Palestina

See also: palestina and Palestína

Languages (22)

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Asturian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /palesˈtina/, [pa.les̪ˈt̪i.na]

Proper noun

Palestina f

1. Palestine

Basque

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pales̺tina/ [pa.les̺.t̪i.na]
• Rhymes: -ina
• Hyphenation: Pa‧les‧ti‧na

Proper noun

Palestina inan

1. Palestine (a historical region and province of the Roman Empire in the Levant, Asia)
2. Palestine, State of Palestine (a country in the Levant, Asia)

   Synonym: Palestinako Estatua

Declension

Declension of Palestina (inanimate, ending in -a)

	indefinite
absolutive	Palestina
ergative	Palestinak
dative	Palestinari
genitive	Palestinaren
comitative	Palestinarekin
causative	Palestinarengatik
benefactive	Palestinarentzat
instrumental	Palestinaz
inessive	Palestinan
locative	Palestinako
allative	Palestinara
terminative	Palestinaraino
directive	Palestinarantz
destinative	Palestinarako
ablative	Palestinatik
partitive	Palestinarik
prolative	Palestinatzat

Derived terms

• Palestinako Estatua (“State of Palestine”)
• palestinar (“Palestinian”)

 

See also

• (countries of Asia) Asiako herrialdeak; Afganistan, Arabiar Emirerri Batuak, Armenia, Azerbaidjan, Bangladesh, Bahrain, Bhutan, Birmania, Brunei, Ekialdeko Timor, Errusia, Filipinak, Georgia, Hego Korea, India, Indonesia, Ipar Korea, Iran, Irak, Israel, Japonia, Jordania, Kanbodia, Kazakhstan, Kirgizistan, Kuwait, Laos, Libano, Malaysia, Maldivas, Mongolia, Nepal, Oman, Pakistan, Palestina, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Singapur, Siria, Sri Lanka, Tadjikistan, Taiwan, Thailandia, Turkia, Turkmenistan, Txina, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Yemen, Zipre,

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [pə.ləsˈti.nə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [pa.lesˈti.na]

Proper noun

Palestina f

1. Palestine (a historical region and province of the Roman Empire in the Levant, Asia)
2. Palestine, State of Palestine (a country in the Levant, Asia)

Related terms

• palestí

Central Huasteca Nahuatl

Proper noun

Palestina

1. Palestine (a country in Asia)

Central Nahuatl

Proper noun

Palestina

1. Palestine (a country in Asia)

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈpalɛstɪna]
• Rhymes: -ɪna

Proper noun

Palestina f (related adjective palestinský, demonym Palestinec)

1. Palestine

Declension

Declension of Palestina (sg-only hard feminine)

	singular
nominative	Palestina
genitive	Palestiny
dative	Palestině
accusative	Palestinu
vocative	Palestino
locative	Palestině
instrumental	Palestinou

Further reading

• “Palestina”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)
• “Palestina”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “Palestina”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)

Dutch

Etymology

• Borrowed from Latin Palaestīna.
• (Nijkerk) First attested as Palestina in 1843. Named after the region in the Middle East. Originally the name of a farm.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌpaː.lɛsˈti.naː/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: Pa‧les‧ti‧na

Proper noun

Palestina n

1. Palestine (political entity)

   Synonym: Palestijnse Gebieden

2. Palestine (region in the southern Levant, covering modern-day Palestine and Israel)
3. (historical) Roman Palestine (province of the Roman Empire)
4. A hamlet in Nijkerk, Gelderland, Netherlands

Derived terms

• Palestijn

References

• van Berkel, Gerard, Samplonius, Kees (2018) Nederlandse plaatsnamen verklaard (in Dutch), Mijnbestseller.nl, →ISBN

Indonesian

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch Palestina (“Palestine”), 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”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pa.lɛs.ˈti.na/
• Rhymes: -na
• Hyphenation: Pa‧lés‧ti‧na

Proper noun

Paléstina

1. Palestine (a country in Asia)

Alternative forms

• Palestin (Standard Malay)

Further reading

• “Palestina” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pa.leˈsti.na/
• Rhymes: -ina
• Hyphenation: Pa‧le‧stì‧na

Etymology 1

From Latin Palaestina.

Proper noun

Palestina f

1. Palestine

Derived terms

• palestinese

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French Palestine.

Noun

Palestina f (invariable)

1. a large size of type standardized as 24 points

Anagrams

• penalista, sinpetala, spalatine

Lithuanian

Proper noun

Palestina f

1. Palestine (a country in Asia)

Declension

    Declension of Palestina

nominative	Palestina
genitive	Palestinos
dative	Palestinai
accusative	Palestiną
instrumental	Palestina
locative	Palestinoje
vocative	Palestina

Related terms

• palestinietis m, palestinietė f

Norwegian Bokmål

Proper noun

Palestina

1. Palestine

Related terms

• palestiner
• palestinsk

Norwegian Nynorsk

Proper noun

Palestina

1. Palestine

Related terms

• palestinar
• palestinsk

Occitan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /palesˈtino̞/

Proper noun

Palestina f

1. Palestine (a historical region and province of the Roman Empire in the Levant, Asia)
2. Palestine, State of Palestine (a country in the Levant, Asia)

   Synonym: Estat de Palestina

Related terms

• palestinian m, palestiniana f

Old English

Etymology

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”).

