Golan Heights

English

Proper noun

Golan Heights

1. A plateau straddling the border between Syria and Israel.
   • 1978, Richard Nixon, RN: the Memoirs of Richard Nixon‎^[1], Grosset & Dunlap, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 1013:

     The agreement to disengage forces in the Golan Heights had been an achievement of substational proportions, and my visit was an opportunity to encourage, support, and nurture the new Syrian-American relationship that Kissinger had begun.

Translations

plateau

• Arabic: هَضْبَةُ الْجَوْلَان f (haḍbatu l-jawlān), مُرْتَفَعَاتُ الْجَوْلَان f (murtafaʕātu l-jawlān)

  Hijazi Arabic: الجولان f (al-jōlān)

• Armenian: Գոլանի բարձունքներ pl (Golani barjunkʿner)
• Danish: Golanhøjderne c pl
• German: Golanhöhen (de) pl
• Greek: Υψώματα του Γκολάν n (Ypsómata tou Gkolán)
• Hebrew: רָמַת הַגּוֹלָן f (ramát-hagolán)
• Irish: Arda Golan m pl
• Italian: Alture del Golan f
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: بەرزایییەکانی جۆلان (berzayîyekanî colan)

• Polish: Wzgórza Golan (pl) nvir
• Portuguese: Colinas de Golã f pl
• Russian: Гола́нские высо́ты f pl (Golánskije vysóty)
• Tajik: Баландиҳои Ҷавлон (Balandihoyi Javlon)

Further reading

• “Golan Heights”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• “Golan Heights, pn.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “Golan Heights”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “Golan Heights”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “Golan Heights” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2024.