastin )
Persian:
Dari: فَلَسْطِین (fa) ( falastīn )
Iranian Persian: فِلِسْطین (fa) ( felestin )
Polish: Palestyna (pl) f
Portuguese: Palestina (pt) f
Punjabi: ਫਿਲੀਸਤੀਨ ( philīstīn ) , ਫ਼ਲਸਤੀਨ ( falsatīn )
Romanian: Palestina f , Statul Palestina n
Russian: Палести́на (ru) f ( Palestína )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: Палести́на f
Roman: Palestína (sh) f
Sinhalese: පලස්තීනය ( palastīnaya )
Slovak: Palestína f
Slovene: Palestína (sl) f
Spanish: Palestina (es) f
Swahili: Palestina (sw)
Swedish: Palestina (sv)
Tagalog: Palestina n
Tajik: Фаластин ( Falastin )
Tamil: பாலஸ்தீனம் ( pālastīṉam )
Tatar: Фәлистыйн ( Fälistıyn ) , Палестина ( Palestina )
Telugu: పాలస్తీనా (te) ( pālastīnā )
Thai: ปาเลสไตน์ ( bpaa-lées-dtaai )
Tigrinya: ፍልስጤም ( fəlsəṭem )
Turkish: Filistin (tr)
Turkmen: Palestina
Ukrainian: Палести́на (uk) f ( Palestýna )
Urdu: فِلِسْطِین m ( filistīn ) , پَلَسْطِین m ( palastīn )
Uyghur: پەلەستىن ( pelestin )
Uzbek: Falastin
Cyrillic: Фаластин ( Falastin )
Vietnamese: Pa-lét-xtin , Pa-le-xtin (vi)
Volapük: Palästinän (vo)
West Frisian: Palestina n
Yiddish: פּאַלעסטינע ( palestine )
historical: Roman province
Translations to be checked
^ “Palestine ”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged , Dictionary.com, LLC , 1995–present.
^ Martin Sicker, Reshaping Palestine (1999, →ISBN , page ix: The name Palestine has its origin in the Hebrew Peleshet, first mentioned in the Bible (Exodus 15:14) in reference to the land of the Pelishtim, or Philistines, one group of the Sea Peoples that invaded the region during the early biblical period.
^ Geoffrey W. Bromiley, The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia , volume 4 (1995, →ISBN , page 43
^ Ann E. Killebrew, The Philistines and Other “Sea Peoples” in Text and Archaeology (2013)
^ Gösta W. Ahlström, The History of Ancient Palestine from the Palaeolithic Period to Alexander's Conquest
^ The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of the Levant: c. 8000-332 BCE (2014, →ISBN , The first Assyrian reference to 'palashtu' or 'Philistia' appears in Adad-nirari III's inscriptions where, in the Stone Slab, he claims to have subdued Amurru in its entirety, defining it as, 'Tyre, Siden, Humri (Israel), Edom, Palashtu, as far as the great sea of the setting sun', and imposed tax and tribute upon them (Grayson 1996: 212–13).
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Palestine (a region of Western Asia , in the Middle East )
Palestine (a country in Western Asia , in the Middle East )
Palestine f (uncountable )
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