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Classical Syriac
Pronunciation
Proper noun
פלסטין • (palasṭīn)
- Hebrew spelling of ܦܠܣܛܝܢ (palasṭīn, “Palestine”)
Hebrew
Etymology
From South Levantine Arabic فلسطين (falasṭīn), from Ancient Greek Παλαιστίνη (Palaistínē).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
פָלַסְטִין • (falastín) f
- (politics) Palestine as a political concept after 1948.
- פלשתינה (palestína, “Palestine, geographical, pre-1948”)
- פלשתים (p'lishtím, “Phillistines”)
- אֶרֶץ יִשְׂרָאֵל (éretz yisra'él, “the Land of Israel”)
- פלשתינה א"י (palestína áy, “Palestine-Eretz Yisrael, the pre-1948 Zionist community”)