Syria-Palestine

English

Proper noun

Syria-Palestine

1. A region in the Middle East consisting roughly of Syria, Lebanon, Israel/Palestine, and Jordan

   Synonyms: Levant, Greater Syria

Usage notes

• Not to be confused with Syria Palaestina, a Roman province encompassing only a small part of "Syria-Palestine".
• Sometimes prefered over the "colonial" term "Levant" and the potentially irrendentist-sounding "Greater Syria".

Derived terms

• Syro-Palestinian

Translations

land in and around the eastern Mediterranean Sea

• Akkadian: 𒆳𒂊𒄵𒀀𒇉 (Eber-Nāri)
• Arabic: بِلَاد الشَّامِ (ar) f (bilād aš-šāmi), الشَّام m (aš-šām)
• Aramaic:

  Imperial 𐡏𐡁𐡓 𐡍𐡄𐡓𐡄 (ʿbr nhrh)

  Jewish: עֲבַר נַהֲרָא (ʿăḇar nāhārâ)

• Bengali: শাম (śam)
• Egyptian: (rṯnw m)
• Greek: Συρο-Παλαιστίνη (Syro-Palaistíni)
• Hebrew: עֲבַר נַהֲרָה (ʿăḇar nāhārâ)
• Hindi: शाम (hi) (śām)
• Malay: Syam
• Persian: شام (fa) (šâm)
• Tajik: Шом (Šom)
• Turkish: Levant (tr)
• Urdu: شام (śām)
• Uzbek: Shom
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can