Proper noun

Palestīna m

1. Palestine

Descendants

• English: Palestine

Portuguese

Palestina

Etymology

From Latin Palaestīna (“Roman province of Palestine”), from Ancient Greek Παλαιστίνη (Palaistínē), from Hebrew פְּלֶשֶׁת (p'léshet, “Philistia, land of the Philistines”).

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /pa.lesˈt͡ʃĩ.nɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /pa.lesˈt͡ʃĩ.nɐ/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /pa.leʃˈt͡ʃĩ.nɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /pa.lesˈt͡ʃi.na/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /pɐ.lɨʃˈti.nɐ/

• Homophone: palestina
• Hyphenation: Pa‧les‧ti‧na

Proper noun

Palestina f

1. Palaestina (a historical region and province of the Roman Empire in the Levant, Asia)
2. Palestine, State of Palestine (a country in the Levant, Asia)
3. A municipality of São Paulo, Brazil

Meronyms

• Cisjordânia, Faixa de Gaza

Related terms

• filisteu
• palestinense
• palestiniano
• palestino

Romanian

Alternative forms

• Палестина (Palestina) — post-1930s Cyrillic spelling

Etymology

From Latin Palaestīna (“Roman province of Palestine”), from Ancient Greek Παλαιστίνη (Palaistínē), from Hebrew פְּלֶשֶׁת (p'léshet, “Philistia, land of the Philistines”).

Proper noun

Palestina f

1. Palestine

Related terms

• palestinian

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /palestǐːna/
• Hyphenation: Pa‧le‧sti‧na

Proper noun

Palestína f (Cyrillic spelling Палести́на)

1. Palestine

Declension

Declension of Palestina

	singular
nominative	Palestina
genitive	Palestine
dative	Palestini
accusative	Palestinu
vocative	Palestino
locative	Palestini
instrumental	Palestinom

Slovene

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /palɛstíːna/

Proper noun

Palestȋna f

1. Palestine

Inflection

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Feminine, a-stem
nominative	Palestína
genitive	Palestíne
	singular
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	Palestína
genitive (rodȋlnik)	Palestíne
dative (dajȃlnik)	Palestíni
accusative (tožȋlnik)	Palestíno
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	Palestíni
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	Palestíno

Related terms

• Palestínec / Palestínka
• palestínski

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /palesˈtina/ [pa.lesˈt̪i.na]

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ina
• Syllabification: Pa‧les‧ti‧na

Proper noun

Palestina f

1. Palestine
2. A town in Caldas, Colombia.
3. A town in Huila, Colombia.
4. A town in Guayas, Ecuador.

Derived terms

• Estado de Palestina

 

Related terms

• palestino

 

Swahili

Pronunciation

• Audio (Kenya):

  (file)

Proper noun

Palestina

1. Palestine (region between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River)
   • 2018 November 14, “Mzozo wa Palestina na Israel: watatiza Baraza la Usalama”, in BBC Swahili‎^[1]:

     Balozi wa Palestina katika Umoja wa Mataifa Riyad Mansour ameilaumu Marekani kwa kuwa pingamizi.

     The ambassador from Palestine to the United Nations, Riyad Mansour, has blamed the US for being an obstruction.

Swedish

Proper noun

Palestina n (genitive Palestinas)

1. Palestine

Derived terms

• palestinasjal

Related terms

• palestinier
• palestinsk
• palestinska

References

• Palestina in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

Tagalog

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /palesˈtina/ [pɐ.lɛsˈt̪iː.n̪ɐ]
• Rhymes: -ina
• Syllabification: Pa‧les‧ti‧na

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Spanish Palestina, from Latin Palaestīna, from Ancient Greek Παλαιστίνη (Palaistínē), from Hebrew פְּלֶשֶׁת (p'léshet, “Philistia, land of the Philistines”).

Proper noun

Palestina (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜎᜒᜐ᜔ᜆᜒᜈ)

1. Palestine
   • 1919, M. Ibo Alfaro, Rosendo Ignacio, Ang Búhay ay pagibig Volume 6:

     ...mayaman, ay namatay sa Habana nang nakaraang tagaraw, sa sakit na dibdib. Ang mamumuhunang ito'y iniwang magmamana sa kanya ang binatang konde ng Sokoro, na dumating kagabi sa Londres, matapos makapaglibot sa Palestina at doon tutuloy sa kanyang palasyo sa Rusell Square.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Related terms

• Palestino

 

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Spanish palestina.

Noun

Palestina (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜎᜒᜐ᜔ᜆᜒᜈ)

1. female equivalent of Palestino: female Palestinian

Further reading

• “Palestina”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018