Παλαιστίνη

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Perhaps from Hebrew פְּלֶשֶׁת (p'léshet, pəléšeṯ), Egyptian pwrꜣsꜣtj

, or Akkadian 𒉺𒆷𒀸𒌓 (Palastu), 𒉿𒇷𒅖𒋾 (Pilišti), 𒉿𒇷𒅖𒌓 (Pilistu), with a folk-etymological secondary adaptation to παλαιστής (palaistḗs, “wrestler”); compare perhaps Hebrew יִשְׂרָאֵל (yisra'él), sometimes translated as “he wrestles with God”, and the similar adaptation of Ἱερουσᾱλήμ (Hierousālḗm, “Jerusalem”) to the word ἱερός (hierós, “holy”). See timeline of the name "Palestine" on Wikipedia.

(The oldest surviving copy of oldest known map of Palestine: Ptolemy's 4th Asia map, a revision of an atlas by Marinus of Tyre.)

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pa.lai̯s.tǐː.nɛː/ → /pa.lɛsˈti.ni/ → /pa.lesˈti.ni/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pa.lai̯s.tǐː.nɛː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /pa.lɛsˈti.ne̝/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /pa.lɛsˈti.ni/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /pa.lesˈti.ni/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /pa.lesˈti.ni/

Proper noun

Παλαιστῑ́νη • (Palaistī́nē) f (genitive Παλαιστῑ́νης); first declension

1. Palestine; the Land of Israel; Syria Palaestina
   • 340 BCE, Aristotle, chapter 2, in Meteorologika:

     εἰ δ’ ἔστιν ὥσπερ μυθολογοῦσί τινες ἐν Παλαιστίνῃ τοιαύτη λίμνη, εἰς ἣν ἐάν τις ἐμβάλῃ συνδήσας ἄνθρωπον ἢ ὑποζύγιον ἐπιπλεῖν καὶ οὐ καταδύεσθαι κατὰ τοῦ ὕδατος, μαρτύριον ἂν εἴη τι τοῖς εἰρημένοις· λέγουσι γὰρ πικρὰν οὕτως εἶναι τὴν λίμνην καὶ ἁλμυρὰν ὥστε μηδένα ἰχθὺν ἐγγίγνεσθαι, τὰ δὲ ἱμάτια ῥύπτειν, ἐάν τις διασείσῃ βρέξας.

     ei d’ éstin hṓsper muthologoûsí tines en Palaistínēi toiaútē límnē, eis hḕn eán tis embálēi sundḗsas ánthrōpon ḕ hupozúgion epipleîn kaì ou katadúesthai katà toû húdatos, martúrion àn eíē ti toîs eirēménois; légousi gàr pikràn hoútōs eînai tḕn límnēn kaì halmuràn hṓste mēdéna ikhthùn engígnesthai, tà dè himátia rhúptein, eán tis diaseísēi bréxas.

     Again if, as is fabled, there is a lake in Palestine, such that if you bind a man or beast and throw it in it floats and does not sink, this would bear out what we have said. They say that this lake is so bitter and salt that no fish live in it and that if you soak clothes in it and shake them it cleans them.

Inflection

First declension of ἡ Παλαιστῑ́νη; τῆς Παλαιστῑ́νης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ἡ Παλαιστῑ́νη hē Palaistī́nē
Genitive	τῆς Παλαιστῑ́νης tês Palaistī́nēs
Dative	τῇ Παλαιστῑ́νῃ têi Palaistī́nēi
Accusative	τὴν Παλαιστῑ́νην tḕn Palaistī́nēn
Vocative	Παλαιστῑ́νη Palaistī́nē
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• Παλαιστῑνοί (Palaistīnoí)
• Παλαιστῑνός (Palaistīnós)
• Παλαιστῖνος (Palaistînos)

Descendants

Descendants of Παλαιστίνη

• → Arabic: فِلَسْطِين (filasṭīn)
  • → Azerbaijani: Fələstin
  • → Hebrew: פלסטין (Falastin)
  • → Persian: فلسطین
    • → Urdu: فلسطین (filastīn)
  • → Turkish: Filistin
• → Armenian: Պաղեստին (Paġestin)
• → Basque: Palestina
• → Belarusian: Палестына (Paljestyna)
• → Bulgarian: Палестина (Palestina)
• → Czech: Palestina
• → Danish: Palæstina
• → Georgian: პალესტინა (ṗalesṭina)
• → German: Palästina
• → Pennsylvania German: Baaleschdi
• Greek: Παλαιστίνη (Palaistíni)
• → Irish: An Phalaistín
• → Indonesian: Palestina
• → Latin: Palaestina
  • Asturian: Palestina
  • Catalan: Palestina
  • → Dutch: Palestina
    • → Indonesian: Palestina
  • → English: Palestine
    • → Korean: 팔레스타인 (Palleseutain)
    • → Malay: Palestin
  • → Finnish: Palestiina
  • French: Palestine
  • Galician: Palestina
  • → Hebrew: פלשתינה (Palestina)
  • → Icelandic: Palestína
  • Italian: Palestina
  • → Japanese: パレスチナ (Paresuchina)
  • Portuguese: Palestina
  • Romanian: Palestina
  • Sicilian: Palistina
  • Spanish: Palestina
• → Macedonian: Палестина (Palestina)
• → Norwegian: Palestina
• → Polish: Palestyna
• → Russian: Палестина (Palestina)
• → Serbo-Croatian: Палестина, Palestina
• → Slovak: Palestína f
• → Slovene: Palestina
• → Swedish: Palestina
• → Thai: ปาเลสไตน์ (bpaa-lées-dtaai)
• → Ukrainian: Палестина (Palestyna)
• → Welsh: Palesteina
• → Yiddish: פּאַלעסטינע (palestine)

References

• Παλαιστίνη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,019

Greek

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pa.leˈsti.ni/

Proper noun

Παλαιστίνη • (Palaistíni) f

1. Palestine (West Bank and Gaza Strip)

Declension

  Παλαιστίνη

case     \     number	singular
nominative	Παλαιστίνη •
genitive	Παλαιστίνης •
accusative	Παλαιστίνη •
vocative	Παλαιστίνη •

Further reading

• Παλαιστίνη on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el